1940-09-18 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940. --Bringing Up Father

MOTHER DEAR. YOU LOOK SO HAPPY. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO PLEASE

YOU SO?

FWANT HAVE THREE BROTHERS TO MEET," LIS ON OUR ARRIVAL. HOME - I'LL BE SO THAPPY TO SEE THEM-

YOUR FATHER IS "PMONING THEM

NOW-

MOH WELLN

MAGGIE'S GATHER THERE ?

NO?

WHAT-19 T 7.

NOTHING WRONG -1

HOPE?

· 1940, King Testutes Syndicate, Inc, World righli

By George MacManus

SETE YOUR BROTHER DANNY,.

WUZ ARRESTED AN' YOUR TWO BROTHERS WENT TO SEE HIM AN' THEY LOCKED THEM UP TOO - BUTT. THEY ARE HAPPY THEY ARE IN A CELL NEXT TO YOUR

FATHER'S:

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Make The Most Of Yourself

You've been SO busy preparing { for exams and then graduation, that you have had few hours to think about the future, Now that school is behind you and a career is ahead of you it's time to consider what you have to of- fer the business world.

Diplomas are very nice things .to have. No doubt you earned the one you received by cram- ming that young head of yours full of facts. That's all the school required. But the world requires you to use those facts. They are only the foundation of the-per- 'spective you' müst bulld. In other words your diploma is a written acknowledgement that.

you are

prepared to start THINKING, Up until now you have followed a leader. Now you are on your

own.

.

When you step out into '.the adult world you are expected to be an adult. To look like one, to act like one, to think like one. You cannot expect to continue being the reckless, indifferent, sheltered schoolgirl. You must provide yourself with a work-a day outfit and groom yourself in- to a smart young lady. That is, if you plan to get a job.

Of course, if you plan to marry at once, and your prince charm- ing has already popped the ques- tion, you might continue being a bit of a school girl until after the wedding. Then you grow up alarmingly fast and need no in- struction from mel

But job seekers (and the ma- jority of graduates are job seek ers) should spend the free time now on their hands to improve themselves..

This ambitious"young thing is learning how to make the 'most of herself. Critical studying of skin and hair is Tan Important step. Both should have flawless beauty.

that week or month of holiday, The old school-girl carelessness They should first rest. Rest, they should exercise but of doors, must be dropped. Detailed groom- rest, rest, until the roses are back eat meals at regular hours, re- ing must be learned and prac in their cheeks and fresh ambi vitalise neglected skin and hair, ticed. tion forces them onward. During and streamline their figures.

"When Slowness

Is Beauty

A

^

A work-a-day wardrobe must be whipped into shape. It is necessary for you to make a favourable impression on every employer: you approach.

"

Employment agencies have few jobs listed. Competition is great. Mr. X writes in: "Send me a young girl who is smart, who looks well in her clothes, who is nicely groomed, 'who has some) horse-sense, and who is willing to start working for a very nominal salary." A pretty stiff bill to fill,

Develop Initiative

In this age of speed do we not words out, ever takes time to say eh? But you-can do it if you con- sometimes almost worship mere the sound in full, that you may centrate. swiftness? Whatever is quick drink in the richness of the seems to us smart. We think of language... speed and efficiency as synony-

As soon as your personal up- mous terms. Tearing from one We need not be so afraid of pearance is satisfactory, you must thing to another, chalking off slowness. It is not necessarily begin developing initiative. That results as fast as we can - synonymous with ineffelency. It takes self-confidence. No longer sometimes faster than we can!-may, indeed, be thoroughly em- chin you rely upon mother, br we tell ourselves with pride that clent. It may too be u manifesta- teacher, or room-mate. You are we have accomplished something tion of poise... The chairman who out on your own. Use every op important. Then, perhaps, one pushes an audience breathlessly portunity to meet people, to get day wearied with headlong haste, through a programme may be an interview for a likely job, to we have a moment of awakening driven by, and not guiding, the acquire more polse and attrac- and "find - we still have wisdom events in hand. Fear may be the tiveness. Keep current by-read- enough to know that speed does goad." Fear of silences makes ing newspapers and periodicals: not always Indicate achievement. "many 'n “fool" rush in whero The dumb belle never reaches her David Grayson quotes Rodin "angels" are willing and glad to goal and she never catches the the Sculptor as having said that devote the moment to quiet think man she wants.

ink. "slowness Is beauty." Have you

You'll be timid at first, "But so ever watched the slow glide of a student is willing, and master If you have followed my instruc

deep thinking able will every other young carcerist. swan on a "dark"pool? Or 'lain

enough, to take time where timo tions you should have self-con- back in a deck chair in the gar is needed. The reader who enjoys Adence and poise. There are Jobs den and scan clouds drift silently language, who is alert and flexi- to fill, you know, and now, as al- across a deep blue sky?

ble as he reads, knows when to ways, the early bird catches the Have you, among your friends, slow down to adopen his appro Worm! Strike out as soon as you lone who always speaks plowly clation of some passage, or good are prepared and the more cou- and quietly, and do you not find writing. The child who lingers fident you are of your own ability, It beautiful? It la one of the where dingering means enrichment the more quickly you will fiñü evidences of true poetry, I have in education is far ahead of the that job which will start you on always thought, in Carl Sandburg's, child who tears through every your carder as a clear-thinking, ordinary conversation that he school assignment with never a attractive, self-supporting young "never hurries, never forles the thoughtful backward glance. lady!

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