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Page 11 By George MacManus

THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 8, 1941. Bringing Up Father'

I JUST HEARD THAT YOUR WIFE FOUND OUT YOLI WUZ” TAKIN' THAT NERVE TONIC

THAT MADE YOU TOUjan- #DHATE TO BE YOU WHEN YOU GIT HOME-

JUST HEARD IT. MESELF-

AN 7M AFRAID TO

·GOʻHOME-

*I SUPPOSE I'LL HAVE TO A FACE THE

MUSIC BUT IT JSN'T SOIN! TO A BE, ANY “SYMPHONY.

BY GOLLY-I'VE LOST ME NERVE-

I'M AFRAID TO- FACE HER-I'LL PLAY SAFE

OH-MAGGIE DARLIN- I'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU-

Chọc 1940, Kmg Pénétres Syndices, Inc.. World rights reserved.

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Home Calisthenics

course, I hope you have joined a badminton club, or other game groups to get the exercise you need to keep your body con- ditioned, But if you haven't, and if a gym class is out of the ques- tion, you may restyle your body and keep it healthy right in your own home.

Determining to exereise every tay at home, and sticking to your resolution, requires stamuna. It en't easy to spread a blanket on the floor, get into an exercising suit or louse clothing. and get down on the flour to rull and kick to radio antusic. But this exercise. problem is greatly simplified if you determine to do it the same hour every day. Most women and the early hour before they break - fast the most convenient for beau- tifying! Or when husband and children have been packed off for the day and peace reigns at home. Rising a half hour earlier is not difficult once you make it a habit and it is most beneficial. Most of us awaken at least a half hour before we actually get out of bed. We lie in bed and drouse. We would be much healthier if we got up at once when we awaken- ed providing We rested suffi- ciently during the night.

As one should exercise before a meal or at least one hour after a meal it seems logical that the half hour before breakfast is an ex- cellent time before eating bathing or dressing, and directly after morning elimination. Your room is well aired at this time, too. From fifteen to twenty min utes of exercising is enough keep you in splendid form.

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"But," you complain, "how am I to know which exercises I should db? I think I need a teacher."

The "ddlesurs" in mid-air is #n excelerit movement for -stretching, and slimming thighs. legs and hips.

have learned that exercises

are

You are quite capable of plat >presented for every figure flaw.

ning your own schedule. If you You know what is wrong with follow this page faithfully, you'l your figure. You know where you

Look After Your

Hands

Very important is your groom ing, especially of these two most noticeable and telling features about you-your hands.

I'll guarantee that two minutes' beauty care snatched here and there in the day will keep them as soft and white as anyone could wish.

An excellent "wrinkle" for keeping your hands smooth and

soft is lemon juice, Scrounge the

all is to point your cuticles with dil, and then slip oh a pair of old cotton gloves to sleep in.

If you really and truly can't sleep in gloves, tier little thimbles

of cotton wool soaked in all round

have stiffness or aches. Then you exercise which should clip any will correct your figure flaws or reliève those aches.

By practicing an exercise three dr four times you may quickly de- termine if it is reaching the mus- cles which cry for toning. You may have a little ache for a day or two from muscles which have been too long'inactive, 'but as the days pass you will feel your body asking för more exercise, You will then take pleasure in stretch- and rolling, stooping ing, and kicking. The renewed vitality you experience will compensate you for your efforts!

Begin With Limbering

each fingertip, or simply massage the cuticle with oll till every drop

I always advise girls und `wo- has been absorbed. Don't be men to begin an exercise routine tempted to cut the cuticle what by first lumbering. That is, you ever happens, or you will make it must ease the stiffness of your grow twice as thick and hard. spine and stretch your neglected Brittle or breaking nails need muscles gradually and easily. nourishment too. There's a special When you have mastered your nail cream for them, or the oil body and can treatment I've been telling you relax, that is the about is a great help. Make use go in for of the olly cuticle and varnish gramme. So do removers, they're much less dry-and limber first! ing.

Incidentally, please don't, keepi):

bid it to the time to restyling: pro- be serisible

your nails too short. File them to it last twice as long and fook much -a-rounded - Up just beyond th":"glossier. edge of your finger, and don't eut.. the corners or you'll get those' annoying little ends, half-skin, half-nail, called hang-nails.

Fròm Wrist To Finger Tip

squeezed halves of lemon from the kitchen and rub well into the skin, Massage all the juice into your hands and don't rinse it away.

Smooth As Silk Another excellent tip is to make a fresh lather after you have washed your hands, and work this new lather right into your hands| Don't'give up varnish altogether. Finally, remember to rub your U the skin is quite dry and If you find it takes too long to hands with some softening cream smooth. That will keep the skin leave half-moons and tips, put the or lotion every night.

A proper deliciously soft and satiny. But varnish evenly all over the finger lemon-scented hand-jelly or lotion do-be sure that the soap is a really nail from cuticle to tip. It's is best, but if that's not available, super-fatted complexion soap, not tremendously smart, takes a tenth any cold cream will do, or even a harsh one.

of the time, and makes your nails almond oil. Nightly creaming. will keep hands, soft and white, Then there's the problem of look long and slunder.

however hard the work you're keeping your nolltips white. Keep Do change your varnish it you doing during the day. by you either a nail white pen find: it won't stay on. There are I know that there are

still or nail floss, sometimes it's quite dozens of diffent makes of var plenty of hand problems that I impossible to get a really clear nish, for the simple reason that haven't had room to talk to you white tip without the help of different makes suit different about There's the problem of these.

people, I am using one now that hands that will look red, no mat- Hard cuticles are such an irritat. stays on a whole week without a ter how you cream them; the at a ing and ugly problem, and they crack or chip.

sign of bad circulation, and sou ant to occur une moment you' ne-

use one of the need curative exerolsos arit mas- giset your nails; "The best cure or

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