1941-02-08 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, FEBRUARY 8, 1941

Bringing Up Father.

OH-DEAR-I WISH I. HAD. SEEN THAT PROPERTY BEFORE I BOUGHT IT-

I'M BEGINNING TO THINK I'VE MADE

"A MISTAKE-

I WISH YOU. HAD, STARTED TO THINK BEFORE YOU BOUGHT IT-1 HAD. DANNY MCCANNY GO TO SEE IT-

THAT MUST BE HIM ON' TH' 'PHONE

NOW- I HOPE-

THINK OF THE

HELLO-DANNY- WHAT DO YOU.

PROPERTY? DO YOU THINK IT'S A GOOD BUY?

By George MacManus

I'LL SAY IT'S A "GOODBYE"- I CAUGHT FOUR SEA BASS NEAR YOUR PROPERTY-I COULDN'T GET ON YOUR PROPERTY-ITSELF - AS AN

OCEAN-LINER IS ANCHORED OVER IT→

Eitts

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

Nails

Split Mended

If your nails have the habit of splitting you should lemn how to mend them with cement and Us- Sur There Is no neesity For cutting them off to Enger level, of you have nursed them along to an

attractive length.

You go through the first steps of a manane take the shaping, re- moving the polish, pushing back the cuticle and a snubbing then you begm the manding job.

There

a na cement which

comes in a small tube.

This you squirt over the split mail, take off the surplus with an orange slick and allow it to partly dry. Se- parate a tiny piece of ordinary face cleansing tissue you 1154 only one layer and pat it onto the cement, over the split, and with cuticle scissors trim it off along the nail edge. Allow the cement to thoroughly dry before covering the tissue with colourless nail polish base. Over this goes a thick coat of dark polish or two coats of a lighter shade. You see the polish must be opaque so the mend will not show. Relax for at least fifteen minutes to give the nail coatings sufficient time to dry and set.

You might find that you will need assistance for mending your right hand but you should be quite capable of mending a split nail on your left hand.

Don't Suffer With Spit Nails

A split nail can be a great ex- pense if you go snagging your best hose with it or pulling a thread

in a gown. It is silly to allow a split to go unmended in the last instance and not very clever to let your nails get in a condition they split easily, in the first in- stance!

So

May

Be

Splitting nails and, roughened hands are greatly helped by

two splendid aide-a, pair of flash coloured cotton gloves to wear over your choice of hand massage cream, hand smoother

or hand masque cream,

When your hair gets very dry and do something about the con-capsules. Foods containing iodine and begins to full out you say, "1 dition.

--such as fish und. tomatoes- must be run down for my hair is Doctors admit that some clim- should be eaten and sometimes in a terrible state." Well, when ates are drastic on nails but they painting the nail with

a diluted your nails split frequently you also admit that a woman can dis- | iodine solution seems to help. We might take that as a sign of sub-cover her vitamin deficiency and are told that nails do not breathe, normal health too, and get busy (correct it by taking concentrated but we are also told that nails

Try A Warm, Tonic Bath--A Basis For Fresh Beauty

By Nan Gloster

are dépendent upon sufficient moisture in the air, so perhaps without our knowing it, nails draw a little strength from iodine mix- ed with water! Many women seem to think so at least,

You must admit that attractive, shapely nails are a beauty asset and one's fingers feel so much smarter if they are nicely mani- cured and polished. So it truly does bay to prevent your nails from splitting, if you can, and to keep the hand skin soft and bleached, Why shouldn't your lovely rings have a worthy back- ground?

are tired. Rather follow the hot

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Jane drives a horse-box in the hot bath, as a rejuvenator, people ambulance service of the A.R.Pimagined that she was bathing in On morning shifts-she crawls un- a magic elixir. Diane lived to der the old engine with olly rags the great age of sixty. and out-cans. Sometimes she Fatigue toxins have a devastat-one with a shower or sponge down cleans the office floor. After eighting effect on women's looks, in tepid; water to close the pures. hours of duty she comes home and nerves and the vitality from which sheds all the grime and grumbles emanates, personal glamour. Con- of service in a hot, scented bath. sider your bath as an inexpensive, All her life. Jane has taken a hot bath for granted. Now it counts as a new beauty ritual, the relax- ation in soft warm water,

tub on. hot water as wartime perience to watch the mixing. The scientific way to soap your- sage with a creamy soap, the brisk

beauty treatment are. Anding it milling, and perfuming of English self is from, feet, to forehead, and rub down and either, tonic lotion invaluable beauty lotion and learn economic to have good, skin-soups, most of which are fampüsi or a fragrant tale to finish.

the correct way to take it as a softening soaps, water softening all over the world. The way the latter, vigorous massage to repeat Jane's work is typical, although treatment.

bath tablets or salts, and a talcum technical fats are beaten, shredd- the soaping a second time. Don't not identical of women's part in. The normal and heavy figure powder to delil with, peripliation ed, tinted and rolled is rather like be afraid to scrub, in warm water helping a country at War Dust can bathe in real hot water at a odours and, chaffing.

pastry-making. When the soap and soup. It helps to remove and dirt.get under uniforms or temperature of 110 to 112 degrees] "All thin people, and, those with emerges from between heavy scales of dead cuticle and acid de- overalls. The skin perspires, porer fahrenheit, But the frankly thin, sensitive, dry skins, need a super-rollers it.is. Like well-itneaded rib-| pazīts, which are the origin of clog and the exercise of unaccuss further, impoverishment of fatted soap-baby soap quality- bons, and is quite warm. The rib- blemishes and an unhealthy skin. tomed muscles leaves an ache for the fatty tissues of the skin in and the bland non-alkaline sort of bons are presed, into slabs, cur Clogged pores, throw: additional Boothing, toning and bracing. Full-contact with wet or dry heat bath cubes. There are scans and into cakes by hand-machines and work on the kidneys and then length immersion in warm water Bath-water of 92 to 98 degrees is silts prepared to assist in the ex- trimmed, and wrapped by nimble-blotches will begin to appear, an is still the best and oldest of best for them and for the limited traction of oily, deposits clogging fingered women, Willing and the face and chest. Washing, the beautifiers. In the Middle Ages number of Amazons who can en- the pores and they are obylously kneading makes a cake of soap body all over with hot water and nobody bathed except on a doctor's joy, a tepid bath, the temperature sulted, to heavier, greasy types of firm, soft and fine. Its lather is the following massage with towels prescription, and when Diane de should be from 15 to 90 degrees. skin."

creamy, and as a massage medium | holp to eliminate, congestiön of this Poitiers decided "to-raker a→ anty* Never take-a cool bath-when you' It is exciting and educating ex-is" almost as effective-assureunt; 5 3 toXT

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