1941-06-23 — Page 114

China Mail 德臣西報 中國郵報 All

By George MacManus

BUT I'M THE HOST. AND THAT'S": MY WIFE SINGING - AWFUL-ISN'T IT?

49

King Festungn kyndicate, Inc., World rights reserved"

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

FLATTERING LINES

It may take a good permanent wave and expert fingers to set the hair but any woman with fluffy, fine hair may have, if she desires, a flattering, modern caif- fure. Just to prove the point. Andre of New York took a model * 1 selected and styled a pumpad- our hair-do with a most interest- ing side and back line.

The hair was given a soft per- manent wave and it was not thin- ned. The girl had been wearing it in a long page-boy bob and M... Andre left all the length there. Thus length and thickness gave the wave body and he was able to dress it and make it stay where his trained fingers pressed it.

Don't wail if your hair is fine. You too can wear it in any style you prefer if you will have patience and go about the pro- blem with a determined mind.

In

Side and back view of a Gibson-Girl Coiffure which Is

hair, very soft and flattering for fine

Created by Andre 61 Richard Hudnut.

was done in this manner. From ear and set in a thick, high roll

EAT AT

JIMMY'S

INEXPENSIVE

SATISFYING

OUTSTANDING VALUE

IN

PURE LINEN SHEETS

80′′ × 108”1 ́§50 PAIR

68” x 106" 3500 PAIR two which extended from the nape of

the first plece don't get cheap wave. Get a good, soft the very centre of the head wave. Your hair need not be side parts were made forming a kinky to stay in place. I know triangle. From the centre to far you think that it will slide away right forehead, and from the ctn- from its pins if the wave is too tre to far left forehead. All the forward bang soft, but that is not so. The trick hair was corrbed in dressing fine hair is to comb it fashion and set in small flat curls, so that bulks of it is rolled to- From the centre point a part gether.

was made down the back of the For instance, this particular head dividing the hair in two. hair-do of which I speak to-day Each side was coinbed toward the

Mannequins Go To It

By

Beverley

Nichols

1 never expected that a fashion "falling off," of nerves and fati- parade, in times like these, could gue?

be as inspiring as Trooping the Not a bit of it. They were

Colour. But it was.

superbly aloof, calm, untroubled.

the neck up padour.

to the front pom-

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.

After the hair was dry Andre brushed the curls out instead of combing them out. "That gives them more body and makes them behave," he explained to me. “I like to set most of the hair in place with the brush, and I use the comb only for the end ringlets across the forehead. I place the OFF THE RECORD

thin wire hairpins criss-cross too, then they anchor the hair and it does not slide. Girls with soft hair should do that. They should also set the hair in place at night and wear a net cap over it until the hair has been trained to stay as they wish it to."

Scalp Care NêëdEd

Daily brushing and scalp Anger massage helps thin hair greatly. Some women feel that brushing does not help but if they brush every day for a month they would see how silly that is. Brushing not only stimulates the scalp but it clearises the hair of the lint and dust it collects daily. It also dis- tributes the nourishing oil from

I went for the B.B.C. The par- You'd say that even if a bomb ade took place in a luxurious Lon-were to fall on the platform on the roots to the entire length of don hotel. And though some, of which they were drifting so ex- the hair which gives it a natural you may have heard the short quisitely, all they'd do would be gloss and makes it more ruly. talk I gave about it, there are to lick of the dust from their many things one can say in the dresses, shrug their shoulders and "Daily Sketch" that one can't say walk on. over the air.

It was a scene which contrasted

So here are some of the fea- rather strongly with the fantas- sons why that show was inspir-tic world of Lord Haw Haw's ing.

of the women

women,

Shampoo your hair every two weeks but have it set once a week if it requires it.

an

At the moment Paris is unwill- army of imagination, a world in which ingly catering for

But Firstly, because of the attitude London is alled with starving, gigantic German blondes.

when the last of these Brunnhildes rushing in the audience, half-demented That is best summed up by a re-from shelter to shelter clad only sails out of the last dress-salon,

like a defeated battleship, leav mark I overheard from a woman in shawls and boundles of rags. immediately behind me.

I asked one of the girls if she Ing a trail of bogus marks behind She was watching a mannequining in a biltzed city.

would imagine that it didn't find such work rather try- her, one

designers will take the French

get their wearing a very lovely dress that might have been call- "Trying?" she said, with genu-quite a long time to

eyes back into fotus, and their tape-measures unstretched.

When that time comes, as it

London's chance. Not that surely will, it will be our chance. want to wipe Paris off the map. or fashion. -

who was

we

"Mrs. Newly"

Here's Luck

Dia, The Dagitur.

(22) di Tribeck kritičete

"More coffee, Dear?"

By ED REED

EWO BEER

FINLAND'S POLICY

Tel. 30311

EXCITEMENT ON STAR FERRY

surprise. "Certainly ed "Smoke Screen"--a romantic ine

not." a certain affair of black veils and misy. And she added with

hauteurIf you're a good man- clinging draperies.

"I wish I could afford a dress than Couring to trip you up I'm dress nequin it takes a god deal more like that," she sighed. mind," replied her friend. "Think much more afraid of Madame X of the dollars it'il bring in!"

" naming a dragon-like

We aren't barbarians, and we Those dresses, you see, were woman who was hovering in the

don't claim that sort of monopoly, mostly for export to the States. background.

But we do want to put London on The Women fall not come Most of all, I was impressed by buy, for very luxurious dresses the girls who weren't there the it. And we're doing so now.

This, in fact, was the sort of are no longer the thing" in workers behind the scenes, who this country..

stitched away making these beau scene which I should have liked. They'd come to look and to tiful lothes, all through the Dr. Goebbels to see.

Outside scarred streets, tin give the designere a hand. Blitz, worlding just as cagerly as,

And they seemned Just as if they a been in a Spitfire fac-hats, marching troops, the cus- thrilled to think that these lovely tury

tomary pageant of wartime Lon-1 dresses were going to bri

those little fragments don.

THE FINNISH GOVERN- Some excitement was caused the dollar's" as if th "Veen

ering embroidery had Inside, sweet music, soft lights,

whole week to beautiful women wearing dresses MENT, ACCORDING TO THE this morning among passengers

YESTER-aboard the Hong Kong-bound w whose very names made Impud- SWEDISH RADIO,

DAY. PUBLISHED A COM-Golden: Star," when Li Kum, 28, may think that she might ent mockery of the age's alarms MUNIQUE STATING: "WE FIND widow, residing at No. 4, "Shan-

That isn't names like "Black Out," "Eat OURSELVES IN THE employed.

IMME-tung Street, Jumped overboard. A

seaman from the DIATE DANGER ZONE.

"Tak, Fing way to look at it. For that More Vegetables," ""Alert.” king frivolity will go over- Dusk was falling as I stepped To Increase our security, re-steam launch, passing nearby, nd will earn dividends of Into the streets. For a little while servists have already been called Jumped overboard and rescued her. She was handed over to D gold, ich, in their turn, will be it was like being in another up for service."

Fmed into vital munitions, World, the old world of luxury and "Now, more than ever before, Police launch and is at present in hold of war

gaiety and delightful, folly.

we should be on our guard. Free the Kowloon Hospital. Was inspired by the The music echoed in my head and independent Tinland expects "of "ub, "who'd spent Just as thought that London is not only. the colours still glowed in that every citizen will," at this work and do his duty firmly bo- uncomfortable nights in'

rrying on in this way, but lo' my 'mind.

existing limo, rotain his self- Hoving In Finland ind. Her peo¬

Router. control, calmly carry on with his ple's happy future. ually planning ahead.

ing to wear them themselves,

Next I was inspired by t mannequins.

I've tlways had rather

about mannequ

strike me hav

qualities needed for th

wiftpolso, Anite puttefice Puig nity pluck.

But surely these girls,

· bron· "blitzda” “Just as much Cás, any

-Buroly, they'd show signy

of

tran

Then the sireng went.

...

Comments

Approved members can add comments, bookmarks, and private notes.

No comments yet.

Private Research Note

Private notes are available after approval.