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China Mail Wednesday Supplement

September 1, 1918

TEEN AGE TOPICS

Hello There

Now that summer is coming to an, end, what kind of holiday did you school people have? Some of us prob- ably slept and lazed around all sum-- mer, and were thoroughly boted-os I was last year.

Summers are just as important as the rest the year for learning some- thing new. At school we are all taught the same things in a class, but during the holidays we can learn a variety of different things, depending on our own tastes.

On this page today we print what several teen agers have been doing this summer. How do your experi- ence compare with theirs? Write in and tell us about what you did.

TEEN AGE TOPICS EDITOR.

Readers' Letters

I for one would like very much to be a member of the Fashion Club, but first of all I would like to make a suggestion, it may,

To form a Fashion Club, a model'or models are necessary. Why not let us readers send in drawn models with wardrobe? The Editor would then choose the best model and give her

a name.

I am sure that readers who can't draw would appreciate it.

Here's hoping, my suggestions meet with approval

HILDA OLSSON.

I think I am the loneliest girl in Hong Kong.

When I was in Singapore I had several pen pals abroad, one of them in Hong Kong. This correspondent 'of mine is the one who used to write to me most. When I came to Hong Kong. four weeks ago, I looked her up and to my disappointment she could hard- ly speak English. I have stayed at home... ever..sinco.

I will be much obliged to know the addresses of youth clubs where boys and girls do speak English.

PRISCILLA LIMA.

I'd like very much to join the fash- ion club, and will help in any way I

Can

In

answer to Viewpoints, I think that a girl of 16 should be able to choose her own dresses. Of course, she should consult her mother and ask her advice. At 16 years old many haven't excellent taste, and will no doubt make mistakes, but that can be corrected. Everybody knows that ex- perience is costly.

Boys are not usually able to choose their own clothes at 16, but they cre usually not interested in clothes at that age.

So I think their mothers should pick their clothes.

MILDRED OZORIO.

WHAT WE DID

This Summer

This summer was fun because I had enough time to go swimming and to the movies. But I have also been taking shorthand and typing lessons, - three mornings a week.

I wouldn't exactly say this was fun, but I was learning something not taught in my school, and II la import- ant to have training like this when the time comes to take a job.

So my summer has been construc- tive as well as fun.

SHELLEY DA MOTTA.

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I attended Mrs. O'Connor's art classes at her home on the Peak this Aummer. Five girls and a boy go every Monday morning to draw de- signs, objects and occasionally the local views,

Mr. Mulcahy devotes three morn- ings a week to teaching 'maths stud- ents, and provides much of the friend- ly competitive spirit apparent in the fortnightly cricket matches held at KGS, when the old timers beat the juniors.

* But if I had my choice of ways to

spend the summer, I would travel.

PATRICK MOBB.;

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The most appropriate way of spend- ing the summer in. Hong Kong is swimming, and that is how I spent much of the holidays. The calm➡ beach of Cheung Chau Island was very inviting, and the days I spent there are filled with pleasant memor- Jes.

With my friends, I awoke carly every morning for a dip in the sER before breakfast. After a good meal, it wasn't long before we were back again.

In the afternoons, when the sun was hot, we walked in the cool of the hills and admired the natural beaut-

·les.***

As the night was creeping in, we strolled along the beach, singing quiet songs which somehow Atted in with the calm and stillness about us.

WANDA R.

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My ambition is to become a cham- pion in the athletic world, which of course takes some doing. I am keenly interested in running,, the half mile being my favourite distance, although ot home (Birmingham, England), I used to do long distance running.

Each night this summer I did 10 ›miles, to strengthen leg muscles, con- trol breathing and keep weight down. 3. missed all the sports at home this' year by coming out to the Far East, and arrived too late for them here. SUll, I am determined to keep peg- ging away.

CPL. A.Ó. BLADEN, F.A.F.

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Shorthand and typing classes have been given three times awerk

by Mr. Law in Kowloon.

Class For A Lass

This is a time of changing fashions. Not so long ago all girls wore their skirts knee length, but now skirts have gone down almost to the ankles.

Teen agers in Hong Kong are taking to the "New Look" very slowly, but gradually one after the other the older giris are adopting it.

Mothers may well have a worrying when daughter wants a complete aw wardrobe of dresses. Often it just ทอพ can't be done. Maybe one new one- and then what? Teen agers them- selves can help here by modifying their present clothes.

If you have a nice frock which you think too short, buy a yard or two of the same material if possible, or some fine white or contrasting material. Then add a frill to the end of the skirt, making the frill as long as you want the skirt to be.

It can be done to almost any, dress, easily and cheaply.

WANDA.

Sports Make Good Sports

Every outdoor" sport that you play, you play it with someone else. Every. one likes good sports, they are fun to play with.

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They don't argue with everyone some little thing, they usually let it pass. That doesn't mean that they let the people they are playing with get away with cheating; it means

that whenever there a doubt, they let it pass, just to make the game more fun. A good sport also plays the game. He or she doesn't stand in the corner while the rest of his friends are play- ing.. He doesn't make everyone feel sorry for him if his shoes are too tight, Tast If he didn't get enough sleep

or

you play a game you are going to make mistakes. A good sport can tako a little punishment for making the point for the wrong team. The portant part of being a good sport is to make your friends enjoy the game too. If you can, it will make them like you.

PEN PAL S

The following addresses were sup- plied by Miss Devi' Norain.

Judy Robertson, aged 13, Geeves- tin, Huon, Tasmania. Jean Fort, age 16, 21 North England. James Mont St. Brandon Colliery Co., Durham, gomery, age 14, 95 School Parade. Westmead, Australia Audrey Tar gett. Tantawanglo via Candelo, Aus tralia. Fay Quinlan, age 15, 50 Sut- ton St.,

Cootamundra,

Australia. The following were obtained by a Teen Age Topics” reporter.

Ann Tilling, aged 14, 297 Hurst- bourne Rd., Rochester D, NY, USA. Marjorie Pugsley, aged 17, 1418 Ridge RI East, Webster, NY, USA. Tom

St Putmam, age 15, 81 West Main Webster, NY, USA. Marjorie An derson, age 15 37 Woodrow RA. Rochester 9,

US.A. David Woods, age 18, 68 Hurstbourne

Rd... Rochester 9. N.Y.. U.S.A. Audrey. Kay, age 16, 238 Lake Rd., Sea Breeze,

17. N.Y., U.S.A. Ennie Wood, age Kennedy Rd., Webster, N.Ÿ., USA.

I can understand that your English "friends hate us. But they should think

our towns too are destroyed, and much more than English towns, and if we go on with hating and counter-hating, we will never have. peace. I personally don't hate any

also not the English and the Russians, in spite of having some reasons to do so.

news

People speak often of a new war. don't like the idea, for this war would be

fought on

on our heads and the rests. of our homes would be destroyed.

I often read In American paper, that we Germans are said to hope that in a new war we could get back our polities influence and there- fore would welcome a new war. “This Germans

untrue, only very few would like a new war, for we know what was

war really means. Sometimes

We are saked. by

ed by Ameri- we would like a new war and cans If we would fight, for America. But nobody likes war in Germany and if we must fight we would fight only for Germany, but neither for America nor for Russia or England or any other country.

We want to live in peace, to rebulla our destroyed Industries

help aridi.

to build a United

Z ERERBACH

BAMBERG, GERMANY,

Note. This was part of a 'letter sent in, by a boy in Hong Kong, toho has a

Pen Pal in Germany,

CONTEST

PRIZE WINNER

This sketch was drawn by Therese Rozario. 6 Knutsford - Terrace, Kow-> Ioon, as a likeness of her sister Helen. She wing $10 for this contribution, and the cash will be in the post today. How about you, other artista? · drawing on any subject. if. It's "good enough—is worth money to you if you send it to Teen Age Topics

Art ofaless for KGB-seniors given by Mrs. O'Connor,”

Printed by Photogravure Procest by TAI, WAH PRESS

CO., Lockhart Road, Hong Kong?

35530.