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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1969.

WEEK-END WOMANSENSE

SLEEP IN

IN PEACE

THAT can probably

W claim to be the world's most expensive bed-price £2,500 will make ita public dobut later this month at London's Furni- ture Exhibition.

The bed consists of twin 3 ft. mattresses that can be raised and adjusted to any position by the touch

They a button.

Bro

also heated. with auto- matic temperature con- +rol.

Features

Coveriels of "champagne" mink fur:

Bedside fitments, coin- plele with radios, book-

shelves, and

velvet-fined

drawers for accessories.

A

hed:

television sei a foe's

length away

A

frons

the

press-bution control pane that will draw er close the bedroom curtains, con- trol the bedroom lights, switch the TV on 23 comununicate with every room Ju the house

on an inter-com system:

Built in bed-time music If you feel in the necd

of a lullaby,

What, no sleeping

pills?

'SMOOTH' -the word for Spring

by JOY MATTHEWS

S-M-0-0-Text, mother. heads to our feet, from our men to our make-up, smoothy replaces the rough,

puffed-up toughy of 1958.

the

Smooth fabrics: Flannel is top of the list for suits und skirts; silk is top of the list for shirts and shirt; The prettiest waisters. French girl I met last week was wearing a grey finnnel skirt and shirt- French version of the suit with dark grey stockings and pale grey shoes.

The smartest American teenagers are wearing tight grey flannel skirts with opaque stockings in cool, clear colours ilko Jenon yellow and bright pink wit tweed and leather shoes,

Newest Jerseys for spring are polo shirts in soft, smooth wool; smartest Parislennes have chosen

Latest reports from Hollywond te that now Marlon Brando is early as sleek as Cary Grant.

Make-Up Help

new

SMOOTH make-up. A

machine made in France

that applies make-up in an entirely different way. It has eight .different buffers for aferent kinds of make-up. One

the fuzzy, muzzy mohairs for for creams, one for base, one for

double cashmere cardigans powder, one for tonics, and so twice as thick with double bands on. It is about the same size on sleeves, walsts, and neck- lines.

The fringe is now fished and smooth hair that bares the brow and tamed those tousled locks is on the way in.

There is a shearing and a

as an electric razor and gives

tube for the odd apot or more. Even really hardened cases can be cured, You just wash your face, smooth on the cream, and leave over- night. Or you can use it as a beauty mask by leaving il on for only 15 minutes.

The kind of thing I mean

The girl in the grey flannel sultsleeker, smoother, but still softer. Her hair: fringeless and smooth. Her stockings: still opaque and in ribbed nylon but in pale colours or white, The 'sult buttoned in brass, lined in scarlet.

Cot To Carry

L smoother, lighter make-up that won't be ruffled by sun, CMOOTH line for babies. A or heat.

shaving everywhere we look SMOOTH skin for girls big enough for Even our men are becoming with the unsmooth look.

careful and couth.

new cot from France that in the best idea I've seen for the Httles since the playpen. It is a two-year-old A but collapses into a bag

small that the child can carry it around for himself. It solves the holiday problem.

new cream that comes in

a

20

On Slipped

Discs

SLIPPED disc doesn't

A ronfly slip. Actually,

It is a rupture which causes all the pain and trouble.

Your spine is composed Lof many little hard, bony structures called vertebra which support the trunk or the pelvis. Between each værtebra la soft spongy It material called a disc.

is these discs which permit The spine to move,

SHOCK ABSORBERS

In effect, they serve as shock absorbers to sudden changes in movement or any farting pros- Gures,

arca

Because the lumbar or lower back region supports the entire upper body, this is the where stress, and strain is most likely to rupture a disc,

A disc is made up of several parts. It is covered by strong, fibrous tissues which help con- fine the softer spongy material between the vertebra,

SLIPPED DISC

When some strain or stress tears the outer ring, the softer material oozes into the spinal canal. This rupture is what we commonly call a "slipped disc."

Occasionally, young adults will suffer a ruptured disc, but generally it occurs in persons 25 and older. Many doctors be

⚫gin lleve that the normal process of the body has some- thing to do with disc ruptures.

In childhood, the Interlacing sirands of fibrous issue have a high fuld content which makes them quite clastic. Some of this elasticity, however, is lost as we grow older and the fuld content decreases.

MAY RUPTURE

д

disc will Despite this, the function normally under ordi- But when nary circumstances. the degenerative processes be- come even more pronounced, [ rupture may result.-

Urually, the pain is so i tense with a ruptured dise that the victim immediately. thinks of surgery as the bort form of relief. In many cases, though, surgery isn't necessary. A phy- sician usually will determine how a disc reacts to medical management before deciding upon the method of treatment.

For some patients, all

reat. be needed is bed will Others may require traction and corrective jackets or limited types of exercise.

By H, N, BUNDESEN, M.D.

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A woman's love of elegance...

captured in a lipstick!

FOOD FACTS

ONE DISH DINNER

Fon

plo.

Now York.

a nourishing, tasty one.

dlah dinner, try usparagus

until pir bubbles and is slightly browed. Serve hot to B.-U.P.I.

EGG-NOG TO EAT

New York

ALSO with

FROM

FRANCE

'them na brooches on suits

and dresses. Price

cally prohibitive.

So Cold

pract!-

PICTURE BY!

JOHN FRENCH

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