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FEWER PEOPLE IN PRISON. HOME SECRETARY ON STRIKING.

DECLINE

WHY DO WOMEN PAINT?

THE KONGKONG DAILY PRERS

ANNOYANCES:

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER

VISITORS AT HOTELS.

THE FA

AND THE WAY TO FACE THEM.

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A PHILOSOPHIC DISCUSSION.

[BY LADY NORAH BENTINCE]

Why do women paint their faces! Obviously because they suppose it in- proves their looks and generally, they are right, wh

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Me A. MacGc Mr&Mrs

Mr U, M. McDonsid

O. Nilson Mrs W. H. Nortley

child Mr J. E. Ollerton

Mr&Mrs S. M. Bander, Ma At the sinth International Prison Cou

There are 10,000 ways of annoring, ennetam Bateman Bro which opened in the Imperial

people who live in the same house, Mr. Bateman Mod

Mr N. Beale Francis, the Marylebone magistrata. | Mr A. Bocker Institute, South Kensington, on August

There are, but there are also, thank good.HE. R. Bellea th, Sir Evelyn, Raggies Brise, in deliver

Just as most men are born with an

neer, a great mungy way of keeping yourself. MR. J. Birbeck ing his presidential dress, found con- ingrained love of gambling the idea of from being undyed or, at least, from show

· Mr T, Bamèki. siderable difcuity in reading his type getting something for nothing mosting annoyance.

Mr & Mrs W. Gr 8 women are born with a love of beautily-Bome people annoy one through trying Barnes & children Mis Skript, but struggled on for some minutes.

ing their bodies for the delectation of to, others through trying not to, and others. Mr F. L. Baller it dawned upon him that be must man. That it is done with the ultimate again, simply because their personalities in Mr. D. E. Capplanes

though not always completely conscious stinctivaly jar upon yours. The war's man Mr W-B. Champher Be wearing the wrong glasses. He searchesice to attract men is probably true; its down at table may irritate one just Cholmondeley Mr K. Pappie ed the table' and discovered that he had and yet there are plenty of men who picked up the glasses of the Home Secre- say they hate it. But I do not think cessfully sa a bitter tongue, and if realmondele

ance allow yourself to get into the habit of ore R. E. Clowes ary, Sir William Joynson-Flicks, who had they can always detect it, do you! big baing annoyed by annoying things there is Mr & Mrs W. EL Confer just addressed the Congress Moralists in all ages have condemned no end to let

Sir William delved into his pockets, the use of rouge as a sign of wanton-

SCHOOLING ONESELF.. and producing his case found that it conness in the individual and decadence in

Pro P. & Crampton, zained the president's glasses. The ucces

the race. But, as it is practically im-

But not to show annoyance however, dr FC Crush sary exchange was made and Sir Evelyn pessible to And an age when women did much you may feel it is usually the best 3D Dickie was able to go on with his speech. not paint, one is constrained to ask form of armour. If someone wants to ' Dyhotrs

in his address Sir William Joynson when were the good old days

irritate you, he is sure to be delighted In the 14th century the Florentine when he sees, that his barb has got home; Hick, president of the National Reception Comunittes of the Congress, said ng women has the reputation of being,

in the last few years there has been the best painted women in the worldmebody irritates you through sheer striking diminution in the number of per-and all women were described branes common form he is sure sons in prison, notwithstanding that there chronicler of that day as "always vain to get more nervous, and therefore more has been an increase of population in the and light, so that, if you have them in irritating, the more notice you take of his

the house, never take your eyes off them, tactlere blundering, same period. Fifty years ago there were 99,000 people in local prisnas; to-day there but watch them and make them fear you. are only "8,000. Fifty years ago there were 10,000 people in penal servitude to

clay there are 1,000

Of a widow named Perette in the year 1300 is is told that after her husband had been dead but three days she was in pursuit of saother one with silk- dresses falsa anir, and rouge The

To that must be added 1,100 young per ons in Borstakinstitutions, There were Er local prisons, nad 13 penal servitude" prisons in this country fifty years ago;

Although one would have thought most today there are a local prisons and four of them were, by this time, inoculated against the evil effects of colour poison- penal servitude institutions

The reasons for this decrease are to being there are still men extant who object to the idea of bestowing greetings found in better education, in improved of an amorous nature upon rouged lips, sobriety, and improvement of the standard saying that they do not want to get and condition of living, and also in the ptomaine poisoning. But on the whole care taken by judges and magistrates to mako the greatest possible use of the alternative to detention.

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TWO EXPERIMENTS. Two experiments were being conducted in regard to prisons. Wormwood Scrubs set aside entirely, about two or three months ago, for men committed from the

London area who had never been in prison, belare, with the object of training them in an environment free from the prison atmosphere many

4....

A Wakefeld, the prison has been kept for those with sentences long enough to ainable them to take advantage of the opportunity of industrial training afford-

No one is admitted to this prison with a sentence of less than six months, and an hour day-nine hours work and two boura education-is enforced.

TEACHERS' JOURNEY.- Separata confinements had been almost cutirely abolished in our English prisons. Systems of voluntary education, in which voluntary education assistant to the prison governor guided the work of his fellow-prisoners, had been inaugurated,

At one prison a party of public school teachers took & train journey of 33 miles each way volimtarily to give instruction to the prisoners in the evening

There is a change of spirit in our prisons to-day," remarked Sir William The atmosphere is one of hope rather than of despair, and among the prisoners there is co-operation with the prison régime rather than opposition to it."

AMOR

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And the more your school yourself not to show irritation, the sooner will you arrive at the philosophie stage when you do not feel it. For the more you give way to irritation and allow yourself to show at Boysace, the more are you likely to do so

in the future.

I know that it is easy to talk like this and that some annoyances are almost beyond the endurance one has to pat apalagesalf not to answer back, but nevertheless one nedely always puts onsself in the adperiós position by not answering annoyance with annoy

ance..

CALM AND COLD.

should say that men cannot really

It is the person who loses his teinper who object to it, considering the numbers of feels ashamed of himself afterwards, not women who adopt the fashion. Or do men merely put up with what they can the person who counters irritability with calmne. I simit that this very calmness neither end nor mendi

Maybe Miss 1945 will have swung back andy some angry people more than would to being a maid of dimity and white response, but remember that, music, as demure and unpainted as her though very calas, one can also be very cold great-grand-mothers a thing of prunes and prisms rather than of fags and But still, a touch of a cocktailk geranium leaf under each eye. will lift a maid from plainness to prettiness, there is surely no law, either Divine or man- made, to prevent her applying that rosy petal!

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LOOKING AT LONDON, TOO POLITE TO PLEASEAN

AMERICAN?!

Visitors from all parts of the world are present studying London, and appar ently gathering mixed impressions.

Daily Mail reporter who talked to foreigners in the West End and the City recently heard the following opinions expressed-

Turkish-I would sooner have my chil. dren educated here than in Paris ur Ber lin. There is a greater feeling of safety bere, and London has a far-higher moral standing Berlin I consider more artistic as a city. There, too, you can almost find your way about blindfold. Here it is often not easy to sad the name of the

street.

Spanish. When you get to know people He was convinced that the short se London is a very pleasant town. In tence was absolutely useless, and preven-Faris there are too many amusements, tive' letention had not been so successful in London amusement takes about the as had been hoped.

right place. What especially appeals to me is the seriousness which the English man shows in business. VASAR

American.—I wouldn't like to live in London, although it has plenty of interest. I have never seen anything so filthy is the streets. If I lived bere I could not use my car it would be no use. I could get about better hy omnibus,

TRAINED APPETITE.

THE GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE PRINCE OF WALES.

[BY: WALTER M. DALLICHAN.] The enjoyment of food is an essential of digestion and nourishment; but a hearty appetite is not always an in- dication of abundant henfth."

I don't think your young women make the best of themselves. Nearly every giri in Washington looks pretty, because she makes up well and hides her defects

As for the manners of the people, they

An abnormally large appetite is are too polite. It gets on my nerves. symptom of the disorder, known as

Egyptian-Of all the places in Europe

bulimia, and in some recorded cases the I have visited I have found people of the amount of food consumed. seems incredi-best character here.

ble An inordinate appetite can be ac quired by constant, preoccupation of the mind with the pleasures of the table, and there is a tendency among the advanced and prosperous races towards gustatory indiscretion. Many persons find their supreme enjoyment in the expectation of eating and in the gratification of the tastebuds of the tongue.

Endoubtedly pleasure should accom. pany the eating of meals. But the glul ton, the exaggerated alimentative type," craves more than a natural share of enjoyment in eating Goncharoff, th Russian novelist, has drawn the type in the neurotio. Oblomott, who lived for Eating, and married his landlady simply because she was a good cook At the other extreme was Lord Byron, who tried

"NARROW RECIPES,

excellent regetable entrée. Tako I mar- VEGETABLE MARROW AU GRĄTIN makes an row, 1 onion, 1 tablespoonful of chopped parsley, browned breadcrumbs, ) pint of Bravy or stock, salt, pepper, 2oz. of mar- Sarine, 3 oz of grated cheese.

and scathing. W

"After all, life is so full of serious an- reties that is not worth while wasting que's energy by constant losses of temper and exhibitions of peevishness. All sorts of things annoy one if one allows them to, and very few things annoy one if one doesn't DAR

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The many petty irritations that occur in everyday existence ought not to be allowed | 1994 to disturb the even tenor of one's life. To meet annoyances with an outward amile soon enables one to meet them. with inward indifference, and there is nothing which man ena learn to train more completely than his temper.

The 10,000 ways of annoying, people" can all be faced with a joke it ons culti tates aloofness.

REAL PORRIDGE FOR M.P.S.; MR. KIRKWOOD TO TEACH THE

COOKS.

Members of Parliament will in future be able to obtain porridge in their dining room after 9 p.m.-real porridge cooked a Scottish housewives cook it, with Scottish ingredients. Mr. David Kirkwood, the Bocalist member for Dumbarton Barghs, who has persuaded the Kitchen Committee to add this ancient, dish to their menu, i to show the kitchen stuff bow to prendre the porridge. It is just a question of the right ingredients and the right methods which are used by all who make the real Scottish porridge," he says. AMER

"You can't get the right meal in London, and I don't know where it can be obtained in England, so I am going to bring from Scotland supplica of the right kind.

It is not original for a Scot to bring his own meal to London, for Lord Strathclyde when, as Mr. Ure, he was Secretary for Scotland always brought his own with

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Here is the recipe:

· Put some water into an ordinary pot. (Don't put milk in-you can add it after you have cooked the porridge if you like.) When the water begins to get warm allow the meal to trickle through, the fingers of the left hand into the water; meanwhile, the right hand should stir with a piece of wood kept specially for the purpose, o

perdonk

Stir until boiling and continue to stir very slowly for about half an hour, ling lightly. You can add more salt at the finish if you like, but in in the right way to add salt while stirring Porridge properly made, Mr. Kirkwood declares, not only builds both brain and physique, but is also an económical dish, åt food for anyone.”-

USEFUL IS THE KITCHEN,

combin“:

Feel the marrow, cut it in quarters and remove the seeds. Cut the marrow into thin slices. Grease a fire proof glass or carthware dish and sprinkle it thickly with breadcrumbs, parsley, and chopped onion. Put in a layer of marrow slicek sprinkle these with salt, pepper, grated A spoor which is labor cheese, parsley, and onion Contiune ing the advantages of a number of cooke- to live on biscuits and sods water, and these layers until the dish is full Covering utensils, has recently been placed on described the dinner bell as "the toctin with breadcrumbs, pour in the gravy, put the market. It eau be used in place of et the soul!!, smali, pieces of margariné hers and there a vegetable.

egg be potato The appetite can be trained to modere over the top, and bake in a fairly hot masher, istrainer or ogg poacher, and tion or stimulated to excess. Hunger and oven for 30-40 minutes, or until the beats any mixture in half the time taker the desire to eat should recur at natural marrow fools, loft when tested with a- when no ordinary, spoon is used, e intervals without artificial aid. The finest skewer. Berve very hot in the dish in pro Aperitif in outdoor exercise, The Princo which it was "cooked, 1Wales sets an excellent example in YBORTABLE MARKOT

Especially useful at this There when som

personal hygiene. He, Ands time in an, maina of a cooked narrow, sal pepper, device for Alicing. exceptionally busy life for daily exerc

vente only one full meat a day. The

majority of the hard working,). Out

althy and long-lived men and women salt and

trained their appetites to

nutrition

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should be firm

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