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MADDENING MEMENTS

A Shopping affair!

The idea. The very idea! That anyone could suggest for a single moment that any `other kind of rusk was just as good as "Ovaltine" Rusks. They'd never heard such impertinence... Was there ever any other rusk with that subtle scrunchiness, that piquant flavour, that general melting delicious

ness?

What would their mid-morning hot drink be without Ovaltine" Rusks? How could they possibly cat ordinary ruske with any self- respecting cheese?

TOO THIN OR TOO STOUT.

NEITHER IS PERFECT

HEALTH.

The ideal weight for every in dividual is a matter not go much of height but of size, of long bones, width of chest, condition of muscles, and a few other factors, We should have a littlo storage fat to help us through infections ailments, influenta espécially, Wo should be well covered and yet havo the appearance of the so fashion. able slim line which owes nomothing to the cut of our clother. But the "ton thin," like the "too fat." are pathological persons-in other words outside the circle of perfect health, in plain language disconnet,

Deliberate Malnutrition.

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, FRIDAY, JULY 29, 1932.

WOMAN'S PAGE

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THAT GRECIAN BEAUTY.

[BY AMAN.]

I met a woman the other day who was very pleased with herself. She was thin to the point of at- tenuation. To a physician she was repulsive, and thers she was, eating toast and lemon juice and a miser- able tomato for her luncheon; boasting, too, about a condition of which she should have been asham- ed because she was suffering from voluntary malnutrition. She look- ed nervous and irritable, and she is certain to suffer from constipa put on a little weight. The days tion, because she did not eat enough of big doses of cod liver oil to food to be anything else but con- make children fatter are no more. stipaed. I thought to myself, you To gain weight the diet should be deserve no pity, it's your own fault. supervised by the family doctor. It 1 am sorry for genuine Bufferers from malnutrition, underweights may be necessary to give mere who can't help it. They are always sugar in the form of honey, or tired; in youth they grow too long perhaps powdered glucose in orange and too fast and they never feel juice. It may be, on the other very fit and vital and good-temper- hand, necessary to do much more ed. The lungs and heart are below than diet, par, the muscles tire on the slight- est exertion, and persons with mal tired must have more rest, a rest der. You had to choose between nutrition are apt to contract ptosis every afternoon or before the oven-white lead, if you could afford it, or dropping down of the abominal ing meal, and nine hours in bed, and powdered barley if you could organs, and chronic fatigue. What Good sleep is important and I can't understand is the fact that strenuous exercise is to be avoided there are women who deliberately until at least half a stone has bring themselves to this pathetic been gained in weight. There bodily state, pathetic mental state should be remedial exercises, to too, because malnutrition, plus counteract the entroptosis-i... enteroptosis, makes for nervous dropping downwards of the abdo- CLUE YOUR HAIR WAVES! irritability, loss of mental power and power of concentrating and thinking.

The whole thing was -un- thinkable... Good heavens, why didn't the man offer them a nice bag of peanuts and have done with it? No wonder they walked out of the shop. Nothing but Ovaltine" Rusks for people of discernment. . . OVALTINE'

RUSKS

APPETISING DILETTINA ♪ MAURISHING

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Women are giving up wearing hats on sunny days.

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In the parks, streets, restaurants, causik m smart outdoor functions, -hatless women can be counted by

the dozen.

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The most surprising feature of this new fashion is that the hair,

the dressed in

morning, remains in perfect order all day.

Neither summer breezes nor 4 thunderstorm disturb those chiselled waves and crisp curls.

The Dangers,

When I meet these weedy girls, walking with their heads poked for- ward like cases of Parkinson's dis

se, tired, bored, a little hectic, talking about their dists and fast- ings and orange juices, I think furiously about their potential motherhood. A college girl told me that she wanted to be in good condition," so she fasted once a

The secret is that they are covered week, and sometimes for two or

with glue.

A préparation of glue and spirit is sprinkled over the hair after it has been set in the flat, round ringlets now in fashion.

three days at a time. I said "bupe you take a good dose of caster oil before you start fasting, other wise the bacilli in your intestinal

canal will have a splendid time

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Of course they had some excuse for making-up. Women had to sit indoors all day in Athens, so with out the fresh sting of the air they had to do something about their complexions,

any one know who is the most hand- some man in Berlin? If the an swer to this question were known it would remain a secret, because the man concerned would, without doubt, refuse to be made na ex- hibition.

Among men, physical beauty is disdained. Physical fituess and athletic prowess count for much more than mere good looks, perhaps because they depend on effort and skill, and not on the haphazard generosity of nature.

For her beauty alone a woman will receive homage and respectful

The too thin person who is ensily. But the poor dears had no pow. adulation; but these are not given

not,

The Grecian beauty of fifteen cap-

turies ago hexl to usa rouge made from porphyry, and antimony gave her eyelashes just the right shade of blue-black.

Poppy Dye.

Lipa, were worn a little purple -evon the best people liked a deep shade in lipsticks-and poppy dye was usuni for the smart girl with

a moderate purse.

Lo mon on such fortuitous merits.

Yet this attitude to beauty does

not indicate any superiority of

men over women. For who but men are responsible for setting beauty up as a god?

.They Scofl.

Men adore and exploit the beauty of women; for themselves they are indifferent; state of music is more important than shape of mouth.

Proclaim a woman the loveliest in the country; she is flattered, and ninety per cent, of all the other women in the country are envious The effect of the whole must have if not jealous; the rest may not be been a trifle Parisienns; and the interested. But dare to say that pronounced nature of the tints was certain man is the most beautiful heightened by applying them with a of his race, and ten chances to one brust. To Mies 1932, whose com- he will be annoyed, and the other plexion is a delicato pastel, the abmon will scoff. rupt effect of the Grecian blush

would be almost indecently shock-

ing.

Brightness in complexion was the only expression the Greek girl could give to her feminine craving for

colour.

Nice girls wore only white! clothes-it was considered very fast to dress in red or blue!

To-day wo have acquired more balance; we have coloured frocks: and faces in moderation, while science has smoothed the path to beauty.

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imagine a harassed shap-girl at the end of a perfect day ayeing a do parting customer and remarking to a comprer Did you see what was on her hat

her,"

Vindictive. Just suits

Apart altogether from the ques. tion of nomenclature, the "banter " still remains a mode pour rire. It is so obviously intended for the young, the ingenuous, and it is so universally adopted by the middle aged and the disingenuous, Walk- ing behind a boater," you expect i when you overtake its owner to seo clean-eut features, a youthful pro- filu Instead, as often as not, your horrified gaze encounters what looks j like Baby May's hat posed on the head of Baby May's mother. "City of a hundred mya-tor-ies." Ah, there's no mystery. about Baby May's mother in her, new boater. dab of misplaced rouge, is

very wrinkle, every blemish, every

lines.

em-

By this means the shape of the providing toxins for your bloominal organs, These are useful: opposite a white-leaded, poppy- displaying a new mode. Sometimes, phasised by its hard, pitiless]

hend is preserved for 4 hours. Then it is brushed out, and the hair falls in loose, natural-looking

waves,

stream." Secondly, I suid" You (1) Stand easy, with hands hang- ing. Contract the abdominal are twenty-one to-day, and your collegu activities, mental and phy-musclos to flatten the abdomen. sical, are of no consequence compar. (9) Lie with knees bent, hesla rest- ed with your biological values-that ing comfortably on the couch and hands elapsed behind the nook. is, your ability to bear and rear human beings endowed with fine Contract the abdominal muscles, brains and character. How can you

concertina fashion. (3) Raise the achieve this if you starve your arms, breathing in, let the "breath tissues now and threaten your body 80 while bending to touch toes. with tho tubercle bacillus which attacks people of low resistance?"

"Any Cause?

Each time a Scolawoman comes on holiday to London, she finds the That is well. It would take a trafie of the Metropolis revolving very brave young man to lunch to a different tune, and womenkind parple-mouthed beauty or stand in this mode and the tune subtly and a tube train crowded with barley adroitly synchronise, with the re-

ault that eye and ear are pleasur and white of egg complexions.

ably filled, and the strenta and parks form one huge colourful spectacle whoso chiaroscura is in-

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WHAT OF THE HAND-apired, on so it seems, by a match

of joyous melody. SOME MAN?

This month the tune of the mo- mont brayed by brass bands, wistful string quartettes and streat urchitis, We bear no much about the is a song peculiarly appropriate world's lovely women; but what of to the transient moods, the magic its handsome men?

of crowds beneath sunlit akies Your after year beauty contents" Good night, Vienna, you city of a of many kinds are staged so that hun-drad mya-ter-ies." the world may stare at some new found paragon of feminine loveli nicas, whether she be the village May Queen or Miss Universe. Bathing alles and beauty, the

“Minor Importance.

There is, however, no mystery about the prevailing mode in millinery, no hint of feminine lure. The boater" and Vienna do not meet. They haven't even a nosiding soquaintance Truth to tell, the wearor of the "boater dare nod to few if she isn't to find her head gear on the tip of her nose,

Too Suitable.

Volls Out of Piace,

"It wants putting on,

mod- dom,"

So they say in the shops. What they don't say is that it wants beneath it the features of Lady Diana Duff-Cooper, the chic of Dolysin, the carriage of the ex- Quonn of Spain, plus the com- plaxion of the amallest small girl you see playing in the park.

Otherwise they aren't belles, those woarers of boaters" they are figures of fun who have alched their young daughters hate from the nursery cupboard, and dived inta Grandmamma's chest of voila, to draps upon those bate. The mas quernde complete, they have given thair hat brims & knock going out the door, so unused are they to such things as brims after a winter of capa and berets. That knock, ori failing it, a puff of wind, adds the last toudi to the picture. Oh, "eie a beau my granny was, and — sho

spunks!

She said he would think about it. It is very important to consult No" lay person should "diet" the family doctor in case there may herself. Everyone in eating must be a cause of the malnutrition for have a certain number of "ralories" example, septic teeth or septic ton-ruses are the infallible magnets of to keep fit, and these, should be sils. These must be put right. The public attention.

Beautiful features and shapely measured in terms of ounces of physician may, order five small limbs spell fortune for many girls, food, according to body-weight and meals a day instead of the usual and greater fortunes for men who work-ie, cuergy expended. The three, because the too thin person set them in the world's eye.

It is really rather a joke, this |"dally caloric intake affects oaria sometimes unable to digest auf-

bonter fashion, an invitation | sol't. weight for good or illit affects ficient food at one meal owing, to

Yet is our attention ever focussed with the name of the owner, Roso- our health, our mental ability, even deficiency of gastric juices or gas on a man just because he is ex-mary, or Liza, displayed conspicu our charm. To be fashionably trio. fermenta, The doctor mayceedingly handsome! Has any oueously on the riband, Children in: thin is of little importance if we order extra milk, and ho will, of ever mado a tour of the country in the old days went about gaily with Ye, there's just suggestion of are dull-witted, unattractive, and course, insist on thorough chewing search of the unknown gods of great HMS. Splendid or Vindictive on that, a suggestion of a rather down- their beadgear. They had more at heal old woman, hat or one side, towns and little villagest and adequate rest, suficient but not Occasionally, whon some well sense than plaster their Christian peering at her diminishing store known man appears in the news, homes on their ribbons, and so lay of matches and her increasing pile too strenuous exercisó. A

we are reminded that he is very themselves open the bald.com-

of coppers; a suggestion of elastic Alter a fow pounds gain in good-looking, but this information ments of their contemporaries. sided boots and an old-shawl of Of course, it would be hardly ad Nellie Wallace taking the "girl" As readers of this papers are at weight there will, in most cases, be is always of minor importance

We are told who is the tallest visable for certain horse-faced of the audience into her confidence least intelligent, let me say some-a feeling of well-being, energy, business man in the City, or whe females with eyes liko hawks to and telling there all her troubles,

is the best-dressed golfer; but does follow suit If they did, one can 1 And yet you see thom in the best thing to the too thin who want to vitality, and joy in life.

nervous'

My Intelligent Readero.

The Irony of It.

Hints about Baby

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its shape.

The Food must be conveyed into Baby's mouth without fear of game contamination and at a proper rate of low.

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places,

No, not Nellie Wallace's girl

friends,

but boaters. You see them in the smartest hotel lounges, where lovely spools of light make diamonded fountains of sparkling crystal, and the rise and fall of a wistful melody releases a throbbing under- current of romance,

Good night, Vionna; you elty-of- hundred mys-tories" Lively ladies of the glamorous Danube, what think you of our British "gonter?"

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