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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1931.

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS.

WOMEN'S WORLD

FOR OUR LADY READERS.

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You can bu dressy in one of the open sandals of woven bands of brown and white leather-the smartest colour combination you can get-or very gay in a pair of slippers In blue and white cheeked gingham, conservatively ent, or very chic and comfortable in linen sandals dyed to match your pyjamas.

TOILET NECESSITIES.La demlorant and #fragrant re-

fresher?

And so the history of cosmetics' is full of strange things, of romance

On Perfumes and Other and adventure, bound up with ha-

Things.

It's a far ery

from the salve comes of ancient Egypt To the beauty bath of present times, but barring a few essentials such as soap and Eau de Cologne, the queen of Upper and Lower Egypt were actually not much worne vi than their modern sisters.

Aqeer custom in the land of the pharaohs was the manufacture of salve comes such as are still in with twentieth century verne

Nubians,

Sheep fallow hnd to be thorough- ly chewed for this purpose, and when sufficiently soft placed on the head, the tropical sun doing the rest. Streamlets of molton tallow ran down the week and temples after such a procedure, whether to the delight or otherwise of the wearer

is not now ascertainable.

A very mysterious substance in the eyes of the Ancients was 11- bergris, which appeared as if from nowhere, Boating in tropical seas. Toulay we know that it is merely

morbid secretion of the sperm whale, but nevertheless it is valued very highly by perfumers, and quite a nice fortune awaits him who is luzky enough to secure one of the Jarger pieces sometimes found in. Southern sens.

the

One of the products unknown in ancient Egypt Is Attar of Rose, the invention-or shall we say dis covery of Emperor Jehangir'a wife, the beatiful Nur-Jeban. Walking in the palace garden on the day of her marriage--96 story goes--she save some film- like substance on the surface of a water tank. This tank had been filled with

ith perfumed water obtained by the immersion of Damask Roses, and the Empress found on examina tion that the scent of the freshly discovered substance was far stron- ger and more lasting than that of ordinary rose-water."

There is another toilet necessity; which is appreciated by cultured people all over the globe: Eau de Cologne. It was first heard of in the closing years of the 17th cen tury under the name of aqua ad- mirabilis inter on Eau admirable: de Cologne, whence its prezent de- signation. Eau de Cologne is manu- factured to-day by a number of firms. familiar among them the House of "4711".. Who Indeed

not already have heard of the delightful "4711" Enu de Cologne with the Blue and Gold Label and used it ever and ever again in bath and toilet water, as

FRECKLES AND HIS FRIENDS

WELL, THE KIDS HAVE THE SLED ALL FIXED

·FOR US TO PUT LINDY

AND RUSH

ON

HIM IN TO THE

CITY!!

YEAH.. I

WORKED IT

ALL OUT

FOR 'EM,

Too!!

GREAT! 1 NEVER SAN A BUNCH OF BOYS WORK TOSETHER

- LIKE YOU, DOμm

man hopes and love and happiness to a greater extent than anything else in a bewildering world.

A Dainty Frock.

Summer weather brings out the prints. Evening gowns of cool colour in sileor chiffons seem atited perfectly to the soft moonlight and sweet music of the dance.

One of the prettiest of dance 'dresses, pictured here, has a mint green background with soft brown flowers shading. from a medium brown to the softest tint of beige. It has tiny straps over the shoulders and no back to speak of, huge flower of the chiffon is placed high at one side of the back and the skirt is tiered and reaches to the floor.

BOY! THATS A GOOD JOB...THATIL KEGP LINDY FROM FALLING OFF!!

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ID LIKE TO RIDE. IN THIS ANYSELF

IT'S BO

NICE!!!

BEAUTY HINTS.

By Allein Hart.]

If you have ever had a close-up view of A thoroughbred horse you must have admired the prout carriage of his head.

Pe ladies, unlike fine horses, often neglect this aspect of beauty.

if you carry your neck and shoulders right und your chin high, you have a head start beauty!

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Stift shoulders. and rounded shoulders are no benefit to anyone. You can shake them and change them, if you will. The secret is |to straighten out your spine and streich it und limber up your shoulders,

Lie flat on the floor and wriggle inbout on your spine, the way a dog or eat wriggles when he wakes up and stretches.

Then, actually atretch your whole body, xurmas, legs, alone and then all at once to see just how long you cin make yourself.

be

Next, see if you can get every portion of your spine flat on the flour at the same time. You should able to. Many adults, how- ever, have what we call away-back on a horse, meaning that the spine jcurves inward.

out

your

Learn to straighten spine and ace how your head and chin come up! You will feel 10 years younger, also, which is 210 menn trick

If your spine doesn't touch the floor all along, teach it to by slow degrees. This is the way:

1. Roise both knees as much as you need to in order to have that curved portion of your spine reach the floor. At first, you may have to put your hands behind your head, and raise your head up too to reach the floor with your back fiat

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1 For children only. Any sort will

de to start. Finishes at ten. Being unsociables

10 Describes the netion of a knave. 11 I'm sorry Marin is no short with

you here.

12 Sometimes offered as an alter-

native to a coconut.

13 He is quite wrapped up in this

girl.

14 Öhl I see, at the end of the short street, a person of great fortitude.

17 Assert.

| 30 An exemplar of uprightness.

It is rather more than a pity that this dutiful conduct in out of fashion,

|22 Put your best leg foremost ino

amooth mustent manner.

24 Two writing Implements in-one,

apparently.

A rising agency.

29 A baker's necessities from the

sound of it.

31 These meet daily at meals.

Call it a day, and be done.

33 There is a wise an in the outskirts of this Dorsetshire town.

34 The goddess of war and wisdom. 35 Although no politician, throwing

uff plently of gas.

Down

2 Quite against the law, of course, but I am supported by a topsy- Lurvy measure,

3 Not so dump. I am sorry.

5 Son, for instance.

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6 Torment--with

degree of comfort.

7 Not at all.

considerable

B Where the gentleman in the sonk

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Can you fill in nine digila, in place of the question racks, in such a way that the number formed by the first three will be one-third of the last three and the cen tral three the result of subtracting the first three from the last three?

DEATH DIVE AT PAGEANT.

A BROKEN WING.

London, June 15. Mr. G. Murray, of the Brookland

was bound for in the morning. "I enclose bass" to promote a friendly spirit (anng.).

14 The pone of the Indian soldier

has been rather disturbed.

16 Here we have modern entertain- ment from old Roman works, 16 This below ground-I see, in

very obscure.

18 The time element in any minoral. 20 ir he-well women will adore

him.

23 Better get this out of hand be-

fore it goes off.

26 Stripe that doesn't hurt a

oldior.

127 You enn have the diagram, Rodney, if you send early (ald- den),

28 Blocks the line of play. [30• Useful to a pilgrim and essential

to an employer.

31 A type of garment uniformly

worn.

Yesterday's Solution

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Yesterday's Solution

There must have been 61 pupils in the dass. The parle is solved by adding one to the least common multiple of 3, 4 and 5-which 14 60

THE KING WATCHES

A FIRE.

Whagainst it.

your spine does the School of Flying. Surrey, was kill- flat, then try letting your headed while flying at an air pageant;

at Cambridge on Saturday. back against the floor and try lowering both your feet until they In the presence of a large crowd, too are flat.

the pilot had been carrying out al 3. You may find that your back number of "stunts," and at the curves off the floor the minute you time of the accident was diving to toring through Windsor Great let your feet down. Then raise the ground after a spin.

600-YEAR-OLD OAK BURNT. The King and Queen, while mo Park on June 14, stopped to watch back out, and reach down and pai When about 100 feet from the one of the great oaks on firo.

earth one of his wings crumpled, your knees.

your knees again, flation your

The King immediately asked the

your hands around rocking up, and piecos fell to the ground.{cause of the outbreak. On being

Now begin exercise

which reaches every por The remainder curled round the told that it was probably due to tion of the spine. This consists machine, which turned over two picknickers setting fire to rubbish or three times and fell to the in the cause of tidiness he ex- of holding the neon back with ground with great force.

knees tightly with your hands and

pressed regret that such a fine old your head against the floor and Murray, who was badly injured, trec-it was 600 years old-should Up into

sitting position, then was conscious when extricated, but perish in such a way.

woodmen Park back again. Rock back and forth died shortly after being admitted}

fought tho this way 10 times each morning to hospital,

flames. The tree burned furious- and 10 times again at night and The aceldent brought the meet-ly all the afternoon and evening, seo how. it straightens your spine. ing to an abrupt close.

NHOULDAST"

Anxious Moments!

NOW YOU KOKEP LINDY :RIGHT IN THIS SPOT UNTIL I GO AFTER

AV MOTORCYCLE TI

DONT LET HIM

#ZINOW":

NOMI MONT..... LINDY INNDS GOOD

FOR ME.

and finally crashed to the ground.

By Blosser

PRETTY SOON WERG COINS "TO FIND OUT IF YOU REALLY, HANE A PROKEN LES.....CES.

ZEL JUST DIE IP YOU HAVE!!

I BETCHA: (MADE. WEBB,TH HORSd DOCTORS, WOULD

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