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NOTES OF THE DAY WOMEN WERE ALWAYS

FRENCH CABINET

M. Chautemps his formed Cabinet differing in no important essential from the Ministry of M. Sarraut. Many of the principal

VAIN

By MARGARET LANE

The Very Idea!

WERE WE DIAS-ED7

(By Edward Kelly, Pirate.)

figures retain not only Cabinet rank 66 CAN'T think," said the young set out, pathetic scraps of dead THE other night a gang of

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the methods by which it should be obtained and only by moving definitely to the Right or to the Left can a majority be obtained. M. Chautemps has stood pat on a Radical Ministry and HK$3,400 it seems obvious that he is merely 3,600 acting the role of a stop-gap. 4,500

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1933.

AMERICA SHOWS

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SALARY CUT ISSUE

amateurs from Bias Bay man virtuously, "what you vanity, under glass in our muscums. want to put that stuff on your face Those red finger nails you so dis-pirated the Commandant for."

approve of were in fashion a Henri Reviere, ratted the The girl wont on rouging her lips, thousand years before the Christian opening her mouth a little and era. Egyptian girls have brown safe for a few thousand rubbing in the scarlet with the tip hande, pallid palms and nails, and bucks, took four passengers of her finger.

they discovered that dyeing them

After our

A

"Paint." said the young mand with henna made them decorn- for a ride in a sampan but failed to catch the compra- Dr. Margaret Murray, of Londore. severely, "that's all It is. Un-tive and startling, natural. Can't think why women nowadays always have to be tinker don University, who knows, more about these things, probably, than

What we'd like. to ask is ing at their faces...

Dear young man, you have only woman breathing, will tell you "What is piracy-coming to?"

that now, as then, women's nails been alive in the last twenty-four were grown long and coloured These fellows couldn't find the years, so you have no iden (like so prettily to show the world they did compradore. many mon) that what you complain no manual labour. So it is all a periences, we felt like publishing of as a disgraceful modern arti- kind of snobbery, you see, like a handbook on piracy. The title ficiality is a good deal older than mandarin's glided finger nails, and history. That nice girl opposite that nice young lady of yours only would be "Compradores and you, working so attentively at har manicures hor nails to convince you How to Catch Them-A Treatise little mirror, is doing precisely that she is a lady.

on the Rudiments of Piracy?"" what other (rathor more brown- skinned) girls did to their faces

In gold letters, on the cover- 6,000 years before the Christian

would appear the words "By Ed. era, when your ancestors were

Kelly." 'living in huts of turf and stone, and Anding out about bronze for the first time.

Cosmetica aro nothing

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Since last May four ministries have gone down to proclaiming their intention of putting finances

Cosmotles became extremo in the on a sound footing. And the

18th dynasty of Egypt, between political deadlock is still unbroken.

1000 and 1400 m.c. Men as well as În order to justify the serowing up

women used paint and perfume, and of taxes, which have probably

nobody tried to pretend that their renched the breaking point, res-

colouring was natural. When you ponsible chiefs of the Radical Party

remember, in a later ago, how seok a counterpart in the diminu-

now. Nero painted, and how patched and That, of course, is not an entire de powdered the most manly men were tion of offelal salarica. This is the key to the prolonged dispute. To fence, but their respectable anti-at the French Court two hundred make those cuts palatable to civil quity robs you. of one argument years ago, you will have to admit servants it was proposed to demandagys your sex is not the only one to additional income taxes from those ways used them. Always, always, censure. ordinary citizens whose revenue dear John-or whatever your name

Chinese ladies, no matter how far And since they have been em-back you go, never thought cos-- has not fallen for three years. But this suggestion, while arousing ployed for ten thousand years or someties anything but respectable, criticism for its unfairness, did not to deceive you because you are con- and they plucked their eyebrows, console officials who considered they sidered so well worth doceiving, too. It is from the Chiness and rio were specially ponalised. An im- you ought to be flattered and not other, according to Dr. Murray, that American women first took the partial observer cannot but feel scornful.

Do you know, for instance, that fancy for eyebrows denuded to a that undue Importance has been at-

in the year 1770 our solemn British pencilled lino. tached to this issue. It has become a political rather than a financial Parliament passed an Act to this quarrel.

DOCTOR'S PROPHECY

·ILthe social sciences could catch

who

up with medical science, this ought to be a pleasanter sort of world in our children's prime. Dr. G. W. Crile, a medical man visions and dreams droams in the laboratory where ho examines the riddles of life and death, told the recent con- Kross of the American College of Surgeons that the human race will be much finer and healthier Doctors at the end of a century, then will prevent disease instead of making their task that of cur- Ing it; indeed, the doctor who has to treat a disease will confess that he failed in bla duty of pre- venting its inception. Such pla- gues ne diphtheria, typhoid, small- pox, malaris, and typhus will be eliminated; tuberculosis, diabetes and most diseases of the beart will be mastered; cancer and the social diseases will be reduced sharply, and childbirth made safe.

WHERE HAPPINESS ?

will be

effect:

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What are our credentials, you ask. Well, that's a perfectly reasonable queation. We'll give Incidentally,

you the low-down. the story we are about to tell you, was not published because of the intense jealousy of the editor.

You see, the Commandant Henri Reviere was pirated twice! We led the pirates on the second occasion. There was no proud flying of skull and cross bones, no waving of daggers and anwn-oft shotguns, no wild shouting and walking the plank. It was all. matter of technique-fust technique.

A

few amall fry in the journalistle world accompanied us, and acted under our orders throughout, showing exemplary training and a great thirst.

We arrived alongside the C. H. Reviere in a high-powered Walla Walla, bearing the insignia of the House of Kally. Seizing a rope dangling over the side of the ship, we went up hand over hand."

On the deck we met two Chinese boys, "Where is the compradore?” we asked, an eye to business. Both boys flung themselves over the side of the ship and began to swim dos- perately in the general direction of with its Lyemun. Latest reports, place them about 50 miles N.N.É. of commendable Luzon, and making progress.

Those little things are sent to try us, so we wandered on. On the quarter deck we met the captain, and our old friend Police Chief Timothy Murphy, ́

The captain-leaped-into-the-air- "The pirates" he roared. "Mon Dieu, it is they,"

"Bejabbers, and it is" says Timothy, "but not the ones we're after, me lad."

Exhibiting the aplomb for which wo are famous, we stalked majesti- cally from the quarter deck For down in the very bowels of the ship, we heard the popping of corks. That way we went.

However, that is a fashion that haan't lasted, for what looks well on "That all women, of whatever the Buddha-like face of a beautiful age, rank, profession, or degree, Chinese looks hard and expression 10hother virgins, maids or widows, less on your young lady or on me. that shall, from and after such Act, As for Jowish women, you find impose upon, seduce, and betray in plenty of references to painted ones to matrimony, any of his Majesty's who were not Jezebela. In the 23rd subjects, by the scents, paints, co- chapter of Ezekiel, for instance, thou didst wash thyself. metic washes, artificial teeth, "false" hair, Spanish wool, iron stays, paintedst thine eyes, and deckedst hoops, high-heeled shoes, bolstered thyself with ornamente, hips, shall incur the penalty of the law in force against witchcraft and

Eighteenth-century England to like misdemeanours, and that the marriage, upon conviction, shall lerated far more making-up than wo use now. I have a charming stand null and void."

Whether that Act has since been book of the period, the "Toilet of repealed I have no idea, but suspect Flora, which has often pleasantly THE WAY

it is one of the many that have killed an hour for me merely been conveniently forgotten."Receipts for Cosmetics of every Although there are still over

It does rather look, though, as if kind, that can smooth and brighten some smart eighteenth century the Skin, give Force to Beauty, and ten million people out of work in the United States, official re-

hussies had been having so much take off the Appearance of Old Age success through the tricks you and Decay."

So you see, dear young man, it is ports indicate that the new civil

condemn that they were getting

not all a wicked innovation on our works project, recently institut

into trouble for it.

ipart. You are only inclined to be ed, to take four millions off the

shocked at us because we have re- relief rolls by the middle of

_The_first_face-painting we know cantly come out of one of those December, is producing hopeful

about was practised by the Egy-eras when cosmetics were for a results. It is computed that

tian women of the Bronze Agc. while considered scandalous, – over half a million unemployed

They ground down green malachite Yet even the Victorians were not were put to work during the first

to powder, mixed it with water, and so innocent in the matter as they painted it on under their eyes. mado cut, clso how did all the firms three weeks of November alone.

Though this probably had a advertising pearl powder and This policy of seeking to absorb the unemployed by means of

And yot Dr. Crile does not be- bizarre charm it was not only for "natural" rouge in the ladies' public works development is one

lieve that the human race of 2033 vanity that they did it. The dark magazines over make a living? A. D. will be a very happy one. green under the eye protected it And I have a very cut-and-dried which, unhappily, does not find The peoples of the world, he be from up-sriking glare, and was little chemist's book, published in favour with the British Govern- leves, will be menaced increasing. also slightly antiseptic, discourag-1866, which offers the statistics that 2,000 swan skins a year, were ment. Some little time ago, Mr. ly by the development of techno- ing ophthalmia germs. Runciman not only threw cold logy. The pace of day-to-day more becoming they used black the purpose of manufacturing pow When they found that black was being imported Into England for water on the idea, but declared | ing" will continue to increase, so that the Government was not that there will be more disorders antimony, and put it on their der puffs, and that as much rouge forced our way in and there was the even prepared to discuss the of the mind and the nervous sys- eyebrows with little carved nicks, was sold then as in George III.'s compradore. We know he was the matter. It is true that, follow- tem than before. Thle prophecy The jasper pebbles for powdering reign, when the extravagances of compradore because of the bone- have down the primitive mascara, the female maquillage provoked the volent look in his eye, and a pile of ing public reaction against this scams to indicate that wo

Elderly ladies declaration, efforts were made to mastered or are on the high road slate pallettes they did it on, and scorn of Swift.

who in their minimise its real meaning, but to mastery over practically every the carved pencils they applied it

with have all been found, and are (Continued on Next Column} it may be taken for granted that, homely one of conducting our science except the simple and except under pressure, the

overy-day affaire so that human Government is not likely to give beinge can be happy Instead of very wholehearted support to unhappy. Scientists can conquer any scheme of public works de- the greatest problems the physical velopment involving heavy world has to offer, but we cannot initial expenditure. Such an soom to solve what should be one attitude is not only directly in of the simplest riddles of human opposition to the policy of ex- pansion now being tried out in the United States, but is opposed | to expert opinion in many coun

Wo ride in aeroplanes and trics, where it is felt that trade motor-cars instead of the spring- is unlikely to revive, and work less ox-carts of primitive man, wo be found for the unemployed, tunnel under mountains and dam unless some driving force is pro- up rivers and cure disease and vided by the only bodies capable | weigh the stars and send our of doing so-the Governments of voices across the seas. But when it the countries most affected by comes to getting along happily the depression. One Important with one another, and giving every point which seems to be over human being a friendly hand In looked by the British Gov-fe, we seem to be little wiser 'crnment the fact that than the citizens of Auguston Rome. The great untouched field judicious achemes of public before us to-day is that of human works not only have a direct relations. The great problem is effect on unemployment, but the one of putting our triumphs. that they also have indirect con- in the physical sciences to work that they can provide the sequences of the utmost value. so Apart from the men actually greatest good for the greatest employed on the schemes, ac- number.

count must also be taken of the

number of men employed in pro

naturo.

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HUMAN RELATIONS

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of tho ducing materials for the work, purchasing powers the transport workers who benc-workers,..the wholesale trades fit from the carrying trade, the and manufacturers who supply producers of raw materials who the retailers and so in benefit from the demands for a seemingly unending circle. the raw materials which make Above and beyond all this, also, up the finished articles required is the fact that public works for the construction work, the schemes of the right kind leave retailers of all kinds of goods behind them a permanent legacy, who benefit from the increased of great national advantage.

"You're lucky to have a natural wave. I have to get a par-

manent overy, six mión

At last we came to a cabin. We

chits he held in his hand.

-

"Parlez-vous Francais?” we ask ed in a superior tone. He sald something in French.

"Avex-vots to..le..lo whisky- 80dar**

"Mais out” he replied. "Monsieur inspectaire is welcome to the vory best I have in my cellar."

Well, well. We couldn't disillu- sion the poor fellow. We welcomed the very best he had in his collar. That's the way to pirato a ship.

ΝΟ

BAWL

Babe, enjoy your infancy;

Revel, in your life of ease; Years that lie ahead will bo

Not at all as nice as these. Life, you'll find, fe, quite ap-

palling

Creasing brows and bending

backe;

So, for heaven's sake, qult

bawling

Shut your trap and just relax.

youth were presented at Queen Victoria's Court have solemnly assured me that the widowod Queen; herself appeared on these occasions. in the "royal-make-up," a delicate' kind of thin enamelling, most dis- creet in effect-so will you be pars suaded that the habit la respect ablo? Queons usa cosmetics oven maro concientiously than the rest of us.

It is a custom men nearly always protend to disapprove. But it is all for your sake, dear disapproving one, for we should look much worso without it.:

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