1936-08-05 — Page 14

When guests are coming (and even when they are

not) improve your

Bathroom

technique

HERE is an unkind. belief that the men among French shop assistants are immaculate from the shirt-cuff down.

It is a principle one often finds distressingly true in homes here.

You know the type: you go into the sitting-room. Perfect. The carpet beaten within 1/1 inch of its life, the grate black and shiny, not a speck of dust any- where. It there's a dinning-room. where you've been invited, it, ton, is immaculate,

You firul

these

ut then you're invited for

# wash-up..

Being invited, as opposed to having bluntly asked, you expect the bathroom will be perfect, with guest towel neatly folded and the children strictly whisper- r to F.H.D. (Family Hold Back).

And what do you find?

THE POO

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You and truthbrushes. lying about on the side. of the wash-basin. You find the taps spaltered with soap. Some ite has Jorgotten to remove 21 dressing-gown hanging forlornly from the back of the door.

Useful bairroom fitting for those yho like to linger in thele baths is a piece of detachable rubber piping. You can still use your

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Plenty of towels ee that the walls are spattered. Nothing is more de pressing. Yet nothing escupes the notied more.

Provide the guest with plenty of towelse It is maddening to have one face-towel and one bath-1 towel only.

Put something suitable to read too to turn on the tap: while the in the bathroom. It is probably piping enables you to distribute to be preferred that he read in-

stead of ging in the bathi, the water where you want it.

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final checkup list before the gitest Young Christopher has carried Teddy Bear in for his last tooth-arrives, something like this: brushing and forgotten to Anke See that all personal belong him back to bed with him. And ings are either removed or put in since no one has ever found out specific places. what to do with old razor blades

except send them" to missionaries, See that all taps are at least dry.

who give them to African tribes and clean, if not shining. men in return for lifelong friend

ship (n nice idea, but the postage.

Be definite about the time he is! to have his bath, if staying the! night. If you just say, "When-! ever you want." you will find the bathroom is invariably in use or untidy at the moment he chooses.

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Really lot -water

matter what it costs,

be sure there is plenty of hot n house-

If there is a trick to the way water. Nothing raises

a constant flow of really hot water.

is expensive), why an old blade anything works-and I never saw held in the guest's estimation like looks rustily at you from some a bathroom which did not have its own special trick, over which the louge.

Only the illustrated magazines guest spends moments in vain -the one thing you want-have embarrassment-put up an amus been removed. Now, all this ing, brief notice. makes a guest feel far too much' at home.

Make

a

Finally, remember you will, be

more

If the guest is staying the night, judged by your bathroom

be sure there is a glass exclusively than by anything else, although bis, a ledge exclusively his, a place the guest may appear not to notice

On make toothbrush clearly identi- it.

There is, hot tistih fot hits two liorgan for tinten, is not on the other hand, a ako ut

rooth

technique which

fiable from the family's brushes, a

tou comfortable, your

should clean comb in case he has forgot- you would like.

simplify matters. I suggest a ten to bring his own.

The MING YUEN STUDIO has

removed to the 3rd Floor of No. 6 Queen's Road. Central.

JUST OPPOSITE the Dairy Farm's Soda Fountain.

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to be won in the

Hongkong Telegraph's 6th ANNUAL AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION

Make-Up News

POWDER puis that will last almost unt Doomsday and will wash as often ns. one likes have made their debut.

Made of a special quality, rubber sponge, they can be used ellier for re- moving make-up or for applyir: pawdler.

The puffs are quite flat, and, being smooth, waste of powder is reduced to a minimum.

They have a velvet-like texture that gives a pleasantly even finish to the make-up. The handbag size beint not such thicker than a cul. It takes up little space in an ordinary flap-jack.

These puffs are obtainable in round or rectangular shapes and cost frem n

and-six for a special, large one.

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You need not necessarily choose the items given below, which have been arranged alphabetically, Other suggested items are given, but you are at liberty to insert any further item you would like to record.

to Address all entries Editor, "Hongkong Telegraph," marked "Radio Vote."

VOTE FOR TEN ITEMS ONLY

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NAME [block letters)

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Answers to the rollowing ques- tions are not included in the competition (answer "YES" or "NO"):

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"Radio Vote."

SALESMAN SAM

OH, OH! I SMASHED MRS, KRACKERS FAVRITE STATUE! POOR GEORGIE. WASHINGTON!

GEE, I'M CERT'NLY A CLUMSY-BUMSY!

Headin' For Trouble

ITŠ NO, USE TRYIN' TA PUT GEORGE T'GETHER AGAIN! HE'S BROKEN FER KEEPS! I BETTER TELL MRS. KRACKER I DID IT I GEORGE WOULDN'

WANT ME TA TELL A LIE!

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ACROSS

1 A vulgar entomologist (hyphen

3 and 6). 6 A West Indian.

9. Turn of before under to turn

turtic..

10 Chauzer said that a thief of this, who had left off his craft, couki keep a forest besi of any man. 11 A Judge is proverbially. 12 Yonder bar is where you may Jook for the young messenger

(hyphen 6 and 3).

13 This railway-centre should

surely not be short of hands, 14 Little behind time but it tells

17 Upsets.

10 This kind of root is at the end

or at the start.

21 With no will of his own.

24 U.S.A. State halls un opera

princess.

26 Trouble that sounds like school-

Ume

lubricant.

27 The fact of a little horse hav-

ing swallowed a rat seems to be. puiting one's teeth on edge. 20 Frill.

20 Crow's tree (anagram).

DOWN

1 Regiment that makes a big

noise in a vehicle.

2 Grouse

3 Experienced, but finishes in an

English river.

4 Men between two heights must

be a worrying thing.

Wanderer.

0 A great gun in ecclesiastical

circles?

1127.

7 Such faculties do not conduce-

to gravity.

8 Their owner is far from knock- kneed (two words 5 and 4.). 13 Product of a rich store, and

he, has it, you may find him in. the stalla.

15 Word appearing in these clues, 10 The archbishop has swallowed

whole ox; that'e as near

get,

10 in t

20 le claims to give you the truth,

pleasant or otherwise. 22 Weight holding another..

23 Permit.

25 A groan will always emanate

from this Essex town.

Yesterday's Solution.

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HOLD EVERYTHING!

The Ex. Mrs. Bradford

HAS EVERYTHING!

By Small

(ÚH-YA KNOW-ER-THAT GOSH, MRS. KRACKER

STATUE-UH, OUT IN WHO TOLD YOU?

TH' HALL?

YES, YES! I KNOW

WHAT YOU MEAN-

WASHINGTON'S BUST!