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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1937.

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

THE

34: Married

AVERAGE

WOMAN

IS-

Weighs 8 st. 9 lbs. 5 Feet 3 Inches Tall Has One Child;

Has Three Secret Worries

Spends 15s. A Week On Clothes:

TO-DAY IN THE PAST

NAVAL RIVALRY BEGAN

WITH DREADNOUGHTS

TO-DAY is the thirtieth anniver

sary of the launch of HMS. Dreadnought.

the

The building of this battleship caused excitement all DYCT world, for it was a marked improve ment on former types both as re- gards speed and armament.

The Dreadnought was 490ft. long, had a displacement of 17,950 tons, and a speed of 21 knots. For arma- ment she had ten 12-in. guns, twenty-seven 12-pounder quiel-fir- ing anti-torpedo bost guns, and five submerged torpedo tubes.

For the first time the steam tur-

propulsion bine system

adopted. There Wis

storage

was for

2700 tons of coal, and oil-fuel could also be carried. The total cost of the ship was £1,813,100.

GERMANY'S REPLY

Admiral Lord Fisher was the man responsible for the production of the Dreadnought. At the time he was convinced that he had a trump card against Germany which would force that country, to stop her ambitious plans of naval competition.

But in a short time Germany, too, was turning out Dreadnoughts at n great pace, and actually improving on the British, design. The Dread- nough! did, in' fact, lead to a new competition in naval armaments, for capital ships to-day have double her displacement.

about

obsolete on the introducilon of the Dreadnought. But the

Moreover, Germany was now in a position to begin o now competition on an almost equal basis.

The designer of the Dreadnought was Sir Phillip Watts, who died In: London in 1926 at the age of 70.

In addition to the Dreadnoughts, he designed the Invincibles, and was' responsible for the restoration of the Victory. Strangely enough, ever, he was a keen advocate of peace. He was knighted In 1905.

licress-

PUZZLE

Arrange 24 matches as shown. Take away 4 of these so that you leave 5 identical, squares.

COLDS: How

And Why They Start

rOW far "Colds" are in the news is shown by the number of letters I have received commenting on

SEEKS ROMANCE IN

THE CINEMA

Her Emotional Life Is An

Unhappy One

RECENTLY the Telegraph described that elusive

person the Average Man. Here is depicted the even more elusive Average Woman.

It is perfectly safe to tell the Average Woman that she is average. She will not slap your face.

She will not believe you.

The first unalterable ineradicable conviction of the Average Woman is that she is unique. ·'

If you can walk into a store and buy ready-made clothes that fit you better than most gloves, go from there to a lending library and find t difficult to choose a book because so.

if you can

can usual many please you, ly and what you want to eat at the top of the menu, and generally enjoy the fum in any cinema. .....if in fact the world about you fils you very well mentally and physically, you have to admit that you are an average woman.

Here is Jane Bull in detail. She is 34.2 years old, She has been married eight years. She is 5ft. 3ins. in height, weighs Est, 91b. She la 31ins around the bust, has a 28ins, waist, and Is 37ins. round the hips. Unlike

mon, the average

the Woman has no marked favourite colour,

Many are positive that they catch cold in a draught; just All the German ships became as many agree that an open carriage window is safer

remarkable than a shut one. Here are the facts: clearly distinguish Average feature of the now naval era was between two things, the Cold virus, and your resistance that Britain had to dispense with 75 ships is obsolete, while Germany's to it. bad debt included only 28.

1

In December the virus is everywhere; it reaches you in drop- leta breathed or sneezed from someone who has already got a cold. Open windows and cold moving alr lessen the chances of The P.&O. Banking infection. If you resistance is good you keep well; if it is bad you Corporation, Ltd. get a Cold.

(Incorporated in England, 1920).

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HEAD

Your resistance will be bad if you allow your body's machinery for! dealing with changes of tempera- £5,000,000 ture

rusty. to get

The

great $2,634,160

180,000 authority, Sir Leonard Hill, quotes Seneca, writing nearly two thousand years ago:

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Disease of Drunkards

Although the Average Woman is married at 20 years 4 months.- there are 10,414,083 single women In England and Wales.

ONE CHILD

own.

THE FACTS

THE Average Woman has been THE

analysed through:

The Statistical Department at Somerset House.

Shops.

Cinemas.

Correspondence columns. Medieal records,

Manufacturers' associations, Statistical abstracts,

Women's associations.

hers at night. She uses bath salts, but not regularly, and makes her using bath her beauty treatment, face creams and lotions.

Unlike her mother and grand- she can play no musical in-

there is no plano in the

But Mrs. But

Average Woman can dance, con road simple French, is as

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She reads one daily newspaper, Jane Bull has one child. If that child is a girl, her clothes are likely one weekly newspaper, and a week- ly periodical devoted to home inter- to be copies of those of the little

ests. She belongs to a circulating Agents: Princesses or Shirley Temple,

The Average Woman makes near-ibrary, from which she obtains twe ly half her child's clothes and 28 per novels a week. The books she reads are written by women (75 per cent, cent. of

can knit She of her

of the novels circulating among garments. simple, but not intricate,

women are written by them) on She spends 15s, a week out of her

romantic subjects. husband's income of £325 a year on 14-16, Chekapur Street, London, S.W.1. "Him, whom glass windows NINE out of ten drunkards her own and her child's clothes.

She does her own housework, BRANCHES Hombay, Calcutta, Calleu1. Coimbatore,

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kept Shanghai, Bingapore,

renewed, happy, and their misery comes with part-time help. Agencies in all principal towns of the fomentations periodically world.

General Exchange and Ranking-bustness whose dining rooms are made com-either from internal neurotic

or from external ---HER-BEAUTY-BILL- usbsacied. Luans and overdrafts granted en fortable by heat within the walls conditions approved security. Current and Fixed Deposit and under the floor-such a person, not even a gentle breezéė passes over without danger."

accounts opened.

SAVINGS ACCOUNTS IN-LOCAL CUR RENCY Interest allawed at 20% per annum.

STERLING SAVINGS ACCOUNTS :--| Interest allowed at rates which may be autsized on application.

are

warm by

In short, there are more Colds steumheated New York than TRAVELLERS LETTERS OR CREDIT Greenland.

and TRAVELLERS' CHEQUES armed i also Phasengers' Letters of Credit for was only on board P. & O. and B.1. Steamers and al Porta at Call,

sources,

AMUSEMENTS

more

Like her husband, she reads no poetry, no philosophy. She takes a volume of memoirs, or an auto- blography out of the library once in six months. She will occasionally She does her own household wash buy a cheap edition of a novel that When the sober world does not ing, with the exception of sheets, offer a man the necessary minimum tablecloths, her husband's collars, has picased her, if it is not

than 28, Cd. not happiness he drinks to help and stiff shirts." Inhimself create an Imaginary world

She does her own cooking, but which suits him better. We may does not make jum or pickles. She rowrite Shakespeare and say:

has no "store cupboard," as ker The lunatie, the drunkard and mother and grandmother knew it

the poet.

She makes one cake a week, buys Are of imagination all compact.

three are dissatisfied with dally one joint, and other meat three times ilfe. It was long age discovered that a week. She makes a pudding al-

There is a dangerous sort of draught, which is the cause of my correspondent's troubles; It is the Executorallips and Trusteeships undertaken. draughty floor of a badly ventilated room with windows shut and a gap

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WARM FEET

CURE

1

most every day.

The first and foremost of the Average Woman's recreations is the cinema. She goes twice a week to the pictures, twice a year to the theatre.

At home her amusements are read- Ing, the radio, and sewing, Sho

in Wales, for example, where wages The Average Woman smokes entertains friends to tea or to coffee

лен

*can

drunken usually are high there 15 little

a day, and five cigarettes ness, where they are low there is a more at week-ends, grout deal. Defective nerves or a

She buys one box of powder defective society: two things to be.

(28. 04.) every four months, a Here your feet get cold and your cured in order to defeat the demon

Blx Bpstick (28.) every head stuffly warm-resull, bad cir- rum. culation of blood and lymph, dry and

months, apenda 5s. a month on creams, lotfans, face packs and congested mucous tissue in throat

beauty generally. (Her Ameri- and nose, an easier entry for the

spends £1 a socks virus. Warm

counterpart cold money trying to persunde people and

week on beauty).. breeze on your cheeks and you will that cold feet are to be avoided,

She be a different man.

has her hair water-waved If you cannot stand a draught,"discover what temperature is best every three weeks. She shampoos it. sham- look out: it le your body's warning for people working in factories. at home beforehand, using

They discover that a temperature poo powder costing ed. Her nails that important machinery is rusly.

between 60 and 48 is best and add: are professionally manicured once a Cold feet! In spite of "getting "as would be expected, the tempera- year, for some special occasion.

The average Englishman likes his cold feet" being a proverb for nerture of the air near the floor has a

discomfort, the Medical Reconsiderable influence on the tem-bath in the morning. His wife has search Counell is actually spending perature of the feet."

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Did You Solve the match puzzle?

in the evening at least once a fort- night.

In her emotional lite facts show that the average Englishwoman is not happy.

Eighty per cent. of the films, books, and magazines that cater for her (and I enjoy overwhelming popularity) ure of what doctors call the "escope". type. That is, they are of the type enjoyed because they supply eme tional excitement..

MAKE-BELIEVE

It is only the emotionally dissatis- fled who can stand a literary diet exclusively romantle, The Average Woman seeks perpetual refuge in -make-believe.

Clark Gable, William Powell, Gary Cooper unconsciously make up to her for the inadequacies of the | average man as lover and companion. These are the three fears doop in the heart of every women, her secret worries!

That she is growing older, lesa attractive.

Thut her husband may turn from her to a younger rival

That the day will come when even her child will grow up and not need her,

But, as she will never admit that she is an Avenge Woman, still less will she admit to these shadows over her apparent serenity.

In fact, she will not admit any of it. But these are not conjectures. They are facts.

WHEN AT HOME The

Hongkong

Telegraph

MAY BE PURCHASED.

AT

SELFRIDGE'S

OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS

183

ACROSS

1 Facial surgeons ft faces, but

this man takes them off)

0 May be in cach ear: if so, hard

luck.

10 Where the aide can give help. 11 Not in nonsense.

12 You'll find the central point with the aid of two pairs in the vessel.

13 Shakespeare's world. 14 You'll have no time for this! 18 Takes round the big-but not in

church. 18. Pressing.

20 Many a peer will, on Coronation.

Day.

22 Sometimes goes with a squeak, 24 "Wo carved not a line, and we raised not a stone-But we left hira alone with his

("Burial of Sir John Moore.") 27. Being unit, I pont for this. 20 A tike would go for her.

30 Little Portugueso saint.

31 Points for needlewomen.

32 These grievances remain much

the same even öfter some com=" mission has been made.

33 When it comes to take a city,. Franco's I can's no vain boast.

DOWN

2 Turned up.

3 Two words that may describe a him. Only bad motorists reverse them.

4 Punish as in Geneva.

$ Quite a lot of nuisance brises

from the time allowed for pay-

ing foreign bills of exchange.

4 River of India.

What a vessel can carry.

8 Always the greater, presumably,

notwithstanding.

9 Pip failed to realise his-great

as they were said to be.

14 Reverse the traffic light! 13 Public school,

17 Docs 75 per cent, only 10 Familiar name of "outpost

aq. of Empire."

Well, they certainly often have proud off- spring!

21 Proud mothers?

23 Anti-cob (anag.).

25 One who iets.

20, Shut and open.

28 Ion't a long shot. needed to hold

it? Yes. 29 That's the stuff for the troops.

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