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Mrs.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY,

SMITH

(wife of Smith, of Smith into Superman)

HAS

"IT"

Though firstly this is an article for women, men might be better husbands

for reading it

glaks, mouthing as hard as you cati. Good that is, for articulation.

If Mrs. Smith would be charm- ing she must flatter her looks and her friends. But the dattery must be subtle, pleasing to both,

the one sex

APRIL 28,

1937.

PITY THE PUNCH- DRUNK MAN

MET the other day one

of the most pathetic figures in modern soort-a punch-drunk boxer.

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WE may admire and be awed by the woman who is highly coluured and trumps up all sorts of exotic clothes tricks, but we don't feel friendly warmth for her. And, of course, real charm is nearly as potent on

as the other.

It's the Mrs. Smith who looks natural-neither under not over done up-who is likely to make you're friends all round. is expressed through four edge of your teeth, then

It should touch the root of You've heard, this before, but it mediums: bodily and sartorial grooming, voice, and your mouth and then push the body is still true-you've got to study head over and over again; the boxer

driven by slark again and underline your Individuality, of sound out as it unfuris *facial expression.

back to normal position,

with cosmetics and hair drapinga and

sometimes by sheer hunger, to stag- clothes to get all the bows.

ger into the ring and rely solely on his capaelly to endure--this man is Charm gets into clothes in the way

community danger to the you care for them.

perll to himself.

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HYSICAL charm

The last comes first. Lack of, or unsympathetic, expression never gives that warm feeling which victimines the charmed, how- ever beautiful the face may be.

Mrs. Smith has certain charm which she transmits to the people who stimulate her interest of affection. Or she may cultivate it on a large public, so that she gets the best-and avoids the jors-from all social contacts.

A few people the super-salesmen, the big-talk dictators, the small-time politicians, the actor (or actress) magnutes, the "great characters" com- mercialise it.

But the most of us, who are either too shy or too lazy to use this buffer against antagonism, need a hit of rehearsing. We simply don't use our Ialents to please. Probably don't even realise they exist,

lazy.

There's something you just can't NY tongue exercise-such a help going on looking at about the wo- repeatedly saying LA and man whose dressing is all of an im- watching that you do it properly, or maculate piece from the seams in counting your teeth (rather a bore, her stockings to the bit of hair that because you never get past thirty- escapes her hat yet stays put. Mrs. two with your tongue-helps to Smith should keep away from original make good articulation come naturally, oddities in dress-people will hugh

The sound chambers are in tie at more than like them. neck, back of throat (about the mouth, and nose. Un- larynx), balanced use of those chambers results. In "talking through your dose," monotony, and vocal húrsli-

ness.

す

AND (if she's still set on charm-

ing

the snakes) when she

The boxer who fights and fights till his every reflex action is con- ditioned by the ring; the boxer who takes punishment about the face and

need

of money.

and a

He becomes In the vivid phrase coined by boxers themselves- "punch-drunk,'

In the ring he gets beaten with

This comparative case.

his puts price down and consequently drives him to take more nad moro engage- ments-while he can still command them. He alms at the maric and hits the ribs. He sees . blow coming and dodges into it instead of away from it.

All the senses meet in our faces, and a good one, is to stand in front presumably so that we may dla our of a mirror with hands preased on

million-odd in- reactions to the

the lower ribs (so you can feel what

A good exercise for the drawler feels quite sure of her looks, clothes, fluences that attack us dolly,

is going on). Breathe deeply, slow-

His face changes externally de- Ilutle verse

and IL which her rhyme or any

is manner towards people.

cars" veloping "cauliflower Yet a busful of Incen suggests that y. counting five for the intake Ave einer is to my over a nursery and voice, she should concentrate on the mouth, out lends itself to fast. rather atre amusing to repent--but not to meet-

other siigata of the old "pug" be- most of us plough through life blank out. In through.

through the nose-like your 7CS- calo rendering. Say it first slowly, the malice.

cause he can no longer avoid the and oblivious to all outside forces.

And now If you say that you know taking care to enunciate each word

blows that rain on him. But the laurant expenses, In repose the face naturally takes on

Increase this to ten as you get separately......then faster .... and an ugly woman who speaks like a por-spirit and mind mirrored in his face the expression most usual to it,

becomes the brain rol with laryngitis, dresses in unre- changes. Loo: good, but don't hurry-it must be

"Who would know nught of art lated bits and pieces, and delights in affected by the pounding and for- done evenly to be effective.

is one of those nonsense a well-turned bit of rudeness, I have ring it has received. phrases that rope, in all the long the answer.

By copying her weaknesses vowels. When you're quite sure no

WILLE Mr.

expresses

Here is a test to and out whether you are a lazy speaker, likely to Smith usually swallow word endings. Still before a rather tired the glass, open your mouth wide and stoic indifference, Mrs. Smith more sny LA (as in la-di-da). If your uften runs to open discontent. If tongue merely curls up against the only instead of trying to repress the showing of her feelings as most women do (on the defensive, course; "I won't smile ot him case he doesn't smile at me")-he gave men fair play she would cer- tainly be a more charming person.

of

Men too (the strong and silent lover retired with Tom Mix). Volce is the next of Mrs. Smith's most

potent charms. (Second only be- cause most people have a more fully developed and critical visual than oral sense). Few voices are naturally unpleasant, it la their production which often makes them seem so.

the

Mrs. Smith probably hasn't slightest idea how she sounds when We never listen to she is talking. what we are saying beenuse we're busy getting the words to follow lined up. People with

strong 10- calised nocents will rarely believe that they have accents (it is always the other person who has "such an awful acent, my dear").

UR national speera failing

OUR

is speaking without opening

our mouths properly, with scquent bed articulation.

faster.

you

one is going to burst into your bed- won't develop her strength of charac- room and certify you, it's a good ter, so you might as well make the thing to my it to yourself in the best of yourself,

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It Mrs. Smith can admit that she is not sure about her voice, she can test it first for pitch. Make sure, Mrs. Smith, you're not one of the muny women with a shrill, shrewish tone.

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Those scientists, of course, are those who have produced tacts to disprove his-like Professor J. L. Gray and Pearl Moshiinsky, who, after testing more than 10,000 children of all classes. from unskilled labourers to weakhy business men, khowed that 60 per ceni. of the able and highly-intelligent chll- dren were to be found in the cle- mentary schools,

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"average Dr. Cattell, this Socialist" in making his case that the poor are poor 'because most of them takes issue with the are nit-wits, emphasts and conclusions of the ex- tensive Intelligence test survey of Gray, and Mashinsky."

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This is one of the most reactionary books on psychology and eugenies that I have ever read, It has done a

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In his private e. be becomes vague. He will ask a question, nod as it is answered, and-ask it again. He falls to take in what is snid. He stares. In talks too much. He

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