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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MONDAY, MAY

SPARE MOMENT PAGE

Worst of a Weep

-is that you look so awful afterwards. This article tells you

how to repair the damage

-OWEVER tough or hard-boiled she may like to think

H

1937.

[No Premier can take

a souvenir from No. 10°

W

THEN a change of Government had tak- en place a few years ago, the handle of the fam-

No. 10, Downing-street was missed. It had been un- screwed and lifted."

she is, there are moments in every girl's life when ANY HOW, WHY NOT LAUGH ous Cabinet room door at

she just has to have a good cry.

And why not? It's good for you, relaxes strained nerves, takes the edge off disappointment or anger. It's time enough to pull yourself together when you are feeling peaceful and forgiving. "All very well," you will say, "but just think how awful I shall look."

You needn't. Once you've done away with the signs and ntains of tears you will find that your eyes are shining, your skin soft and glowing.

Take it Easy

Don't clench

You must aim at getting completely relaxed.

Base up on your hands and pace up and down the room. your muscles and nerves. If you are changing to go out take a good hot bath with plenty of your favourite bath salts and lie in It for some time-you will soon feel soothed and rested.

If you are inclined to be over-emotional, hysterical, calm your- self by some trivial job that will occupy your hands and distract your attention without needing much thought. This will give your nerves time to settle. Knitting, for instance, has a soothing mono- Or try brushing tony about it that nimmers down most people.

your hair:

1 When you are calm again, dry-eyed, set to work to restore your Lace.

Snags are These

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Mo OST disastrous follow-ups of tears are puffy eyelids, red nose,

smeared make-up, and generally the look of a distressed blood- hotund. You can avold some of these troubles, or anyway reduce them, by remembering two rules.

Firat, reslat the luxury of giving your nose a good blow. Instead dab it gently at the tip. Second, never rub your eyes-just mop up the tears with the corner of your handkerchief. If the mascara gets right loto your eyes it will sting horribly; belter to let it smear a little on your cheeks.

Or if you are a person who cries easily, embarrassingly-in the cinema for instanco-it will be worth your, while to get waterproof mascara that won't stream with the tears.

If you have Time

TP you have chosen the right time and place for your tear- storm, and have hair an hour or so in which to recover, the best thing you can do is to lie down for fifteen minutes in a dark room.

First sponge your face in warin water and take off all you

your make-

astringent, and make up carefully and not too strongly.

Speedy Repairs

BU

:

ilme DUT you can't always

tears. If you have your to make a quick recovery you need

more drastic treatment.

As before, start by taking all the

up with a cleansing lotion. Then sancury make-up off. Then bathe in some soft, soothing your face in alternate hot and cold massage

particularly water-as hot as you can stand it, it cream, patting

Ice-cold. Do this then

for round your eyes and nostrils, Dip and two pieces of cotton wool in witch five minutes, ending with a dash of cold, and the nuffiness will dis- hazel, lay them over your eyes, and ile down fint on your bed, re appear.

after

hold

over

.

ENDIS MERBARICA mi."

"She says he went to Africa to get her out of his mind, but it was partly to shoot a rhinoceros."

Be born in May

baby could choose which Fa

month to be born in, and was not interested in astrology, it could not do better than vote for May because of the good company.

Sir Ronald Ross was a representa- tive of literature as well as medi- cine, and the literary side of the month is strengthened by several other birthdays. Ross's friend, Sir The month, though not favoured Arthur Conan Doyle, was born on for marriages, is for Britons a very May 22; Sir. James Barrie will be good one in which to be born. The seventy-six on the Oth; and two fam- company Includes Florence Nightin aus Americans might be mentioned, Shul your eyes and

gale (May 12), Gladstone (19), and for Emerson, the New England essay- Afteen each оле

u handkerchief dipped the medical scientists, Dr. Jenner 1st and poet, and Walt Whitman, aninutes you will find the flushed In icy water for a few seconds; (17) and Sir Ronald Boas (13). -chief of American nineteenth-cen-

and wollen look has gone. Bathe that will cool down their fiery look. your eyes with warm water mixed Then start to make up again, putt is also a royal month. Queen tury poets, were also born in May.

Mary's birthday falls on the 20th, with horncic powder and they will ting on plenty of foundation cream two days later than Queen Victoria's, who were born in May add Elizabeth Among the illustrious of the past look clear and bright again.

or lotion and powdering widely, which became Empire Day. On the Fry, the famous prison reformer; first of the month the Duke of Con- Warren Hastings, of the East India nought celebrates his eighty-sixth Company; and Tom Hood, the birthday.

"Bridge of Sighs" poet.

laxing as much as you can.

When you get up

Then take off the cream wash-But don't put any make-up on your your face in ice-cold water to..oyes-that would be tempting more which you have added a dash of tears.

It

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Agitated officials sought it overywhere, Reports were drafted, submitted, revised, cla- borate inquiries made;

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Then the musing handle Was traced to the outgoing Prime Min- ister! He had takon it us a souvenir of his tenure as hend- of the Govern- ment.

But the Office of Works got it back, and it was refixed on the historic door, where it still is. No. Premler is allowed to take a memento; must leave a picture or some books as a memento of himself.

A Druid lawcourt

stood on the site

Mr. Basil Fuller tells this story in "No. 10, Downing-street", which gives the history of "Number Ten" from the times of the Druids. It is thought that on the site of the Pro- mier's official residence there stood a Druid place of low-giving.

This house of drama can rarely have seen a greater drama than that of August 1, 1914, when, Mr. Fuller says, Prince Lichnowsky, the Ger- man Ambassador in London, dashed to Mr. Asquith in Downing-street at breakfast me and pleaded in tears that Britain should keep out of the war. But his tears and pleading were in vain, Number Ten became the nerve-centre of the great war,

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The cap weighs 1lb. An officer pays £25 for his-made to measure of expensive material: each cap worn by other ranks costs the State

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TO AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHERS

The "Hongkong Telegraph's" Amateur Photographic Compati- tion this year will include a Special Class devoted entirely to:

LOCAL CORONATION -

PICTURES.

Two Handsome Trophies, kind ly donated by Dr. F. Bunje and Mr. J. C; M. Grenham, will be offered as prizes.

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