1937-08-25 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, August 25, 1937.

PAGE FOR WOMEN

Put

Query and Answer

"J. F. D."

I have rather pale blue eyes, fair skin and fair hair, now turning

"I hope purple birthmark, mousy, and-I'm forty."

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about the size of o'trúe-shilling piec",

at the side of my cheek. How can I get rid of it?"

MA

this

NE of the rules for make-

ONE

these things

skins inclined to be sullow,

and rachel or natural for those with reddish tendency.

a

in your

BEAUTY BOX

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EAUTY problems.- some clever way it нестя to that's the most engross when applied. The cream rouge blend into a natural lip colour ing subject for women, which goes with it looks very and many of the letters which brown in the pot, but goes rel- come from readers are con- der when it is on the cheeks.

One day I was discussing the new cerned with it.

unpowdered complexion. It is hav- ing a certain vogue amongst the very young girls in America, who like. to look as if their faces had been well scrubbed with and senp

Jeft shiny. it is not very popular here. Whether you are girl working in an office, or the mother of a family working In the home, there ATC

What shall they do when on the beach? Some want to get brown: others wish to avoid it. They get sun scorched. Their noxes shine. The glare hurts their eyes.

Whether they

By

Elsie

Scott

are taking hiking or camping things that should be packed in your Beauty Box to take with the holiday holidays, sponding a week or so luggage,

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You may

be conservative about by the sea, or touring abroad, they all want to look their best, cosmetics, or crave for the very intest You It doesn't matter. things out. must have cleansing cream or One letter from 2 young lotion, foundation for powder, either girl sounded rather pathetic. liquid or cream or one like I tried recently in bloc form, which, by the "Last year I seemed to look all way, is convenient for packing as it wrong by the sea," she wrote, doesn't take up much room and can't

ке broken. "The other girls in the party Be careful about the powder. too pale a shade. had managed to get just the Don't take away right shades of powder and After a day or so in the sun the skin wil darken and, like the girl who you won't look wrote that letter, make-up and I hadn't." -

"right."

had

From that I gathered she been completely overshadowed by

100 up is to match the powder

to the tone of the skin; lipstick and description rouge should tone in with the natural

colouring.

ARKS

cannot be treated at home,

Some beauty salons use powder You should upply {<s Your cal with a certain amount of pink in its hospital as the removal of

marks mnist be undertaken medical unan.

R. S. M.

You may use a rose rouge or something less coral, if you prefer it. emphasised make-up is becoming to those who mid-thirties behind.

AL night, make-up

birth- composition, such as pench for fair stronger and brighter,

by

"I am terribly keen to take up tap dancing this AREUTHIN, but 0 friend tells me that it is very e- hausting and far too strenuous after a day's office work, Also that it enlarges the thigh muscles. is this true?"

TAP

You

TAP DANCING is rather tiring at first, but it is harder ba the ankles than on the thighs. will find that your ankles ache until they get accustomed to the move. ments. But, as you only intend tak ing classes twice a week and as you are sitting all day in an office, yoll should not find it too tiring. And it Lids very good exercise,

It is always possible to

miss

YOURSELF

lipstick

or her companions. Perhaps she had red, such as gone holiday-making looking A rather less towny. usually more have left the

should

AND

YOUR

HOUSE

Joan's Table

Talk

T is unfortunate, but true, that many women find their skins marred by open pores. Removing

lesson if your day's work was par- the cause is, of course, the *ticularly tiring.

"Fair and Forty"

first essential; rich foods, or sitting too long in a hot

"Will you tell me what shade of bath, are both "evils" which

powder, lipstick and rouge to use?

Don't Make

تم عام

Nerves

An Excuse

should be remedied.

be

White tea towels have bright bor- ders. Squares of yellow or green are seen at either end. Flowers On The Table

As to the best treatment, cleansing the face with a lemon preparation, then rinsing in cold water, and patting the skin dry is ONE

So many of us complain of "nerves" | generally satisfactory.

NE can often plek up ups on how to decorate a table with flowers

from the expert. A prize winning table at a recent exhibition showed

nowadays, and no wonder in these modern times, with all their When enlarged pores appear by a centre basket led with well- stress and strain, buses roaring and the side of the nose only. they spaced flowers in shades of yellow, electric drills throbbing, and every-should be cleansed at night with and sprays of foliage extended across

body in a break-neck hustle.

the cloth. At the corners of the lemon cream, washed with a skin Some women,

table, small dishes held single dower however. make "nerves" an

tonic, and a special cream rubbed heads, excuse for shirking

Smaller, and simpler arrange- dutles or for covering what is often to the open pores and left on all

ments were also shown. For in- mere laziness or lack of self-control, night.

stance, single blossoms surrounded For example, a tiring day in the

by leaves 'stood in small vases near olten

cack corner of a refectory table. In the centre a circular two-inch trough held a spray of flowers clipped by a special holder to one side.

house

ends in a display of bad

Use tonic for the morning wash, at night, and that is put patting the skin dry before making to "nerves"

temper down

up in the usual way.

nerves" and dread Points About Powder having the whole family home for

Some women complain that child-

ren "get on

thely

It was noticeable that dark were put into "black vases while pale flowers stood in crystal choose the wrong powder for containers. days when our young family came their type of skin, despite the fact

different textures in For Golfers

the holidays, even if the family is THERE are still many women who flowers small one. They remind me of the

home for the holidays. There were that so many eight of tis, and Moller welcomed all eight

at once with

a emile and a powders are now produced. Every JEWELLERY is specialised these ham-and-plum-cake ten

ten. It would skin is catered for.

days. least, some intriguing designs have been made for the goller.

tees.

never have occurred to her to make A general rule is to use a well- our holidays an excuse for com- plaining and "nerves" And Vic- sifted powder on a fine skin. Coarser

There Are fancy wristlets in torian children were not nearly a powder clings to a courser skin. bright colours which have slots for angelle or well-disciplined as we moderns imagine!

Any skin at all oily should be For tee-holders are not quite so tasteful because, apparently, powders choice

Green, scarlet and brown are Usual

colours.

The people who work in a large covered with a powder noted for its is to have them to match one's city have perhaps more reason to astringent powers. Such complain of "nerves." But they, too,are, indeed, easier should remember

to obtain than sult. how much their powders which will not cake on a surroundings have Improved in the Inst half-century. Modern build dry skin. Yet these powders are ings are selentifically ventilated and also prepared nowadays. everything is planned hygienically.

But not so many years ago offices Tinted Kitchen Towels were dark denis.

artistically

A semi-circular plece of crystal with a round watch set in the centre is Anished with a leather strap, and Is, again, intended as a fob watch for a golfer.

Holds Beauty Requisites coloured, are being bought to AVERY woman who bathes likes to woman wy bit with her,

If the six o'clock rush hour is a BATHROOM towels, strenuous, nerve-racking business,

would you prefer the old two-hours match the bathroom walls. journey back into the suburbs In a

fire10ggerty" horse bus?"

and one very convenient solution is

But, in the kitchen, new towels to mnice a hold-all to suit one's own when they are genuine form A vivid contrast from the special needs. are a terrible thing indeed, and suf-colours aircody in the room. Nun- A strip of American cloth in a ferers from them need every care ter towels made from Turkish jaunty colour to match one's bathing and sympathy, but there are far too lowelling glow with orange, prim- suit or cape is just right for n roll- many people complaining of their rose or green.

up hold-all. It should certainly be "nerver" who would do beller to

lined with offed allk. Then pieces give themselves A Kood mental Linen towels, also of the runner of the American cloth are sewn to shaking and make up their minds to type, are checked in two or three make pockets inside to hold the little exercise a Itilo self-control.

colours in large or small sizes. Or bottles of lotion, tine of cream, the Mary Dridge hey are gaily spqited.

cotton wool, hairpins and clips,

Walte

THERE should be deodor-

ant powder, and a pow-

der which can be sprinkled on the feet to prevent them from getting tired, burning and un- skins and blush rose comfortable. In the beauty box cheeks do lock strangely incongruous you will want a little antiseptic, In swim suits. Too ethereal. The like iodine. Buy this in "pencil" open air and outdoor sports call for form. Also, if you are going something more robust. And so the into the country or abroad, don't question that eroja up each summer forget some preparation which bus arisen again-lo tan or not to will combat the onslaughts of fan? A certain amount of tan there mosquitoes. should be, although the deep browns are out of fashion.

An extremely simple remedy which will lessen the irritation I a mos- quita or gnat has already attacked I'VE

'VE been studying some you is a lamp of ordinary washing

of these tan-producers with the soda.

soda. Moisten the bite and rub It

and they are of two kinds. The The medical part of the outfit I first is made to encouragé a be- leave to you. But don't forget coming tone without coarsening small supply of your pet physics. or damaging the skin. The A Beauty Rox can be bought very cheaply. Rather attractive Bitle con- second is for those who do not taimers in coloured enamel, holding want to tan naturally at all, but two fors and two bottles. Fur who wish to look the part when little more, there are three jars and engaged in outdoor activities.

three bottles and fer the even more expensive you get three smalt mani- cure bottles included, These you u One of the latter preparations with your own special creams and versatile, because you can control fotions.

A single

beige.

the exact depth of tone.

Sumewhere else I saw the most application for

i erenmy

attractive leather boxes for a guinea. Two or more for a coppery colour. In the larger sizes this has a powder It is waterproof, so it won't come box as well as the usual three boxes off when bathing. But it can removed easily with a special cream, and the same number of cream jars.

be

and there you are, beautifully fresti THE latest of all beauty-

and while underneath it without a trace of tan.

box designs is like a of soft ealf handbag, made the several leather. There are three bottles AMONG

browny red lipsticks and two cream jars, also a small prepared for the summer of 1937 mirror with a little purse on a

In chain. is an autumn leaf

$1

shade.

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Hankow Rd., Kowloon.

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Fixtures

Hot & Cold Water Systerns

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Installed

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UNTHINKABLE!

is

Of course you would not give your baby a cigar or adult food because you know babies require special care and treatment. That is why you spend so much time in the preparation of his special food. Yet when baby's system upset and he is troubled with colic, diarrhea, sour stomach, indigestion or constipation, are you careful to use only medicinu that has been made especially for him? Castoria is the ideal remedy for your child because it has been pre- pared especially for infantsandchildren. It is mild, pleasant- tasting and easy to take. The next time your baby is upset by some simple child ailment, use Cas- toria, safe for even the newborn infant.

CASTORIA

The medicine made especially for children

Fair as the blossom

The beauty of the blossoms must fade, but the youthful beauty and fairness of your skin may long be preserved

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Use "Hazeling' Snow" in your toilet daily.

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