1937-12-16 — Page 2

Yes, they look odd, but they're fun to make

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, December 16, 1937,

TTERE are some weird and wonderful animals

that can be used as decoration or as toys for the nursery. The children can have lots of fun helping to make them and they can let their imagination run riot, too

What you will need are lots of corks of varied sizes

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Decorative

Cords

NOLOURED cord is much used for)

decorative purposes.

When picture cords cannot be rendered entirely unobstrusive, it is new idea to make them frankly decorative and to twist and tie them Into a pattern against the walls.

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For this purpose, a slender, bright coloured cord may be chosen, in con- tract from your walls.

Multi-colutired corded fringe, may be used to trim a very modern table cloth, fitted to the table-top and

made of silver or coloured American cloth, Thick while cord looks well outlining curtains, bedspreads and dressing-table covers, being sewn just Inside the hem.

For Your Dinner Table

son

there

are

Are

-take them from old medicine bottles. Most families acem to get far too big a collection of these. You will also need some wire, matches, foothpicks and orange sticks. Perhaps, also, some odd strips of bright coloured leather or fabric to ⚫use for first or a tail if you make the dog shown in the first picture. His long neck, made of a

Nails

Your

Brittle?

Y

OU wouldn't go to sleep at night with the day's make-up unremoved. Or, at least, I hope not.

AMONG the new linen of the ren But it is, one chance to a

large dinner cloths, made of white linen widely hundred if you take off

encrusted" with lace-just the thing

for party.

brown fine linen, with vivid, multi-

your next important dinner your nail varnish from the mani-

single match stick, is an amusing contrast to his short, splayed legs

The third and fourth pictures show other nameless breeds of dogs which can be copied easily. But once you've learnt by practice how to make them you'll probably think of lots of other animala you would like to reproduce in cork and match sticks

ed to grow up to the fingertip. It controls the flesh and so stops those

"cushions" ugly little .which protrude. and give the fingers 4 square appearance when they ought to look slen- der.

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Everyone grows two whole new nails year. But they grow gradually and so you can start at any moment to get them into condition and, provid- ing there is no definite disease, they will come right again, no matter how dreadful they may look before the treatment.

To begin with, you should never use very harsh

soup, sodu, or very hot water.

By Elsie Scott

When the nails are fled

dreds of women now is break they must be filed one way only ing nails," said an expert, who and very gently with a flexible calls her salon a "nursing home 'file or emery board. for nails."

I'

CLEAN OUT YOUR

STOMACH

—and enjoy your food!

There are some people who never really enjoy their food because no matter how long ago it was since they last had a meal, they always feel "* full up." Some feel as though a lump were lodged in the middle of their chests-others as though their stomach were blown out like a balloon with wind and gas..

This is because the food from the last meal has not been completely digested. and remains behind in' the' stomach, turning bad and forming acid and evil gases." Food must be digested and cleaned right out of the stomach after every meal.

really do get the genuine Maclean Brand

If you are to feel ready to eat at the proper time. If you roller in this way, lakò a dose of Maclean Brand Stomach Powder after eating. It will help you to digest all your food in the proper way, prevent the formation of too much achi and unhealthy gas, and clear poisonous waste gently out of the system. Wind. fatulence, heartburn all go if you take this scientific remody. Even such serious ill as gastric and duodenal ulcer have been ended by Maclean Brand Stomach Powder. Get a bottle to-day-but make sure you While you are getting the

Stomach Powder with the argnature, nails into perfect order, it is "ALEX. C. MACLEAN " on bottle and Naver sold loose. Powder ul better not to use varnish at al carton.

Tablets. Cheap substitutes may make may take two or more except on rare occasions, for your trouble worse. If you have any years of continual var- parties, and it should be re-difficulty in obtaining it, write to Boutar nishing to break down the moved directly afterwards.

* Ca, KO Box 534, Huar 1 Am I health of the nails. But it will. "But how can I get my nails

eventually happen, and then to look presentaple?" you will for they crack and break and it This leaving on of the lacquer takes months to get them into stone polish and a buffer, in the They can be polished with a eventually dries out all

order again.

old-fashioned way. And there's

hun- on varnish all day and night. one way only and then not too This expert is against leaving a warning about bufling the nails. They should be polished It should be used, but it should quickly or heavily as that makes be removed, just like make-up, them hot, which, again, tends to The nails need nourishing every dry out the oils.

Sets of mats are matle of pale time you have one

coloured, applique flowers, with cut-cure until the next. out edges around them.

Some of the nicest mats are made right?

of quilted chintz-line fabric, with ships and seascapes painted

them.

up

Round mats of linen and artificial

silk have a lovely sheen and are natural oil in the nail. edged with pastel tinted circles, of; graduated sizes,

YOU CAN'T

KEEP TEETH

BRIGHT – GUMS

HEALTHY by using a 1⁄2 way Toothpaste

"The great cry with

A toothpaste that does only half the job is not enough.

In these days when 4 out of 5 people over 40 have Pyor- rhea, you need the double protection of FORHAÑ'S. This toothpaste does more than clean teeth. Forhan's protects you from infected gums. Forhan's is a splendid toothpaste, containing as an active ingredient Dr. Forhan's famous Astrin zent, which acts beneficially on the gums, pro- tecting them from infection. Don't use a half- way toothpaste. Have sparkling teeth and healthy gunu-use Farhan's. Buy a tube today!

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bit as much as the skin does and so special creams are used

to keep them healthy.

ask.

I

HAVE just been trying

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THE Germicidal Toilor Soap. .Soothing & Refreshing, par- revolutionary things I heard. strong gardening gloves are, ticularly after Exercise. A Skin

Do you push buck the cuticles the earth seems to seep through Tonic & Deodorant.

the leather when the hands after washing your hands? That's all wrong, according to come in contact with it. this expert. A healthy cuticle The finger-tips are dipped in needs no violent pushing. It warm water. a little of the pre- paration is smeared on them, should be gently lifted with a and then they are cleaned with hoof-stick and the nourishing cream placed under it. This fectly free from stains, just a 1 rubber brush. When per- acts as a tonic to the embryo little nail growing beneath,

more of the paste is rubbed round the cuticles and, -And do you file down the nails in time, the half-moons appear at the sides? That's wrong, clearly without any drastic Floo. Each nail should be allow- treatment.

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HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN C Tho estimated expenditure for carrying out the Society's work among the children during the financial year ended 31st Octo- ber, 1938 is

$30,000.00

The Society Is In urgent need of funds and seks for donations from the public fawarda this expenditure.

Hon. Treasurers:

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