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WOMAN

LAMENTS

The Manners

Of You Men Are Deplorable

ME

[EN'S manners are stea dily growing worse. Women, by obtaining more independence, may have sa- crificed their claim to trivial courtesies, but that is no ex- cuse for the general deter- ioration in men's behaviour towards them.

lained that worsen had so many

cigarette, one naturally expects him to continue this enjoyment.

But if a man greets you or talks with teeth clenched on his pipe. or cigarette stuck to hta upper lips, he is not only down-right discourteous, but incoherent.

I saw six men do this recently. How many

men ask a woman's

No imagination could convert them

permission to smoke during a meal ords and ends as part of their rig- mio part of her nulfit,

Now it is not merely the time- or, in fact, at any time? Very few. bonoured the about women's un-

How many men look where they punctuality that makes many a shake their ash? Very few. How

out that the might be doing the wrong ting suggesting taking any.

By

HESTER MARSDEN-SMEDLEY

Hut this was only an excuse for

A SHINE ON HER NOSE

THERE ought to be a mo-

dern nursery rhyme about something like:- "No rings on her fingers, with a shine on her nose.., for a shiny nose is the big- gest obstacle that romantic beauty-according to mo- dern standards-knows. In spite of what so many of us think, it cannot be cured by another "scrub" of a pow- der puff. That may help temporarily, but to put an end to the irritation of shine you must get to the root of the trouble-the skin itself.

Most shiny noses, in young people at any rate, come from opposite skin conditions exces,, sive dryness and excessive oil Strangely enough, they have the same results. Shine on elderly faces, on the other hand, is the refining influence of time, and can be disguised, if not cured, by a good foundation lotion and a powder specially made to give a matt effect. For Dry Skin

five minutes late for engagements many breathe smoke into a woman's Dry skin is a very common com-

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It is all part of the gradual blacken- face or leave the end of n elgarette

modern women, smouldering unpleasantly neat her?plaint among Ing in politeness and respect Un-

cent of to-day's especially in the spring of the year. рег punctuality is the most infectious of About

when over-heated rooms and cold bad manners. Late for a party one smokers, I should calculate.

winds have done their worst. day means late for an all-important

I was the only woman guest at a business appointment the next

skin in not only shiny, but often Suckers

people whose bad business dinner. There were men of Make-up refuses to cling, and the do more than just all ages, and most of them ate dis-

them talked rough as well. What it needs is long gracefully. Most of When talking for

or with their mouths full.

some motherly care, good feeding. enjoying pipe

Next day I went to a smart res and protection from the weather. taurant. All the faults were there,

A young woman does not expect I saw him later, quite unencumbered, manners stranger to give up his seat to her while the girl with him was borne annOY.

down with a load of parcels.

in a rush-hour train.

surprised

But I was rather nther day when I got into a earringe with only one vacant plare and man pushed past me to seize !

There are good manners which are ataci Bunners Counded on custom which infliptive.

Are

its

of individual

Hats Off To-

For example, it was the custom of

on armoured knight to raise his visor

to show he was

friend,

nui for.

From that comes our practice of

Yet even this tradi

Taising the hat.

ilon seems to be dying mat.

Men not only fall to raise their

hats when greeting

Wren,

sit down in anack bar and

bit

refe

right into other people's OT 170 houses an offices with heads still covered Yet I have never with a

been in a HEL a man who did not remove his hat when he saw women there.

[ lilled it? man recently about

this. He said, "I can't help notlving such a a cramped space as a lift that

in

Sul, this man woman is there." often sits at his office desk with h hat pulled down over his forchead.

Though he might have put it better, did realise that he felt he owed women, when he noticed them, some politeness.

Taking the outside of the pove- ment when walking with a girl is

man to be for practical way

courteous. It is seldom done to-day.

I was splashed not long ago while walking with a friend. I happened to be on the outside.

He said, "You are unlucky.

never

cars."

scem to be splashed by

And I quite understund.

[

An offer to carry things is a re gesture nowadays,

One man com-

time 10

arc

Endless WE are only as old as we look.

beauty articles have been written for the

lovely young things who want to retain their good looks, but what of the not-so-

yongs who want to preserve theirs? It

seems to me that beauty hints for them

are probably the most important of all.

What Are The Signs

NAT

Of Age

Age In

ATURE gives many indications RE: a sogging neck: B double chin; crensing eyelids. To Nine women out of ten neglect their to to pay attention neck. You should give your neck a brisk massage with a well creamed hand.

Throw your head back, and with the fat of your hand slowly inussage from the chin down- wards.

greasy night. help

Us?

on cream

Thom at

penetrate open and shut your eyes, moving the Bds very slowly.

As

for flabby arms and legs, try "smacking" them with your funnel soaked in cold water --it helps.

The

way we shrink when we get older is interesting.

you

To finish off, saturate a towel in

cold water and tap all raund The

neck 11. Soon

your with should have a fresh, youthful appearance. When you make up your neck

should have the same treat- A

face. As ment

you' notter of fact, it is better to

neck powder your

it

before your face. Creasing eyelids are a sign of an

Use

really ageing face.

0

too, among the men diners. Bread nellets were ailed upom the cloth.

In spite ut expert waiting, men leaned aeross the tables and grabbed the food.

Waiter Wept

Do not. therefore, miss a single night's application of a rich skin food. Pat it in and work it round with a circular motion. and leave on A thin film of the cream, so that it can nourish the under skin of the face overnight.

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A waiter told me that the amount using a day foundation cream in-

Be careful about the sonp you choose--super- It is a rule in the restaurant that clean cloth be put on for each party, fatted is best-and

of food dropped would astound me.stead of a dry lotion.

use cleansing "If it wasn't the rule," the waitercream only for your evening “wash.” said, "it would be a necessity. Men Never apply powder to are by far the worst offenders."

He told me, too, of a friend of his. head waller at a famous club, who had wept over the table manners of its members.

the un- protected skin. It must have some- thing to cling to, or the first pull of wind will blow it away.

If, in spite of nightly skin Men eye with critletsm the modern nourishing and daily creaming, girl making up in public, but during your nose still shines dryly, invest men in one of the special matt creams have scen the last month I

They are adjusting sock suspenders in the made for obstinate skins. street (twice), in a tenshop (twice). In little more expensive than the In a drawing room (four times).

usual vanishing cream, but they will smart, well-groomed guarantec a ever thought how things

complexion for the entire day. Too Much Natural Oil

Have

get nearer to the ground ps they wither?

anily

thing you can do to slow up the shrinking pro-

ess

to remember to do everything as if you were stretching yourself.

Anal hol

word of warning-long baths are not good for and heavy ageing tissues, dinners will play havce with your digestion, and there- fore affect your sleep. ETHYLE CAMPBELL

Are Parents Real Home-Rulers?

Other make sinners I have noticed Include:-

Unir-combers; in the street (Iour times); int restaurant (once); shoe- tlers,

feet on chairs (three with

twice lines) garglers, once in a milk bor.

Even more troublesome to good in trouses, looks is the shiny face that comes (The man in the from too much natural oll in the skin. Make-up looks all right at milk bar wis asked to leave.)

nine o'clock, but by ten it is greasy and patchy and your nose is shin

for very ing. Obviously

*

*

*

Children's Colour careful treatment.

Cake

case

Look over your cosmetic box, and abolish all the greasy products you possess. Buy, a cleansing milk, and use it instead of cold cream. Brace

CREAM half a pound of butter with

the same quantity of castor sugar, fore make-up with a good astrin- | beat in four eggs, then fold in gradually three-quarters of a pound milk if this is needed to make a soft consistency.

portion.

your skin and close your pores be gent. Use a foundation lotion that

of has an astringent base--a liquid powder, in fact. Keep clear vanishing cream, and don't even use paste rouge.

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Divide the mixture quickly into three portions. Leave one portion MANY parents compiain bitterly interest in the suggestion that he wish our sons to carry out our wishes

Apply the powder variety aver that, in spite of all they have should go into his father's office, and they must learn the art of obedience done for their children, the sons show to add to the trouble, the lad showed in the home, when they are young uncoloured, adding a few drops of

and our lessons must be taught with ratafla or vantila essence it liked, add the foundation, and finish with a no desire to enter the father's bust- little desire to give his father either ness, and the daughters seem to have respect or companionship Father, in sympathy and understanding. If we cochincal to a second portion, and dust of powder. Nowadays you

It was the old story. no object in life except to enjoy themselves. Arriving at this point, the boy's earlier years left everything want our children to show signs of three ounces of chocolate melted in can buy a powder specially made for NOTE: The Aida

than the normal kind and holds fathers and mothers often assume that to mother. She wrote to the lad at an unselfish spirit we must develop a dessertspoonful of milk to the third oily skins. It is a little heavier Ser embodies tho

He this spirit in the home, not by be.

Cocoa (enough to make the portion belier. youth is Incking in filial school. Father had not time. modern respect, and shows signs of laziness allowed the boy to drift farther away coming martyrs ourselves: not by

in sympathies and understanding and denying ourselves of everything to a nice brown) can be substituted for

Since oily and shiny skins are and incompetence.

often inclined to be sallow, watch It is disappointing to a parent when now he scarcely knows the ind, though supply their growing demands, but chocolate if this seems preferable.

Line a caise-tin, with greaseproof your diet. Keep off olly heavy foods he finds that his cherished wishes are he pays up promptly when pocket- by real home lessons.

There is vital need for parents to paper and put the three portions in, for a while and try a diet of fruit ruthlessly disregarded. He may have money is required. established

keep in touch with their growing sons either one on top of the other, or 1 successful

business Marriage After Graduation which he hoped would be continued

A hard- and daughters so that confidences may higgledy-plggledy, to give a jazz effect and vegetables for a week or so. Here is another case. by his children. He may desire a daughter's companionship only to working father sends his wife and be exchanged. If we did this we when cooked. A fairly quick oven ice a month apply a facial pack And that she has deelded on a career chikiren to a University town whilst should find quite early what aims and is required.

Cover the top of the cake with little and help to keep the excessive and decorate with oiliness under control. of her own which takes her away he remains behind carning money to ambitions our children possessed. from him just when he desired her pay the family expenses. Including More than anything else, parents white Icing

University fees for the doughter. should be the real home-rulers. This hundreds-and-thousands or anything colour. to make plenty of friendship and help most.

But don't try to look fairer by The daughter finishes her course does not demand that a child is bound else Ungrateful Children

and then her father asks her to take to follow an occupation distasteful to Alternatively, the icing can be colour- using a powder that is too light for But it does mean that parents, ed. in the same way as the cake, one your skin. By cutting down the a up

to the house-keeping by their longer experience, should part being left white, another part so that other members of know better than a child what is for made pink, and the third part made oll supply your skin will lighten thinkers imagine that children are tomily con

paid "No," she was go his ultimate good. ungrateful and, unsympathetic. But daughter

Tho we must not hastily condemn modern youth. It has much to contend with Lng to be married, and her wedding

did take place after graduation. career carefully from childhood to In this a ense of pure selfishness on that stage when they have to think

that, earning a living we ought to be able girl's part? My bellef

We see a lot of this kind of be bute session career and contri- him.

haviour in those

days. Careless

in fighting its battles.

the

to

She was

brown with chocolate or cocoa.

If we have followed a boy's or girl's

of

have been dealing with young the

for 40 odd years have however unfortunate they may be, to advise carefully as to the choice people. many into man- parents we should

Д

parents.

Help Kidneys

hood and womanhood. Most have those powers which bring out and not compel but--and this is Import- Don't Take Drastic Drugs

Joy and comfort to their develop the best instincts or traits in antif we have been the right sort A few have disappointed their children. Parents, by lack of or parent we shall and them ready tales or filters witch are endangered by their fathers and mothers. Yet, in dignity: by pampering and petting, to listen to our words of wisdom. the latter cases, almost without excel by assuming the role of martyrs and

a time when tion, something has been lacking in by an incredible number of simple

more respectful and the home training.

dealing with mistakes in What was Incking in these cases? children; make the latter selfish and anger to piense their schoolmasters. Let me give ono instance. A parent unheeding.

came to me complaining that his son,

who was attending a public school, Boys Respond to Discipline. treated him very casually when homo

for the holidays,

There never

their children were

was

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Your kidneys bavo alte million thuy neglect or drastic, Irritating drugs. He ware I kidney trouble or Bladder wenk- nos makes you suffer from Gotting, Up Nights, Leg Pains, Nervousness, Diexi- Buffsare, thaumatism, Lumbago, clesies Under Myer, Bwollen Ankins, Acidity or of don't deny, Neuralgia, Burning Liching, Amarting If growing boys and girls cause dis. the Doctor's now discovery Gallod Oratex (Blas-tax), Hoothes, tories, alean, satisfaction to parents the blame must and hekle lok kidneys, starts work in 15 rest, not with the children, but some-minutes Brings new bentth, youth and

The father was' Boys like discipline and respect where cise, upset because his son showed little those whom they have to oboy. If we

Frank Arnold.

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lemon foundation.

This

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itself, and it is always safest

to use a powder that matches tone it exactly, or if just a

be- consoled on fairer. And one point at least an oily skin keeps its youth longer than a dry one, even if it is a nuisance to keep

Anne Blythe smart!"

THE NEW FRENCH REMEDY,

THERAPION No:1. THERAPİON NË 2 THERAPION No:3

UN PIRAN for the

shkidneyn & kimasdan.

HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN

The total Expenditure in 1938 on behalf of aick and destitulo children is estimated at $27,000, against which the Income to date 18 $19,000 only

In order to continue its work, the Society aske for the balance of

before

$8,000

the close of the Anancial year on Blat October.

Hon, Treasurers:

Mr. A. McKELLAR, C.A.,

c/o Mackinnon Mackenzie & Co.,

P. & O. Building.

Mr. KWOK CHAN,

c/o The Banque de L'Indo Chine,

Hongkong.