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Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

March 3, 1939.

STUDY YOUR BACK VIEW

The mirror mostly shows you a smiling face-but the new evening dresses put backs to the fore

Do you give as much thought

to beautifying your poor -back as you do to making up your face? Unless you're one of the notable exceptions, you don't. Yet bare back beauty is easy if you're prepared to exert little patience, spend a little time.

The back in the photograph is lovely because it is neither too podgy nor too, muscular. the shoulders are broad, the shoulder blades Are well covered, the skin is smooth and satiny and it is a uniform tone all over. That's the ideal

to make for. Try out these hints and see how you do.

One of the first rules to follow when you want to acquire a lovely back is to strep flat on a fairly hurd mattress, without either a holster or pillow.

To correct a round buck and protruding shoulder- blades, lie stretched out an your back on the floor for a quarter of an hour a day. int slip between your body the ground-under and your armpits-a sausage- shaped pillow.

Instead of doing your "daily dozen" lying on the ground, do them hanging from a bar, which your local car- peuter can fix up in your bedroom. Excel- Tent for your · back muectra-and you'll be doing pour “Tummy“ muscley some too.

good,

It's Good Fun If A Girl Learns Her Hair Treatment With Resultant Soft. Tresses

If you have protrud- ing shoulder - blades you're sure to be round- chested, too. Insuffi- cient breathing in the chief reason for these two fiqure faults. Prac- tise breathing exercises regularly, and go in for outdoor sports.

If you're ashamed of the size of your scat, give yourself a sort of ribro - masSAGE every day by wriggling along the floor on your back, Irys stretched out in front of you. The pic- ture shows you how.

CONCERNING

the bath

A-a-h, that's better!' you'll say when you've put a few drops of Scrubb's in the bath water. Scrubb's la a luxury that costs so little-it softens and purines the water, refreshes your body, removes all traces of perspiration (and ind- dentally relieves too), Soak In

Scrubb's!

it's always safe to use

SCRUBB'S

4.5.3

SCRUBB

CLOUDY

AMMONIA

prickly brak bils with

Street LamDITH.

Look for the Jignature

A stylist held forth

in debate-

"A woman whose taste is innate Wears "Mir-O-Kleer":

hose

They discreetly

disclose The beauty bare legs

couldn't rate.

Footwear Fashions

Two

WO popular new colours in foot- wear will be wine and shades of violet

Very attractive tou is marine blue, which tones with any nuts. In fael all shades uf blue will be fashionable for footwear during the coming months.

Another useful and quite attractivy colour in Cotswold grey, is it acts us a full to brightly coloured dresses and sults. It is really a much more at tractive colour than the name im- plies.

071 the sandal

Shoes modelled

atyle will combine two colours such as sunshine yellow and white, or a

deep rose and white.

www.

Advance news of styles show that a high cut gusset court shoe, with a cut-out design on the front will be popular. Some have

rosettes anci swathed ir.romings delightfully feminine touches. Tie shoc also be very strongly favoured.

Watch your heels-it is this part of your shoes which will denote whether you are really up-to-date.

What is call

called the new Dutch Boy heel has appeared. It is comfortable, is usually featured in suede walking shoes.

and

is

be

Heels, generally speaking, will be lower and larger, and altogether.very much more comfortable for women who And it difficult to walk comfort- ably in the old type of spindle heels.

And

shoes during the coming seasons; instead we shall have white combined with bright colours. Finally, for warmer days there are wooden soled clogs.

lower alf-way there will

Miloent Strachan

URBAN COUNCIL

Routine Business At Regular Meeting

At a meeting of the Urban Council yesterday, correspondence

relative to the appointment of the omcers to act under Ordinance 8 of 1935 (sec- tion 2), and to net na Food Officers under Ordinance 13 of 1935 (section 2) was considered.

An application for an eating house licence for No. 432, Prince Edward Road, ground floor, was refused.

Those present at the meeting were Mr. R. R. Todd, Chairman, Mr. F. C. Hail, Mr. Tang Shiu-kin. Ma... Dr. S. N. Chau, Dr. R. de Castro Basto, and Mr. A. cl

Arcuill

Licences granted by the Urban

Counell between February 14 and March 1s were 12 in number,

Above-A Junior-size brush with a gay, coloured handle is easy

1o use. Its wave-like bristles stimulate the scalp and keep the liale healthy, soft and lustrous. A brushing treatment should precede the shampoo.

Upper left ready prepared shampoa comb'ning an olive all treatment with a thorough cleansing is easy for the child to use. Upper right-A simply tailored how and loose brushed-In curls supply the "party touch" every young girl loves.

DE PAT

PERFECT CLEANING COOL & DRY SMOKE

NO CONTACT BETWEEN TOBACCO & MOISTURE

THE PERFECT POPULAR PIPE

$3.50 only

at INCENOHL'S CIGAR STORES "LA PERLA DEL ORIENTE"

and other tobacconists,

CLOSING DOWN

(Continued from Page G.)

elting and sensational, though politic- ally not very important.

For the Soviet speak Izvestia and Pruvda, both voicing merely official opiniens-no others allowed, follow- ng the German and Italian pattern.

Italy, as a nation, of course, speaks with one voice, although through many well-known newspapers. It issues from the mild, charming, and anlable Virginio Gayda-in the Giornale d'Italia--always quoted ny the mouthpiece of Mussolini. Which he is.

It is

Italy, however, hins another voice, not directed by Mussolini. coiled L'Osservatore Romano.

That is the voice of the Pope-from Vatican City,

Take it at what these nowp- Papers say is what-within limite the countries that read them TrunK.

E. J.

AUSTRALIAN MULES Consignment Arrives For

Hongkong Corps

As well as exercising your back, you must take special care to keep the skin always clean and smooth, and therefore. youthful. Stimulate it with a brisk rub with a dry loofah after your bath

Twenty Australlan mules, all in splendid condition, arrived aboard the E. and A. steamer Nankin yes- terday afternoon. They are intendi ed for the stables of the Hongkong Mule Corps, members of which were present, armed with bridles, to take charge of the animals when the sling funded them over the side. Major C. |W. Heane, veterinary officer, was also

prezent,

This is the first consignment of Austracion mutes brought tos Hong- kong for some time.

METROPOLE

ROOM BATH $6

CENTRAL -

CLEAN

-"COMFORTABLE}

Lumberjacket two-plece frock in black crepe, the skirt attached to a bodice ton, describes the dinner frock. Front fullness and lines of applied black sequins aro med.

KAYSER

HOSIERY-UNDERWEAR

Snapshots Indoors, at Night? Easy Now!

ALL you need is Kodak "SS" Pan Film and a couple of Photoflood Jamps. Use your own camera. Ask for free folder, "Snapshots at Night," giving simple directions... at the store displaying the KODAKS sign.

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