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HONGKONG TELEGRAPHY00 September 18, 1939.
Awkward Age
OW gind I shall be when Tony reuchen school get" alghed its mother Bho Fescued her toddler from the coal-scuttle.
"Wait a few years longer and then you can reckon that your material problems are really about to begin," laughed Tony's grand- another.
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While the child is still amat should be regarded more or less ns a sturdy young animal to be kept healthy and disciplined into the virtues which make it possible for un to live together in some degree vi prate.
Once he reachen bis teens he will have developed an individu- nity of his own, but without suf- cient experience always to make a
Things To Know HOUSEWIVES
111 houses windows should
NURSERY EXPERT
advises on those
TROUBLESOME
TEENS..
wise choler when certain alterna- Lives are put before h
I am replying to-lay to some letters which have reveived from parenta whnte children have reached this nwk ward nge and who are at a loss how best to help them over their present difficulties,
Budding Romanos
Au can tehnis still attending rehool has struck up a romantic friendship with a girl of whom we connol approve. We are wondering Top best to brent: this of.
with Ingst upon the special brachels and Burns flat hufacturer upply to the baulder, for hanging het rurtitis.) ↑ ADVISE You to take the whanele Any incal waidow eng be fitted to parin alimly and not to clam the net curtam or orbit marked opposition.
and
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de from now on to that he m !medrally angette a return of va pulk- hite toward you and toward all
duen cenerally
Coelit patul me the bite z hnen and cotton materods for playout.
Ikonid encourage him to tak the hip, and hours eat. Different; tected halking tome
Cube + 1210 coloured eightails, each with
timal with the two to me a triade none in block capitals written neatly
on mathna. Tt will wideis dus underneath, are puttered all over! Horizon roaredralils.
the material. One attract v ipus Self-Conscious cout in pale blue linen has buttons shaperi 1 cocktails glasswa
with Op pattern on the material. Other butter, carved out of wood and thick bone resemble elery stick, obve and loud: ant can be found in cofestir.
Sally, aged 11, to rep alout for her The Lorde deunitely inspo to wo mmmer frocks and we helpenvelous about her uppentance,
every
This And That
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COLOUR is being successfully intro
duced into fine et face net table mats and dressing-table sets.
American women have given definite lead to British housewives, in the use of lite tablecloths. Pio- bably eight out of every ten kone- wives in America we laer eloth When cloths are not in use they have sets of "owle"--the American name | for a ince runner-with matching table mats.
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The half-curtain is proveligt wo- men with an opportunity to jarp abreast of modern furnishing style af surprisingly low cost. Whefe need! for economy in the home budget done! not permit a fulfer use of affrardive store curtains, lace panel curtains, long nets, the windoves can be delight - fully carinined with a length which rung across the lower half of the window or the lower pane. A wit
A win- dow three feet in width requires 1% to 2 yards length, this means that a home with say right window: to the front requires no more than about 15s for thoroughly in-to-date! and attractive matched curtaining.
Y'S MEN'S TIFFIN
He mudden mere in wideht
which often
arcompatibes fr early teens he brought my to Alez volen girls who find it hard to
so that mot of this
fat will be reabsorbed later in ter developonest.
Tenhle defing and dght evacue will do much to herten their time of trial and I will plutly send you a pomad diet cirt white will support evigy while avelding deposits of unbefas Jut and at exacke chart for tinguove
MIDCE:
Always Awkward
"Kiss Auntle, Midge,"
* Must 17"
Instead of the usual tiffen meeting Using Hot
Using Hot Water
next Thursday, members of the
Hongkong Y's Men's Club will have
a Chinese dinner at the Chinese
To Advantage
Merchant's Club, China Building, in HAVE you ever tried giving green
vegetables their last rinse under
mg young Bature: with a tendence to unwieldy bulk.
Wir regard to her clothes, let her Ture that you are interested in her problems. She will look best in fairly quiet self colours or stripes for the present, but avoid drab effect by introducing touch
* colour in scarf, callar or belt.
Painfully Shy
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My fifteen-your-old son la painfully shy and so abrupt at times that he (s considered rude,
SHYNESS coupled with the polster
ous outbursts which you describe later in your letter are common among boys of this age They are growing fast, are conscious of their awkward Himbs and uncertain voices and find it difficult to adjust themselves to the company of any but their own pune dinte associates.
He will outgrow this quickly you
rivo him certain responsibilities in the home, consulting him on matters of family concern and making it clear that you no longer regard him na nil Irresponsible chlid but as one who has a certain dignity to maintain.
Ungrateful Daughter
We have left no stone unturned to give our 16-year-old daughter every opportunity, but she is proving most ungrateful, and refuses to give us the least consideration,
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AM afraid that you placed too much weight on giving your daughter "extra" such as music and dancing lessors, instead of Insisting that learnt obedience and respect for her parents. Now, for her own safety's anke, you can only insist that he should be home at a reasonable hour. and that she should make her mind up to keep her next job.
Get her father to talk the whole matter over with her quietly without any show of temper. Let him make
have now both
12 quite clear that you
NO
Tomboy daughter enjoys a rido 03 the see-saw with Toby, the dog.
reached the end of your patience, mirt that she must either pull herself to Kether, or else leave your home so that you may have the peace which you deserve after this long struggle. It is posible that a quiet talk on these
lines will have the desired effect.
Highly Strung
I am worried because my daughter, nged thirteen, has developed a habit of blinking constantly. The ocullit states that no glasses are needed.
IN that se Ignore the habit, for it is of nervous origin and will puss more quickly if no comment la made. She should lend a very reguin fe with plain nourishing meals and few late nights
Choosing a Career-
We want our son to sit for a selectar ship examination which will take him to the university if he is successful. He dishkna aludy, but has always been fairly quick at school. He wants to go straight to work now.
As this university career
would!
inean self-sacrifice for you, not- withstanding the scholarship, I advise you to let your ran go into túa father's business, as he himself questa.
In this case, I see no point in foreing A university career on a lad who 15 tul interested in that kind of life.
Beauty For The Woman Motorist
Jum Dr. V. E. Lee and Dr. Achure the hot tap just before putting them preserve one's complexion one's roughness and redness will which is Shim, Y. Arthur, Woo, four Y's Men who recently on to boil? In his way they won't returned from abroad.
fchill down the boiling water in the Dr. Wog will give further impres-saucepan, so that the cooking is quicker, and the green colour of the slums of his trip around the work.
vegetables in thus preserved.
Don't be
content with
an old fashioned kitchen! A new one can be installed complete for less than you'd expect,
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Root vegetables inay be treated in this way too.
pores should be closed against dust drying of the natural by spraying the face with cold water, secreted in the pores. then saturate a piece of lint in a good astringent freely.
lotion Rod apply this
Where there is a long halt in the middle of the day's rum. I find nothing more helpful then slipping One of hte best home-made astring into my handbag a tiny amount of If you have the misfortune to trapets for this purpose is to take equal cleansing cream and fresh supplies part of rosewater, witch-hazel, and of protective cream and powder. In your fingers in a door or drawer,
Uncture of benzoin. This astringent this way I am able to keep my com- plunge them quickly into water, as is most beneficial to the fair, dellente plexion always fresh and dainty, and hot as you can bear, and keep them type of skin. For the thicker skin without that "made-up" look one there a few minutes. It cases the
Use two parts of pure alcoliol, one often sees on the faces of girls as they pain magically.
part of eau de Cologne, and one part step out of a car. of distilled water.
When you give your dog a dose
Brush Your Way To Smartness
OW often a woman's appearance
brushing! Her hair is dull, her shoes dusty, or she has stray hairs on her shoulders,
It is "good idea to keep a special brush for your bags. One with soft brinties keeps your leather bags shining and bright, and remember to brush inside all the folds and crevices where dust collects, A wire or rubber brush should, of course, be used for suede bags.
If you keep a wire brush for your suede shoes, be gentle when you use it, pr
or your shoes will get a bold appearance! Keep a hard brush for hershing all the dirt off your shoes before you start to put any polish on them the leather will keep mueb belter, and the shoes shine more vasily.
A special brush should be kept for hats. This should be small, not too hard, and slightly curved. It WHE then go inside the brims where dust. seems to collect in no time. Try to get into the habit of brushing your hat as you put it away, so that it will look fresh next time you want to put 1 ort.
Do you hastily try to brush your shoulders with your hands as you dach out, or do you the the clothes brush that you have tucked away Somewhere? Try a
brush with a
"Can't get t
leng handle, that will reach the b.ts| of your back that you really well with an ordinary bet-h. Another very hard bruch will plek up hairs and obstinate bits of where
sometimes a soft brush fails.
Most people have a really good brush for their hair, but serm to be. afratel to w it. Fifty strokes mass DEL morning! #hould
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your
minimum. Wish the brush at least
every time you shampoo your hair. mud kerp it in a drawer but of the dust.
Another brush the chic woman
should have is an eyebrow brush
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Prince Nicholas of Rumania appears in news pletures for les that his brother, King Carol.. But here are he and wife on a canal in Venice. King: Carol formerly disapproved of his brother's murrlage, to Mire. Luela Deletz.
Its
WIFE IS WILLING
TO BE THRASHED
"REMEMBER you are a woman, not a dog,” said the chairman of Watford magistrates recently to a woman who declared that she was willing to allow her husband to thrash her if she gave him “sauec.”
Mrs. Florence F. Starkey, of Escort Road, Watford, said she wished to withdraw a summons for assault. against her husband, Frederick Starkey (10).
The magistrates refused to give permission, and bound over Starkey for 12 months,
When Mrs. Starkey asked to withdraw, the Clerk told the Bench that she had complained that her husband had beaten her on the body with a whip.
"A NEW CODE" Mrs. Starkey: I had my clothes on.
nother one besides the one you use for mascara. Try dipping it in a Jittle caster oil, and brush your Lashes and brows with this after
makes them beauti- 1t powdering. fully glossy, and castor oil was one off Frandma's favourite eyelasti powderd Many people leave their tooth-
all brushes out in the dust day. can get small cases for the oard he
keep them in your bathroom cupboard. It is good idea to have two brushes, and to use them alternately. They last longer, and the bristles don't
Bet soft,
One more hint-keep your old toothbrushes. You'll find many odd uses for them, and they are splendid; for elenting your comhs, and also for cleaning silver. The bristles go into
put you out into the garden.
The Clerk: I understand it was on your bare back and that
Mrs. Starkey said she gave her husband some "sauce" and he threatened her and then hit her with a whip. She wanted to withdraw the summons and forgive him.
The Chairman (Mr. D. Blackley) asked whether, if she "sanced" her husband, she was willing that he should thrash her:
Mrs. Starkey: Yes.
The Chairman: It seems to me
every nook and cranny where an that they are arranging a new S O S For A.R.P.
ordinary cloth is useless.
P'. M.
HOME HINTS WOOLEN garments will be in
code altogether outside our law here.
Starkey said they had been mar- ried 18 yeara
he had bit his wife "only twice."
"On Saturday she challenged me, hart a whip in my hand, hit her with it and caught her across the
mune from attack by moths they are stored in a bag of unbleach-back." ed calico which has been previously wrung out in turpentine and dried! out of doors.
When feet are troublesome on
day, try rubbing in the julee of hot a lemon, allowing it to dry in. This banishes the pain almost immediate
ty
gardening, rub the hands Before over with wet soap, paying particular altention to the finger-nails; allow
the
the soap to dry in before tackling
work.
This prevents the dirt banda becoming Ingrained. The should afterwards be washed in coid water.
When
soft washing
polishing. dusters, rinse out with slightly
1)
soapy water. This makes the dusters)
"NOT A SLAVE"
The chairman: You cannot treat your wife as if she is a slave and you cannot thrash her with a whip.
He added that the wife's state- ment that she was willing for her husband to thrash her if she an-
swered him back'would not work in a free country like this, and the Bench were not going to endorse it.
After the hearing Mrs. Starkey said: "My husband and I are friends again. At the end of to-day's pro- credinga he kissed inc.
"He has told me that he is sincere. ly sorry for what has happened, and
believe him."
much softer and they polish better. EARLY MORNING FIRE
After washing your dog. try rub bing its coat with a slightly damp chamois leather instead of a towel,
and it will dry in half the time.
To treat linen which has become sall and mildewed, rub in damp leave the article in strong sunshine. If the stains are very bad, it may be necessary to repeat,
of castor oil, stand the measuring Should your skin be very sensitive when mouthing on my face for I
Woollen Odds And Ends
Matsheds in Flames On
Stonecutters Island
Its blaze clearly visible over a wide aren of Hongkong, a fire broke out on Stonecutters Island at 2.30 a.m. yesterday. Firefloats from Hongkong | and Kowloon rushed to the Island and after an hour and 37 minutes of strenuous work, fremen, policemien and military people quelled the con- flagration.
The fire began in a contructor's you are a knitter you can turn matched und spread to an adjoining
one where coolles were sleeping.
The matsheds destroyed covered an area of 120 by 20 feet. No one was injured.
your woollen left-overs into a source of great satisfaction, instead)
Another Outbreak
Much excitement was
caused
in
Trousers
THE War Office will have to
make a pair of trousers to fit Councillor A. J. Blake, of Hornsey, who weighs 18 stone and measures 50 inches round the waist. He is known in the borough as "John Bull." At a parade of Hornsay Air Raid Wardens he was given the largest sizes in A.R.P. equipment, but none of the trousers would fit.
His wife said: "I suppose his weight is due to my cook- ing, for when we ware married- he weighed only 10 stone. His clothes are made for him, and the War Office will have to make him a special pair of trousers.'
EMPIRE NEWS
A
KENYA RAIDERS.
.ROUTED
NAIROBL column of the King's African Rifles has been in action with raiders of the Merrilee tribe, who have been giving much trouble lately on the northern frontier by attacks on
spoon in a cupful of bolling water,
my motoring is over i Let it become thoroughly hot, and so that it flushes and "burns" easily, at least half an hour after going in- leave it in the hot water til you the application of the astringent doors. Then I thoroughly cleanse the are ready to measure the oll. In should be preceded by a light applica- skin, bathe in luke-warm water and, of regarding them as so much waste, this way none of tho oll will adhere ton of any soothing cream ur com- to the spoon.
0 soft plexion milk. Remove after a few say, a toilet sachet, dry on
Very pretty cosies for tea or coffee ewel, then apply a good skin food pot you can, for When a
candle won't fit its stick. minutes, then apply the astringent or a cooling liquid fit and that by newest have rows of auffy feather-Wing Lok Street, near the Western peaceable tribes.
instance, make crnulsion, If dip the end into boiling water if that best suits your skin.
you from any wool in any colour. The It saftens slightly. If the stick is;
try this trick you too small the melting will slim down
the time the evening's "make up" is trimming running along their sur Market, ut 2.15 am, yesterday when
be applied, your skin will be none the candle; it in too big the softened candle may be pressed down
the worse for a long day's run in the firmly so that the base spreads out to fit.
Isobel.
General Applications of Cream
car.
At bedtime, after a run in the car, it is best to be rather lavish with a good greasy cream. It will all wipe No girl who values her complexion off after you have left it on long can afford to neglect her eyes after a enough to do its work.
long run in the car especially if the If the weather be cold or windy, weather proves disappointing, since it before going on a long ride in the car, is ten to one the rushing air will nip use a greasy, not a vanishing, cream one's eyes and give them a watery on your face, and after most of it has look that is rather unbecoming. been removed dust on
When my eyes look at all caught" A complete blackout of the Colony, supply of powder which exactly suits I and nothing so helpful as a bathe including the New Territories
and your skin. In this way the com- with a warm boracle lotion.
will be fortified against
Beauty Expert.
BLACKOUT ON FRIDAY To Cover New Territories And Islands
islands on territorial waters, will be plexion
held on Friday.
The exercise will be made realistle
as possible. Royal
KU
Air
a generous
will be on duty, decontamination Seventy Men Play Under gambling.
squads will engage in a practical
face.
If you have left-overs from rug- moking, cut them up, mix them, and you have material for a little rug
with an attractive decked surface.
H. W. S.
I
Defied Doctor To Save Girl
the ground floor of an oll dealer's ing severe casualties. Large herds The raiders were repulsed, suffer- establishment caught fire. The fre began in the cockloft at the rear of of stolen stock were recovered by the house and was conûned to the troops. Further engogements ground floor.
are expected,
be
the
of more Euro-
More European Bettlers-WIdo- Residents close to the house spread satisfaction has been caused evacuated hastily, fearing that their by the
announcement that the own premises would affected. Secretary of State has agreed to the However, fire appliances arrived Kenya Government's proposals for carly and stemmed the outbreak be the encouragement fore it could spread. The stock of pean settlers. The Government is the shop, which was said to be in-now empowered to borrow £250,- sured, was damaged by
and 000. This will enable Iargè un« water.
developed estates to be sub divided. NEW ZEALAND
fre
DOCTORS ACCEPT
CONTRACTS:
Force planes will stage mimie ralds GAMBLING IN STREET keeping a common gaming house, and
FORBIDDEN to bathe by a on the city, 1,500 air raid wardens
two others were fined $1 each for ject to cramp, 21-years-old Ben
doctor because he was sub- INTERNEES RELEASED Robinson, of Marine-parade, Eight, More Discharged exercise, and the Volunteer Fire
The rum of $9.14 picked up was Lowestoft, swam out to sea Brigade force, Civilian Medical Ser-
given to the Poor Box. Among the recently and saved nine-years- vice Corps and A.R.P. Despatch Corpa A Kowloon gambling school consist-paraphernalia seized was a trestle will be on Bervice. All traffic on ing of from 50 to 70 people who were table and a board about 10 ft. long old Pamela Gowing, of Church-on-parole from the La Salle College proved by ballot the receptance land and water will cease, for twenty playing in the middle of the street by 3 ft. wide with dice markings on road, Fakefield, Lowestoft,
minutes
Special Light
J
From La Salle
AUCKLAND
Eight more internees were released į The medical profession has Internment Camp on Sunday. Four-contracts for maternity services und with a special electric lamp hanging
She had been carried out to see on liberty.
teen in all have now been given their der the Social Security Act surket and will probably con- Police on Friday at 7 p.m. and seven of the school was under the verandah threw her in the water. sunrobably begin from the verandah, was raided by Sgt. J. Johnston said a large part a rubber raft which capsized and
This gap does not dispe ftibus, unlikärtor the "all clear siren players were arrested.
The eight released yesterday were: went and the New Zea
við llarger fasua; between the Three ap of a house in Sa Po Road. A large; Robinson swam in his clothes, and Erich Porges, Maurice Appel, John of the Britiana MedicalFAMOO peared before Mr. Himaworth Instructions to the pubile will be Kowloon Magistracy
at number of the players escaped. po after, some, time. was seized with | Heynomann, Kari. Eikangsd) THIS on Saturday, fasuod during the wook.
when Li Tak, 29, was fined $50 for had their ball of $4 endhi estreated.
Four players who did not appear cramp... Ho. Itruggled on and suc-" Ezanto,:: Edgar - Laufer,
ceeded in bringing the girl ashore.. Fekete, and Gustav Woldairy
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