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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

May 23, 1940.

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ANY WOMAN

CAN SEW

By Rajeane Reynolds Olmstead

By BARBARA STUART

Here is a letter from a London woman to a friend abroad. It gives a vivid picture of life in war-time Britain-as seen through a wo- 'man's eyes.

London, May 1. My dear Conchita, To every- uno's great delight, "daylight saving has begun n good many weeks earlier than usual this year, In order to shorten the "black-out" period as much as possible.

"Daylight saving" means, as you doubtless know, that we put our clocks forward one hour so as to give ourselves on extra hour of daylight in the evening.

Always of grent benefit to workers during the period of sun- mer, you can perhaps imagine what this arrangement means to all of us now? For nearly four months we have crept home in the even- ings through dark streets, have closed up our houses like prisons from five o'clock in the afternoon until the next morning, and hustled through our shopping so as to reach home before the darkness falls.

Now all that is over! It is light now until seven o'clock, and with every week that passes, "black-out" time will come later still. People can get home from their work in daylight now: some even have a chance to walk for a while in one of the Parks after their day's work and before it grows dark. No more will the leaving of one's torch at home appear in the light of a major dlauster, nor shall we worry if the shops declare that their stock of -torch-batteries-is-exhausted.......

Quite apart from its convenience and pleasantness, this new measure will be of the greatest assistance to shop-keepers everywhere, giving them an extra hour in which to sell their goods, unhampered by light- Ing restrictions, at a time when ́ most people are free to buy..

I took advantage of the first ex-

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as well. This condition was cepted and filming arranged accord- ingly,

How the sailors must have en- joyed themselves, and apparently they all put up a most excellent per- formance! I hope we shall all have the pleasure of seeing this film shortly.

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With love to you and your family from

Your affcetlonate

Fran

GRIN AND BEAR · IT

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By Lichty

"Another plan? I've given you five military secrets already, Nadya what in the world-do-you do with them?"

Leaves from a

Correspondent's NoteBook

THIS may sound like a sweeping statement but it's a truc one-ang woman can sew. And that means vou. My own experience proves 1. I didn't know what the word

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in hour of daylight-to-prolongausting meant when i started walk over Hampstead Heath, place which I and beautiful at any time of the year and where the alr is so fresh and clear that one can hardly believe oneself to be alill on the northern outskirts of London.

I was amazed to find how many clusters of "allotments" had been started

the in various parts of Heath.

"Allotment" is the name given to a smali plot of land which is leased to П private individual by the owners, (in this case the London County Counc), on which he can make his own small garden for vegetables and flowers.

At the present time these allot- ments will, I imagine, be devoted entirely to vegetables and, perhaps, fruit bushes, since the Govern- ment's idea is that, wherever possi- ble, everyone shall grow food of this kind for the use of himself and his family.

Must of the workers appeared to be middle-aged or elderly men, and these laboured slowly, solemnly and with great concentration, speaking seldom, but wearing on air of absorbed content.

I believe that, qulie apart from their original purpose of produc- enore food, these allotments

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will have a great effect for good upon

health and happiness of the their owners.

After my walk, I went to a cine- ma to see one of the many excellent French films which are becoming Increasingly

popular in London

now.

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I also saw a very good news-recl of the march through London the crews of the British warships Ajax and Exeter on their way to be entertained at the Guildhall where, a banquet was honour their glorious victory, with the Achilles, over the German bat- tleship Admiral. Graf Spee."

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You, of course, will have seen news-reel also, and will re- this. member how fit and happy. they all looked and what a tremendous welcome-they-received-from-tho- chormous and wildly enthusiastic crowdining: the routel

I have just read an account of how the officers and crews of both ships have experienced the amusing and thrilling experience of becom- film stars!

· A “Britishigompany la making a Mim of the whole story of the River Plate battle, and the monof the Ajax and Exeter acted all over again, in front of the cameras, the parts they had actually played in the historic action against the Grat Spee: It appears that the film director, armed with an Admiralty permit first Inin of the Arched the cap-

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out to make my first dress. thul dress was П success and all the clothes I've made since-po-

my husband, jamas for dresses, a suit and a coat for my- self-have turned out equally well. The way I began was sudden and unexpected. "You" see-from-child- hood my mother had always made my clothes. Then after I married there

a time when the future came caught up with my wardrobe and What was i to Irt it far behind. do? There

no mother to remedy the situation and I couldn't afford to buy the fabrics and styles I was accustomed to in ready-made dresses.

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Before I realised what had hop pened found myself wandering through the fabric section of one of London's leading department stores. A ante blue alpaca caught my eye and I bought four yards. Guided by fate I selected a pat- tern. Nat till I reached home did

I realise these two appalling facts!

1 didn't know how to sew and I had

no tools with which to begin.

Here again fute took a hand in my sartorial problem-this ifme via my husband. I exhibited my pur- chases

him-dubiously. He to

stared in amazement. Then he dis- appeared. The next morning

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sewing machine arrived. That was his way of showing that he ap- proved of my breaking out with a sewing germ.

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Well, I made the dress and it was proud day in our household when it was pronounced a good job. I'm not going to pretend, however, that

I didn't tear my hair in despair over alled into

It many times. I did.

a lot of difficulties. And most of cleven them, I realise now months

have experience, been avoided if only I had known a few simple rules. Here are the things I'd do to-day-if I were starting that first dress:

Good Rules for a Fint Dress

1, I'd get a beginner's pattern and get it first, before d bought my material. A pattern that's easy to put together makes your first steps -much-simpler.And il is always important to get the pattern first because that. gives you the key to the kind of material most suitable for the design; also the number of yards required.

2. I'd choose 3 material with bady. You'll find a firmly woven it's wool, rayon, fabric, whether cotton or silk, much easier to handle than a Almsy one. Also I'd leave definita up-and-down, patterns the more experienced "A floating upside down is an oddity. I learned this the hard way. Need I say more?· · ·

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3. I'd read and reread the direc tlons in the pattern envelope be fore I took a single step, And I'd "for". porn ton tom myself with beginner's shoot the fim scenes hboard his Ing book to serve as a kind of dic- ship. The captain, however, rë-- fionary whenever I ran across a Tified point blank to allow this unwing term I didn't know. less exactly the same amount of almd pin. the paper pattern and id be shot on board the Exeter-pieces togeiher and try them on best

tore I laid them on the material for cutting. This is for a perfect-fit- and you'll find directions for any simple alterations you may have to make in your instruction.

5. Id idently each pattern piece according to the diagram on the Instruction sheet and write its name Then I'd check on the upper side. cach piece to make sure that the perfemtions marking the straight of the goods are true. If they are not -il-is-casy to draw a line through the perforations and measure them to make the line straight.

6. I'd press both the paper pieces and the material before cutting. A here will mean n wrinkle saved better cut dress,

7. I'd write (more writing!) the name of each piece on the wrong side of the material with chalk- before divorcing it from the tissue. paper. This is a great help in as- Serbling the dress.

8. I'd try on the dress after the pieces are pasted together. Should any adjustment need to be made, now is the time.

9. 1'8 press each seam open after- It was sewn. Pressing all along the way is vitally important for a

mooth. At.

10. I wouldn't cconomise on tools any more than I could help. If you are really serious about making your own clothes a well-equipped ewing-room is half the battle in helping you achieve that profes- sional touch. And the cost is soon taken care of in the money you save over buying the same type of clothes ready-made.

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Right now I'm setting aside certain part of my budget for a number of tools that I crave-all designed to make sewing at home as simple as A.B.C. I'd like a dressmaker's dummy-t would male fitting so much more accurato. I want pinking shears-to save time in finishing the edges of seams. And most particularly I want to add to my stock of sewing-machine. attachments.

I was never 50 Impressed with how inuch these attachments for the madiine can help us when I saw them at a big sewing-machine com- pany's exhibit in New York. There were pleaters and hemmers and zigzaggera whirring away ilke so many fingers. And 1. thought if only I could have them all I'd never

THE EMPIRE IN

ARK

NHIA UBLE

SIERRA LEONE

TRIE arms of Sierra Leone were assigned by Royal Warrant in 1914. They show the flag of the Valon as it was before 1801-with the crosses of St. George and St. Andrew only. A freed slave, bearing a spear. waves to a ship on the horizon A green palm tree flourishes against a gold background,

Blerra Leone, on the west consi of Afries, les Crown Colony, council a legislative Dossessing partly elected and partly nominated by the Crown, with fall power to legislate for a Protectorate" as "well~ an the Colony.

The capital is Freetown, and the population (including that of the Protectorate) is estimated at 1,770,- 000.

DID YOU

WONDER?

How the Sun's Rays Reach Us Without Warming The, Intervening Space?

The sun is a. globular mass of: glowing gases whose surface area Is 12,000 times that of the earth. The sun's surface has, an estimated temperature

of about 10,000* Fahrenheit.

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It talone about sight minutes for a radiation pulse or wave, traveling at 186,000 miles per second, to Teach the earth from the sur

However, high mountain peaks, while nearer the run, are notori- ously cold, and stratosphere bal- loonists tell us that the tempera- ture several miles above the earth is still colder.

Before we attempt to ace why, If the sun warms the earth; it does not also warm the upper-atmos-

phere and Interstellar space, let us first note that there are three ways In which heat may travel. The three ways are: (1) by conduction, the heat being transmitted from warmer to colder parts of an ob. Ject or from. warm object to a colder object.in contact with it; (2) by convection, the hent being trans- ferred by actual movement of a gas or liquid in convection currents; and (3) by radiation, pulses or waves, similar to waves of light, which travel in straight lines and at the speed of light-about 186,000 miles a second,

The sun's heat reaches us only by radiation. It cannot reach us by conduction, for there is no solid- substance between the earth and the sun along which the heat can be conducted. And there are no sun-to-earth movements of any gas or liquid to bring us the sun's heat by convection,

Radiation waves are not them- selves hot, but have the capacity of raising the temperature of ob- jects which absorb them and of

passing through substances trang- parent to them without ralaing thele temperature. Atmospheric air ab- sorbs but less than 1-10 of 1 per cent of the radiation that passes through it coming from the sun, and is consequently very little warmed by the sun's raya.

With little or nothing to absorb heat and be warmed, the sun's rays du not raise the temperature of the intervening space between the sun and the earth to any extent.

GERMAN PLAN OF 1917

TO INVADE SWITZERLAND

MILES.

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Lake of Newcrdict

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Lake of Geneva

Els reported that the. Bwiss

have to fear the homemade-look-High-Command-have obtained-

As was I did walk away with one... zipper foot, which makes it so easy to use a nent slide fastener.

A Sewing Clubs Fun - There's one good sewing rule for beginners that I've left to the the idea of a number last. It in of you getting together and toking your first steps in a group. I never thought of this until my friends be- I did this and that ganito asic how Ij and before we knew it we had formed a club. We did not begin with dresses at first. Each member brought a garment that needed special attention. But soon pat torns and materials for simple bowedresses and, antgun began to appear. And in the course of make. Ing those easy things muy pro blems were solved for the benefit of all, This is the advantage of saving togeller, And it' funge

plans showing that killer intends to invide, Switzerland. Such a plan is certainly ready for use if opporlinlly

The German prepared a can- paign of this kind in 2017. Two columns were to provide the strik- ing force. The northern column, advancing from Banke, was, to move down the river valley of the Doubs, curving in to the rear of Belfort By this matians the French Hide would be turned.

The southern column was to maroli from near the shore of Lake Constance, along the river. valley of the Aar and behind the [ servent of the Jura imovinskaļai.

By Lite Neuchatel:this force:WODY" to divide, The: first, part would then crows the pan is Fonsiárlón. it, leaving ang garrison to: flank the northern, expedition, weald 120.

ITALY

drive southward towards Lyons, -The second-pari_was_to_burst

across the French frontier Geneva, and advance .down the Rhone valley towards Marseilles.

IN 1017 Inly was the Ally of France. The plan of thom days was designed to never communi- cations between these two "coun- tries: To-day the Taliane.znain-" tain a state of malevolent mentra- lity towards the French. The German Plan of 1940 is désigned to join German and Tall forces. At the very worst Iller counts on having a friendly Haly on the flank of his invading army.

It must be remembered that in Switzerland,, a land of foderated mig pun ba Boca Wildcat population...o

4,250,000; there are 2.000.000° "Geritati-speaking Swiss. It would be İmirprising if no «Nath HYNIDA, lhivers were among them.

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