1940-06-28 — Page 4

Friday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

June 28, 1940:

"I'm going cycling WHAT SHALL I WEAR?"

KLEENEX

Disposable Tissues Everybody wies Kleenex --to remove face creains

and cosmetics-la the cursory-bath-' room-the oer and for hundreds of oileruses. Always - keep a box or two on band.

ful colors:

• WHITE

• PEACH

• CREEN

• ORCHID

$1 TIFFINS

at

Jimmy's

THIS frock has a divided skirt. The colour is that eleur, pale blue that is every woman's best friend, I is so well cut you don't see the skirt is divided until, maybe, you have to leap a ditch. The

THIS is something really new in the way of shorts. These are cut so that they look like a schoolgirl's pleated gum

shirt collar can be worn open, or you can skirt. The front and back scams are covered tuck a scarf in the neck. The scarf is double, with deep pleats, and it is practically im- one half polka dotted scarlet, the other half `possible to tell they are shorts at all. "They spotted navy blue. The skirt comics just come Jins, abore the kuce.

below the knee. Wear a scarlet turban, pale Tucked in is a string-coloured shirt of blue socks, and red and white canvas shives, panama culton-fresh looking to the last.

How to Make a Black-out Ventilator

BLACK-OUT conditions spell stuffy interiors far too often for healthy living. An ordinary human being uses up. on an average about 32 gal- tons of fresh air per minute. Thus there must be a constant re-change of air it room, office or workshop, etc...

Living and sleeping' instale air bring many penallies. Powers of concentration ago weakened; head- "ncho and, dizziness may appear; anaemla, develops; appelites grow poor and finicky; and the body's matural resistance to disease is great- ly. lowered. It is obvious then that. forms of ventilation which permit a constant Inflow of freshy, air while completely excluding light are way defences of high value.

economical Here is a simple and method of providing fresh ale in the black-out home.

It is a ventilating light-trap that could be fashioned by any handy person, or filted at small cost by u carpenter.

The diagrams show materials required aro!

First four dia- grams illustrate method of making: fifth shows, how air enters; result,

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tated

well-venti. nursery or bedroom

These pleces should

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FRANT IN BUNDY TO MEL,

THE WINDOW

CAREE

above. The depth of the strip is that of the slotted groove in the op pleces described above. (This strip of plywood will fit into these slotted

groves inter.)

Don't Fuss His Weight

About

THE TEXT-BOOKS tell us that a baby hoy immediately after

birth should be 20.6 inches long and 71b, 100%, in weight, while n girl is very slightly shorter and weighs. 7oz. less..

Boys grow more quickly than girls in the first year, and at three months the average male infant should be 13 18, and the female 11. 14oz.

So it goes on, this inces over these precious pounds of flesh. sant register of figures, weights and measures.

The factors never to be lost sight. of are that euch child is an individual and has his or her own standards. Provided boy is not losing steadily few ounces a week, there is nothing to worry about.

Now there is undoubtedly son usefulness in a knowledge of the average standards, but let The average gain in ounces per all mothers (and fathers, too, week for boys and girls in the first year is 3%-4%, but it may be less. sometimes) be on their guard in the second year 25-36z. is satis- against making weight-testing a factory, and in the third 14-70z. fetish.

lost half an ounce this week!

As the child grows the weekly In- have seen wild women clutching crease diminishes. Seasons, teething their offspring, and with storing eyes illness and fussy purents may cause declare that the baby. has actually variations in the weekly weighings.

The weight must therefore be They are ready for anything to mierpreted intelligently and above happen to the baby after flint.

all, any slight loss must not be made Or it may be that a group of young the signal for a rush to overfeeding mothers, siting in a doctor's waiting and constant stimulation, so that the Loon, will start comparing weights nursery, assumes the characteristics of

nd fund themselves into a dog-fight the turkey farm before Christmas.

FOR THE HAIR SWEET & SWIFT

WHERE coiffures are suffer- RECIPES for quick savouries ing from tightly fitting huts, are numerous, but a sweet which neglect or change in the weather, is both economical and quickly oil well brushed in gives an prepared is more difficult to immediate gloss which spells come by. health and care-

So you may like to know of a most A little oil, however, goes a very appetising way of serving up stale long way.

brend, which is, Incidentally, You should put some in the palm specially, popular with children. of your hand, and rub your paim The bread is cut in slices soaked in over the brush, then brush your hair. milk flavoured with almond, vanilia That is all the oll your hair needs. or any other ingredient the family

fungies. Sticky hair will only get dirty quick-

ly.

on

Then fry in cooking tot until the By the way, it is good news that silces are browned, and served there are now brilliantines which warmed plates, topped with jam, blondes can use freely, because they syrup, or lemon and sugar. wil not darken the hair.

Your Feet

For Your Eyes

EYES tell tales. If they are

WHEN your fect get tired by tired, they will say so, too much standing it is helpful

A daily eye-bath is good, but

to strengthen the muscles by bathing the eyes twice a day is even exercises.

more likely to give you, in the Two simple ones which are bene-shortest space of time, that clear blue. felul if they are done every day are tint which the whites should have. these:

Whatever the lotion you choose,

4-Two laths a shade longer than the total width between the ups. One lath secures the top outer corners, while the other secures the Put some marbles on the floor and your own mixture, or. опе already bottom outer corners of the flaps to try to pick them up with your toes. prepared, an eye-bath should be used gether. (These laths hold the flops And then, put a rolling pin on the that allows the head to held for- Bemly in place so that the strip of stoor and stand one foot on it, rolling word instead of backward. It is plywood cannot fall out of the stolied it about under the foot and trying to simpler this way, and the minute grooves.)

grip it with the toes. You will prob-particles of dust cainet then be -"black-out" lind or curtain.ably have to hold on to the mantel- wushed back into the eyes. This blad or curtain is fixed along your foils one, in order to keep

the upper lath. So that it max te against the window below the ventilating trap, it is "wnlsted" in

to meet the window directly below

at n the flaps by means

cord on pulleys. The blind or curtain should be long enough to reach 21

little below the end of the window when

all is prepared for action. If you

,want use your existing curtains

buy sufficient new materials (match-

balance,

Be Careful Here

CARE should be taken how

GERMANY AND RUSSIA Delegates in Berlin For Border Conference

Berlin, June 27. The Omelal Nows Agency statles that the head of the western division of the Soviet Russian Foreign Com- necom-

ing it possible) for the top portion. ever, not to put the cream 90 missurlat, M. Alexandrow.

The inner faces of the ups, the near the eyes that it can see pealed by Col. Leontjeff, arrived to- plywood strip, and the

laths are inside them during the night as day to participate in the German- be stolted printed a matt black.

diagonally from one corner to the.

Russian frontier negotiations.

Considerable 'speculation has been caused in diplomatic, and Press circles by the announcement.

Some circles

understand

the

here again is a cause of a cer- centre, on one face only.

The principle is that the air enters tain amount of eye discomfort, 2. Several small hinges. (The through the open top of the window. rectangular pieces are hinged to the it passes around the strip of plywood, and even puffiness... how. The sashes of the window on either side and enters the room by the free Also, as most wrinkle creams and at extreme top-their free ends entry at the top of the trap. The akla foods are inclined to be a iride L-Two rectangular pieces of point into the room like the doors illumination in the room may be as relaxing, it is often necessary to negotiations will have an effect on strong as could be wished, as, the counteract this by patting a little Germany's diplomaile and military airly strong whitewood or plywood of an open cupboard. The size required will depend on 3-Strip of plywood, the length trop is an efficient "blackout prove astringent lotion around the eyes, in relations, especially in connection Le size of the window, and how of which must be the exact distance vided the strip of celling right above the morning, after the over-night with the reported forthcoming offen-

halve on Elgland;--Domel; much open window is desired.) between the flap-pieces mentioned the trap is not directly Illuminated. treaming.

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