1940-11-30 — Page 10

10

PENINSULA HOTEL

POPULAR

SUNDAY

TEA DANCES

IN THE

ROSE ROOM

5 P.M. TILL 7 P.M.

ART

CARNEIRO

AND HIS SWING ORCHESTRA.

THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.

CUTEX

WEARS!

WEARS!

WEARS!

●The new Cutex is the result of a quarter century of re- search for the most durable, longest-wearing nail polish possible to modern science. Based on a new principle, slightly thicker than ordinary nail polishes, Cutez Salon Polish gives days and days of added wear.

Ask to see the newest polish shades, Cameo a fragile soft pink, "Gadabout" a red-pink of bright hue, and "Hijinks" clear real red. These are only three of a "style-right" range of many shades,

CUTEX

Salon Polish

Saturday,

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

November 30, 1940.

EVERY LIFE in Japan in the fourth year of the China war is an unending serial story of

LIFE IN JAPAN

restrictions, rations, AFTER

THREE YEARS

OF

speculate whether the soya or the coffee bean predominates in the queer flavour.

The Press is too well con- allowed 10, per cent. profit and

Fish.. and vegetable

WAR

ing has reached vast dimensions. A favourite form of fraudulent big business is the export of materials to Manchukuo' and China, where control is Ineffi...” cient and huge proilta can be made.

In the past two years the economic police have, discovered 480,000 Illegal transactions, most of which were concerned with export of materials to the continent. Several company pre- aldents have been given guol sentences, and many others have having made over 200,000 yen been fined. One company pre- by illicit dealing.

sident who is also a wealthy The importation of private member of the House of Peers is motor-cara has censed. An in prison under examination on American resident of Tokyo who charges of selling above the American reader when he returned from furlough

car with him legal limit on a large scale.

Another regularly broken Inw found that he could not get a is that section of the national

high prices, and scarci- ty. It is not only the shoe that pinches but everything eaten, drunk, worn, smoked, or enjoyed. There is no

The author of this acute privation, but a

The morning market auction article recently universal lowering of of vegetables has been prohl

bited; dealers must sell at of arrived in England the standard of comfort. ficial prices. Middlemen are from Japan after trolled to complain or cri- price-fixing committees meet a long residence in ticize; in private plenty of daily. grumbling is heard. The dealers are ordered to take two the latter country. Government gradually close their shops. Dealers who tighten the screw, but never violate regulations lose their recent months residents of Tok-

Japanese cannot buy new cura, violating the law. allow conditions to become licences.

yo and Yokohama have seen but people engaged in "work of Parallel with rations, restric- unbearable. This policy is A restriction against the na- what Japan never saw before national importanco" have ways tions, and penalties, a simple- still succeeding, and nothing tional interest is that on milk. queues of women waiting at the and means of getting petrol, and life campaign is raging. De- is visible which would justi- The Japanese Infantile death- foodshops before they opened. when a foreign-owned car is of claring that rice is scarce be-

So that pure cotton textiles, fered it finds liberal buyers, fy predictions of social rate is high, and the Japanese

dietary for children is deficient may be exported and bring in

cause of the pornicious habit of breakdown; nevertheless, in milk. Yet the already inade- foreign currency, the use of ata converted into charcoal burners, a Tokyo dentist advocates one Tokyo motor-buses have been cating three meals a day, over the whole range of com- quate supply is being further ple fibre is compulsory for goods They jog along at a steady 12 meal a day. The movie pic- mon needs and pleasures, restricted in order that milk sold in Japan, and its quality is miles an hour, and as they climb ture usherettes have sworn off life has become hard for the products may be exported in re- so poor that its Japanese name

turn for foreign exchange.

mild hill the sound resembles lipstick. The Moon troupe of Japanese people.

sufu has become a synonym for an air attack. Ordered to dis- abstaining from make-up except the Takarazuka Girls' Opera is Nearly two years ago price- Adulterated Rice village resident published in the mere pleasure, the Tokyo police

inferiority. A letter from a courage the use of, petrol for on the stage.

fixing was found to be a failure und the Finance Ministry agreed

or three holidays each month and

"number" (licence), and his al- mobilisation law which forbids lowance of petrol was only good employers to "poach" workers. for a few miles a day. He had An investigation of 1,813 fac- no choice but to sell, and he sold teries in, the Osaka district at a large profit.

showed that 20 per cent were

The artist, Tsuguji Foujita, and industrialists had his "internationally known"

owners

at theatre doors. forchend fringe removed after were 30 years on the ground that it was unsuited to this war-time period.

Rice, the staple food, is not Asahi shows why the country found too many ears of company when he returned from Paris, that the only remedy was te rationed, but heavily adulterated people are grumbling. A pair directors speed up production and abolish with foreign rice, which the of working breeches made of standing scarcity. The increased produc- people do not like. Supplies fell fut went in rags after four Thirty of the tion of consumers' goods has not so low in Western Japan during days labour in the paddy-field. severely reprimanded. materialised and price-fixing is July that foreign-style restaur- Rubber-soled cloth shoes (ta- in full swing. First-class hotels ants were forbidden to serve it b) cannot be had; soles made are forbidden to charge more and Japanese-style eating places of reclaimed rubber last only than 15 sen (2d.) for a cup of had their hours of business res- four or five days.

· hot

The SNAPSHOT GUILD

Big Business Frauds

The "perm" has been declared unpatriotic. The Women's Pa- triotic Society scouted Tokyo, streets and handed every gaily

Ignoring

Emergency

tea. The Imperial Hotel used to tricted. The National Spiritual. "If we want to, buy farm tools Havana cigars have always dressed woman a leaflet ad- charge 50 sen (7d.) and give Mobilisation headquarters is the dealer has none at the of been a luxury that only ambas monishing her to wear sober. good value; now it serves half a campaigning for one riceless day ficial prices. If we want char- sudors (who get them in duty- garments. The effort missed cup of tea with one piece of a week. The rice situation is cont we have to pay extra. free) could afford other cigar fire, as it turned out that most of sugar and .no

water expected to improve later, as There are so many committees smokers contented themselves the victims were wearing ersatz

with Manilas. Recently allowed. Ice-cream, once sold in harvest reports show that this that we often lose a day's work Manila cigars and all imported sign.

all of cheap material and gaudy de- the lobby of this famous hostelry year's crops promise to be over- attending meetings."

pipe tobacco disappeared from at 50 sen (7d.), and worth it, is age. The price-fixing commis- A Japanese lady told this the shops. The former were re-' now by edict 15 sen (24.)-and sion in August ordered prices of Correspondent that her son, a placed by a cabbage-flavoured worth it. Coffee is 16 sen (2d.) over 100 articles of food to be student, wears out a pair of ata Government monopoly, the latter weed made by the Japanese a cup, and as patrons sip it they reduced by 20 to 50 per cent. In ple fibre socks in two days and by a monopoly-made mixture

they are too rotten to be mended. which seems to contain a large ducted a street census to deter The Kobe gendarmerie con- A feature of the Tokyo streets, proportion of Korean tobacco. as soon as the Imperial Hotel

mine how many people were The result of all this is a ignoring the national emergency neighbourhood is left, is the steadily rising cost-of-living in- in their outdoor styles, and number of young men with bare dex, with the consequence that among other discoveries found

have feet thrust into wooden sandals, the Government

been that 793 men were carrying un- Charcoal-fa-the-fuel-used-by-nces to 2,300,000 Civil servants

forced to give monthly allow brellas. the people of Japan for heating receiving less than 150 yen (£8. nature keeps breaking through. In spite of all efforts human and cooking. It will be rationed 15s.) a month and relax the The Commerce Minister has ad- from the beginning of October rules which prohibited increases mitted that "we have taxed cost- till the end of March at the rate of salary to white-collar workers ly dinners and amusements, but of 100lb. a person for the six during the war. Nothing suc- it seems that the more an enter- months. Dealers are forbidden Cessive Finance Ministers could tainment costs the

do has arrested the rise of tomers it draws." to make a profit of more than 10 prices. The Cabinet Statistics munition makers are spending. Raw young per cent. Control associations Bureau shows an increase of fantastic sums in the gay quar- have been formed throughout the living costs by 49.6 per cent. ters. The amount of printed country, and dealers must deal since July, 1937. The cost of money goes steadily up, and the with the associations instead of food alone in July rose by 6 per Bank of Japan's note circulation direct with the producers. Illegal cent over June. Those statis- for July was a new high record. tics are based on legal prices: The life insurance companies transactions are rife; three pro- if real prices were taken the in- last year invested half their in- minent officials of the All-Japan crease would be much higher. come in war bonds and a large. Cooperative, charcoal section, In both the commodity and part of the balance in war in- are in prison on suspicion of the labour markets illegal deal- dustries.

-PICTURES-IN THE MIRROR

more cus-

HONGKONG AS

REVEALED BY

THE CAMERA

2ND EDITION

A selection of over 60 excellent views of the Colony. Very suitable for sending abroad.

Pictures comprise views of the latest buildings and hospitals, schools, churches, the harbour, The Peak district, Kowloon, Jubilee Reservoir, New Territories, Cheung Chau, Aberdeen, Repulse Bay, Deepwater Bay, besides street and wharf scenes, atc., etc.

PRICE $1.50

Obtainable from:-KELLY & WALSH, LTD. HONGKONG TRAVEL BUREAU or the Publishers SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTD. Wyndham Street.

The mirror not only encouraged the cat to start a boxing match with himself—but also helped give a better ploture, showing both back and front view. "Try mirror shota—they're fun. Nargument is more interesting |

Ås an oxample: suppose the cam-

A if both sides get a fair broak, era is six feet from the mirror, and

and it lasts longer. The same rule the subject two tent from the mir npplies to many snapshot subjects.ror. Then, if you want the sharp Put a mirror in the picture, to show ast possible picture of the reflec both back and front of your subtion, set the focus at eight foot. fect and your picture will havo To got both reflection and subject twice na, much to tell, AND

sharp, una a „vory amali lons open It's no trouble to take snapshots log and focus at the mirrorin or this typo-so long as you have this caso, six feet. your subject close to the glass,

Before shooting a "mirror" ple Just focus for the distance from intrror to camera, uso a small lous ture, check the position of your opening and both the subject and photo lights. These have to be to one side of the wabject, in most Its rodection will he sharp.

However, as the subject back ensos. De sure that the shades aro away from the glass, the reflection turned so that light does not shine also books away in the opposite on the camera lens, and also mod direction. In other words, gets that the mirror does not reflect an. farther away from the camera. Imago of the lights into the camera. Therefore, to get the reflection In addition to wall mirrors, doors, sharp, you must do a bit of simple and the like, try plotures of reflec addfdon before you focus. Just tions in mirror-bottomed tray or moneuro the distance from camera tablo. You can get some extremely to mirror, add the distance from good anglo shots lu¦ this manner, subject to mirros and set the and they add Interest to your snap. toduring scale for the sum of these shot collection. distances,

John van Guilder.

ECONOMIZE➡

BUY the LARGE TUBE

KOLYNOS

DENTAL CREAM

CHILDREN

WANT

this EXTRA

PROTECTION.

Growing children are in constant danger from germs In the mouth that attack the teeth and causa decay.

You can guard against this happening! Have your, childron brush their teeth regularly with Kolynos, the scientific, germicidal dentifrice that not only cleans teeth quickly and safely but destroys the dangerous gorms. It is easy to get children to brush their teeth with Kolynos because they like its cool, refreshing taste.

KOLYNOS

The economicas: DENTAL CREA

Page 10Page 11