1947-02-03 — Page 3

Women

This Space Every Day

BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Poned by Am Doran for Luis Leeds.

"DEAR LOIS LEEDS"

"Dear Lols Leeds-Is it correct that any church can have a double ring ceremony?-F. L"

Yes, I believe that any wedding ceremony. cun make use of the double ring, ceremony.

The iden of

the Bridegroom's wearing a wedding

Why not une a very little oil on your dry skin before applying the foundation cream and USC only cleansing cream for cleansing. Soap and water are. I think, wrong for the dry skin. Occasionally a good purge" by soup and water gives a healthy reaction to the driest skin but it is not for every day.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1947.

MUNICH IS CENTRE OF

WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC

Munich has become the centre of a white slave trafic where girls, anxious to leave starving Germany, become the victims of the wiles of unscrupulous theatrical agents. German girls are queueing up

for jobs in music balls and cafes

in the Near East. The girls Jews Shatter

accept the offers with their eyes

:

open and are under no illusion War Romance

about their ultimate fate.

The rune adopted to get the girls

Because her fiance's parents--

out of Germany is to have them American Jews-hato the "married" to "displaced persons."

·British, Anne Money, a 25-year- The "displaced persons" are usual-old cinema usherette, has re- by Frenchmen or Dulchmen, who

have reasons for delaying their returned to England by air un- turn to their native lands. They are married, but determined to try paid sums up to £60 for their part again to marry the man of her in the traffic.

choice.

The marriage ceremonies are con- ducted before a German registrar. went via Denmark and Sweden to A little over two months ago she

DUMBBELLS

REGISTERED U.S. MIENT DIFICE

THEIR BABY

PRANK A BOTTLE OF INK!

INGREDIBLE!

HUNT

NO, INDELIBLE!

FOR

The bride and bridegroom usually America, where her fance, Marton LOOTED ART

separate outside the registrar's office and never meet again, low many bigamous marriages have been con- tracted in this manner it is difcult to estimate.

Months in Refugee CampS

The "newly-wed" girls leave Ger- many with their forelin passport en- tilling them to leave the country and travel to the East by way of France or Switzerland.

Those who go through France em- bark at Marseilles for Beirut or Mo-

Inces.

The others travel to Switzer land through Italy and proceed from there to Athens, Salonika or Turkey. Most of the girls come from Ger- many's eastern provinces and have spent many months in refugee camps, where the conditions are only slight ly

better than in concentration

camps.

They have been pushed from town to town and from previner. to pro- vince until they prefer the promised life in a Levantine music hall to the loom of postwar

ring isn't new, it har been revivedene Lois Leeds-I have red hair uncertainty and recently and has gained museli favour ut I have a deep suntan. because of men's going away to tints in makeup for me? kuntan from a sun lamp.

war.

"Dear Lola Leeds-I have such dry skin at the makeup, cream and powder show up!-LOLA L."

WARNING ON SUNGLASSES.

Cheap, Infert. sunglasses, sales of which are banned in America have been imported, and are selling ike hot cakes in many stores.

A warning to the public against buying these glasses, which can Cause cycatrain, headaches, und nervous disorders, was Izsued recent ly by the Australian Minister for Health

A leading Sydney doctor, who strongly advises people to purchase sunglasses only from reputable firms, sald of the cheap importations:

"The lens are often not properly ground, and can cause, er aggravate, eye troubles," he said. "When the naked eye la exposed to giure the the pupil contracts. Sunglasses

cause the pupil to expand, and if the lens are faully, the ultra-violet rays penetrate this

expanded pupil. which, in effect,-becomes- sunburned." A leading eye specialist said that many people did not realise that sunglasses should be worn only to protect the eyes from glare, and never Indoors, or in electric light.

"The importation of such shoddy rubbish as the glasses so plentifully on display nowadays should be banned in the interesis of general health," he said.

A leading optician said that the lenses of many of, the low-priced imported lasses were not properly ground. Some, he said, were not made of glass, but of a composition that could cause harm to the eyes.

SIDE GLANCES

What

Germany.

I got my

---IL. I."

I

Greenwald, was waiting for her in Chicago. They expected to be mar- ried a few days later.

"When I arrived," Miss Money Entd, "I found his parents hated the British because of the Palestine business.

Met at Dance

"They told him that if he mar ried me or any other British girl, they would have nothing more to do with him. So I decided to come home. •

"It was my idea. Morloni didn't want me to leave. There were tears in his eyes when he saw me off, But

thought it was the best thing to do in the circumstances."

Miss Money, whose home Is al Gravesend (Essex), met Greenwald in 1013 at dance, when he waKA with the US furces. Ic fc- turned to Chicago 18 months ogo. and they wrote to each other every day unill she left for the United States.

Radium Paint

Your lips and checks need cape BRITONS ATE Brought Death

must

red and your face powder match your fan but for harmonising | the whole plcture I would use a rose powder over the suntan shade and this will give a pretty glow,

30,000 HORSES After 27 Years

IN 1946

"Dear Lots Leeds-Please suggest a gitt for an invalid. She is pretty an only 10 years old.

meat -NEDDIE."

A Beauty Kit would be fine for her. She will enjoy keeping ber and applying a well groomed makeup. Get the best and most complete kit that your budget will allow. And any later gifts should include rolls for the kit,

Mina Makrijo

HANG

LOTION

GABRIELLE

Here's a quick makeup for hands. Stroke on a soft, velvety makeup cream, then "lowel" the hands to remove the excess cream. A drop of perfume in each palm, gluing nail polish-and somebody will want to hold your hand!

A SERVICE, BIG, T, IL BATH, 13 8. WATCHE

By Galbraith

If there hadn't been a war, the government wouldn't have sent me to college and wo'd never have become engaged-lan't fate wonderful?”

Hungry Britons, starved for under the rationing system, have consumed 30,000 horses in the past year.

According to official figures of the Ministry of Agriculture, Britain had $70,000 keses a year ago and to-day the figure is only 647,000.

It is admitted that these horses have gone to supplement the meat ration, although a certain amount of the meat has undoubtedly been fed to greyhounds and household pets.

Breeders are furrying. They say that, at this rate, In 15 years horses will be as rare as hansom cabs.

Mechanisation on British farms is beginning to push the horse out, and good one to five-year-olds are being slaughtered as well as breed. ing sires.

From Dartmoor and Exmoor in the West Country many wild shaggy ponies are captured and slaughtered for meat.

Mrs Albina Larics, 52, died in New York recently because 27 years ago she worked in a job in which she used her tongue to moisten a brush,

Her job was to paint a radium solution on watch dials, to make Lhem luminous.

Mrs Larice is the last of 20 women

OBJECTS

The American army's art hunters in Europe have nearly finished their prolonged dis- covery job, but the task of restoring art treasures and other valuables to their préwar owners may never be finished.

Eighteen months after the end of the European war, they have returned to legal owners more than 200,000 works of art which the Nazis took for themselves,,

R. F. Howard, Chief of the Fine Arts Branch of American Military Government, claimed that the most important art abductions have now been solved, and there are "no world-famous masterpieces missing that we know of" saya United Press. Howard admitted he sill has more than 40,000 claims on fle and estimate that victimised Europeans would file another 00,000 with his ofce In the next year.

Much Destroyed

Former director of a Dallas mu- seum, Howard freely predicted that

still-missing many of the

objects will never be found because of war- time destruction and thorough-going Allied looting.

Still to be catalogued and sorted are hundreds of thousands of art treasures ranging from Chinese tear-drop vases to huge murals," piled up at two collecting points

at Munich and Wiesbaden.

$200,000,000

Howard estimated that the 200.000 objects stored in Munich are worth

hut declined to maine. the value of the Wiesbaden coller= tion. It is approximately two-thirds as large, but far more valuable."

Citizens

countries once ancupied workers in one factory to die from by Germans who are still hunting the same disease,

for their precious items have little chance of Anding them in American custody, Howard wald, because. "at least 85 per cent of what we have now is legitimately German." United Press.

Two of the others were her sisters. Doctors discovered, in the early 1920's, that the radium caused a bone

discase.

Five of the women Affected by the disease, including Mrs Larice, brought a suit against the factory management,

Each woman received £3,120, n pension of £180 a year during dla- ability, and medical expenses, for life.

Fifteen workers died of the disease before Mrs Larice and her four co- werkers brought the suit.

the U.S. BIRTH RATE

Rapidly Disappearing Cornwall is-a-good-example-of-un agricultural country in which horse is rapidly disappearing,

Harry Hopkins, of Helston, the only slaughterer in his district, says: have killed thousands of horses In the i past few years. I used to slaughter

GOING UP

The United States Office of Vital

10 a a month. I began with hunters Statistics has estimated that in the when farmers had to plough their grasslands and had no grazing for them.

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"When they had gone I began to kill cart colls and young unbroken horses. Now I have started to draw them in from the Devonshire moors."

Most of the horseflesh is sold the butchers shops under Minisity of Food inspection. There are two classifications()

unft for

and

kuman consumption.

In

Some of the horsemeat goes to the black market and finds its way into restaurants as steak. There are at least six restaurants in the Fleet St.

meat steaks can be obtained.

SCREAMING

GIRL'S LEAP

AT NIAGARA

Screaming, "Let me go.

don't want to live," an unidenti

I

fied 19-years-old girl fought rescuers who sought to dislodge her battered body which was imprisoned between rocks in Niagara Gorge.

Brought up the steep embankment. in o funeral direclor's basket sus- first nine months of 1946. 2,200,000

pended by a rope from an geriat American babies were born, about

truck ladder, the badly-injured and one per cent more than in the com-

screaming girl was removed to hos- parable period of 1943, a record year

zen when 2,034,500 births were regis-pital in an ambulance.

In addition to tered.

fractured skull, caused and deep brush burns

by down the friction as she hurtled

from she was suffering gorge, broken arm and elbow and internal Injuries,

Also, records showed that during the saine nine months, 595,289 mar- riage licences were issued in cities having populations of 100,000 more. That is more than the 594,900 licences issued during 1942, the pre- vlous record year--Associated Press.

area of London alone where horse- Alcohol Good For

Troubled Cruise For

Errol Flynn

Smokers' Heart

or

д

a

"I jumped into the gorge because, I was tired of living," she told hos- pital attendants.

MASS PROTEST BY JAPANESE WOMEN

One thousand Japanese women res demonstrated outside the metropolitan police station in Tokyo. They demanded that police "ecase treating all women as bad women." The demonstration was a sequel to the pollee compaign against street women..

For smokers with heart disease the best natidote la alcohol, said Penn-cently sylvania cardiology

Profesor Dr William Stroud, at an American College of Physicians conference.

The reason-salophol dates the arteries, "We believe it dilates the little blood vessels supplying the heart muscle with blood," added Strend.

Strife on the ocean wave con- tinues for film star Errol Flynn, now sailing his luxury yacht, Zaca, from America to Cannes.

Latest storm has resulted from his He envisaged smakers with heart recent cruise in Mexican waters, on disenge "pomg through life, with a which he was joined by Wallace, cinar in one hand, a highball in the Beery, junt, and other prominent | other.”. members of the film colony,

A young seaman, who alleges that he was hit in the leg and permanent ly injured by a harpoon thrown from the Zaca, has issued a damages writ against Flynn.

Stroud explained further: "I do not mean to get plastered.

You have to take your conscience into consideration."

From the Hatenlig College of Phy- sirlans there came, no comment.

Appointment With Death By

Considerate Widower

to commit

When a widower. in New Jersey decided suicide, he not only took care to pas out comfortably and definitely, but showed great conaldoration to others, who might not have the same fatal desires as himself,

The man, Charles Barcus (08), attempted suicide a year ago, but on that occasion he failed. In the latest at- tempt, his body was found in the leakproof chamber into which he had converted his garage.

It was found fully dressed where Barcus had sat com- fortably in a rocking chair after having started his car so that it would give off deadly fumos. On the 'well was a sign which read: “Danger. No smoking. Notify the police!"

The demonstrators presented their demands to the pollee emer's aide. The police chief was absent.

Rupert and Ninkų-25.

Rupert thinks for a moment. **There's nothing to be done except to follow the tricks that lead away from the hedge," he thinks, and he wets off to find out who hau- taken Nicky

He trots swiftly, over tha mow, biz before he 'has gone tar another rurprise awaitą him, for there is a curious whirring noise and a little plane vissa from behind a slope and shouts over his head, "That docan't sound like a real plane," says Rupert, ·"And it's too big for a toy. Whatever can

it be doing here>"

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