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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947.

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

RELAX FOR HEALTH AND BEAUTY

By PRUNELLA STACK

(Lady David Douglas-Hamilton, Director of the Women's

League of Health and Beauty)

T

most

YING flat on a bed or a couch,

yown, as you would on waking, gradually stretching the legs down and the arms up. Hold the position and the breath for a few seconds, and then slowly relax until you slnk into a comfortable position.

Now start consciously to relax each part of you. Begin with the right foot, feeling it very heavy, then the right knee and hip. Ro- pent with the left leg until you ure downwards. absolutely reinxed

from the hips Test this by slowly

To know how to relax com- If you go for a twenty-mile walk, pletely and at will is a or climb a high mountain, at the end of the day your body needs rest. The frrent asset and one of the same is true of your nerves after an drawing up one leg until the knee valuable aids to both unusual expansion of nervous energy is bent (the sole touching the bed health and beauty. Undoubted-The demands which the war yeara ly relaxation is an art, but an made on the nervous system were all the time) and then letting it slip

of weight its to many wenty-mile down again until the int well worth achieving and equivalent

allows it to own relaxation

foll one which is within the reach

Now relax the straight. Repeat with the other leg. then elbows, then shoulders. Slow. arme wrists first, jy litt one arm up, starting with the upper arm, finishing with the hand which has been hanging limply, and stretch it towards the celling,

of all.

They

can only now be made good by the walks or ascents of peaks. sort of rest which comes through Indeed, or children we all postested a knowledge of how to relax com- a natural ability to relax. It is only pletely, mentally and physically.

Testing the relaxation of your limbs.

THEN relax, letting thẻ anm fall heavily neross the chest. Repeat with the other arm. Now try to relax your spine, starting from the lowest vertebra and gradually work- ing up to the hend, relaxing it piece by plece until you feel so heavy that It seems the bed can hardly support Relax the shoulders and chest In the same way, and finally relox the bead. Slowly rall it from

you,

BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Diana Lynn for Lola Leeds. Lals Leeds suggests joining a gym class when Techers need to lose weight.

TEEN TOPICS Young Diana Lynn, starring in the Paramount picture, "Easy Come, Easy

Go,"

wents blue, which matches her eyes. Even In her sports frocks Diana looks for Blue. A dress of broad Blue and White stripes makes a smart outfit.

de

to

Here are some Teener questions, of interest answers.

so many, and

the

coat years

—LOUISE."

to side-very smoothly and heavily, Closs your Bike a heavy marble. eyes and baninh all tension from your

facial neck and

muscles. Breathe deeply several times and clear your mind of all worrying and Impeding thoughts,

By now you should feel deliciously drowsy and if you are practising this at night you will soon drop off to sleep. You can get a friend to test the relaxation of your limbs by - as we grow older that we lose this THERE is no royal road to the rasing them, as pictured here. They ability If you watch small child

tery of this art. Like every should be so relaxed that all the flop down on the floor after something else worth doing, it requires | weight in supported by the helper, energetic activity, you cannot fail to determination, patience and constant and the limb is not consciously lift- observe its complete and immediate practice. But, given these cosentials, ed by you. relaxation. And when you see a lit in certainly within the rench of child asleep, you may be rightly en everyone to achieve. vlous of its deep and satisfying repose, for much relaxation builds va a fund of energy and vitality which is of gent importance for proper develop

ment.

How, then, can we recnoturn this

To begin with, one must have the

devote ten will-power to

minules each day to learning how to relax. Sa often one Ands oneself going round in circle of apparently unessential, For the

exental ability to relax which should | Breessary, but in re housewife, os I

be the natural heritage of each of us? activities, First, by becoming assured that it is know from personal experience, this necessity. For relaxation depends as is specially true, Yet surely it is much on one's mental attitude na on † worth devoting a

little time each one's physical skill. In fact, relaxa- day to something which will really tion of any part of the body in direct-establish д foundation for better ed by mental effort and therefore re-health and more successful living quires convletion and concentration. even if it does mean that some domestic duties are left uncomplet- rd?

Now,

JOW, most of us to lay live under

conditions of artificiality, spredt and strain which constantly sap, our vitality, whether we realise It or not. In addition everyone has experienced during the last six years the added strain of war. Anil many of us are only now beginning to realise Just how much that has taken out of us.

For office, factory or shop workers is probably impossible to fit in o praction of relaxation during the day. Perhaps, then, it could be dong Inst thing at night before going to sleep, It will be found that sleep comes more easily and quickly if precedent by conscious relaxation. Here, then, is the way to begin.

"Dear Lois Leeds-Is a red too young for me? I am 17 old.

I think that it depends upon the type of the girl. To me, a loose, soft bob would be the most suitable style and it is the papular one with most of the Teen Age crowd.

"Dear Lois Leeds--I am 16 years old. school,

I am graduating from a music My dress is of white not. What flowers would be best? I am a pale blonde-MAY B."

I think a wreath of Pink Roses would be charming or, if you prefer corsage, have it ruffled with paper Jace.

"Dear Lois Leeds-Are ballet slip- Red is never loo young. It's a gay pera in good taste? I am of medium colour and certainly peps up any height and not very thin! wardrobe. Choose your hall polish

---TOOLIE." and your lipstick in the same shade

The Teeners love the modem ver- of Red,

sion of ballet silppers. So will you, I think. What about going on "Dear Lois Leeds-Is an upswept | "diet" of fruit juicen, milk and hairdo the proper style for my vegetables for a while to slim down #fteen-year-old daughter? MOM." a bit? And, join the gym!

JOYRIDE TO WORK MORE

BY QUIZ

ACKED like sardines, and crowded buses and underground trains, is the twice-daily pen- ance endured by most city workers.

Perhaps it is the memory of such drab journeys that that turns every trip I take across the Hongkong- Kowloon ferry into a gay holiday.

- Having paid my 20 cents, I join the "world and his wife" that impatiently awaits embaritation--Chinese mer- chants, worth many lakhs, rub shoulders with ragged uncleanly

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THE PASSING YEARS

Time passes and alters the lives of all of us. Nowhere are these changes more apparent

A Near Mios!

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They all make an interesting cross-section ot humanity, different to the dull uniformity of the travel crowds at home.

deck we may be overcrowded

..

ONE

passes the battleship-grey of

an aircraft carrier, so large that the rows of planes on her deck look like toy models, *

A white-painted ship of lovely lines, obviously on her maiden voy- age, has the luxurious glamour of an American heiress; while nearby a rusted hulk is a reminder of the Japanese nightmare.

White salla of small sailing yachts Kilp to the breeze as they start on

afternoon's run before the wind.

After the first few trips across, I have become used to the sight of junka and sampans, and their quaint

no longer gives a re strangeness minder of being far from home.

and

of

but the breeze is always fresh. than in children. Before we The sky and sea are the vivid blue realise it, the babe in arms is of a travel poster, and the ships of taking his first unsteady steps, dying give the harbour the carefree every variety with their call tags and then has grown into a sturdy air of a regatta." youngster ready for school. Children' are attractive at all the The derry-bont has alsq-something. Tnight ifongkong turns romantic. of the character of an impromptu In her gown, of velvet darkness, many stages of childhood, but club. Ono runa into friends and ac- she opens her jewel box, and row time passes and nothing remains quaintances business is discussed upon row of lights like ropes of the earlier charms except There is just one note that keeps sparkle from her breast to her throat

and tasty tit-bits of news exchanged diamonds, rubles

emeralds memories-and photographs, Jarring on all Europeans, and many and are reflected in the dark mirror You cannot halt the passing Chinese, 100--that of the throaty of the harbour, Since the war.

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