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BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Veronica Lake for Lois Leeds. Send your questions to Lois Leeds.

"DEAR LOIS LEEDS"

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"Dear Lois Leeds-i am witlow, Should I now call

Choose face powder in as deep af shade as is becoming to you. This 3 war will make your face look less broad. myself, A little rouge, high up under the for instance, Mrs Mary Smith or eyes, will deepen the highlights in Mrs John Smith? And should

the centre of your face. Don't let the Concen- outwards. wear my wedding ring?-M. S."

rouge extend You should use the name "Mrs trate on a nice mouth makeup and "y" John Smith,' Only

divorced wear #

your hair high. Deep woman calls herself, "Mrs Mary necklines would be most becoming.

Smith." It is customary and proper

to wear your wedding ring. If you should marry again, remove 11 for the new wedding band.

"Dear Lois Leeds--Is a white satin dress correct for a large reception from six to eight PM. I am a re- cent bride-NANCY."

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"Deed Lots Leeds-Is exercise good for an expectant mother?

-E. M."

In some cases, yes, but I do not recommend, it as I cannot know the physical condition of the individual Yes, it will be curreet. 1 suggest woman. Discuss this with your doc. a feathered headdress, it will give tor and follow his advice.

smart look to your ouißt.

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Your

husband should wear formal clothes

if you wear your, welding dress.·

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1947.

WOMEN'S INTERESTS

Are women losing

A

their hold on men?

By L. J. MILLER

com-

*That marvellous man," sald Mary Cannell, 21-year-old senior student. He's absolutely right. By gaining independence and equality, women have lost their influence. They may be satisfied with what they have gained, but they have certainly lust something."

Jane Edwards, 21, of Californin, said: "By going out Into the world, women have lost grace and feinininity and womanly influence, and it shows up in lots of ways,

mid logo was mixed, some roundly con- mannered American demning him, others praising.

One 20-year-old student snid: women's college president has "Women have for more bargaining let loose a blast against modern power thus, over. We've more HOW woman that's caused something to offer intellectually and in

panionship. of a sensation,

"Although some, husbands resent a wife's independence, they should be flattered because they have been with modern chosen by women

carning and capabilities.

Another remarked coldly: "Women are just as feminine as they have "Women want things on an equal always been. They'll never lose basis, and if they show femininity their hold on men'

they make fools of themaclves. Miss Janel Clark, president of think they have shown complete the college's student body, sald: Indiscretion." "Men are losing their power over women. In man resents women's development, he is maladjusted."

He la Dr Synn White, Prėsi. dent of Mills College for Women at Oakland, California, who told & conference of the American Association of Colleges at Bos- ton. Massachusetts:

"Women are through. They've

lost their power over men.”

Dr White made these trenchant criticisms of modern women:

Women are expensive. They want lots for what they give.

Women's bargaining power, which in the long run means her self- respect and social status, to-day is Jess than it used to be.

and modern Ac-

Movies, radio, tion to-day present marriage as the consummation of courtship based on sex attraction and nothing else.

Untold numbers of women have been deluded by a romanile craze Into entering inherently unstable marriages.

Women's hold is growing weaker because women live longer men.

than

Women are soft and tough, and men die in higher proportion. As a nt result we now have a surplus women.

R WHITE, who is the father of Dehldren, expressed the be-

"Dear Luis Leeds have a very der used on the arms for evening?llef that the road buck to power for

wide fire, I am fair skinned, Should I wear muge?-NELL J."

WOMAN IN THE

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KITCHEN

JEXT time you make an egg custard-two eggs and two dessertspoonfuls of sugar to one pint milk-give it a caramel top by sprinkling thickly with sugar when it is quite cold and pop. ping it under a hot grill until the sugar is melted and brown.

Served cold as possible, this has to be tasted to be believed.

DOR really crisp chips, remove

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them from the fat as soon as they are tender and limp (use a fish-slice if you haven't a chip basket); reheat the fut till it smokes and finish frying.

de- colleges which "Aelf-confident womenly

"Dear Ipis Leeds-Is quid pow-

J. K."

wns women, veloped

Yes, and

flattering it is. very Blend it well and blot dry with is-

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women

ALLS.

women

NAGE CULPEPPER, a_20-year-old blonde from Honolulu, said: "I am engaged, and I think it's better to be a pal and do things together. We couldn't get married if I wasn't going to work. My Dance likia me this way.

"Some girls might want to go to college to learn to set a table, but

not me."

re-

Doria Shaughnessy, campus creational director at Mills College, said women's loss of influence was only one bli. of the national pic-

ture.

Standards and morals In the United States had slipped, And women would regain their power only by training themselves to

effective members of society.

be

students

NUMBER of girl

supported

A hemently

Oddly enough, the response of

students BL White's col-White's criticisms.

·THREE STAGES TO A SMALL HEAT HEAD

1-This wide-brimmed ast

hat was shown at the Paris dress show inst summer. It was worn far back on the head, with a large chignon.

Simply packed!

WOOL

smoothes out its own

and is imported by

-Already being seen on A

this amart Parisiennes, smaller hat fits mulher more closely

an the head, and round the nape-length hair,

3-The next development:

Even shorter hair, "doeper- crowned hat, probably cover- ing the bale at the front, at the back and on one side only.

Dr

"Men don't stand 121)

in street curs any more, and they don't slow little attentions.

FEMIN

slipped, PEMININE power ud

according to 19-year-old Michael Lovgren, because too many women- were satisfied to be inferior because they didn't take an interest in world affairs.

"Men want. their women capable," she said. "An educated, stimulating woman will always have an influence,"

Students at Mills College are re- ported to be planning to picket Dr White on his return to Callfornia.

INGENUITY

FOR YOU

con-

The Ingenuity of the dress industry in Britain has overcome the tinued shortage of textiles in a way which may makto fashion history. For instance, in a recent collection the designer showed suits complete with two-colour waistcoats, the front of, wich was in the sult material,

0 vivid the back in

contrasting

colour.

other Then there were

outfits which consisted of a skirt in fine suiting and top cut so closely to the gure that it looked like matching bodice until the

z

manne-

quin removed it and proved that it was actually a fitting jacket. Beneath this was worn a contrasting blouse in woollen Jersey, and over it a long cont.

In this way are the designers trying to help women who must make a sult live a double or even triple life, The idea has gained ground, and a neat uttle afternoon dress has waist-length jacket which, when discarded, reveals that the top of the dress is cut low enough to transform it into a gown suitable for theatre or restaurant wear, If a slight trim- ming of gleanalog sequins is added to the decolletage of this dress, it is all to the good, for it suggests a touch a glamour as nothing else could.

HEALTH-GIVING EXERCISES

FOR CHILDREN

By PRUNELLA STACK

Lady David Douglas-Hamilton. Director of the Women's League

of Health and Beauty.

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wise

ve op

to

which entails" set "exercises; games and dancing can be started from the age of about two-a-half. The best fime is the early morning. My two children and I do it then every day, It does mean getting up ten minutes carlier, but is well worth it in the results it brings.

The children should exercise nak. ed with the window wide open, for

developing than a "whole" man sense which entails self-discipline. to the toes and up.

Then come fcot

the arch

bringing up their children too early. But it is not enough to successfully and making rely merely on outside medical aid the value of fresh air on the skin rnd advice, The mother herself in combination with exercise is of them as healthy and happy 3 must develop "X-Ray,

eyes,"

and considerable Importance. possible, mothers feel they are must know instinctively if anything They start with some warming

child. fulfilling an ordained role which starts 10

activity running round the room wrong with her It Is only under the. guidance of being trains" jumping as "bunny- brings them immense satisfac-

the high into springing mother that a child can de-

rabbits prin tion. For what is more worth

"health

Hense." This "health air: or clapping their bodies down exercises, ta pride of a fit body and the possession

of the foot, of vital health as opposed to a mere strengthen absence of disease can be of, immobilise the toes and counteract any knock knees or mense value to the child throughout tendency towards of

Its life.

bandy legs.

Next we work on the shoulders A health sense" will be rercated

arms 25 "propellers" naturaly and unconsciously he the swinging

and result of diealthy dally habits. But or "airscrews and learning. to "alt up formation of these is the "stand up fail" the mother's responsibility, for the child straight" with a flat back. Lastly is mainly in her hands during all comes deep breathing, expanding

of the chest cage-and the early formative years of growth. the whole And these years are all-important Lacklentally, providing a most suc for its future.

cessful antidote to colds.

01 woman? "Whole" in the sense of the ancient Greeks who nimed at the complete and synonymous devalonment mind, body and spirit.

HEALTH SENSE

HIS, then, is the task. To fulfil it, under war conditions and under the difficulties of peace, has proved to be no ensy matter. All the more honour is due to the mothers who have responded so well to the chal- lenge, and achieved such signal_re- sults with the generation' bom dur- ing the war.

Fresh air, sunlight, correct food, exercise, rest, play

these Modern medicine teaches that factors enter into the healthy de- the care of children cannot stort velopment of a child. This article

GAINSBOROUGH Studio PAINTING WITH LIGHT Light is the medium of the photographers and by his ability to handle it depends the quality of his

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is concerned mainly with exercise. because it provides practical stort- ing point, but of course the other factors are of equal importance. fact, for healthy growth, not one of them should be neglected.

In

LET THEM CLIMB THE best forms of exercise for

small children are the

creases usually depends on firely on arti- activities of running, jumping, and

ficial lamps of various kinds more particularly climbing. This Last is extremely important because which can be varied and con- it develops co-ordination, binne trolled much more easily than and skil, as as 'uses every daylight.

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