Women
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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Tho can diet as well as One, COMMON SENSE REDUCING
In fallacy to think that certain foxls must be av:lded in reducing dieb because they are fattening. No food, in itself, is fattening, It is the amount enter that adds the pounds. If you are normal and cat more than you need for energy, the surplus is stored up us, fatty tisare. This adds to your weight. But if you st Jess than you need for enerity, the body then burns up its stored fatty Hasite-
p-and
weight. your excess which will maite you smile at your reflection in the mirror!
It is wrong, also, to think that you so-called candlely climinate the
bread. foods-aweets, "fattening" butter and potatoes. Many of these are important protective fooda, rich in minerals and vitamins, which you look
without
Pored 'for: Lola Leeds.
if you use common sense!
Calcium is another mineral often overlooked in reducing dlets. 11 is vital to health and vitality. Milk is the best soures and in inexpensive one. A pint a day should be taken as a drink or used in cocking. The calories, but not the calcium, cut down when milk is skimmed or ured in the form of buttermille.
are
Flat bread, but bread made of while grains flours or cereals, which include Vitamin B. Many a weary acrvous reaction follows a diet low in calories, which may be due to de- deiency of Vitamin B. Butter is of the richeal sources of Vitamin A which is definitely important,
one
Eliminate white bread and white sugar
(this is easy just now!). macaroni and other pastes ir dieting.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947.
Nature And
Politics
Baulk Efforts To Tame
China's Yellow River
Third of a series of four articles
By JOHN RODERICK Associated Press Staff Correspondent
Failure to complete the Yellow River Project on schedule, nino months ago, is a striking example not so much of technical deficiency as it is of man's complex ties with nature.
In the beginning, UNRRA's engineers believed the great Chinese river could be thrust back into the old channel from which it issued in 1938 simply by scaling the mile-wide branch Chinese engineers had made in the dyke. They were technically right.
As a matter of record, the work of plugging up this sluiceway proceeded on schedule until late spring, Inst year. Until that time it seemed that the river, which had been released in wartime to destroy the Japanese, would be ser- ving pencetime China again in its old channel some time in 1946.
From an engineering stand- point it could have been done. But at the crucial moment it was discovered that thousands of Chinese on the old bed were uncared for. It was at this point that the human element entered into the forward pro- gress of the project which UNRRA had billed as its big- gest,
The Communists raised the issue or the old settlers. To understand their posillon it is necessary to know something of the old river bed.
In 1930, the Yellow River, flowing In Its northward path to the rea, was flanked by two sets of dykes, One pair, cailed the Golden Dykes were from 60 to 90 Chinese 11, that Is 20 to 30 miles, apart. These man made barriers were to catch the over flow from the People's Dykes, which heramed in the river at a distance of one to five miles from each other.
Landmarks Of Meanderings Since 1938, these dykes have been Cut out oils and fals, except butter. | landmarks cutlining the river's old
If you want the look of good health meanderings. haggard and feel
During the war the and to feel mentally alert, full of Japanese built fortresses, on them. sugar supplies Pep, while reducing, eat the protec-The adjacent farmers planted food Although white only calories and not ininerals and tive foods, rich in minerals and vi- Vitamins, another sweel, molasses, is one of the richest sources of iron, the vital mineral, The only richer wource of tron is beef liver. Too many people do not get enough fron trom Weir
meals and it is regular easy to develop iron deficiency from reducing diets, So, instead of eat- ting out all sweeta, you can include] moleske in cookies stewed and baked fruits in your daily meals.
Worke,
Minali Maksyo
GABRIELLE
Clean up your beauty aids! Wash bottles and eream jara, wash your nowdor, puffs. Arrange lipsticks, rouges, eyeshadows according to matching shades, Then, when you've got "only a Minuto", you can And just the things you want. And, remember-clean tools do a clean
Job!
SIDE GLANCES
tamins.
Skirts Show,
Practically
Moss crepe was the favourite material at a recent
Bond Street fashion show, which co- vered spring and
summer frocks, including evening dresses.
on them and on the nearby river banks. In time, others moved into the river beds, built homes and tilled the rich land. Erosion and the re- moval of stones for building weakened and destroyed large sections of the new useless dykes.
An UNRRA commission has useer- tained that nearly 400,000 people are settled between the dykes. At the estuary of the river, which formerly. was under water, another 100,000 are living
LONDON LETTER
By JOHN SHIPTON
"£100 fine if you switch on!" That was the startling banner line in one of the daily papers at the height of the fuel crisis als Londoners sut down to their austerity breakfasts. I have not yet heard of a prosecution, and to my mind the threat was hardly necessary.
Once
the people of Britain had been told of the seriousness of the fuel position they resigned them- selves to the inevitable, and after u talk with people in all walks of life I was convinced that there was a general feeling of letting down the old country if one used the light or during heat for domestic purposes prohibited hours.
Shortly after the culs were first announced, with thousands forced out of work, there was a widespread move for improvisation. Derelict ongines were brought into use to pro- vide power, and there were many ingenious devices, from a gigantic Metropolitan Vickers emenency plant to the delving shift of a motor cur
drive the bare at a greyhound track.
lty
Not For Dog Tracks But the Ministry of Fuel and Power would not tolerate the latter. Snappi- ly came the order-no fuel of any Under an original plan, the Com-description to be used for greyhound munists urged and UNRA and racing. And that was that. Perhaps CNRILA agreed, that the old dykes the Ministry had in mind the old first be repaired and the old channel 'slogan: "The Devil finds work for dredged before turning the water | idle hands to do" and they weren't
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It is standard fand correct) technique to cash top cards in the side suits before embarking on cross-ruff, so South began by laying down the ace of diamonds, It was at this point that East made his brilliant play; he calmly dropped the king of diamonds!
a very
Perhaps South should have sus pected Bulle, for East was line player, but Insicnd, declarer allowed himself to be dazzled by the He prospect of twelve easy tricks. expected to draw trumps, finesse
the rest of that suit
Interest was centred in the skirts intuit. A dispute arose when the going to have people spending their" dummy's nine of diamonds, and run futed and pleated peplums, some- Communists inter claimed the unemployment pay on the dog tracles. tines dipping at the back; wrapped-government had refused to give ap- around drapery caught on the tipproval to agreed-compensation for with a bow or, op evening gowns, these settlers. with flowers or embroidery.
A pale blue crepe day dress
Pleats cartridge, accordion and unpressed-were a noticeable fea lure of the show. In one rock,
the all-round pleated skirt wrapped around to faslen on the hip.
Closure Postponed
of
The pools, 100, were drastically affected, not only by the fuel cut but because of the postponement matches carlier, und at the time of writing a general meeting of the principal pools promoters has been convened to decide future polley.
had two-way drapery-cither fall- The agreement had further stipu ing straight from the waist in front. fated a two-thirds closure of the or caught up each side with a breach by July 15, 1040, a date which hook and eye at the waistline, farm-chief engineer O, J. Todd appeared Apart from the blows to sport fans, Ing a peg-top skirt.
ready to anticipate by fully a month. the gravity of the situation Was The Communists originally were brought home to Londoners by ~atz under the moression that C.N.$100 almost complete. binck-out in the 000
would be allotted to streets, and more than once I heard per person each settler u sumn which the na- the remark: "You expect to hear the tionalist Yellow River Conservancy gun any minute.” Commissioner judged reasonable,
Brewers warned that the fuel cuts They insisted on payment at once.
UNRRA, to avert hardship, recom- would mean no bottled beer when slocks pre exhausted; mended postponement of the gappresent closure until December to permit the cigarettes, sweets, and biscuits were settlers to remove in time but was scarce, and the potato famine was told by Dr T. F. Tsiang., then, head made worse because farmers feared of CNRRA, he had no power to order frost when their clamps were opened. the postponement.
Pannier Pockets
C:
Pannier pockets-pockets renled in hip drapery-are new, and so are crossover bodices which cross over again at the back,
One model Was full-skirted bare-shoulder evening dress in black net, made of 30 yards of material.
The hips were padded under a sequin waistband at least 10 inches
wide.
By Galbraith
KOPR. 1941 BY NE, SENICE NOT BE AROMAR. PAT SIT, "Well till the next time Pop tells me that one about how he walked three miles to school!!!
Floods Arrive
No Coalition
Some people thought the crisis would force the Government to ne- cepta coalition, but Prime Minister Attice put a stop to this talk by a forthright declaration to Government critics that talk about coalition is complete and utter nonsense,' announced the Labour Party was going ahead. with ils fuli pro- grainme.
Hence declarer drew trumps, ex- hausting all of his own in the pro-
Then he Anessed dummy's nine of diamonds. East pounced on this trick with the ten-spot and cashed two more heart tricks to set the contract. He had good reason to feel pleased with his stratagem, for if he had made the normal play on the diamond née, South could not have gone wrong.
I knew a lot about those carp; how they were netted in a Sussex pond, how they were wrapped in damp rags and grass and put in a straw basket, how they were brought to town by train from Hove and the name of the person who put the fish in that small pool. We got over a hundred carp that day. from the Sussex pond,
Bruce Woodcock Bruce Woodcock, Britain's best hope for the
title since -world
Tammy Farr, goes into the ring at Belle Vue. Manchester, on Monday.
Maxfi
Light 3. in a preliminary he faces to Joe Baksi. before and There's not much chance of Bruce than Yailing here, and it is mere
kely to will go for a quick knock out as Bake!, his chief rival to a fight with Joe Louis, will be at the ringside.
Work proceeded alter Todd had personally appealed to T. V. Soong, then Premier, for an order prohibi- ting any interference in the closure, This time, however, nature thwarted Todd's plans. Racing against time, he began pouring the rock into the wooden trestle dam which was to finally seal the gap. At the strongest print in the river, where the water was deepest, he had driven 60-foot "If anybody wants to come into a piles, At the cast bunk, where coalition," he added vehemently.in a there was hardly a trickle he had Hanley specch, "they will have to driven 40-foot plics.
ut carry policy,"
amandabe of Socialist
By a quirk, the floods arrived five days early. The channel moved sud- Mr Atlee,, defending Mr Shinwell, denly to the cast bank, washing out declared there had been some very 500 feet of the 1,600-foot trestle, and untair attacks on the Fuel Minister postponing until winter the oppor- and was cheered when he said that tunity to divert the river completely, the Minister hud done great work in
At this stage, UNRRA submitted the last 10 months.
a.plan which eliminated the idea of per capita payment to the river bed settlers, and called for an Execu tive Yuan appropriation of 30 billion Chinese dollars for
the
establishment of about 16 industries in the area, All able-bodied adults to be removed buld be absorbed in these indus tries and the products they turned out might meet the needs of some 22 million people.
Remained "Static"
The Executive Yuan refused al
Staple Inn
*
The other day I went to look at Staple Inn, which is one of the most charming retreats in the whole of it London. Just off Gary's Inn Road, is a thoroughfare adjacent to the Prudential Assurance Company, and almost next door is the famous Gam- ages store, Staple Inn is one of the English Inns of Court, to which lawyers were attached,
Actually it is almost opposite the
first to consider, the proposal, and it Prudential and at the extreme south- remained, for many months, in the
words, of UNRRA, "static"
east end of Gray's Inn Road, You The may miss it unless you know your
Yuan's refusal was interesting, since way about London. Pass under an
Jack London and his supporters at are 11 clamouring for alt Woodcock, and immediately after his two-minute knockout of Dutch- man Jan Klein at the Albert Hall isted 21 £5,000 chaMenge to Wood- cock. If Bruce, Izils against Baksi,. then Jack London will probably get his chance, for the heavyweight title again. But in e meantime, we shall have to walt and see.
Rupert & the New Pal-2
-Sure enough Mrs. Bear has en ertand for Rupert. but she look
the expenditure did not
mean archway and suddenly you are away would actually have to appropriate from the roar of the traffic and in these funds. The major, part of the quiet world of high-gabled bousesery anxious shout it. **I can' cost would be met from machinery, and courts of cobbled stones. There. small fountain, inhabit- a pool with a
fools and, equipment contributed by | in i ..gileasant little garden and
UNRRA.
A maximum of five to seven billion ed at one time by two carp. I have dollars would be needed for the pur- heard people tell all sorts of stories chase of raw material in China, for about the age of these fich and how wages and building of freight Junks, they came there. The two flali hod making spindles, looms and ox carts pet names, and lived about five years for an area which since 1938 has in this retreat, until, so the story been shorn gompletely of all manu-goes, one jumped out and the other facture.
is said to have, died soon afterwards (To be. Condluded To-morrow) of a broken heart.
possibly go out this morning” alır murmurs, and there are: Jola and lots of things to be fetched from alte shops. I'm afraid you'll have to get them all. will mean three or four journeys and, will take you all morning I The lule bear grin "That's all right. mummy" be declares. Perhaps Bill will help- me Mrs. Bear's fist takes so long that Rupert starts playing traine to pass the time.
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The millionth contribution to the Minnesota Historical Society was dial telephone invented by Augustus A. Munson, an amateur St. Paul'in- ventor.
first automatic telephone after taking apart two early-day inventions, of Thomas Edison.
Other items he invented -include a motor-opening window for hospital patients and a "lockout" party line for telephone, systeras.
Munson said, he never made any money with, his inventions.
"Just like to invent things," he said. Anyone who has, any use for hej them can have them fren. '—-United
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