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BEAUTY ARTS
By LOIS LEEDS
Posed for Lois Lecils
Certain foods cause rashes. If you are allergic to them, eliminate them from your dict.
"DEAR LOIS LEEDS"
"Dear Loin Leeds-Do you think- that the longer skirts are flattering? -MILDRED."
Not always.
The average woman looks best in the shorter skirt but 14 or 141⁄2 inches from the floor is now and becoming. Cocktail and afternoon dresses are 8 inches from the flour. If draped with down-in- back effect you will like them. But get busy and lengthen those skirts which are 18 inches from the floor, If you don't you are going to look out of fashion and uut of step with And do remember that those flat-heeled shoes are not good with the longer skirts,
new ideas.
"Dear Lois Leeds--My skin Isn't very olly but the pores are so coarse. What should I use?
break
"Dear Lols Leeds- every reason, Could it be Strawberries--MISSY."
from
Very likely. A strawberry rash Is evsily gutten rid of by not eating strawberries! Try doing without them and see the result. If the rash continuts see your fuctor,
wwwxMara
"Dear Lois Leeds--I have a red apot. Jurge and Itely, on my throat. My diet is as it was with the ex- ception of fish, which I have never likeri butent because we get here in our new home.-MNS. L."
Fish, like strawberries, 1 Man times the cause of certain rashes or "spots." Just stop eating ish and If the spot re- are what happens. main then you should ser your doctor for a checkup.
AMERICA'S UNLOVED CHILDREN
A psychologlst believes that half of American parents dislike their own children.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 3, 1947.
Young Art Student's Disappearance Still An Unsolved Mystery
The melting snows of Vermont's rugged Green Moun- tains may reveal the secret of New England's greatest modern mystery--the disappearance of Paula Welden, sophomore student at swanky Bennington College.
With the washing away of the snows, search is being resumed for the 18-year-old, blue-eyed blonde who was last seen on December 1 Inst along the route to Long Trail, a wilderness road that dwindles into a path on its course to Canada.
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Experienced men, wise in the Not a clue to her subsequent ways of the woods, and untrain-movements has, been uncovered. ed college boys and girls beat Belief has been divided the brush, for several weeks whether she was attacked and slain after Paula vanished while on by a sex manine or became lost on the tortuous trail and perished. The a casual Sunday afternoon walk, outside possibility that she was ac- but at best the search was hasty cidentally shot by a hunter also was and not too well-organised be-¡Investigated. cause of the onset of winter.
The State Attorney, William Heavy. ЯHOWS finally forced Travers Jerome, Jr., was called into abandonment of the search, the case,
Despite the efforts of investiga- itors augmented by imported detec- tives, all that is known is that Paula disappeared after hopping out of Louis Knapp's automobile in front of his home several miles from Long
Trall, Knappy, the last known
person to have seen the young art student, told authorics he was driving his car past Bennington College shortly p.m. on December 1 when after he was hailed by Paula Just beyond: the college gate,
Last Romarks When Knapp arrived at his home, he said, he stopped the car Dr Harriet O'Shea, of Purdue Uni-and the girl alighted with the re versity, believes that if a youngster mark: "Thanks, that's swell." ' becames a juvenile delinquent, it may be because his great-great grandfather didn't like his children, She said that if society did not du something about the "concealed resentment many modern parents holl for their offspring, the juvenile delinquency rate would keep ring in future generations.
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"A parent's attitude toward child is influenced by the manner in which he himself was treated." Dr O'Shea said in an interview.
SNAKIE-BOY
DUMBBELLS
OUR BANK MUST HAVE GONE BANKRUPT, DEAR, THEY, HAVE
RETURNED MY CHECK MARKED "NO FUNDG”İ
THEY LIKE LONDON
IN MAY
New Jerome, son of the famed
Miss Jane Adelle have visited York prosecutor who handled the London in May, which they murder trial of the late Harry K.have been doing since 1900. Thaw, ordered the questioning of But London without its spring- bus drivers, train
ugh-time has been n draw, too-and taxicab drivers and; alerted
patrols. Reports that Paula so this was their 64th trip from way had been seen in various places, in- America. cluding Canada, proved worth'ers.
conductors and
in
Miss JANE SEWALL and Miss State Detectives Help
ADELLE RAWSON may be blased Lendon's favour because ther Governor Raymond E. Baldwin of
come from Boston, which prides 1- Connecticut Kent
man-and-
self on being the most English of woman team of state detectives to American cities. help in the investigation.
By that time, however, snow had obliterated any trace they might have picked up of Paula's trail.
"If we couldn't live in Boston," mused Miss Jane then we'd live right here in London," finished Miss Adello..
A Stamford. (Connecticut news-
Yates had been there to meet them paper retained Raymond C. Schin-
with the same friendly grin. Yates dier, a noted private detective.
cones from Chiswick and has driven investigate the
Schindler case.
aler them round England ever since the for quietly poked around
three first war. slight hope that Miss Walden till
WAS LIFE OF weeks, then declared there was but
THE PARTY
Clifford Pope says the only She said a child who is secretly way to learn about a snake is to resented and disliked by well-mean-live with one.
He does. inta ing parents frequently geta
He keeps a six-foot python in a trouble in society because he feels box beside the furnace of his home. the world is unfriendly towards him,
"I hesitate to say 11," said Dr is quite a pet, he says. It feeds out of his hand and is partly house- O'Shea, "but about 50 percent of
broken.
ils 11-year-old son, Whitney, Parents dislike their children."
Yales said things weren't so bad Ived. It was highly probable, heit you kept your peeker up. They said, that she had met with violent believe in Yates and share his philo- denth.
sophy.
Warnings
Miss Welden's disappearance re- of enfled three similar cases, all
Back home they had been warned which occurred on Fridays at Smith
either freeze or College, acruss the border in Mas-that they would
starve. So they packed two hot- water bottles and a suitcase fub of food.
Bachusetts.
Other Disappearances
NELL. B." Try a combination of pore cream and astringent oil. Both can be found at any good cosmetic counter,
Most recent was that of Miss They brought along soap arid Blend well, one-quarter cream and
Barbara W. Beckel, 18, of Hunting- towels and a pair of bed sheets each, three-quarters of the oil, heat and beat. Spread on the skin at night She said the "concealed resent-calls the python Snakie-boy. Whit don (Pennsylvania) who went on a for, as Miss Adelle remarked: From ney likes to let Snakle-boy exercise dinner date with sailor on Novem- what we had been told, we thought and before your bath. A tiny bitment' was not inherited. "But it can
on the living room floor. Snakleber 30, 1945, and failed to return we might get nothing but a blanket." can be used under powder unless it be handed down from generation to
Inthal case. Add more generation simply because people by birthday celebra- found at the home of friends near- Jane.
Pope says.
at midnight. The next day she was "And on the floor, too," looks oily.
tend to trent others as they have been of the pure cream.
tlon," treated," she said.
says, "and Snakic-boy by, and two days later her mother Pope was the life of the party,"
withdrew her from college, Pope is curator of reptiles at the Chicago Natural History Museum. Dr O'Shen advocated a psycholo-The pyllion was sent to the museum surprised gist in every school and special from Burma, where a parental training to teach parents mess cook found 11 under a sugar i have real affection for their boys barrel. and girls.
Minuli Makuy
S GABRIELLE
What's New, you nak! Chains and everything that glitters, for your neck and your wrists. Long, l-on-g gloves, shepherdeas crooks for um- brella handles. And these umbrellas are in "complexion" Rose and Vio- let-Mauvel Fancy pocketbooks and dremy þig bags slung over the shoulders. And the bags now have a pin to hold them securely,
SIDE GLANCES
Parental Training
50
"When I say that, it starts many parents worrying." she said. "But they can be helped by psycho- logists and it is a sign of Intelli- gence when parents seck highly- trained help to straighten out their family life."
"Society needs mental health clinics, with psychiatrists, psycholo gists and a social worker." said Dr O'Shea, "plus a little pre-marital counselling in raising children.
had
sald Miss
But soup, towels and bed sheets are unpacked, the canned food has been given away... On a Friday, the 13th of January.
Our meals are rather too much 1928, Miss Francis St John Smith, for us: such big helpings," confessed 10, of New York City, vanished Miss Adelle. "And everyone does
college. Her body was look well." from the recovered 14 months fater from the Connecticut River.
Still unsolved is another Friday the 13th disappearance involving Miss Alice M. Corbett, 19, of Utica, (New York), who vanished on that Don't Know The Answers date in November 1925, after leav- Besides, he says, even snake ex-ing a letter revealing she was in a
answers "confused state of perls don't know all the about snakes, and he wanted
favourable study one dally under conditions.
"After a few. wecks," Pope says, "I tank the python to my home be- cause there the temperature can be controlled day and night,"
to Press.
Some of these questions are: How Krow? How fast do giant snakes long does it take them to grow up?. live? How How long do they
How they learn? Can
much do they
"Most parents who resent or dis- much
Uke their children will deny it if they crawl?. How
accused directly." But some who weigh?
look like ideal parents because they Snakle-boy was less than
do
three
russ around and overdo things, really feet long when found in October are breaking the child down by over protection.
"Society must atop the chain of unloved children through genera- tion if it wants to check Juvenile delinquency."
She said there was a simple solu- tion that would work in many cases. "Just let yourself enjoy your children,' she said, "and you'll get sa you like thern."-United Press,
By Galbraith
COPU 1997 BY KIA SERVICE THE T, BSMID, 31.3. PAT. DITA
"Mother buys the stupidest hate they don't look bad on thers but they're never young enough for me to borrow!"
1945. Now he is six feet one inch long und weighs about three pounds elglit ounces.
mind."United
NOTED
Already these two have alrmalled nearly letters to America, "telling our friends the truth as we see it."
have passed with tight lips he bomb-flattened spaces and talked the with Londoners of the blitz. Now they declare their verdict:-
"London in May is just as lovely as ever it was. "It's been wonderfully worth-while coming."
FALANGISTS
MADE DIPLOMATS
—FRANCO'S LATEST
A reliable Spanish sourco told the United Press that Generalissimo Francisco Franco, for mysterious reasons of his own, is salting Spanish diplomatic establishments in the Western Hemisphere with noted Falangists.
Some pythons, Pope says, grow to a length of more than 30 feet.
"Because snakes are cold-blooded they require little food and infre quent meals," Pope says. "Snakie-
"Jose Lequerica is a case in Minister at Bogota. He was a noted of a boy has been put on a diet
Le young Falangist during the epoch of small rat every week. point," the source said, few mice or
"Sometimes captive reptiles et querica, who
as the Spanish Primo de Rivera. Alfaro also is said
able assistant the worst of a battle with a rat, ap- Ambassador to Vichy reportedly be have been an
Serrano Suner, parently because life in confire- ment robs them of their natural ag-arranged the Petain capitulation
A third Falangist pointed out is to Hitler, was nominated Am- gressiveness."United Press.
Valdes is said to Manuel Valdes. bassador to the United States have been nominated as Minister to about two years ago. The Caracus. He also was well known in
THREAT TO United States refused to accept Falangist circles.
3,000,000 INDIANS
him.
"Now Franco has named him "In- spector General of Embassies and Consulates," a post that never before existed and the duties of which never have been clearly explained.
"In this capacity he finally ar- ranged for Lequerien to go Washington. Why? I don't know," The discovery of a new syn- said the source. thetic resin in the United States. Lequerica has long been prominent to replace lac has brought the in Falangist circles. Indian shellac industry face to Other neled party men are "going face with a severe crisis, and west." Ons is Jose Marla Alfaro,
is threatening the incomes of
more than 3,000,000 Indian fami÷-
lies.
The United States has been using half to two-thirds of the anhual
Indian ouput of 40,000 to 50,000 tons of raw lac, chiefly for the manufac-
ture of phonograph records.
The United States is now produc ing records from synthetic resins of plastics.
Han observers said if the shellne Indian industry in India is. to survive two remedies are necessary; to lower the of shellac and to carry on re- price search on sheline for the manufacture of records which
which are unbreakable
and free from surface noise,
"Any complacency on the part of the trade resulting in attempts to secure high
ilen destructices will, mean praç- of the industry," these sources sald.
Indian shellae annual value of Indi £7,500,000, Omletal figures place the number of workers employed in con- verting crude lad into purified shellac at 30,000, and the number of families. who collect Ine from trees at more. than 3,000,000Associated Press.
a. ranges from - £1,500,000 to
10
The United Press informant sald Spanish circles outside Spain are at loss to understand the purpose of naming such noted "anti-democratic figures to democratic posts, although il.ray be an attempt to counter the recent anti-Franco attitudes in the Western Hemisphere.".
in this connection, Moscow Radio a Tuss dispatch reparted recently which sald Venezuela was consider- ing pushing anti-Franco action by UNO, as were other Latin-American countries.
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Cunard vessels lost during the war."
These losses are still seriously ro- stricting the passenger services
Orders for two new Cunar- which used to operate from Liver,
ders, the cost of which will run pool.
Into millions, can be expected in
These new ships probably repre-
the near future, writes an Even-sent "the next building programino"
Ing Standard reporter.
The two ships bave already been
referred to recently by. Mr F. A.
Bates,
Chairman of the Cunard
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