1947-12-04 — Page 3

Women

This Space Every Day

BEAUTY ARTS By LOIS LEEDS

Posed for Lola Leeds.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947.

French Penal Colony DUMBBELLS

Quite A Paradise

Prisoners in French Guiana, once notorious throughout the world as the site of the now defunct Devil's Island penitentiary, regard their prison life as a paradise, compared with the lot of prisoners in France, according to Brigadier Charles Pean, head of the Salvation Army's Men's Social Service Department in France.

Brigadier Pean, who embark, "have a little to drinit," and get com- ed on a campaign to alleviate paratively ample food. In France, conditions in the French penal he said, diere is not sufficient food or clothing, and the prisons are over- aettlement in 1928 and saw his crowded because of the rise in de- efforts rewarded by the closing linquency and the wartime destruc- of Devil's Island in 1938, is tion of gaols, again en route to French

IT SAYS HERE THAT ONE-CIGAR

CONTAINS

ENOUGH

HOW CAN TWENTY

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Guinna. On this visit he is to returning prisoners, arrive in France MCKENNEY

about

The Brigadier explained that when close à Salvation Army facility the Salvation Army rehabilitates he established for the relief of them, helps them to find work and Jiborated prisoners who were one-third of the men who need treat-

arranges hospitalisation for unable to pay their way back toment for such discuses as malaria, France, and he is also to con- dysentery and tuberculosis. tinue the work of liquidating the entire ponal settlement.

Elimination of the settlement, he told newsmen at a conference is ex- pected to be accomplished in the Text few years.

Brigadier Fean zak that the 800 prisoners remaining in French

their Gulana to serve out

terms Begin your day with a beauty bath or shower!

"would all escape the day before the BEGIN YOUR DAY!

der. If you wear dark clothes thebont comes" if they heard that they through and were to be transferred to France. Make yourself freak, glowing and owder is apt to sift

show.

He contrasted this feeling to the lovely to begin the day! Step Into

days when prisoners there found your tub or shower and turn on the

After your breathing and stretch-to be a dread place with a high cold water. Use a bit sponge or a ing exercises, the cold water and the death rate. A total of 70,000 pri- small, coarse towel.

Wet it in the bath lotion spraying, your body will soners were sent there from the time cold water and rab! Scrub every he tingling with stimulated eircula- it was established in 1852. inch of your body. Do not stand ton. Next. your tooth-cleaning directly under the shower or alt routine. Now you are ready to down in the ed water if you are ur Ince. using a lub.

do

Ample Food

Today in the French Guians seitte- Use cleansing cream quickly, then ment, he said, prisoners do general Start by dashing the cold. water pomowa the rewicht with cleansing! | work

community, smoke, -un lace and throat. (Wear a cap to tissues. Pat on

Jittle skin protect your wave). Then scrub the freshener. Then wash your eyes. shoulders, arms, back,

abdomen, Use an eye cups to flush out any im- thighs and legs. This stimulates purities. A tiny bit circulation and will give your body

of powder SUGAR

foundation, a quick patting of face

your

a warm glow. This will take only a powder on face and throat, a stroke few minutes. Dry your body by rubbing vigorously with a turkish towel. Bring up a red głow with your rubbing.

of your lipstick. Now brush hair with a few brisk strokes of your brush. Comb it and arrange,

Slip into your clothes, something favourite lotion. pretty and feminine, even if you

Now you are ready to spray your skin with your

Spray it on and, with your hands, take it off after breakfast when you pal in Iron neel to toes, if you are do your housework.

going to wear light coloured clothes

use a dusting of taleum or bath paw-

Minute Makeys

by GABRIELLE

Every woman must have her own comb and brush, Cleanse them fre- quently with warm water and borax. Sun well, Comba should have fairly blunt teeth. No steel or wire combs should ever be used, Brushes must have firm bristles but nover motal "bristles"! Brushes with softer bristles are excellent for polishing" the hair. Brushing atimulates circulation and cloaners the hair. The liale should bo brush- ed upward and outward from the scalpi Brushing cannot be over- dono-

SIDE GLANCES

Making it gay

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Simple, button-through style afternoon dress with usual inuch-a - brillant scart slotted through the front panels and swathing the back.

By Galbraith

COFR, (MT BY HEA BERVICE ING, T., M. BEG, LUR, PAT, GIT,

"Don't take it too hard-the barber says it'll grow out

again in a month or sol"!

AS

SUNLIGHT

SUBSTITUTE

Ordinary table sugar is being used as a substitute for sunlight to make tomatoes grow.

menta,

No less than 1,582 of the ex-con- victo have been repatriated since the war, and only about half of the pre war Devil's Inland population now remains in French Guiana, ho said,

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Natural Resources

Pean Brigadier

Raid that months ago he saw at Sing Sing, the a New York State penetentiary near New York City, n cell block which, ha aald, had been used until five years ugo and since has been destroyed.

"I nover an anything so horrible in French Guiana," he said, explain- Ing that these Sing Sing cells were very small and only had six holes In the door for air.

The French officer declared that The future of French Gulana will be devoted to exploiting its natural-re=" amúrces. A French syndicate has been organised,ho snid, to develop Jumber, gold rind bauxite deposits and banana plantations-Associated Press.

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THERE are two schools' of thought In regard to nee showing for slam bids. Some players use con- ventional bids such ms the. Black- wood or Gerber, while others either make cue-bids or show ስርር. You It is estimated by B.B.C. off-do not always show an ace just to cinis that nearly half a million let your partner know that you have people watched scenes of the it. You might do it to prevent the Royal wedding on television lend of the particular suit.

I liked the way that Tobias Stone of New York quc-bid the diamond strit in today's hand at the national championships tournament. Stone won the national men's pair cham- pionship with S. Mogai of New York.

This was reported to the Sugar sets. Club of America by Robert C. Hockett, scientific director of the It is believed that there are about Sugar Research Foundation, which 30,000 television outfits in use, and sponsored the sugar-sunlight experi- that between 10 and 115 people

gathered around each privately own

find others The sugar was sprayed in liquided set. Schoolchildren on the under sides of tomato leaves gathered around dealers shops, clubs by Professor-F. W. Went, of the and public houses were members of

the huge audlence, California Institute of Technology.

agreed upon. Therefore The tomatoes were grown in a People living within a radius of Stone's Ave-diamond bid said, "I

natural greenhouse. Their

light shty miles of the B.B.C.'s transmit-have

the first-round control of Alexandra was cut down until the plants beeiyne | Ung station of

Palace diamond suit.". North's three-heart stunted.

could receive pictures, but one tele-bid in response to two spades also vision enthusiast living 100 miles was an ace-showing bid. away in

in Guernsey was also watch-

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North bid four spades on this hand, the suit was

Winon his partner in the

Then the sugar spray was used, and the stunted tomatoes grew ind. He was F. Bennett, who hos The bid of five dirmonds recom. well as those getting adequate light built himself a special receiver with plished 's purpose when West failed in lead a diamond. Stone won the Dr Hockelt said that no practical a very high aerial, tests of the ses

of thin discovery furthest away of all B.B.C. television have oven mode, but that it is hoped watchers. to make some this winter,

Recovery From Shock

Was

Not only was this the first time that a royal wedding had been tele- vised, but it was also the first wed- ding of any kind televised.

The results are not expected to be confined to Lomators. The sugari

Success In Poor Light ought to work on alt kinds of plants.

"With these new cameras, it is Dr Hockett said it seems possible that sugar, supplementing light in possible to televise in

very Dor

in greenhouses, may be profitable in light," an official of the B.3.C. ex- terms of larger, earlier and more plained. "They can be used in as numerous fruits and flowers.

poor light as one

candle-power or

It is sali, by the light of a

Batteries of television

cameras,

club lead with the queen, picked up the trumps and led another small club from dummy East put on the ten, Store won with the ace and led clubs. This knocked the eight of

the king and established the jack of clubs in dummy, on which he discarded the losing five diamonds. If West had opened a diamond, the contract would have been defeated.

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1. Who was Guiseppe Garibaldi? 2. Whose last words were "More Delights

3. Does a straight or crooked river have the strongest current?

4. Name the two books that are considered Tolstoy's masterpieces.

Prof. Went found also that when match tomatoes are transplanted, they re- cover from the shock quicker if their cach manned by 30 technicians, were Jeaves have been sugar-sprayed

Abbey As up outside Westminster few hours before the transplanting.

And and

Palace. outside Buckingham Though each camera was stationed

00 Dr Hockett explained that sub- within a range of about

yards, stituting sugar for light seemed a special lensen gave pletures on the naturni experiment because of the television screen which appeared to

phants way that

make their own have been taken from distance of nugar. Al planta produce some only few yards. There were no nugay along with their starches,

arrangements for "live television scenes inside the Abbey, but of B.B.C. made a short .Olm bridal procession walking down the

Sugar Making

This they do by taking carbon dioxide from the air, water from the Boli, and sunlight, and mixing the three with The green colouring matter of leaves, chlorophyll. The mount of sugar so inade rises with the amount of light falling on the leaves. So it occurred to scientists to substitute reedy male sugur for the light.

Prof Went's tomatoes had to be a e sulfanilamide, mixed given with the sugar spray, to keep away enthusiastic moulds that like to use sugar to spread their doprèdations.--- Associated Press,

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