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Your hands need care, your nails will respond.
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prived of the moisture necessary ta keep them flexible. Nails need con- There are many different theories tact with the air to obtain and re- about what makes gernalls brittain their moisture. They must not tle. Dry climate, diet, dishwashing, be "smothered" by polish
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Unt typing; all of these have their sup-shuts off this moisture. If the nails porters. And, of course, the longer the nails are the more danger of "sealed" by the polish so that brenkage. That's one reason why the polish is kept out, the nails tend 10 dry out and become brittle. we hear more groans of "Heaven, That's why it is important-to wear there goes another nali!" from the long-nalled Indles thne from those mesh-ilke polish which permits the
passage of mosture to the nails. who wear their nails shorter.
Opinions vary about nail polish And modern polishes are mesh- alan. Some people prefer to let their like ani porauss as well as lasting nalls "rest" for
a few days every and brilliant. Polishes of this kind now and then on the theory that are water-permeable, letting the' polish is hard on the natis. Others moisture through and so allow the believe that the polish actually helps nalls to adjust to different tempera- to preserve the nails by helping tures and remain flexible, them to realat wear.
these
arguments,
There are two important sources
the blood stream and the air?
Olet
It is interesting in the light of from which this moisture is drawn
to study the re- parts of one of the country's best; also' affects 'the pails: A properly equipped laboratories on their re- | balanced diet, high in calcium con- cent studies of the brittle-nail prob- tent, such as milk and other dairy tem From these findings we learn foods, tends to strengthen the nails.
that it's not so much whether or not
to wear polish as whether we wenɛ the right kind of polish.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1948,
Soviet Iron Curtain May Drop On Ballet
Alexandra. Danilova, world famous Russian ballet dancer, says her nativo country, having cen- sured its composers and painters for producing works "tainted with capitalism," will probably get around to the ballet next and find that it is "corrupt", and "un-Communistic."
MR JAMSON HUANG,. Chinese lyric toñor, who is giving a recital in aid of · Seventh Day Adventist funds next Tuesday, at St Stephen's College.
TREMENDOUS
CHINA CIVIL
WAR TOLL
The beautiful blue-eyed, nu- burn-haired teacher, who is performing in New York as the iending ballerina of the Ballet Russo De Monto Carlo, de- nounced Soviet censorship of art as 'absurd" and "dangerous" In an interview with United Press reporter, Ruth Constad.
Dantova, ned from Hussin In 1928. She said she found more freedom of interpretation in capitalist ebun- trics.".
"You cannot set limitations toʻort," Danilova insisted in her Russian- accented English. “You must allow artists freedom of expression."
Although Russia has always led the world in the ballet, Danilova pre- dicted Its turn is coming for criticism by the Soviet council,
And her turn would come, too, if she were silil dancing in Russia.
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I am sure that my country would consider my interpretation, of dance as bourgeols, and corrupted by all the capitalist countries I have danced in." the, pelite prima donna said smilingly..
Danilova said she is sure Russia soon will be condemning Its own ballet na "frivolous" and "unpoliti- cul." Such ballets ax Tachal- kowsky's "Swan Lake" and "Grelle" are without a moral, she said, and inuch loo pootle for the Communists. "In Russia anything frivolous. light or glamorous is denounced as seless. Russia would approve only
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of the farmer or miner or some other THERE are many different working -man typė."
Try dancing
She waved an expressive hand, the part of a miner
with entrechats and pirouettes. Such
nonsense."
Danilova explained
What the civil war has cost China so far may well be gauged from the statement made by Major-General Teng Wen-yi, art form not because it
Russia con Information Director of the thinks the melody of a composition Ministry of National Defence, or the colours of a picture glorify according to whom the Chinese capitalism, but because the work ap
peals only to a chosen few instead Communists during 1947 alone of the masses. destroyed mines and factories
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Recipe
This is a prize-winning recipe for a date creum tart, to be eaten hot or cold.
to US$10,000,000,000.
and
Moreover, the Communists des troyed construction materials railing stock enough to furnish China with 7,000 miles of railroads, reports Reuter.
General Teng Wen-y's statement Short crust or biscuit pastry may revealed that the Government forces be used.
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ponses employed today for the two bl. One group of players uses an opening two bid as a weakness bid, signifying a hand that is not strong enough to open with a one bid. It is used as semi-pre-
bid. emptive bid, and of course there is the group which uses the forcing two
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Eastern players have developed a series of responses to the two bid as follows: With two aces, bid four no trump over your partner's two bid; with only one
oce, 'bid the sult Forgetting The Humdrum headed by the see; without an ace,
hut holding a trick and a half con "As though anything beautiful sisting of either three kings or king would not appeal to the masses as- queen of one suit and king of much as to the select few. patronise the arts.
who
dancing or barn dancing into
"You don't have to bring folk ballet to make the
the ordinary folks like it," Dantuva sald.. "They'd rather lose themselves in a beautiful ballet and forget their humdrum existence."
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fought #2 battles with the Com-
Danilovn recalled that, when she munist Army in 1947 and inflicted entered school in Russia as a girl 700,000 casualties. on them, thus to study battet, the government en- bringing to 1,387,587 the total num- |couraged experimentation, ber of Communist casualties since V-J Day. 2
The Government forces on the other hand, lost. 589,000 men since two years ago.
The following ingredients needed: Six ounces short crust biscuit pastry, dessertspoon but ter, 1 tablespoon flour, i1⁄2 cups milk, 1⁄2 teaspoon grated lemon rind, 1 cup stoned dutes, 1⁄2 cup sugar, 2 eggs. extra tablespoons sugar for merin- gue, vunilla.
Roll short.crust thinly, Jine_x_7in.. Conderiming the Communist rebels tart plate. Prick base of tart with for the inhuman methods they cm- a fork. Bake in hot oven, 450 deployed to wipe out non-sympathetic Krces 15 to 20 minutes. Melt but-elements and to force people to join ter, add Sour pook 2 or 3 minutes their armies, General Teng without browning. Add milk, stie said that the Coutrun Tewellers soners until mixture boils nud, thickens. ant students who had escaped from Fold in finely chopped dates, lemon that the population of North China Communist-controlled arens revealed and Manchuria had been reduced by about 20.000.000 shire V-J Day. Moreover, 14,000,000 others in these arons had been driven from their nomes in the, last 12 months.
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sugar. Fill into pastry allow to become quite cold, Whip eg whites stily, gradually add sugar, and bent to meringue consistoney. Flavour with vanilla. Pile roughly on lo tart.
Return to very modernte oven un- It meringue is set and lightly brown-
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Peasant Spearhoads
another, bld three no trump. If you have none of these holdings, but you do have four trumps and a singleton, or a king and one, jump to four of your partner's sult.
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Today's hand is an example bidding employing, this convention. The two spade bid by Smuth is n game demand bld. North's bid of Iour no trump simply shows two aces,
South is pretty sure then that they pre going for a slam, and his five heart bid is definitely a slani try. North Jumps to six spades to indicate we that in addition to the two aces he has a goodi spade sult. Thus it is easy for South to bid seven spaces, which is made against any opening.
Then we could interpret as liked," she said. "When I see now that all the poetry and romance must leave the bullet if it is to be accep- table to the Communist Party, I am, glad that I left.
The ballerina has since performed in every country In Europe and in South Amerien.
HE SHOULD BE IN
HON. CIRCUS
The Tokyo newspaper Nippon Times, in a feature story describing the Emperor, Hirokilo's efforts to humanise himself, says:
1 "It is not every man who can take between his toes and fan him. a fan self, Peasants in North China
Not only can Emperor Hirohite and perform this stunt, but he is able to Manchuria have been divided into five groups
carmarked
- so while swimming. He can als and
for training under several leading Com-swim in the rain, holding an open munist generals. These mene umbrella in one hand." _cording to the statement are given.
a short period of training and then forced at gunpoint" to spearhead Communist drives,
The Communist way of drafting peasants has aroused such hatred among the people of North Ching, it is claimed, that they have organised "People's Militia" "unlts to defend themselves.
According to oicial figures, In Honan Province alone these "People Militia" unils in 1947 killed more thon 13,000 Conimunists for their own loss of only 18,000.-Neuter.
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