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This Spaco Evory Day

women

BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

W3

Posid for Lois Leeda,

There are newer ways to wear a scarf thun on your head, says Lois Leeds.

Arc

ONC

Any-

IT'S NEW! .

wider plul or striped thing goes, use your own idenst Lipsticks in sets of three smartest. You can

carry them in

Scarves are the mad rage! Make your handbag bút you must have them into aprons over Black basic the same shudes' on your dressing¦dresses, not for work, but for. High table, to apply at home.

Plastic eyeglass frames for eve ning wear have a design of Black face- pretty iden! You can "tle them up" with a Black lace evening dress or Black luce hairbows,

Hormone

creams are

Hairbows of crist ribbon are a new

Style! And for blouses, hat covers, waistline decorations. A long, Y scarf is pulled through the button- hole of a sports jacket and allowed to wave in the breeze,

Use your own creative ideas and have new touches of colour. And be

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1948.

Your Robot Valet Is DUMBBELLS

No Longer A Dream

IT is 7 a.m. The alarm clock shrills. You wake up, and turning to Robert the Robot say: "Robert! Get me a nice cup of tea."

VERDICT

ON A

JUDGE:

Full of surprises

FISCOUNT SANKEY, Lord Chan-

cellor from 1020 to 1035, who died at his Kensington home last month, aged 81, will be remembered as the judge who did what was NOT expected of him.

Lloyd George made him chairman of the Coal Commission in 1819. The politics of Mr Justice Sankey, as he then WRA, wero mystery; but. it was believed he leaned 10- warda Conservatism.

of

Lloyd George was shocked when he proposed the nationalisation coal royalties. His proposals were shelved.

He was noted as:-

Robert, who has been sleep- ing in his bedside armchair, gets up without a word of complaint. trots off to the kitchen, brows a nice cup of tea and hands it to you on a tray.

,

After

that, Robert will

110 practically any household attore you require.

He will turn on your bath, wash up the dishes, and sweep out, the sitting-room. He will even put out the cat at night.

Put him in an office and he wil work out intricate calculations faster than a chartered accountant. Put him in a factory and he will sort out different-shaped mechanical parts at lightning speed.

Not A Dream

DOBERT the Robot is no Wellsian dream of thousands of years hence.

He is an electronic with an almost human brain," who, if the demand existed, scientists had the spore time, und money were available 10 manu- facture him, could be produced

within two years.

A WIT.-He once prepared a joke carefully, but when he fired it at a barrister in court it was mistaken for a point of order, and he was solemnly told that it had been over-year-old nied by the Court of Appeal!

A WALKER. He wore a pędo- meter, and never took a taxi until he had, walked five miles each day, leave his train at a nearby, station In going to country assizes he would

and walked in to town.

A POOR SCHOLAR, according to

His bla headmaster.

Latin WIK

gating by sure to wear your pearls over a described as "Inaccurate. his Eng- favour and are giving real results on high, around-the-throat scurft

Nish mature or overly-dry skins.

essays "undistinguished," his divinity poor." He added: "The truth was always to be found at the bottom of the well and the reports ended with the words, 'Progress and conduct satisfactory"."

licudline fashion now.

a

their

The cosmetic stylints

Plaid over-the-shoulder bags, plus plaid belt, are News!

are taking

fall makeup colours from the

tapestries of long ago.

Three odd ribbons are worn to- ! gether with tailored blouses, like!

this. An inch-wide Black ribban, a wider Chartreuse ribbon and R

Minute Makeyo 4 GABRIELLE

DATMEAL

Here's an old, but over now beau. ty tip. Hair ally? Just won't look fretty? So little time? But, what's' this? Minute Shampool Take a few tablespoonsful of oat maal from the kitchen shelf. Work li läte the scalp and hair. Quickly brush it through your hair, The oatment ab. morba the excess oil, Your hair is now manageable.

SIDE GLANCES

R

ILLUSION STRIPES

4 ima plece effect is created by a jacket front attached

to the coal of this boldly-striped Reville model, whose wide sleeves are emphasised by the “cape"

louider Vine

By Galbraith

"You're sure lucky--my pop never plays with me!"

So

research

ARE YOU TRAVELLING

FIRST CLASS?

NOO! I'M IN A TERRIBLE

SHAPE!

LESSON HAND

McKENNEY ON BRIDGE

Better Your Game With Safety Plays

1t.

150

By WILLIAM E, MCKENNEY

ODAY'S HAND is scheduled as a machine Tor

lesson hand. I suggest that you clip.

It is series of safely plays which you should memorise.

On my radio programme recently Oswald Jacoby termed a safety play as no insurance play. It is certain that if you will themorise the safety. be them you will 38-plays and! Bays Dr Grey Walter,

your director of physiological classed as an expert, among

friends. at Burdert Neurological Institute, Bristol, who has already Of course I cannot give you all made a toy tortoise with 10 times of the safety plays In ane article, the intelligence of the that

creature for a complete explanation of cach around crawls

back, play, but you will see the logic of

them. From garden.

next week, we have an article embodying each. Walter's tortuise, which

A-K9 3 2 opposite Q 8 5 4-Lend works with the ald of miniature

ndio valves, microphones, photo to the queen to protect against os-

ing instruments electric cells, temperature-record-ing to the, J 10 7 6 on your right.

tiny notor, can, at the sound of the human voice, sit up and beg.

Dr

and a

your

will

AQ 10 4 3 2 opposite 6 5 or 7 6 5 --You can lose one trick. Lead small toward the queen. I the jack queen, is played, go up with the otherwise go up with the ace.

AK J. 10 3 2 opposite 5 4-Take' the first round finesse. Do not play

Within Two Years

***There CAID Dr. Grey Walter:

would

little difficulty in the ace first. be

fret start producing the

within two years.

A CHURCHMAN-and once chided a cursing traveller on a slow train, "If you stop cursing and praying we may get there sooner,"

EVEN THE MAID IS

'EXPORT'

robot

model

A KJ Z opposito 5 4 3-You want to win three tricks. Lead the ace "It would probably cost several and king first, then play small from thousand pounds 10 make, and dummy toward the jock. would take up all the working

time of several development CA- A 10 3 2 opposite KQ 5 4-Cash gineers. Production of all inven- the king first, then the queen. tions JB largely * question

of demand and economies.

"The AJ 3 2 opposite K9 5. 4-Cosh the

steum engine, for instance, might are, then lead to the king, finessing been developed hundreds the nine if a low card is played by

have

of years before it Was

the opponent.

the demand had existed. It was not A 10 9 3 2 opposite K 4-To hold until slave labour became too ex|to one loser, cash the king, then lead

Britain's latest dollar-earning pensive that the mechanical engine low and go up with the acc.

was invented to replace it. export walked aboard a Transnt-

A 10 9 4 3 2. opposite K 5, or "Radar would not have become A 10 0 3 2 opposite K 5 4, or

lantic plane recently. And Mr Douglas Compton-James, 50-operative for several generations it A 10 9 2 opposite K 5 4 3-fo hold the demand for its hivention had to one loser lead to the king, then year-old retired Inland Revenue not become so urgent during the a small one to the len-spot, taking official, chalked up the first in-war. At that time, also, the cost of the finesse if the opponent plays. stalment of the 400 dollars as production did not count.

month he is earning by export-

ing domestic servants.

-air- Compton-James--at-jis-hamo -

Would Enjoy Joke

in West-street, Axminster. Devon.VIE robot, which like the tor- anid: "undreds of Americans and Canadians want servants, and there are penty of girls here willing to go. By advertising and sifting through the applications And the right girl-or man."

First 10 Ko were 22-your-old Alexandrina Cay and her mother, of Telford-street, Inverness, who will become maid and cook in the kitchen of a Toronto barrister. They will cast him £87 cach-£77 tare and £10 in dollars search charge.

قدم

18 to 50

toise, would control its own human actions in answer to the Volce, could be made in the outword form of a human being, if required, and could be made to perform almost any action which can be carried out by the average, simple- minded person.

low.

Our next lesson hand is scheduled for next Thursday, and I will give you some additional safety plays then to give you a good start_in_1046.

Check Your Knowledge

1. How many dozen in a gross?

the 2. Name

oldest British

a i colony.

"It could also net as 4 super- efficient shorthand typist, or as factory worker performing scores of mechanical tasks.

¤

"It could even appreciate a sim- pla joke.

at It would laugh man slipping 011 a banann skin; but it would not see the subtlety of

Applicants must be British or Irish, aged between 18 and 50, medicallyn 'shaggy dog' story. al-and, in most cases, able to drive

a car. They must give five years' references and photographe,

robot "The electronic

bo

3, Name the, Arst American, to receive the Nobel Prize in ilterature.

4. When was the first bicycle in- vented and by whom?

5.

What percent of the known lent ore is located in the

States of America?

United

made all right. But is there the 6. What is the chief food product demand for it-and-where-in-the-of-the-Western-Hemisphere?----

In a signed contract, 12 months' | money?"- employment is guaranteed with pay ranging from £5 a week all found a maid in the U.S., to £12 a week-enough to run a car-for good cook.

for

Three out of, four applications say. She must be Scats--they are hard workers." One in 20 wants nu Irish, i or Welsh maid.

At present only ten servants month are going To assist him in dealing with letters in eight languages he also imports maids from the Continent-Mr Compton- James is helped by his wife, son-in- law, and two clerks,

CHESS PROBLEM

By A. K. ELWORTHY

Black, 0 pieces.

White, 0 pieces. ·

White to play and mate in 1100.

Solution to yesterday's problem;

...

1,4-86, any; 2, Q,R,or Kt (ch,

(Answers on Page 4)

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-29

The Golliwog seinna the silver tesapppet and stares at it. ** How do -karth did you get this?” he aska'

and did you really manage to blow k? This Santa Claus's own tampet, and it's only used to call the guard of toy soldiers together in time of danger." "But it's my Christmas present." insists Repert

"It arrived on my doorstep wrapped up in a box and brown paper,”. can hardly believe I made auch

a mistake." Whispers Golly.

me the box,”

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