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Women

This Space Every Day

BEAUTY ARTS

By LOIS LEEDS

Posed by Kitty Carlisle for Lola Leeds,"

Do you know that your hair, should take to the breeze!

DO YOU KNOW?

Do you know that you can keep your lips soft, and smooth by put ting a drop of olive oll on your lips at night?

Do you know that sleeping pills are habit forming and very danger- ous? Do you know that a glass of

warmi mlik will induce reattul

sleep?

Do you know that a lemon of vinegar rinse in "hard" water will

prevent that "curd" which forms on your hair, which is indicative of "hard" waler?

Do you know that normal, healthy hair does not fall out easily? A aitfgle normal hair will support two-ounce weight without coming out or breaking!

Do you know that It is better for your spine and for posture to sleep -on a hard bed?

Do you know that a vinegar rinse makes dark hair very soft and easy to manage?

Do you know that the coarse side of an emeryboard should be used to

le soft nails?

Minste Makeyo

4 GABRIELLE

Mon

Jues.

Thurs

One Minute, night and morning, spent in pafting on a tiny bit of cream, erases lines and dryness. An extra Minute, spent in blotting away excess lipstick, gives the well groomed look. An extra Minuta used to wash the eyes wlik lotion preserves Beauty and Good Sight. One Minute to blend rouge bespeaks your good tasta and makes you look both Pretty and Naturall

SIDE GLANCES

Do you know that "nerves" are and nails that break: often the cause of dry skin, dry hair yourself.

So, calm

Do you know that deep breathing

plexions of many singers? Is the reason for the glowing com¬

"Do you know that fresh air vitalises your hair. So, shake your "crowning glory" in, the breeze as often as you can!

THE HONGKONG® TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY

Self-Sacrifice Of Peiping Mother

Three years ago, Mrs Liu's husband died, leaving her with no funds to care for their three children. There was only one way to tackle her problem: get a job to support her family and to send the children. to school.

She could read and write. She could turn to her husband's

STUDIED FOR friends to find her a job suitablo

EXAM IN

PRISON CAMP

Fred Smooker. Roddymoor miner. has just received his first-clase mining engineering certificate, which he gained the hard way,

He studied for it when held in solitary confinement by the Germans by knocking plaster off his cell walls and using it as slates on which to work out mathematical and other problems and to revise his knowledge of mining technicalities gained at

before

he

the local night school Joined the Royal Air Force.

His seven Bircrew comrades were kliled when down in Francey,

on n bombing

were shot

for a woman. Mrs Liu, how- over, did not seck the easy way out. Instead, she chose some- thing which not only made her

famous throughout China over-

night, but gave her as well the. distinction of being the coun- try's first woman pedicab driver...

Mrs Liu began her laborious work last January. after every single possession of berg hnd been pawned to sustain her childretr Without telling anyone, she dis- guised herself as a man, went oul and hired a pedicab.

her children slept, she donned her masquerade, slipped out of her home and went on her business of soliciting passengers, reports Reuter.

From then on, every night, while

Children Found Out

"her

raid on Germany, Warrant Omeer She did this job for two months Smooker

by escaped

parachute, before her dilldren, discovered it. buried it and hid in a corndeld for They begged her to give up this hard three days. Ultimately

kindly A

work and went.so far as to keep her French schoolmaster took care of at home by standing guard at night him, but the Germans eventually to prevent

from going out, accused him caught Fred and

of Eventually, they gave up. Money spying. The schoolmaster was shot. again became scarce and the children acauleseed to their mother on con- Questioned By Gestapo The Gestapo interrogate him for ition that she would work only m

the day and rest at night. long periods, but Fred managed to prove that he was a member of the crew of a wrecked bomber-and not a spy. For nearly 60 days he was

confinement In solitary

kent

In

Do you know that Good Posture is a weapon against the appearance prison. During that time he used at one?

up nearly all the wall plaster as slates for working out mining engineering problems.

HOUSEHOLD

HINTS

DISCOLOURED

pewter articles should

washed in hot soapsuds. then

rinsed tho- roughly 50 that Do кодр is left in crevices. Dry thoroughly to prevent pitting. Light tarnish can be removed with silver polish. If the tarnish is severe, apply silver polish with a cot brush White the polish is wet, apply a heavy lather of mild Roap, work

up to soap lather and polish:

rinse in hot water with ittle softener added, and firy thoroughly. Rub to a soft lustre with a flannel polishing cloth, A soft

surface on pewter.

CURTAINS

At the end of the war he restted work in the at Vigan, studying

pits

the mining engineering Tut

jocal technical college.

Peiping, where this happened, soon learned about the self-sacrifice of this courageous woman. It was · ឆ woman passenger of Mrs. Liu who divulged her identity. The passenger why so deeply moved that she pald Mrs. Liu ten times her furc: This was declined.

When reporters Interviewed her, Mrs. Liu begged that publicity be withheld about her family.

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An Error Sets Up 'Impossible' 1-Bid

By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY

With the award of his mining engineer's certificate has come the parent," offer of a post as Dust Suppression pedient work is no different from any Assistant ot the East Durham other job." Collieries by the National Coal Board. It is 'n far cry to the days when fresh from school he was a pony driver at Roddymoor Colliery, Durham.

"I was only doing my duty us a VY

alic maintained. "My

Mystery Virus Baffles

lustre is preferable to a bright shiny tacks the brain cells was blamed

A mysterio virus which at recently for 12 deaths in Britain- during the past few months.

It was first mentioned cublicly at Measurements for curtains and draperies, must be accurate, for an Wednesbury, Staffordshire.

an inquest on a month-old baby at A post- Inch too much or too little detracts mortem examination showed that from the total effect. For glass cur- the child died from acute inflamma- tains, professionals measure the sash ton of the brain, belleved caused across the Jamb edge to jamb edge by a virus of unknown origin. for width, and from bottom of the rod to the top of the sill for length Allow for shrinkage, hems, casings and hendings, and add this figure to

the total

IVORY

You can tell when an article is genuine ivory by examining its structure. In pure ivory litle waves may be seen under the microscope If not by the naked eye. If the Ivory 1.3 artificial, little holes can be de- lected in the bone.

Walsall General Hospital patholo- the virus was of the encephalitis rists, investigating the deaths, sald

group, they said. group. Little is known about the

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bridge hand he naturally gives them like to have hands written up Jone he played well. Not many of

in which they took the worst of it, but Harry Fishbein of New York not only likes to tell about hands on which he was fixed, but does not mind having them published.

The

Fishbein is a great story teller, jand I wish I could describe this The waters of Moscow's hand as he did after the game. diplomatic colony have been hand was played in the national stirred by a controversy wherein mixed pair championship, won.by the chief characters are Szekfu, Mrs. H. Ansin of Brookline, Mass., choff, Austrian Minister, Saint Pila. Hungarian Minister, Von Bis- and Charles H. Goren of Philadel

Stephen, Hungarian patron saint, Kossuth, leader of the revolution in 1848, and the Hapsburg dynasty,

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Against the little lady in the North position Fishbein

and his partner cashed the

first three rounds clubs, then Fishbein (West) shifted to the nine of diamonds. East won Hungarian Minister Szektu sent a

it, another diamond was eashed, and letter to the diplomatic colony tricks in and I am still holding the Fishbein said, "We had Ave forming them that the Hungarian

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The same virus also was blamer/national day had been changed from ace, jack, cight and five of spades." for the death of a Wallsall, Stafford March 15-anniversary of the 1848 and led a small spade to dummy's August. 20-S1. Stephen's Day-to North ruffed the third diamond shire, policeman, a month ago, who revolution. He referred to the cen- died within five hours of being at- turies' old oppression of Hungary by Now he had six tricks, and he still queen. Fishbein won with the ace. tacked-by-the-virus.

the Austrian Tapsburgs, whereupon Von Bischoff, a charming and rather had the jack, eight and five of with a letter in elegant French old-world Viennese Austrian, replied spades.

But at this point he made a mis- addressed to the diplomatic colony in which he criticised the alleged his take. He led back the club, which torical inaccuracies of Szckfu: gave declarer the opportunity to "Who kept the Hungarian peasan-ittle lady was a good player. She ruff with the seven of spades. The try in a state of serfdom? It was led the queen of hearts and over- at the Hapsburgs but the Hungarian took with the king in dummy. Now landed nobility who, Ignoring the she led the privileges of the widest home rule, when Fishbein played the five-spot, of spades and neglected to introduce reforms. The who revolution

of 1848 broke out in she put on the nine, then led Vienna 1wo days before Budapest, small heart to The Viennese revolted against the heart

dummy's are. was returned, and though dispatch of regiments to suppress the Fishbein still had the jack and eight Hungarian Kossuth rebellion. And fof spades, he was doomed to lose so you are abandoning St. Stephen?" them both.

bury, said there had been a number Frank Cooper, coroner at Wednes- of other cases in other parts of the country during the past few months LAMP SHADES

involving deaths of persons of all ages. Lamp shades must

"Even with the best brains in the be kept free medical profession, no cure has yet from dust or light will be reduced. been found," he said.

"It has not They should be brushed thoroughly been possible to isolate the virus once a week inside and out, with a saft brush or with the soft brush which caused the disease." attachment of the vacuum

cleaner.

Special cleaning depends upon the material of which the shade le made.

CONR. 1948 BY MEA BERVICE, IN, T. I, NEG. U. B. PAY,

By Galbraith

"I don't know why I'm so hungry tonight-those two bowls of chill I ate on the way home must have bòạn da. appetizer!"

Check Your Knowledge

1. Name the first people to use poison gas in modern warfare.

2. From what part of Adam's

body was Eve formed?

3. Name the largest

province.

Canadian

Locate the Yangtze Gorges.

5. Name the composer, some of whose compositions were so difficult that no one but himself 'could, play them.

6. On what date was contact with the moon made by radar?

(Answers on Page 4)

CHESS PROBLEM

by U. IL. D. CLARK and

C. D. RUED

· (BCF Tourney 54)

Black, B pieces.

White, 10-ploces," " White to play and mate in two. Solution to yesterday's problem:

1. Kt-Ra

B2; 1

three of

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-10

Mr. Beat looks astonishment at the wonderful things that Rupert shows him. "We're going to have a hand of our very own." cries the little bear, and we're going to practise up on the common. We've had one march, but we didn't sound quite like a real band. I don't know what was wrong,

Well, why not try all playing the same tune ?” smiles Mr. Bear. *** That's an idea."! saya Rupert. **** We will try it I"

THE END,

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