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Bohemian Hand Cut

CRYSTAL

from the

STEPHANIE WORKS

in

Czechoslovakia

at

INGENOHL'S

Crystal Department

Gloucester Arcade

(SOLE DISTRIBUTOR IN HONGKONG)

The Most Beautiful Presents

At Reasonable Prices

knit T-Shirts

by

воорск

In the army, the navy and war plants millions

of men learned there is nothing as comfortable for summertime as a "skivvy" ---- tho knit “T-shirt"

with short elceves that absorbs perspiration

while it lots the breezes in. Now Coopers- the folks who make famous Jockey Underwear- have styled up these shirts for civilian wear,

In amart colors and stripes—color-fast-washablë. Lay in a supply now and enjoy them all summer long.

Available at Hong Kong's Leading Stores.

SORE THROAT quickly eased and

protected

Comfort and guard your sore throat by waking Feps antiseptle breatheable tablets.

Dissolving in the mouth, a Peps releases rich medicinal essences which soothe soreness and quickly restore the delicate membranes to health. Carried by the breath deep into the fungs, these essences give antiseptic protection to your throat, breathing passages and lungs.

-TAKE

Antiseptic Breatheable

Tablets NEVER BE WITHOUT A SUPPLY

"PEPS

HONG KONG STAGE CLUB

presents

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1948,

Things That Go Bump In The Night

by

CLIFFORD DAVIES

THE MISSIONS TO SEAMEN

for four nights at 8.30 on April 28th, 29th, 30th & May 1st

Advance booking at MOUTRIES, and also at the MISSIONS on the night of the show from 7.30.

WOMANSENSE

"BAT'S-WING" DRESSING UP THE

BONNET

Joining the spring parade is this bonnet. Il la made of rippled brim black organdle in four layers, with a stand- ¡up "bai's-wing" trimming.

BATHROOM

By ELEANOR ROSS

опо

VAILABLE. now are to our way of thinking? In

beautiful accessories de shop we admired a special super |

duper version of this bath: neces- sory. It has a shelf with a built-in: othtray and soap dish, a vanity com partment for pedicure pieces, brush and comb. creams and other cos- a prize package, meties. and, for two clips in the mirrored lid to hold newspaper. book or magazine to make reading in the bath as popular as reading in bed. *

It

signed to bring more beauty and utility to the bathroom, accessories so hand- Rome that they offer. good solution for a shower gift, or even u wedding present. For what bride would not be grate ful for a set of frosted lucite Rccessories, both handsome and practical?

If you are out for a new bath- room scale, which is also a useful

One set Includes a translucent gift, there's an old favourite with a hamper, a waste basket, a powder long overdue improvement. It ̃has" box, and a catch-all box for pin, again,

a magnifying glass over, the dial, a and such. And· nirpins

would boon for the nearsighted or very where is there a bride whio not rejoice in one of those vanity talk

luxury, lub trays, the ultimate in

Symptoms of St. Vitus Dance

By HERMAN N. BUNDESEN, M.D.

For those building'or remodelling.. there is a line of baked earthware fixtures,

designed to replace

cast iron.

When it comes to dressing up the

CHOREA or St Vitus dance is the bloed, in a very small tube, If old bathroom, calour proves a valu. S

These

tion.

On the other

hand, when

Infec-

•

коез

clear, rich

or

There

are

the

The Hat for Your Hairdo

A hairdo that in almple, like the one word by Screen Star Virginia

[Huston, will look well with both plalu and elaborats hats; **

By HELEN FOLLETT a softer frame for the face than the sleek back, straight effect with hair PEAKING of hairdos, which heaped high.

813. time.

pan-

you

Should it happen that you desire

Jour

a "inore decided, change and locks are of sufficient length,

you

do you prefer, the topknot It produces a head silhouette always. Towels

or the flat top? The flat top quite different from any the one of the mysterious all- the child with chorea has a normal able standby, as

sedimentation rate and the heart is were never so handsome as they

If you like to wear a small ments of the nervous system not affected, it is thought that ibn are this Spring, made sa by the use seems to be gaining in popula- fer have flaunted for some

women prefer. It cake hat stopped down over one ear, which seems to attack children condition is not due to the same of

colours. There are rity. Many cause as rheumatic fever.

towels in bright red, flamingo and because it lends itself agreeably this coiffure is your dish. Should almost exclusively.

100 Over one-half of more than

deep sapphire blue for those weary to any style of hat. Those you take a fancy to sport a lid that who choren

high, wide and handsome, were of white with restlessness children with Starting

partels.

ean do that, too, Without doubl, it and the inability to sit still, it studied between 1834 and 1947 had towels in a lovely pearl gray, which towering rolls must have been, a

Roes beautifully with pink or yel meant for the hat hater. Yes, in a most convenient mode. usually goes on until it has the no evidence of rheumatic

low. Handsome, too, is a line of there are plenty of them. Won't child twitching and jerking

Other Signs Noted

embossed. paisley-patterned towels put on a chapenu without almost constantly.

the with matching tub mats Also new,

can part them front and back, cross apasms or contractions of the sedimentation rate is increased in as a washable, deep-piled bathroom growling and grumbling.

Flat Top

the back strande ribbon fashion, muscles are entirely out of the child with chorea, active rheumatie rug that has later sprayed on

found to be pre- back to prevent skidding.

The away-from-the-face colffure form large sculptured curls to cover persists. With the Bat top there are your child's control and may become fever is usually

cars. You'll need clips or rent. Other signs of acute rheuma

As for plastic shower and window no wave lines from the forehead to fuck combs to keep this arrange- so severe as to make it impos- tie fever were noted in eight out of

handsomer the nape. Side locks carry a wide-ment intact, but you will have the sible for him to feed himself ten of the children who had a high curtain sets, these are

than ever. One line has matched undulation, cover the tops of the satisfaction of knowing that your or to talk properly. It is scarce- sedimentation rate, and almost two-

to yardage go with: the plastic cars, are folded into a thirds

soft roll, hairdo e distinctive and now. of these eventually had some

shower curtain so that one can run bun or chignon at the back. This ly any wonder that it often involvement of the heart that those up window curtains to a specific de- quaint arrangement suits the dress sweep upward, curly enda

Or, the two back

resting changes an obedient, happy

It is interesting to

foot horen, sign and add vanity table skirts or fachions of the moment. It is not just below the crown of the head. child into one that is cross and children

who

suffered upholster a bench to match.

elaborale, is easily arranged, forms without rheumatic fever

That's cute, too. irritable.

most severely from the emotional disturbances and changes in dis- Fosition which seems to be a part of this disorder. Wilfulness, outbreaks of temper, and odd behaviour of mil corts were far more noticeable in this group than in those where accompanied rheumatic cheren fever, On the other hand, there is a greater tendency for the chorea to recur in the rheumate group.

Cause Unknown

Rheumatic Fevor

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

The Very Laziest Animal

-General Tin Learned All About the Yawner By MAX TRELL

It is believed that this disor- der may come from the same cause as rheumatic fever,

are condition in which there pain and swelling in the joints, together with more or 'less severe heart damage. And it Is true that many children. who

Though much research on the have rheumatic fever also deve

do I NARF and Hanid asked General lop chorea. It has recently, subject has been done, ive sull

story....a not know the cause either for rheu-Tin to tell them a been suggested, however, that matic fever or for, chorea, or the hunting story. For the General, in many cases chorea or St exnet relationship between them. It Vitus dance occurs alone and, may be that this new view has, in these instances, no rela-chorea as something quite apart from rheumatic fever will give tion to rheumatic fever.

medical scientists a new clue to the cause of both of these afflictions of childhood.

as everyone knew, was a great of hunter, and had been In all the

mountains lungles and forests and

all over the world, hunting strange. unimals.

Honid a

There is a test known as the sedi-

At the moment General Tin was mentation test, which helps to tell

standing quietly by the side of the when Infections of any sort are

Cherea usually can be cleared up playroom door with his musket over present in the body. This test in with such methods as the fever his shoulder. But he said he would

treatment, by, determining

от the carried out

Injection

hunting of tell Knart and rapidly the blood cells settle out of typhoid vaccine to produce fever story.

tttacks. Of course, complete rest "It's about the time I hunted the is important, and sedatives or Yawner," he began. "I happened quieting drugs also may be useful, to be in the jungles of "

AUTOMATIC

BOILER

how

NEW type of automalle boiter.

A recently introduced, automatical

ly regulates the intensity of the fire. fanning it up when losing heat and reducing it to only 10 percent of normal fuel consumption when the desired heat is reached.

Automatic control la obtained by a thermostat, the "brain" of the bojler which starts or stops the elec- tric driven fan. When "dling"

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#mall natural draughter through the aperture of a valve serves to main- tain a sleeping re..

The boller is Intended for

fisc with small graded anthracite. The coal is contained in a fuel hopper. and falls by gravity through a fuel valve which can be opened or closed by a lever. Initial ignition of the coat in the firebox can be produced in the usual way, and when lighted refuelling, clinkering, and all. attention to the fire can be effected without the. Bre going out.

once

As the coat burna away the small amount of residue is formed Into n single clinker by the high tempern- ture produced. This clinker 18 easily removable by the tools pro-. vided.

The new boiler, called Trianco, is designed specially, Indirect domestic systems Incor porating the use of a calorifier. turn of the thermostat knob ensure a constant

supply of water for heating and other

tho for

A

will hot uses

at the desired temperature, During the periods when the thermostat, because of Increused" water tempera- ture, has stopped the fan, the Ore will continue to burn at a reduced rate, obtaining its air under the in- fluence of the normal chimney draught through a -special valve built into the fan casing.

RED RYDER

TEPITAS HOSS IS PLUMB, SCRIMINATIV

1 GOTTA

GET ANOTHER

Pompadour

The "cuff"?-worn with this pompadour evening gown is really's handbag in matching. material.

MEANWHILE RED FADER'S POSSE VENTS DEENJO

HERE'S WHERE SHE WENT INTO THE CREEK,RED. BUT I ITILLITAKE AN HOUR TO .. FIND WHERE SHE CAME

OUT!

The Yawner? Kaart brake In to say in a puzzled voice. "I never heard of an animal called Yowner."

If thirty, the. Yawner walted for rain and opened his mouth,

The General Scowled General Tin scowled. "Did ̈ ̈ ̈you i

"You just said they never climbed or the ever hear of the Gloop, White Spotted Cheep. or the Water trees." sald Knarf Quacker"

"That's it. They never will. 50

· Kharf said he had never heard. I was puzzled and astonished to find of those animals either. Hanid this one at the very top. To make shook her head too in agreement it more puzzling, I saw that this was a very old Yowner. So in addi-

with her brother.

"Exactly," said the Tin Soldter. tlon to being laży, it hardly seem There are lots of animals you've ed to have the strength to climb never heard about. But that doesn't up to the top of that very tall oak. to aren't mean they

running around Well, it took me quite a while somewhere. They never heard of And out how it got there," General

elther. But I'm

not a bit sur Tin said with a smile. "But I did didn't climb, prised you never heard of the find out. And it Yawner. Very few people have. It's either, nor was it carried up

you

a very odd and unusual animal, and anyone else."

only comes out between twelve

o'clock and noon every day."

same time!" Hahld cried.

to

་

But General Tin didn't seem hear her... "There's no lazier animal

by

get there?" Knarf

the It

strands

QUICKWINK RIDDLERS

?

SARABY

FLEZERUNGE

DON'T BRAC

can

Why is there less boasting now than in candle-light days?.. Now we don't have to do 80 much-

Do the puzzle and find the miss- ing word.

Shadows Wore Curious "How did it "Twelve o'clock and noon is the und Haald both asked, bursting with'

curiosity.

"Very simply, and quite in

ulazy

Yawner would do way u in the world than the Yawner. The One day it

on happened to find only thing it ever learns to make acorn lying on the ground. So Is its bed. It's too lazy to wash, or went to sleep curled around comb its hair, or go to the brook When spring came, the acorn drink of water. When it gets sprouted. But the Yowner, feeling turned really thirsty, it lies out in the rain comfortable and lazy, just with its mouth open and lets the over on its back, with its paws fold- drops fall in. Once in a great while ed behind its head.

The

next

1or

IL

it will drag itself up the stump of year the sprout grew taller, and

RRR

6. RR

Read down: --Worn by a judge. 2-Part in a play. 3-Space. 4- What one does with a pair of cars. 5-Makes umbrellas go up. 6It: decorales a finger. 7-Fury.

Now read across the third

The answer is on this page.

of letters for the missing word.

די

DOT DRAWING

,10

row

d' tree. Naturally none of the other there was the Yawner, still on top

By drawing straight lines from: animals will be seen with it. Even of it. And finally, many years later,1 to 2, 2 to 3, etc., you will make the snall (who isn't really lazy, but if only slow) by,

Was M

Rupert helps Dr. Lion-25

'a pleture of one of Edison's inven- tree and the great will hurry to pass it Yawner was still on top! Now, did tions.

you ever hear of anything as lazy On A Tree Top

as that?" "Well," said General Tin. “I was hunting lions and tigers one day in the jungles of Africa, and had just sat down under an African oak tree to have my lunch, when I suddenly heard a loud yawn. Imagine my astonishment, on looking up, to dis- cover u Yawner at the very top of the tree?"

Tride

SHE SEEMS TO SAVVY THIS. COUNTRY?

YUH DERN JOODYSHES MILES AHEAD

OF US BY

NOW!

QUICKWINK ANSWER``·

-HOME

HOSSES?

3 4

R R

R I A

N

By Fred Harman

Thanking Billy, Rupert runs off 10- ward the distant fortress. The way become rougher and more difficult and there is no path; "This in harder than I expected." matters the little, bear."1 do hope mumeroy'a not getting worried at my being away so long. I can't turn back now because there's an awful snowstorm coming and I must chance getting shelter inside the fortress if the Wise Old-Cost doesn't mind -He

•forward1against the rising:

MUR ALL RIQUITS SKIENYNÍ;

ruggles wind.