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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1948.

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WOMANSENSE

MRS. DOUGLAS” Manages the Alpins ællders

Home Medicine

ACE WOMAN-PILOT TO LEAD....

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the

-EADED by 31-year-old Mrs She was the only woman chosen Ann-Douglas, ace woman to sit on the nanel of 11 air experta glider-pilot and mother of act up by the Ministry of Civil

Aviation last year, to advise two children, the British gliding Minister on the development of! team have arrived at Samedan. private flying and gliding. high in the Swiss Alps, where 'they are to compete against eight other nations in the inter- national. gliding competitions.

Airs. Douglas, who Ilves in Relgate. Surray, is the team's non- flying captain

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Getting Ready

Her, team-six of Britain's best men gilder pilots are starting

·pmelico flights straightaway ready for the contests, which started on July 19 and will last until the end of the month, -

She is the wife of Wing Com-

Senter pilot among them -is Mr. mander A. C. Douglas, also a keen P. A. Wills, 41-year-old holder of glider pilot, learned to fly when the long-distance record for a glider aho was 17 and was a ferry pliot' aight made in Britain-208 miles, in Air Transport Auxillary during the British height record

the war,

If You Have Hay Fever

A

By Herman N. Bundeson, M.D.

(15.247

feet) and other records, Wills was second. In command of the Air Transport Auxilliary during the war And the first British gilder plot to win the. Gold "C"_badge.

year-old civil servant.”

Courtmy Bulion

To give your hair a subtis scent, try spraying with a little toilet water when you set it.

By HELEN FOLLETT

With him are Charles Wingfield, 31-year-old farmer; Christopher ("Kit") Nicholson, 44-year-old architect; and Donald Greig, 43-arranging their hair.

NOME, women have a gift for to have a set and hairdress, there

The investments are well worthwhile." colffure looks "finished" as if it had

Women who like colour rinsen can been under the hands of a stylist. This means the growth is in a healthy find them incorporated in the sham- condition. A neglected mop, with Doo medium. Chemists just think-of shafts lacking lustre, never makes everything! The whole sisterhood should be as beautiful as the dawn, the grade.

it would

Whatever

The two other members of the team are RAF officers serving in Germany-Flight Lleutenants R. C. Forbes and F. Mallett. Forbes, FEW sneezes and an itchy, sages are blocked, due to the swell-who is 28, recently set up a British This "coal fight" glider record--naming watery nose for a couple of blocking is noticed most often af the destination

ing of the lining membrane.

and reaching it- hours each day are not enough to send the ordinary person to the doctor. This is the reason, experts say, that so few people Beck medical attention early.

night.

Sinus Infection

of 193 miles.

'Too 'Busy'

been

Mallett, who was to have The more frequent the attacks of allergic rhinitis, the

the reserve, has taken the place of greater Ilkelihood that

who is Commander Hanks complicating Wing БОЛАС Yet, these are the classic symp- Infection of the sinuses will occur. too busy working on the "air lift" toms of a disorder which,

for Switzer- though After the disorder has been present into Berlin to leave mild to start with, may and often for a longer time, polyps, as a rule, land. docs end with serious complications. will develop,

Samedan airfield, where the con- It is known as allergic rhinitis or

test are being held, is 5,000ft. up in perennial hay fever, and is the most

The treatment of allergic rhinitis the Alps, near St. Moritz, it is sur- common form of allergy or ovore consists, of course, in making efforts rounded by peaks which rise 3.000 sensitivity affecting the breathing to find the substances to which the or 4,000ft, up from the long valley. passages,

Experts patient is sensitive and then keep-

think that the Swiss, ing out of contact with them. In with their local knowledge of the some cases, once the substances are mountains and the air currents they. found, it may be possible to de- create, will win the contest. sensitize the patient, particularly

Mild Cases

י,

In mild cases of allergic rhinitis, there may only be occasional at2 tacks of sneezing, when the patient comes in contact with something to which he is sensitive. Sneezing once or twice is not abnormal, but six or soven sneezes in-a-row mean that there is some allergy present,

in the case of pollens from plants, or house dust, by giving injections under the skin of extracts from the substance, in gradually, increasing doses.

There are a number of prepara- tions which may give temporary re- In children with this disorder. lief from the symptoms, such 0.9 the mother afton mistakes the epinephrine, ephedrin, ampheta- symptoms for colds, However, when mine, benadryl and pyribenzamine. the attacks aro dus. to allergy or All such preparations should bo oversensitivity, there is no fever, used under the directions of and the attacks, as a rule, last only a short time.

Lining Membrane Examination of the nose in bl- lergic cases shows that, the lining membrane is pale and swollen, and that there is a great deal of watery discharge. The discharge often con- tains a kind of white blood cell known as the eosinophil.

If the patient is sensitive to A number of different substances and has contact with them, the symp- There may toms are more severe.

be sneezing throughout the day, the nose itches, and the nasal pas

FOR

physician,

Monkeys in Corsets

Chicago-Monkeys will wear cor sets in the interest of science at the University of Illinois.

The 40 simlans will be used to test a theory that tight-atting corsets cause ulcers, the university's may. vice president, Andrew Ivy, says,

Until the monkeys arrive, two mea and two women have volunteered to undergo the tests.

New Oval Silhouette

BY ALICE ALDEN

Cosmetic chemists, realising that more and more women-because life

you do, don't let your is hectic and rushed-are, attending hair go whispy. Do not neglect to to their beauty wants without the aid brush it. Take it, strand by strand. the brush on your scalp-a Stam of professional care, are offering toiletries in the form of easy sham brisk-plan will wake up the blood to pooing mediums, pomades and dress streams, send the briskies along ings to give glitter to the locks. the ends with a twist of the wrist. Throw your head forward and brush To have hair health, it is necessary from the nape line. You hair will to use high grade brushes that must like that, for a change. be kept scrupulously clean. If you are able to manage a wave set you

When using a comb, use the coarse will need pine, curlers, nets. To teeth first to get out the tangles, rinse the head during the renovating then smooth and groom and pet with

a shampoo spray, the fine teeth. you will need Many women have invested in hand hair dryers. Considering the time A good trick when setting your and money one spends at a beauty hair is to spray. It with a little fellet shop to get the hair shining clean, water.

BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE

Chirpie Copied a Woodpecker

-But All He Got Was a Bad Headache-

By MAX TRELL

HIRPIE Sparrow came to the window-sill for his crumbs. Kaart: the shadow-boy with the turned-about name, hurried

over.

It was the first time Chirple had ever been late in coming for his crumbs, for usually he came in the [morning and now it was late after- noon.

"Ah, howdy-do!" greeted Chirple.

"Howdy. Chirple!" returned Knart. "Why

so late? I almost are you thought you weren't coming at all today."

_"I—almost.......... didn't, Knarf,”........cald Chirute. "I almost didn't come at all."

"What happened?" asked Knarf. "A lot of things,” said. Chirpio. "Do you want me to start from the beginning and tell you?"

Might Got Sick

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"Just do as I-do,” said the wood peeker.

"That's what I found out," agreed Chirple. So I started once more for the window-sill to get my bread- crumbs. Then I met a duck."

KITCHENETTE

CHOCOLATE CHERRIES

Louise Pope is 13 years old and has a recipe for chocolate-covered.

dierries.

3. Equares of cooking chocolate.

bar paraffin wax.

1⁄2 can condensed milk:

4 tablespoons butter

1 teaspoon vanilla flavour.

I Jar cherries

1 pound confectioners' Bugar:

Mix vanilla, mugar, milk and melted butter. Melt chocolate and." paraffin in a saucepan. Do not get too hot. Roll each cherry In the favouring then dip it in the melted chocolate. Put on wax paper.

Step on It!

"Oh," said Knarf. "What did the You probably have seen street

duck say?"

"The duck saici: "You come with "Certainly," said Knarf. "And stop cating those crumbs

me, Chirpic, and do exactly what so fast.

I do, and you'll get the best meal You'll get sick. But now tell me you've ever tasted."" what happened?"

"Well," said Chirple, "I was

ןןם

my way to this window-sill for my crumbs when I met a woodpecker.

"And did you go with the duck?"

Just Got Wet

cars with the automatic doors which open only when the car stops and the passenger stands on the metal plate in front of them, Those doors are like the doors to to open

opportunity-you have them yourself. Just as the op. crator cannot open the car doors, so no one else can open the doors to your opportunities.

There I ever

He asked me, where I was going. "I did," said Chirple. "And I I'm going to get the bread-crumbs didn't get the best meal that the children who live in the tasted, even though I jumped into white house on top of the hill at the pond and ducked my head under ways leave on the window-sill for the water. All I got was wei!"

That's where I'm going, 'Wood-

"Sparrows shouldn't try to be ducks," said Knarf.

:

аге hundreds of auto- you once matic doors all around you begin to really look for them. They are waiting for you to step ท And Open them. Step up to me.

that extra work you were asked pecker!"

to do and you will find a magic plate there which opens a door to "But the woodpecker said bread- crumbs were a foolish thing to eat, I was about to

"No, they shouldn't. And just as new opportunities. Take over the. Did getting them off a window-sil window-sill for the third time, I

come here to the responsibility of cleaning

or inowing the lawn, helping with. was more foolish still Come with met a robin.

housework, and and do exactly as I do, and Robin, and do exactly what I do now and exciting things for you.

'Come with me, sald the baby or the

you will find doors opening to you'll soon get the best meal you've and- ever tasted!!

me,

"And

did you go with him7" Knorf interrupted.

"I did," said Chirple..

"And did you get the best you ever tasted?"

.

the car

on

"Yes, I know!' I

Try standing on the magic plate .said to the robin. And I'll get the best meal

of friendliness and helpfulness, I've ever tasted. But I don't. like bility, and

a willing acceptance of responsi-

watch closed doors. worms! I like bread-crumbal And Ilike to find them on a window-slopen all about

you. You'll And doors that open' when you remem- "meal...And with that," said Chirpie to ber to be loving, generous, tol-

Knarf, "I few straight to the win- erant,, and kind... dow-sill, and kere I am!"

Then Chirple Sparrow ate all the

"I did not. I did everything that

the woodpecker did. I climbed on crumbs. FOR THOSE who are not enamour- Loval silhouette. The crown in al- the trunk of a tree, and clung on ed of an extreme flat-top hat most hidden in the draping of me with my nails, and tap-tap-tapped

"You

see Knart said, smilingly, but would like to wear a modified lasses-coloured maline which is my head in the cracks in the bark, "Sparrows should be spaITOWE! It's version, Harrycan Hats, presents a trimmed with large mock pearl hat But, all I got was a sore bill and the very best thing for spprrows shallow, Breton with a very flat with a is a good choice to go headache!

a summer suit or a simple crown. This model is ade of taffy print. It is a most becoming but for coloured straw, worked in the new almost any type..

RED KYDER

THAT MONET I'VE COLLECTED „FOR JANE CLARK IS BEIN' BENT OUT BY STACK EZ "AIN'T TAKIN' A CHANCE DD

ON CARRYING IT?

to bel"

"Sparrows shouldn't try woodpeckers, sald Knarf.

to

10

And Chirple chirped three times, which meant: "Yes! Yest. Yes!"

It Sounds Sale

OKA LEAVE EAR DS THE

GO 100, RED RIDER!

Rupert's Island Adventure-50

BY FRED HARMAN

WHY, SURE? THIS OUGHT TO BE A TRIP WITHOUT DANGER

YIPPEE!

After leaving the foxes Sailor Sam wastes no more time and makes, straight for the tower on the islandi "The dwarf, who has been watchings the curious events on the lake withë much surprise, now runs down theș. stone stairway to meet the news? comers, and amica" happily as „Rupert, pushes the "muck_of_jóðlag "through" the iron bars; to "him. **You beem to have lost your paper bour, Huls dear," he says, "but you ....were.wszy, btays, toast, of in such

"a flimsy thing st alla! Blog

PRESALE RIGITTE RESERVED,

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