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F
LOOKS Ilke the pillbox as the winner for the early autumn hat championship. Ap- pearing in every collection from that of stratospheric prices to neat little budget numbers, the pillbox
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This Happens When You're Hot.
by Dr. Stephen Taylor COMEWHERE around the place where the brain and spinal cord meet is the GHQ Body Tem- perature Control.
This "heat regulating centre," to give it its official physiologieni name, is a mass of nerve cells not much bigger than a couple of pins heads.
Ralso the temperature of the blood reaching the heat-regulating centro by a quarter of 4 degree and at once a multitude of electro- chemical messages are started up to the sweat
glands and blood vessels of the skin, to the blood vessels of the kidney, and to the muscles of the chest.
Adele Mara Hangs Up Her Swim Suits
By PATRICIA CLARY
HOLLYWOOD-Adele Marsh's funded a kitten for No-
suits-all 30 of them.
Like many another glamour girl before her, Miss Marn feels sho has graduated to dramatic art from leg art.
"My starring roles up to now," Miss Mara said, "have all been in sults."
cameras
In Ave years in the movies, Miss Mara has spent 1.140 hours before the movie cameras making movies. She's spent 2,400 hours before the sull
making pin-up pic- tures.
The pletures-5,000 in all-have gone around the world. No army barracks was without them. Hard- ly a single machine in Europe or the Americas escaped. Thousands of copier, were malled out by Re- public studlo every week.
Stopped Traffic
Miss Mara hasp't been selfish with her lovely torto. She's exposed it in furtherance of many worthy cause, Clad, each time, in different bathing suit.
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Around The Town
lettuce for National Vegetable Week. She's escorted children peross busy interesections for National Safety Week.
sho ro "I stopped the traffic," called, "with my bathing suit."
She's undulated through count- less hospitals. She's turned up in a bathing suit to help an appreciative Marine Corps celebrate its birthday. Sho came to the nid of the War Assets Administration and wrapped herself around a sexless 13,800-volt transformer the WAA wanted to ket rid of. Pictures of Miss Mora ке and
Innded the transformer
In newspapers across the country,
Miss Mara's bathing suits have won her enough titles to turn grant duchessa green. They range from "Miss Battery A“ to "Misa What We Fight For."
A
"My favourite," she said, "Is the girl is the zestful chestful," A sailor thought that one up. And I also like the lassic with the classy chassis'."
Th boys from Battery B'would not know Miss Mare now. She's gone graphy.
and camouflaged her topo-
with Mercia her lega
ash
Handy Wallet for Cosmetics
Courtesy Harriri zubbard Ayer This now wallet not only holds your maney,but contains a compact
and lipstick as well
By HELEN FOLLETT
you are the average woman- and wo take it for granted that you are you frequently look into your shopping bag and are agliast. However did it happen that you collected so many old shopping lista, letters, and keys, besides the usual bill fold, change puree, compact, lipstick, handkerchief and perfume vial?
them, havu
• Subtle Sox Appeal Her studio decided that anybody who draws 0,000 fan letters a week shouldn't be stuck posing for leg art. She was moved up a notch and handed the feminine lead opposite John Carroli in "The Blue. Lady." Miss Mara promptly covered up
There should be a clean-up week "People should look at my face now and then for bags. One is likely
to find almost anything in Hillaly for a change," she said.
treasures that R Felix Stumvoll, the Austrian the platinum blonde hair is
She's still cary on the eyes, but maybe little
disappeared for days. Minister to China bas
Just blonde now and the bathing suita Wouldn't it bo'a good idea to sub- arrived in Hongkong from have been Nanking
replaced by long, low-stituto a wallet? You'll find some to contact Austrion nationals hero
Ing skirts.
cute tricks that will delight you. and to try and facilitate entry
"I'm trying something more sub- Just the thing for teen-agers, too, of his compatriats tle in the way of sex appeal," she who hate to carry things. Grand for into the Colony,
sald. "After all, there's nothing sports when one Dr Stumvoll is the first Austrian very subtle about a bathing suit."
would not hampered with excess baggage. after to be appointed Minister to
Miss Mara thinks her new policy period of 40 years since Dr
last held the post.
Is proving successful. Rosthorn received his medical degree in Austria before the war and was obliged to serve three years as a doctor with the German Army. Ho speaks very good English but le Chinese, although he was, in China from 1908 to 1912.
.
Dr Stumvoll says that it is very difficult to enter Austria today, and should a Chinese, for instance, wish to study at the Vienna University entry visa, op- he must obtain an proved by all four Powers occupying the country, and this is a long story
лож
Although the Minister had much to say about his own country, a much more intimate picture of con- ditions in Austria was given me by Mrs Long, the Austrian wife of the famous magician and showman, in Long Tak Sam, who is now Hongkong visiting his daughter Mrs Ernest To. Mrs Long has just flown back after a short visit to her native country.
"Somebody told mo the other day I had nice eyes," she said. "I don't think anybody ever saw them before."
dressing table--a compact and lip- stick, a bill fold, pockets for identi
cation cards, travelling tickets and pleture of your very best feller, in case you carry it around with you to the new girl friends. to show
cure for This, it would seem is a the bulging pocket book ailment.,
If, when selecting your winter wardrobe you got a coat with huge pockets, you can slip your wallet Into one of them. Then your arms will be free to bring home that jood of
groceries or whatever loot you have picked up at bargain counters. This wallet is just one of the several new devices that com- bing beauty needs with everyday ac- cessories.
We feel that this new wallet is a step in the right direction. You won't have to' paw through a mess of things to get car or bus fare. Your good looks reporter spotted Also you won't suffer the embar- a treasure. It'is of durable leather, rassment you do now when 'a mem- so it will wear well. It is small, ber of your fordily sees you. open. but holds everything you'll need your bag and asks you if it contains until you
get home to your own, the steak and spinach for dinner.
BOYS AND GIRLS' MAGAZINE
A Hard Way to Get Crumbs
-Chirple Went All the Way to the Baker's- By MAX TRELL
HIRPIE Sparrow came to the window-slli for his breadcrumbs. To his surprise and disappointment, there was not a single crumbs to be scen. He cocked his head to une side and peered at the window-sill "No, no crumbs," said Chirple to himself.
Then he cocked his head to the
other side and peered again. "No, no crumbs." Then he twisted his head all around and looked behind
He had no better luck than
"Money will buy, you anything", she said, "and people don't starve. First, nervous impulses pass from But they are sad and bitter about the centre out to the sweat glands many things. And chiefly over the him.
they de- before. occupation troops whom of the skin (via the spinal cord and test in the following order.
First norve trunks), causing them rapidly Americans, who are boastful, are
gant and drink 100 much.
to increase water formation.
arro-
To supply the necessary fuld, other nervous impulses pass to the the Russians but they are simpler and obey orders. Then the English, small skin blood-vessels (to cause and finally the French, But they them to liberate water for the
don't really hate the French; In sweat glands to use) and to the fact they like them. And why? blood
(to Because there aren't many of them. vessels of the kidney eGuse them to cut down, on fluid Mrs Long showed me an Austrian loss in that direction),
50 shilling note (approx. US $5.50) As the sweat formed evaporates which will only buy two pounds of from the skin,
pound and a half heat is withdrawn veal and scarcely
The shops from the body, and the blood tem- of butter on the B.M. perature is lowered.
are stocked with tins of horsemeat,
the sill and chirped out at the top. So Chirple stood on the edge of of his voice: "Bread! Bread! Where's bread?"
By and by Knart and Hanid, the the turned- shadow-children with about names, heard him and came to the window.
"I don't
\
"Bread." Enid Chirple. see my bread."
Hank sald: "Oh, dear, the chil- dren didn't leave any out for you
If, however, the surrounding ale the bread is very good and eggs are this morning." is already fully laden with water plentiful, vapour, the sweat falls to evapor- "Not like England" she
said.
ate and the cooling effect of sweat- "where I once asked for eggs for ing is nullified.
breakfast and was politely offered kippers."
But she thinks the Faglish people very wonderful
All Eaton Up
Knarf added: "All of it was caten up; every single crumb. There isn't
THERE are some people who just way they are putting up with at any more in the house."
the
go
dozens
When they their difficulties. do not sweat. For them. only available method of losing abroad, she said, they buy heat is to increase the amount of land dozens of egrs. Even imported water vapour lost during breathing. stuff like rice is to be had in Austria, They must, in fact, imitate the pant-"but in England not a grain."
She also told me that plain clothes ing dog on a hot da small blond detectives were everywhere in the
In such people, the Vessels of the skin release the water Russian zone. Once whilst travel- necessary for making the sweating through, nine men were arrested
ber. train, just as in other people. But there on
and she sayt
consequence, such people have the ly. Some of these
chaps added misery of swollen honds and are never heard of again. feet in hot weather.
Mrs Long met her husband forty Whether you like or dislike hot years ago in a delicatessen store in married after a weather depends on how well you Austria, and they are able to cope with it.
three-month
her parent's courtship. Whalover happens, the non-ohly objection to the match being sweaters are bound to bo un- comfortable. Their best ling la to tout he wasn't a Catholic. He was Austria with his troupe at avoid sunshine, and take a mini- the time. Although his daughters
took mum of physical exercise. '.
part in his many shows, his- Those who sweat freely should wife was seldom on the stage. Mr drink no less freely, while wearing and Mrs Long are leaving this week
for Shanghai. the lightest possible clothes.
is no sweat loss to remove it. In thal this happens quite frequent-
RED RYDER`
YOU GOT YOUR MONEY BACK WHEN YOU THOUGHT THOGE MINE CLAIMS WERE SALTED. BUY NOW YOU KNOW KEY VE GOT GOLD YOU WANT TO BUY'EM AGAIN?
ANYBODYDDO LIKEWISE.·
JCKEKIN
"What!
No more bread in the "Then the house?" said Chirpic. children must be as hungry as I am." After a moment's silence he asked: "Where does the bread come from? Who bakes it?"
"The baker," answered Hanid. "The baker, eh? Where do I And this baker?"
"Down the street and around the corner and on the other side and down some steps to the basement. There's where you'll find the baker,”- said Knarf.
There stood the baker, dressed in white.
Buffalo
In The Old- Time West
(Continued from Yesterday)
DY 1880 the final blow fell with
the building of another railroad: Over this line, travellers would entertain themselves by. taking potshots at buffalo from the rear platform of trains which moved slowly for the occasion. It
Wasn't long until almost the only buffalo that could be seen was
the one on the five-cent plece.
Or on a U.S. Treasury's $10 bill.
Here and there, kind-hearted ranchinen took pity and saved a few of the
animals. gun-crazed Just as Charles
Goodnight roped several big, fat, red-faced man. Chirple looked in, the baker opened and started ille
"which still the door of his oven. Chirple could exists on his old
place In see dozen loaves of beautiful bread, Texas' Palo Duro Canyon. In later all brown and crisp and giving off years he tried an experiment of the most beautiful smell in the crossing buffalo and range caltic,
producing the famous Cattalo. world.
herd
ranch
For there is no smell in the whole The government also rescued a wide world-not the smell of roses, few buffalo and started the pres- or lles, or clover, or perfume-asent protected berds scattered "over beautiful as the smell of fresh the West today. bread.
:
So, back to the point in the Wooden Paddla
story whero, in imagination, you were siting on your horse on the "Please," chirped Chirple Spar- empty plains wondering about
oval depressions row as he watched the baker take those
in the silence out the fresh loaves of bread with earth. There was a great a long wooden paddle and set them all around you, a silence in keep- on a table near the oven, "please ing with the dramatic story of the sand some bread to the children's passing of the buffalo, house."
cher-
some-
It was dramatic, yes, but a story of waste. Today we still have vast And what was Chirple's astonish natural resources in coil, minerals, ment, and delight (for he couldn't timber, game, but we must be sure that the linker understood ish them or they, too, will him), to see the baker call out for day go the way of the buffalo. If his boy... and to see the boy take all stories should havó a moral, two of the loaves and run with then here is one with bells on it. them up the steps and over to the other side of the street, then up the street and around the corner and all Chirple Sparrow new fox to find the way to the children's house, the baker. He flew down the street,
And later that moming Chirple darted around the corner, swooped over to the other side and then Sparrow came to the window-11 And whether he cocked his hopped down some steps to the
head to one side or to the other or basement..
The baker's door was open. twisted it all around him, there than he Chirple looked Inside. There stood were more breadcrumbs the baker, dressed all in white, a could entl
Plain Words
NOT JANIE! WHEN I WAS IN TROUBLE. SHE GAVE HER MONEY TO HELP ME NOW I'M SHARIN' THEM CLAIMS WITH HER!
· AND IM REMEMBERING
LITTLE BEAVER? HE REALLY MADE THE STRIKE I.
SURE? LITRE BEAVER GETS. A
SHARE!
again. 1
By Fred Harman
COME ON.. RED RYDER: WE GO BEFORE MISSY JANË KISS-UM US
BOTH!
Rupert & Ting-Ling-48
The tiny dragon catches fight of the bamboo pipe and at once site up and bege. Seeing that Rupert is not worried by the strange crea-~- ture. Mr. Bear walks back, and just at that moment Pong-Ping comes galloping up from the other side.. "So there's my litle dragon cries the Peke, **Why on earth. did, he run to you; Rupert ?. And. what are you doing here? I thought you were in China with Ting-Ling.”
Come here. I'll tell you all about. what his happened," similes Rupert
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