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THE LAMPASAS LEADER
Beauty Talks
MARJORIE DUNCAN
Famous Beauty Expert
Mellowness pf Maturity
TF YOUTH deserves a word ol en-
eouragenient, so does maturity, par-
ticularly because many women of
middle-age feel that life has passed
them by. And often—having once
fcnown the bubbling, buoyant spirit of
youth they feel its loss and long .for it.
The era of depression has brought
more pleas of “1 want to be young5’
than a dozen 'years of normal times.
Women of the home suddenly find
themselves in the role of job seekers.
And often middle-age is discriminated
against and told that only youth need
apply. Why the general prejudice 1
cannot understand. If a mature wom-
an has retained the attitude and view-
point of youth,, if she has cared for
her person and looks lovely, if she can
boast the healthful allure of youth and
the poise and mellow charm that
comes with maturity, then she need
not decry the birth-marks on her cal-
endar.
„ It is a rather vague beauty formula
—no definite ounce of this and dram
of that to be mixed. But it js one of
the loveliest formulas I know—age
gracefully. One of the dearest wom-
en I know is a woman of fifty. Her
life has been full of ups and downs—
ns lives usually are.. She has remained
young because she loves health, and
her perfect physical condition is a
point of pride with her. And 1 m
meticulous attention to personal de-
tails and to the preservation of all her
good looks has kept her younger than
her actual years. Her make-up is sub-
dued—as becomes maturity—her hair-
comb is softly flattering—her clothes
smartly dignified. Not long ago 1 vis-
ited her home. When I arrived, 1 saw
Bve or six young backs bent forward
in an attitude of extreme interest.
Their faces, when I saw them, only
emphasized that keen desire to listen,
that call for more and more. Our
charming matron was telling them a
story. What does it matter if it takes
a hundred years to cultivate that mel-
low charm that .goes with maturity,
that poise that can conquer the most
complicated situations, that ease and
assurance that makes one forget self,
and that happy faculty of being inter-
ested and interesting?
Don’t worry about the passing
years. The calendar no longer
shows on a well-preserved skin.
Double chin and gray hairs are
easily overcome—thanks to beauty
science!
You are as young as you feel, as
toung as your interest in people and
things, as young as your desiie to be
lovely. There is no combination more
charming than the glow of youth and
the mellow understanding of maturity.
* * *
Sanitary Toilet Articles
IF YOU could only once look at your
powder puff and comb and brush
under a powerful microscope, it would
never again be necessary for me to
urge absolute sanitation as to your
toilet articles. For you would see mil-
lions of germs. Reliable hairdressers
always use brushes that may be
washed after using on each client,
brushes that have backs which will
not be ruined by a sufficient amount
of antiseptic being added to the
rinsing water. 1
You may have very exquisite
combs and brushes to adorn your
dressing table, or for the guest
room. But the ones used daily
should be very, very washable.
Such brushes are inexpensive, and
take only a few seconds to wash daily.
Rinse with a disinfectant, and leave
on a sunny window ledge to dry.
The pesky little germs breed so fast
that if you have left your comb and
brush unwashed for a week, probably
some of those germs are great, great
grandfathers by the end of the week,
and are living in the midst of colonies
of descendants.
As for the powder puff, we think of
them as something fluffy and dainty—
but. they so often aren’t 1 In fact, it is
a very decided minority of the powder
puffs that you see yopr friends take
from their handbags or vanity cases
which have even the slightest claim to
pristine freshness.
I wish that all of you would buy at
least six powder puffs at the time,
three small ones, and three large ones.
The kind that are soft and velvety.
When you have used one a fevv days,
take a new one out, and thoroughly
wash the Used one in warm water and
white soap, rinse, and leave it in the
sun to dry. The sun is a wonderful
germ slayer.
With inexpensive tissues to remove
creams and lotions from your skins,
with a bottle of ammonia or mild dis-
infectant in every bath room, it is so
easy to be sanitary as to skin and
hair treatments. Why risk continued
dandruff and rashes? If a friend
suys. "Lend me your powder puff, I’ve
lemt mine at home,” lend it, if you
must, but tuck it into a side pocket
until you can take it home and wash
it! That friend is a familiar note to
all of you. We meet her often—every-
where. But you owe it to your skin
and hair health to be as fastidious in
the loan of a powder puff or a comb
and brush—as you would In the loan
of a tooth brush !
(©. 1932. Bel) Syndicate.)—WNU Service.
Shortage Noted
“Unfortunately,” sighs a lady writ-
er, "all men are not Romeos.” And,
for that matter, there is a more or
Jess severe shortage of Juliets —FL
jWayne News-Sentinel.
A Singapore
fPrepired by National Geographic Society.
Washington. D. C.)—WNU Service.
^ V ^HE uncompleted British naval
base at Singaport again may
swarm with workmen. The
base has been a political foot-
ball in British official circles for more
than a decade. Construction began in
1921 but before much progress was
made, the project was interrupted by
political quarrels until 1928. In that
year the base site was»the scene of
much activity but work again was
halted when the Labor party, which
opposed the project, came into power.
To the military strategist, Singapore
Is one of Britain’s main links in its
chain of defenses that stretch from
Gibraltar through'Malta, Suez, Aden
and Ceylon, but to students of geog-
raphy and readers of fiction, it is the
“Crossroads of the East,” and a city
where “East meets West.” .
In all the swift, significant changes
wrought by white men in the East, no
one event stands out more conspicu-
ously than the rapid rise of Singapore.
From a jungle isle, where tigers ate
men at night, to a magnificent city,
tenth among the ports of the world, in
less than a century!
Its place on the map, its strategic
position here at the crossroads of the
East, forced it to a growth at' once
unique and astonishing. Last year
nearly 10,000 ships cut the cobalt-blue
seas of the Malacca strait, tying up
the trade of Singapore with Europe,
Africa, and India, with Australia,
China, Japan, and the Americas.
And how Singapore came to be a city
is one of the latter-day romances of
the Orient. Away back in history, be-
fore even the days of Marco Polo, the
Malays had founded their powerful
states and set up an empire on their
peninsula. Then came the Portuguese
and laid waste to the strongholds of
the sultans, leaving colonists whose
descendants, bearing long; aristocratic
names oddly out of place among Malay
cognomens, are still found throughout
the Indies.
After the Portuguese came the Dutch,
sweeping from Malacca to Manila, only
to be followed later by the British,
who, with their genius for coloniza-
tion, are here to this day. It was this
British adventure, about a hundred
years ago, that lured Stamford Raf-
fles, born at sea, into this restless re-
gion of the then unknown East. And
Fate willed that he should found this
great Singapore.
Singapore was not conquered like
Hindustan, nor acquired as a ready-
made colony, like Hongkong; if was
simply bought as New York was, and
settled, when Sir Stamford Raffles
selected it as an outpost for British
traders on the China route and pur-
chased it for the East India company
from the Sultan of .Tohore. It was a
jfmgle-eovered island then, peopled by
a few score savage Malay fisherfolk.
Now it is a wonder city, with mar-
ble bank buildings of singular beauty
and great stone law courts and gov-
ernment edifices and Christian churches
—all in striking contrast to the orna-
mental Malay mosques, the carved
.temples of the Hindus, and the fan-
tastic joss houses of the Chinese.
A Jungle Reclaimed.
Through the thick jungle, where
mce led only the elephant paths, wide,
level roads have now been built, and
the hoarse squawk of the motor horn
has drowned the fierce growls of the
lurking tiger.
Forty-five years ago a few Para rub-
ber plants smuggled out of Brazil
fruited here. Today, three-fourths of
the world’s rubber comes from this re-
gion. And in this magic development
Americans have played a leading role.
This Malay peninsula, stretching
hundreds of miles from the Siamese
frontier down toward the equator,
forms a vast humid region of dense
forests of. jungle, wild elephants,
snakes, and naked people, rice fields,
rubber plantations, and tin mines. Few
American tourists see it.
Singapore, built on a tiny green isle
of the same name, which lies Just off
“Steam Roller.”
the end of the peninsula and nearly on
the Equator, is the capital of the Brit-
ish crown colony commonly called the
Straits Settlements. This colony em-
braces the Province Wellesley, the
Dindings and Malacca on the mainland,
and the islands of Penang and Singa-
pore.
More than fifty steamship lines and
its cable net and radio stations tie
Singapore up with adjacent' regions,
and British Malaya, the Dutch East
Indies, and Siam constitute a unit in
commercial geography which centers
at the great port.
“The Melting Pot of Asia,” they call
this prolific, potent peninsula, be-
cause of the babel of races, colors,
and castes which its wealth of rubber
and tin has drawn to it. But in all
this industrial army of Europeans,
Chinese, Japanese, Tamils, Hindus, and
assorted South Sea Islanders, the
Chinese are the most numerous and
powerful.
The Malay himself is too lazy evbn
to be a good fisherman. He grows a
little rice, a few coconuts, and nets
the fish he needs, but Nature is so kind
that it is said one hour’s effort a
day will support him and his family.
It is the Chinaman who is the tin
miner, the farmer, shopkeeper, artisan,
contractor, and financier.
Nature’s motion picture, as your ship
swings into the narrow, 60-mile-long
Singapore roads, is like a vision of
some fabled Dream Isles, of Delight.
Fairy isles they seem, floating on a
turquoise sea, wooded, jungle-gowned
in brightest green, miraculously
broken off and cast adrift' from
Sumatra and Malaya.
Cruising through these straits, your
ship creeps so close to certain isles
that*’ you can actually see the natives
going about their daily life, and you
can clearly make out the intimate de-
tails of the’tiny palm-leaf shacks,
which stand on stiltlike piles out over
the water.
When Not ao Charming.
But on certain hot, steamy days in
early autumn, when no air stirs and
the tide has njn very low, these islands,
on closer inspection, are not all so
charming. Then the receding wafers
leave vast, flat banks of slimy stink-
ing mud, alive with crawling creatures
pursued by long-legged birds; and the
myriad mangrove trees that hug the
shore are left standing with their
naked crooked roots all exposed—an
oddly repellent picture, suggesting the
wet', slippery coils of a million mon-
ster serpents, their bodies all twisted
together, seeming to crawl in and out
of the foul steaming ooze.
You are glad, then, when your ship
has poked her restless nose past these
reeking mud flats and you come to the
anchorage, tying up amid as strange a
fleet' as ever the sun shone on.
Swarming about your ship in their
bobbing canoes, little Malay hoys come
to dive for nickels, for do not all
American sahibs observe the odd cus-
tom of throwing money into the sea as
they approach a tropic port?
The white man’s life today in Singa-
pore, as in other tropic parts, is easy
and comfortable. The British and
American trading firms are all staffed,
in the higher positions, hy men from
the home lands. Office hours are
fairly short, down In this equatorial
clime, for the white man must have
more recreation than in the colder
. countries of the north.
Here, near the Equator, dasy and
nights are about equal; toward dark
the din of barter and sale subsides
and the streets begin to empty. The
houseboat folk of the river and the
wharf workers quiet down. Chinese
shopkeepers shuffle out to put up their
shutters. High above, the star pic-
tures of heaven are hung out—the
sprawling Scorpion and the majestic
Southern Cross. Long before ten
o’clock this magic, mongrel cilY of tin,
trade, and turbulence is sound asleep.
No speeding joy rider, owl car, or roof-
garden jazz breaks the delicious
stupor of Its repose.
Backgammon Pastime of
Old Egyptian Royalty
In accordance with the Egyptian
custom of burial, when images of serv-
ants and pictures of daily activities
were placed in the tomb so that the
departed one could enjoy all the pleas-
ures of her earthly life in the after
life, a picture of a queen playing- “ta-
bles” or backgammon was included so
that her soul could indulge in a gajne
whenever she desired.
In later centuries backgammon was
a favorite among the gentry. Kings
and" their mistresses wagered their
jewels on the dancing dice. To Louis
XIV it was second only to billiards.
James I of Scotland spent the eve-
ning before his murder playing at the
tables with the ladies and gentlemen
of his court. It is also recorded that
Mme. Pompadour owned many expen-
sive boards, one, in particular, inlaid
with gold and ivory and appointed
with men , of green and white ivory
delicately barved.
Luck played an important part in
the winnings then, and so it does to-
day, though our begt gamesters insist
that backgammon is as much a test of
skill as chess or bridge, love -or the
stock market.
No End to Procession
of Living Yellow Men
If all the Chinese in the world were
to march like an army, four abreast,
past a given point, they would never
finish passing though they marched for
ever, according to .Ripley. It is this
way: There is no definite informa-
tion on- the population of China, as a
census has not been taken since 1403,
but he takes the reasonable estimate
of 600,000,000 as the number of Chi-
nese on earth. He now assumes the
Chinese would march four abreast at
the rate of three miles an hour for the
average 15 miles per day, and that they
would then rest, like an army, till the
next day. They would, therefore, pass
at the rate of 26,280,000 each year, the
600,000,000 passing in nearly 23 years
—a generation. Assuming that the
birth rate of the Chinese is 10 per
cent, and that half of the children die
before they are able to walk, there
will be 30,000,000 new Chinese coming
along each year to take the place of
the 26,280,000 who have passed the
given point.
On Reading in Bed
All persons except those marvelous
exceptions who fall asleep the in-
stant they are horizontal, should read
in bed. The selection of a book 'for
this purpose is important. I do not
advise anyone to follow the example
of King Ahasuerus, and read the Con-
gressional Record, because if one reads
a book that is too dry, one cannot for-
get oneself; and the only chance to
forget oneself in slumber is to forget
oneself before slumber. On the other
hand, one should not read anything
connected with one’s professional work
or any book that is wildly exciting.
The best bed books are entertaining
biographies or autobiographies of a
placid nature.—William Lyon Phelps
in Scribner’s Magazine.
Among the Clever
The prince of Wales was once talk-
ing to King Edward about Roosevelt,
who was at that time President of the
United States.
“Mr. Roosevelt is a very good man,
isn’t he?” he queried.
“President Roosevelt is a very clev-
er man,” replied King Edward.
For a time the prince did not speak,
but went on turning the leaves of.-the
album through which he was looking,
and which contained the President’s
portrait. The next day he said to the
king, “I have changed-Mr. Roosevelt’s
portrait from the Album of Rulers to
the album where the clever men are!’*
—Montreal Star.
State Birds
While a few states have adopted
certain birds officially, the following
birds are identified with particular
states: Alabama, flicker; California,
California quail; District of Columbia,
wood thrush; Florida, mockingbird:
Georgia, brown thrasher; Illinois, car-
dinal : Kansas, AVestern meadowlark;
Kentucky, cardinal; Louisiana, brown
pelican; Maine, chickadee; Maryland,
Baltimore oriole; Michigan,, robin;
Missouri, bluebird; Nebraska, AVestern
meadowlark; Oregon, AA7estern mead-
owlark ; Texas, mockingbird; A7irginia,
robin; AVisconsin, robin, and AVyoming;
AA7estern meadowlark.
Historic Site Now Park
Impressed by the great historical
Importance of the ruins of Fort Anne
at Annapolis Royal, N. S., not only
to Canadians but to the descendants
of the early colonists along the At-
lantic coast of North America, the
Dominion government of Canada set
aside the military works and about
20 acres surrounding them as a na-
tional park under the Department of
the Interior. Many of the features
have been restored while others have
been added, so that the park is one
of the most interesting historic spots
in the East.
No Substitute for Coal
The wind and the tide are of no
economic importance, says Samuel S.
Wyer of Columbus, Ohio, consulting
engineer. AVood is too limited to be
a factor. Petroleum gives one-fourth
of our energy. Alcohol costs more and
its fuel worth is less than oil. If all
the water powers of the United States
were developed they would not equal
the stationary power we are now us-
mg, let alone the enormous quantities
of energy used for heating and loco-
motive purposes.
Gorgeous Prints With Velvet Accents
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
C'ASHION has discovered nothing
* more gloriously harmonized to aft-
ernoon and formal evening environ-
ment than richly colorful prints. This
season, more than ever, printed mate-
rials have a way of telling their in-
tention. You know the moment you
look at a print whether it is to be
worn formally or informally.
As in every other realm of fashion
at the present moment, it is smart for
prints to be gay. The dressier prints,
especially, are perfectly gorgeous.
This is so not only in the matter of
their exotic coloring, but their pat-
terning is outstanding. One finds, for
instance, such striking effects among
evening chiffons as a black back-
ground with life-size tulips printed in
red and white with leaves in lively
green. Natural flowers which look al-
most as if hand-painted flourish in
the printed mode, special prominence
being given to field flowers, the red
of the enormous poppies and the blue
of the cornflowers responding to the
red, white and blue of the now-so-
fashionable bi centennial colors.
A crinkled construction is favored
in chiffons this season, which include
many tinted grounds with delicate art-
ful color work in vari-sized patterns.
These carry large florals of tropical
aspect, which seem to say that they
are going to dance under moonlit skies
or pose on picturesque verandas, or
be seen elsewhere midst luxurious sur-
roundings under glamorous lights.
Bordered chiffons done in real flow-
er colorings capture the fancy of ev-
ery woman seeking the new and the
beautiful. They work up delightfully
into the new scarf drapes and gypsy
girdle effects.
Just as if the richly colorful prints
of present vintage were not sufficient
unto themselves, fashion fills their
cup of beauty full to overflowing by
adding a velvet accent which repeats
a leading tone of the designful pat-
terning. It may be achieved, this add-
ed touch of elegance, via a velvet gir-
dle or soft tied bows at the shoulder
or at other strategic points, it is,
perhaps, to their little velvet wraps
that evening fashions owe most of
their gaiety. AA7aist-length jackets or
capes or boleros—the treatments are
varied, but the idea is universally ap-
pealing.
Fashion-wise budgeteers, this year,,
are planning at least two jackets with
their evening frocks—one in velvet in
a high color and the other in the fab-
ric, which makes the dress. For in-
stance, the strikingly colorful printed
flowery dress with its jewel-clasped
velvet girdle as shown to the left in.
the illustration spends as you now see
it, a formal afternoon at bridge. AVith.
the jacket removed it stays on for din-
ner and dancing. It again alters its
appearance completely when later on
in the season of festivities it changes
its printed jacket for a short wrap of
bright medici velvet that matches one
tone in the print
AA’hen it comes to thrills and frills*
too, for that matter, for many of them
boast myriads of prettily frivolous ruf-
flings and shirrings, there is nothing
so conspicuously present as the new
little capelet wraps of velvet in vivid
tone. For instance, if milady’s dress
is made of one of the very new printed
heavy sheer crepes like the Persian
print pictured on the figure standing
to the right in the .picture, she may
wear a wrap-around cape of flame-col-
ored medici transparent velvet to re-
peat a co'ored motif in the print. It
is taken for granted that somewhere
in reserve a brief jacket of matching
print is in waiting to complete upon
demand a perfect ensemble for dinner
or informal evening wear.
The twisted scarf, or those braided,
which employ two or three colors of
velvet, are accessories which should
be included in every wardrobe of pret-
ty trifles which brighten the spring or
summer costume.
(<©. 1932. Western Newspaper Union !
AFTERNOON FROCKS
NOT SO ELABORATE
AVith the return of beige as a cos-
tume color, other pastels have come
into prominence—soft pinks and
greens and blues. But there is no
elaboration to these frocks.
They do not approach the feminine
fashion of afternoon dresses that we
have always associated with the name.
For these are essentially day-time
dresses. The smartest frocks are
fashioned along simply tailored lines,
without much trimming, except per-
haps the ever-present lingerie touches.
Rough silk crepes and flat silk
crepes are used, hut always silks with
dull surfaces. Sheer crepes also, of
the heavier varieties, that tailor al-
most like flat crepe, are very smart
for spring.
Black dresses, with plenty of white
trimming, will, of course, be worn with
black coats, but many women will
seize this opportunity for lightness
and brightness. Coral, pink, light
greens and blues and beige all make,
smart frocks to wear with black coats.
With a blue coat the lighter shades
of blue form a pleasing contrast. AVith
brown, beige or the aquamarine
shades are particularly attractive.
These dresses, fortunately, will not
be long.
Longer dresses will be of a more
formal type for late afternoon occa-
sions and formal dinner. These frocks
will be more elaborate, and lower as
to deeolletnge.
Drooping Shoulders New
Graceful Figure Line
Women shouldn’t wilt this season
in evening gowns but just a slight
drooping of the shoulders (with per-
fect dignity and body control is con-
sidered a new and graceful figure
line).
In order to help the smart womAn
to accomplish this little trick without
overdoing it, you will find that dress-
makers have turned to the insertion
of many yokes, guiding the lines in
artful swerves about and off the shoul-
ders. This is done for coats as well
as dresses and blouses. /
DAYTIME PRINTS
By CHERIE NICHOLAS
Jane Regny designed this unsuafc
and very likable frock for afternoon,
wear, featuring one of the neat day-
time prints in a small all-over pat-
terning In soft shades of blue. The
styling which calls for front flat-fitted
skirt lines in contrast to a graceful,
tiered flare at the hack is admirably
demonstrated in this model. Many of
the smart lace evening frocks have-
adopted this tiered, flared effect »H
Hie back with flattering success.
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