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PAGE EIGHT THURSDAY, DECEMBER 35, 1944 Shortages Burden On British Women By DENISE DALTROFF Canadian Press Staff Writer London, Dec. 11--(CP)--' Gilbert Penzance" to happy one. Even the speech from the throne opening Labor's second session drew attention to her difficulties, "My ministers r that the housewives of the nation have had to bear a specially heavy burden owing to the shortages of houses, of With a lovely pair of eyes and the kind of wit and wisdom that tell her how to use them, almost any girl can come pretty close to getting good beauty grades. It is not only the color and the shape, but also what goes on in those pools of mystery that counts, The little girl who couldn't make her eyes behave--because she didn't want to --must have had more suitors trail- ing at her heels than the gallant, handsome crew that followed the Merry Widow round about. Or maybe you don't remember back that far. The prettiest of girls falls far short, of puleusiiude Yar if nes eves cold, steely, calculating ex- ln, She' "gimme" girl. Ss a You can't trust her. Eyes constantly register the qual- ities of one's character. They can express fear, affection, sympathy, confusion, stupidity or the alert mind. If they carry a twinkle, they are bound to intrigue one. Laugh- ing eyes carry the beauty banner. Eyes don't need much care. All they ask is that they be not abused by reading or sewing in a dim light, .| amd that they be given the aid of lenses when vision weakens, No | woman pays as much attention to her eyes as she does to her com- plexion, her figure, her hair. If a woman's health is not up to , | standard, the grey state of her .| complexion will worry her more than the condition of her eyes, If she is played out because of late hours and loss of sleep, it is her tired body that frets her. Yet, from the standpoint of appearance of | the eyes are a surer barometer of ended two years' work divided on the subject. Five commissioners "substantial difficulties" in the way of pay Spliosyon of ihe equal pay pol een men women, but three women members filed a memorandum of dissent. Family Allowances-- Payment of Bs. ($1 a week for each child after tlie first was started by the Treas- ury in August end more than 2,- 000,000 families now are receiving benefits Pensions--Old-age and widows' peusitia were reoud In _Ovio: step in applica new social legislation under which wo- "men later will receive higher moth- «€rs' pensions and new maternity grants. * Child Welfare--A report on or- phanages, to parliament, focussed attention on the need for better treatment of chikiren. Even before that report, child welfare clinics, almost non-existent before the war, were started all over Eng- land to give mothers and expectant mothers free advice. Bducation--Eiffective next April, + the school-leaving age will be rais- ed from 14 to 15, with another raise to 16 scheduled for as soon as schools and are available. MALARIA PERSISTS Melbourne, Australia -- (CP) -- Seven thousand returned Australian servicemen still receive treatment for malaria picked during ser- vice in the tropical islands north of Australia. All are being treated with Paludrine, the new anti-malar- fitness than any other part of the body. They take on a dull look. Little hammocks appear beneath them, Squint lines form. With such a state of affairs, a woman is likely to suspect that she ie "getting along." That's nothing to yodel about. We always get back to the fact that health and vitality are the mainstays of good-looks. We drive ourselves weary with activities of one kind or another and then ex- BEAUTY FOR YOU-- : What Do Your Eyes Say, Madam? BY HELEN JAMESON All your eyes ask is that they be not abused. * Pe pect that a couple of facials and a new outfit of cosmetics will put us all together again. There is no form of vanity so senseless as the refusal to put on specs when the eyes are crying out for help and relief. Yet thouands of women are guilty of that mis- take. Adopted early, it sometimes happens that glasses need to be worn but a short time, then may be discarded. If you postpone the wearing of glasses, the optical me- chanism becomes more and more impaired. The entire nervous sys- tem may suffer, Headaches may result. And you can be very sure that turkey tracks will be with you in short order because you are par- tially closing your eyelids to protect your eyes from light or strain. Achieves Success With First Book By J. D, HOLDSWORTH Canadian Press' Correspondent Sydney, Australia, Dec, §--(CP)-- Seventeen-year-old Catherine Gas- kin of Sydney has achieved over- night success as an authoress with the publication in Britain of her first novel, "This Other Eden," which has gone into two editions in a few weeks. The publishers have taken an option on Catherine's next two books. Her first effort runs to about 150,000 wonds and is set in England and the United States. It tells the adventures of an American girl There has been some astonishment over the fact that the Australian authoress has never been away from her own country. Catherine started the book two years ago and left school and gave -her parents came. Mr. and Mrs. up her music studies to finish it. Most of her writing was done be- tween 4 a. m. and eight o'clock breakfast After breakfast she wrote as the mood prompted her. Unlike her heroine, the Austral- ian girl writer is no sophisticate. her one ambition is to be a success as a writer and otherwise her in- terests are reading and orchestral concerts. She has fixed ideas about boys. She finds those of her own age are boring. She has started work on her se- cond book and has picked its title --"With Every Year." She says its about a boy genius. The setting is Connemara, Ireland, from where Gaskin are providing the informa- tion about Connemara, > EEL L Ltn, . ¢~ HOUSEHOLD HINT Flour your kitchen scissors before you cut dried fruits, marshmallows and raising with them, THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE Treating Edema In Odd Manner By HERMAN N., BUNDESEN, M.D, THE science of medicine con- tains a number of "believe-it-or- not" propositions. To the average man it might seem strange to treat a condition where excessive amounts of fluid collect in the tissues by giving the patient large amounts of water but that is exactly what is done in the newest and, many think, one of the best ways of treating edema. Edema occurs usually as the re- sult of some failure on the part of the heart or the kidneys. When the heart can no longer keep up the circulation or the kidneys fall down on their job there is a tend- ency for fluids to collect in the body tissues, particularly in the legs . and liver. Correcting the Cause Always, of course, there is an effort to correct the underlying cause by bolstering up and strength- ening the failing organ but in the past the edema itself was dealt with just as you might egpect-bY limiting the amount of water taken into the body and restricting the amount of salt. Recently Dr. Ferdinand R. Schemm of Great Falls, Montana, has shown that edema can de bet- ter treated by limiting the salt and giving large amounts of water. The extra fluids are not only valuable for patients with heart and kid- ney disease but also in women who have toxemia or poisoning of preg- nancy or have hardening or cirrho- sis of the liver. If Kidneys Are Damaged If the kidneys have. been dam- aged they may require from four to five times as much water as do normal kidneys to get rid of the body wastes In a healthy person a quart and a half of fluid daily may suffice, but when there is severe edema of various tissues with fever, sweating, and damaged kidneys, from six to eight quarts of fluid may be required for a day or two and four to five quarts daily there- the patient omits any alkaline-ash- forming foods he must balance the diet by omitting some acid-ash forming oles such as bread and ployed in the diet and vitamin con- centrates are advisable in some in- stances. ' This treatment when carefully followed has been found quite suc- cessful in many cases of edema, I have outlined a list of acid-ash and alkaline-ash and neutral foods, which may aid in following the phy- sician's dirsotions. I shall be #glad to send it to those writing and en- closing a self-addressed envelope Names will not be used. EARLY TREATMENT Emphasis on training in First Aid is based on appreciation of the fact that early recognition of disease and prompt measures to combat it, ensure rapid and effec- tive treatment. National Health and Welfare officials at Ottawa, commending First Aid instruc- tion, advise all interested in sta- ving off a serious illness to report any symptom at once to the fam- ily physician no matter how min- or it may seem, MRS. VIOLA DESMOND a Negress, is taking legal action against a' theatre manager whom, she claims, ejected her from a theatre in Glasgow, N.S, according to her lawyer. FAIR PLANNERS DESPERATE The planners of the proposed 1951 international exhibition -- sa small Government inter-depart- mental committee--are getting des- perate. After six months poring over large-scale mars of London and 30 miles around -- after surveying numerous sites, they have returned again and again to the conclusion that Hyde Park and Regent's Park provide the only 300 acres suitable for the exhibition. But the use of either site would deprive Londoners of one of their main "playgrounds" for almost four years; the Government has no in- tention of permitting that. One Woman Rules Social Register The Advisory Committee of the Social Register, the membership of which has been a deep secret for decades, is composed of only one unknown ond Miss Eastmond, who is said to unknown even to the oldsters her New Jersey town, has been \a member of the staff of the Soc! Register for about 40 years, Mona Gardner, author of the article, re- ports. Her judgment in rejecting or accepting names submitted for listing in the Social Register, is said to be "omnipotent and absolute," Metropolitan society = editors-- "most excellent reservoirs of both drawing-room and bedroom news" --have long been "completely baf- fled" in trying to determine the membership of the so-called Advis- ory Committee, Miss Gardner -de- au followed "in- n e posts, hints, sus- picions, and downright accusations" in breaking open the secret. hilss Gardiner reports that Miss Eastmond, as of about 40 years ago, was employed as a secretary by the late Louis Keller, who began pub- lishing the Social Register in 1886. When Keller died about a quarter of a century ago, the property was left to. a group of heirs, with the proviso that Miss Eastmond should continue as the managerial head. As the official catalogue of snob- bery in the United States, the So- cial Register is now published an- nually in 12 cities and brings in a pot of gold to the heirs and Miss Eastmond--about $170,000 annually, Under Miss Eastmond's reign, it has been capricious in accepting and re- Jecting names for listing, Once it listed the name of a dog, which had been submitted as a member of a | blueblood family, Wife Preservers To Size 6" x8" vce 6 KING E. CHRISTMAS ENLARGE- MENT SPECIAL IN DYCKLE EDGE FOLDER x7" - 97¢ 1.29 TAMBLYN PHONE 760 Designed with Brilliants Evening silhouettes seasoned to taste. Lush flowing. gowns or every name on your Christmas list, a pair of Agnew-Surpass slippers is the happy solution. Happy . . . in their lasting comfort... practical... in their downright value . . . appre- ciated . . . for your originality and thoughtfulness. 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