One aspect of our local situation is most disturbing and that is the position of girls in their teens and early twenties who are out of positions and or whom there seems little hope of finding work in the near future, One firm here which advertised for an expert stenotypist received 100 applica-a day for the first few days.
firms who have advertised low salaried positions for beginners have received as many as 40 or 50 applic tions a day. An executive in Shanghai who has many girls of the untrained order seeking her aid states that a great number of the unemployed are unemployable; they do not speak English very well, while writing and spelling are' impossible. It makes one believe that there are worse things in Shanghai than being a good amah with a comfortable $30 or a month plus good living quarters and lots of perks.
The fact that the unemployable are il equipped for business life only adds to their -sorry predicament and incidentally to the responsibilities of the community, and one feels that so soon as we can attend to others than "war" victims one of the first problems to be tackled must be that of the working girl. True. for the time being we have our excellent privater Charities, and these are not of the cold order, but the bread of throat muscles full and round, says Mrs.
Miss Ida Jean Kam, American health ud beauty expert. The throat-line gets so little exercise that it is easy to understand why firm contours fall into fold r assume heavy, pu You v oppe heve to twist that pretty neck and turn ud stretch these muse to kee slim, chiselled line.
Improve Circulation You that want to do everything will increase circulation in the throat area, so begin with applications of hot and cold water, then: use cream, and back these measures with exercise. First, wring a towel out of hot water and fold it a the throat. Leave for a second a repeat, Now, do the same thing with a told towel These preliminary mea help to stir up the ures circulation, Pat on a, warm oil, tissue or nourishing crearp, massaging well into the skin from the base of the red upward to the jaw line.
Then Exercise All this is preparatory to special chin and neck exercise. One of the simplest and most effective is to blow up a toy balloon, large size. Make a great to-do about it and really use your muscles. Keep huffing and puting until the balloon is stretched io the breaking point, The balloon exercise not only uses the muscles of the throat, but is the best eradiester we know of those parenthetical nose and mouth lines Another stunt is to chew like a bunny. Toss your head paci draw your chin up and turn the he: d from side to side slowly, chewing like a benny, Turn the head as far to the sides as you can and chew vigorousing the chin high in the
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