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A young man come to Nanila for the first time will
have two things to gape at-the number of bright lights
that are never put till morning, and the city's many
pretty girls, One of the reasons a coffee and drug
store on the Uscolta is always co full of males is it
has wide glass windows that allow one a view of the girls
of the city, who are so pretty and who, one time or the
other, pass the Sscolta,
when they first came to the city, from the provinces
that they called howe, were they already pretty? Or
the having to be in the city, the having to fight the
competition of co many other pretty faces, that they
acquire this prettiness? It isn't just a matter of cos-
netics eith
Yes, they have learned to trim the eye-
brow and ada some
cil-lines to that, They have
learned to resolve prim mouths into bolder mou:
vith
lipstick, But it ign’t just themetter of make:
up Lounda~
tion
gully
some of them haven't yet leary
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Sunday Mimes Magazine XV(24), January 24
2) Mags + 1960.
1679DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY
1680
to make use of the blandishments given by powner, pencil
and rouge, The city's pretty girls have a look about
their eyes that speaks of courage, knowledge, and a
humor at the w
rid andits creatures, Shop girl, barber
shop attendant, market stall keeper,
retaries,
Chinese store sellers-they have learned the art of snil-
ing, the appeasement of the soft word, the silent shake
of the gentle head, On these pages are sone city girls.
fo the latent prettiness of face, add the deft touch
of intellijence. wnclose with halo of militant good-
ness; the elty hag 90 many churches, whece a pretty girl
as that there exist so
can pray against the temptat:
numerously, And against the temporary haven of a job,
religiously kept in apite of storms and bad health and
poor food, there is the drean-soue Prince Charming micht
come along. The ig the bad land, the job is the
enchantment of the wicked witches of Life, and marriage
b breaks the spell. “Lock at me, I am 2
rev"
edty girls if I am pretty, will you make ne your