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DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY é oe paerey ory erris * 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 > Sunday Mimes Magazine XV(24), January 24 2) Mags + 1960. 1679 DE 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

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