MAIL SCHEDULES
INWARD MAILS,
FROM EUROPE
July
14
20
Burdwan (Air Mail)
Antenor
FROM JAPAN
--July
Rajputanat
18
Bokuyo Maru
12
-Darban Maru
18
Rajputana
18
J
Kidderpore
13
J.
Morioka Maru
14
Pres. van Burtn
PED
Empress of Japan
Kashima Maru
Takada fl.
Tatelyo
FROM AMERICA & CANADA
Kitano Maru
July
July
PUE
20
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1934.
The Woman's Page
Short Puffed
Sleeves
Epaulets On Linen
Dresses.
POLO COLLARS POPULAR
Paris.'
Sleeves, which are mostly short; are often puffed and just take the shoulder and the upper arm com. 20 fortably. Many of them have some little fold or tuck or strap such as occurs in the model.
20
19
Many blouses have a quaint cuff 13 which may button up to the sleeve, and sleeves as well as necks and belts are often ornamented with gilt buttons which give them life jund gaiety.
Empress of Jupan
Pres, van Buren
FROM MANILA
General Sherman
Pres, Coolidge
FROM SHANGHAI
July
Suiyang
11
13
Rajputana ...
Gange
Felix Roussel
Pres. van Buren
Empress of Japan
Kashima Maru
FROM STRAITS
Dencation
Burdwan
Lyons Maru
Troilus
Helenus
Kumaong
Genoa Maru
Antenor
Takiwa Maru
July
FROM AUSTRALIA
July
Kitano Maru
"1
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Emp. of Russia (via Van-
couver)
Here and there the short sleave.
18 a split a little on the outer side. Sometimes it is related to the
15
17
18 yoke by means of decoration.
20 Necks may have almost any kind
20 of collar. The plain polo collar
20
is liked, and this is sometimes held in by strappings at the side of ja differen colour, From under the points of the polo collar some- times hang two white strips, like Is the jabot of a minister or a 'bar 18 rister.
18.
This may be. held in place by 20 means of a gilt button. Basques, 20 and even apronlike arrangements decorate some dresses or suits.
Linen frocks incline towards epaulets in place of sleeves.
19 Dresses with a plainʼatripe, or even in a plain colour, sometimes havel
...July 13 Clases: Reg. 1.15 am. Ord, 10 x,m. Pres. Coolidge (via Siberia). July 13 Closes: Reg. p.m. Ord. 4.15 p.m. Rajpatana (Air Mail Service) July 14
Closes: Reg. 5p.m. „Ord: 9. au. Chenonceaux (via Siberia). July 14
FOR JAPAN
Ixion
Carthage
Empress of Russia
General Shorman
Pres. Coolidge
Chenonesqux
Silveryow:
Silveryow
Triping
.
July
13
12
13
13
A creation in. soft blue wool, this frock becomes ideal for travellers who demand smart clothing. Gracle,Allen, screen and radio star, wears it with a novel collar of white her- ringbone pique with buttons of carved pleat treatment around the hem,
Depression Hits Fashion Centre
Famous Rue De Lu Paix "As for us, the cost of produc--
Facing Upheaval.
BIG DRESSMAKERS FEEL PINCH
Paris.
tions has mounted steadily, and facing distressing conditions are our workers In the de luxe trade, which is one of the major founda- tions of French industry."
As soon as the Government 'takće a hand in stabilizing customs duties for the luxury, trades here, the French Bily will again be gilded and the Rue de la Palx resume its pria-
The Rue de la Paix, long known as the world's most famous street, glittering with millions of dollars worth of diamonds and bristling with fashionable dressmaking tine splendour. houses, is in the deep shadows of an eclipse.
It is due to internutional and ne- tional economic upheavals.
+
Price tags, never before, heard of on this thoroughfare, now blemish the landscape. Expensive cars and elaborately clad pedestrians former- ly flocking the highway from the Opera to the Place Vendome. Labsent,
are!
. The ancient and venerable house) of Worth, oldest of French dress- [making establishments here, faces a saddened world once animated by the laughter and luxury of customers and window shoppers.
Worths Badly Hit
M. Jacques Worth, president of the Chambre Syndicate de la. Cou tre Parisienne, says. "Other pro blems than political have been brewing for some time and the dress business is one of the greatest sufferers.:
every-
Our foreign clientele, as one knows, comes, largely from the United States, and with the depro-
big buttons down the sides under ATTRACTIVE LADDER ciated dollar we have been hit.
the arms.
BLUE ORGANDI JABOT ·
London.
A waterfall jabot of misty blue
HEMS.
In addition, the national spirit there is favouring American indus- try, although they know that when'
Modern Hanky Design. it comes to materials and designs
Paris.
organdi gives a delightful finish to The latest handkerchiefs dis-
our products are superior.
Dollar Down and Tax Up We cannot blame them for that. however. Their dollar has gone
a simple little frock-and-jacket suit play a tiny hand-rolled hem, in down and their tax on foreign goods
of printed blue and grey crepe de preference to the drawn thread has gone up, a combination of af- chine..
type, a hem so tiny that it is in fairs which makes it practically im Itself the work of an artist and CLEANING CARVED IVORY will only be found on a good hand possible for them to purchase
Carved ivory is awkward to clean.
kerchief,
It is also more practical, as or-
13 Try using a little sawdust damped dinary hems are inclined to break
after several washes.
13
14
FOR MANILA
in with a cloth, allow to dry, and brush off.
with lemon juice. Rub the mixture away from the drawn threads
A very attractive stitch,
used in conjunction with little
much
thia
roll-heni, * 18 the ladder
July
13
20
20
July
Empress of Japan
FOR AMERICA AND CANADA
Ixion
General Sherman
Empress of Russia
Pres. Coolidge.
11
FOR SHANGHAI
July
Carthage
Impress of Russia
General Sherman
Pres. Coolidge
Rajputana:
Chenonceaux
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
**
3656
SHKRIM
13
14
H
14
July
LARGER HANDKERCHIEFS
French creations as formerly."
HOW TO KEEP YOUR SKIN FRESH AND CLEAR
IN SUMMER. Pimples and other facial ble stitch. It is like a row of. very mishes are unsightly at the best of small embroidered
squares, just times, but especially so during the The tendency of handkerchiefs next to the hem, and it is most summer months when the gay;
dainty.
Paris.
generally is to get larger, possibly
as a reaction from the minute ones of a short time ago. -
than the time given above unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m. 13 registered and parcel mails are closed 13 at 5 p.m. on the previous day,
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via
14
General Sherman
Pres. Coolidge
Rajputana Gange
FOR AUSTRALIA
July
Rajputana
14
"
vices. Rates and all particulars are
14 Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marselles via Sai- gon. Correspondence for Europe and intermediate countries will be ac cepted for transmission by these Ser-
bright colours of your clothes at- tract the exe. The first essentisi in order to have a clear fresh skin is to avoid constipation, for it is the poisons escaping from a congested
Shadow-Work Vogue In food tract into the blood stream
Handkerchiefs.
Paris.
Another delightful vogue, is the applique shadow-work handker- chief of the finest linen, the de- signs being appliqued on in self material, with a delicate, small stitch. They have the roll-hem, and are really exquisite.
which cause boils, pimples and other facial blemishes.
Pinkettes, the tiny laxative pilu. les, will keep you regular, aid diges- tion, tone up the liyer,banish bilious- ness and sick headaches, make the breath pure and sweet, prevent boils and pimples, and keep you hale and Non-habit-forming and hearty, non-griping, Pinkettes are the ideal Laxative mists.
Obtainable at
The-
BRASSO
CIRCULAR CHIFFON HANDKERCHIEFS
Parla.
The chiffon handkerchief is coming into its own once more, and is being dangled from the wrist. The newest. of these are circular, and so hang most pret- -city.
REAL relief from PRICKLY HEAT
At last! Real relief from the. torment of prickly heat. Add three tablespoonfuls of Scrubb's to your bath water, and feel the foe.gradually loosen his hold, as Scrubb's
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling.
such as harbor, plow, and nitko.
22
27
13
18
19 10
12
13
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JB
brings you peace and
43
SCRUBES
bodily comfort. Scrubb's quers perspira- tion.
147
48
150
con-
52
153.
56
SCRUBB'S
CLOUDY AMMONIA
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
Coloured Linen Handkerchiefs
GIVES A BRIGHTER
APT
SHINE
Paris.
A YRS
Coloured linen handigerchiefs
shown in the schedules exhibited at are much seen with spring suita the General Post Office and Kowloon Office. All letters etc., must be mark and tweeds. Some are large, and
VIA SIBERIA— Letters and post-ed By Air Mail" and handed in at these are usually plain in type.* cards for Europe and South America the General Post Offico. Unless Others are smaller, and are are forwarded "via Siberia" i
Bu superscribed for despatch by a speel-hand blocked in dashing designs superscribed.
fic air mail service, correspondance REGISTERED- and PARCEL will be forwarded by the first service and colourings. These, again, MAILS aro closed 16 minutes earlier available.
have the rolled hem.
WITH
EASE
for
BRASS
AND COPPER
HOF.. 1-Parity
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4-Precedes
8-Definite article 11-Rubber 13-Musical dramas
15-Swaggar 17-Active 18-Employ
15-A letter 21-Youth 22-Suffix used to
Indicate fuinas 23-Begin 25–Helf a score 27-Pronoun
29-Cubic
Unit of metric measura :
28-Near
31-Break suddenly
36-Musical note
| HORIZONTAL (Cont.) | VERTICAL (cont)
45-Look
|46-Moved rapidly
47-Seizas with tha
tooth
49-Ernst (8p.)
52-Rane away 54-Endowed, as with
Butherity 65-Territory (abbr.) 58-A hat (Anglo-Ind.) 47-Before
. VERTICAL
1-By 2-Awaken 3-Lift
Permit
5-Elevate
32-To Invade suddenly: 8-Parform 33-Epizode
ED ORI ALE SN CREDO
37-Exist
38-Nolas
39-Gains
42-Vahlefa
48-Knock
-apring
7-Mineral 8-Gave pleasure to
9-Fitmer.
110-8uperlative suffix
12-Point of compass
(abbr.)
of a house 15-Parke
20-Comparative suffix 22-Possbased 23-Affirm 24-Former Russian
title 26-Not at any time'
name
er of the
Benáte 34-Sturdy 35-Large plant 37-Ridleule 40-Васлива
with
41-8ution"
42-Division of soalaty in Hindustan $4-Vim
40-Residence (abbr.) 47-A wager 43-8arlos
50-Born
B1-Lyric poem
14-Addition to one sidì 83-Very
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
Bringing Up Father.
IT'S TOO BAD OUR WIVES OBJECT
TOUS GOIN ABOUT WITH EACH OTHER-THAT'S BECAUSE ME WIFE SAW YOU GITTING HOME LATE-
AND MINE
HEARD STORIES ABOUT YOU-
WOW!
ME WIFE MUST HAVE BEEN LOOKIN OUT
THE WINDOW-
I'M VERY
SORR
471
MY WIFE THREW THIS SHE'S NOT
A GOOD SHOT-
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