MAIL SCHEDULES
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Sept.
Kumsang (Air Mall ox Im-
perial Airways Service) ..... Comorin (vis Suez)
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19
FROM JAPAN
Sept.
Pres. Pierce
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Atsuta Maru
Pres. McKinles
Buenos Aires Maru
Chichibu Maru
Mantun
17
FROM AMERICA & CANADA
fres. Pierce
Pres. McKinley
Kamo Maru
Suiyang
FROM MANILA
FROM SHANGHAI
Pres. Pierce
Mantua
Pres. McKinley
Chichibu Maru
24
Sept.
17
#
21
Sept.
20
A
Sept.
FROM STRAITS
Sept
Kumsang
Acnenx
Mayebashi Maru
Tilawa
Toyooka Maru
Teireniss
Penang Maru
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1934.
The Woman's Page
THE WOMAN THREE PROBLEMS IN
BUYER
Career Where Success
Awaits Right Type
THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE OF MATERIAL ESSENTIAL
Few careers have developed so
DRESS
Day Frock, Cocktail And Evening Costumes
ALL ARE IMPORTANT
HE dress problem, for the
Tmoment, seems to have resolved
well in recent years as that of the itself into three main channels, day} woman buyer In the departments of clothes, cocktail clothes, and even. of leading fashion stores and shops ing clothes, and, perhaps of them Are the devoted to the thousand and one all-the cocktail clothes dress and beauty requirements of most important. It is vitally neces- sary to have garments sultable for the woman of to-day.
Shoes, lingerie, embroideries, and all these occasions, and just occa the requisites for the embroidery sionally one meets a brilliant brain "Isvogue which is attracting so many which can and has evolved one gør-
17 women, beauty aids, millinery, ment to fit the three occasions.
21 vanity bags, laces and model frocks A black day frock. suitably of every type, and furnishings are covered with a long and smartly cut all avenues of commerce attracting coat. is wearable for almost any Add to it furs, clever girls with an ambition to hour of the day. aucceed. And they are succeeding. and a black velvet hat-maybe a
17 Apart from that flair for business, bunch of violets or hyacinths, and who embarksja metal mesh handbag, and it which every woman
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18 on trading must possess, they know becomes a suitable garment
from
19 what other women want when they five to seven. Subtract the coat
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23
Nagate Maru
FROM INDIA
Sept.
13
Kumsang
#!
18
Tilawa
FROM AUSTRALIA
Kamo Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Sept.
P
Sept.
20 spend their money. The woman and furs, substitute a metal lame buyer chooses and buys her stocks jacket, high necked and long and successfully because she possesses slender of sleeve, fasten gardenias jan intuitive knowledge of her own to the waist, and alter the hair- sex. This psychological power is dressing; then slip the feet into a
pair of slippers slightly jewelled i Jone of her greatest assets.
either fore or aft, and the theatre! Great Variety Looking around the shops and costume is complete. stores where women are in charge of Important departments one no. 20 tices a great feature ig made of
an immense variety of choice of) merchandise for women shoppera. In lingerle, for instance, which has)
Fushimi Maru (via Marseilles) 15 totally changed in appearance and
Closes Reg. 8.45 nm. Ord. 9.30
Kamo Maru (via Siberis)
Emp. of Japan
FOR JAPAN
Taiyo Muru
Empress of Jupan
Kamo Maru
a.m. texture during the past year or 21 two, and where the woman buyer is supreme. the different styles and
21
Sept.
17
Sept.
FOR AMERICA AND CANADA
Taiyo Maru
Empress of Japan
FOR MANILA
Tai Ping
Tjinegara
Pres. Pierce
FOR SHANGHAI
Taiyo Maru
Empress of Jupan
Empress of Japan
Fushimi Muru
Mantua
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
Tai Ping
FOR AUSTRALIA.
Sept.
materials can be counted in their
16 hundreds in any large department,
27 and each style and lingerie fabric is
21 chosen with an expert regard to
feminine types.
15 variety
This feminine tendency towards
is even
more noticeable 21 when one finds a woman buyer in charge of a large shoe department.
Here variety of choice is one of 18 the strongest appeals the woman 18 shopper. The woman buyer realises 18 that where a woman used to think:
she needed just a few pairs of shoes, nowadays if she wishes to Sept.
15 be really well turned out she may 21 want a dozen, or even more.
Clothes To Be Matched
가
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Sept.
Dresses and suits have to be 15 matched in leathers, sport, and the 22 seaside call for Aandals of different shapes. There must be town and Sept. country footwear, shoes that are 18 elegant in shape and shoes that are of the sensible fat-heeled variety. The latest fashion must be repre VIA SIBERIA- Letters and post-sented. All shoppers are catered cards for Europe and South America for with a discerning and feminine are forwarded "via Siberia" if
A taste as to what other women really. superscribed.
REGISTERED and PARCEL want. MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier A good buyer not only knows her than the time given above unless selling market but she knows how otherwise stated, and where malls are and where to buy. She seeks her advertised to close at or before 9 am markets at home and abroad, and
registered and parcel malls are closed the seasonal visits to foreign
at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via capitals in search of novelties, al- Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via though a time of great respons- Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sul- gon. Correspondence for Europe and billty, also possesses something of intermediate countries will be ac-a thrill, at any rate at the outset cepted for transmission by these Bar-jof her career. vices.
Rates and all particulars are
This branch of commerce holds
shewn. In the schedules exhibited at remunerative posts for the right the General Post Office and Kowloon Office. All letters etc., must be mark-type of girl. Salaries are good for
od "By Air Mail" and handed in at those Atted to fill the higher posts. the. General
Unless But the training must be thorough. Post Office. superscribed for despatch by a specThe girl doos best who starts at the Ac air mail service, correspondence will be forwarded by the first service lower rung of the ladder and works available.
TAILORMADE
A Tailormade is one of the first things a woman buys when summer
her way through her apprenticeship to saleswoman before she takes on the responsbility of a post as a buyer.
WAISTCOATS
Hats In Changing Fashion
Luxuriously farred in this fit- ed suit of olive green diagonal- ip-striped mixed wool worn by Peggy Wood, acreen actress. The coat features a cleverly placed profusion of cross fox in a roll- ed collar, bands of the long- haired fur on each upper sleeve, and a wide ribbon of it banding the bottom of the ensemble. double-headed muff is carried.
A
NEW SCARVES ARE SMART & DRESSY Coat-Linings To Match
Made Of Contrasting Colours
RACING WEAR
London.
Hats are, of course, all-important just now and, despite exaggerations, there is something for everybody. Older people sometimes
BLACK IS IN AFTER DARK STYLE
Pastel Satins Occupy Spotless Position
SUEDE GLOVES
New York.. HE evening dress of summer
THE
Batin occupies a spotless posl. | tion. It is shown in pastel coloura as cool as sherberts, and in white. Some satins are crinkled and these manage to look coolest of all- breeze-blown. Of course satins are formal, but after wearing "amua- ing" frocks made of peasant table. eloths, department store draperies, and string, it is exciting to play princess In
and a shimmering elegant fabric.
Black is still to the front for restaurant dining. The dress may
a
be of net, lace, chiffon, taffeta, stiffened maslin, or even satin. According to the latest mode, it brimmed should be worn with hat of yellow felt and yellow chamoia-er suede gloves. Thus it hecomes like a dark night under the moon!
Even if one cannot attire oneself in all the new materials, it is im- pressive to toss, off a few names, such as chichi, a tucked fabric used for entire dresses; and Bedlington, a bright floss fringe, very feathery! looking.
Frilly petticoats in colours con- trasted with the frock are impor tant for evening. Slashed seams and sudden vagaries in the hemline. give them a chance. The hemline) le full.
CARE OF THE FEET
wear in
"Foot Consciousness" And Fashion
KEEPING UP WITH STYLE
the larger hats, especially black. With a Gainsborough crown and a brim that dips in front. most-becoming shapes may ba found in straw and mustin. Large hats in black and white, with per-
lady," not in the titled sense of Exactly what constitutes being
haps ribbons or feathers, or much the phrase, but rather as apalagous to the word "gentleman?" This is atitched in colours, go with the organdie frocka, and are sometimea a question that could easily bring made of this material. On the about a good argument, but it's a other hand, and especilly with the wager that the ultimate agreement would be to the effect that funda- vogue for white frills, a severer,
lady" must be a sometimes rather legal-looking hat mentally "a may be worn, which is made of thoroughbred. Her manners, while not astentatious must be cultured; ribbon, felt, or straw.
Multitudes of hats match the her conduct becoming, and it goes dresses, with perhaps a flower, also without saying she must be well made of the material or a contrast- groomed. And good grooming not ing colour, tied in a knot in front, only, means care in her attire, but There are also many dead-white of her personal self, her teeth, her hats, some of straw, more of hair, her skin, her nails, and last muslin, which take the place to in the list, but not least in order of great advantage of the wolly importance, her feet. knitted hat of the winter.
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but eur readers are warned to look out for occasional phonette selling, such as harbor, plow, and altho
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Foot Consciousness Nowadays feet are very much in evidence in the drawing room as
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HORIZONTAL
HORIZONTAL (Cont.), 44-Tablet 45-Relation
[18-Lacking force
Many hats are made entirely of feather, some of ostrich rolled in well as on the beach, with the vogue tight little sections, or made tight-for open-work sandals permitting one to go. stockingless on formal ly into flowers, some of plumage and informal occassins. Conse- Leaves and flowers are made of
"foot quently everyone is more silk and then sewn together in a
conscious" and more and more of huge rosette which may become a
those on display show signs of a hat and the fatness of which is
Women little "window dressing." held on to the head by a band of
seem to be taking special pleasure leaves. Many hats have some
In caring for their feet and in such means of being held
making them as lovely as feet can On Others have head-piece and are in. the shape of tam-o-be. For contrary to the popular shanters made of plaited ribbon, opinion that at best a foot is un- attractive, there are many women flowers.
If your carf is of taffeta and Dark dresses may have large
DINNER GOWN
Little touches in race clothes In-who have beautiful feet, and any clude a sort of waterfall frill from foot can be made better to look the throat, and also perhaps a upon.
So don't be shy about bringing couple of frills, looking different ways, round the skirt below the your feet into the open. It is good knees. With a frilled dress a long for them. But make sure they are straight frilled coat is often worn debut to the public. Give them as presentable before they make their Leg-of-mutton sleeves are treated
as you do your careful attention Triangles and squares. adapt ingeniously, the fat part of the leg is on the wane..
There are plenty of new waist-themselves best to the new ways of of mutton having its top cut off palle, and you will achieve as satis There is nothing like a really coats. Many in pale shades of wearing spring scarves, but the and showing a different colour tory results. well-cut coat and skirt for seeing knitted silks will look well with long, straight scarf is still with us. round the open edge of the cut. the owner through the undecided linen threads for early September sort of weather which September days. Others, for storm and rain, checked or plaided, it is bound to squares of white which are made of and October so often provide... are of wool, cut in one with the be youthful, and will be more so if strips, cut at the ends, pagoda A new note in the dinner gown cardigan coat. These waistcoats you tie it. in with a bow with one fashion. These go well with some is one that contrasts the materials come up high like a man's, so are IDEAL FOR CURTAINS
really practical for bad weather to Dotted swiss is an ideal curtain wear with rough tweed skirts, mac-
kintosh, or leather coats material for a young girl's room. One smart mother has used white dotted swiss for glass curtains and the same material in pink" for
When marocain frocks become There will probably be many a dráperisa In her daughter's boudoir.
These scarves come with the coat, spotted from rain or solled, use Lux case of sun-scorched skin' to-day! Another home decorator used the flounce which has attained popu, of course, and therefore there are as directed on the packet and Iron Smear some zine Lame combination and then put blue larity. It is a shirred side panel loops provided for slipping the on the wrong side before the frock ointm dotted swiss ruffles right over, the which gives width to a skirt already scarf through and tying it inside is quite dry. Never use petrol for Bind on to the tops of the pink draperies.
slashed in the front and back. for outside.
marocain.
INTRODUCING A FLOUNCE
Augustabernard has introduced a
loop, tickling your right, ear..
of the rather Chinese-shaped hats of the front and back of the bodice. Cowl and draped effects are that continue to appear.
A favourite contrast is black net smart. because they bundle you up
for the back and for long sleeves, at the neck and are a cool way to
and opaque crepe for the front.. achieve a very high neckline.
FOR OPEN-AIR BEAUTT
Scarves, that match coat finings are the final word in ensembles that are sure to register,
SOILED FROCKS
and eucalyptus
of white Ent. sun-burned place
with gauze-båndage
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23-pouse 24-Native of Sparta 26-Musical note
nama
27-Man's 28-Extinct. Now
Zealand bird 50-Bounds of distress: 31-Picture drawn with
colored crayons 32-Sainte (abbr) 34-Bald to a horse
35-Into
40-Myselt
37-Ragular streaks
41-Restrain
47-Highest note in
Quido's scale
48-Atmosphere
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19-Antique musical
Instrument (pl.) 20-injures
|49-A fresh est, as of 122-Produced
men.
61-To the time when 63-A degree (abbr)
24-Narrow strips of
wood..
28-Part of the face (pl.)
64-Anything that hanga 27-Greek goddess of
$5-And (Lat.)
VERTICAL
1-Exists 2-Bindi with tape 3-Small bod 4-Ahead 5-Tool for a stove (pl.)
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11-Youth
13-A fuel
43-Bottom of the feet 15-Mineral spring
the dawn
28-Consumed
33-Cultivated |36-Nuda
38-Fish #90: 39-A vegatable
40-Girl's name {42-W!re mensura
44-Deep hole 46-Doze 148-An Insect 4-A country highway
(abbr)
150-Pronoun
51-Prefix. Not 62-A. military officer
(abbr.)
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will appear in Monday's issue.
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