MAIL. SCHEDULES
The Postmaster General announces that as from 1st November the Parcel Post rates to the United Kingdom will
be reduced to:~
3 lb. 7 lb.
2,50 $1.40
1 lb. 22 lb.
3.50
0.00
The reduction It is hoped will have a stimulating effect on the Christmas pareol post which closes on 9th Novem-
ber.
Christmas Purcel Sufi for
Great Britain
The Christmas Parcel Mail for Great- Britain will be closed in the Generat Post Office at Noon on the 9th Novem er par a.". "Bhutan". The Public are kindly requested to post early,
This mail is due to arrive at London at the 16th December.
The Kowloon Post Office will open for business in its new premises in Salisbury Road, opposite the Fire Station, at 8 a.m. on Thursday, the 1st November.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Conte Rosso (Air Mail X limperial Service, London October '19)
FROM JAPAN
Rajputana
Pres. Jackson
Manila Maru
Nov.
Nov.
Melbourne Maru
Talmn
Emp. of Japan
General Sherman
Haruna Maru
Prox. van Buren
FROM AMERICA & CANADA
Nov.
Pres. Jackson
Emp. of Japan
Pres. van Buren
FROM MANILA
Nov.
Pres. Coolidge
Tanda Taiping
FROM SHANGHAI
Prea, Jackson
Rajputana
Chenonceaux
Agamemnon
Bhutan Emp. of Japun General Sherman
Нагода Маг
Pres. van Buren
Nov.
FROM STRAITS
Nov.
Conto Rossu
H
Menelaus
Yasukuni Mara
FROM AUSTRALIA
Nov.
Tanda
Taiping
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Carthage (vin Siberla)
Pres. Coolidge (via San Fran-
claco and Siberia)....
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1934
The Woman's Page
This formal dinner gown of cel- black wool, threaded with lophane, features * back button- ing jacket with cape effect sleeves. The train adds to the formal and sophisticated appearance of the ensemble.
NEW OUTFIT FOR WINTER BRIDES
Sleeves And Collar A La Medici
Box Coats For Sports Wear
DRAPED SCARF
Paris.
The box coats every one is show- ing to some extent for sports and street give us a distinctly, new out- line. Hair-splitters might trace them back to the snappy pre-war Boulevardiers' overcoats, but really again. they are something else They doubtless have come to stay awhile, for they are just as com fortable and sportsmanlike as the swagger coat, which was growing) decidedly monotonous, and their clear-cut outline is in harmony i with the general tendency away from anything degage or careless.
.
Creed shows this style of jacket, buttoned at the side-ns are NO many of the new Winter coats- with the neckline, cut square in front, revealing a draped scarf of wool chenille or velvet.
THAT GRACEFUL FIGURE
It Is Never Too Late To Begin
If you want to retain a graceful, youthful figure keep that waistline, supple!
Consider how a child walks, runs and site. Hia waistline is as flexible as a wide rubber band.
Ing.
Europe's most beautiful girl is a Finn, Miss Esther Tivenen, in the opinion of the judges at the beauty congress at Hastings. England. She will compete with beauties of other continents for the title of "Miss Universe."
Face Lotion
*
SPANGLED SILVER
Black velvet made a statuesque
It's never too late to begin exercising to attain this suppleness Make for yourself a delicately! and its companion qualities, grace fragrant face lotion which will gown which had a short cape cloak and poise.
For poise does comelsoften and whiten your skin, and spangled with silver like a moonlit sky, and the sleeves, wide, balloon. from within and an awkward body renew its vitality.
like (and of black net of the finest), is not conducive to gracious bear- Take as many sprigs of rosemary was patterned with many coloured, as you can pick easily, and put yet dull, sequins, and looked exact So do your exercises with them in a large saucepan. Bring ly Ilke London.
hand-painted Czecho- double purpose in mind. First, to them to the boil (let the boiling Slovakian glass. The sequins wer An entirely new outfit for albe limber and supple. Second, to for a few minutes be hard) then hundreds in number.
on each winter bride was shown at the build health and poise. Let's allow them to simmer gently for
sleeve, and each was hand-sewn Baroque advance fashion show, begin with stretching and bending. half an hour.
been.
Touch Your Toen The outfit, which has not thought of before has not been When you have brushed your a white teeth and taken two full glasses of
Of papal dignity was a black hought of before. has
warm water, stand before an oper
velvet robe, half coat, half gown,| velvet coat, lined with softest rose window and stretch.
which had a wonderful patterning 9 blush satin, so that the faintly
Raise your hands upward, trying
There is a new cream obtainable of silver and crystal wheateare pink shade glows through, colour-to touch the ceiling and feeling ing ever so faintly and delicately your torso being pulled up, up, up, which is used for the foundation down the entire centre front, from
the white satin gown which is a Relax after each stretch and repeat of an
ARTIFICIAL TAN
on.
The rest of the frock was black, except for the "glass" sleeves.
Nov.
2
component part of the design.
at least five times.
The coat had the most engag-bending. 3jing little sleeves and collar, a la
lised the high neck to the ground.
ochre Then begin with a sunburn
powder over it, you have all the Keeping your knees stiff, swing
artificial sun tan.
Dr
гове
Closes Reg. 9.15 a.m. Ord. 10.00 a.m. Rajputana (vis Marseilles)
Closes Reg. 9.45 a.m. Ord. 10.30 am.
Carthage Pres. Coolidge D'Artagnan
FOR JAPAN
Nov.
H
Medici, of quilted white velvet, your hands downward to the floor beauty of tan without any of its ill
again lined with the pale. rose.
You won't be able to touch it the effects and discomforts,
Do it ten times.
It was a practical and artistic first morning but after a week, you idea-in view of chilly days. The will. gcoat, too, was definitely directoire,
and was cut up at the back to re 3veal the satin train of the dress; made in the design of a leaf, trailing in tapering grace.
FOR MANILA
Nov.
Nellore Pres. Jackson
FOR US.A.
Nov.
Pres. Coolidge.
FÜR SHANGHAI
Nov,
Conté Rosso
Carthage
Pres. Coolidge
"
D'Artagnan
W
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
NoY.
Rajputana
3
H
集
Manila Maru
FOR AUSTRALIA
advertised to close at or before 9 a.m.,
'An artificial tan is, for
people, more advisable.
most
Rock Garden Table Decoration
Each stone is handled indivi
A novel decoration for the dinner jare made of pieces of rock from than the time given above unler table is found in the everlasting the hillside. otherwise stated, and where mails are cock gardens, which are becoming dually so as to give the flowers registered and parcel mails are closed so popular with the modern hostess. their natural form, and colour. st 5 p.m. on the previous day.
AIR MAIL-Imperial Always via The pieces can be built up, tog, into which can be restored at any time Singapore, Bandoet.g-Amsterdam visa miniature rock garden, with all by a working in cold water. Singapore Saigon-Marselles via Sat-the brightness of a real garden,
Another method of arrangement gon. Correspondence for Europe and but with the obvious advantage is to group one or two of these Intermediate countries will be ac cepted for transmission by there Ser that in the winter they do not fade, rock gardens together with genuine vices. Rates and all particulars are but remain gay and colourful as moss in the crevices of the rock In this arrangement they base. shawn in the schedules exhibited at ever, the General Post Office and Kowloon These gardens are being used make an original centre-piece for Office. All letters etc., must be mark- 2ed "By Air Man" and handed in at increasingly for the dining-rooms winter dining tables, looking es ithe, General Post Office. Unless and Conservatories of modern pecially effective in a glow of Rock gardens are superscribed for despatch by a speci-houses where they are placed in candle-light. VIA SIBERIA Letters and post de air mail service, correspondence front of mirrors, and, when floodlit particularly welcome as a change eards for Europe and South America will be forwarded by the first service
The from the over-sophisticated metal extremely effective. are are forwarded "via Alberia", available.
Lowers are authentic reproductions and glass flowers which have had superscribed
Nellore (via Brisbane)
Nov.
REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes carller
1of actual rock plants in bloom, and so-much-popularity-lately.
Begin The Day With A Smile Beginning the day with a smile is largely a matter of habit-the DAILY habit! If you are troubled with intestinal congestion, or your liver is sluggish you cannot get up the morning feeling cheery and To correct constipation, stimulate the liver, diapel billous, attacks, banish sick headaches, Pinkettes are perfection. And they keep the skin clear, the breath pure, the eyes bright, also good for piles, Chemists everywhere sell
bright,
RINKETTES
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has bien made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out sor ocessional phonetic spelling, such as harbor. plow, and altho.
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18
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12
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16
17 18
19
10
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42
146
47
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52:
HORIZONTAL
1-Rank
6-Trapper 11-Rows
12-Torment
13-Conjunction
14-Lace fabric
HORIZONTAL (Cont.), 42-8k1lI 43-Whither 45-Measure of length
|46-Indian house
:
48-The whats
50-A negativo
18-Those who play the 51-8carcer
bigpipe 18-Ensnars 20-Empty
22-A small report 23-Brother of Jacob 25-Terminate
28-Greek goddess-of
27-Avarica
29-ignited
31-Empty talk (alang),
32-Cure hides
33-Piece of bed-tinen
36 Canvas shelters-
39 A title
"38-Earth
40-Later: part
62-Device for fting [54.A relative; /
65-Refined women
VERTICAL
1-Not so fast 2-Fatigues 3-Indefinite article 4-Half a score 5-Employed
6-Warm
7-8hower
8-k serpent
9-More profound 10-Grated
140.
VERTICAL (Cont.) 15-Large plant 17-Clothed
19-Container 21-Conjunction 24-Persu#Uou 25-Auggestions 28-Consume
29 Agitate 30-Partion 32-Earth (Lat.) 33-Thin pieces of rock |34-Panstrates
36-Bind
36-Reat !!
37-A Spanish title (pl.)
39-Fin
41-
who receives
43-Existed
|44-Girl's name
47-8mall (ump of
butter
49-Guided
63-8ix (Rom.)
The solution of the above with 'a amb cross-word
will appear in, to-morrow's jesus.
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