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The Postmaster General announcea that as from 1st November the Parcel Post rates to the United Kingdom will be reduced to:-
3 lb. 7 Eb.
$1.40 2.50.
11 15.. 22 lb.
3.50
8.00
The reduction It is hoped will have a stimulating affect on the Christmas parcel post which closes on 9th Novem- her,
Christmas Parcel Mail for
Great Britala
The Christmas Parcel Mail for Great Britain will be closed in the General Post Office at Noon on the 9th Noven >er per s.s. "Bhutan". The Publia are! cindly requested to post early.
This ranil is due to arrive
on the 18th Decembar.
Londou
The Kowloon Post Office will open
THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1934
The Woman's Page
Tailor-Made Topcoat
CREED CHOPS OFF THE REDINGOTE
PARIS
London.
ABIS sporis couturiers have proved very clever at chang- ing their practical-clothes from the
for business in its new premises in ample nonchalant types recently In Salisbury Road, opposite the Fire vogue to the more restrained sort Station; at 8 a.m. on Thursday, the of thing that is our momentary
1st November.
INWARD. MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Conto Rosso (Air Mail ex
Imperial Service, London
October 191 peer
FROM JAPAN
Manila Maru
Helbourne Maru
Nov.
Nov.
か
Telme
Emp. of Japan
General ShowUAN
Haruna Maru
Pres. van Buren
FROM AMERICA & CANADA
Emp. of Japan...
Nov.
Pres. van Buren
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FROM MANILA
Nov.
Tanda Taiping
FROM BHANGHAI
Nov.
Chenonceaux
Agamemnon
Bhatap
Emp. of Japan
General Sherian
Нагинд Мага
Pres. van Buren
FROM STRAITS
Nov.
#
Conte Rosso
Menelaus
Yasukuni Maru
FROM AUSTRALIA
Nov.
Taiping
OUTWARD MAILS:
FOR EUROPE Pres. Coolidge (via San Fran
cisco and Siberlo}
Nov.
one whit less practical. Dilkusha's ideal of chic-without making them latest topcoat is a good example of this adaptability.
It is tailor-made, with wide welted aeams, sleeves cut in one with fronts and back and a wide notched collar that can turn up round the ears like the good old atorm-collars. It has no buttons at! all, only one slit pocket, and it is cut perfectly straight so that one feels tempted to call it a "long
box"; but it is worn wrapped away
9a round the hips. It is neither too
mannish nor superfeminine.
While Dilkusha elongates the box, Greed chops off the redingote, pro- ducing a brand new type of suit coat. He has a smart model in blue-and-black bouclé woollen, made
Hike 9 exactly
double-breasted redingote belted. in the back, am-' putated at about fingertip level, worn with a trouser-topped skirt 3 and a blouse of old gold wool,
Closes Reg. 9,15 e.m: Ord, 10.00 a.m.)
Rajputana (via Marsaillee)
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Closes Reg. 9.46 a.m. Ord. 10.30 a.m. Chenonceaux (Marseilles Air
Mail Service)
Closes Reg. 10 am. Ord. 10:30 am. Bhutan Eria Marneillos)
FOR JAPAN
Nov.
Pres, Coolidge D'Artagnan
J
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FOR MANILA
Nov.
Pres. Jackson
FOR USA
Nov,
Pres. Coolidge
FOR SHANGHAI
Nov.
い
Pres. Coolidge
D'Artagnen:
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
Rajputana
Marila Maru
Bhutan...
Нагима Maru
Nov.
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ON
New Decorative Idiom
Accessory For Interior Decoration
THE MASK
whim and any type of interior. The designs run the gamut from grotesqueness to beauty and dig nity. Some of the modern maska suggest features by abstract shape; in others likenesses
Too frequently, we, who claim worked out in combinations "home" East of Suez, find our-different materials.
Aro
pfi
the
They
selves out of the way in one par- These novel art productions ticular above all others that of have varied possibilities in keeping a watchful eye on fads at arrangement of a room. home. Fashions we may keep up may be used in the centre of a with, but fads-we too often fail door which needs same, decorative to keep step. Probably it is be- camouflage; on either side of a cause news of family affairs and mantel; or to adorn 'curtain tie social events is of far more backs. A large one above the }portance to our correspondents mantel shelf often gives the room than is the newest scheme in a distinctive air; a small one may home remodelling. or the happy solve the problem of what to do hobby which beautifies as well as with a'aarrow wall space between two windows. A mask may round interests..
out a foyer grouping of conste Perhaps there is no other coun-able and lamp or complete the try which
often changes its
furnishings of a corner. Under moods in interior decoration America and since America, geo-the variations of day and evening grapically speaking, of course, isghting the surface of a
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a several days closer than Lon-takes on artistic changes.
mask
Although the essence of the art don, some of the latest fancies: there, which may be readily adapt of mask-making is to produce an ed in Hong Kong are of particu-effect in which the human features
lar interestata
Local Opportunity
servé chiefly as an inspiration for the artist's fantasy, some of the finest ones are subtle caricatures Particularly does Hong Kong of actual persons. Originally offer its modernes an opportunity made for use on the stage, some of to collect bizarra and lovely ex-the creations are dramatic inter- jamples of the newest vogue, the pretations of great dignity. Other mask. Here is the description and masks are reduced to abstract es- opinion of the fashion by an an-sentials, thoritative New York writer.
"As
an original and artistic registered and parcel mails are closed decorative accessory, the mask sat 5 p.m. on the previous day.
Bandoen.g-Amsterdam
takes a leading place. On the
AUTUMN CHIC
leather, sewn with a long Singapore, Bandotdata via wall it provides a three-dimen- A SCARF and gloves of Chamois Singapore. Baigon-Marseilles via 8a1 slonal ornament, interesting, both stitch in brown, give a smart finish ron. Carrespondence for Europe and in outline and in colour, and it to a tailored costume of brown 8 Intermediate countries will be ao-may epitomize the decorative tweed, which shows the narcow 5 cepted for transmission by these Sermood of a room. The modern collar and wide revers now popular.
vices, Rates and all particulars arej shown in the schedules exhibited a masks, of painted wood, plaster,
An interesting novelty is the
the General Post Office and Kowloon molded papier-mache and metal, ornament in the beret, as the prin VIA SIBERIA Letters and post-office. All letters etc., must be mark-designed by famous artists, are cipal stones are detachable and can are forwarded "yla Siberia" if a the General superscribed.
eards for Europe and South America ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at supplemented by primitive exam- be replaced by others of different
Post Office. Unies superscribed for despatch by a speci-ples from African tribes or North colour. REGISTERED ・・ ́and, PARCEL de air mail service, correspondence American Indians. MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier will be forwarded by the first service than the time given above unless available. atherwise stated, and where meile are advertised to close, at or before 9 am
Linen Boots Are The Latest
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Dressy Effect For " Sunny Seasides
"Beauty and the Beast" has been corrupted to "Boots and the Beach" since Worth, of Paris, showed the new and exciting white canvas boots for the sunny seasides. They re semble riding boots in line, but can! be worn on various occasions.
They can even be worn-slipped on over delicate evening shoes when one is going to a beach party and it is easier and quicker to reach the destination by way of the beach! than the fuland road. They protect] the satin slippers from the sands.
Another type of beach shoe is Versa Boran's "Bootee" In white kid. This laces aeross the front of the foot but leaves the toes bare.) It gives the bathing ensemble a frather dreasy effect, especially when worn with the new linen shorts by Borea.
"The true Parisienne shoe," says a shoe stylist who knows her busi-
nesa, "has long since aimed to be as light as the proverbial cloud," but, belleve it or not, shoes are now! rivalling clouds in the question of Unings.
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Shoes do not Insist on a silver lining, but all other most delicate shades in soft kid line the exclusive shoes nowadays, or sometimes a nent printed kid in shades that most aptly blend with, the outside of the shoo.
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A small point but small points are what distinguish the woman of fine
taste.
NEW "GYM" TUNIC
·FOR 14-YEAR-OLD
Great changes have taken place
in ordinary school clothes,
There is a new gym, tunic with
a V-shaped neck and Velose Sitting) The chain handle on the umbrella waist, and it is much more be The variety of subjects and co- makes it very convenient to slip coming to the little fourteen-year- lours available in masks provides over the wrist, and so leave hands old. figure than the usual bulky
tunte. a choice to suit any householder's free.
THE
FONG KONG
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HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL
PEAK HOTEL; ·
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking
MAN LOONG PRESERVED GINGER MANUFACTURERS.
NEW SEASON PRESERVED GINGERTM Best Quality Prompt attention to Exporters. Office:-14, Possension Street, Tel. No. 28254- Factory:-K.L.L. 1928 Bedford St., Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon.
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