MAIL SCHEDULES
The Postmaster General announces that as from 1st November the Parcel Post rates to the United Kingdom will
be reduced 10:-
1 Ib. 7 lb. $1,40
2.50
11 lb.. 3.50
22 b. 6.00
be
may now Private Setter-boxes rented at the Kowloon Post Office. Full information regarding them may be obtained from the Officer in charge of that office.
CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1934
The Woman's Page
Regency Furnishing Fabrics THE NEWEST
London.
One result of the Regency and; Empire rovival in the world of home; {decoration is that furnishing fabrics are all to be gay, patterned and bold in colour schemes.
Stars and crescents in black on Christmas and New Year cards:
than five written white, yellow, blue and green per- bearing not more words and enclosed in opan envelopes cale, stripod salmon pink and cream, are accepted by the Post Office at the or blue and yellow or green and yel- rate for printed matter, i.c., 4 conta per low taffeta are favourite Regency Z ounces,
Envelopes must not be closed.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Prosper (Air Mail ex
Mar-
seilles Saigon Service)
Ranchi (via Suez)
FROM JAPAN
Pres. Jefferson
Ranpura
Malacca Mara Pres. Jefferson Dakar Maru
Dec.
materials of the moment.
These are being combined by a woman decorator In Bruton-street with a soft lustreless velvet, 50in wide, which coats only 58 a yard, for bedspreads and cushion covers.
*
Outside Regency influence gaiety 13 is still the keynote, Countess Paul
Munster has covers, rugs and cur tains made up for her on her Aus- trian estate from blue, yellow, te- mato red and green rolls of cotton
Doc.
141
14
material woven together with an
14 off-white linen thread. The effect
15 is that of a delicate coloured mat-
ting.
20
20
H
Dec.
Bokayo Maru
Yasukuni Maru Pres. Adams
FROM U.S.A.
Pres, Jefferson
Banpura
Pres. Adams
14
FROM MANILA
Dec.
Kamo Maru
FROM SHANGHAJ
Conto Verde
Pres, Jefferson
Hanpura
Allpore
Aramis
Patroclus
Tasukuni Maru
Pres. Adama
21 Four Victoria chintzes to be re-l vived this winter are an ivy leaf pattern on white, and either pink 14 or white camellias on off-white, and 14 convolvulus on the original grey
Lispider-web background.
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Two curtain material designs that 20 have been put aside in the collars of City silk murchants since the days
of William IV. are being made again.
Dec. and used as a back-ground for mu-
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Delagos Maru
Helenus
Mayebashi Maru
Titan Van
Tottori Maru
FROM AUSTRALIA
Camo Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Coude Verde
FOR AUSTRALIA
Conte Verde
14 dernistic designs by Miss Eileen
is
13
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14 Iunter,
•
18 Grecian satin is a heavy material,
181
18
with a matt finish, and Roman satin;
,
H
28 is somewhat like it, but with more
21 silk in the composition, which are
*Dec.
13
W
being hand block printed with na-
tural designs of birds and flowers.
Taffeta, formerly used only in
17 plain colours or in stripes, can now!
17 be patterned in the same way.
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20
20 Some Hints On
Des.
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Knitting
A PROFESSIONAL TOUCH
Here are some hints that may help you to give your knitting a VIA SIBERIA Letters and post-really professional finish.. cards for Europe and South America To make neat and well-shaped are forwarded" "via Siberia" if
buttonholes work one row of double superscribed.
On the
REGISTERED
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Soft, pliable fabrics seem de- stined to become as popular as heavy, stiff materials If this smoky rose beige evenlog. ensemble can be used as a criterion. The cross- ed draperies in the bodice meet at the waist in back and form float- ing panels for the lovely Carole Lombard, screen star.
ind PARCEL crochet round each one. |A
MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier wrong side, lightly tack up the two! than the time given above unless crocheted edges, so that when the otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 am, work is pressed and the tackinga gistered and parcel malls are closed removed the buttonhole is a good
shape and will not gape. at 5 m. on the previous day.
SLIMMING
DRESS
Large wooden buttons and an ex-{
belt which AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via
If a knitted edge is very uneven tra-wide suede-cloth Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam vis Singapore Saigon-Marsellies viä Sai- owing to shapings, a good edge for swathes twice round the waist and o Correspondence for Europe and seaming purposes can be obtained yet gives a beautifully slin line are termediate countries will be ac epted for transmision by these Serby very neatly working one row of the two "high-lights" on the frock Rates and all particulars are tight double crochet along the knit-of dark blue tweed. The collar can be worn up or down, and the sleeves at ted edge.
When sawing pockets on to a are of the new width. Office. All latters etc., must be mark-garment it is much better to tack ad "By Air Mail" and handed in at
Unless them securely into position and perscribed for despatch by aspect machine them. They will lle flattor
vices.
abewn in the schedules exhibited
the General Post Office and Kowloon
the General
Post Office.
Be air mail service, correspondence and look altogether better finished will be forwarded by the first servie than if hand sewn. available.
FOR PERFECT NECK AND SHOULDERS
To sew in a sleeve neatly it is often advisable to sew the sleeve to the stitch next to the edge stitch of the bodice where the shapinga have. taken place at the underarms. The edge stitches are often long and The off-the-shoulder, drapery dress loopy owing to the shapings.·
If the nock of a garment is too demands a wearer with perfect neck
row of double
CLOTHING
cleaned by us lasts longer,
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-24 hours" service
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and shoulders. The dress is gup-loose work one ported by whalebone and the front crochet as tightly as is necessary to is spanned by flowers. It is not get the required neck measurement however, a form of corsage quitable before sewing on a collar or scarf 6. Wyndham St. for the majority.
COLOUR
London.
Paris is rather pleased at the mo. ment with a new colour which has just been introduced. It is the shade of a black tulip, and, in a vel- vet felt it takes on a lovely shoen which is difficult to describe.
This was made in a perfectly plain shape, with a slightly pointed crown and a brim which was turned up at the back to show the dull side of the felt. A last touch of chic was provided by the trimming- bright green and a bright yellow feather.
́ ̈ ADDITIONAL LIGHT
To give additional light to a dark room, line the walls on each side of the window frame with panels of mirror glass;
PIPPERMINT
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or
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