MAIL SCHEDULES®
The Postmaster General announces that a from 1st November the Parce!! Post rates to the United Kingdom will be reduced to:~
3 lb.
$1.40
11 lb. 7 lb. 2.60
3.50
22-lb. 0.00
Private, letter-boxes
may now bel
rented as the Kowloon Fost Office. Full Information regarding them may be obtained from the Officer in churgo of that office.
CHRISTMAS AND NEW, YEAR CARDS
Christmas and Now Yenr bearing not more
than five written! words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the rate for printed matter, ie., 4 cents per
2 ounces.
Envelopes must not be closed.
INWARD MAILS.
3
carda
FROM EUROPE
Dec.
Naldera (via Suez)
FROM JAPAN
Dec.
Toyama Maru Pres. Jackson
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28
28
Corfu .... Lisbon Maru
28
FROM U.S.A.
Dec.
Pres. Jackson
FROM MANILA
Dec.
Pres. Coolidge ....
28
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FROM SHANGHAI
Dec.
Prea. Jackson Corfu
2%
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Talma (Air Mail)
Ginyo Maru
Morioka Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Des.
20
15
29
70
Dec.
Pres. Coolidge (via Siberia)
28
Closes: Reg. 8 p.m. Ord. 4.16 p.m.
Corfu (Amsterdam Air Mail).
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Closen: Reg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.30 am, FOR 'U.S.A.
Dec.
General Pershing
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FOR AMERICA
Dec.
Pres. Coolidge
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FOR JAPAN
Dec.
Felix Roussel Naldera General Pershing Pres. Coolidge,
Naldera
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1934
The Woman's Page
Look youthful in a blouse! Here is a black velvet skirt with which the wearer may choose dozens of different tunes or blouses. Elisan Landi, screen actress, chooses one of plaid taffeta in green, black and white, with a fluted edge and dis- mond studded green buttons,
USE A GREEN POWDER
over
Middle Age Need
Wither
Not
Clinical Treatment For The Future
The traditional challenge, that £14,000 per gramme, microscopic "a woman is as old as she looks" proportions are being used for has had a curious effect on the stimulating cells, improving the the blood, and women of this generation. The circulation of majority of "young" women range throwing off toxins which spoil in ages
up to thirty-five. Then the complexion, the scalp of the come a smaller number of women hair, and often the finger-nails in the "fearful forties;" but after, and the hands..
say, fifty, it la a problem to dis-1
guise your age, unless you are of the artificial evergreen school.
Radio-Activity
For many years London hospi-
tals have treated patients for
If this generation of women many ailments with a radio-active study their opportunities it will be compress. possible for them to have rejuvena- tion clinics in their own japd to master many secrets youthfulness formerly unknown the doctors themselves.
Even this form of sclentfic homes, treatment-radium combined with
of heat-has been used at home, and to is the main health and beauty tonic of many women who lead have strenuous stage or public lives. For centuries wise men been working on theories and prin-Acting on the nervous system the ciples to outwit, the wasting effect radio-activity helps to eradicate of time on human beings. The wrinkles and that drawn, elderly physical satisfaction of feeling look. It improves the colour of the youthful, at any age, in everybody's skin by the stimulation of blood heritage, and adds to the delight of cells, and is one of the modern living. Almost all the genuine methods of rejuvenation by heal- beauty cultures offered to women ing.
Indigestion and other causes of cultures a young are "youth" complexion, youthful hair, a youth-vague health trouble which spoil good looks are cured, and after a ful figure.
are series of thirty minutes home But beauty treatments gradually becoming more clinical treatment of radio-activity the and health promoting. The wo-complexion and facial expression man who tends your face and the looks as fresh as it does after a doctor who takes care of your brisk walk in the fresh air.
It is for this type of health and Thealth are coming together in their efforts to overcome growing beauty "care" that beauties since old and ill-health. They are united the days of the Romans have flock- in exploring the causes of pre-led to the healing springs at Bath. mature age, of inactive glands, and But in these days you merely turn of wasting tissues, all of which on your radio-activity as you do 18 are basic causes of wrinkles, akin your wireless, through the elec- diseases, figure troubles, and other tric current of the house, and ap difculties which spoil a woman's ply the compress according to in-
Itructions. a good looks.
A green powder used green foundation cream is a valu-
Therapeutic Treatment
29 able beauty aid for red elbows, The use of electricity has spread
hands, and arms.
from hospitals to beauty salons
FOR SHANGHAI
Dec
28
"
28
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General Pershing
Felix Roussel
Pres. Coolidge
"
If you wear your hair shingled, and to the home. It is a thera- have it trimmed a day or two be-peutic treatment for blemishes,
fore you go to a party. Don't al-and in the form of massage, ra-
low clippers to be run over the diant heat, or light rays, it pro-
28 nape of your neck, but have hair vides a natural cure for vague all- "tidied up" with scissors. If the ments which make women appear
FOR MANILA
Dec.
Nankin
28
FROM INDIA
Dec.
FOR AUSTRALIA
Doc.
Nankin (via Brisbane)
hair roots show up dark, they cajold at any age.
be dabbed with peroxide (10 vol). Even more significant is the de- And just one more point. When velopment of radium treatment. you put on your dress, be sure to Radio-active tonics can now be in- put a setting net right over your cluded in a woman's home treat- face and hair, otherwise both hair ments. This elusive element has and make-up-and perhaps your been introduced in preparations 28 dress, too-may be ruined.
VIA SIBERIA Letters and post- eards for Europe and South America are forwarded "via
superscribed.
REGISTERED
Biberia" if NO
and PARCEL
MAILS are closed if minutes earlier
than the time given
above unless
for building a complexion wasted' by illness, and in conjunction with electricity, is applied as a nerve tonic and tissue builder--other- wise a deep-seated beauty pick- me-up.
Although there are only 19 These cold nights make us take ounces of radium in the world, and it is estimated to be worth
COLD WEATHER
COMFORT
atherwise stated, and where mails are a practical interest,in the displays | advertised to close at or-before-9 m registered and parcel maile are closed of easy eiderdowns and gaily co
at 6 pm, on the previous day.
loured, blankets in the shops, And
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via for people who find the ordinary WHAT'S NEW FOR THE HOUSE Singapore, Bandoetg-Amsterdam vsheet too chilly when they first get Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sat- gon. Correspondence for Europe and into bed there are sheets made to Intermediate countries will be ac-look and feel like blankets, with a cepted for transmission by these Ber comfortable raised surface.
Rater and all particulars are vices.
hewn to the schedules exhibited at the General Post Office and Kowloon Offee. All latters etc, must be mark- ed "By Air Mal!" and handed in at the General Post Office. superscribed for despatch by a specta
Unless
EFFECT COUNTS
The effect beneath the slimmest
Se air mail service, correspondence satin or velvet evening gown would will be forwarded by the first servies satisfy even the most exacting of available.
dreasmakers.
The latest fitted wardrobes are made in small sizes, to meet the growing demand for furniture that will not cramp the tenants of modern flats. They are carried" nut in golden maple, matt maho- gany, and Australian silky oak,
A wardrobe 5 feet 8 inches high, feet deep, and only 3 feet wide will hold everything that a woman wears-from top to toe.
This smart dlover gown of jade green and white blister crepe Is worn by Rosalind Russell, screen actress. The gown features a short over-tuple in white with green strip trimming. Wound rings of green are used at the neck, on the sleeves and at the hemline where they border a front train of green strips.
THE CANADA SHOE CO.
High Grade Footwear for D'Aguilar St-cor Wellington St.
LADIES and GENTLEMEN
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOT L
PEAK HOTEL;
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL;
HOTELS,
LIMITED.
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Paking
REDUCE WITH:
INKRETAN
A BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT IN TABLET FORM
is
STANDARDISED
made by the same factory as
PROMONTA
THE WELL-KNOWN NERVE FOOD Obtainable from all dispensaries and stores Sole Apentr
BORNEMANN & CO.
Prince's Bullding
Des Voeux Road, Central HONGKONG
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling,
such as harbor, plow, and altho.
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BHONCHIAL TABICIS
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Protect Your Children Against Coughs And Colds
When the children are ready for school, one thing more before they -set forth in the chill damp morning air, give them a Respirold each as a sore throat and colds. The aromatic, preventative against cough, vapours released as these pleasant tasting oval lozenges dissolve slow- ly in the mouth, provide an antidote to the germs which cause bronchini and nasal affections.
For grown-ups, too, Respiroids are Invaluable as
a prompt, effective, remedy for coughs, bronchitis, sore throat, colds, and as a protective of the whole bronchial system. At all cents per bottle, from the Dr. Wil medicine dealers, or post free, 75 Hams Medicine Co., $51, Kiangsi Road, Shanghai.
HAIR DRESS.
7OU'LL want you hair to
Y look its loveliest for the
holidays with their succes. sion of social activities.
MARIE'S
BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. (1st Floor) Tel. 32508
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION,
PALSY SET
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18-River in Afrion 19-A Middle Atlantie State (abbr.) 20-Kind of dress material 23-Formed hollows in 26-To work, as dough 27-Clothe
23-Becxuse 29 Half an em 30-An item in one's
property 33-Those who seem 36-Planted
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43-Combining form.
Air 48-Article of furniture 46-To steep, as flex 147-Allude
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VERTICAL
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4-Drift
12-Expose to genial
heat
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15-Stain 37-Darlings
38-Lolters
41-Nota well
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The solution of the above with a new cro88-word puzzle
will appear in to-morrow's" issue.
Bringing Up Father
WELL AT LAST-
PEN AN INK ON.
ME DESK:NOW
1 KIN ST DOWN AN WRITE
SOME LETTERS.
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✪ 1934, Kong Tracurta :
HOW DO YOU LIKE MY
NEW
HAT?
HAT!!!! AIN'T THAT
AMAZIN'?::
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