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FROM EUROPE
Deucalion
FROM JAPAN
Malicca Maru
Tilawn
Tilawa
Pres. Hoover
Emp, of Japan
Alipore
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Pres. Garfield
Lyona Maru
Накинал Мага
Taiyo Mara Philostetos
Nako Maru
Shantung
FROM SHANGHAI
Malacca Maru
Pres. Hoover
Emp. of Japan
General Sherman Pros: Garfield Hakusan Maru Conte Rosso, Taiyo Maru
"THE CHINA_MAIL," WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1935
The Woman's Page
WHAT THE JUBILEE
MEANS TO WOMEN
FASHION, BEAUTY FOOD AND
FURNISHING "NEWS.
London. exceptionally heavy materials with | || The Jubilee celebrations in May, the fullness starting much higher you might think, are too far ahead up. This designor persuades wo- to affect us just yet. But, actually, men to take longer strides so that they are already making themselves the heavy folde swing as they felt in all kinds of ways. The two move, Black allpper" satin was A Courts on March 28 and 29 are al- favourite here, and the decolletage 16 ready rousing tremendous activities was always very low, but with a in London. Some debutantes subtle covering. The waist-line Lady Isobel Manners, for instance was lower too, the waists as tight have already had dances given for as possible. Mar. them, and next month many more,
Mar.
Mar.
14 including Miss
Anne Bowes-Lyon, 14 the Duchess of York's niece, will make their first appearance in May- fair ballrooms.
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FLEX PROTECTION
In households where any elec
Consequently woman's world intrical appliance, such as an iron, a
radiator, or a vacuum-cleaner
15 London is buzzing with all sorts of 1 news, from earlier-than-usual dress used,
showings to beauty treatments 17 specially devised to make youthful 19 "buda" even more lovely, 20
New Ideas
Dressmakers,
milliners, and manufacturers of materials are ready with now ideas. Two young
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A roll of Insulating tape Ishould always be kept at hand. As Boon да A flex shows signs of fraying, the weak pince should be carefully bound with a length of tape. Flexes should be handled with care, that they are kept free from kinks
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13 English designers have not only These soon damage the wires; and
created special collections, but are may cause
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it showing them to buyers before the fusing,
16 latter see the Paris parades.
There is a most attractive 1830,
15 feeling about some of the new Hart-
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17 nell evening gowns designed for
short-circuiting
and
HAIR CAN BE REJUVENATED
The hair can be constantly re-
Jubilee celebrations. The skirta juvenated by keeping it in good con- are very full, the bodices small and dition through proper shampooing Mar fitting, and the de colletages falling-not normally more often than
21 off the shoulders. A few of the once in two weeks--by
evening skirts are slit in the Re rotary massage without either tonic a light Mar.gency fashion which obtained about or oil and by good brushing.. Any 14 1810. Daytime printed crepes have sign of falling hair, undue greasi
a curious kimono appearance which.
FROM MANILA
Kumo Mary
FROM U.S.A.
Pres. Hoover
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Emp. of Japan Pres. Garfield
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FROM AUSTRALIA
Mar.
Ksmo Maru
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FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Bellerophon
Deucalion
Kashima Marti
Kumuang
Maycash! Maru
Mayebashi Maru
Boudan
Talma
OUTWARD MAILS,
FOR EUROPE
Kashima Maru (Air Mall ox-
Mari
Mar.
Mar,
ness, or dryness should be pre-
comes of a widely placed single scribed for by a trichologist. light or coloured flower on a dark. jor black ground. Sequins and tulle
21 are still a popular, alliance for evening frocks at this house. Much newer, though are the tailored dresses which we shall sce
18 spring in the theatres and 15 taurants.
this
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10 Spots for day-time, crisp, fresh,
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and youthful, have returned, with
19 atripes very discreetly used for
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10 jumpers and evening frocks. But stripes are in the Regency feeling which is permeating interior de- (coration and fashions alike. Hugh
Parsons has boldly gone back to the actual period for the motifs for his new hand-blocked silk scarves, 14, The-blocks-themselves were made by hand in 1820, and the Viennese and Venetian floral lace-patterns they represent are older than that. Low Decolletage
The Stiebel Jubilee collection, Mar which was launched in London by la cocktail party, is full of details (which made the dress experts sit
Imporia Airways)
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Kashima Maru
FOR JAPAN
Kashima Máru
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FOR MANILA
Mar.
Pres. Hoover General Sherman
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FOR U.S.A..
Mar.
Pres. Hoover Emp of Japan Frea. Garfield Kashima Maru
FOR STRAITS
.Mar.
Kutsang Conto Rosso
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FOR INDIA
Mar.
Hakusan Maru
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jup and think.
Evening gowns were shown in
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Javailable.
DOROTHY PARKER AND GLASSES
"Men seldom make passes "At girls who wear glasses.".
PARENTS and CHILDREN
LIKE
BABY'S OWN TABLETS Because They Are Easy To Give
Being Pleasant To Take.
A CHILD-SPECIALIST'S PRESCRIPTION
FOR THE CORRECTION OF Infantile Constipation, Colic, Indigestion, "Wiud,' Diarrhoea. Simple Fever, Croup, Colda, Teething Troubles, Worms,
BABY'S OWN TABLETS Are Guaranteed Absolutely Puro and Safe,
Of Chemists Everywhere.
The beauty of simplicity fi mir- rored in this white taffeta evening frock worn by Jean Parker, the The drop youthful screen star. shoulder collar is created in fucia Batin. The high, pointed bodice is a new note,
THE FIGURE
Preparing For The Party
Study Yourself From All Angles
You steal a glance Into the mirror to see if you're really az devastating as you thought. You give a last reassuring pat to your side curls, and a snug little tug to your wrap. What you see is good, good, very good."
Perhaps you have kept him waft- ing. But "What's worth having i worth waiting for." And you know! you're decidedly worth having,
No one would ever recognize you as the flushed and grubby young woman who had worked hard in the office all day. To-night you're being merely decorative.
You can't just pop out of the bath and be a new person all in a flash. It takes a good bit of] secret experimenting and a little altering of the mental point of view.
Last-minute
changes-deciding
to wear your hair a new way the night of the party, putting on your make-up differently-will
you nervous.
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DAILY CROSS- WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but cur readers are warned to look out for occasional' phònetic spelling,
such as harbor, plow, and altho
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make
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Days ahead, experiment with your hair. Spend conscientious hours before a full-length mirror trying it this way and that. Study yourself from all angles. Try on different dresses and altar your hair to suit each one.
When the big night comes, you can alip into your new role-new to everybody else; but to you an fold story. You'll know that the general effect is good, and you can forget about. it, and concentrate jon your state of mind.
LOVELY EYES
Lovely eyes are enviable features! to possess, but irregularity, makea The figure; left to itself, will re-for character. Eyes that are not lapse lazily at the first sign of mid-too far apart, sometimes oven øyes dio age. If it is disciplined by well-that are placed too near together, designed axarelses consistently give an arresting expression to the practised it will keep slim and stp. face that is remembered long after iple indefinitely,
a perfect pair of eyes is forgotten.
EUKUTOL
THE BIOLOGICAL SKIN TONIC DEAUTY nowadays is not just Dan accidental gift of nature; it can be attained alan by well- thoughtout and systematic care of the body, that most exquisite and wonderful organisation which has come to us from the Divine hand. And although beauty is more than skin-deep, a dazzling skin is in- dispensable to beauty. A few minutes devoted daily to the care of your skin will keep you, young. And
"Beaute, healthy and attractive.
and health are: the chief sources of happiness," says Bea- consfield.
But how, you ask, can I appro printe beauty 7.
Our medical, chemical and cosmetic experts have solved the question for you, Madam,
The preparations forming the foundation for the Eukutol System aro the outcome of years of scientiae labour, of investigations into the na- tural requirements of the skin, into the active elements and nutrients needed by the skin for the unremitting renewal of its beauty. The Eukutel System is explained In small booklet and when you have road it you will join the already vast ranks of Eukutol adherents. You will have every reason to be gratefulfer the results of the System, Make a beginning this very evening, with a free sample from all dispensaries and stores. D
To Mesra, BORNEMANN & CO., Please send me, free of charge,
Name.
Prince's Building, Hong Kong
one small booklet on the Eukatol System, and a trial, sixe, tin_of Eukutel, for which I enclose five cents in stamps to defray postage. Addres
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1-Steeple 6-Model
11-Digs 12-Natural
14-Tritest
15-Deer meat 17-A rodent (pl.) 18-Curious acrape of
literaturo 20-To aurmount by
cilmbing 21-Balancen
22-in a titled manner 24 Addition to one side of a house (pl.) 25-A vegetable
25-A workship (Fr.) 26-Allow 29-PORNortive of
Ernest 31-Those who deed 33-Fifty-two (Rom.) 34-A pantry 36-Underground part
of a house (pl.) 39-Dispatchers.
- 43–Raw metal
44-A sawing Implement
(A) 46-Ta bind
{HORIZONTAL (Cont)] VERTICAL (Cont.) [47-Part of a ship
49-Withers
[50-Flaunt
13-Loafer
14-Mald
16-Bird homes
51-A farm animal (pl) 19-Nothing
59-A grain 54-Wiser
55-Agreeable (Boot.) 67-Crab shedding ite
shail (pl.) 62-Ties again 60-Penetrates 63-Preserves in brine 12-Author of 'Clolster
and the Hearth' VERTICAL 1-Native of Sparta 2-Dime
-Date in Roman
Calendar
4-Residence (abbr.) entire prop 5-One's
orty (pl.)
6-Having no weight
7-Female door B-Eagles
22-Glather 28-Indian houses 26-Pertaining to Asia 27--Checks 30-Old
Old English length
maastra |82-Simpliffed spelling -
of dead 35.Pertaining to coma
(Bot.) 14-Rubber
187-Thone who rent 138-Feminine of stor 89-Blumbarar
40-What-not
41-Large streame
42-Those who foratali 45-Without maletura 48-Hard -coat of a bud
(Bot) (BOL) 50-Flogged
52-Dadla
9-A
vestiment (Ecol.)
54-A bristle (Bot.)
10-French explorar of 56-Joined
Misalasippi River 58-Point of compass 11-Gazer
(abbr.)
The solution of the above with a new crossword pussis will appear in to-morrow's issue.
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THE NEWSPAPER"ENTERFEISK LTI
Bringing Up Father
DADDY! WHY DON'T YOU GO IN AND TALK TO MOTHER SHE IS QUITE
DOWN- |HEARTED-
TVE BEEN TRYIN FER YEARS TO TALK TO HER- BUT ALL EVEĽ
BEEN DOIN' IS LISTENIN TOU HERE ATAK
BÝ GOLLYI SHE'S GOT
A LETTER-IT MUST HAVE BAD NEWS IN IT WONDER WHO ITS FROM?
WHAT'S THE MATTER ME DARLIN'?
OHIT'S FROM MY BROTHER YOU'D NEVE UNDER-
HE SAYS 15:50
LONESOME-
LONESOME, EM? THE MUST HAVE. BA CELL ALL BY
HIMSELF!
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