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MAIL SCHEDULES
PARCEL POST
A schedule of revised parcel post ratas, including many reductions, is exhibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O. The rates will take effect as from 1st} March, 1935,
Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon Marseilles via Saigon Singapore Australia Correspondence will be accepted for. transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shown in the schedules-exhibited at the Post Officer;
Ofice.
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1935
The Woman's Page
Boudoir Slippers Make A Dainty Gift
Original Design By "Bonella” In Pastel
Pink With Feather Trimming
All letters etc., must be marked "By These charming shoes can be P 3. 3rd row. * P 9. K 3 repeat Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post made in a very short time, and from * to end of row; end P.3. 4th would make an acceptable, gift. row. K 3. P 3. repeat from * to end of row, end K 3. These 4 rows complete pat...
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
'Corfu (via Suez)
Carthage (via Siberia)
Mar.
£1
22
FROM JAPAN
Mar.
Santos Maru
21
Carthago
Pres. Grant
Toyama Maru
Santhia
FROM SHANGHAI
Mar.
Holhow
Pros: Grant
Carthage
Pren. Grant
Atsuta Maru
Ixion
Agamemnon
Aramis
Mar.
Material Required:
4oz. of "Boudoir" Silk and Wool -mixture.
11⁄2yd ribbon in wide, 1yd narrow feather trimming 1 pr soles,
Abbreviations
After the Arst 4 rows, work 12 sts.: K-1. M1 K 2 tog: work 0 Con- tinging in pat. for B rows. On the 9th row, work 12 sts.: K1, K2 tog work 6 Repeat these last 9
K. knit. P. purl. St. stitch. Sts.rows till 5 holes have been made, stitches. M. make. Beg begin-
ning. Pat. pattern.
work 2 rows. Then cast off 10/sts.; leave and of wool hanging.
"These, shoon are in palest pink, Make another strip the same, size 5; for larger sizes work in You now join the two pieces to longer at front before starting de gether thus. Work across 4-way, creasings.".
and on the return row K 2 sts, tog. For plainer shoes, work a row of in centre (21 sts, again), work other double crochet instead of feather half and continue following pattern 22 trimming, or they can be made with sts, for 2ins.
02
22 contrasting border and ribbon, or Then K 2 tog, at beg, and end of 22 instead of ribbon a crochet chalajevery alternative row until 9 sts.
and "pom-poms."
left, work 2 rows. Cast off.
Start by casting on 21 sis, and
Make another shoe.
fusing wool.double K into back 1st. To make up. Sew up back seam, (row. Then K in pat. using the sew on to sole starting at back cen- 21 wool double throughout. 1st row. tre heel on wrong side: Turn over K 3. P 3 repent from .* to end of to right side. Sow on feather trim. row, end K 3. 2nd row, * P 3, K 3.ming, run ribbon through holes, and repeat from to end. of row, enditle.,
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FROM MANILA
Kamo Maru
General Shernian
Pros, Hoover
*
FROM US.A.
Mar.
Pres. Grunt
"
Emp. of Asia
28
#
Prea-Palk
29
"
FROM AUSTRALIA
Kamo Maru
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Toushima Maru
Yasukuni Maru
Archilles
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Emp. of Japan (via Vancouver)
22 CLEVER CONTRASTS
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Black and white promise to be very fashionable this spring. The
COATS DIVIDE INTO
TWO SCHOOLS
Conte divide into two schools, orie
Marchalk-white dress of crepe is to be of the swagger flared style in three- worn under a black coat-trimmed quarter length, for sports, develop- with silver fox. A black velveted in nobby tweeds and bold checks, the other of the modified princess
Mar.
M
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Mar.
#
22 dress for evening wear has only type, in feather soft wools, and fes 20lame trimming in silver as relief. turing a new draped back yoke A black astrakhan coat has a draped extended in front to form the scarf collar of itself, rising in becoming neck finish. For a change, neither ridges over the shoulders. A parti-coats nor jackets play up the belt. cularly beautiful cape of silver fox akine is shaped like a Spanish shawl,
21 and ends in a point at the back of Closes: Reg. 8.15 am, Ord. 10 am the waist. Corfu (via Siberia)
21
#
Pres. Hoover (via San Frans
Cisco
20
General Sherman (via Biberia)
22
Carthage (via Marseilles)
Clones: Reg. 9.45 a.m. Ord. 10.30 a.m.
Andre Lebon (via "Siberia) ...
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HATS AND SHOES FROM NEW LINEN
Aramis (Marseillea Air Mail) w
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Clones: Reg. 10 am. Ord. 10,80 a.m.) Yasukuni Maru: (via. Siberia), 20
FOR SHANGHAI
Mar.
Corfu
Emp. of Japan
Pres. Hoover Andre Lebon
General Sherman Yasukuni Maru
FOR JAPAN
Mar.
22
Cortu Emp, of Japan
Pros. Hoover
Andre Lebon
General Sherman
Yasukuni Maru
FOR MANILA
Mar.
Atsuta Maru
Prea, Grant
Emp. of Asia Pros: Polk
FOR U.S.A.
Mar.
Emp. of Japan Pres. Hoover Yasukuni Maru
FOR STRAITS
Bantos MarU:- Van Hentz
FOR AUSTRALIA
Atsuta Maru (vis. Thursday
Island).
Santos Maru
FOR INDIA
Mar.
*Paris.
Jaunty and practical, this con Jume will be popular in the sports world. It consists of a skirt of soft yellow wool with a jumper of
a rough knitted fabric striped fr yellow and rose. In complete harmony with the outfit, is vivaci- ons Toby Wing, screen actress,
Smart Hand-Crocheted Beret
EYE STRAIN
The eyes should be treated with |great respect, and glasses worn for reading or sewing or for any other purpose the oculist advises as 3000|| as there is any strain. If the eyes |are saved from intensive strain thay
will do their general work unaided|| for many years longer than if they had not been considered. Lines about the eyes that are caused by strain will be avoided and..., the brightness and youthfulness pre- served:
The beret, pronounced "the row. In the next row and in each berry" in the more exclusive shops, succeeding round, the work should is still the smartest of the season's be increased at irregular intervals, hats, and rightly so because it say about six or seven increases to Adapts itself to so many kinds of a round. This is done by making 21 costumes. There is the velvet beret pop-corn stitches instead of one in At the spring fashion shows here which tops the more formal cos- the open space, but do not place in- houses are making evening tume; the felt beret for the tweed creases directly over increases of gowns, suits, bags, hats, and shoes coat or suit; and the one made of the previous round. The idea is to
the many kinds of fabrics. But no keep the work perfectly flat. 21 from a new linen. The material is
wardrobe is complete without at When work measures 12 inches} an apparently light, but fairly least one of the smart hand crochet- across, make four rounds without heavy, linen. It is made in pink,
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A NEW FAVOURITE" SHADE."
Amethyst as a colour used to be the prerogative of the dowager; and was certainly considered the wear only of the elderly. Now there is no age-limit, and it is fashionable for all.
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CATALOGUE for 1935
23 blue, navy, white, green, and a hosted or hand-knitted bereta, which increasing. Then begin to decrease Stanley Gibbons
may be worn with either silk or by skipping over two pop-corn
lot Part British Empire
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20 of other lovely shades. Another wool and which are simply and stitches and going in second space, 2nd Part Foreign Countries $7.00
weave is almost satiny in appear quickly made that several may be continuing the work, decreasing ance, soft and silky. There is a acquired at a small cost. It may be about eight times to the round. Simplified
21 herring-bone tweed in linen, that is made of wool, bouclette or of the Work for about three inches, or Scott Stamp and Coin Co...
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$8:00 21 particularly smart, in plain or com crochet cotton in any desired until the beret is your head aire. Yvert et Tellier Champion.. $8.00
colour. Two balls of the merceriz-Then make a one-inch band of
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cards for Europe and South America
Jed, a boil-proof variety, of cotton single crochets by going in every GRACA & CO.,
and à No. 4 crochet needle are re-single stitch. Fasten off.
VIA SIBERIA- Letters and post-quired for the one pictured here. Sew a one-inch grosgrain ribbon To begin, chain 5 and join with a band exactly the head size to the are forwarded Maria Biberia" if slip stitch to form a ring. Make 8 inside of the crocheted band, "sew 24 superscribed.
REGISTERED and
PARCEL single crochets in ring. In the third Ing at both sides of the ribbon
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accessory,
28 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier round, make 2 singlet crochets in This makes the head size fit and pre- 29 than the
Lime given above unless each single crochet of previous venta slipping. A gay coloured otherwise stated, and where mails are round. Now begin the pattern, feather, inexpensively purchased, advertised to close at or before which is done in one of the popular placed at a jaunty angle gives the registered and parcel malls are closed pepcorn stitches, by throwing the final touch of smartness to this chic fat 6 p.m. on the previous day,``
AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via thread over the needle once, then 20 Singapore,
Bandoeng-Amsterdam going in the second single crochet Singapore Saigon-Marseilles is Sel of previous round. Pull loop up ron. Correspondence for Europe and Intermediate countries will be ac but not through needle. Repeat capted for transmission by these Ser this three times, keeping each loop vices.
Raten and all particulare are on the needle withot pulling shewn in the schedules exhibited at through. Then pull thread through
DECORATIVE EFFECTS
Glass in ita. immense variety of
the General Post Offies and Kowloon all three loops at one time. Chain forms and colours has increased Ofies. All letters etc., must be marke Marod, “By Air, Mali", and handed in at one.
Mar
the range of decorative effects, un- the General Fort: Offles. Unless Bepeat this pop-corn stitch, chain-til the galaxy of possible treat superscribed for despatch by a specking one between,;" always making ments for individual “roons, and Be air mall service, correspondance will be forwarded by the first service your pop corn stitch in the open leven sections of rooms, has created 21 available.
space made by the chain of previous new and intricate problema.
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious Goods, Garden Seede, Post Cards
etc.. No. 10 Wyndham Street.
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The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzale
appear-into-morrow'a - issue,
Bringing Up Father
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I DID WANT TO GO TO THE CDAV HEAVERS; DANCE TO-NIGHT
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