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MAIL SCHEDULES
PARCEL POST
A schedule of revised parcel post zetes, including, many redustions," is wwhibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O.. The rates will take effect as from 1st March, 1835. LE
Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore
Balgon-Marsellies vir Saigon P
Imperial Airways vis AMA
will be accepted for
A 6 Zzamore-Australia
by these servings: Bates 25 and all particulars are shown in thef
· schedules" exhibited at the Post Offices. All-lettors, etc., must be marked: “By Air Mall” and be handed in at a Post] Office
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Jaypore (Air Mall' Ex Imperial
Airways Service)
FROM JAPAN
Apr.
General Lee
Cathay
Proa, Jefferson
Brisbane Maru
Talma
Fros, Coolidge
Emp, of Canada Katori Maru
Pres. Adama
Tatsuta Maru
· FROM SHANGHAI
Cathay
Fros. Jefferson
Andro Lebon
Pros. Coolidge
| Emp, of Canada
Katori Maru
Behar
Pros. Adam
Tatsuta Maro
THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, APRIL 4- 1035
The Woman's Page
GETTING AWAY FROM THE
"OFF-WHITE" VOGUE
INTERIOR ARTISTS SET NEW PALETTE
IN DECORATION SCHEMES
(By Anne Sheraton)
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London. There is an attractive subtlety In Many women, when reconsidering the delicate effect of these designs the interior decoration of their as, for instance, new water-green homes, are making a "get-away" in a modern raised scroll design from off-white rooms, which have posed over goldene begun to pall if only by reason of Wallpapers with off-white their similarity. The roquest for penny!" spots en a pastel-toned-sur- colours "which give a new feeling" faced are interesting-off-white on is answered adequately by a wealth melon-yellow, water green, cycla- of fresh shades in wall coverings and men-pink, peach, lavender, or pastel- furnishing fabrics produced by blue. This type of paper is also artlet interior designers and decora shown with tiny gold or aliver spots tors.
on pastel colours.
Here are some of the latest
12 colourings which are being used by
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The Look Of Luxury
The vogue of panel walls achieved.
12 modern interior decorators: Cycla- by coloured stylings is one of the men, a bluc tone of peach; all shades most popular ideas In wall decora- of coral; turquoise, blue and greention. The stylings may be arranged Apr. melon yellow; water green. Walls
na a seven or ten-inch design, ac- also are being dressed In pastel cording to the size of the room. 5 colours, again. Lilac, primrose-yel-When a severe effect is desired the
low, pale rose-pink, lavender-greys stylings are just plain lines of beau 12 forget-me-not and Wedgwood blues tiful colour harmoniously arranged. 12 are a few of the delicate colours in In other schemes a hand-tinted com which the latest 1935 wallpapers are nor decoration is used in conjunc shown..
tion; this may be ultra-modern or purely floral in nature or conven- tional form.
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Conte Verde..
Jeypore (Air Mail)
Eumaon
Kempon
Apr.
Deep flamingo, Chinese-blue, rose, a rich amber, and a jade-green are among the choice of shades which
Furnishing fabrics, even the less. can be used in harmony with a suit expensive, are endowed with the look able colour scheme; for piping cur- of Juxury. There are lovely art 1tains and pelmets. Beige, with Its silk and satin alub velours, figured numerous and subtle tones and jacquards and chenilles, cotton
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shades, the family of "off-whites," Apr. cannot be dispensed with, but in the main these light neutral tones are 12 used as a background or foll for 12 softening and as a contrast in the new colour schemes in furnishing fabrics and decoration.
FROM U.S.A.
Pres. Jefferson
Pres. Coolidge Emp, of Canada
»
Pres. Adams
M
FROM MANILA
*Apr.
Changta
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FROM AUSTRALIA
Apr.
Changte
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Ranchi (via besta);
Felix Roussel (via Siberia)
Apr.
27
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Last Wall-Coverings
velours, art silk and cotton pile mix- tures; and of course the attractive peasant and folk-weave furnishing fabrics.
Cherry red chiton velvet lends
Itself to the creation of this formal dianer gown, worn by Blanes Vischer, screen newcomer. The only adorament is a huge bow of In these there is plenty of colour. the velvet on the right shoulder, Various shades of beige and earth-lined with white chiffon valvet. browns are intermingled with
The peplum at the bottom of the skirt reveals a touch of the white. shades of, blue, the new flamingo veiret Gold or silver, in addition to pink, coral, turquoise, or a pink colour, is used extensively in the amber, which are among the most latest wall-coverings, which have seen fashionable furnishing colours usually a stipple, embossed or rough for Jubilee year cast surface. This is seen in the laminated plastic wall decoration which is having a vogue, and also. In the plastic wallpapers which are be
ing shown in many artistic colours and designs underiined with gold. 5 This treatment gives a fascinating Cathay. (Air Mail Service)
Closes: Reg. 9.45 a.m. Ord. 10.30 a. golden gleam in the surface design, varying in different aspects of light Glof shade.
Pres, Lincoln (vis, San Fran
Closes: Reg. 8 p.m. Ord 4.15 p.m..
Andre Lebon (Marsailles Air
Mail Service)po
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Cloasa: Reg. 10 am. Ord, 10.30 a.m.
FOR 'MANILA
Barpedon (via. Marseilles) 10 Pres. Jefferson
Closes: Reg, 8.845 am. Ord, 9.30 a.m. Emp. of Canada
Ranchi
Felix Roussel
Emp. of Asia
Pres. Lincoln
Ranchi
FOR JAPAN
Apr.
FOR AUSTRALIA.
Brisbane Maru (via Brisbane)
FOR SHANGHAI
Apr.
Donts. Verde
Felix Roussek
Emp, of Asia Kursang
Pres. Lincoln
VIA SIBERIA Letters and post- cards for Europe and South America are forwarded via Biberia” if so |superscribed.
REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier
GRECIAN' FASHION
Something Soft That Cling To The Figure
ERMINE FIRST FAVOURITE
Regal Magnificence In, Court Dress
London.
BURDEN OF CLOTHES IN THE SEVENTIES
Display At London Museum: Daring Set Departure:
The London Museum's of clothes of all peri
known. But only now
| time=and it in alc departure, belleves
of its kind has it ventured play in public its rese Victorian underclothes: me ding shirts, women's
ction
and chemises of linen and callco
A recent acquisition, the gift Mrs. E. J. S. Wood, gives in than one sense an insight into the voluminous. Intriesoles of the vloth- ing of the seventies.
This is a wax doll completely ap parelled Incrinoline ball-dresa; striped red and white satin under- skirt and mustard-coloured alk upper jude; embroidered linen [petticoat; muslin petticoat; stif muslin petticoat; flannel petticoat: under petticoat; boned and laced stays; long open drawers and chemise. To a period rom, which few and incomplete examples of real underwear have survived be- longs another recent gift, from Mra. 3. Ravenscroft a wooden doll of the seventeen-seventies, also very olaborately clothed, but with the "variants" inevitable at a distance of 100 years. Such dolls are of value in the history of clothing.
Ermine, purely white, but some Some fashionable women thie times dyed in the becoming new season will appear with the skirts shades, will be first favourite this bunched on the hipline, a Grecian season. In order not to crush the fashion that suits modern women
glories they conceal; popular shapes Chiffon is the fabric that the will be the cape, graceful kimono, ancient Greeks were looking for. and even a new rendering of the They wanted something soft that old-fashioned dolman clung to the figure and had to damp their muslin dresses to gat
Very lovely: are some of the dyed moleskins. One example, in an ap the desired effect. This idea was ple-green cape was designed for a repeated in the pseudo-Greek Redebutante who is to wear an apple- |gency, days of the nineteenth cen-
green satin-dress with a train of tury.
silver-shot green, the lining of the train being of the satin.
LINEN IN THE KITCHEN
A Court dress of golden ame flecked with silver has a train of -Linen is much to be preferred silver cloth lined goki. The wrap than the time given above anlass for kitchen cloths as the short fibre is a three-quarter kimono made in otherwise stated, and where mails are of cotton falls away into lint so belge ermine bordered with an »9 advertised to, close at or before D'am, easily. Glass-cloths are usually edging of mink and lined with
9 registered and parcel malls are closed linen with just a little cotton added golden lame. Golden shoes.
at 5 p.m. on the previous day to give softness. It may be tempt bouquet of golden roses
AIB MAIL Imperial Airways Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam vis ing to save on your kitchen outfit thin. Yet all this magnificence Singapore: Balgun Marseillen via Bag by buying cotton dusters, etc., but treated so subtly that one senses the
Lox Europe and linen ones will prove more econo cunning almplicity of aver Intermondence
Countries will bemical in the long run as well as aive designer one who may - transmission: Ly these Bar rices Rates and all particular are giving greater satisfaction.
FOR STRAITS
Apr.
Cathay Creiner Barpedon
FOR INDIA
emer
FOR USA
Emp
gone!
copted
Obewarin
in the schedules #xhibited
Apr. the General For: Once and Kowloon
Onice. All letters etcej must, be mark- 5 MELBY ALMng and handed la
the General (7) Post / Offen?). Unless superscribed for despatch by a DICE de, air mail service,
will be forwarded by the availablogy
CUFFS AND COLLARS
Cuffs and collars have, grown" In importance, just);
| been revived for neckline:
as bonnet linings to the face.
to convey, rega perfect simplic
with
“ODD" COATS AND SKIRTS
"Odd", coats
new
Jectiona
Another Victorian acquisition: Ja [a gift made last month by the Queen six wooden table-napkin rings with views of Westminster Hall, the Horse Guards, from St. James's Park, the Nelson Monu- ment, and other parts of London in about 1865. S
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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 such as harbor, plow, and aftho.
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HORIZONTAL 1-Mineral, spring:(pl.)
"meadows Ing apartment- verked in M
18-Pathar (short 18-Bright 21-Point of compass
23-Ever (contr) 25-A'naval officer
deeper
ein of anelent
CONTAL (Cont.)
report
note sing to pun
tion.
ning to the
Ing. Cabbr.);
Dyad rapidly VERTICAL
1-Snow; runners. 2-An ant!!
6-Stake in carda pai
fing waterbird
fast fidies, (abbr) 11+Disparage 34 |12 Harvenly body
17-The "ast of Inngir
VERTICAL (Cont.) 204To spread loosely for drying, as flax 22-Anwar (abbr.)
for
₤26-Applaude;
27-Substance for rais
Ing dough 29-Girl's name
[30-A number
8258cout
35-Of age (Lat, abbr.)
40-Japanese.cola 41-Boy's nama (short) 45-Mammal related to
Bringing Up Father
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