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MAIL SCHEDULES
PARCEL POST
A schedule of rovised parcel post. rata, including many reductions," is axbibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.0. The raten will take effect as from Isi March, 1985.
Imperial Airways via Bingapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Baigon Singapore-Australia Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shown in the schedules exhibited at the Port Offces. All letters otc., must be marked "By Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Ofica,
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Naldera (via Suez)..
Tang Lee (Air Mail ex Mar-
seilles)
Apr.
17
FROM JAPAN
Apr.
Mirzapore
17
r. Pren, Jackson
19
FROM SHANGHAI
Apr.
Diomed
Pres. Jackson
Felix Roussel
FROM U.S.A.
Apr.
Pres. Jackson
FROM STRAITS &” INDIA.
Dakar. Mara
Burdwan
Kutsang
Takada
Dardanus
Kutsang
Hakodate Muru
FROM AUSTRALIA
Apr.
Apr.
Kitano Maru
FROM MANILA
Apr.
Tjinegara
Kilano Maru
Pres. Coolidge
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Talauta Maru (via San Fran
cisco)
18
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 15, 1935:
The Woman's Page
Informality and simplicity is the keynote of this black crepe skirt
Kath-
Reviewing The Face And Hands MANDARIN
Occasional Examination
An Excellent Thing
Someone once said: "The world takes you at your face value."
The speaker was not referring
to facial beauty, but discussing the way some people without any know ledge managed to get away with | things."
In these days of hurry and bustle many, people have no time to go very deeply into anything, and so take | you at your own valuation.
People, ono meets for the first time attach a good deal to general appearance.
April is a month of review in And after more ways than one.
many festivities it is just, as well to extend this reviewing to your own
I personal appearance.
The Face'
Start with the face.
Get a good magnifying glass and let a strong light fall full on your face. Study it strong-mindedly and be prepared for shocks.
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Once you see and realise the worst -you will have to pick your face to bits very thoroughly for this- you can set about methods remedying its defects.
of
More Rest Required Tired-looking, with dark shadows and lines?
More rest; some soothing eye lotion and a good skin, food or mus. jele oll patted into the lines to
smooth them away.
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Hair
Is the hair lustreless and limp? Daily message with a hair tonte and white top which go to make that suits your scalp. 10
A visit to up a smart dinner gown.
the hairdresser to leen Darke, screenland actress, in-
cut, shampoo cludes a white crepe Jacket
and set it becomingly. stress the informal tone,,
The mouth rather sagging at the corners, perhaps?
Apr:
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MOTHER-OF-PEARL EXERCISES
AN INFLUENCE
Mother-of-pearl exercises, AD
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STRIPED TAFFETA -FOR-SPRING-
The Taporous Chiffons
Londoa.
FUR CAPE
One of the latest novelties in even- ing clonka is the new mandarin crea- ition in white Russian ermine. v.
The strands are narrow, and ver tical, and the front fitting is mould- ed to the figure, with all the fulness at the back.
The yoke is worked "In horizontal strands slightly deeper at the back with the new jet and Ivory fasten. ings, which match the jewellery worn with the ensemble,
This new creation meets the de- mand on the part of well-dressed wo- men for something newer and more out of the ordinary run than the small fur jacket or coatee.
HAIR STYLE FROM ANTIQUITY
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL
PEAK HOTEL;"
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Polping
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A study of oil volumes on cos- tume and of the heads of statues shows us that we have by no means exhausted in the modern world the possibilities which women's locks, long and short, afford. For in- stance, we have not done much with the Egyptian method of plaiting hair in shoulder-length strands which may be again braided to- gether in some complexity and then trimmed into a shape resembling| the "Dutch bob," only longer. Or with the shoulder-length curls of Greece, radiating in all directions from-the-crown-and-bound-by-a fillet or stephane...
The Zulin warrior, on the other
hand, has lent us an idea, for he wore a coronet of stiffened curls.) The fourteenth century, too, has This defect is more mental than
Taffeta is going to stay with us made a contribution, for then was physical and so you will have to right through the season, and if worn a glossy ring two or three make up your mind to be a little you want it apringlike, have it inches in diameter extending from less discontented with life
striped Hide a candy stick. The above the forehead, around the presents itself to you.
taporous chiffons and two colours ears to the nape of the neck, form- 10 fluence on buttons, neckline rosettes Worry and frown lines?
and discs attached to a cord, as well
used together are, twice sa smart as ed of tight curls fastened in place Generally a matter of habit.
one-are devastating. Marquisette by a glutínuous. substance. as bell motifs. Black patent leather Whenever
you catch
yourself and the organza family make the In the middle of the eighteenth belts are rejected for those of black wrinkling your brow stop at once. crisper allhouettes of spring. Neta century curis were stiffened with oil cloth. These are wide with side Skin food massaged across. the and laces (and don't forget plak) wire and strips of hair cloth, and 10or back button fastenings and some-lines--and always upward towards are part of the same reticule-with-piled to incredible summits, where
times convey geometrical designs the temples-will, in time, help to snelling-salts picture..
were perched not only plumes and painted in white. These black belta smooth them away or at least pre- are ranged for wear on every type vent them getting deeper.
Closes: Reg. 5 pm: Ord. 8.80 alm. Corfu (via Marseilles)
Clonen: Reg. 9.45 am. Ord, 10.30 am,
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Looking ahead to warmer days-flowers, their stems thrust into you'll visualise the usual red-white- vials of water concealed in the colf-
18 of model, and the fabric enables While engaged with the brow and-blue picture when we mention fure, but also sculptural groups.
FOR JAPAN
Apr.
Tatsula Mary Porthos
FOR SHANGHAI
Apr.
Tatsuta Maru Porthos
FOR INDIA
A
Apr,
Corfu
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LITTLE BOLEROS
FOR U.S.A.
Apr.
10
Tatsuta Maru .........
FOR AUSTRALIA
21 widths to be crushed down into ef-review look to the eyelashes
fective waistlines.
leyebrows and note defect.
Neck Treatment
Saltcellars and scraggines?
and cottons and linens, but we're turn-
ing away from that this year. Hot colours were loved on the beach
STORING LINEN
this winter, from the Riviera ta Just a word or two about the ar- Too much dieting or Homething Florida, and this spring, there may rangement of the cupboard Itself. wrong with your general health. jbe a new colour range because of Naturally you will put the little Since mother-of-pearl ware is iri-Take nourishing food and give your it-rust or sail-cloth reds, instead used articles on the least accessible descent, it applies more to evening neck a nightly soaking in warm of bright red. Middle and green-shelves and arrange the rest in kown trimmings, though little bo almond or olive oil
blues instead of navy-blue. Natural handy piles.. Single sheets should leros may be literally smothered Apr..
This is better left on all night, coloured grounds instead of white, be separated from double, cotton 16 with paillettes.
To prevent the oil spiling the bed and splotches of yellow for accepta. pillowslip from linen and so on. It „10)
linen a surgical. bandage bound loosely round in a good idea. not have. It too tight or it will be uncomfortable.
HAIR THAT IS TOO DRY
FOR MANILA
Changio Tjinegara
Apr.
Changte
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FOR STRAITS
Apr.
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Hair that is too dry should be set with brilliantine, and, the night be- fore a shampoo, almond oil should
ed?
And The Hands
Do
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action (pl.).
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beverage 28-Corn
bootle 29-The Orient
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palato
25-Fabulous bird -
the 27A
59-Masculine nama 60-Metal diak 81-Moat sorrowful [62-Those who breathe
nolally when asleep
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3-A naval officer
(abbr)
4-Equal s-Voxes 6-Slumber
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brightness
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11-Gave back
12-A relativa (pl.)
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(abbr.) 22-Rights (abbr.) 33-8trained
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40-Bounty
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47-Bet of workers (pl.) |48-Giri's nams
152-One of the fuck of
a pedestal
55-Terminate 63-Noah (Fr.). 58-Ballor (coltoq.)
The solution of the above with a new crossword puzIO
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
YOU
INVITED TO INSPECT OUR
STOCK OF
ASIATIC FOREIGN AND COLONIAL
POSTAGE STAMPS
In SETS, SINGLE PACKETS, BAGS and in APPROVAL
· SHEETS.
is viso to keep the dust, from your linen by lining your shelves with ARE MUSICAL-COMEDY COLOURS pieces of cretonne, cut deep enough to hang down in front in flaps which Surprising and, exciting are the may be folded back over the piles of musical-comedy colours that have linen. These pièces of cretonne can Red, with the skin coarse-grain-turned up, in town suitings and be pinned to the shelves with draw- coatings: pistache-green; delft-blue, ing pins and thus can be easily re- Then a course of friction with a
There and the, removed for washing when necessary. bonbon-pink, rubber brush and a good hand
turn of the greges and beiges If you have no drawers in your cup-) cream, lotion or jelly to soften, VIA SIBERIA Lettere- and post-gan-Correspondence for Europe- and tlen."
Singapore Saizon-Marseilles via Sewhiten and briak up the circula should give you ideas other than the board, tray cloths, table mats, etc., parennial navy-blue, - (If... it -must{should be arranged in cardboard cards for Europe and Bouth America intermediate countries will be no are, forwarded via Bibari" if cepted for transmission by these Ser
Have a jar of oatmeal in the be navy-blue, try varying it to boxes to keep them fresh and crisp. superscribed.
REGISTERED
Rates and all particulars are bathroom and near the sink. Each purple-blue or slate-blue).
···and PARCEL shewn in the schedules exhibited at time the hands are put in water,
TAFFETA FETE MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier the General Post Offee and Kowloon dip the hands in the meal. than the time given above unless Office. All letters etc., must be mark otherwise stated, and where mails are ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at off surplus.
This will dry them through want of nourishment.) There is already a great feeling advertised to close at or before 9 am the General Past Office, Unless thoroughly.
Cuticle oil for this, and if the nails for the taffeta fete and evening registered and parcel malls are closed ruperscribed for despatch by a speci- at b p.m. on the previous day,
Don't forget the daily manicure. are brittle then they also need frocks. With their fanciful trim- de air mail service, correspondents Pay special attention to the cut-treatment with off. Warm olive oil wing and fuller skirts, they are fas- AIR MAIL-Imperiai Airways via will be forwarded by the first vicle, which may be cracked and hard is a good as any thing for this." Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam - via, «vailable.
Bringing Up Father
WELL, YOU HAVEN'T
SUCCEEDED IN GETTING
MOTHER'S SISTER TO GO HOME AND
YOU'VE BEEN
TRYING NOW FOR
FOUR
DAYS
rices.
I'VE GOTAN IDEA NOW AN IM GOIN' TO SPRING IT ON HER RIGHT, NOW-
THIS ONE WILL BE SURE TO MAKE
HER GO.
"OH, AN' HOW'S.
MY BIG BROTHER- IN-LAW TO-DAY?
Wipe
[NOT SO GOOD! YOU!
SEE-THE OPERA SEASON STARTS AN, OF COURSE, MAGGIE'LL WANT YOU. TO GO TO THE OPERA:WITH
·US-ITJATERRIBLE: ORDEAL, BUT ITS AM
HOUSE RULE
AROUN" HERE
cinating.
OH! THATS ALL RIGHT I'D
LIKE TO GO TO THE OPREE- JUS TO SEE HOW IT'S LIKE IF YOU KIN, STAND IT, I GUESS PLL LIVE, -T'ROUGH IT-
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