1935-05-10

MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL RATES

As from 6th May the sir mail rates to Great Britain via Imperial Airways will be reduced to

Letter $0.50 per or P.C. each $0.32

Corespondence for this service must be clearly marked "Via Imperial Air- WAJA”.

PARCEL -POST

A schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, a exhibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O The rates will take effect as from 1st March, 1935.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1935

The Woman's Page

THE MODERN NURSERY AS A

TRAINING GROUND

-MOTHERS REVIVE VICTORIAN CUSTOMS

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam ria Singapore Saigon-Marseilen via Saigon Singapore-Australia Correspondence will be accepted for tion.

London. The high chair and the pen, the With the return of more formal (nursery sink and the large toy, are manners and modes in entertain- problems for which mothers have ing, and the new appreciation of found various solutions. Misa de family life among the younger Winton Wills has a high chair t married couples, there has come a ment with a feeding tray that is change in nurses life and decora-slipped on to an ordinary nursery chair at meal times, painted to transmission by these services. Rates More than one young mother has match the nursery: This is wash- and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited at the Post Offices decided lately against the post-war able and has the advantage of or folding up and packing far, visita All letters etc.. must be marked "By tradition of a blue and white Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post pink and white nursery with min-to relations and hotels. Office.

INWARD MAILS

FROM EUROPE

May

Ajax

Emp. of Japan (via Siberia} Fushimi Maru (Air Mail)

FROM USA.

Emp. of Japan

Pres. Grant

Eajputana (Via Suez)

Pres."Hayes

www.

Мау

iature furniture, animal decora- The Hon. Mrs. John Bethell has tion on chairs, wardrobes and cup-invented a chair with longer legs board, and everything painted or for the toddler." Bad nursery man- designed like toys.

vers are often the result of too low

o A colour scheme that tones in a chair og too high a table. Mrs. 10 with the rest of the house, that Crossley has invented a nursey sink 11jhas nothing insipid or reminiscent that folds up and appears to be a 15 of a hospital about it, a collection cupboard when not in use.

of good pictures, nursery china

The 1935 Mother

FROM JAPAN

May

Pres. Hayes Emp. of Japan.

Ginyo Maru

Toyooks. Mars

Taiyo Maru

Penang Maru

Pres. Grant

Naldera

General Sherutan

FROM SHANGHAI

Pres. Hayes

Emp. of Japan

Soochow

Conte Rosso

Taiyo Maru

Achilles

Naldera

General Sherman

Pres Grant

FROM MANILA

May-

Pres. McKinley

Atsuta Maru

FROM AUSTRALIA,

FROM STRAITS '& INDIA'

Atsuta Maru

Hai Ning

Ajax

Fushimi Maru

Durban Maru

Tomali

Somali

Santhis

Kumsang

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

10 and nursery furniture of the or The 1935 mother in Mayfair 10 dinary size, comfortable. arm- gives her children good pictures, a 17 chairs, and a big sofa are what carpet, and dressing-tables and the mother of 1935 considers -es-toilet articles, because in that way sentials for a Mayfair nursery. appreciation is early learned.

One reason

**Skirts of glazed chintz for the decline of 10 miniature furnitare, may be that American cloth beneath a dressing 10 nursery tea is now a popular meal ledge that may be a window-sill, for many grown-up people, who are used to conceal toys and shoes. I prefer to see children in their own Each dress and coat has its own

17 surroundings, rather than in the hanger in the fitted wardrobes that

stiff atmosphere Y of a drawing

room.

Girls and boys are being taught to receive their guests in order that they shall not suffer from shyness and social gancherie in later years.

Victorian Revivals Two Victorian revivals in the 1935 nursery are the day-bed and the map. But whereas in the last

children can get a themselves. Toi- let sets for small girls include nail files and clothes brushes.

CHOOSING SUITS

That 1935 Look A Necessity

There is one rule to bear in mind [century, children "rested after or when we are choosing our suits before nursery dinner on a back- during the pert few months. They

TABLE NOVELTIES

IN GLASS

Colour Scheme For Dinner Tables-

GLASS CANDLE HOLDERS

BEAUTY NEWS

New Face Cream Does Away With Powder

A new face cream has been manufactured, none other

than Crema Lucilla, a Neapolitan van- ishing powder-cream made by the Profumeria Italiana, Crema Lucilla, Turquoise and sapphire blue put up in attractive white contain board or a sofa covered in slippery can be or classic lines if the glass is being used for some of the ers, ornamented in gold and black, 16 glazed chintz, the modern mother wearer is off the right type to new table centre flowers. Passion not only softens the skin but does provides a hammock-like cot, eas-wear anything classical at all-flowers and convolvulus in modern-away with the necessity for using fly folded up, for the toddler and sleekly fitting jacket and list shape. with decorative white powder. It eliminates the shiny a divan for older children. These ally fared skirt, or a straight centres, make an effective bright nose grievance and is said to be 16 divans hare detachable headboards, one with a slit up one side: But bine bouquet mounted on a

which are slipped into position to the top part of the suit must not quoise glass plaque.

very beneficial to the skin. remov-i hold pillows in place when children be dull, if the whole is to have

May

13 now, inset with a

tur

ing any superfluous oil A make- are resting on them, and taken out that necessary 1935 look about it. Slender candle-holders in cloud-up that lasts is one of the things jat other times.

Any dullness can, of course, beled turquoise glass with sapphire busy women will appreciate and Maps are nursery decorations relieved, by the addition of wide blue candles placed four-square at one of the advantages of this!

wooden beading revera, plain, or still better, faced the centre of the table carry on cream is that it is so well adopted 13 painted to match the walls, 25 in with the material of the accom-the colour scheme.

the Green-street nursery for Lord Panying blouse or jumper which is Dudley's youngest son, the

16:

Peter Ward.

Pres. Grant

Tasukusi Marn (Air Mail Ser-

FOR AUSTRALIA

vice).

Taiping (via Thursday Island)

FOR INDIA

Pres. McKinley (Via Victoria B.

C. and Siberia)"

Closes: Reg. 415 p.m. Ord-5

Yasukomi Marn

Takada

Fushimi Maru (via Siberia)

Conte Ross0. (Imperial Air-

Conte Rosso

ways)

Closes: Reg. 3.30 p.m. Ord. 4 p.m. Naldera (Via Marseilles)

May

are forwarded superscribed.

REGISTERED

Closes; Beg. 9:45 am. Ord. 10.30 am:

FOR SHANGHAI

Pres. McKinley

Enebimi Mara

Pres. Hoover

FOR JAPAN

May

Pres. McKinley Atsuta Mano Pres. Hoover

FOR US.A.

Pres. McKinley Talthybius Pres. Hoora

Takada

FOR STRAITS

Tasukumi-Maru

Conte Rosso Achilles

FOR MANILA

Emp. Of Japan Pres, Hayes

Tisadane

Taiping

Honed down the front and at the glass are among the new designs

wrists. Paris has been showing for cigarette "containers"

to evening make-up:

Dolphins in turquoise and gilti

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as light, plain skirts and jackets and turquoise is another

Coral colour

18 in a darker shade of the same co-scheme in glass. A set of six cock- lour and vice versa. This outfit is tail glasses, three in coral and pleasing if the wearer is slim and three in turquoise, with a glass tray ther dress accessories are perfectly in coral, the set in the same type of clondy-looking glass, is attrae- tive.

10 sclected.

VIA SIBERIA Letters and post-

FACE CREAM

Among birthday gifts is a dark blue cigarette box-complete with

cards for Europe and South America Specially Designed For an ash-tray to match, both encased

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