MAIL SCHEDULES
AIR MAIL RATES
As from 6th May the air mail rates to Great Britain via Imperial Airways will be reduced to
Letter $0.50 per 14 oz. P.C. each $0.32.
Correspondence for this service must be clearly marked "Via Imperial Air- ways".
PARCEL POST
is
A schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reduction exhibited in the Parcel Office. G.P.O.!. The rates will take effect as from 1st March, 1935
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 20, 1935
The Woman's Page
TO HOBBLE OR TO
STRIDE
لسنت
Latest Fashion Problem
For The Ladies
London
10 hobble.or to stride-that is the problem that modern
Imperial Airways via Singapore To
Bandoeng-Amsterdamvia Singapore
Saigon-Marseilles via Saigon.. woman will soon have to face. It.
Singapore-Australia
is the issue being fought out now!
the scenes. at the dress
Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Bates behind
and all particulars are shewn in the houses where 1835 fashions are schedules exhibited at the Post Offices being created. All letters etc. must be marked "By And the dressmakers
Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Office.
Kaitima
seilles)
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
(Air Mailex Mar-
May
FROM USA. “
May
Emp. of Asia
Pres. Johnson
FROM JAPAN
"Bokayo Maru
Chichibu Marü
Montevideo Maru Emp. of Asia Pres. Johnson Hakona Maru
Kitano Maru
FROM SHANGHAI
Chenonceaux Chichibu Maru
Memmon... Bp. of Asia Pres. JobasOD
Tyndarees
Burdwan
FROM MANILA
General Sherman
May
|
seem
to
have decided. capriciously enough, that women shall hobble in the! daytime and stride at night Here is the contrast in the width of skirts for different hours of the day....
For mornings and afternoons women are to adopt the "pencil"! Isilhouette. The skirt is as narrow as possible and hangs perfectly 24 straight. and the pencil effect is exaggerated by the fullness of the new lumber-jack coats. These are gathered at the waist and hang away from the skirt like a bell, and were inspired by the garments of the American lumber men
"Clothes ConsciousnessTM
May
21
22
May
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Perseus
Toba
Hector
Yuensang
OUTWARD MAILS
FOR EUROPK ***
May
May
Chenonceaux. (Marseilles Air
Mail Service) Closes: Rex. 9.15 am. Ord. 10.30 Taiyo Mara (via San Fran-. --cisco)
The skirts are less than a yard round the hem. But for evening many of the most striking models have a hem measurement of six
yards.
In changing for evening. women. will have to alter their walk, too.
24 After hobbling from matinee to 24 cocktail party, they will be able to swing with an easy stride into the ballroom
This free line will give women 24greater confidence.” Mr. Victor Stiebel stated. "It will emancipatë.
consciousness." them from 'clothes They are thinking of what they are wearing all the time. The fashions 23 are to blame.
"I want to see women striding again. It will not be an ugly move- ment, but one that expresses this new freedom of line."
She prefers her hostess gown in the chic blouse and skirt style, does Lyda Roberti, star of the screen and stage. Gold satin Lashions the skirt and gold lame the blouse.
THE SUCCESS OF A GOOD MAKE-UP ·
Foundation Of Greatest Importance
|T
THE success of a good make-up
depends on the choice ofj colours, and the way in which they are used. If you look made-up, then you may be sure your way of Caing it is a failure. If you look: radiant, glowing-if your make-up fatters and enhances your natural: charms, then you have achieved
success.
The foundation: upon which the make-up rests is of the greatest; importance.... This it is that gives the face that-enviable look of finish, and determines whether, after a few hours, it looks shiny and dis-i bevelled, or cool and soignee.
- Different foundations are made for different types of skin. If your skin is of the heavy type, inclined ite greasiness. you will probably find a liquid the best choice. Some- thing cool and snowy, designed to defeat shine and give the enviable matt look
I have known a foundation of this kind stay "pat" for hours on faces which, cp till time of using, have been noted for their comfortless Itendency to listen:
LONG FROCKS
Need Careful Hanging In Wardrobes
PROBLEM SOLVED
ONG dresses have create a
SPRING ACCESSORIES L diffcult problem. We find our
Prominent Neckwear Made Of Daintiest Materials
Instead of evening gowns being TAILORED SUITS CHARACTERISE tight to the knees they are to bej very full from the hips. As the
21 wearer moves these folds will sway
am. enchantingly. Their skirts will be
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 3 p.m Pres. Grant (via Victoria R.C.)
Closes: Beg. 11.15 am Ord. Noon. Burdwan (via Marseilles) Hakone Mara' (vis Marseilles) Hakozaki Marx (via Siberia).
Taiyo Maru
Pres. Grant
FOR SHANGHAI
Hakozaki Maru
Hakozaki Maru
May
FOR JAPAN.
May
Taiyo Maru
Pres: Grant Hakozaki - Maru
FOR AUSTRALIA.
May
THE SEASON
wardrobe space is not deep enough for the modern length of skirt to ihang comfortably. The result at present in all too many cases is that all our best party frocks suffer badly and need pressing each time they are taken out and worn.
No, this dress is on straight,; it's just a backward style worn by Virginia Reid, screen actress. Back of the cape opens in deep revers similar to those of a suit jacket- Ensemble is in black with white novelty crepe.
A SIMPLE REMEDY FOR INSOMNIA ®
A Clove Sleeping Draught
| MANY AILMENTS CAN BE CURED
A cure for this trouble, if the jwardrobe in question happens to When sleeplessness is due to possess a drawer at the base below dyspepsia-and it so often is-try Pour The quality of accessories in this the hanging compartment, is to lock a clove sleeping draught heavy, made with voluminous folds spring of 1935 is daintiness, grace, up the drawer and get a job-car-half a tumbler of quite hot water
now and reminiscence.
They evoke, penter to remove the flooring of the over half a dozen bruised cloves; of the more solid materials
imitating.
the cupboard in this way the hang.allow to brew for a few minutes) furbelows of periods that have ing space is deepened considerably over the bob before taking them passed into the manve twilight. « and will allow the longest frock to out. Drink last thing.
The oil of cloves may be prefer- There is, then, ал enormous swing safely dear of the base. amount of handwork; and
We may find that skirts, too, need red as its effect is
For dyspepsia take from pleasant while feeling the refresh-more and more space in the ward-trated
24 being used for night-time fashions. Without actually
RRB
BEE KILLS WOMAN.-
VIA SIBERIA
it
is
more concen-
for bronchial
fera-
A bee killed a woman at Bethal,ment of its daintiness to consider tobe and this can be provided by one to five drops on sugar or in a Transvaal, in two minutes. She also how much employment it is screwing a couple of brass dresser spoonful of milk. This dose, taken hooks into the left-hand side of the two or three times a day, may also received only a single sting, and giving to skilled fingers. was in normal health at the time. Particularly in neckwear can ex-wall of the cupboard The hooks prove. beneficial
quisite designs be, worked out should be placed as far apart as catarrh.
Toothache may ofteri be through the art of the needle; and the depth of the compartment we find collars, jabots, fichus, gilets, allows. This is usually about eigh-porarily alleviated by inserting a also be pledget of cottan-wool soaked in oil Letters and post-lelaborately tucked, pleated and teen inches. They should
from the of cloves into the cavity for neural- 24 cards for Europe and South America
shirred. They are made of the at a convenient height
Paint the affected 5mb with Siberia" i 24 are forwarded
daintiest of sheer materials and in original floor, say, 40 inches, for gia. superscribed.
pastel colours, among which pink, this is a few inches longer than the the oil of cloves, applied freely with
a small camel-hair brush. PARCEL and MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier yellow and bine are favourites, and walking skirt
They are The modern skirts mostly have. unless competitors of white. 21 than the
time given above
near the jotherwise stated, and where mails are universally becoming and make it loops at the waistbands
these are passed, advertised to close at or before
the side seams and registered and parcel mails are closed possible to wear with gaity
austere tailored suits which charac-lone over. each hook, so that the clothes hang taatly at the side of AIR MAIL-Imperisi Airways via terise "the season.. Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via
Montevideo Maru
FOR U.S.A.
May
Taiyo Maru Pres. Grant
23
FOR, STRAITS
Montevideo Maru
Burdwan Hakone Maru
May
REGISTERED
Wher
at 5 paz of the previous day,
Singapore Saigon-Marseilles „vis Sai
gon. Correspondence for Europe and
Intermediate countries will be so
21 cepted for transadasien by these Sex
24 vice
INDIAN RUGS
For Country Floors
Rates and all particulars a Made In Modernist Lines
24 chewn in the schedules exhibited
POR INDIÁ
May
24
Motitevideo Mara Hosang Hakone Karni
FOR MANILA
May
Yup. of Asia
st
the General Post Office and Kowloon Office. All letters etc., must be mark-
ed "By Air Mail" and handed in
the General
Fost Office. Unless
BAGS AND GLOVES
OF TAFFETA
This Season.
•
the wardrobe. If the books are Most Attractive Material
Inot long enough; they
は
be
threaded with large safety pins
which are passed instead over the- hooks. Several skirts can be hung
space.
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 Lita, Peiping
DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are wamed to look out for occasional phonetic spelling.
such as harbor, plow, and altho.
13
12 15
24 15
12
15
16
120
19
25
26
$28
129 130
HORIZONTAL
1-Cut down 4-Penetrate B-Advertisements
(abbr.)
11-City
in central New York.
12-A flowret
48
10
: HORIZONTAL (Cont.)] VERTICAL (Cont.) 36-Former Russian title 10-Salnite (abbr) Į15-Planted again 37-Is sorry for
$40-A beverage 42-Horseman
43-Playing card 45-Writing implement 16-Heed
13-Small lamp of butter 47-A letter
14--Made a mistake r5-The sheltered side
17-Jeered
19-Cease 21-Scout
22-Paradise..
25-A tree 27-Apart 28-Charmed 25-Allows for tem- porary use
31-A figure of speech 33-Comfort
34-Station (abbr)
43-Sheer
149–014 times. (poet.)
VERTICAL
1-Jump 2-Performs
3-Fult of moisture
4- Paradise
5 The nostrils 5-Each
7--Go on horseback 8-Entirely S-Conveyed by law
13-Forsakes 19-Fur-bearing anima: 20 Unfastens 25-Posscasive of Dide 24-Not at any time 26-Nights (abbr) 27-Desd
30-Large birds of prey 32-Package
34--Wasted.
35-To anoint (archaic) 138-Greek goddess of
discord 39-Skip
40-Large monkey ¡41-A naval efficer
(abbr) (43–Consument
44-Terminate
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzze
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
CLOVES ASSIST APPETITE
FOR SALE
Not
To Be Indulged In Too Liberally
Us
spice,
TSED moderately as a
cloves will assist the appetite and digestion; yet if indulged in too Hiberally the sensibility of the stomach may be deadened so that
all desire for food is lost.
Strong clove tea, prepared by pouring one pint of boiling water
on half an ounce of bruised cloves
Taffeta bags may be worn with (crushed in a mortar) is helpful
flat this way and it will be found matching gloves, for which taffetafor indigestion. The dose is a that they are not crushed by the is a smart and attractive material small wineglassful, drunk cold when hangers in the main wardrobe this spring. Fique and other cot-required.
ton materials, even prints, are eïn- A weak clove tea,
drunk uponį Rugs usually prove the simplest
ployed for gloves and also for bags, rising, will serve to "tone up" the 24 superscribed for despatch by aspect way of dealing with country floors.
as well as for collars, vestees and stomach for the first meal of the 24 Be gir mail service, correspondence It is interesting to note that the
will be forwarded by the first service soft woven rugs from India which designs as well as in the more vivid lapels, so that an ensemble of ac day. Into a tumblerful of boiling have good wearing qualities are colourings which have always been cessories is rather easily worked water put in a few cloves overnight
and drink cold next morning. now being made in quiet, modernist one of their distinguishing features. out.
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Bringing Up Father
HELLO.MRS. DORA BELL THIS 15. MISS JIGGS:SPEAKING-MY MOTHER WISHES YOU
WOULD COME OVER SO "SHE-CAŃ TELL YOU ALL ABOUT OUR YACHT-
TELL HER-14 AM THE ADMIRAL OF IT AND YOU ARE SECOND
IN COMMAND-
OUTSIDE OF PAYIN-FER
WONDER WHAT
I'M GOIN TO BE!
MAGGIE SAID SHE PUT ME YACHTAN
SUIT IN ME ROOM:
AN PUT IT ON AN SEI WHAT TAMI
WITH THIS GIT-UP “I SUPPOSE FUL SE SCRUBBIN DECKS!
1975, Sing Bestwton Spadiame.
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