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 o
P.C, each $0.32.
Correspondence for this service must
THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935
The Woman's Page
Modern Girls PLAINEST SUITS CAN
be clearly marked "Via Imperial Air DEBUTANTES LACK #928,3*g***
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 shewn in the schedales exhibited at the Post Ofices.
CONCENTRATION
ACCUSED OF BEING GENERALLY “WHOLLY MADDENING”
BE BRIGHTENED UP
AN ATTRACTIVE SUGGESTION
If you use your ingenuity you can give the plainest suit an n- Fish-net usual air this season London. The shortcomings of the modern scarves, for instance, are new and All heters etc. must be marked "girl have had such a long rest lar-can be worn not only with a tailor- Air Mail and be handed in at a Post
terly, that the speech delivered at ed suit, but with your cruising out- Ofice.
an educational conference recently fit. They will look right with because they are by Miss Marguerite Steen, the nove either, mainly
PARCEL POST
list, has quite the ring of novelty easy to manipulate and are made in
gay. clear colours.
4 schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, is about it. exibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O.
INWARD MAILS: "
FROM EUROPE
May
FROM USA
Jizze
Pres. Coolidge
Pres Monroe
Emp. of Canada
Prex Jackson
Santhia
FROM JAPAN
June
Sydney Mara Pres. Coolidge "Calcutta Maru
Emp. of Canada
Pres.
Monroe
Suwa Maru
Tatsuta Mara
General Lee B-kuyo Marz Anyo Maru
Malacca Maru
Sakar Maru
FROM SHANGHAI
June
D'Artagnani
Antenor
Pres. Coolidge
Emp. of Canida
Pres Monroe
Suwa Maru
Tabanta Mara
General Lee
Menelass
Ixion
Nankin
Changte
FROM MÁNILA
June
Pres. Jefferson
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
June
Terikani Maru
Agapenor
Sai Sang
Change
Menes bens
Bangalore
Sirdhana
FROM AUSTRALIA
Jene
Terukuni Mara
Nankin
Changte
LOUTWARD, MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
June
She concentrated particularly Another novel idea is to wear one upon he Young Girl who has just of those double-strand necklets silk round the] If left School, whom she accused of covered with fine lack of concentration; indistinct back of a small woollen cap.
the latter is pulled together at the intellectual values; bad taste in actions. manners, art, literature top to give it somewhat the line of a glengarry and the necklet slipped music; and staggering ignorance.
of everything not connected with over it, with a stitch or two or krep 6 herself personally in general of it in place, the effect is very at- tractive, especially if the strands] being wholly maddening.".
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are a good colour contrast to thei
Some of our readers may remem-cap, but match the scarf.
ber when "Rita" was making a
war
handsome income by denouncing ATTRACTIVE COLOUR SCHEMES the "Sins of Society.” In the years immediately followmg the
In navy, a broadtail cape is the Dean Inge launched similar tirades acme of elegance if wom with aị against the deplorable decadence of matching dress or with light grey the times. That was the day of in the latter case the accessories the Bright Young Things, who cer- must necessarily be navy blue. Grey tainly seemed rather poisy and silover grey is quieter, but looks well, Nearly 3,000 years a certain too, with green and certain lighters Hebrew prophet laid him down shades of blue.
Iy.
10 der, a juniper tree and prayed that}
13 he might die because of the appar-as much, or as little, justified as
decadence of now. 14 ently irreclaimable
Actually there is a good deal! his fellow-countrymen; for whics of reason to think that the average be was suitably rebuked. Read young girl to to-day is much keener almost any book of 18th century minded, more apt to take an inter- memoirs, and you will be struck by est in things outside her own lit- the extreme mildness of societytle circle than her predecessors} sias to-day as compared with the were. But if the Speech reported past
is a fair sample of Miss Steen's There was never a time in all method of approaching her juniors. probability when Miss. Steen's acit is not surprising if they did not cusations might not have seemed show her their best. side.
A BUTTON RUG
This combination outfit gives the appearance of being both a suit and a dress because of the bodice, which is cut across the stripe, giv
Maxine effect Jennings, Hollywood actress, likes -
abe contrasts lots of colour, so three shades of green with beige stripes.
ing
THE BERET IS BEST
FOR JOURNEYS
Piano Stool
Handy In Kitchen And Saves Much Fatigue
An old-fashioned piano stool with a revolving seat that can be raised and lowered is better than a chair for use with a treadle sewing- machine. The seat can be quickly [adjusted to the most comfortable | height, and it swings round easily, allowing freedom of movement for handling materials. The stool is! also handy in the kitchen, where its use may save much fatigue during ironing, silver-cleaning, pasty-mak- ing, and so on. An ordinary chair is too low, but the stool may be adjusted to a height that gives the arms comfortable freedom and an easy reach ozer a dresser or table If the stool is kept in the kitchen, the seat should be covered with Lancaster cloth.
Hats are a nuisance to pack andi a nuisance in trains. If worn on a long journey they give you a head-
The button · rug is especially-and dime, respectively. Each cir-ache, and, if removed they get sat lovely and well adapted to an early cle is buttonholed to its neighbour on by other passengers or squash- American type of rooms. It is a with thread of a contrasting coloured under a heavy package, or they reproduction and revival of those the button-holing beginning with fall on the door and get dusty. The steady popularity of the beret is used in Colonial days, when the the smallest circle.
thirfty Puritan housewife savedj Four shades of one colour may good fortune for the traveller, but
every available bit of wool, fromai the cast-off garments of husband appear in one button, the largest the woman who has the courage to circle being the lightest in hue, the do without a hat altogether is hap and children, in order to make such colours graduating towards
piest the 11 a floor covering.
centre, where the darkest tint isl
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The modern button rug is pret found in the smallest circle If tier than its predecessor, and as four shades of pink are used, for! rule, much smaller, frequently beinstance, blue thread may be used ing in use as a table runner. The for the button-holding. same design is also found in pillow other harmonizing tint. tops, chair and stool seats.
or any
Oblong or Rectangular
Each button consists of four cir-
If more variety is desired, two cular pieces of felt, ranging in size)
colours, maybel from a dollar, half dollar, quarter) shades of two
found in the two largest circles, and post-and two shades of another sympa VIA SIBERIA- Letters cards for Europe and South America thetic colour for the two smaller forwarded in Siberia" * disks. Yellow and green are good. 41 superscribed
blue and rose, or any other com- REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS
Should still more gaiety are closed 15 minutes earlier than the bination. time given shove unless others be desired, use a different colour] stated, and where mails are advertised for each circle, such 28 yellow
D'Artagnan (via Marseilles)
Closes, Beg. 9.45 am. Ord 10.30 am.) Antenor (via Marseilles)
Closes Reg. 845 am. Ord. 9,30 am.
+4
Pres. Taft (via San Francisco)
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 pm.
Chichika Marn (via San Fran-
cisco)
to close at or before 9 am, registered blue, rose and orchid, brittonholed; on the previous day.
Clases: Reg. 4th 5 pm. Ord. 5th 8-30 parcel mails are closed at 5 PM together with green thread, and the
Antenor (via Marseilles)
Closes: Reg. 8:45 am, Ord. 9.30am Pres. Jifferson ...........
5
7
Closes: Reg. 415 p.m. Ord. 5 pm.
FOR HAXİLA
June
Pres. Coolidge Emp. of Canada.
Pres. Monroe
FOR INDIA
June
D'Artagnan
AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via button will present the appearance Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via of a circular rainbow. Singapore Saigon Marseilles viz Sai-
A neutral colour of felt is used Correspondence for European for the foundation of the rug, which intermediate countries will be C- cepted for transmission by these Sermay be round, square, oblong or vices.
Extes and all particulars are rectangular, according to fancy. shewn in the schedules exhibited at Buttonhole a completed button to the General Post Office and Kowloon the centre of this foundation, and Office. All letters etc., must be mark- ed By Air Mail" and handed in at around this in alternate rows. the General Post Office. Unless closely group the remaining but- superscribed for despatch by a specktons When the last row is finish- fe air mail service, correspondence ed, clip the foundation felt to con- will be forwarded by the first service form to the button edge, which will
be in scallops.
available.
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ONE HAT SUFFICIENT
FOR JOURNEYS
Berets May Be Included
One hat, perferably packed fo journeys, and one or two berets will serve you anywhere, except in countries where there is danger from the sum ör ́on luxury cruises. This is not written for the luxuri-1 ons traveller, but for the
of simple tastes who travels either fon her own or on her husband's business or merely from wanderlust
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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 spelling. such as harbor, plow, and althö.
137
HT
45.
148
56
57
60
HORIZONTAL
1...Ailment 2-Asserts 14-Beseeched 15-Body of soldiers Ti-Peis
18-Curdles 20-Girl's name 21-Series (abbr.) ww2-Commanded
24 Prefix Above
8
19
12 13.
15
19
20
223
163
| HORIZONTAL (Cont.)!
43-Bill of fare
49-Organs of hearing 50-Period of time
(abbr) 51-Pronoun
53-Disturb
55-Wild (Scot.)
VERTICAL (Cónt) 12-Frugal spenders ¡15-Sooner than *19-Understands (22-Raw metals
23 Performa 26-GOM mounds
128-Senior (abbr)
56-Hard shelled fruits (30—Javelin
58- Trailing shrub of
Australia '
25-Suffix used to form 55 Fortified seaport la
past tense
26--Gomuine
27-Man's name.
29-Pronoun
30-Appear
31-One who states.
... positively
33-Drinks alcoholic.
liquors excessively 35-Ascends „35-Insurance. (abbr)
22-Foot-like, organ
'38-Withers
39-An insect 40-Mineral spring
41-Cleansed
42-Iron
Italy,
(60-Man's name
62-Nude
64.Lower
65-Natives of Syria
VERTICAL
1-Sweet course 2-Spread ink upon 3-Agitate 4-Earie S-One (Scot.) 5-Bone of the body 7-Muzical study 8-Grected
S-A length measure
(abbr.)
44-Violent streams of 10-Anger
46-Large Cris
47-Arab (abbr)
15-4cngth measure
(PL) 112-Tombs
31-Military assistante 32-Prong 34-Timely
35-Ecstatic
-35-Trimmed off the fina
of fish 39-Sciences 43-Tinted
||41-Worthless plant. }<2-Remove the skin
43-Scattera 145-A paper, Pouzezre
(abbr)
45-A wild fancy
Possessive of Enid 150-Heroine of the ad ise walk
{54-Girl's name-
55-Girl's name. 57-Sardiola (abbr) {59-Greek Tatter
961–A compass point
(abbr), -163-Comparative rufir
The solution of the above with' a new cross-word pussis will appear in to-morrow's issue.
Bringing Up Father
VE GOT TO
O BACK
KIN
VELL REMEMBER!
JUST SNEAKIN
MY HOUSE WHILE WE ARE IN THE
DINING-RO
WILL
GO IN AND PEL
ALL MY OPERATIC „ÁRIA FOR
YOU
I'VE BROUGHT ALL MY MUSIC,
SO WE CAN HAVE HOURS OF MUSICAL
ECSTASY
THE PIANO IS
GONE! IT WAS HERE WHEN WE WENT IN TO
DINNER!
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