MAIL SCHEDULES
The Hong Kong Postal Guide of 1935 is now on sale at the General Post Office and Central Post Office, Kowloon.
AIR MAIL
Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore,
Saigon-Marseilles via Saigon Singapore-Australia
Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates)
THE CHINA MAIL," "WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1935
Women's Tages
FROM THE ITALIAN War Has Its Effect On Fashion SYNTHETIC JEWELS
FASHION HOUSES
and all particulars are shewn in the Heel-Less Slippers With
schedules exhibited At the Post! Offices. All letters etc., must be mark- -ed “By Air Mail” and be handed in
at the Post Office.
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE
Black Gown
Getting back to Grecian even- ing styles if one of the sil-| houettes in the "Birth of Aphro- {dite" font at Rome had a beneath- tunic, Alix bas It is hereby notified that from the knee-length First day of September 1935 the caught it in a superb
Town of charges for telegrams will be collect-black finely-pleated panne velvet: ed at the rate of Dollar 0.68 to equal She gives it an embroidered seed
Gold Franc 1.00. –
GOVERNMENT RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE
pearl belt and, would you believe it heel-less slippers of velvet embroidered over with pearls.. These occur again and again for
It is hereby notified that from the other gowns. First of September 1935 Night Letter
For
one of
the new waffle
Telegrams (NLT) expressed in Plainware taffeta gowns in black that
language may be exchanged between: shoots. out into full angularity
Hong Kong and Great Britain at one-
third of the Full Ordinary Rate with from a completely dat front, she a miniman charre for 25 words
of
darts a belt of lapus lazuli` and
These telexmams will be delivered pearls to match an embroidered | on the morning after the date
decoration on black waffle ware Further information may be obtain-taffeta slippers. There is a mix-1 ed at the Radio Office.
despatch
INWARD MAILS.
Cathay (via Suez)
FROM' D.S.A..
الم
FROM EUROPE
Oct.
SA
Oct
9
Pres. Jackson Emy of Russia Pres. Fan Baren
FROM JAPAN
Oct
Nagara Maru Pres. Jackson Africa Maru Rajputana
Tatsuta. Maru Brisbane Maru
Lama Maru
Toba Maru
Emp. of Russia
Tango Maru
FROM SHANGHAI
Oct.
Pres. Jackson
Rajputana
Tatsuta Maru Andre Leben Memnon
Earp. of Russia
Burdwan
ture of Eastern sleekness and Grecian charm about most of this designer's evening gowns with which she might cast a toga of velvet drooping gracefully back jand front in length.
A half-length coat of beige kid is stamped all over with a leaf: design as though stencilled in dark red and green to go with a similar evening gown. Her day- wear coats are intriguing cat în Ethiopian Emperor manner with rolling shaped fronts and side! 3slit openings. Bishop sleeves
.11
4 add to the effect, - or those of joblong, shape appear in the half- length all-round caped coatline 6that wraps over at the back.
10
“A LASTING PERFUME
A really good lily of the valley scent is one that will last well.
| Another suggestion is white lilac.
FOR STRAITS
Rajputana (Air Mail)
Oct.
9
11 Africa Maru
';,
FROM MANILA
Nankin
Oct
Kumsang
Emp. of Canada
FOR MANILA
Pres. Coolidge
Oct.
Nellore
Pres. Jackson
FOR SHANGHAI
Oct.
Oct.
Cathay
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Emp. of Canada
Santhia (Air Mail ex
Suisang
Conte Verde
Conte Verde
Penang Maru
5 Tantalus
Pyrrha
Pres. Coolidge
Dakar Maru
10
FOR AUSTRALIA
FROM AUSTRALIA
Oct
Oct.
Nankin
5
14
11
Nellore
Changte
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Emp. of Canada. (viz Siberia}
A smart outfit consisting of a gored skirt, fitted with a Basque blouse banded with white or gandy ruching and huge puffed makes elbow-length sleeves," Patricia Ellis, screen actress, and this ensemble ready for the ad- miring eyes of the promenaders.
Trend Reminiscent Of 1918
ETHIOPIAN CONFLICT MAKES
ITS MARK
LIKE REAL GEMS
Rhinestones Resemble Diamonds
Rhinestones faithfully follow
The first shot has been fired real stone designs. A good many jewellery houses employ men and and it was not on the Ethiopian women who have worked for
frontier. It went off on the Rue
de la Paix in Paris and has had ears with real diamonds with the result that it takes metical- its repercussions
Fifth
ous scrutiny to tell whether Avenue in New York. The re-
girl has on a diamond bracelet or ference is to la Mode Militaire,
which one of the better specialty one of rhinestones.
Baguettes still are popular and. shops apostrophised in an adver
in addition, rose-cut stones as |tisement of "the most exciting
battalion of bats that we've seen well as pear-shaped ones, parti
in simulated rubies, since 1918 As if the great war cularly were something worth remember-emeralds and sapphires, have an ing. we are offered "gallant and important place in the jewellery Pearls, wora glamorous hats," with visors, gold fashions for fall. cord and cocardes, to remind us separately and combined with of the clank of swords, the swish rhinestones, are more widely re of sabre, the click of heels and commended than they have been
for years.
You can the sound of distant drums!”
wear them It looks, my dears, as if we wo-with everything, including sports men are to celebrate the carnage dresses and sweaters.
in Ethiopia this fall and winter by: wearing military headgear and regimental clothes. One Paris! designer features a cadet bolero suit. with a cashing cape and a skirt cut a stight as trousers, with |braid' down the sides in "true guardsman fashion. All that will be lacking will be the side arms and the gas mask-and the cooties.
Proselytizing Pacifists
NECKLINES MOST
IMPORTANT
Bow Still Holds Its
Place
Necklines are more important than ever, and very varied. The Even if you are a woman paci- bow is still with us, in fur as well fist, you will be under the in- as in cambris, lace or fabric. It Auence. Though there be noth- can be worn to the back. front or
ARTIFICAL TAN ON in belligerent in your nature," side; high or low. Some women
BOARD SHIP
Can Be Rubbed Off For Evening
self.
wrote the inspired adver-prefer the narrow, tie or sailors' tisement writer, though. your knot. However well a blouse or curls be as unwarlike as a babe's, dress may be finished, it rests you must surrender to the glitter largely with the individual to ad- and dash of a field-marshal's gold just the neck-fmish to suit her- braid...."
Inevitably your afternoon coat
Bodices may be finished with a or suit will have a natural fitted wide bow of the same fabric as waist, broad shoulders and flaring the dress itself. This method skirt, reviving the fin de siecle saves trouble, but there are times military mode, when Victoria sent when
worden love the white Artificial sun-tan cosmetics are her good sons and true to South pique or lawn collar and jabot specially uesful on board ship, as | Africa.
"
SKIN FOOD SHOULD BE USED "EVERY NIGHT AT SEA
.
POLISHING OILCLOTH
and
The shooting is to be in North they can be cleansed away at din- ner time to give place. to the Africa this time. So the Ethio pastel make-up which looks best plans are getting a look-in in-the with evening dress. You can shion parade, and we shall be
The next time you are polish- choose between a gypsy cream ajable to show where our sympathies gypsy oil or a sun-tan lotion. None lie by the kind of bonnet we wearing the oilcloth, try applying the of these will rub of, but all can If you think Mussolini is actuated polish. on a woollen cloth. 3be removed with soap and water by a noble desire to abolish slavery then polish with a stiff-bristled 3lor cream. according to instruc-in Ethiopia you can don an boot brush. A very bright and 4tions usually found on the jaz Dude's fringed cap of a bersa-lasting polish will result which 4 Before dinner cleanse with a gliere model chapeau. Or if you will save you a lot of arm-ache.
soothing. fairly greasy cream, believe the self-determination of wipe off with lotion and make-up peoples is more than a phrase you just as you would for a dance at can affect an Ethiopian warrior's home. Do not put soap and headgear, with a fierce tuft of fea- water on your face after your day thers high above your forehead.
VIA SIBERIA—Letters and post-in the sea air, unless you want a cards for Europe and South America pink and smarting skin. When are forwarded #ia Siberia” ` if 30 bedtime comes; remove make-up superscribed.
with cream wash with tepid, fresh REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier water and a very mild complexion
Even soap and than the time given above less soap. 3otherwise stated,and where mails are fanatics will find this ample, for
Oct.
3
+
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord 5 p.m. Conte Verde (viz Siberia) Tantalus (via Victoria) Rajputana (via Marseilles Air
Mail Service)
Closes: Reg. 9 am Ord 9:30 am. Pres. Coolidge (via San FraD-
cisco)
Closes: Reg. 415 p.m., Ord. 5 pm Marechal Joffre (via Siberia)
FOR JAPAN
Cathay Emp. of Canada Tantalus
Pres. Coolidge
FOR USA
Emp. of Canada Tantalus
Pres. Coolidge
Oct
Oct
water
PERFUME THE SHINGLE CAP
advertised to close at or before 9 the skin keeps beautifully clean Hair Scented But Not
am-registered and parcel mails are in the pure ocean air.
4 closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day.
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via
| Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via
4 Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai-
Skin Food
Endangered
gon. Correspondence for Europe and every night, even if you use it less scented? Perhaps you are in the
ROMANCE
BARBER & BEAUTY PARLOUR
OFFON MHA
While at sea. use skin food
Do you like your hair to be
E
įhabit of spraying it with a little!
out to
5 intermediate countries will be accept-loften as a rule.
ed for transmission by these Services: When you bath you will find a perfume before. you go Rates and all particulars, are shewn casinful of fresh water is provid- dance?
in the schedules exhibited at the Gened as well as the sea-water bath. This is not too kind to the hair, 3 eral Post Office and Kowloon- Office.
3 All letters etc, must be marked "By Give you body a final rinse in really so here is another even 4 Air Mail" and handed in at the Gen- fresh water and do not put salt daintier suggestion.
4eral Post Office. Unless superscribed water on your face. It is wise to Keep your shingle cap delicate- for despatch, by a specific air mail take a cake of special soap that ly. perfumed by spraying it service, correspondence will be for will latherin sea-water, for thoroughly every week or so. In 3warded by the first service available though some lines provide this. this way, your hair will always
others do not. "'
be faintly, subtly scented
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DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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11-Mohammedan
prince
• 13-Conjunction 14-Note in Guido's
scale 15-Half a score 16-Bone (Lat)
18-Box
20~And (Lt).
21-Comparative suffix
roster
24-A fruit (pl) 26-Appeared 28-Insert 29-Speaks hesitating!; 30-Plots
35-Head-dress worn był
popes
39-Frames to support
pictures
41-Egyptian beetle 42-Mature
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5-Pronoun
46-A cape
47-Presx. From
15-Naval title (abbr)
(49–Diminutive suffix. (51-A thoroughfare "
(abbr.)
52 Circles 54 Indicates |56-Egyptian river
57-A color {58_Forsakes
VERTICAL
1-Hair on lion's 2-Passageways 3-Massive
17-Walk 2.
¡18-Foot covering
19-Fish eggs
22-Portuguese.coin 23-Condenses and holds
by adsorption
¡25-Niton (abbr) 27-The (SP) 31-Placed
52-Turklah monetary
unit 3-Gold
mound 34-South latitude
*** (abbr.) necki35-Eleven hundred
4-A waxy quartz 5-Those who domesti
Gate
6-Paradise
7 The (Fr.)
9 Point of compass
(abbx.)
10-English street cara. 12-Lodges
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45-Greek poet.. }48–Girf's name
The solution of the above with a new
will appear in to-morrow's issue.
GLOVES EXTEND IN POPULARITY
Smartness Gained By. Dying To Tone
What
of popu
a long reign larity the decorative gloves have
had
range
This autumn sees the extended The very chic dresses have their long afternoon and" (sometimes) evening gloves of suede dyed to tone with their {ensemble, gja
50-Organs of hearing 53-Into
55–Name unknown
(abbr.)
cross-word puzzle
·YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
PRICE
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PAIN AL GED DNRO RO RCP DEAR_UGASCS TCCS CROP PON
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Dark purple, blue, brown. wine and blackberry shades are attrac We shall see black and, dark tive. These suede gloves dyed stockings not only for evening to order are quietly, smart more and special occasions, but worn so than the fantastic gauntlets. with smart day-time clothes. Both styles are, however, very Very fine brown and green silk popular, and so are velvet gloves hosiery as well as a thicker black in black and bright contrasting sift with the old-fashioned clor colours.
have also been seen.
Bringing Up Father
EXT YOU DUE AT THE STUDO TO ~.
DADDY?
NO-BUTÍM GOIN' DOWN."
CHEY ARE “NA BIGAMM
SH
TO
TODAY-IWANT THEM WORK--
BY GOLLY
IT: LOOKS KLIKE A
BATTLE-REL
"MORLEY'S
LADIES WOOLLEN:
VESTS
BRASSIEK TOPS
Price $1.50 Each
OPRA TOPS Price: $2.50 Each
In White, Peac Pink and Green
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