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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1935
Women's Pages
THE DAINTY. NEW
TULLE DRESS
New Line Makes It Good For Dancing
ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in PLEATED FLOUNCES SUGGEST
at the Post Office.
HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE
A SHEATH
If the streamline. frock is too difficult to wear. there is a com
talle dress,
It is hereby notified that from the promise in the new First day of September 1935. the By no stretch of the imagination charges for telegrams will be collect-could this be called an economical ed at the rate of Lollar 0.68 to equal fashion. Nothing creases, or Gold Frane 1.00
GOVERNMENT RADIO TELEGRAPH. SERVICE
wilts, so quickly as tulle bat, în spite of that. it is being worn a great deal for dancing. Its line, however, does not follow that of an jopen umbrella as tulle dresses!
It is hereby notified that, from the used to do. Instead, the flounces First of September 1935 Night Letter Telegrams (NLT) expressed in Plain are pleated and carefully pressed language may be exchanged between so that they suggest
·Hong Kong and Great Britain at one rather than a crinoline.
3 sheath
third of the Full Ordinary Bate with Black tulle. and. white. werel a minimun 'charge for 25 words..
These telegrams will be delivered Popular earlier in the season, but!
on the morning after the date of now a great many colours have despatch.
been introduced. A lovely model |
Farther information may be obtain-worn at a dance recently by a ed at the Radio Office.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Rawalpindi. (via Suez) *............
Oct
FROM USA
Oct
Pres. Taft
Pres. McKinley
FROM JAPAN
Oct
Bengal Maru
14
Pres. "Taft
Bengal Maru
Katsuragi Maru
Pres. McKinley
Chitral
dark girl with a clear complexion jand good colouring was Quakeri tgrey. the flounces of
the skirt finished with little kilted pleatings which stood out round the slender figure.
Grey And Yellow
At the waist a narrow twist of pale yellow tulle was introduced in the form of a belt. and yellow! 14 roses in the same tone were placed 13 on the left shoulder. Grey and
yellow is one of the newest colour) combinations, and in this filmy talle it worked out very well As a general rule the two shades 14 should be chosen with the utmostį
14
17 care. If there is" too much of the
18 sulphur, or the flame, tint in the
18
18
yellow the effect will be quite 20 spoiled. A rather pale buttercap tone is ideal and the grey is prettier with it if it is shadowy rather than too clear.
19
Talthybius
Montevideo Maru
FROM SHANGHAI-
Oct.
Pres. Taft
24
Chitral
18
FOR JAPAN
Talthybius
18
Oct..
Pres... McKinley
18 Emp. of Russia
17!
Talthybius
18 Rawalpindi
Marechal Joffiree
22: General Lee
Antenor
22, Sphinx
Trier
Pres. Hoover
FROM AUSTRALIA
Oct.
FOR MANILA,
Kitano Maru
17
Oct.
Tjibadak
FROM MANILA
Pres. Taft
15
Oct
Changte
Emp. of Russia ·
16)
Kitano Maru
17
FOR U.S.A
General Lee
18:
Octal
Oct.
Emp. of Russia General Lee:
15
FOR AUSTRALIA
15
Oct.
13 Changte
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Kutsang
Talma.
Hakodate Maru
Protesians
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Hector (via Siberia)
Emp. of Russia (via Siberia)
Closes Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord.. 5. General Lee (via San Fran
cisco)....
Oct.
**
Closes Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5. p.m. Sphinx (via Siberia)
Hector
FOR SHANGHAI
Eup. of Russia
Rawalpindi
General Lee
Sphinx
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Fashion Starts Hat War
The chill Astuma winds will soon be here, so Warner Brothers" Margaret Lindsay 'chooses a black wool broadcloth outfit for warmth. The skirt has shallow side vents at the hemline while the short jac- ket, trimmed lavishly with blue fox has cut-away lines below the waist.
LATEST SWAGGER
COATS
Attention to Details Gets Full Effect
Hats Will Be Either
Tall Or Flat
ป
FELT WILL BE ONLY THING COMMON TO ALL
IDLE KISS SPOILS
THE IDYLL
Aftermath Of War Affects Women
A KISS SHOULD EAN
· SOMETHIN
Get ready for an epic fashion} » battle this fall between the parti- He was somebody e's hus sans of the tall hats and of the band and she was somebody else's pancake varieties. according to wife. They were feeling good and Jean Panton, the famous desirmer, they were at a party who said recently:-
He kissed her very hard and
Every shape, every style, will very long on the lips, and she be subordinated to these two ea-kissed him back while people sential formulas Either a hat around the room noticed or did will be definitely high-crowned. not notice, all depending on exaggeratedly so. with every trim-whether or not they were caught|| ming and detail concurring to in the tropical heat wave. give an impression of further. “What of it” you may ask. “A height or else it will be as flat as kiss doesn't mean anything!” the proverbial pancake.
That is exactly the point. It The only thing they will have shock. And it cannot when common is the material--felt, kisses are handed out as promis- a soft. essentially pliable cuously as ham sandwiches at a variety, will be most widely used. Sunday School picnic" Taupes (or velours) will be more! We have 1 much that was frequently seen than in past sea-igracious, muca that was precious. (sons, as will many combinations in these years since the world of velvet and taupe. felt and vel-into a mad war, finging the berit
the vet and newer still lainage and age of splendid living into velvet.
mad. tramping on it. se taming Cut Instead Of Trimmings
that restrictions, were ₫ • and The high crowns will offer sub-freedom to be base and tle drapings, and details of cut common had arrived. Tre has will replace the present" feather!
an increasing nu ver and ribbon trimmings Bows and men and women who throw one knotted effects, cut in one with another's lives into turmoil, shrug their shoulders, and go find an- note of refinement to the general other bedlam in which to play
fawhile sobriety of tone.
Why Scatter Kiss.37 The new high hat will be elegant “par excellence.” and I No wonder part of the world has need hardly point out that this a headache,
nausea, the blues.
crown or brim. will contribute a
been
d and
of
type of hat is almost akin to the The hangover of bad taste that art of the sculptor, so that a great the war brought in is enough to deal of its chic will depend on the upset anybody's system. It is re- modiste's subtle touch.
LATEST TREND IN JEWELLERY
The Revival Of The
"Brouch
pulsive, cheap, degrading to find. people adult în age if not in mind. acting like wayward chil- dren behind a country bar.
A gesture of affection should: be sincere. Only when it is can lit be sacred, worthy,' beautiful- When the wrong people use the gestures it is repulsive to those who still maintain that good taste,
The jewellery story for the fall honesty and honour, and breeding
are the essential rocks on which! is large rather than long. Clips to be worn singly are three or four a happy married life is built
Just why do people want to times the size of little ones that go in pairs. Bracelets are wider prance around at parties, scatter- Hair ornaments are bigger and ing kisses? Just why do they think it is fun? It is not honest. It is more pretentious than formerly not rich. It is as empty as a hol- Pearl necklaces come in long ropes lowed ont gourd. that can be twisted about the throat several times having fun, were the story follow- The people who think they are Three fashion trends contribute ed through, would be discovered ing coat is part of a lemon crepe to costume jewellery designs this to be cheap and shoddy cowards. A plain crepe dress with season the Renaissance, the Eng They are incapable of a big ∙17 Itwo narrow bindings of black lish Jubilee and the Oriental, and honest emotion. They would short black drop earrings, lemon launched by Schiaparelli and Alix not risk their all in a grand ges-
WRIST LENGTHEN CAPE OF BLUE TAFFETA
18. Another version of this Decom-
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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping
You Wouldn't Send Your Children
To SCHOOL
BLINDFOLDED
Neither would you
Sit
BLINDFOLDED
IN YOUR OFFICE!
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ONE
DOLLAR
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crepe pump shoes, and the three last spring. Renaissance jewels ture to love. Oh, no! But they BARBER & BEAUTY PARLOUR cards for Europe and South America quarter length coat, with the colare as colourful as that famous have such a good time kissing are forwarded via Siberia” if lar ending as a tie in front. The period, with vari-coloured stones Mary and John and Jack, or Susan plainness was relieved by a series in massive designs set in gold and Kate and Euth, in the public REGISTERED and PARCEL of inch squares set like rows of carved in elaborately. This brings presence. They think they are MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier diamond panes two than the time given above unless from each front edge, and the
inches in about the revival of the broochie. Ishieks and vampires. They do not 14 otherwise stated and where mails are
imow that they are rather speci-0 mens of a race that falls far short of being all it should be.
4).
17 advertised to close at or before giedges of the cape sleeves.
18
{a.m., registered and parcel wails are Attention to small details makes closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day a great deal of difference to the
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MUSTARD PLASTERS
You will find that a mustard
Blue taffetta formed a wrist-plaster can remain on for a longer
gon. Correspondence for Europe and length cape, piped all around, with period, and the skin will not blis intermediate countries will be accepta pert piped collar fashion ter, the mustard is mixed with Octed for transmission by these Services. The rows of piping outlined in the white of an erg instead of
14 Rates and all particulars are shewn
17 in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-gold thread, to match a metallic
18 eral Post Office and Kowloon Office, gold thread in the lovely flowered
18 AR letters etc., must be marked "By brocade of the gown, and the bine,
19 Air Mail and handed in at the Gen rose and gold of the binding. 24 eral Post Office. Unless superscribed for despatch by a specific air mail
Pres. Hoover
FOR: STRAITS AND INDIA.
Oct.
Yuensang
16
#
water,
FESTIVE EFFECT
VARNISHED PAPER
Varnished paper can be removed from walls quite easily if hot soda water is applied first to soften the varish; then scrape with a broad, knife or scrub with a wire brush.
Now that the weather permits, For festive occasions tinsel Afterwards soak the paper with service, correspondence will be far-it is wholly satisfying to notice effects, moires, elastic tatteta, rich clean cold water as for ordinary warded by the first service available, these diversities, which give such brocades and lacquered laces will wallpaper, and it will: come away
pleasing tone to the ensemble. continue to be popular
without any difficulty.
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HONG KONG HEIGHTS
For the information of visitors. the following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:
ISLAND
Victoria Peak
32 Parker
Fest
1,823
Signal Station
1,774
$1,734
Mountain Lodge
1,725
The Eyrie
1,725
Peak Hotel
1,305
Taikoo Sanatorium. Mt. Davis
1,000
877
Bowen Road (Alterbeds)
297
MAINLAND
Feet
Taimoshan Kowloon Peak
2124
1,977
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