MAIL SCHEDULES
AIR MAIL
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Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn, in the schedules exhibited
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
From the First day of December 1935 charges for telegrams will be collected at the rate of Dollar 0.95 to equal Gold Franc 100.
The Hoar Kovernment Radio Tele- graph Service announces that from next Monday charges for telegrams will be collected at the rate of Dollar 1:05 to equal Gold Frane 100
XLT Telegrams conveying Christ- nas and New Year Greetings will be Radia accepted by the Government
Office for transmission via Radio dur ing the period from 14th December 1935 to 6thanuary 1936, both dates inclusive. 27
(a) The charge for telegrams to places in China will be based
on ONE FOURTH of the ordin- ary rate and to other places n ONE THIRD of the ordinary rate.
(b) The minimum charge for all
places will be for ten words. Further particulars may be obtain. ed on application to the Radio Office.
* BROADCASTING RECEIVING
LICENCES, 1936
All Existing Licences expire on 31st December, 1933.
New Licences for 1936 will be available at the Government Fadio Oce, P. & 0. Büilding, as from 1st January, 1936 and will be issued from 10 am to 4 pm, against the receipt of a remittance of $10.
Applications may be made
(a) personally.
(b) by messenger_
(c) by post.
It is essential under (c) and pre- ferable under (a) and (b) that "ap- plications should be accompanied by crossed cheque payable to Kong Government.
Hong
The new licence
will then be sent by post-or-messeng- er as soon
-Shimmering-gold cloth becomes a stunning formal own for beautiful Marguerite Churchill, screca actress, when formed into the draped silhouette NOW-80- popular. The front section is splashed with gold____ and jewelled beads.
green
as it is ready. Where FOR STRAITS, AND INDIA
actual cash is tendered a new licence should be recieved in exchange before, leaving the Licensing Office.
renewal the old, In the case of Ficence should be returned with the p
application.
INWARD MAILS,
Jan
-THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, JANIJART 6, 1936
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NEW IDEAS FOR BOUQUETS
Posy Showers And Sheaves
MUCH INFLUENCED BY FASHIONS
Bouquets for brides are --VERT much influenced to-day · by fashion. The old type bouquet which smothered the wedding dress, and over which the bride's face could just be seen, has “hap- pily been succeeded by new de- signs which serve to show off the beauty of the flowers themselves in such a way that their arrange. ment gets them off without giving
a "massed" impression..
A bouquet show is a novelty in ¡London fashion displays, but stone
I attended in the West End recent-
lly I saw some of the latest ideas
by Robert Green, which have been devised for winter weldings.
One is the posy shower. bou- quet; another is the sheaf shower for two-way shest.
Lace-Like Blossoms
The former shows gardenias and lilies of the valley arranged in a large and loosely set Victorian posy, with tapering lace-like blos- soms of the lilies falling like foral diamonds from the whiteness of the posy's centre. White tulle sofetly frilled makes a frame for the whole, and a filmy background for the pendant-flower "drops.”.
The sheaf shower is carried on the arm, and it consists of sm
A quaintly styled evening en semble of warp print moire taf- feta, with tiny gold flowers spray- ed against its magenta-coloured background. The crushed square neckline of the dress is set with' quaint bows at the corners, front and back, Glenda Farrell, screen comediane, is the model
ordinary sheaf of blossoms with More Clothes
other blooms placed on the "end" of it, so as to give a larger effect.
yet one which stands to the side
and not in front of its owner's frock.
I saw one of these in golden chrysanthemums and croton foli-) |age, the lovely bronze golden rich- ness of which threw up the waxen
Perseus
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FOR MANILA
Jan.
Tiibacak
FROM EUROPË
Pres. Cleveland Taiping
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FOE SHANGHAI
yellow of the big blooms bezati- fully.
Patroclus
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Asama Maru Chitral
FROM SHANGHAI
Marechal Joffre
Jan
Pres. Cleveland
FOR JAPAN
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Taiyo Maru
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Pres. Jefferson
Andre Lebon
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Jan.
FROM STRAITS & ENDIA
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Patroclus
FOR US.A.
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Sirdana
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Sirdhana
Philoctetes
And Curves
BOYISH FIGURE "IS OUT"
THE IDEAL SPECIMEN
More clothes-more curves
SMART WOMEN
TONE DOWN·
THEIR MAKE-UP
Weird Shades Now
Discarded
NATIONAL COLOUR FAVOURED
New York society women seen. lanching in smart restaurants these days use less makeup and more natural looking nail polish |than they did a season agu. Cheeks are, pink, to be sure, but they don't look too gred and painted. Nails are beautifully manicured and, in most instances, covered with pale red or 'shell pink polish instead of weird shades of orange and deep scarlet.
One tall, dignified luncheon guest on the Starlight Boof at the Waldorf-Astoria wore shell pink polish with an iridescent finish. The effect can be achieved by put- ting on a coat of pink and cover- ing it with a thin coat of quite colourless mother-of-pearl. The subtle
her combination made handa look pale and graceful.
This same woman's cheeks were a pale rose colour that suited beautifully her fair skin and tawny brown hair. Her lips were bright with lipstick that somehow seemed to harmonize with her na- tural colouring and with her) cheeks as well. Her long lashes seemed bright and shining." Un- doubtedly she had used the new! blue-violet_mascara which makes lashes glitter and glisten in the sunshine and..., under artificial
In the Terrace Room. at the Plaza three young tea guests {showed "great individuality," "in makeup. The blonde wore rose lipstick, rouge and nail polish and carried a black suede bag with large fastener Ornament that. matched the rose. Maybe she didn't plan it, but the effect was charming
The brunette, in a bright red
A bride's posy shower of white seems the rale for the "Perfect hat, had on rouge and nail polish
8 lilies of the valley had silver Miss 1936" will weigh about 8st that harmonized with it and the
10 tissue lily petals forming the 6lbs-and "curves" will be the third girl, a lighter brunette, wore
"shower." 11 graceful
intermixed keynote of her figure.
no polish, no rouge and a gend with single real lily of the valley
This is the opinion of Mr. Harry deal of lipstick She was pow- "bell" blossomIS.
S. Kaufman, one of New York's dered, of course, and her ringlet | greatest experts on the subject coiffure was beautifully done to He has to pick the girls for the flatter her face and complement "Ziegfeld" chorus.
Mauve Orchids
An American design was shown too. This is as popular with Eng- list brides as it is with those.
Young women, he says are be
across the Atlantic. It consists coming more and more beautiful.
6 of three fine mauve orchids as a They have ceased to "thwart na-}
ture." 10 centrepiece, with stephanotis and
lily of the valley framing them.
Softly frilled tulle makes a gos—||
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post cards for Europe and South America
FROM USA-
Jan
Pres. Cleveland Pres. Jeferson
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superscribed.
REGISTERED
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her tricorne hat with a black veil.
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Mr. Kaufman gave this as the specification of a 1936 "Ziegfeld”
BLUE NOON
· HOPS, J'OUVRES
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samer background, and white silk girl
ows the the whole bouquet with "Five foot five inches in height, 8 st. 6 lbs. to 8 st. 12 lbs. in
DAINTY SANDWICHES
has a place in many a graceful artistry. White heather weight, 17 to 23 years of age, and BLUE MOON SPREADS
bride's
(a most important festure) in posy, despite modern broadmind-walking she will be far superior edness about superstition!
to the girls of Ziegfeld's time.”
The boyish figure is definitely
and PARCEL Another bouquet showed lilies of
MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier the valley massed in a big loose out The girls, said Mr. Kauf than the time given above „zzless otherwise stated, and where mail" are posy, with white tulle "leaves."
7advertised to close at or before 9
Silver Grazer
Mulla of flowers are fashionable. į
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·ATE MAIL-Imperial Airways via] One of silver gauze, daintily frill- Singapore, Bandoung-Amsterdam vixed, had a spray of white roses Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai-arranged across it, backed with gon Correspondence for Europe and j
FROM MANILA
Jan.
13 ed for transmission by these Service fronds of lily of the valley.
Rates and all particulars are shewn A fan of palest pink tulle bore
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Jan.
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LIKE MEN'S SHIRTS
Blouses cut Hike men's shirts
Four Flavours-American, Pimiento, Camembrie, Roquefort plan. Obtainable At THE DAIRY FARM `ICE & COLD
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in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-a delicate cluster of American are perfect with your tailored eral Post Office and Kowloon Ofice. "Beauty" roses, and on one side tweeds. Made of regular men's)'] «; All letters etc, must be marked “By of the fan was a real butterfly.
these are shirting materials, Air Mail" and, handed in at the Gen- Gardenia chaplets and corcziets finished with nest buttonholes, eral Post Office. Unless-superscribed fat
With a for despatch by a spectic, air maniere very much in vogue now. Also, collars and pockets. service, correspondence will be for-for bridesmaids, flower bracelets brown tweed suit, a yellow cotton intermediate countries will be accept of lily of the valley, forget-me-shirt with pleated bosom would be warded by the first service available, nots byzo or violets.
nice.........With a black snit, by a E. MY rose coloured cotton or silk shirt
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