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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1936
Women's Tages
BABY'S FIRST
BIRTHDAY
Selecting The Right Present
It is an awkward moment for Canton to all places in China at the parents when visitors enter the rate of $1.00
wait. nursery with
per half ounce
a present
Most The charge is inclusive of the regular people find it difficult enough to postage.
BROADCASTING RECEIVING LICENCES; 1936
AS
All Existing Licenses expire on 31st December, 1935.
receive a gift graciously without embarrassing dumbness or over- profuse, conventional phraseŞ.
When they have to receive it] on behalf of their offspring and coax a suitable response from the child at the same time the sima- tion may become almost unman-
New Licences for 1636 will be available at the Government Radic Office, P. & O. Building, as from itt January, 1936 and will be issued from ageable.
The younger the child
10 a.m. to 4 pm. against the receipt the more awkward the predics-
of a remittance of $10.
Applications, may be made:-
(a) personally.
(b) by messenger,
(e) by post
ment. A baby's response to a new toy is incalculable. With hack he may show some Interest
in one that a visitor is hopefully It is essential under (c) and pre-wrapping and dangling in front ferable under (1) and (b) that ay of him
the
But it is much more plications should be accompanied by likely that he will dive for the crossed cheque payable to Hong rustling paper or match at Keng Geverniment. The new licence tangles of string, while he ignores will then be sent by post or messen the proffered toy. er 35 300m. as it is ready.
Where
actual cash is bendered a new licence. Even worse, if the Teddy bear should be recieved in exchange before is too big or the woolly animal in leaving the Licensing Office.
In the case of renewal the ald
some way unwelcome to the child
licence should be returned with the mind, he may begin to whimper application
INWARD MAILS.
FROM SHANGHAI
Feb.
FROM EUROPE
Rawalpindi (vix Suez)
Feb.
$
Pres, Taft
Calchas
Chitral
Pres. McKinley
Tyndareas
Suisang
Tüawa
Diomed
Tencer
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Feb.
apprehensively, and the squeaks which parent or visitor produce from it in order to reassure and interest him may only serve to confirm his tears.
young to express
A child's first birthday is often the occasion for such predica- iments. Friends and relatives. arrive with慾 generons gifts to celebrate a frst anniversary. The i child is too more than monosyllabic thanks, but he is old enough to show his likes ard. dislikes in no uncertain E fashion. The direction of his in- 4terests is obvious to visitor, how- ever frantically mother dances unwanted presents before him. It is almost axiomatic that the more expensive the toy is the less
10
FROM USA.
Feb.
Pres. Taft
Pres. McKinley
FROM MANILA
Feb.
Greisert Tanda
·FROM JAPAN
Feb.
Pres. aft
Chitral
Pres. McKinley
Jeypore
7 interest the baby will take in it.
Kuffs are slowly coming hack to the prominence they once en- joyed, Astrid Allwys, the screen actress, uses this - extra large one to go with her Safari brown sealskin coat, which is short in the new approved mode.
Care Of The Hair
EXCESS GREASE WILL
DO HARM
THE akin secretes natural
resse; all over the surface
of the body are to be found little glands or pockets from which the grease exudes. These Frease slands are very númerous around the hair, so that the hair is sup plied with
ready-made
*
"pomade.* Two defects or skin diseases may therefore arise in
connection with the grease of the shoulders must be protected by a
This simple towel skin; the skin may be too greasy
procedure
or it may be not greasy enough. may cure spots on the shoulders. The scalp, for instance, may be The other defect, too little grease, too olly; this makes the roots of may be cured by the judicious the hairs unhealthy and the hair: Pplication of a small amount of If the ointment is Now the common
falls
oat.
Inbricant.
remedy of the unwise is to buy applied too liberally the excess of some greasy preparation, which grease will only do hamme fis "smared all
over the affected ares, thus adding fuel to the fire, The proper way to remove the ex- cess of grease is to wash the head thoroughly. If a shampoo powder is used, or any other kind of soap, the second part of the..perfor [mance, the rinsing with water, must be continued until every {trace of soap has been removed. The scurf that collects is often due to the presence of too much | grease. led that the scurf falling from the scalp on to the neck and shoulders may give rise to spots on those parts.
It must not be overlook-
In brushing the hair the
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but our readers are warned to look out for occasional
phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and zitho.
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FROM AUSTRALIA
OUTWARD MAILS
Feb.
FOR EUROPE
Feb.
Actenor (viz · Siberia)
Mamla Maru (Singapore-
Australian Service)
Chichid Mara (via San
Francisco)
ה
Closes: Beg. 6 pan. Ord. 8.30 a.m.
Rawalpindi (via Siberia)
Chenonceaux (via Siberia)
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Manila Maru
Heiyo Maru
Calchas
Yan Heatst
FOR JAPAN
Chichibu Maru Rawalpindi Chenonceaux
FOR U.S.A
Heiyo Maru Chičkīvu Marm
FOB SHANGHAI
Antenor Chichibu Marn Rawalpindi ChenonceauT
Pres: Taft
FOR MANILA
Feb.
45
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Feb.
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Feb.
BEAUTY CULTURE
The Use Of A · Hot Bath
(By GLADYS GLAD)
refreshed.
And she considers a| hot bath really far more cooling on a torrid Summer day than a cold shower or plunge.
Perhaps that's one of the rea- That charming cinema siren.
talented Sette al- Bette Davis, whose popolarity in-sons why the creases with each picture that is ways appears so crisply cool and released by her studio executives, fresh even on the hottest of Sum- ļis an ardent bath fan. Bette farmer days. What most gails think prefers a bath to a shower, she of first when they feel hot is a But-like Bette, I She likes to loll in the water until she feels thoroughly think that a hot bath followed by an alcohol rab, is infinitely more cooling and refreshing. Cold VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-baths are stimulating and ener cards for Europe and South America are forwarded is Siberis" gizing, and therefore are likely to increase, rather than retard. superscribed
PARCEL perspiration. Hot baths have a MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier soothing, relaxing effect on than the time given shove unless body, however. And an alcohol otherwise stated and where mails are
claims.
REGISTERED and
cold shower.
the
advertised to close at or before grab after such a bath freshers am, registered and parcel mails are the body no end closed at 5 pm. on the previous day.)
Bathing for Coolness
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via H you begin to feel hot, sticky
7 Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam island tired at any time during the 8 Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles vin Sal-
gon. Correspondence for Europe and day, follow Bette's example. Fill ed for transmission by these Services. your bathtub with
clear, warko.
3 Rates and all particulars are shewn water and relax your body in it
in the schedules exhibited at the Gen for a few minutes. Then, using
eral Post Office' and Kawloon OSce.
All letters etc., must be marked “By
a mild soap, cleanse your entire
Air Mail" and handed in at the Gen- body.
You'll need a soap, of
remove any
4 eral Post Ovice. Unless superscribed course, to
foz despatch by a specifc air maû and salts
dirt, oil
of perspiration from
8 service, correspondence will be for your skin Then rinse yurself
intermediate countries will be accept-well in clear, warded by the first service available.
warm water, and gently pat yur skin dry.
SERVED ERASE
MODERN STEEL FURNITURE
DURABLE BEDSTEADS Size From 3 to 5' Wide
From $12.00 to $35.00
GRACEFUL IN STYLE STURDY IN CONSTRUCTION
ARTISTIC IN FINISH.
BABY COTS From $18.00 To $22.00
NGAI WAH STEEL & IRON WORKS
30. JOHNSTON ROAD, WANCHAL
HORIZONTAL", 4-Remove the skin 5.Musical-ūdrasta --
· 10-Uses needle, and
thread-
14-East longitude
(abbr)
15-Slender shaft with pointed head 16-Surface *77-Rest
*2-Teazers.
20-Earth (Fr.)
22-Policeman (slang) 23-Relieves.
24 Diner
25-LET
Inhale and exhale
30-Turk
21-Streets (abbr.) 34-Record
35-Magistrate of
Cancient Rome 37-Combining form.
Flesh 38–Altar. end ́of a'
church am Se 3-Feminine sUZIK.
40-To test (300%)
41-Long grass stom 42-Penetrate
167
HORIZONTAL (Cont.)
| 45-Eagle
46-Fragment of cloth [47-Having feathers |-49-Hinder
50-A buffalo 51-Seizes with the
al nu teeth
54-To be able 65-Narrates
·5%-Charmed.
2-Part of a plant 33-Stalk
-64-Appearing as if
gnated
65 Large lice +66-Digīts
67-Compact 68-Canvas shelter
VERTICAL
1A torinentyrkta 2-To the sheltered
side
Z-Houri
4-Supplicated 5 grain
8-PLEY
forward
VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Existed 13-Sauce 13-Want 123_Consume 125 Definite article. 126-Fermale deer (27-Loud. brazen sound
128-More mature
29 Prussian city
(Dial. Var.)
| 30–Drowsiness
31-Serve (Dial. Eng.),
32-Give plansure to a
|35–Interest (abbr). 37-Spinning organ of
piders
|42-Heed:
43-Residence (abbr.)
¡48-Used in nesation
49-Rays 50-English title 51-Choicest 52-1
ch-Large plant 15% Restore to health !56-Wisdom
57-Part of the body 65-Let stand (Prim) - |30-Spread loosely for
deying, as grass |11-Greek god of love |61-Scotch river «
10–Chief of evil spirits
solution of the above with a mino
in to-morrow's issue,
Bringing Up Father
MOTHER-OCAST: SOLITUANIC IT
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GOING ARSUND · "THE COMPLAING ABOUT":
FERENT TENANTS IN.
BULL.CNS
1 DO NOT-FWG SOCIAL PEOPLE INTENO-TO-MAIN- TAN A HIGH STANDA
WE MUST WEED OUT T-6
THIS PE
VEN-
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