MAIL SCHEDULES
AIR MAIL
Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marselles via Saigon Singapore-Australia
Correspondence will be sccepted for transmission by these services. Extes and all particulars are shown in the schedules exhibited at the Post Offices. All letters etc., must be mark. ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in at the Post Office.
CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR MAIL
SERVICE FROM CANTON. Letters will be accepted at Hong
PRETTY HANDS IN
THE WINTER
"But They Must Be Cared For
www.cdc
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 13, 1936
Women's Page
Hands that are cared for pro-
or
Kong for transmission by the Chinese perly will remain just as smooth Domestic Air Mail Service from and white during the winter Canton to all plapor in China at the months as they were last summer.
unit. rate of $1.00 per half ounce
It is neglect alone which causes The charge is inclusive of the regular them to become red and rough. postage.
Remember that hand lotion cream should be applied after each; washing, not merely once or twice a day. Pick a greasless variety which leaves no oily residue on the inside of your gloves.
The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.O. are: Canton-Shanghai (via Swatow)—— Wednesdays and Saturdays, Eeg. 10
am Ordinary 10.30 am. Canton-und Fridays, Rev. 10 a.. nton-Kiungchow-Nanning Mon-
day's Ordinary
10.30
Canton-Langchow Saturdays, Reg.
When you have scrubbed hands and nails with lukewarm and a bland
(not
soap.
4.30 p.m Ordinary 5.00 pm hot) water Tuesdays and Thursdays Reg. 10 rinse, then dry carefully, pushing
cuticle back with a.m. Ordinary 10.30 am
the towel.: At Kowloon Central Post Office Smooth on hand lotion or cream, the mails will be closed hour be-and massage it in, using upward strokes from fingertips to wrists.
fore the above times.
from
on
The Money Order Office is open Be sure to put pleaty on wrists.
10 m. to p.m. except If, in spite of careful washing, Saturdays when it closes at 12 noot and diligent use of lotion, your and Sundays and holidays when hands seem to chap, use plain it is entirely closed.
INWARD MAILS.
Max.
FROM EUROPE
warm olive oil or a rich tissue! cream on them one night a week. Lavishly coat them with one or
the other, then wear clean cotton
15 gloves while you sleep.
19
201
13
Menestheus
Naldera (via Suez)
Pres. Jackson
FROM SHANGHAI
Mar.
Pres. Adams
13
Suwa Maru
Pres. Jackson Corfu
FROM USA.“
Mar.
Pres. Adams
13
"
Pres. Jacksou
20
Shantung
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Toyooka Maru
Kumsang
Sirdhana
Bangalore
Antilochus
Pres, Jefferson
Gen- Pershing Tjisondari
Kamo Maru
Mar.
Be sure your evening as well as tight. daytime gloves aren't too
After all, while a half size smaller
actually can make no difference
in the appearance of the size of your hands, it can mean the dif 201ference between uglicess and! 20 beauty. Tight ones often cause! redness for some time after they] are taken off.
FOR JAPAN
Max.
23
15
Pres. Jefferson
Lyons Maru
13 Gen. Pershing
17 Taiyo Maru
17 Ixion
18 Emp. of Asia
20 Xaldera
FOR MANILA
៩ឆ៩៨៨
Mar.
14
17
21
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Victoria
Tokushima Maru
Tsushima Maru
Javanese Prince
FROM MANILA
Tjinegara
Pres. Jackson
Mar.
13
14
14
19 Sewa Maru
Kumsang
FROM JAPAN
¡Corfu
Mar.
Pres. Adams
13
FOR.U.S.A.
Suwa Maru
13
Pres. Adams
Pres. Jefferson
20 Taiyo Marz 20 Ixion
Naldera
Malacca Maru
Alipore
Corfu
Pres. Jackson
FROM AUSTRALIA
Kamo Mar
OUTWARD MAILS
FOR EUROPE
Pres. Jefferson (via Siberia)
Mar.
19
Maz.
Closes: Reg. 4.15 pm. Ord: 5 p.m. Suwa Maru (Imperical Ser-
vice)
Mar.
13
Mar.
FASHION FULL OF GOOD IDEAS
White lilies, each outlined in black, flost with green lily pada ода rose background to form the lovely fabric chosen by Joy Hodges, the screen actress, for her newest evening gown The bodice is cleverly handled, two panels being crossed and tacked into a band circling the neck.
SHIFTING THE ROOM ABOUT
How To Rearrange Furniture
Knitted Evening Frocks
COLOURED BORDERS AND GAY MILLINERY
3
In London and Paris there is an influx of lovely fur, and so many Ways of suing it Silver fox frst must still be voted favourite, and costly though, the best examples are, one sees many capes with wide borders of fax Smart smaller coatees are made out of two or three of the animals: themselves. Coloured furs Exceptionally beautiful. Many are dyed to match some unusual col- our schemes..
A green lamb coat has a huge shawl-collar and cuffs of green fox A yellow lamb cape.
a buil-yellow fox, and so forth.
On The Riviera
are
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
ป
BONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
* PEAK HOTEL:
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE: PALACE HOTEL.
HOTELS,
LIMITED
in association with the Gruad Hotel den Wagons Lita, Peling
KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
HOUSEHOLD COAL
•
ANNOUNCING REDUCED PRICES
Peak District
$18.00
has a heavy border and stoles of
Bowen Road & lower level
$17.00
Pokfulam
$18.00
Repulse Bay
$23.00
Kowloon
$15.00
Shek-0 & Stanley
$23.00
On the Riviera the new · TaSp-, ¡berry-red shade is seen in dresses] and long coats trimmed with pale] tan or silver-grey foxes. They look charming in the sun. Smart slimly-tailored long coats in whitej and cocoa ermine are the latest! "chic" for the South.
Suits, too, are much worn. AI black broadtail short coat is worn over a white pleated tweed skirt. This has
white a waistcoat of ermine and a white felt hat with black petersham bows. -
The newest line seems
to be
tailored, even for evening. Some dining evening suits are actually kaitted. Sleek and becoming are the coats that are cut either quite | short or like a man's, swallow-j tailed.
Black
Anita Louise, the Warner Bros. screen star, is another who pre- fers navy for spring. Her first frock for the new season ia & shadow-striped navy crepe trim- med with pale blue pique at the neckline and sleeve cuts,
THE NEW COLOUR SCHEMES
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION
Head Office: TIENTSIN.
DODWELL & CO. LTD., Agents, Hong Kong.
Interior Decoration HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
New colour schemes are finding Black Is Smart as smart with silver their way into house decoration waistcoat and shoes, cap of silver, Mrs. Geoffrey Bowes-Lyon, mov- and a cape of ermine or of silvering from Redbourn House, Hert- Chestersquare, has fox. A lovely pale pazma violet fordshire, to Įshort coat and skirt in knitted silk chosen & colour scheme of pale silver grey for what she calls the had a long cape of white ermine
"bedroom flat" in their new home. and a halo of jewels.
This consists of bedrooms and London capes and pelisses of black velvet have a “monkish" air, a bathroom, and the grey scheme and reveal a bood lined with ais lightened by, discreet touches contrast in colour; or the whole with cotton pads which have soak-
It pays to rearrange and redis-cape may be preferred with a lin-of old rose and pale gold.
A Begency wall-paper of pale) tribute the household furniture, oc-ing of white or beige ermine. casionally. Not only may the gener- In Paris there is more black gold lover's knots on pale grey has
two
bedrooms.
One of the new satins in pale
over an
al effect of the various rooms be than ever in every chic collection been specially made for the
in the making, but 15 altered, but often a much more ap that is now 20 propriate combination will result there is a strong sense for colour
than that previously used. New developing. A pale mignonette grey makes curtains-with drap ed Regency-type pelmets--bed- ideas and refreshing hints on taffeta had a cape and sash, of;
Area spreads and upholstery for the home furnishings are obtained by brightest amber and red. 13 visiting the various model homes and yellow hem of petersham bor-beds, and the curtain 17 being exhibited from time to time dered а
frock of archway which cuts off the "Ast" picturesque 19 in department stores and on real white crepe. The contrasting co-ensional rose-pink velvet covered 20 triguing are some of the
excellenti colour combinations in bathroom means of using up sale remnants!) tilles. Even kitchen sinks have Hems and borders will play a big gene modernistic in the use of part in the mode One notices!
30
new ¡lour
hemline is an
from the rest of the house. An oc-
chair and cushion gives colour.
VIA SIBÉRIA Letters and postcoloured tiles in the drainboards the new woven tweed length that with coloured jewels, feathers, or cards for Europe and South America and backboards. It isn't necessary shows a mixed border of charm flowers. Curls and hats go
to have all new fixtures and furni-ling shadings in both coat and wards, and the longer neck is a ture, however, for different
are forwarded" #via „Siberia" if superscribed
REGISTERED and PARCEL
ar-skirt.
13 MAILS closed 15 minutes earlier Tangment of the old will bring sur-
than the time given above unless prísingly refreshing effects.
13
Closes: Reg. 4.30 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m. Gen. Pershing (via Siberia)_._14] Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 pame Taiyo Mara (viz Siberia) Emp. of Asia (via Vancouver)
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m.
Naldera (via Siberia)
Corfu (via Marseilles)
Closes: Reg. 945 am.
Ord. 10.30 am.
" .
FOR SHANGRAI
Mar.
Pres. Jefferson
Gen. Perthing Taiyo Maru Emp. of Asia Naiders
otherwise stated,and, where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m., registered and parcel mails are closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day. AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via Singapore, Bandoeny-Amsterdam vis Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Saf- gon. Correspondence for Europe
13
20
20
ed for transmission by these Services. Bates and all-particolars are shewo! in the schedules exhibited at the Gen- eral Post Calce and Kowloon Office.
All letters etc., must be marked Air Mail" and handed in at 'the Gen- eral Post Office. Unless superscribed for despatch by a specific air mail 13 service, correspondence will be for- 14 intermediate countrim will be accept-] 17 warded by the first secrice available.
POPEYE.
HEAVENS! WHAT ARE YOU
GOING TO DO?)
"It's A Pleasure.”
YOU'LL FIND OUTH
YOU'RE A BRUTIAN,
SPY
DARN YOU!
We
Recommend
HELENE CURTIS
The Glorious Self-Setting
PERMANENT
Marie's
BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. Tel Jn508 (1st Floor)
[HOLD HER,
MEN!
(HER)
up-
dominating factor. And On Linens *
Curls affect the silhouette, and Linens, too, feature the colour- the half-season's hats show a lot Jed border. A clever way of uti of back. Yet the outline of lising last year's pale shade of heads, hats, and hair is close linen is to add a belt and hem of fitting and clear. The same thing la more definite colour and per-applies to dresses. However haps have a little loose swagger formal or feminine they are they (coat made of the same. Turquoise follow these sleek, well-defined,
and brown, violet and red, all lines. provide striking contrasts.
Ramours that certain designers Another idea is to pull out are going all-Victorian, if not threads from a loosely woven can-j“Edwardian," full of frills and vas and plait it up with plenty of furbelows, are rife. The demand other colours.
for clear lines is always lurking These borders give an interest in the mind of the modern woman to plain fabrics and quiet shades and the conditions of life to-day
Millinery
maust be the consideration" of Evening caps and smart recepthose who cater for her require- tion millinery models are trimmed ments.
DONT
HECK NO! ILIKE WAR. WAR IS THE
DO YOU?KA-RAZIEST
THING
SOCIETY
DONATIONS URGENTLY REQUIRED
-
FOR THIS DESERVING CAUSE.
Send Your Contribution to
HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY, Daily Press Bldg., Ice House Street
?
IF YOU ARE WORRYING WHAT TO WRITE HOME ABOUT — DON'T
JUST POST A COPY OF THE
Overland China Mail
WHICH GIVES ÁLL THE LOCAL NEWS AND LOCAL EVENTS IN PICTURES.
PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AT SA WYNDHAM STREET.
TEL 20022
To-morrow."Give The Lady A Seat"
I WONER WHAT THAT MOB)
WAS HOWEN ABOUT? BLOW ME DOWN THEY JUS AINT NO PEACE ON EART FOR A DICTIPATOR
SOMEBODY'LL HAVE TO HOLD HER WHILE WE SHOOTER T
GO AHEAD
TLL HOLD
“POLLY” POLISHING CLOTHS
Extra Strong
AND
Durable
Yellow Dyed Soft Polishing Dusters. Suite able For Use With High- ly Polished Furniture, Motor Cars, Silver & Etc.
Size 25"
Price 55 cts. Each.
ONE OF..
Whiteaways
BASIC
VALUES
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.