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MAIL SCHEDULES
AIR MAIL.
Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marseilles viz Saigon Singapore-Australia
Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn in the the Post schedules exhibited Offices. Al letters etc. must be mark ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in at the Post Office.
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CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR MAIL.
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THE CHINA MAIL. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936
Women's Tage
FURS TO COST Black Ascot Planned
MORE
A New Trend In Fashion
SERVICE FROM CANTON. Letters will be accepted at Hong
Prices of furs are being increas- Kong for transmission by the Chinese
ed by from five to 30 per cent. Domestic Air Mail Service from Canton to all places in China at the owing to the increase in demand! rate of $1.00 per half once unit at a time of reduced production. The charge is inclusive of the regular Mink. one of the most expensive. postage.
The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.D. are:
and musquash, one of the cheaper! fura, are those chiefy affected.
Mr. Bernard Brunton president
National Fur of British
Week. Canton-Shanghai (via Swatow)-stated recently that supplies were Wednesdays and Saturdays, Beg, smaller for two reasons: America's greatly increased fondness for 10 am. Ordinary 10.30 am. Canton-Kingchow-Nanning Mon-furs and a falling off in the catch. days and Fridays, Eeg. 10 due to the animal cycle of produc- Ordinary 10.30 .. nton-Langchow-Saturdays, Beg tivity and decline.
4.30 pm
5.00 p. Ordinary
Tuesdays and Thursdays Rag. 10
a. Ordinary 10.30 am.
Markets Restricted
"Although several of the Euro-1
markets are restricted-
pean
At Kowloon Central Post Office the mails will be closed 4 hour beItaly. for instance, is out of it fore the above times.
altogether-the
demand has
rises," he added. "Spain and} South America are coming intoj The Money Order Office is open: the market in a much bigger way. from 10 am to 4 pm. except on Saturdays when it clones at 12 noon and they have more than made up
and on Sundays and holidays when for the loss of trade elsewhere. it is entirely closed.
INWARD MAILS."
FROM EUROPE
Automedon (Air Mail ex Im
périal Service)
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FROM U.S.A.
"Mink has always been very popular in America, and supplies jare short. The musquash catch.;
The too, is short this year. Hudson's Bay Company have pra-
a few where duced only
Mar.
they
23 usually supply thousands.
in- "I do not expect a great jerease of skunk prices at the Lon-
don fur auctions now
Tess."
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Mar.
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Emp. of Canada
Pres. Lincoln
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Scharnhorst.
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Pres. Harrison
Emp. of Canada
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Victoria
Pres Lincoln
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FROM JAPAN
Noto Maru Toyama Maru
Montevideo Maru Gen. Sherman bed Fushimi Maru Atsuta Maru
Pres Harrison
•Emp
of Canada
Chichibu Maru Sagato Maru Pres. Lincoln
Nankin
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
27 Montevideo Maru
Scharnhorst
Fushimi Mara
Pres. Coolidge
Automedon
Emp. of Britain Hakusan Maru
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FOR JAPAN
Mar.
Pres. Coolidge
Mar.
Hakusan Mari
FOR AUSTRALIA
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Atsuta Maru
FOR MANILA
Emp. of Canada
Scharnhorst
20 Atsuta Maru
Mari
Apr.
Kellore
FOR U.S.A
Mar.
Pres. Coolidge
Apr.
Hawaii Maru
FROM MANILA
Mar.
Tjisaroca
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Apr.
Nellore
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Mar.
Acúmedon
2
23 superscribed.
Van Heutaz
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and REGISTERED
Hakusan Mara
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Shirala
Aeneas
OUTWARD MAILS
FOR EUROPE
When dinner becomes formal and Milady desires the ultimate chooses dress correct
she this pale blue something like materal, featuring braided trim- mings and a real flower corsage. Cecilia Parker, the screen actress;
is the model.
SPRING SUIT NOW
Midsummer Gowns Of Black Organdie
Behind the scenes of the. Lon-
BABY LIKES SOFT WATER
Buttermilk Soap Recommended
den fashion world preparations Baby likes extremely soft water are now being made for a black for washing his face, and a little Ascot Dressmakers are recall of that old-world favourite, elder- ing the fact that the black Ascot flower water. is just what
be
of 1910, when the Court, was in wants. mourning for King Edward VII, was most distinguished looking. from the dress point of view.
Thousands of yards of wonder- (according to the directions ful materials are being evolved to the bottle) added to the water. give novelty and variation to the black gowns and accessories
A bottle of the water should be kept in every nursery, and a dash
Gold Cup Day.
Month of Displays
THE
HONG KONG
PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:
PEAK HOTEL:
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping
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DAILY CROSS-WORD
PUZZLE
Baby's soap is of the greatest
of importance; an oatmeal or a but termilk one is excellent, as either jis so soothing for his tender skin Powder for Baby is very im- be extremely
Many of these fabrics
are
stamped with wax cut-out in
all
kinds of designs from spots and portant. It must stars to broken stripes.
fine, so if it is prepared at home.
Black organdie stamped with it must be passed through a piece cobbler's of fine white muslin, which must something similar to
to remove "dress," then well dried.
wax is now finding its way to the be washed first West End workroom to be made up into midsummer gowns for the Taffeta coming dress displays.
is being stamped out in the same
way.
те
A Useful Recipe
the
A useful one can be made up Оде from the following recipe: Mannequins
cultivating! ounce of kalolia, one drachm of curves for the parades. Now that orris root, five grains of boracie materials are again cut on the acid powder, and oae drachm of straight, curves are returning to starch. fashion.
HOW CORSETS HAVE la, then dusted into the remainder
CHANGED
Some Relics Of The Past Age
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The boracic acid must be blend- led with two drachms of the kalo-
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of the kalolin, and the mass well stirred
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The starch and the orris root must be added quite gradually to the bulk of the powder, and well blended into it.
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If this powder
is made in a
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HORIZONTAL (Cont) 40-Hzulad
50-Puts up stakes
Corsels have gone through gigantic revolution, but the tron-mortar, the pestle must be used ble is lots of womer have not kept with a very light hand; it is com lup with these changing fashion plete blending that is required, not jevents. That funny old idea of a pressure.
bundle of "stays" and unsightly canvas belongs with the hop
skirt era.
We are almost Grecian in our If you don't feel like baying a way of thinking about the body in 23 printed silk or sheer woollen dress these modern times, and after all these eras the normal feminine to freshen up your winter ward-gure, instead of being abnormal- robe, why not consider suits? Youly distorted, is the ideal. That, tremendous con- can get a navy blue, gray, brown along with a
|sciousness of physical beauty. or black one right now, wear it have simply annihilated the Vic- under your fur coat and, later on,torian heritage of what a "lady
26 with a topcoat. Gray probably willshould wear underneath her
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be the most important suit colour frock." The modern woman, fully expressing to-day's-sophistication
this spring. Men's wear fabrics and fashiot ideals, is molded like are best.. One interesting modellan alabaster statue, supple as an looks very much like a director's athlete and as lovely to see 28/suit.
it includes a slim skirt of chalk with gray black worsted Istripes and 3
Foundation Garments From the moment moderns re- nipped-in-at-placed an attitude of "harness" ith matter of corseting, things VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-the-waist jacket with man-tailored for one of luxurious clothing in
changed rapidly. It did jabsurd to have, fragile silk and lace undies, all clinging and fitted and luxurious, and to mix in with them some unlovely affair known
cards for Europe and South America lapels and cuffs.
are forwarded via Siberia" if sol
PARCEL
27 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier
than the time given above less
31 otherwise stated,and where mails are
cel mais are
2nd parcel
COLOURED SPONGES
women
seem
in
After the mixing, the made pow- der should be passed through the muslin, and then again wel!
stirred.
For Skin Trouble!
HORIZONTAL
1-A swindle 5-Box
9-Repairs with needie 52-Comfort
and thread
10-Walke in water
12-BII of fare 13-Ascenda
*S-Adult males 16-Une needle and
thread
18 Series
19is no manner 21-One time 23-Rescued
25 Greater in amount 25-Sheer
28-Moved rapidly. 29_Trouble#_________ 30-Steamship (abbr)
11-Youth 33-Obtained,
34-A thoroughfare.
(abbr.) 35-Abides
36-And (Lat.) 38-Noise
9.Recent. 41-Egyptian god 43-The nostrils 45-Welting fuld 47-Cut
53-Stamp (abbr.) 154-Grain container
|55-Affirmative· reply
67-The (Fr.) 58-Rate of motion 60-Dogma
62-Satisfied [04-Fruit of the pine
65-Darnel
60-in
VERTICAL
S-Dietant
2-Sciences 3-Part of the limbs 4-Plural suffix
B-A point of compass
(abbr.)
134
41 142
148
VERTICAL (Cont.) 75-Cryptogamous plant 17-Confict
18-Japanese coin
20-Examine
22-A sh 124-Herola
25–inzzne
27-City in France 29-Boxes
32-Lair
33-FOW!
36-Terminates
37-Small pastry (pl.) |38-Condensed moisture
43-Very small 41-To set again 42-Greek god of war |45–Harvests...............
45-Tavern 146–Instrument for
operating a lock 42-Valleys
50-Helper
-Removed the skin 191-A bristle (Surg)
7-Entrance to a mine 54 Greek letter
8-Residence (abbr.)
Frisk
11-A title (Sp)
12-A coin (pl.)
56-Dispatched
59 Consume 61-Combining (m.
New
14-inflamed places on (53-Prefix. From
the skin
[64-One hundred one
The solution of the above with a new ores-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue.
For all kinds of skin complaints as well as skin injuries She-ko is unsurpassed. Soothing, cooling, an tiseptic, it is of the utmost valne 10r the earstive treatment of ecze ma, ringworm, wet and dry sores, as a "corset." In fact, this right-itch, pimples and boils.
Also for cuts, burns, scalds, canabout-face point of view has so 31 advertised to close at or before 91 Culoured sponges which
TAFFETA USED FOR SUITS am, registered and closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day-now be obtained to match bath-apped over that some of the most bruises, scratches, insect bites and stings, piles, cold sores, chapped
Taffeta is used to fashion some AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via room colour schemes are rather exquisitely costumed
The delightful via
fragrance and
of the smartest tailored suits for Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam
than this one foundation garment beneficial effect. of She-ko renders
One particularly pretty Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai-expensive, but they will wear in-the world to-day wear little else lips and hands, and sunburn.
the spring. it the ideal preservative for and keep free 22 gon. Correspondence for Europe and definitely
-and this garment itself is really
models, or an imported taffet that skin. Pres. Coolidge (via Siberia).
ed for transmission by these Services-sliminess if they are occasionally something to behold. This is the
Obtainable at chemists, or from has a rather dull surface, includes Montevideo Maru (Imperial
23 Rates and all particulars are shown
the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451.
a slim skirt with one pleat at the Service)
thick Closes: Reg. 1 pm. Ord 130 p.m. in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-soaked in water containing a few way it should be, and definitely is.
Foundation garments of
Kiangse Road, Shanghai, 70 cents
front, a man-tailored jacket with eral Post Office and Kowloon Office.
" drops
of ammonia., Á sponge (Air. Orient
pink satin, or tailored net, or pat-
per package; post free.
notched lapels and smoothly fitted! waistline, and a soft white blouse of mousseline de soie. The blɔuse has a jabot of self material at the front.
Mar
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Pres.
Doamer
24 All letters etc., must be marked
Closes: Reg. 10 am. Ord. 18.30
am.
+
24 eral Post Office. Unless superscribed
from
Service)
Automedon Ajax (via Marseilles) ......
Closes: Beg. 8:45 am. Ord: 9.30a.m. service, correspondence will be for-only more ammonia must be used are a matter of fact, not even a 26 intermediate countries will be accept and the sponge left to soak_for_luxury, and, best of all, not even Scharnhorst (via Marsciles)
warded by the first service available.
Air Mail" and handed in at the Gea which has already become slimy terned lace, or artistically treated
25 for despatch by a specific air mail should be treated in the same way, lastex and a dozen other things
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m. Fushimi Maru
"
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forty-eight hours.
Junusually expensive.
SHE-KO
THE SKI
SATURDAY'S SOLUTION
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Bringing Up Father
COULD GO OUT F HG 60T BACK" BSFORS DID-1 STAYED OUT AN HOUR LATER THAN I EXPECTED AND HE'S NOT AT HOME “YET-
ILL STAY UP UNTI HE COMES HOME IF HAVE TO SKUP.
ALL NIGHT-
WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY COMING IN AT THIS HOUR? SHUT UP!! WHERE HAVE "YOU BEEN? SHUT UP! YOU QUSHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF-SHUT UP! WHAT'D DALISHTER THINK IF SHE SAW YOU COMING IN AD. THIS HOUR?
OH-HELLO, DAD AND-MOT UD LATE SEE-1 HAD GRAND
VENING-
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· 1936. King *ximum Syahots, Inc. Grac·Benin sights
THE LAST WEEK OF OUR SPRING SALE-
“LANDERS" TALCUM POWDER
5 Tins for $1.00 CHARMAINE BATH SOAP
6 Tablets in Box $1.75 Box
4711 EAU DE COLOGNE BATH SOAP-
Boxes of 6 Tablets for $3.00
FLORAL TOILET SOAP
8 Tablets in Box for $1.25 Box
Whiteaway, Laidlaw & Co., Ltd.
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