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MAIL SCHEDULES
AIR MAIL
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Correspondence will be accepted for transmisiba by these services. “Rates and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited at the Post Office. All lettera eto, must be mark ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in at the Post Office.
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The Money Order Office is from 10 am to 4 pm. except Saturdays when it closes at, 12 noon and on Sundays and boliday», when it is entirely closed
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1936
Women's Page:
CREATIONS IN CRETONNE
Use In A Single Strip
When planning new cretonnes this season. remember that some Telegrams conveying Baster Greet- of the most decorative effects are ings and bearing the paid service to be gained by combining pattern. indication XL will be accepted ad cotton with one in self-colour by the Hong Kong Government Radio Office for transmission viz Eadio sa matching the hack ground.
The
the places montioned below during fact that the average cretonne is the period from 6th to Bata Apill thirty "inches wide aids in work- 1936, both dates inclusive.
Philippine lalanda Newfoundland
United States
Great Britain Hawanan Islands: Gargany- Canada.
ing out happy alliances, this being
too narrow for a single width to
be used for any but the tiniest of windows
A width and a half is usually The charge for this class, of tele- grams will be based on One Third of the least possible, but two
Rare needed. There the ordinary rate with a minimum more generally
Further would have to be joins in any! charge the two words. particulate may be obtained un apfease, so why not join up with the plication to the Radio Office.
EASTER HOLIDAYS
effective plain material?
Many designs in cretonnes gain
in effect when used in a single
On Monday, April 13, the Goberalstrip, bordered with one without! Post Office and Kondoon Central Post pattern. For example, those print- Office will be open from 19 am, to 11ed with baskets of flowers, little am. and the other Post Offices from
"toile de Jouy" scenes, and bold 8 am to 9 m
There will be one collection from Chinese motifs, actually lose when -the pillar boxes and one delivery of the "repeat" comes in double line. ordinary torres ndbote each day at When making hangings, there- on Sundays. Que delivery of Begisture, use the patterned material tered correspondence at 11 am as centre piece, with a frame in Friday Apr-K0; »- 920 2.00 pa Saturday April 11; and at 10 am on self colour. Monday Apell 12
The Money Order Ofice will entirely closed during the Bolidays
be
This will have to be
Beauty For The Busy Woman
Aid To Buoyancy
And Balance
Observe any dog or horse or cat while it is resting or rolling
its body after activity which has immediate energy. used up its writes a correspondent. How com-{ pletely and beautifully it lets it-i self go, so that every muscle and nerve is slack and the limbs and tension. neck are relieved of all
And then ask how many men or women in your 'scquaintance ever come near such achievement.even when they are supposed to be rest- ing. When actually in bed and disposing themselves to sleep-peo- pie of the nervous and worrying to relax. sort are often unable Hence sleeplessness or incomplete restoration of the tissues during sleep, One hour of sleep with a worth relaxed body and mind is many with tied up" nerves and muscles on the stretch reliving the day's labours or anticipating those) of the next day
An Occasional Rest Women especially, having a neatly mitred at the lower corners,
multiplicity of details to cope with but the upper edge need not have
wadded and quilted, to give extra in the organisation of each day, a border.
Another method of combining weight and a better "hang," and need to relax at frequent intervals plain and patterned material is to the quilting may be a rectangular if they are to retain their balance introduce the latter only as a broad criss-cross, or carried out in "wave- and buoyancy. I have always held band at the base. This may be lengths" or a succession of curves. that the ideal republic would fur-
Problem Of The Hostess
PART OF THE DRESS SCHEME
Handkerchiefs Play
Big Role...
Handkerchiefs are growing In importance in the fashion scheme. nish all offices and business partments with a rest-room con- The vogue is to make the handker taining several not-too-soft couches chief accesssory the safe colour
other upon which clerical and
de-
thereby
workers could at reasonable in-as a suit, but to bave the initials! tervals throw themselves down for in colour contrast, writes a Paris la few minutes. Not merely their correspondent. "How Much Shall I
If the guests stay very late, there health and looks would Give Them ?”
should be a cup of soup for them as they leave and if they stay How much shall I give them?|later still a breakfast of eggs and 14 This is the question that every bacon, or kippers and coffee.
hostess asks herself when she is) To make sandwiches, Bow catering for a party. It depends, (quarters sandwich loaf and a pound of course, on the kind of party of batter for sandwiches for thirty and the time it begins. Also how people. A fairly safe guide is to 14 long it will go on. For a dance allow two sandwiches per head for
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14 there must be plenty to drink, and a light refreshment kind of party. also more refreshments if there For a dance there should be at is to be a running buffet than if least, four sandwiches each, or twoj there is a set interval for supper. aandwiches, a patty and a stuffed
Late Or Early
roll. Some people will eat more. and others less, but it is well to
Friends who come is for games be on the safe side and add a from, say, 9 o'clock to 11 or 12. few extra after you have made | I do not require more than a few
your calculations. 17 sandwiches and coffee
17 other beverage. If they are stay- 17]ing later there must be patties or
rolls as well as sandwiches, withi sweets and cakes to follow.
What To Provide
If you are giving your guests! eut cake, you can allow a pound; of cake for eight people. A layer cake of average size is also enough for eight people. If you are serv- be
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-ing small cakes, there should 16 cards for Europe and South America two for each guest, and a pound
are forwarded via Siberis" ï
of biscuits is enough for ten pro- REGISTERED and PARCEL ple with other cakes. MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier
18 superscribed.
Take red with navy or brown, orange with brown, as examples, the initial applique being of heavier fabric than the fine dark linen. Since these initials are Chine, applique they may be of satin or lainage.
They are seen in matching pas-j
tels on 26in by 66in sized chiffon evening handkerchiefs. Type la similar in both cases and chosen from "Norman," "Regency" and] "Louis V." lettering for the ini tial, which might be that of chris- tian or surname.
Chiffons with Paisley designs land large coin dises, emphasising stained glass colourings on black
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S-Those who receive 52-The (Sp)
gifts
11-Home-runs
13-Interest (abbr.) 14-in no manner - 16-Grassy meadow 17-Fissure
TS-Pronoun
19-Poker term 21-Very
22-The natural fat 25-The largest city in
the world (abbr) 26-Dogma
29-Combining form. Far 30-Top of the head (pl.); 32-Guided 33-Egyptian river " 35.Tälliess jumping
amphibian 27-Erzsires 38-Yumalt S-Type of engine 41-Woodland sprite 42-A sailing vers! 45-Writing fald 47-Circle
53-Gift 56-Four
157-HION (MUR) *59-Atmosphere
so-Occan
31-Avenue (abbc.) 62-Deepest
54-Indites
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57-Golf mounda
VERTICAL
Truthful
2-An inmect 3-The (Fr.)
4-A singing volca 5-Cook in an oven, 6-1 am (contr.) 7-Support 8-Rubbed out S-A monetary unit » 10-Nop
11-Pronoun 12-8pock 115-Mambrane »
18-Smooth 20-System of signe (pl.) 123-Half a score
24-Striking out, as a
Vowel
27-Springy
28-Boy's name
30-Undressed fur-elles 31-Bend
|36-Lion (Lat.)
{38-A province of Cag ada (abbr) {39-Moved rapidly
40-Unit
41-Head-rest |43-Joer 144-Lyric poena |96-Cutting tools –
147-Genuine
48-Convulsive actine
the body 50–Begin
51-Evenings 154-Ritardando (albe))))
55-Recent
|55-A sumber ¡81-Consumed
165-Comparativa, sudilig 185-That is (læt, abbr.)
The solution of the above with a new erosE=BOOTC" {POSTLE will appear in tomorrow's, issue,
:
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or white grounds, come into the A pint of parafin will work evening range.
wonders in the house. Steel fen-
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Then there are motifs picked-ders and fire irons that are spot ted with rust will be much easier jout from the Beauvais tapestries to clean if they are first well rab-
TRESS APR FORFI benefit, but their work as well that can be seen any day at the bed with a rag soaked in parafin.
ITRİS ALL TRI If there are plenty of cakes, The jaded and the too-long-braced Falsis de Versailles. These show The metal 'should have several applications of the oil and a final
BET TANİCİR LCD) than the time given above unless
of vaseline, which RIC 235 DOE otherwise stated and where mails are and you wish to include meringues worker alike are uneconomic. And off in smaller design for smaller smearing
ANNEX AGORA advertised to close at or before 9or eclairs as well, it is safe to as-this is a different thing from com- day-wear handkerchiefs of linen should be left an over-night. The
chair, and hand-loom batiste.. Other
STER CACSS rust will then be quite easy to re- 161a.m., registered and parcel mails resume that not more than seven out mon lounging in an easy
closed at 5 pm, on the previous day of every ten guests will take them, which too often involves an prints show an all-over wide ce move.
AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways VÍR|
harmatal proper attitude that is
tre-spread of pansy, marguerite
Brass curtain rods and rings Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis and provide accordingly.
A quart mould of cream or jelly mentally as well as physically. It and briar rose designs on grounds that have become blackened will Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles viz Sai- gon. Correspondence for Europe and will serve about 10 people if there is worth noting that a correct of pink, green, red and brows also yield to parafia treatment. a cloth soaked in the ed for transmission by these Services are other sweets served as well, posture when seated
I have never seen such a bevy (They should be washed in warm sprinkled with some light and all particulars are showr in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-but if you limit your sweet to one upright, easy, and with the head! 14 eral Post Office and Kowloon Omee variety only, you ought to calculate perfectly balanced on the straight, of beauty in these items. These soapy water and then soaked in powder.
All letters etc, must be marked "By on it being only enough for eight but not stiff spine is far more are also modernistic designs, with paraffin. The rings will slide Air Mail" and handed in at the Geo-guests. ice cream is usually served restful and efficient than a slouch-colours repeated from those laun- much more readily when treated disinfected by burning in them newspapers saturated in parafin. eral Post Office. Unless superscribed in small plates and a quart is ing, half-relaxed attitude in which ched by "Laute couture" - fue in this way.
nerves are chia shades, delphinium pinks and Discoloured bath room basins The flames will burn off any waste 16 for despatch by a specific enough for 15 people. Allow a certain overworked
ane and kitchen rinks can be made matter from the sides and fumi- service, correspondence will be intermediate countries will be accept. quart of fruit salad for eight peo-forced to do more than their share blues, tulips, petanias and
clean and smooth by rabbing with rate the bins effectively. of sustenance. 18 warded by the first service available. (plo, and a gill of cream.
Apr.
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BOR JAPAN,
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Apr.
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FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Nalders.
Apr.
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