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Ranpura (viz Suez)
May
THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936
~ Women's Tage
CHOOSING THE
RIGHT BOOKS.
Parents Should Be Reasonable
At a literary meeting recently it was argued that a certain au- great thor of high repute and literary ability was not suitable reading for school-girls. On all sides it was laid down that young people should not read this, that 14 and
the other type of book. doveis, medicals, philosophical and communist works being a few mentioned.
14
Donau (via Siberist
FROM ESA.
May
Tres. Jackson
15
Emn of Canada
FROM SHANGHAI
Pres. Jackson
Raputana
Agamemnon Chenonceaux Chichibu Maru
Emp. of Canada
Haruna Maru
FROM MANILA
Get Pershing
Pre
Coolidge
Atsuta Maru
May
The choice of children's read- ng may be guided, but should not be severely ceasured. Many otherwise sensible parents exer-
over their!
14 se undue authority
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19
children's books and place on the black list a great many that would
19 be of value and interest. Further-
22 more, they arouse an immediate 22 and inevitable curiosity. Forbid jden fruit is notoriously attractive.
May
15
15
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Kumsan
Mentor
Nagato Hami
Yasukuni Maru
Van Heuts
Victoria
Toba Maru Patroclus
FROM JAPAN
Ginyo Maru
Penang Mary
Pres. Jackson
Rajputana Naruto Mar: Chichibu Maru Emp. of Canada Harung Mari
Kitano ara
May
May
in
Individual Choice
Within limits, it is no wiser to
21 force a selection of books upon children than to impose upon them a code of social rules. Their individual choice should, in some measure, be respected. By read 19. much of the adult mind and 19 character is shaped by the child develop at 19 himself. Children
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21 different rates and come natural- ty to choose the books they need most, if they are left alone. Some times they may choose bad and foolish books, but the impression 14 left is not so great as anxious
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15 parents imagine. No sensible per son would advise a young mother 21 to study baby-craft when
children were
her
are
growing up, but the same person might fail to re-
that certain books 22/cognise
accessary at crucial stages in de- read velopment. If
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Buenos Aires Maru
FROM AUSTRALIA
May
Atsuta Mare
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OUTWARD MAILS
they Are ater, they will not receive the same appreciation,
There is but one motto in read- ng for the young growing mind Read it now..
FOR EUROPY
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
May
May
Donac 14
Rajputana Etap, of Asia (via Vancouver)
Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m.
13 Agamenmon
Rajputana (K.L.M. Service)
Cluses: Reg. 9.15 a.m. Ord. 10 a. Buenos Aires Maru
R.M.A. Dorado (Imperial Air-
ways direct Service) ..... Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 8.15 am. Pres.
Coolidge (via
Francisco)
San
2989
For the woman of business we have this two-piece dress in navy crepe, suitable also for informal afternoon wear. Its brief tailor- pleated skirt are ed jacket and softened by the organdie jabot Glenda Farrell, and tiny cuffs. the screen actress, is the model.
THE EVENING COIFFURE
New Materials And Fantasies
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Some
20
ате
LAVENDER BAGS
FOR LINEN
Good News For The
Cupboard
KEEP EVERYTHING FRESH
News for the linen cupboard is always good news, and here are
some items, not large in them! selves, for blankets as well as for sheets. The linen-proud woman likes to have some lavender or potpourri bags to keep everything sweet and fresh. but she is often annoyed by the way the bass fall
disturbed out when sheets are not to speak of their getting into corners. besides which their sweet- ness is rarely distributed satis factorily.
that! ΤΟ
across
MAN WHO LOST 21 lbs.
Lost His Indigestion Too!
The fat man is proverbially good natured and easy going. But bere is a fat roan accused of being diff- cult to live with. His wife writes to tell us about him. Just read
candid; it is amusing: it is worth what she has to say. Her letter is publishing word for word as she wrote it. Here it is:-
"My husband a little over twelve months ago started taking Krts- chen Salts for be now eat anything (including, my pastry), but he is now 13 stone only, instead of 15 stone. What I consider more in- portant than anything else, though. is the splendid effect Kruschen has had on his temper. He is zow fit for a woman (not an angel to live. with. My husband is 60 next April and I am 54 next Jure. I recom mend Kraschen Salts wherever I go."-(Mrs.) E. D.
Kruschen does not aim to reduce by rushing food through the body. Gently, but surely it rids the sys- tem of all fat-forming food refuse.
and of poisons
harmful acids which incidentally give rise to rheu- matism, digestive disorders many other ills.
NEWEST BRETON "SAILORS"
and
Charming Hats To Choose
The way to obviate these short-! series of comings is to have a thin muslin bags, cut to the exact ze of the shelves. The lavender er other scented petals must be put so sparsely into these
form when spread out they more than a single layer through- jeut. Each bag is then machined for hand-ru across and
into
compart. smallish square ments, each of which contains an equal amount of the scert staff. That is to say, the scent is quilt is the best choice at this time of jea into place. One bag is laid on year--the newest Breton sailors,
each shelf as a lining, being or small secured there by drawing pins at crowns each corner. This keeps it from brown panamalas, the brims of which are gauffered, are charm- lipping or rampling in use.
ing, writes a correspondent.
Between Sheets
The small or medium-sized hat
tereador shapes with
of black, dark blue or
In the piquant park-ple or bow- Similar bags may, if wanted, belier styles there are many coarse placed at intervals between
cire or lacquered straws,
sets
being! of sheets or towels, each one be mixed with a touch of petersbam ing fixed by two drawing pins at in colour and a veil adjusted in the right height to the back of the some fantastic fashion. cupboard so that they drawn forward or pushed out of
be Can
In the case of the bowler the
the way at will without any de upturned lining is generally of a tone. Sometimes the rangement. A last bag should lighter
not
We remCAT®
The vogue for the headdress certainly be attached to a strip of verve vell is tied tightly round. continues. Many new materials calico as wide as the whole pile Rather a hard shape, I think, ard
its novelty has
gone i and fantasies are to be seen on linen to be covered, and the once 15 fashionable heads after dark. calico pinned to the outside of should give way to a more becom
headdresses
asleach shelf. When operations are ing style. However, it does elaborate as hats. One of
the progress it is left hanging do to anticipate the Snish of any latest developments is a poke bon-down, suspended by the calico, popular fancy when
of the cupboard.ber the long reign, still continued, net in velvet with latticed brimet the outside
Another is a transparent hale Then it is a simple matter to fold of the beret. Possibly the bowler
it firmly over the whole pile so variety may go on appearing. gold galon and tied in a bow to that it lies on the top as a scent-
The Squared Front one side.
jed cover. By this device all the
There is a distinct tendency to When feathers are used for contents are kept both spotless headdresses, they are often die-
and scented; and the bags should the squared front about the holi- guised as some exotic fower
not need renewing oftener than day sports peaked hat, whether
made in wooL straw or tweed. Inl Silver Or Gilt
once a year.
imost instance I think the back !prettier than the front aspect
21ounted on a wide
FOR USA
151
May
Emp. of Asia Tyndarens
145
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FOR AUSTRALIA
May
15
Closes: Reg. 3 p.m. Ord. 4.15 pm. InMA. Dorado Chenonceaux (Air Orient Ser-
vice)
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20
Closer: Reg. 3.15 am. Ord. 103.m.
Agamemnon (via Marseilles)
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- Closes: Reg. 8.45, a.m. Ord. 9.20 3..ards for Europe and South America
FOR SHANGRAI
Emp. of Asia
Jean Laborde
Pres. Coolidge
Yasukuni Maru
Taiping
May
bandeau of
The feather Rowers are mount re forwarded "la Siberia” {f so ed
on a slender tortoise-shell superscribed.
small REGISTERED and PARCEL band, and arranged in a
MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier bunch is worn a little to the side 14 am the time given above unless of the parting. They may be in 15therwise stated.and where mails are pastel shades, or are sometimes 15dvertised to close at or before 9
.m., registered and parcel mails are Sprayed with silver or gilt. closed s* 5
previous
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FOR MANILA
May
14
Pres. Jackson Emp. of Canada Pres. Van Buren
FOR JAPAN
Emp. of Asia! Taiping Jean Laborde. Pres. Coolidge Yasukuni Maru Tyndareus
May
Bringing Up Father
CTOWN
THE
HONG KONG
FENINSULA HOTEL:
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAT HOTEL;
PEAK HOTEL
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL
HOTELS,
LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho
13
16
141
Ho
58 59
KORIZONTA'.
1-Struggles
*-Avera
13-Pronoun 14-Edible
15-Eagle
16-A descendant of
Exsu
17-Home port of an
alship
18-Musical note
20-Haut
19-Preferred (abbr.)
23-Bird homes
27-Wharf
24 125
26
8
HORIZONTAL (Cont)
| 49-Girl's name 151-Greek letter
52-To stick fast in mud (54-Inner bark of trees 55-Country of Europe
(abbr.) [56-Pipral suffix
58-Restoration to the
Ci
12,
1414
145
VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Jeared 21-Pertaining to laughter (22-You and I
24-Anxious
-Look
25-Hindrance
127-Pair (abbr.)
protection of the law 28-Foca
$1-Artiză
30+Elevate
32-River in S. E. France
$5-Decay
63-Female deer
64-Landing place for
aircraft
136-A roe (Scot)
65-Metrie fand meature) 40-Opposed to flood-tide
29-A metric measure of 66-Terminations
capacity
67-Guaranteed
31-Combining form. Air
VERTICAL
32-Girl's name
33-Point of compass
(abbr.)
1-Coax 2-Clear of
unpaid
37-Crimson
38-Electric-bearing
atom
41-Fought
| -Interjection |44-Pertaining to the
sole of the foot
45-Penetrated
47-Egyptian god
34-Debts overdue and 3-Plaza in a detached 30-A weight measure
39-Girl's name
·40-To recede, as the
tide
42-Ocean vessel 44 Pastry
(abbr)
4-One inheriting from 52-Sprout of a tree
position
another
S-Consumed
6-Saints (abbr.)
& Slides
9-Slave
7-Sleeveleza Arabic
garment
53-To acquire
knowledge
55-Large web-ipated
water-bird
$7-Reats
59-Prefix. Not 160-Years (abbr)
61-A Hawalian food |32-Before
46-Loud, brazen sound 10-More willing
11-Treasurers" (abbr.) 48-Pronoun
The solution of the above with a new cross-txora quZILO
will appear in to-morrow's ikeme,
NEW FOB WATCH
Berets also take on this square UNDER THE PLATE
look. I prefer the real college! mortar-board style, although Fashions in table linen change cannot be termed practical. The with bewildering frequency, but,
well-Stted
with a softer The newest kind of watch for them may bel
folded beret-top in fine fabrics-
for the kind of day Bandeaux for the hair made of happily, many of
or linen-straws, are more comforsports wear, or can do quite simple table for most forms of sporting suit which you wear in the morn-
and semi-sporting, headgear,
watch. Jing in town, is the fob She must also have an eye for
Bright and neat are the scarves You wear it in the top pocket of
AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via clipped feathers and twisted into followed very easily by the wo
via Bandoeng-Amsterdam.
Singapore, Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sala rouleau are as soft as chenille man who
The use of feather fronds is embroidery stitches. Correspondence for Europe and 16 intermediate countries will be accept-another idea for the halo type of
ed for transmission by these Services, beaddress, the fronds being treat-colour, and an aptitude for adapt
22 Rates and all particulars are houm infed in such a way that when theying new ideas to conform to her or jahots made of spotted or strip-your suit, and you will certainly
the schedules exhibited at the General are curled and stiffened they look own particular requirements. Post Office and Kowloos Office, letters etc., zaust be marked "By Air like horsehair.
jed surati and taffetta to match a want to choose a leather coloured
At the moment, large dinner folded beret-or boater, trimmed fob watch as soon as you see one.
14 Mail" and handed in at. the General For the debutante, however, mats with fringed edges are very with
15 Post Office. Unless superscribed for nothing is more attractive than a smart. They look most attractive and
a similar gay design. Red They are obtainable in various
white, navy or green and smart shades such as green, navy!
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
CLPER SNDER RATURE TEANDO. DEMOTES ARE ATSMS GRA
SNORT BETVE
JERS
black, and the whole face. The fob "ribbon" is com. 15 despatch by a specific air mail ser- posy of real or artificial flowers when the set is composed of dif-white spot suggest the welcomed blue and
mounted on a thin tortoise-shell ferent colours and are easily note of colour with dark dresses, watch is covered in the leather, posed of a narrow strip of lea 15 vice, correspondence will be forward-
lor with the many grey variations with the exception of the actual ther to match. 19:ed by the first service available.
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WHAT IS IT-SONNY?You SAY YOU WANT DADDY TO COME RIGHT DOWN TO THE OFFICE AS YOU HAVE SOME- THING IMPORTANT TO TALK
TO HIM ABOUT”-
band.
NTH BUSINESS-HE
I'M GLAD TO SEE HIM TAKIN' AN INTEREST
HAS ONLY BEEN AT WORK A WEEK-
HOPE HE KEEPS IT UP-
Posture Szandicom, Jotu, Gems Bejcsin mghan znanać.
made.
SONNY-COME IN HERE- WHAT IS IT YOU WANT TO SEE ME ABOUT ? LETS GET DOWN TO
BUSINESS-
WHEN DO I GET MY VACATION YOU CAN TELL ME WHEN I
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