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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936
Women's Tage
and all particulars are shewn in the BARNYARD PRINTS
suedules exhibited
the
Pourt
Offices. A letters etc., must be mark-
ed By Air Mail" and be handed in of the Post Office.
The Money Order Office is from
open
OD
10 am to 4 pm. except Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon and on Sundays and holidays when it is entirely closed.
An Air Mail Box has been erected
at the General Post Office. Corre pondence intended. for
the RMA "Dorado" must be posted before 8.30 *.m. on Friday In Kowloon such
IN FAVOUR
Flower Patterns Displaced
SUMMER CHIC
Barnyard prints have arrived on the fashion front as the last word in summer chic.
They are favourites in a great
correspondence may be posted in the array of new animal patterns which ordinary box at Kowloon Post Office have relegated the flower prints which will be cleared at 8 am on into the background. Friday:
The public are particularly requested to see that their letter bear sufficient postage. Correspon dence bearing insufficient postage will be forwarded by ordinary services.
NEW POSTAL RATES
the deficiency.
of cent stamps is exhausted.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Cows moo, cocks Crow and horses gallop over fields in new designs, giving an effect of rustic simplicity which contrasts strik- ingly with the sophisticated town frocks and ensembles into which. they are made. Most of them are done in silhouette от miniature effects -scattering tiny white
BRIGHTER FROCKS
FOR SPRING
Smart Two-Piece
Models
THE NURSERY FAVOURITE
Cuckoo Clock's Appeal
LIKED BY YOUNG AND OLD
There is something about an old clock which appeals to us in a way that no other household object does. A table or chair, no matter what romantic associations it may possess, is after all an inanimate
A clock is something alive, į thing. performing sa allotted daily task.
may have been ticking away long before we were born, and will con- tinue to do so. perhaps, for genera. tions to come.
World Popularity In England it is the "Grand- father" which gives rise to senti- ment. In Continental countries. particularly in the more remote
PARIS HATS WITH HARROW CROWNS
Very Smart With Black Suit
unusual
Attention is drawn to the increas ed postal rates effective as from 1st
Dressmakers are showing brighter villages, it is more likely to be some Harrow crowns, about half an June 1236. Unpaid ur insufficiently prepaid correspondence is only de- figures over the dark round of frocks for spring. There are smart quaint old fancifully carved wall-inch deep, are seen on the latest liverable against payment of double silk crepes.
two-piece models of double romaine clock, a type which was general hats from Paris. The Duchess of One of the most amusing is the in pastel colours, clicked frocks toges before the long-cased timepiece Kent has chosen several models of No 15 cent stamps are at present new "farmer" print which shows be worn with plain coats, drèsses came into existence. Yo kind of this type. on sale and 10 cent, and 5 cent stamps the farmer, his wife and the of printed crêpe de Chine having. should be used. 20 cent and 5 cent
the long coats in one of the colours inauging clock hus ever attained the By way of contrast with the be popularity of the Cuekoo Clock flowered headgear which all mil stamps, 24 800 to the present stock livestock. chickens, Mary's little the print, as well as soft tailored among the peoples of every land.
will be accepted for the "hired man" surrounded by
liners are showing, this hat is lamb, faithful Fido and the milk-suits in one or other of the numer
ous silk terids provided for children, as
The Cuckon is the clock of the severely plain, its only trimming maid with buckets in hand.
"Grandfather" is of being a single quili.
The material is black petersham, After this comes a whole galaxy spring coats and skirts.
their elders. The latter is inclined Plain frocks are trimmed with of single animal prints whose dark
to prove a melancholy companion, knife-pleated to form an narrow tucks, and the belt to match grounds are patterned with white the dress is held by a square plaque rulous over the past, wheezing brim; the square crown is of the or coloured figures such as carly-of carved mother-of-pearl. The fox valid.
in his old age like an asthmatic in plain ribbon. Another very new hat from Paris, also with the Har- tailed pigs, wild horses, gambolling fur on the sleeveless et is dyed es gazelles and rabbits.
Its mastel the dress.
There is nothing melancholy row crown, is made of pig-skin. labout the "Cuckoo," When this Its sailor brim is underlined with Colour Note
sprightly customer pops out from black felt, and a narrew band of Buttons and belts introduce as little Swiss chalet-Switzerland black felt encircles the shallow tropical fish floating across a seajolour note. The red belt womvies with Germany in the manu-crown of soft shadow-striped crepe. with a navy and white checked
All these new prints reflect adress is threaded with checked; trend toward youthful designs and material. Checked buttons framed effects. Most of them are used to in blue and red are used on the make the frocks and jacket ensem-short complementary coat of navy 30 bles which are the town woman's{blue-wool. Its facings match the
stand-by when Waren weather dress.
The frocks
FROM USA.
Pres. McKinley
May
June
Emp. of Russia
Pres. Hoover
Pres. Garfield
5
FROM SHANGHAI
May
Pres. McKinley
Chitra!
Gen Sherman
Suiyang
Agapenor
Sarpendon
Emp. of Russia
Pres. Hoover
Jean Laborde
Beba
June
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Besides those there are a num- ber of marine prints which show
comes.
One designer uses an attractive simple. are slender and short-sleeved, the jack-red. white and black crepe de Chine ets nearly always loose and short. printed in a Persian design for one dress. Bands of black marocain are arranged to give a tunic effect. The sleeves are black marocain.
The seven-eighths length coat of jblack angora wool shown with the 23 dress is decorated with lines of red
land white stitching.
Pres. Garfield
Katori Maru
June
FOR AUSTRALIA
R.M.A. Dorado
Маз
Calchas
FOR U.S.A.
Houtman Yuensang
June
FROM JAPAN
4 Pres. Taft
Chichibu Maru
May
Pres. McKinley
FOR JAPAN
Chitral
24
Gen. Sherman
D'Artagan
Jure
May
June
30 Coming Into Its Own
Pres. Hoover
Pres. Taft
Emp. of Russia
Chichibu Maru
Pres. Garfield Arabia Maru
Katori Maru ....
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
June
FROM MANILA
Jean Laborde
May
Sarpedon
Goueral Sherman
Arabia Maru
Pres. McKinley
FOR MANILA
June
June
Pres. Taft
Emp. of Russia
Nankin
Tjikembung...........
FROM AUSTRALIA
Nankin
Jaze
3
May
OUTWARD MAILS FOR EUROPE
R.M.A. Dorado (Imperial Air-
ways direct Service) ..... Closes: Reg. 5 pm. Ord. 8 am. Chitral (K.L.M. Service) ....
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Closes: Reg. 4.30 p.m. Jean Laborde (Air Orient
Service)
Ord.
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Pres. Hoover
WHITE PIQUE COAT
With a black suit this is extreme. ly smart; there are gloves and hand- bag to match.
Lily of the valley is the favourite flower for hat trimming in Faris Just Bow. One toque is made en- tirely of the flowers, massed closely together. Others-mostly sailor Įstripes-have wreaths of them round their shallow crowns, and an accompanied by large hunches of the same flowers to wear or the shoulder.
How Do You Meet Opportunities?
Opportunities knock but once
most men's doors. Whether you seize them or miss them depends largely upon your personal fitness and The fit man is the appearance. man who always keeps in good physi- cal condition. He does not allow constipation to dull his brain, to re duce his activity, to impair his good! temper, to make
him look gross,
To correct constipation, liverish-
This summer the white pique coat, which will be one of the sea-. son's most versatile fashions, is to future of cuckoo clocks-not only pimply and unhealthy. come into its ear. The possibili do the youngsters get a thrill, but ties of this useful "coat for all even father in his armchair stirness, biliousness, sick headache, take days" have only just been glimps-behind his newspaper. There is a
little dose of Pinkettea to-night ed. but women will soon be wear-fleeting vision of Alpine peaks, another couple of nights if neces when going to bed, and repeat for ling it morning, noon and night lordly pines and impetuous moun-sary.
-with every kind of ensemble. Itain rivulets.
It is to accompany dark woolles! An Elusive Songster
The first Cuckoo Clock was made VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-morning frocks. the printed and cards for Europe and South Anseries plain silks and cottons for after-somewhere about 200 years ago by
*víz Siberia" if are forwarded
so noon, as well as evening gowns ofļu village clockmaker in the Black superscribed
dignified satins or more billowy Forest, named Anton Ketterer. He REGISTERED Rand PARCEL
was one of the pioneers who started. MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier tulles, muslins and laces.
the manufacture in that region. where it is now a staple industry. The clockmaker worked at his own bench, then in his own cottage, and produced everything by hand.
than the time given shove uzdless.
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are
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closed at 5 p.m. on the pre
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go5. 2) intermediate countries will be accept- in. ed for transmission by these Services. Rates and all particulars are bown in the schedules exhibited at the General All 3 Post Office and Kowloon Office.
Closes: Reg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.30 Chichibu Maru (via Siberia)
Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord, 8.30 a.m. Sarpedon (via Marseilles)...
F
FOB SHANGHAI
D'Artagan
Pres. Taft
Chichibu Mar
May
Junc
letters etc., must be marked “By Air Mail” and handed in at the General 30 Port Office. Unless superscribed for despatch by a specifc air mail ser- 2vice, correspondence will be forward- 3ed by the first service avaliable.
We
Recommend
HELENE CURTIS The Glorious Self-Setting PERMANENT
Marie's
?
BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. Tel.. 32508 (1st Floor)
We can picture Anton at his bench in his native Schönwald, a delightful village set amid moun- tain and vallér, «urrounded by woodlands, and waterfalls, and within easy reach of the centre of the winter sports area to-day. Up (from the valley on a spring morning comes the note of the cuckoo. An inspiration! The good Anton will reproduce the call of this elusive songster in the new clock he is making.
After that judicious exercise and diet, and the drinking of two or three glassES of fresh pure water daily, should keep
you regular and
Pinkettes
obtainable from medicine dealers everywhere.
well-
sre
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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 harbox, plow, and altho
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110
125
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HORIZONTAL
1-Matured 5-Prekx Thrice
Grate 12-Native of Rome 13-Spike of corn 14-Combining form.
Tooth 15-Chief of the gods
(Norse Myth.) 16-Anxious 18-On the summit 19-Giggle
21-Country ruled by
an emperor
23-Perkle
25-To the sheltered side 26-Answer (abbr.) 27-Part of the body 29-American portrait
painter 31-Most compact 34-White linen
vestment (Excl.) 35-Saller 36-Planned 40-Natural scenes 43-Egyptian god
44-Muzical note
45-Father
46-Conjunction
156
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132 133
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48-Gull-like bird 50-islands off the coast 17-Relate (abbr)
of Ireland
53 Conflict
36-Mend
59-Brother of Cain
(Bible)
60-Diurnal
¡53+HOW
64-Feasted
Before ¡65-Prefix.
68~Push gently |67-Terminates |65--Makes Lace
69-Plant
VERTICAL
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1-A grotto (Port) 2-A French sculptor. 3-Discharge
4-Wishing 5-Afternoon party 6-To utter wildly 7-Anger
B-Farm machine
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20-Scottish language 22-Base
24-Used in negation 25-Sum up
|26-Tree (Lat)
28-Machine for
measuring gases (29-Juice of plants |30-The whole
¡32-Sardinis (abbr.)
33-Attempt
37-Pratea
|38-Made a- mistake
39-Lair
|40-Mineral spring [41-Convey
42-Puzzle
(47-Part of a ship ¡49–Tho (Sp.)
51-Diphthong 52-Scorch |:63–Commanded
|54-Assist
$5-Sliver coin of Italy (pl)|57-Military assistant
S-Prefix. Against |58-Long grass stem
10-Hoard
11-Tube
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The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle
'will appear in to-morrow's issue,
To-morrow.
"A Victory For The Infantry.”
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POPEYE.
WHERE'S TOAR?
HANT
ISEEN HIM ISINCE ICOME
BACK
FROM BRUTAS
"The Children's Hour.”
HE TOOK A BOAT AND SAILED AWAY-
WENT BACK TO HIS NATIVE) LAND.EH? HE'D OF MADE A GOOD SOLJER-BUT I WON'T NEED HIM NOW THATIGOT A HUNERD |SPINACH-EATIN" NATIONAL
PRESERVES
SAY-WHERE
SWEEPEA
HE CRAWLED AWAY AWHILE AGO WITH HIS TOY GUN_S
SUSPOSE HES OFF SOMEWHERE İPLAYIN' WAR WITH
THE LITTLE POPGUN
WICH (GIVED
HIM
BANG
BEAUTIFUL CRYSTAL,
AT THE PRICE OF ORDINARY GLASS.
A FINE SELECTION
OF
VASES, FLOATING
BOWLS, SALAD BOWLS, FRUIT DISHES ETC.
GEHUEN LEAD CRYSTAL
"AT PRICES THAT WILL ASTOUND
'YOU!
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