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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936
Women's Page
ansmission by these services. Estes REAL BEAUTY IS
and all particulars are shewn in the schedules
exhibited
at the Post
Offices: All letters etc., must be mark
d By Air Mail" and be handed` in at the Port Office.
сред The Money Order Office is from 20 a.m. to 4 p.m. except on Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon and on Sundays and holidays when at is entirely closed.
NEVER TENSE
Relaxation Good "Tonic"
Real beauty never is tense. The woman who wishes to attain or re- tain the precious quality simply
An Air Mail Box has been erected must learn to relax not only when
At the General Post Office. Corres she goes to bed but several times pondence intended for the RMA during the day.
"Dorado" must be posted before 8.30
a. on Friday. In Kowloon such
First of all, raise a rule to get correspondence may be posted in the ur in time to bathe, dress and have! ordinary box at Kowloon Post Office a bit of breakfast in a somewhat which will be cleared at 8 am on civilized manner.
This does not Friday. The public are particularly necessarily mean that you have to requested to see that their letters sak in the tub. try on three dresses bear saticient postage. Correspon before you make up your mind dence bearing insufficient postage will what to wear or take half an hour be forwarded by ordinary services.
NEW POSTAL RATES
to drink orange juice and coffee.
It does mean, however, that you bought to allow ample time for a Attention is drawn to the ancreas-shower, careful grooming and a ed postal rates effective as from 1st) somewhat peaceful breakfast. June 1936 Unpaid or insufficiently To rush hither and yon with one is only delete ou the clock is indeed the per- prepaid correspondence liverable against payment of double fect way to start the day all wrong. Do not get your nerves on edge be- the deficiency.
Close Your Eyes
No 15 cent stamps are at present fre the morning has fairly started. on sale and 10 cent and & cent stamps should be used. 20 cent and 5 cent! #stamps will be accepted for the 25 cent rate as soon as the present stock of 25 cent stamps is exhausted.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM KUROPE
June
FROM USA
Pres. Jefferson
Emp, of Avia
Pres. Coolidge
Pres. Adams
FROM SHANGHAI
Scharnhorst
Pres. Jefferson
Rawalpindi
Mentor Sphinx Patroclus
Emp. of Asia
Pres. Coolidge
Yasukuni Maru
Pres. AdamS
Now don't say. "Well, I'll do. that, but I'am a busy woman and ¡relaxing during the day is quite out of the question." It isn't at all. You simply have to learn how.
Just what do you do when you ride in a taxi or automobile? Worry about time, fuss at the driver. fidget in your seat and fume about June
28 what you are going to do when you July
arrive? Why? It would be better indeed for your health, happiness.. and beauty if you would stop thick- ing, close your eyes and rest for a few minutes.
June
You do not necessarily have to liej down in order to rest body and
26 nind for two minutes at a time. 26 When dinner is ready and waiting 27 for the children who are late getting 30 one from school, why stand at the
30
July
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Ginyo Maru
Philoctetes Cremer
* June
FROM JAPAN
June.
Atseta Maru
Pres. Jefferson.
Rawalpindi
Toyama Maru
Santos Maru
Nagato Maru Nankin
Enp. of Asia .. Pres. Coolidge Pres. Adams
Yasukuni Maru
FROM MANILA
June
General Lee
OUTWARD MAILS
Saving Time And Trouble
GOWNS BASED ON
THREE THEMES
Designs That Are Now Out Of Date
New Season Beauty Preparations
to
NEW FASHIONS IN
JEWELLERY
Rings That Are Now
The Vogue :
Many of the newest aids
The resetting of the family jewels beauty on the market this spring is the sign of the bride who is re- are time and trouble savers. Deceiving a welcome and also of the signed especially for girls who take continual changes in jewellery their beauty routines seriously, fashions, to which brides are pecu-
THE
HONG KONG
A PENINSULA HOTEL:
HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE. BAY HOTEL;
FEAK HOTEL,
1
& SHANGHAI
ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL.
HOTELS,
· LIMITED
In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping
these are quite inexpensive and liarly susceptible. To be given an HONG KONG BENEVOLENT
will last for months.
ад
engagement ring which belonged to
For instance, there is * new another generation usually meets peach makeup scarf to slip on over with no appreciation at a rooment dress or negligee while you are which every girl feels to be peculiar. that of the applying creams, combing yours her own and Dot hair or patting on cosmetics. This bridegroom's mother or great-aunt. is washable, soaps around the neck There were the engagement rings instead of going on over the head in which the stones were positively and is long enough to cover your buried: rings in which a claw be lap when you sit before your dress came ultra-fashionable and which ing table. Also, it can be folded had a knack of wearing down dis- into a tiny package and tucked astrously. into the corner of a weekend bag. It costs one dollar, but it probably will save you ten times that armount in dry cleaner's bills.
Emeralds And Diamonds
The really fashionable ring, which | is neither a wedding nor an engage- ment ring but a present from the bride's "near relation of either sex, The Make-Up Band
of platinum, and is worn on the Then there is a makeup band to little finger. It is wide, flat, and faster around your head while you delicately angular, and, to increase are putting cosmetic on your face the angular look, the diamonds are Made of soft lastex with satin out en baguette" instead of with streamers to tie at the back, this the usual facets. It will be inter- keeps creams and face powder from esting to see how long this fashion lodging around your hairline, and, lasts. At least it is of the moment | if used under a shower cap, will and therefore pertains to the bride. ão a great deal to protect a finger-and to none of her forbears. The
washable. These are
of most popular engagement ring is of
emeralds and diamonds, the emer For the traveller, and one who ald being in the middle of the does her own nails, there is a new diamonds, which are also cut with
wave
course.
introductory manicure case. This faceted edges only. This, with the includes a fexible file which does emeralds, gives the effect of minia not overheat the nails, an unbreak-ture lustres and has so distinctive! able glass orange stick for stab look that it will probably go down born cuticle, a fine hand lotion, ex-39 80 essentially characteristic of cellent cuticle cream, paste polish day that the next generation of to be used in conjunction with a brides will feel they cannot possibly bufer before you apply lacquer wear anything so period. Three distinct evening styles and some nice little soap tablets In addition window conjuring up imaginary emerge from the countiess creations for your nail bath.
Couldn't you sit at the shown in the Paris spring collecto soap beads, the tablets contains window, close your eyes and relax tions.
ingredients which are supposed to completely for a moment or two? Every
One is the fitted silhouette with make the nails less brittle and the woman, whether home-
fullness introduced somewhere in cuticle more easy to manage. marker or business executive, is
the region of the knees.
worries?
bure to be benefitted physically and 27 uratally by brief relaxation periods
now and then.
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FOR EUROPE
June
R.M.A. Dorado (Imperial Air-
ways direct Service)
28
Closes: Reg. 5 pm. Ord. 8.30 p.m.
Banchi (via Siberia)
26
General Lee (via San Fran-
cisco)
245
Conte Verde (via Brindisi)
Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 5.30 p.zi. Rawalpindi ("KL.3. Ser-
L
vice**)
Closes: Reg. 9 am. Ord. 9.30 am.
Sphinx (Air Orient Service)
30
"
Closes: Beg. 9.45 am
Ord. 10.30 a..
Pres. Pierce (via Siberia)
30
Closes: Reg. $ pm. Ord. 5.30 p.m.
A
The second is the full-skirted gown with the fullness starting at the waist and being evenly distri- buted all around.
The third combines botir features -straight, narrow front with full- ness introduced at the front or at the back in the manner of the 20s or peacock-tall-wise.
On these three themes every creator las elaborated his own par ticular ideas and treated them in his own manner. Draperies are in- troduced in such a skillful manzer that it is hard to tell where they start or finish. These usually serve as a connecting link in a bi-coloured construction.
Formal Gowns
An important feature of formal "ening gowns is that ultra-nudity so far as decollete is concerned is definitely out of date. In fact, it is now considered bad taste to! flaunt a completely bare back and shoulders. Transparency effects or
bighish front and moderate back neckline are the order of the day.
Sleeves Return To Style
Sleeves complete many of the dressier models in the form of vaporous, wing-like affairs,
very full, forming part of the dress itself jor leaving the top of the arm bare,
THE NEW LACE
HATS
Boater Or Plateau Fashion
WHITE MOST BECOMING
Summer Complexion Problems
Summer complexion problems are assuming a new phase with the advent of an all-white vogue for Isunshine days Already many well-dressed women are choosing white as one of the smart acces- sories to a summer ensemble. white cravats and white. ruffles of organdie, white, hats and tailored Wide three-quarter length coats. stiff white revers and gauntlet cuffs adorn many of the spring tail-) leurs in grey or blue Statner woollens.
Lovely frocks in white organdie
And
and other summery fabrics are being designed by the fashion crea- tors, destined to be worn with wide-brimmed picture hats. women are discovering how chic, though expensive, this fashion for white can be. Becoming, too, when sunshine and a little artifice has bestowed an attractive sun tan on the complexion."
Discretion is one of the secrets of making up successfully to this fashion for white. "Complexion tints must not be vivid." A May- fair beauty expert states, "White is most becoming to a softly tan- ned skin, lighter in tone for blonde, and slightly darker for
a
Very cool-looking and attractive branettes." are the new lace hats that the There is a new sun tan powder in which case strups intervene to warm weather has brought out. base, a soft complexion cream that break the nude effect." -Chanel is
Many are tiny capotes; others is useful in hastening the sun tan very fond of this particular type of sleeve, which emphasizes the bunte in the boater or plateau style. "look," which experts agree is not and slenderizes the hipline. Scarts A novelty is a mushroom coloured so much a matter of choosing the closely correct sun tan shade of powder attached the dress, or short lace shape; resting on 2. boleros ending in hem-long scarfs curled coiffure, with fanciful net as the correct cream powder base. in front, like those launched by rosettes as the only trimming, all There is also a sun tan bronze for Robert Piguet, are one of the last-dyed to a similar tint Fine lace darker types of beauty. Comple VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-minute expressions of the season's gloves and tessellated gauntlets are xion powders are chosen to tone 30 cards for Europe and South America evening mode.
July
Patrocías (via Marseilles)
FOR MANILA
POR AUSTRALIA
June
June Scharnhorst
Atsuta Maru
26 Pres. Jefferson
July
FOR SHANGHAI
Emp. of Asia
#
June
26
Pres. Coolidge
26
26
Felix Roussel
Emp. of Japan General Lee Sinkiang Pres. Pierce
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are forwarded" “vin Sberia” if so
July
Asama Mara
2 superscribed.
POR U.S.A
REGISTERED
Jane
ނ
July
Emp. of Japan General Lee Pres. Pierce
Asama Maru
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
-Conte Verde
Rawalpindi
Sphinx
June
FOR JAPAN
June
Islami
Felix Roussel Emp. of Japan Felix General Lee Pres. Pierce
Asa pz Maru
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30 intermediate countries will be accept-
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to
We
Recommend
HELENE CURTIS
The Glorious Self-Setting PERMANENT
Marie's
BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. Tel. 32508 (Lit Floor)
worn with this hat
The lure of lace has taken
with the sun tan cream made in
a subtle tintz especially designed for firm hold on the milliner's im- blonde, brunette and mid-between
agination. Treatment of the complexions. coloured Inces is entirely new "and different from previous methods.
Dainty Accessories
With lace are many feminine accessories in the way of flower and feather suitable as an accom- paniment. They all provide fashion thrills
Tiny brims and small flat crowns give 23 elegant air to their wearers. Young girls, with their knowledge of poise, look their best in these light lace and tulle shapes cn which are also placed flowers (in many gay colours or the more restrained ostrich feather mounts and halos of wings.
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Send Your Contribution to
Hon. Treasurer,
Mrs. J. Bentley, 22, Peak Mansions, HONG KONG BENEVOLENT SOCIETY.
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
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14
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HORIZONTAL
1-Shake
5-Not many
7-Grates 11-River in N. W.
France
12-Build 13-Axcend
15-Speck 16-Hoard
18-Length measure 19-A province of
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 47-An added name 50-Unit
151-Peint of compass"
(abbr.)
152-A thoroughfar
(abbr)
[53-Crude metal
34Wait upon |55-Autó fuel
(58-Collections of
VERTICAL (Cont.) JamRude
17-Long grass stems |20-A secondary planet {21-Glimmerings
24-Senior (abbr.) -Japanese coin 26-Consumed 27-Dighthong 29-Summit
20 Exgic
Icelandic fiterature 33-The whole 50-Poetry
Canada (abbr.) 11-Branch office (akhr.):61-Coincide
22-Wild (Spot) 23-A day of the week. 2-Moderated 125-Having power to
retain
29-Definite article 31-Alzir
32-A compass point
(abbr.)
-A serpent 35-Woodland sprite 37-Note in Guido's scale! 39-Small particle
41-Portion 42-Typs of airplane
(PL) 45-Feather-shaped
34-Small Jump of
butter
52-Those who foreteli 36-In a row $3-Insane
54-Transfers for a
consideration
VERTICAL
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2-To one side
37-Rubbers-
23-Simian
39-Sheep cry 40-Campers |42-Musical drama
43-Weight mesture
(abbr.) 3- Jewish measure |46-Vary 4-Altered the words of 45-Mails S-Gave food to 6-Saturated with
water
7-Decide S-Perform
-Tale
[10-Rate of motion
46-Energy
48-Shape
40-Bird homes [$5-Verse (abbr.).
56 Precious sten 57-Sorrowful 139-Scotch rivet
The solution of the above with a new groen-word pkai
will appear in to-morrow's iszna,
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