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THE CHINA MAI FRIDAY, JULY 31, 1936
Women's Jages
TWO STYLES OF
KNITTING
The English And Continental
MORE FLEXIBLE METHOD
In knitting as well as in skating there is a distinctive English style
An Air Mail Box has been erected that seems to those sccustomed to at the General Post Office:
Corres-the Continental fashion to be much pondence intended for the RMA less fexible, writes a Home cor- Our way is also in Dorado" must be posted before 8.30 respondent. a. on Friday. In Kowloon such most respects much slower, and correspondence may be posted in the the Englishwoman abroad
who ordinary box at Kowloon Post Office whiles away long hours spent in a which will be cleared at 8 am train or on a steamer by knitting Friday. The public are particularly
letters is certain to afford much amuse-i requested to see that their bear sufficient postage. Correspon- ment to her "foreign" sisters.
dence bearing insufficient postage will be forwarded by ordinary services.
AIR MAIL
They
mechanical watch her movements as each stitch proceeds! by several distinct stages, the knit- tur inserting her needle, picking up¦ Air Mail correspondence may be her wool, lifting it and wrapping posted in the ordinary posting boxes it over the inserted point before Such she can begin to pull a new stitch at the General Post Ofice. correspondence should bear sufficient through. postage and be superscribed "By Air Mail."
Н
Lightning Feats
Their method, when demon- strated, is obviously much faster. though a great deal of practice will
before it be necessary
can be The wool! mastered by a convert. is held in the left hand, looped 5 round the fingers that hold the passive needle in much the same! way as the thread is held in doing crochet work. The point of thei active needle is therefore free to July
31 perform lightning feats guided by Aug.
unhampered fingers. In a succes- sion of movements, so swift as to see one, it pokes through a left- hand stitch, twists the wool round itself, ad has collected a дет stitch in less time than it takes the English knitter to reach the
*urapore:" stage.
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July
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Rajputana (via Suez).
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July
Sawa Maru Nellore
Aug
Africa Maru
Kitano Maru
Tatsuta Maru
Pres. Grant
Nalders
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Menestheus
Bangalore
Sirdhana
Islami
Roggeveen
Aug.
FROM SHANGHAI
July
Pres. Hayes
Suwa Maru
Szechun
Mirzapore Tatsuta Mart
Tyndareus
Casting Off
The foreign way of casting off stitches is more easily acquired, aud, apart from being easier than the familiar method of dealing always with a pair of stitches on the right-hand needle, slipping one over the other, makes an edge that can, if necessary, be quickly un- One stitch is knitted, put
4 done.
back on to the left-hand needle, and another stitch then knitted through the first two on the left needle, the backs of the ΕΠΟ stitches being taken up by the 31 working needle.
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July
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To keep that cool refreshed look, Marie Wilson, the screen actress, wears this frock of crepe, ankle length. The skirt is slight- ly flared while the blouse is fitted to the waist and trimmed with three clusters of blue patent les- ther flowers.
THE "SENSIBLE” · SHOE
Plays Important Part In Dress Scheme
REAL SPRING TONIC
WHITE SHOES
Guarding Against Smudging
Brisk Walks Good For Figure
When you have been on a liquid diet for three days and have pro- mised yourself that you will be sensible about the amount of food White shoes can look very smart you eat from now on, face the fact and trim, and feel comfortable, that you need more exercise in too, when they are of perforated the springtime than during any buckskin, or of canvas.
other season. You may have been
Care should be taken, however, hard and lean and supple last fall in the cleaning of them. They after a summer of outdoors sports. must be spotlessly white, yet there but look at your figure now. must be no smudges of whitness
What are you going to do about!
on stockings, ankles or the furn the fat that accumulated around. ture with which the shoes come your waistline since the Christmas into contact.
holidays? Doesn't that extra chin,
In order to minimise this risk no matter how small, bother you of smudging, the shoes should be more now that it is time to look clothes? Have thoroughly scrubbed in warm soapy around for new water with a nail brush, so that you measured your hips to see whether or not they are Larger they may be cleaned thoroughly.
When the shoes are really clean, than they were last fall? You've little white been sitting down too much this they require but a
shoes cleaner, and if the
are past winter, you know. thoroughly rinsed, and the cleaner Very well, then, make a resolu- applied sparingly while they are tion to take a twenty-minute walk still wet, there is even less risk each and every day. Step brisky, of smudging than when the cleaner? is applied to dry shoes.
holding your chest high; head straight, and taking deep breaths. Some cleaners are less liable to Even though you refuse to do ex- as ercises when you get up in the. smudge than others, so it is well to make sure that you are morning or to go in for any ac- tive sport. his simple. twenty- buying a "fast" brand.
minute walk will tend to equalize your weight and make you feel! better. It's the ideal spring tonic, for sluggish circulation and the oh- what's-the-use-of-anything attitude which generally accompanies this condition
Even buckskin shoes respond successfully to a warm soapy scrub- bing, now and then, and here, too, the cleaner should be used before the shoes are quite dry.
CHANGED LUCK
FOR MILADY
Aura Charm Gown
DRESSING-CASES
Among the popular wedding pre- sents. at the moment dressing- cases are seen again and again.
They are designed for use, 25 Paris now promises the fashion-well as for beauty, and the bottles able woman that she can change and jars are really spill-proof, and her luck by changing her dress.
number are also of the correct It is the "aura" gown, created by and size for the modern woman's Rossvienne, noted French couturier requirements.
It consists of a slim dark satin sheath, black, brown or navy blue,
They are packed in the smallest
over which is draped a loose, fall possible space, and while some cases are designed for us when If you want to make a well-gown of shadow lace in the colour making a prolonged journey, others dressed woman shudder, mention of the wearer's "aura," as prescri- are just big enough to do duty on the words sensible shoe" to her. bed for her by occult scientists. a week-end trip.
In fact. it has beer an acknow-
her
This may be any colour of the Others, again, are intended for ledged fact that footwear could be divided into two separate cate-rainbow, brilliant red, gold, green, use in the car. gories. There were smart shoes blue. or violet, but if it is and there were comfortable shoes, "soul" colour, it is credited with possessing the power to ward off writes a correspondent.
evil and attract good fortune..
Have you noticed that it is the
In silhouette, the "aura" gown past tense I have used? For in surrounds the entire figure with a shop wanderings this week I have discovered that shoe designers and halo of the colour. To complete the effect, Rossvienne has design- operated in offering us shoes which led coronets of matching combine comfort and chic.
Inanufacturers
have now Co-
Footlines Important
More and more does the woman
who prides herself on her good
Cellophane for the hair.
BODICE IS TIGHT
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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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FOR U.S.A.
July
Aug.
Pres. McKinley
Emp, of Russia Pres. Hoover
FOR MANILA
July
Gen. ShermRD..
Nellore Kitano Maru
FOR SHANGHAI -
Pres. McKinley
Menestheas Kajputana Emp. of Russia
POR JAPAN
Pres. McKinley
Rajputana Esp. of Husain,
· Aziz.
taste in dress realise that she must
choose her shoes with discrimina Summer evenings will see the full tion, for footlines are as important tight bodice and the very
Aurelius Amplified
as headlines in fashion's scheme skirt predominating at smart par-
Marcus Aurelius, Emperor of Rome nowadays. And it's little une bay-ties. This skirt fulness starts at Bring your frocks and suits of the the waist to make the bodice ap-some seventeen hundred and seventy latest cut and your curls and waves pear smaller. Contrasting to this years ago, is famed in history net topped by the newest millinery type of gown are the supple dresses only as a great sage, but also as a models if your shoes are out of draped to the figure and adorned lover of the good things of life. date and their line and fare
by several coloured.
wrong..
One of the things Marcus said was-"In the morning when you rise up drowsy and sluggish, say to your- self, I have a man's job before me to-day." Had he been living now he DON'T PAINT IN WET WEATHER Probably would have added, "And I [must take a little dose of Pinkettes
to-night!"
Excellent as a liver stimulant, and as a gentle yet highly efficient laxa- tive. Piskettes quickly dispel that drowsy feeling, currect constipation,
GAY- MACKINTOSHES
The latest mackintoshes are be coming more
The newest} gay. fashion note is to have an brella of a design identical with in wet weather or when it is ex-
If you are doing any painting man this season be careful not to work
the pattern of one's mackintosh! cessively cold or excessively humid banish biliousness, diminess and sick
VIA SIBERIA Letters and post. At least. they must be *cards for Europe and South Americs colour.
are forwarded" "via Siberia" if sal superse-bed.
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of the or hot. Thin only with turpentine, headaches, purify the breath, clear
Becommen
HELENE CURTIS The Glorious Self-Setting
· PERMANENT
Marie's
BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bide.
2508 (Lit Flane):
and "remember that many thin the skin, relieve Piles. Of chemists
fcoats of paint are better than a feverywhere.
few thick ones. Do not hurry:
give each coat a reasonable time to dry.
LUGGAGE YOU CAN'T MISS
Some of the most useful of the new luggage is covered in line or canvas, on a light-weight frame work The fabric looks well in grey, with shiny black edgings and handles and chromium plated locks.
Other suitcases and trunks are covered in dark green, navy blue or brown fabric, with bindings of a brighter or deeper colour,
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
CBAT ORCSS MOTE
SAINT PIL DEN PAGED PAGE STEENCO BLURE
BRUT
ONY SENSHING SV AWASH HER
STASH SHAND
ENGASED
ICARCO
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) į VERTICAL (Cont.)
45-Stabbed
16-An insect
}17-Break suddenly
19-Drop slowly {21-Part of the eye
$24-Eras
55-On account (abbr.) 27-Breathes conve 156-inter
17-A continent (abbr.)|57-Remark 18-Most insane
21-Caleing
22-Remove the skin 23-Small candle
25-Epochs
26-Peziz
28-Denude
59 Compact
|60–A farm animal
VERTICAL
1-Hoiding device 2-Above
30-A book of the Bible) 3-Makes sorrowful
(abbr.) -
31-A letter 32-Strexiced
33-Jump 35-Restrain
38-Meaning 40-Nest of an eagle 42-Infamed placa ́on-
the skin
43-Part of a ship (21)} *46-Lacerated
4- Large lake
sively
29-Boy's name
33-in this place (pl.)|34-Oppressive.
36-Restraina
5-Wing-shaped 6-A meal (pl.) 7-An ecclesiastical - degree (abbr.)
& Hauls |10–Examinen |11-Withers
13-Elver in Lorraine
and S. Prizsiz 115-Station -bbr.)
37-Manner 38-Defle 38-Black abrasive |40-Prussian city ¡41-Combining form. Within t
{42-Waste
44–Advertisements
(abbr) {46–Strike pently
47-Russian zitia (pk) 49.Attention {51-A covered portios (Gr."Arch.) }58-Battalion (abbr.) İ58-Plural eutir
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