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MAIL SCHEDULES

INWARD-MAILS;--

FROM EUROPE

Kanpuru (via Siberia) ................... Helikon (Air Mail ex Marseilles

Salgon Service)..

Anshun (Air Mail ex Imperial

FROM JAPAN

Airways Service)

Asama Maru

Kitano Mara

Pres. Jefferson Runpuru

Genou Mara Tokiwa Maru Emp. of Russia

Tanda

Talima

Aug.

24

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28

Aug.

24

FROM AMERICA & CANADA

Aug.

Pres. Coolidge

Pres. Adams

Pres. Jefferson

Emp. of "Russia

Pres. Coolidge

Pres. AdamS

FROM MANILA

Pres. Tuft. Nunkin

FROM SHANGHAI

Aug.

Asama Maru

Pres. Jefferson

Ranpura

Buiyang

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, “AUGUST 24, 1934.

The Woman's Page

A CHECK TAFFETA]

GOWN

24 Latest Idea From Paris

For Cocktail Hour.

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31

WORN WITH WIDE BLACK HAT

Paris.

The word "check" has figured larger in the news for the past 24 several monthe than probably 29 any other single representative of

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the modern dictionary. It has now! become firmly established in fashion: 27/news.

Aug.

Sept. 1

Listen to this: "Besides those; · --- dresses intended for very formal

24 parties, an ensemble, 'Chatman,” 24 soon will be seen on the Countess

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25 Elie de Ganay, who appreciates

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28 both its practical and elegant note.

Hollywood Stars On Parade

་

Joan Crawford Costume reversed this colour scheme with

Causes Sensation

OTHER LOVELY EVENING GOWNS

white velvet, accented with black.

Sylvia, Sidney. wore her favourite colour, sea-foam green, shot with! |sfiver threads. Her dress was sim- ply made and had a train, as did most of the gowns at this particular

At a recent benefit dance Joan party. Crawford caused nothing less than

20 sensation with her costume. Russian in effect, it consisted of a long sleeved, high-nocked cont of gold sequins and a long black velvet skirt: A dramatic effect that the lovely Joan wears so well.

Claudette Colbert's gown for the ¡evening was of dark red satin, cut} to the waist In back and flowing Into a long train.

Mrs. Gary Cooper Mrs. Gary Cooper (Sondra Shaw), appeared in amber tulle subtly cut in ruffles and flounces. She was

both distinguished and chic..

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

PEAK HOTEL.

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL:

HOTELS,

LIMITED.

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peking.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLED

This crossword puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spellinig, such as harbor, plow, and altho.

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30 gown with a cape. There is a gold

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31 thread underlining the cheek. It the skirt

31 is short-sleeved and

widens from the knees to the floor, i 28(or rather to the ankle, since this is 28 a more graceful line for semi-

Antenur

Athos IL

Mentor

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Emp. of Russia

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It is a black and white check taffeta

Mirzapure

Pres. Coolidge

Pres, Adams

Sown Maro

11

FROM STRAITS

Aug.

Lycaon

Terukuni Muru

Tango Mara

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Hoxang

30

formal occasions.

Menesthes

31

FROM INDIA

Aug.

Hesang !!

Sept.

Nankin

1

FROM AUSTRALIA

OUTWARD MAILS. FOR EUROPE

Worn with a black, wide-brimmed hat, it will be the sort of thing one sees in the beat aoctions at Auteuli! 30.

as well as at the cocktail hour or an informal dinner party. Inci-

Into dentally, transformed

'cortege' dress, it has been selected

Simply but elegantly made, this youthful dance frock is sure to at tract attention wherever seen: Il in of white crepe with cape and belt of the same material. Large crystal buttons hold the chic cape. Ana Dvorak, lovely screen star, wears it with becoming grace.

for a great wedding in the north SPORTS FROCK FOR

Emp. of Canado (via Siberia) Aug 24) Ranpura (vis Marseilles)....Aug. 26 of France.""

Closes: Reg. 9,46 n.m. Ord. 10.30 a.m. Athos 1 (Marseilles Air Mall

.Aug. 28

Service) Closes: Reg. 10 a.m. Ord. 10.30 a.m. Pros, Taft (via Siberia)..... 28 Closes Rog. 4.15 p.m.. Ord. 5 p.m. Antenor (via Marscilles)....Aug. 29 FOR JAPAN

Empress of Canuda .... Aramia Prex, Tafi

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FOR MANILA

Kitano Maru

Pres. Jefferson

Empress of Russia

Pres. Coolidge

Pres. Adams

Tanda

FOR AMERICA AND

Empress of Canada

Prex, Taft

Aug.

24

2.

28

Aug.

FROM HEAD TO

FOOT

Amazing Variety In Hats

25 Hat ahapes are

London. amazingly

SPECTATORS.

Even In The Hottest Weather!··

Ann Harding's frock for the oc casion was of black velvet trimmed |

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In white ermine, while Ida Lupino

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The secret of keeping well in the heat is to avoid constipation, for it is when the liver is torpid and the intestinal tract congested that you suffer from sick headaches, lassitude, depression, food loses its appeal. normal exercise becomes an affort, and you are constantly worried over your health.

To keep fit, take an occasional dase of Pinkettes, ensuring thereby the elimination of waste matter from the food tract. As an aid to diges- tion, to tone up the liver, banish biliousness, purify the breath, clear

Fitted Jackets Smartest the skin and relieve piles, there is

Spectator sports frock-what does it mean? A dress hat is cool, since grandstands and golf links j are sunny'; a dress that has a snorta air, but is shademore formal than an athlete's outfit. answers

28 varied in Paris and London this Here is the design that

20 season. Although flat Breton these requirements. 3sailors, worn straight on the head,

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.Sept. 1 and coolie and curate shapes pro-

CANADA.

Augi

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23

Aug.

FOR SHANGHAI

Empress of Canada

FOR STRAITS & INDIA

One more thing is necessary in

mise to be the rage later in the spectator-sports dress-it must summer, designers are releasing he easily tubbed. Pique, silk, or

charming small chapeaux for pre-cottona is recommended for this sent wear. A 'Jean Patou model shows an “interestining combina-design, which looks right, wears 24tion of fabrics. The crown is of and launders well, and is cool.

black fait, and the cute little brim

made The smartest suits are

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AUR.

and bow of stiffened white linen with filted jackets and are of knee Patou's new colour, deep sapphire or of seven-eighths length.

26 blue. is used for a bat in which

28 stranda of organdie and Angora

Aramis

Prox, Tal

Ranpura

Athos II

Antenor

Suwa Maru

.Sept. 1

FOR AUSTRALIA

.Aug.

Kitano Maru Tanda

.Sept.

superscribed.

29 wool are woven together to form

the soft

crown and part of the brim. The rest is made up of

25 crisp white plque.

New stocking notions on view at VIA SIBERIA Lettere and post-include the new "short" hose. cards for Europe and South America | 2 fashionable Bond-street shop are forwarded "yis Siberia" if a which stop short below the knee. and are fitted with a novel garter REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier band which requires only a deft unless twiat in order to make the gar than the time given above otherwise stated, and where mails are ment "stay put indefinitely. advertised to close at or before 9 am These stockings are designed to registered and parcel mails are closed be worn with the new evening at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via gowns of satin or lame, which fit Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via like a glove right down to the Singapore Saigon-Marsalles via Bat-knees, and tend to show an ugly gon. Correspondence for Europe and bulge if any type of support la Intermediate countries will be cepted for transmission by these Ser-used.

vices.

10-

Rates and all particulars are The latent "stream-lined" hose shewn in the schedules exhibited at are shaded to give a slimming ef• the General Post Offies and Kowloon fect to the angles. That portion Office. All letters etc., must be mark- ed "By Air Mall and handed in at which comes at the back of the leg Unless is shaded dark, with the fronts in caramel

the Genors!

Post Office.

superscribed for despatch by a specija paler tone All the

fic air mail service, correspondence shades are amongst the smartest will be forwarded by the first servicëj available.

new stocking colours.

nothing more effective than Pinket- tes, the ideal tiny laxative pills. Ob- talnable at all chemists.

Pinkettes

THE SUMMER SAFE-GUARD

BRASSO

GIVES A BRIGHTER

SHINE

WITH

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BRASS

AND COPPER

Keeps you young SCRUBB'S Bath Delight

Softens and perfumes the bath

SUPPLIED IN THE

FOLLOWING PERFUMES:

PINE, LAVENDER. BAU-DE-COLOGNE, ROSE, JASMINE.

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till 53-Before 55-Prepare

for publi. cation

whole

98-Large in

bulk

100-Stem of

certain

aquatic

plants

for cleaning 101--More

cotton 58-Needlest

Bugary 104-Aflured 107-Always.

14-Pierce with 67-A machine

a horn

18-A name tag

19-Greater 20-Relate 21-Entwined into a fabels

22-So be it 23-Waited for 24-Put again

in an earthen

vessel 26-To sell 27-Sold from

door to door 29-Prank 31-Protects

33-Fruiting

spike of a cereal 34-Act of re-

storing

again to freshness 36--And not 88--Occupied

40—Well-colti.

60-Slides 62-A funda.

merlai principle 64-An under-

round

drain 65 Calculator 68-18 up-

ported 69-Central

body of the Lolar system 70-Hemale

domestic fowl

poetic 108-Frequent.

ed place (pl.) 111-Summit 113 More

diminutive 116-Visible floating moisture 117Flowered 120-A sug- gestion 121-A finger 123-A river

embunk-

ment

72-To mistake 125-Unde-

71-Uncooked

73-Ponderous

ranged

volumes 128-To change 76-Reiterating 127-To con 70-Ventilated

front

88-Mimic 128-Resort of

85-Savory

88-A formal discourse

vated tracts 8B Lair

44-Rava

46-Drove up

stree

48--Hexitate

49-Act of

trans-

89-Young

sheep

DI-The square root of 100 92-Without

company. --Falsehood

ferring for money 94--insects

The solution of the above with

a wild animal 129-Started 130– An unima!

with

antlers 131--Allotted 132--A rated platform 138-Deposit

of fine earth from

1-Strike with

open hand

2-Called 3-In heri

4- Banging

GAMUD 7-A straight

lender stick 8-Gn before -A closed

car

10-Cover seat-

teringly 11-Noblemen.

collectively 12--Mountain

pasture land 13-A lump of

earth 14--Rules

15-A baking

chamber

16 Tear

asunder 17-Termi-

nates 23-Scolds

severely

25 Twining

part of a plant 28--Loiter Bil-A wooden

pin

32- Enemy 34-Be full of Tumes 35-Crippled 37--Cats close. 38. Bratov

permanent income upon

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harsh

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VERTICAL 41-Rougher 42 Wise men 43-Canvas

·lodges

45-A plant ylelding medicinal gum 47-To describe 48--Going 60-Fine ravel.

Inga 52-Act of

reading 64---Margin

66-A raised bank

87-To name 90-A for

mented alcoholic

Honor

92-A

magnify. ing or

dfreinish. ing glass 95-Suffer from

the heat 97-A crack

· 99-Withdraw

100-Resta

102-An elon-

gated. fish 193-Jump

69-Place again 105-Cry of a

60-Paces

81-Sober

63-Deserve

dove 108--Express

amuse- ment

66 That girl 109-Surfeited 67-Possess

110-Revolves

79-Pertaining 112-Portain-

to the rias and fall of watera 74--Augury

75-Coins 76-Abate 17-To mimic 78--Stare et

with avar. ice 80-Governed 81One of the Great Lakes 82-Acta 84--Became smaller

toward the

end

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lag to pun- ishment

118-A food-

114-A pokér

term

115 Abundant 117-Large

dosting mass of ice 118-The Wise Men of the Bible

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depression

122- A narrow ship chan nel.

124-By way of

a new crossword puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue.

Bringing Up Father.

WELL-ITS A GINGH. THAT MAGGIE WON'T WANT TO GO ANY- WHERE TO-NIGHT IN THIS RAIN-

SO I'LL ASK HER IF I KIN GO OUT FER AWHILE -

MAGGIE DARLIN, KIN GO

OUT TO-NIGHT?

YOU CERTAINLY

CANNOT-NO ONE BUT AN IDIOT WOULD GO OUT ON A NIGHT LIKE

THIS-

MR. PERCY CUTION IS CALLING-MUM -.

HE'S IN THE HALL- MUM-

TELL THE IDIOT TO COME RIGHT IN-

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