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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1934,

The Woman's Page

Sept. HIGH HEELS DANGER LATE SUMMER SKIRTS THE IMPORTANCE

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The first question any woman ought to raise in this business of

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FROM JAPAN

Atsuta Maru

Mantua

21 FOOT BEAUTY

Pros. McKinley

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Buenos Aires Maru

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Chichibu Maru

Medium Cuban Heel

Takada

Emp, of Asia

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Best Says Expert

Lisbon Maru

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Pren. Abover

HALF RUBBER HEELS

Tokushina Maru

Pres, Hayes

General Let

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FROM AMERICA & CANADA

Pros. McKinley

Emp. of. Asta

Pres. Hoover

Pros, Hayes ...........................

FROM MANILA

Sept.

FROM SHANGHAI

Sept.

Mantua

Pres. McKinley

Chichibu Maru

Hector

Andre Lebon

flector Emp. of Asia Pres. Hoover General Lee Prek. Hayes

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FROM STRAITS

Ponung Maru

Nagato Maru

Gape SL. Francis (Air Mail ex

Imperial Airways Service)

foot beauty is that of high heels,

Bert Most of us, because we want to look

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288 smart as we can, prefer to 27 ignore it.

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Many an angry letter has been written to the Press condemningi high heels. But women being what they are, these crusaders will never persuade us to go about in sandali. The expert states that a medium.

21 Cuban heel, because it has a wide! base, will do no harm. At the

moment this type of heel ls con- sidered smart for day wear. what is to be done about the people who would rather endure torture than give up their slender Louis talon?

But

Too High Heels

Much of the damage caused by Sept. too-high heels would be obviated if the "victims" would wear low-j

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heeled shoes or heel-less slippers at

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Ginyo Maru

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Agamemnon

Haruna Muru

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OUTWARD MAILS.

Sept.

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FOR EUROPE

Kaino Maru (via Siberia)

Emp. of Japan (via Vancouver)

Closes Reg. 9.18 a.m. Ord. 10 a.m. Mantua (Amsterdam Air Mail

Service)

Closer Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 9 a.m. Andre Lebon (Marseilles Air

Mail Services

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Closes Reg. 10 am. Ord. 10.30 a.m. Pres. Pierce (via Siberia)

Closes Reg. 3 p.m. Ord. 4.15 p.m. Hector (via Marseilles).

Closes Reg. 1.45 pm. Ord. 2.30

FOR JAPAN

Empress of Japan

Kamo Maru

Pres. Pipree

over to a low, broad heel relleves!

the strain of an unnatural, cramped! position. The feet can elongate) and stretch themselves, and there is: leas danger of the muscles becom 21ing atrophied.

Correct Balance

All the same, when choosing shoes! 22 see that the heels are of sufficient

width at the base to balance thei weight of the body correctly. Avoid! that feeling of being thrown for-1 25 ward on the toes.

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Have a half-rubber fitted to your! 20 heel. These can now be had wafer- pm-thin, and when fitted are practically

invisible.

shocki They act as a Sapt. absorber, and are to be recommend-

all who have to walk upon hard

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ed for sight-seeing holidays and to

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unresilient surfaces,

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FOR AMERICA AND CANADA

Empress of Japan

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Pres. Pierce

FOR MANILA

Sept.

Pies. McKinley

no

Alauta Maru

pres of Asi

Pres. Hoover

Proy. Hayes

.1.. . FOR SHANGHAI

Sept

Empress, of Japan

Pres. Pierce

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FOR STRAITS & INDIA

Sopt.

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Mantua

Hector

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VIA SIBERIA- Letters and post- cards for Europe and South America. are forwarded "via Siberia" if superscribed.

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REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above unless otherwise stated, and where malis are advertised to close at or before 9 a.m.; registered and parcel mails are closed at p.m. on the previous day.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sal-

A DOUBLE RUFFLED JABOT

Severely plain and most flatier. ing is this evening gown of dusty pink, worn by Adrienne Ames, of

fame. The lavish feather boa

of the same dusky 'pink is tipped in black and forms on amusing wrap for formal hours.

Made With Less Material And Straighter Lines

EVENING DRESSES

Paris.

OF

PETTICOATS

NOW NO MORE THAN|

SILK SHIFT:

WRAP-OVER SKIRT

Parle.

The fashion of wearing almost no

but

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-WO RD 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 barbar, plow, and altho.

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7

18

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sort of

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In the Paris midsummer collec-| tions skirts for day wear seem to contain even less material and to be clothes other than a dress or sult made on straighter linea, If pos-has its limitations, if only because thin, summer dresses require some sible, than the earlier spring ones.sort of foundation to them. Thus One pleat In the middle of the back the petticoat becomes a most impor or the front in apparently enough tant part of clothing generally, and fer a sports skirt.

the French lay great stress upon). A rather more elaborate skirt the way the petticoat is fashioned. Thas two or three gores let in but Those which are bought off the pressed so as to form several pleats peg are usually of the straight- to open only for walking without down kind supported by means of

istraps, and they form a giving any exaggerated flaring.

The average length of skirts of under-dress. this kind would not be less than 13: Compared, of course, with the inches from the ground.. The flannel petticoats which our grand- length of an ensemble for afternoon mothers never left off only would be ten inches from the lightened a little, compared with ground. The fullness of the even-the striped petticoats which almost ing skirt starte halfway between stood by themselves and the stiff, hip and knea and is more or less embroidered versions in cotton accentuated according to the sheer-which in hot weather took their ness of the material.

place, the modern petticoat -in

a little silk shift. Except for very grand evening more than dresses. the train is not too long.

Nevertheless, with most frocks. In fact only silk frocks have one. cut on the bins every crinkle in the Organd or linen evening dresses petticoat shows vividly, and it has, are mostly round at the bottom. therefore, to be cut almost as a Sleeves are at most three-quarter double of the dress. Those who length but generally reach only make their own will nevertheless below the elbow, They are fairly find that bias-cutting is hone too wide on coats but straight until the easy. It is not difficult to take the elbow on frocks. They are finished width of crepe de chine or satin and by big cuffs folded back or by wrap it round the figure under the many tiered flounce.

arms. It should make a sort of cigarette.shape all down the figure, The sides can then be given a seam which slopes inward towards the waist and so gives the petticoat a

In Quest Of Secret Of Beauty

CARE OF YOUR

NAILS

In-Growing Toe-Nails And How To Avoid Them

In the beautifying of feet, after the more serious task of caring for been their general health has undertaken, the first thing to do is to trim the nails.

Face-Packs Improve

In Variety

AN EGYPTIAN VERSION

London. Though their clients may imagine them to be taking « well-earned season, holiday after the summer most of the beauty specialists of Mayfair apend August and early September investigating Continen- tal beauty salons and bringing back. new treatments to London,

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They should be cut straight across, or they are apt to "grow in" at the corners and be very

From the waist the petticoat painful. Toe nalls should be kept -Face-packs that will be needed shorter than fingernaila, although by nine women out of ten to repair should be cut to have two laps, one every other phase of pedicure is the holiday ravages, improve year by of which completely wraps over the For other, making a double covering at same as manicure. After cutting year in variety and efficacy.

the back, One side is left loose; the nails file down to a smoothness. the greasy skin, and for open pores.

Then finish off with the emory often aggravated by rich foreign like that of a wrap-over skirt, and board. Next soak your feet for foodstuffs, a Savile-row specialist] thus the petticoat fits perfectly, is about ten or twenty minutes in has a pack made from earth of the easy to make, and yet allows of as warm water. Then gently push Chaldean Valley, and another which much room for movement as could back the cuticle. Next apply cuticle is a coarse powder ground up from possibly be needed. remover, brushing of the excess the bark of certain trees and then with a stiff brush.

made into a paste before it is spread Avold cutting the cuticle, when upon the face. possible. If at the beginning it is For spots, blemishes and freckles

to cut the cuticle you this specialist has brought back can reduce the necessity gradually herbal mask that is warmed up to by applying oil to the cuticles every

a soft jelly consistency. night before retiring, pushing them gently back. Eventually they will jbecome soft and responsive.

necessary

BEDSPREADS

SUMMER CONSTIPATION.

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HORIZONTAL 1-Very warm 4-Frequently 7-Cover

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10-A land measure (pl.)} 12-To ane sido

14-Fleshy part of an

animal

15-Palo

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 49-5❘x (Rom.) |45-Interwovan

47-Country of Europe

(abbr.) 48-Ordered 50-Kitchen utenal)

61-Walk

52-Greased

17-Part of a cook stove 55-Consolous of

19-Female horses

21-Each (abbr.)

22-Indefinite article 23-Sailor (Colloq.) 24-Full

of molature 26-The (Fr.) 28-Lida

25-Part of a ship 31-A blood vessel 32-Close by

33-Remove the skin

36-Greek letter 38-Musical note 40-Look -

41-A military ofcer

(abbr.)

42-Conjunction

155-A beverage

{57–Unfastans

58-A rodent

VERTICAL

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VERTICAL (Cont.) 15-Conflicts 16-Tidings 19-Chart

20-8wall of the bosan 22-Blacksmith's tool 23-Degrees of color.

27-Mistake

28-End

30-Greasy meadow 34-Elongated fish 30-Jump

vegetable 87-Terminate

2/139-Front

42-Musical drama

1-86cond son of Noah 44-Leat 2-3ea

3-English stront car

4-Bono (Lat) 6-Rend

A continent (abbr.);

7-Exlet

8-Parfact

9-Lair

¡11-And (Lat.)

113-Vary

46-Fruit of the pins 47-Chief acter

48-A serpent

49-Electrical Enginest

(abbr)

sf-Point of compass

(abbr)

52-Fondly

54-Perform

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The solution of the above with a new crora-word pussie

will appear in 'to-morrow's issue.

PEDICURE FOLLOWS

MANICURE

Professionals Who Cater For Foot Work

Pedicures are now almost as Lassitude, debility, sick headache, popular as manicures, and there are loss of appetite, furred tongue, men many professionals who cater to tat depression, any of these troubles just this type of foot work. How- can arise from constipation, one of

the commonest ailments which beset ever, look to the serious need of men and women. The best and your feet first by seeking 'comfort, surest remedy is Pinkettes, the well- then add the superficialities in the

known laxative.

The beauty 'secrets of Indian women, who age more quickly than Western women, are only beginning

A vegetable compound contain-way of creams, cuticle oils and to be discovered by Mayfair specting nothing injurious, these little polishes,

If you have corns, callouses or allats. In Welbeck-street it is pos- pilules act in a mild way. They are

nongriping and non-habit-forming. bullions 940 a good chiropodist sible to have a herbal face pack immediately you feel off-colour, take Get your feet all smoothed down

Ugly coloured artificial-silk bed exactly an is given to the beautiful two or three Pinkettes at night be- and, in condition. Then you can

women of Kashmir.

gon. Correspondence for Europe and -A woollen coat or short fur cape, intermediate countries will be both forming ensembles with smarti cepted for transmission by these Sarblack afternoon frocka, has a four! vices, Rater and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited at inch band of stiffened lace, either the General Post Offco and Kowloon black or white, making a straight, Office. All lettore etc., must be mark-collar and coming down into a spreads are often very cheap because ed "By Air Mall" and handed in a double ruffled jabot, Or else it of their hue. These take dye An Egyptian version of a mud- the General Post Office. Unlese

Spread them out on pack which can be applied at home superscribed for despatel by a speci- begins in front where it partly beautifully. Ac air mall service, correspondence shades the chin and turns round the lawn to dry, as the colour may by any woman before going out in) will be forwarded by the first service the neck to come forward again tend to sink to the lower edges if the evening, is available from

and be tied in a stiff light bow.

available.

Bringing Up Father

MAGGIE! I'M GLAD YOU SEEIT MY

WAY AN THAT YOUVE GIVEN UP THE

IDEA OF LOOKIN'FER AN

APARTMENT. WE'D

CRAMPED AN BE BOTHERBO WITH THE ELEVA

FOR.ONCE YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY.

RIGHT-

hung up."

WELL-I GUESS I PUTA

STOP TO THAT ALL RIGHT THINK PO MAKE A VERY GOOD

ESMAN.

another specialist.

MR. JIGGS-1 AM THE REAL ESTATE AGENT WHO WAS TRYING TO GET AN APARTMENT FOR YOUR WIFE: .-..

AN OF COURSE

HE HAS CHANGED HER MIND. ABOUT IT?

HEARD

SH

fore you go to sleep; you will wake

up bright and cheerful in the morn- keep them looking well groomed yourself, with treatments of mas- ing. Obtainable at all chemists.

sage and cuticle care following the daily bath, the same as you do (or should do) with your hands and fingernails.

Pinkettes

YES- SHE WANTS

BUY A HOUSE SO I'VE BROUGHT. YOU A LIST-

HUH?

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