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INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Helikon (Air Mail ex diarmilles

Oct.

Saigon Service)

Sarpion

FROM JAPAN-

Oct.

Brisbane Maru

Toba Mary

Lima Maru

Tango Maru

Tilawa

Terukuni Maru

Empress of Canada

12.

Pres. Johnson

12

Bengal Maru

14

Pres. Wilson

15

FROM AMERICA & CANADA

Oct,

Enpresa of Canadia

121

Pres. Johns00

12:

Pres, Wilson

15

4

FROM MANILA

Oct.

Cluingte

12

"

FROM SHANGHAI

Oct.

Menestheus

Conte Verde

Terukuni Maru

Bangalore ...*

Empress of Cannis

Pre, Johnson

Kidderpore...

Pres. Wilson

Tantalus

FROM STRAITS

Achilles (Ex Imperial Always

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Oct.

7

13

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Service)

Bebar

Katori Maru

Sarpedon

Dakar Mary

fina

Kutang

·FROM AUSTRALIA

Oct.

12

Changte

"

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR BURDPE

Pres. Hoover (via Siberis) ...

Oct.

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Closes Reg, 9.16 4.r. Ord: 10 a.m.

Rawalpindi. (vla Marseilles)

Porthos (v Siberia)

Menestheuk (via Matselbe)

FOR JAPAN

Pres. Hoove Nellore

Oct.

17

FOR AMERICA AND CANADA,

Oct. Pros. Hoover

FOR MANILA

Oct.

Pres. Grant

FOR SHANGHAI

Oct.

Pres. Hoover

B

Nellore,

Porthoa

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FOR STRAITS & INDIA

Oct.

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Hai Lee

Menestheuser's

Kumsang

Conte Verde

FOR AUSTRALIA,

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 6; 1934

The Woman's Page

A black crepe dinner sult with a turquoise blue crepe bodice due to become very popular with the younger set. A removable black inckel udda a touch of informality while colourful animation is derived from a huge corsage of bright red geranium. Evelyn Yenable, screen Betres, is the model.

PATOU'S DIRECTQIRE

GOWN

When You Go Shopping WOOLLENS ARE

Make Your Purchases Proportionate To Purse

POINTS TO BE REMEMBER

CHOPPING has always been 1 woman's most fascinating past- time-the lure of the shop-window is too strong to be resisted. Many women pride themselves on their flair for a good bargain, but others are less shrewd in their purchasing. Like everything else shopping is an art that must be carefully studied

in order to obtain the best results. To be a good shopper you must first and foremost be really good at simple mental arithmetic. goes without saying.

This

To begin with you should start on your shopping expedition with a round num in your purse. propor- tionate to what your purchases will amount to. It is always very unsatisfactory not to know the exact amount your purse originally con- tained when you make up accounts on your return.

You should inform yourself of prices. This can be done by discus- sions with friends, by studying and preserving price-lists, and by com- paring prices between one shop and another. You would be surprised to discover the difference there often exists even between standard goods. It is. the shopper's business to buy with due regard to both price] and quality. This sounds like a platitude, but many people put) cheapness before everything and de not realise that a better article at a somewhat higher price is often more genuinely economical.

Examine The Bill

Shop assistants are merely human and it sometimes happens that they

themselves are not quite sure of the price of the article required-it is

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Tomata red fashions this snappy woollen frock so well suited to the thie Mary Carlisle, seren actress. The dress is tuck trimmed and fen- Lures a matching coat trimmed with elvet cat. The hat is of black taffeta,

BROWN WOODEN SEQUINS

Paris.

LIKE GOSSAMER

THIS AUTUMN

The Latest Dress Materials COMBINATION COLOURS

London.

Much of the interest in the new autumn coats and dresses lies in the materials of which they are made.

This means that If you cannot have the fashionable fur trimming, you can make up for it by choosing

la fabric which is obviously "up to

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert bat our

the minute," with a smart scarf of, readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling,

Tet us say, stiff eatin or aatin embroidered with a design in tingel] thread.

The hairy materials are the most important and interesting among the new fabrics. Some of thern have a surface with hairs about an inch long, scattered sometimes thickly, sometimes very sparsely, over the surface.

If you do not boast a stream-line figure, choose one of the woollens on which the hairs are so fat that they give merely the effect of a plle.

wear.

Country Plaids

Plain materials are more favour. ed than patterned onss for. formal]

But if you are planning country clothes you will choose! checks, plaids in bright colours or two shades of the same colour, or tweed with just that effect of faulti- neas in the broken pattern which gives hand-weaving its charm,

Thick bright threads "darned" through horizontally on a dark ground give a charming effect- especially for a suit and accompany- |ing overcoat.

-Diagonal stripes in self-colourings are good, and there are a good

up to you to see that they find out Paris.

the price from a reliable source. It AX, whe has introduced some many boucle materials and others of the newest lines this season, which have a knotted effect in the JEAN Patou completes & this to these occasions that your own has thought out a tunic made of One Directoire gown with knowledge of prices and values brown wooden sequins over a slim

One of the most fascinating coats neckline which is cut low in front

comes into play.

| brown satin skirt. And she makes seen in the collections was made In with the edge pulled outward, giving

It is enough to point out that the armholes of her coats and some woollen which was woven with a glimpse of a tucked muslin vest. shoppers must be on the alert all of her frocks nearly waist deep to tiny bits of astrakhan in broken THE SEASON'S SKIRT LENGTH the time and see that they make al give the new loose effect.

lines. -

Woollen materials for autumn) dresses can be as thin as you like, 1

the

When "It square deal.

comes to handing over the money or your

Mistakes

Paris.

1

KIRT lengths, for coming purchases run your eye over the bull SHEATHE-LIKE FROCK RETURNS with the new gauffre or check pat-

season, remain practically as and add up the figures yourself.

terns in self-colours, stripes in before, except that there are fewer You will sometimes find mistakes

fancy yams on a plain ground, or trains. The waistline for day wear even here. It is so much better to THE sheathe-like evening frock in a colour against a contrasting|

fox dpt one even here. Its coveries, on the spot is to eat hovived. la-with very few

No trimming, except a smart It fits more one. normal. For evening it la normal than later.

closely than ever to the figure and, belt, is necessary, in addition. or high. There are a great many

more often than not, shows an un-Don't forget that there is hardly a semi-fitting, princess-ish evening

When buying sarees or materials even hem or simply dips at the back. dress material made to-day which gowns with no definite walat-line at

for dresses the stuff should be held The hobble tendency at the knees has not a matching one of coat ail.

near the face in a good light and is relieved by the skirt being allt weight, either with a plain or fancy the effect, examined in a mirror.]to give walking room.

Below, the ground. Many Hong Kong silk merchants knees are frills, flares, flounces, overlook this necessity to provide pleated insets in short any width-| long mirrors in a good light for making device which appeals to the their customers. It is not enough ̧ingenuity of the designer. NOR knockabout wear, a costume to admire the material on the coup- with a hip-length jacket bolted ter unless the stuff happens to bel

FOR KNOCKABOUT WEAR

FOR

at normal line, is most favoured an old favourite of assured It is very much like last season's becomingness. esult, and has the familiar four .9 pocketa.

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POCKETS

Then again the effect of a new POCKETS Bre

hat needs to be scrutinised in a full length mirror because even the pro- portions of a hat need to be con- AIR MAIL-Imperla Airways vissidered with regard to those of the Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon Marseilles via Satgure another fact which is often ron. Correspondence for Europe and overlooked.

dealgner.

In

For Chilly People When you look for a patterned woollen, you take it for granted that it is woven. But this season, fy

it has already been announced; there are new rough woollens and tweeds, suitable for dresses, with 28 much

designs printed on their surface evidence as ever, and are intead. Some of these blouse and fastened in a number of new ways scarf woollens have a shot effect. Bars of wood suspended from cords

And here is good news for those. are used instead of buttons by one chilly people who fall back hopeless- Another is using metally on what someone has called "the or composition clips.

inevitable woolly Jacket" as soon as winter comes. The new fine, sheer VIA SIBERIA— Letten and post. Cepted for transmission by, these Ser-more to be said on the art of buy

woollen materials make delightful cards for Europe and Faith America vican, Rates and all particulars are ing the best in various commo- all the necessary shopping in a blouses ure forwarded "via beria", if so shown in the schedules exhibited at

Another new way of combining superscribed,

the General Post Ofice and Kowloon dities much of which le acquired by given neighbourhood before pro- REGISTERED

PARCEL Office. All letters ott, must be mark-personal experience and friendly ceeding to another because, petrol colours is to have a long coat in a MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at counsel. The great thing is to make and rickshaw hires have to be taken dark shade, say in brown cloth, than the time given above unless the General Post Office. Unless a note of where certain things can into consideration, when we go a-lined with a brighter contrasting! siherwise stated, and where malls are superscribed for despatch by a spect advertised to close at or before & a.m. Be air mail service, correspondance be bought best with regard to fresh shopping and economy must be colour, perhaps a soft blue to match practised in more than one direc-the frock, which is of the same. registered and parcel male are closed will be forwarded by the first service ness, quality and price.

material. at 5 p.m. on the previous day,

And it is well to remember, to dotion.

ard

intermediate countries will be ac There is, of course, a great deal

available.

such as harbor. plow, and altho.

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HORIZONTAL

1-To warm by genial

host 5-Mold

32

165 164

67

69

71.

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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 56-Sterling (abbr) 67-A school book (pl.) 62-Man's name

10-A place for the ante 68-Own,

of goods

14-Large lake

15-Alvar in Italy 16-Current

17-Alver In Egypt 18-A Mohammedan

> 'princa

19-Paradiso

20-Higher 22-Tradera

24-Consumer 26-Station (abbr.) 27-Agitating 31-Ascends 136-A fowl

37-To

in a

stealthy manner 89-Combining form.

Wind 40-Angers

42-Very cool (Post.) 44-Row

45-Made a mistake....... 47-Memento

49-Lace fabrice 50-Kind of deg

$2-Those who sleep .Ci-Guided

67-Drugs 69-Large plant

30-Part of a stove 71-Perform

72-An Engilah titie 73-A number (pl.) 74-Scars 175-Clip

VERTICAL

1-Crooked 2-Melody 3-Part of a window

trame-

*-Box usad le dressing

5-Beginning 6-Pronoun

7-Axelat

B-Peeks

9-Plural of erratum

10-Walk

11-Storste

VERTICAL (Cont.) 23-Paraguay (abbr.) 25-Jear 27-Flings 28-Earth (Fr.) 29-Ingotive

Heavy

winda

32-Interest (abbr.) 33A

fish-net 34-Turkish offiolal 35-Gradan

43-THOR

akilled in dietetics 46-8mall valley, 48-A letter (pl.) 51-Decorated with

reada 33-Babbles 55-Male bee 57-A missile 68-To

cover with PAYOmEnt

60.Magnifying gīnai. 61-Extend over- {63-Parein

64-Combining form.

12-Alver in Qarmany 18-Indites

Air 66-Amirt

68-Combining form.

Outside

21-Organs of hearing

The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle will appear is Monday's issue.

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