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The Postmaster General announces that as from 1st November the Parcol Post rates to the United Kingdom will be reduced to!--
3 lb. 7fb. 11 lb. 22 lb. $1.40 2.50 3.50
0.00
Private letter-boxed may now ・ boj rented at the Kowloon Post Office. Full information regarding them may be obtained from the Officer in charge) of that office.
NEW YEAR PARCEL MAIL FOR GREAT BRITAIN,
The New Year Parcel Mail for Great Britain will be closed in the General Post Office at 5 pm. on the 10th November per 9.8. "Chitral." The Public are kindly requested to post} early.
This mail is due to arrive at London on the 21st December:
INWARD MAILS.
Pyrrhus, (Imperial Alrwaye
Nov.
19
FROM EUROPE
Service)
Memnon
FROM JAPAN
Nov.
Emp. of Asia
Pres, Hoover
Sirdhana
Chichibu Maru
Kitano Muru
Pres. Garfield
Katori Maru
Rio de Janeiro Maru
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 19,":1934"
The Woman's Page
Women In The Fifties Need Make-Up Just The Same
An Essential Of Fashion And Grooming
POWDER IMPORTANT
· London.. rouge may be used. The colour, is With average physical fitness, more significant. Usually a bright and a little of the new "mature" one is successful whether it carries make-up, the woman of responsible the orange or the bluered tones. years can sing with the poet; "Grow old along with me; the beet la yot to be."
For growing old gracefully has a new meaning. Moreover, it is not associated with lavender and old lace, beautiful as they both are,
The new order of elderly grace of individual taste means clothes and style and cosmeties to give point to the appearance.
The older generation of mothers and grandmothers are often "ex hibition pieces" at our family and 22 social parties.
FROM USA,
Nov.
Emp. of Asin
2
Pros, Hoover
22
Prea, Garfield
29
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FROM SHANGHAI
D'Artagnan
Nov.
Sarpedon
Emp. of Asia
Pres. Hoover
Behar
Chichibu Maru
Pres. Garfield
Katori Maru
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Pyrrhus
Alipore
Tokushmia Maru
Toba Maru
Hakone Maru
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
D'Artagnan (Marsoilles Air Ber-
vice)
Yot for some reason of prejudice for pride, many women are not yet fully persuaded that make-up is an asset of fashion and almost
20 essential as a manicure or a hair
20.
wave.
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Work your "amudge" upwards to the outer edge of the eyes and to- wards the outer curve of the face.
To auggest roundness in a thin face, or tó foll a large or otherwiso unattractive nose, keep the colour away from the middle of the face. ;
Power is more important than any other question in cosmetics for the older woman.
It must be chosen to improve the texture and tint of the skin. While the wrong shade can have a devastating effect, a good powder is most beautifying.
Find one of those originall "mature" ones which blend with the deepest and best shade in your complexion. Avoid a too dark
as powder, which emphasises sagging, or a too white one, which is apt to blemish a good skin.
At this time of the year London
23 is full of representative women in
23 the fifties. Some are on holiday
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NOT,
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20
Nov.
Cloaca: Reg. 10 a.m. Ord. 10.30
Watch Your Eyes
Older women ought to be more
from all parts of the world; others particular about their eyes and pet. are home for a holiday; others haps less about their anger nails,
come from Important or obscure if there must be a choice.
part of the British Isles.
The daily eye-bath is a necessity
It is an opportune time for the for them. An occasional tonie: beauty parlours to introduce the treatmont helps to disperse wrink latest rouges and powders for olderles and to lift the expression.
23 women and to make an effort to spread the habit of make-up among
them.
This pale blue chiñon rock with long, knife-pleated skirt is charmingly worn by Lyda Roberti, Blm actress. The blouse has stripes of deeper blue and a capelet ties around the shoulders giving a flattering effect.
Where there are shaggy or heavy brows, a tidying treatment is indi- cated, but neither a hard line nor ja too-fine one will be attractive.
Use an eyelash brush, even if you fined. Those who are still hesitating do not dip it in mascara, but ́as
They Ought To Know
YOUR ODD
PIECES
WHAT YOU CAN: DO WITH THEM
Odd pieces are a temptation to everyone. No one really likes throwing, them nway (because of a feeling that they will dome in some time. This may be true in a vill- age institute of where doll-dressing, takes place regularly on an extra- vagant scale, but odd places are, more the cause of foartistic de monstrations of human nature than almost anything else.
Patchwork has a course, arisen from odd pieces, and patchwork used to be braiseworth when stuffs were scarce. Those who do patch- work now take the greatest care to keep to some deaign in which odd pieces would not serve at all. |Rag rugs are on the same principis. Any rage will not do for those who are merely stringing pieces of stufi together with no particalar design.
Odd pieces have, however, be- come the reason for all sorts of vagaries, such as a brick aewn un in serge and used to prop open a door. This is all very well and the serge prevents the door from being scraped, but why must `a sun-flower be worked upon it with which to make it ridiculous?
Odd pieces are accountable for many displays of mats. It is true
mats are wanted, but]
that some
many are not; and they would be far better used up as kettle-holders, though even these have to suffer from feather-stitching another outlet for the super-abundance of human energy.
Ddd pisces are sometimes con- verted successfully into garments, and everybody remembers the strange waistcoats and other arti- eles which emanated from odd] ploces during the war. Where the
Make-up for mature beauty odd piece is really immoral is when 20 ought to be impresed by news onlashes and brows are meant to out-should help to model the face, it has an ulterior motive. People am the subject, from speciallats, who line beautiful features of the face mildly define the features, and add do not really want to make somes Pres. Lincoln (via Siberia "and","
San Francisco)
20 are themselves seniors, and lovely can only improve the picture if expression and freshness to the thing good or useful with it; they Closes: Rog. 4.15 pm. Ord. 6 p.m. to look at.
these outlines are delicately de-eyes
want to let off steam at all costs, FOR JAPAN
20
Nov.
Pres. Lincoln
FOR AMERICA
Pres. Lincoln
20
FOR MANILA
Nov,
Emp. of Asia
SE
FOR SHANGHAI··
Pros. Lincoln
FOR STRAITS & INDIA
D'Artagnan
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with the result that we in a
"Dirty" Colours Are Smart world which is sarfelted with muta
They regard make-up for the} - woman who has passed her fiftieth birthday as an essential of fashion and grooming. But it is more delicate and intricate an art than for those of immature years..
So that there shall be no mistake in colour harmonies and parfect! powder tones, these specialista blend powders and rouges to match the complexion of their "grown-up" clients. They will
20 teach them the art of restraint In
Nov.
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la table stands above it. This
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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE
This crass-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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views -Savo
10-Gressed 12-81x (Rom.) 13-Performer on the
plano
14-Plural suflic 16-Make a mistake 18-Doctor (abbr.) 19-The (Fr), 20-Dined
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condition (Naut.) 30-Partition, as in
coral 33-Nocturnal mammal
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HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 34-Pronoun
37-Deputy Lieutenant
(abbr.)
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41-Wander
40-Half an em
VERTICAL (Cont.) 9-Fog-horn 11-Prevent from acting 12-Edible part of a
plant
15-Feeling
17-To send out raya
49-Trinity term (abbr) 20-Confarmed
44-To brown bread
before fire
45-Elude 48-Arguing
VERTICAL
1-Above 2-Doze
3-Dry 4-Closar
5-Boiled
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122-Muglast nata
23-A month (abbr) 27-Defile
28-You and me 22-Gives pleasure to 30-8wift 31-Part payment
(abbr)
|32-Joint
36-High broad flat
tabloland (Sp.) 38-Man's name
41-Girl's name 42-Moved rapidly
47-Director General
5% (schbr.)
7-Ultimately (abbr) --j45-Conjunction
B-Point of compass
(abbr.)
The solution of the above with a new croia-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow issue.
EGYPTIAN DESIGNS running on tramlike lines, can be pushed up against the cocktail FOR CURTAINS "bar" or used for glasses and
With this Season's dresses the gramophone records, ·
Garbo-Crawford-pagebay coiffure is A CHILD'S PROBLEM When dinner-time arrives the hopelessly wrong. The hair must Now, with new autumn fashiona table and banquette are pulled out, not be allowed to hang down al- on the carpet, is the time to think and a complete dinning-room is most to the shoulders as it has ready in a little corner of the been doing for so long, but must
London.
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the application of cosmetics; As of new carpets-and new ideas for
It is often hard for children. 20 well as professional secrets
the house generally.
submit to a much sterner discipline, when they go away to school for the "make-up..
One can get very tired of hang: being brushed up at the back and first time, to part with a favourite It is almost impossible for Colour schemes are changinglings, and the wise woman arranged on the crown in soft curls. Teddy bear or other toy animal. elderly woman to look smart in every monta or so. The present choose curtain fabrics that are not If it will not co-operate in our at- One way of making the step easier VIA SIBERIA Letters and post- eards for Europe and South Ameries her smartest hats and frocks unless Vogue is for shall pink, off white, too obtrusive,
tempts to thus glamorous, we shall for a little girl is to transform the are forwarded via Biberia" it so her cheeks have a slight artificial and greys and "dity" blacks.
Hieroglyphics Designs submit gracefuly to the inevit-toy, into a nightdress-case. If the superscribed.
warmth. But the placing of the be smart your colour scheme must REGISTERED
The daughter of a well-known abis and go sleek, with a soft curl animal is large enough, and of and PARCEL rough must be done with a light be "dirty."
poet designs some of the most or knot on the nape of the neck, material that can be
washed or MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier) touch than the time given above unless
This winter there will be more of fascinating curtains. One pair, modifying too hard an outline with cleaned, the alteration is not diffl. atherwise stated, and wheru maila arei Every other complexion needs those woollen labries for uphols-faintly reminiscent of Egyptian a fringe a la Hepburn, and prob-cult. The stuffing of the body advertised to close at or before 9 preparation with a skin lotion for tery that were so popular last year. hieroglyphics, was stamped in dark ably large earrings. registered and parcel mails are closed softening, strengthening and re- The weaving it loose, and the brown and old gold on satin, and si 5 p.m. on the previous day.
fining. AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways vin
The dark coarse types colours are, either pay and very hung in soft folds. The satin Singapore, Bandoeug-Amsterdam vis would be better with a "firming simple, or rather decided in their was a queer, luminous shade that Singapore Balgon-Marsellien vin Bal- astringent. Others heed develop futuristic departure from the con-will be popular this year. com Correspondence for Europe and ing tonic oil as a powder base. ventional.
For the man or woman who can-Ceilings are coming down-that Intermediate countries will be e- A film of vanlähing cream will' cepted for transmission by these Ber-
There are more cunning ideas in not afford these lovely luxuries, the is, they are being brought with vices, Rates and all particulars are help if the skin is heavy and given decoration this year than even be-plain fabrics that are so inexpen. Ingenious use of plywood to a less shown in the schedules exhibited af to molature. the General Post Office and Kowloon
fore, an done designer has thought sive nowadays are the wisest celestial height. It has to be a Then apply the rouge as the of a useful scheme for the bache-choice.
very large room to stand a very Office. All letters ete, must be mark. ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at expert does it, with the cushion of
lor flat.
Keep to the neutral colours, both high ceiling. the General Post Office. Unless the finger-just a smudge as a be-
The "banquette," the sofa-like for your walls and hangings. And there is a new of treating | superscribed, for despatch by a speci-gluning over the rounded part of|.
type of seat that is so popular in Flowers will look well against the old-fashioned room with a cor- Bo sir mail service, corrispondence the cheeks.. will be forwarded by the first service
small restaurants where space in grey, nale yellow, and white, bur nice. Have the carnice boxed in available.
the dining corner.
against a dirty blue, or a dirty shell and secrete the lighting in", the|| This long, sofa affair lies against pink one has to be rather more space between.
Powder Is Important Either powder, cream or liquid
careful.
should be removed and a bag-shaped lining substituted. If the school rules allow only regulation night-| dress or pyjama cases the animal may perhaps masquerade as. A CABO for gloves or handkerchiefs.
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