1934-12-26 — Page 2

MAIL SCHEDULES

The Portmaster General announces that as from 1st November the Parcel) Pest rates to the United Kingdom will be reduced tot-

3 lb. 7 lb. $1.40 2.60

11 ib. 22 lb. 3.60 0.00

Private letter-boxes may now be rented at the Kowloon Post Office. Full information regarding them may be obtained from the Officer in charge of that offico.

CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR CARDS

Christmas and

Now Year cards than five written bearing not more words and enclosed in open envelopes are accepted by the Post Office at the rate for printed matter, 1.0., 4 conta per 2 ounces.

Barclopes must not be closed.

INWARD MAILS.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1934

The Woman's Page

KNIT A COSSACK HAT WITH

A MATCHING SCARF

The Cossack hat and striped Work 2 rounds without shaping.

Next rund: K..2 tog, throughout. quickly and easily made. Both

And

Scarf are smart and is extremely Next round: K. Next round: K. 2 could be completed in a week's tog. seven times, k. 1. Draw wool apare-time work, —

through remaining 8 sts. Materials Required-31⁄2 dz. 3-ply fasten off neatly on inside.

The Scarf fingering in duck-ogg blue. -

02. 3-ply fingering in scarlet. Using blue wool, and 1 pr. No. -oz. 3-ply fingering in brown. 110 needles pointed at both ends, circular needle No. 10-not more cast on 50 sta,

than 24 ja. long. 4 No. 10 needles, Ist row: Blue wool: Knit, work- fine ing into the back of the sts. 2nd pointed at both ends. I steel crochet hook.

row: Blue wool: P. 3rd row: Blue Tension-7 sts. to 1 inch (width); wool: K. 1, x miss a st., k. into the back of the next st, but do not 10 rows to. 1 inch (depth). 27 Measurements Scarf: 7 in. wide slip it off the needle, k. into the 46 in. long. Hat: Will fit a 21/28 front of the missed st., and then in, head.

FROM EUROPE

Dec.

Naldera (vla Suez)

FROM JAPAN

Dec.

Naruto Maru

27

28

28

Toyama Maru

Corfu

Abbreviations.. K.

knit;

stitch; tog, together; rep., peat; d.c, double crochet.

Knitting The Cap

slip, both st. off the needle together. st. Rep. from x until one st. remains, rek. 1.

4th row: Blue wool P. 5th row; Brown wool: K, Break off brown

Begin at the roll at edge of the wool at end of row. 6th row: Go to turn-up brim. Using the circular other end of needle of avoid break- needle and blue wool until other-ing the blue wood every time a wise stated, east on 150 sts.; join coloured stripe is worked; Blue 28 up, and work in rounds as follows, wool: K.

marking where each round be- gins:-

Prck. Jackson

Lisbon Maru

FROM U.S.A.

Dec.

Prca. Jackson

FROM MANILA

Dec.

Pres. Coolidge

28

"

FROM SHANGHAI

Doc.

261

25

Ixian

Corfu

Pres. Jackson

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

7th row: Blue wool: P. 8th row:

Blue wool: Same as 3rd row. 9th

lat round: K.,, working into the row: Blue wool: P. 10th row: Red back of the ats. 2nd Round: K. Re-wool: K. Break off red wool at end peat the last round until work of row. 11th row; Go to other end measures 3 inches deep.

of needle; Blue wool: K.

Change to the striped pattern as Rep, the last 10 rows, l.e., 2 to 11 follows:-1st round: Blue wool: xinclusive until the scarf measures miss a st.; K. into the back of the 46 inches (or the length required); next st., but 'do not slip it off the finish at end of an 8th row. Cast needle together. Rep. from x to the off, using blue wool.

To Make Up

The Scarf: Darn each end back:

2nd round: Blue wool: K. 3rd, round: Brown wool: K. Break off into its own colour for one inch on brown wool at end of round. 4th the wrong side. Cut off the re- round: Blue wool: K. 5th round:mainder of each end. after darning Blue wool: K.

back. Using blue wool and a fine

Doc.

Talma (Air Mail)

59

27 end of round.

Ginyo Maru

20

In

Morioka Maru

291

17

FROM AUSTRALIA

Doc.

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Dec.

13

Corfu (Amsterdam Air Mail).

Closes: Reg. 9. a.m. Ord. 9.80 am.

FOR U.S.A..

Dac.

FOR JAPAN

Dec.

FOR SHANGHAI

Des

FOR MANILA

Dec.

General Pershing

Tjibadak

Pyrrhus

Nankin

*1

FROM INDIA

Dec.

FOR AUSTRALIA

'Doc.

Nankin (via Brisbane)

#

FOR STRAITS.

Dec.

6th round: Blue wool: x miss a steel crochet hook, work 2 rows d.c. st., K. into the back of the next st., round all edges of scarf, the first but do not alip it off the needle, K. row to be worked with the right 2 into the front of the mlased st., side, and the second row with the

and then slip both at. off the needle wrong side, towards you. together. Rep, from x to the end

Press on the wrong side with a hot iron stretching it out width-

of round.

7th round: Blue wool: K. 8th wise to show up the fancy stitch. round:Red wool: K. Break off red When the desired width is obtained

A smart suit expressly tailored for the cocktail hour. Of pink and silver metal cloth, the skirt is moulded and plain, featuring short train at the back. The coat is a pinch-back model with black velvet lapels and buttons. Unk Merkel, screen star, is the char- ming- model.

REMOVING DUST

To Ensure A Good Line

Buy your hew foundation gar ments before you choose your new dresses, and wear it when you fit them.

It is important to get the very beat model corset: you can afford. An expensive dress will lose its smart line if worn over 8 bad, foundation garment, whereas

a good corset will often help to give a less costly dress a better line.

When you are buying evening corsets, see that the suspender clips are invisible. There are se verni on the market, including some ingenious new ones with an inside frame which lias perfectly fat with the stocking caught in- when side it. And remember dressing to give yourself time to put on your foundation garment carefully and comfortably, with suspenders catching the stockinge in the right place.

HOUSEBOLD HINTS

If a little vinegar is added to the water used for washing table glass

it will have a brilliant polish with- out any smears of any kind. If there is an obstinate satin inside

a tumbler rub it with common salt damped with vinegar and it will immediately disappear.

Ordinary sugar icing will spread much more easily on cakes if it is over them while they are still rather warm. When this is done the icing is smoother and it dries with a better gloss.

When only the juice of a lemon fe required do not waste the ried, but grate it first and mix it with an equal quantity of grandulated sugar. Store this mixture in an air-tight bottle and it will be very useful to add to cakes, puddings, custards and sauces to give them a pleasing flavour.

New cake and ment' tins will not rust and will not burn if, before Pillows and cushions generally they are used, they are rubbed over wool at end of round. 9th round: give a final pressing on the wrong become flattened even though they with lard and then left in a rather Blue wool: K. 10th round: Blue side, using a hot iron over a damp may not need a proper cleaning. A warm oven for some time. See

cloth. wool: K.

good way of removing loose dust that corners and crevices parti The Cap: Neatly darn in the and fluffing out the alling is to cularly are well coated with, the ends of wool. Thoroughly press | Rep, the last 10 rounds twice the cap on the purled side of work empty them into a bath which has lard. Afterwards wipe off all the been carefully dried, but is still grease with tissue paper and wash 23 more. The remainder of the cap Take a length of milliner's wire à

in the ordinary way, is worked in Blue wool only. Next little over 26 inches long. Join to 10 rounds: K.

form a 26-inch ring.

Use Blue Wool

The turn-up brim of cap is now

Place this inside a 8-inch hem, completed, and the stocking at at the fold made by turning back must be reversed to bring the the first 3 inches of blue knitting amooth fabric on the right side of to the back of the striped band of the crown.

knitting. This her forms a double Turn the work inside out, so that brim to turn up and arrange to suit 28 the wrong side is to you, and work the individual wearer.

round and round in, the opposite

directions-every row still being K.

K. without shaping for 21⁄2 inches. Change from circular needle to 4 double pointed needles, to shape VIA SIBERIA Letters and post-for top of crown as follows. Next eards for Europe and South America round: x k. 8, k. 2 tog, rep. from x are forwarded "sia Biberis" H ato end of,round. Work 3 rounds

superscribed.

REGISTERED

without shaping.

and PARCEL Next round: x k. 7, k. 2 tog, rep MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time.given above unless from x to end of round. Work 8 without shaping. Next alberwise stated, and where malls are rounds

STAINS

Stains round the bath can gener- ally be removed with a paste of fuller's earth and paraffin, if they are very bad, but it is important that all parafin should be removed afterwards with very hot water.

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DAILY CROSS-WORD 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 harbor, plow, and altho.

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61-Three (Rom.)

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64-Frozen water

65-A flower

87-Dispatching

69-Timid utterance 60-Fish 'ogge 62-Singing Volce 63-Attorney (abbr.)

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29-Townships (abbr.) 29-Ghum 32-Analyzes

35-Ciljet 37-Exists 38-Instrument for measuring die- tanca

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40-Bright 42-Conforma 44-Metric land

measure

45-An Ingent 47-Organ of sight 48-Expand

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(pt.)

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The solution of the above with a new crossword puzele

will appear in to-morrow's issue.

USING THE STRIPS

OF FUR

Here is suggestion for, any |strips of good, fur you have. Edge advertised to close at or before 9 round: x k. 6, k. 2 tog., rep. from

“And Mind You Give The Patient

the, wide bell sleeves of a formal registered and parcel malls are closed

x to end of round. Work 3 rounds at 5. p.m. on the previous day.

Baby's Own Tablets!"

semi-evening dress with them, or AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via without shaping. Next round: 'k

Real flowers for evening wear Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via 5, k 2 tog, rep. from x to end of

Equally popular with the little: Devised by an eminent child- turn it into a wide belt stiffened Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sal-round. Work 3 rounds without returned to favour recently at the

specialist as a remedy for infantile. (at the back with buckram and first performance of gon. Correspondence for Europa: and shaping.

ones as with their parents in tens of

constipation, indigestion, colic, and completed by a smart buckle. Intermediate countries, will be mo

teathing troubles, Baby's Own Tab. Next round: x k. 4, 2 tog, rep. Break" at the Strand Theatre. In thousands of homes, the fame

Fox fur capes, of course, are lets are equally effective' to correct repted for transmission by these Ber ricea. Rates and all particulars are from x to end of round. Work 2 one row of the stalls alone four Baby's Own Tablets continues to

diarrhoea, cool feverishness, relieve among the smartest accessories ahown in the schedules exhibited at rounds without shaping. Next women wore sprays reaching from grow day by day. Children like

croup and colds, expel worms., And this season, but a good fox is not them because they are pleasant in the General Post Office and Kowloon round: x k. 8, k. 2 tog, rep. from shoulder to waist.

they are guaranteed absolutely safe cheap, and cape' ‚which"" looks Office. All letters ste; must be mark-

and harmless for even the youngest, skimped may spoil the effect of taste and cause no nausea, griping ότ other uncomfortable effects; babe in arms. parents like them because they are 50 easy to give, ad quick and sure in

One of them

ed "By Air Mail" and handed in at x to end of round. Work 2 rounds was of blue-tinted carnations and

General Post Office. Unies without shaping. Next round: xkilies-of-the-valley, tperscribed for despatch by spect 2, K2 tog, rep. from x to end of Sota of vests and petticoats with their results, le air mail service, correspondence round. Work 2 rounds without

brassiere tops made of elastic lace have|

will be forwarded by the first service shaping. Next rund: x 1, k. 2 boen seen.

tog, rep. from x to end of round.'

available.........

No home where there are your outfit. However, if one fur fants and little children should be is put on the edge of a little cape

without

BABY'S OWN TABLETS

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SPORTS CLIPS

New sports clips are very inex

of cloth, thick moire, or dull satin, pensive, costing, round about "four

it can be worn for any occasion shillings, and are made of lizard from 4 o'clock onwards.

Aalenbred

*

skin. They look good with tweeds.

Bringing Up Father

IFK IS ON THE

THAT TALKING

WANT YOU TÓ COME HOME EARLY-WE ARE: GOING TO THE OPERA-

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