1935-01-02 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL

NESDAY, JANUARY 2, 1935

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The Postmaster General announces That as from 1st November the Parcel Post rates to the United Kingdom will

"be reduced to:

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7 lb, 11 lb. 2.60 3.50

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

INWARD MAILS.

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Jan.

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The Woman's Page

This type of suit always looks well after a hard day of street wear. It is of navy blue crepe, featuring a cut-away coat and an attractive blouse of white organza. A blue French felt tricorn hat and blue suede gloves, bag and slippers, net off the suit, modeled by Carole Lombard, sereen actress.

DRESSING TO SUIT YOUR HOUSE LONDON FASHION NOTES

(By Philida)

London. like "Wedded" and "Parted." Has it ever occurred to you to There are people who never feel study your background when buying happy unless they are wearing a clothes? Well, the dressmakers little coat and they will always have, and this season they will tell keep a jacket on in the house and you most helpfully what is the most refuse to be parted from their coats suitable background for eich of at dinner for the same reason. their creations.

They have caused a fashion in The most striking dress shown little jackets this year, which the this week was a glorious Tudor designers call "indoor lunch coats" model-green brocade, brown fur, and "dinner in the country coats," gold lacing, and a very low, square You can have them of uncrush- decolletage:

able velvet with nice little sticking- But the designer generously ad-out basques, or of taffeta-lined mitted that It was no good without wool-tulle, and there are tiny swag- a castle.

ger coats of mole fur." The Stuart frocks were lovely, Perhaps the nicest are those made too, so gracious, and feminine, with of Rodier's sensational lame-jersey, their flowered silk basques and wide so light and bubbly and beautifully skirts, and obviously better suited coloured.

to the grand house than the busi- fness woman's flatlet.

You can suit your dress to your house, or the other way round," ex- plained the designer. "For in- stance, this gown is pure Georgian,{ and the black velvet is early Vic- torian in feeling."

HOSTESSES PLAN DINNER

London.

Women who are well known in These period and semi-period the sphere of politics, literature. dresses are to take the place of din- feminism, economics, education and ner pyjamas, and you can choose any social service are planning a din- period you fancy; no particular one ner in Mayfair on the thirteenth of

next month. is in fashion at the moment.

They are members of the Wo-

and

The ones that only suggest a cer tain period are the most successful men's Employment Federation, who Otherwise, if you go too much for met for the first time earlier in the the, real thing, guests arriving for year in the pale green, grey dinner might exclaim: "Oh! you silver drawing-room of the Dowager didn't say it was to be fancy dress, Lady Nunburnholme. dear," and that would be a pity.

The Duchess of Atholl, Lady A dress of moss-coloured chiffon Rhondda, Miss Rebecca West, the and rust red with Plantagenet Dowager Lady Nunburnholme and sleeves and little gold-pointed slip-Miss Elizabeth Haldane are among MAKING ACCESSORIES pers can be most disturbing. those who will each sit at the head

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This type of cost bids fair to be моге well noticed along the far Honables promenades. It is of bläckigalynk for and features, * smart attached scarf of the same." As proiector against chills for Margaret Lindsay, screen actress, It fittingly shows its smariness.

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GOOD FOR ANYWHERE

All these gowns have enormously of her own table at this dinner A jumper-blouse in some good If you have any bright-coloured full skirts and are low cut in front. and discuss the schemes whereby contrasting colour in lame, moire, 5 pieces left over, do not throw them The pust is accentuated by whale women are to be enabled to turn or dull satin, and the frock is

an Belts, scarves, collars and boning, or a thick. corsage of their experience as hostess and transformed into up-to-the- cuffs of contrasting colour will flowers, to make the waist look housewife to advantage when they minute outfit which can be worn

need to seek outside employment. anywhere.. often brighten a wear-worn dress. smaller.

out.

If you have a piece left over when

On other models bust and shout- you remodel your coat, you may ders rise from clouds of gigantic make the smartest of hats. Buy- a frills, and there are deep flounces on pattern and follow directions. From the skirt to match..

a colourful square of chiffon or silk The crinoline dresses with whale-

4 you may make a handkerchief that bone stiffening at the hem are worn will give character to the whole out-lover petticoats of rich silk. The fit... Clever women are making loveliest are of some gossamer gloves to go with new costumes, material covered with paillettes And well they may, for gloves were flowing over a tight silk founda-

4 never s fanciful and so decorative tion.

as they are now. They are not in-

expensive to buy, but with a good

Woven In

These sparkling circles are woven) pattern the correct size, they are into the material, not just sewn on, not hard to make and cost next to a fact which seems to account for

VIA SIBERIA— Letters and post-nothing. In this way one may have much in the dressmaking world. cards for Europe and South America a matching pair of gloves for each are forwarded via Alberia" if BO auperscribed.

REGISTERED

costume.

DINNER FROCK

"Don't think these paillettes are machine sewn," begged an English designer with a startlingly good col- lection. "Every one is put on by hand."

These moon coloured pallettes were graduated, pin-head size on the shoulders to half crown sizes at the Them.

and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above unless otherwise stated, and where. maila ara advertised to close at or before 9 m.,

A black crepe dinner frock had registered and parcel mails are closed

very full three-quarter sleeves in at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways viasaquares of mauve and red, while Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam ris across the waist in front a wide There is a type of dress at the Sapore Saigon-Marseilles via Bat-

Correspondence for Europe and sash of both these colours was pull-shows that I imagine no man would Intermediate countries will be led through slots in a criss-cross and

||grudge paying for. It is of cling-|-

tepted for transmission by these Ser- appeared at the back again in two ing chiffon with a narrow panel of vice Rates and all particulars are long streamera. shewn in the schedules ehibited at the General Post Office and Kowloon

Office. All letters etc., must be mark

Unless

ed "By Air Mall" and handed in at the General Port Office. raperscribed for despatch by a spect.

NEW LINING

fluttering frills all down the front, and it is worn with a "modesty" a little draw-up chemisette of lame or lace, or else there is a fichu and roses affect

Indoor Jackets

If the coat needs a new lining, it Be air mail service, correspondence is very simple to cut it by basting will be forwarded by the Arst servies or pinning the old pieces on the new It suggests heroines who wait available.

material so that the old will serve years for their lovers by lych gates for a pattern for the new.

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DRY SKIN

The dry skin needs a nourishing and protecting powder base. There- fore a little skin food, well worked in, or a semi-liquid cream, should be used.

The' first steps the first few yearnschlid specialist who devised their child's life are all important formula. Baby's Own Tablets, there-

fore, should be kept at hand by every MATCHING COLOURS mother, ready for administration at the first signs of infantile, constipa- tion, indigestion, colic, wind, also to, cool feverishness, to allay teething rains, check diarrhoea break up colds, expel worms. Baby's Own Tablets are obtainable from chemists every- where

Throughout thers the wise mother in relation to his future well-being. watches her little one's health with anremitting vigilance.

Most of the troubles of childhood priginate in the stomach and intes tines. It is to safeguard children against these that Baby's Own Tablets were designed by the medical

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There is a new russet red lip- stick which is very attractive to wear with green or brown dresses: It has a matching rouge, and nall varnish. Eye-shadow should be green or light bronze::

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