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MAIL SCHEDULES

- BROADCASTING RECEIVING

LICENCES, 1935,

All Existing Licences explre on 31st

December, 1934.

New Licences for 1935 will be avail-

THE CHINA'MAIL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1935′

The Woman's Page

able at the Government Radio Office Women With The "Hurry Mania"

P.&O. Building, as from 1st January,

1935 and will be issued from 0,80 a.m.

to 4.30 p.m. against the receipt of

remittance of $10.00.

Applications may be made-

(a) personally.

(b) by messenger.

(c), by post.

(By Dorothy Temple)

London. of work its "victim" has to do.

The 'scene was a cocktail party-- The busiest woman I know is doing the work of three people in a But she is famous London store. never. in a hurry, simply because hor day is so planned that rush and scramble are unnecessary.

It is essential under (c) and prefer itself a confession of haste, for was able under (a) and (b) that appllen-not this kind of entertainment de tions should be accompanied by crossed vised to save the time of busy guests cheque payable to Hong Kong Govern- and hostesses?

ment. The new licence will then be And possibly it is because I live

sent by post or messonger al soon an

with

it is ready. Where actual cash is ten-in the country, where we are less dered a new licence should be received conscious of the daily race in exchange before leaving the Licon-time, that the particular dozen of ning Office.

"leisured" London women I met being In the case of renewal the old that evening struck me as conce should be returned with the ap-busier than the busiest of big bust plication,

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amaterdam vla Singapore

neas men.

I

"Darling. I meant to write, but have been torribly hectic lately...." Saigon-Marseilles via Salgun

"Positively not a free moment, I as- Singapore-Australi Correspondence will be accepted for sure you, between now and Decem-1 transmission by these services. Rates ber...." "So rushed, my dear, that and all particulars are shown in the I haven't even had time to see about

World's Busiest Woman

schedules exhibited at the Post Offices.clothes...." All letters etc., must be marked "By Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Office.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Menesthous

Rajputana (via Suez)

Jan.

You never find her arriving late! for an appointment full of breath- less excuses and threatening to dash off somewhere else. You never find her refusing to see a visitar "be- cause she is too busy." Instead she contrives to give an impression of never being busy at all.

a

She has what I am afraid is not

OFF-WHITE

WINTER

LEAVES

Cellophane leaves which are so effective in an off-white scheme are inexpensive to make.

cello, Material-A sheet of phane, fine and medium silver wire, narrow adhesive tape, & pot of mucilage, a tin of black cellu- lose paint, and twigs of the alte desired-beech are the most ef fective.

rough Method First cut out leaf shapes in cellophane, glightly larger then desired. Snip the' me- dlum wire into lengths 11⁄2in long- er than the length of the leaves.

typically feminine quality-alm- GIBSON GIRL STYLE Gum one side of a leaf shape, lay

Paris.

la wire spine down the centrẻ, and cover with another cellophane leaf shape. Press well together, run-

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ness and serenity. Oddly enough, often in the busiest men of affairs,

A poke that lifts the hat off the ning the thumb nail down each you meet this unhurried calm very although it is rare even in the most

front of a fringed forehead. then side of the wire, and hang up to efficient of women.

Men like to pose as being leisured suddenly sends it back again to dry.

When dry trim up leaf shape These were the snatches of con-

edge and bind wire stem to twig verantion that rose above the general when in actual fact they are living rest on soft curls, recalls the "Gib-

And women, evenison Girl" headgear. chatter. And suddenly someone at fever-pitch.

Fashion's new movement in hats with fine wire, and cover join with would grab her fur, gloves and bag those who have very little to do,

Victoria and adhesive tape. After all leaves have 18 and hurtle from the room, explain-take a strange enjoyment in pre-favours the late

This sudden been fixed to twig paint joins and 24 ing vociferously that she "Must tending to be almost too busy to Edwardian periods.

back and forward tilt is led by stems with cellulose paint. dash off now.... a hundred and offe breathe.

Obviously it is a bad state of Jean Patou. Very attractive is hig things to do before dinner.".

Each of those women was, mind to be in. 1. speak without larger crowned toque of draped caught back with

new grey-river-sort 18 thought, almost morbidly anxious to medical authority, but it is sound black felt 18 give me the impression that she was common sense that if a woman works squares of ivory, resting on a

herself into a frenzy of hurry every cluster of curls. It pokes forward of tint that will be more difficult the busiest woman in the world.

unnatural almost to a point, showing waved than all to wear, but it will be a Why? Is it a new kind of snob- day she is putting an

tressed and a side fringe on the very chic mixture, especially with bery?

Or is it just that many strain on her nerves.

black or with grey cloth. And how widespread is this left." women to-day are living in a frenzy.

feminine craze for hurry you can "In these days of feverish excite-see any day if you watch, as I did ment, when every hour is filled up yesterday, crowds of business men and women pouring from the city with countless engagements...."

尊重

FROM JAPAN

Jan.

Nagara

18

"

Pres, Hayes

Suva Maru

Chichibu Maru

La Plata Maru

of hurry for its own sake?

That is not some angry old gen-train during the morning rush-hour. tleman writing in to-day's paper

19 about the rush of modern life-it la

Scramble To Beat The Clock

A CHIC MIXTURE

There is a

No One

Need

Be

"Plain"

Kamo Marui

FROM U.S.A

Jan.

Pres. Hayou

13

FROM SHANGHAI

Jan.

Suwa Maru

18

Pris. Hayes

18

Chichibu Maru

10

Ninghai

Perseus

Naldera

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Jan.

Suwa Maru

г

Menestheus

12

Hakodate Maru

20

18 usual argument that nowadays we best start for a busy day! have to live at the pace of the speed Next time you ment

A woman Cr

Anshun (Air Mail)

21

Calcutta Maru

..

Takuda Maru

Bangalore

Nagato Maru.******

Tencoa

Tjinegara

FROM MANILA

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Pres. McKinley

Jan.

"

(By A Beauty Specialist)

I wonder how many women there body too, and see that your feet to walk are in the world who, each time are kept warm and well shod all But near-they look in the mirror, think to winter. scurrying themselves: "If only I had a bet- desperate ter shaped nose

Most of the men seemed to have 22 the beginning of an article I have allowed enough time 25 just been reading in a woman's leisurely to their offices. ly all the women were magazine dated 1839!

So it is no good our trying to and scrambling in a 18 excuse ourselves by bringing out the hurry to beat the clock.

Not the were alimmer

were prettier..

Fear of getting old is another

. if only Ibugbear with which women worry if only my hair themselves into a fever of" des- my skin clear-pair. If only I were ten years.

younger is their ery,

my eyes brighter

"If only.

22 dance in "Streamline." and ate with hurry manis, withhold your my hande more shapely

of the ready sympathy-"Pour dear, how

frightfully busy you must be

22 therefore helpless victims

28 universal whirl of activity.

23

Jan,

18

1

Closes: Reg. 3 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m.

Han Ning (via Siberia)

Suwa Maru (via Siberia) ....

It is true that things move faster until you see whether hers is a truly than they did in 1889 but that deserving ease. means that less time is wasted in getting from place to place and that, thanks to vacuum-cleaners and other aids to "speeding up" in the home, we spend a smaller proportion of our day on domesticities.

No, "hurry mania" is just an-

other of those kinks in the feminine

18 mentality that cannot be put down

F

16

19 to "these days of feverish exelte-

22

Closes: Rog. 8.45 a.m. Ord. 8.30 a.m.ment" either now or forty-five years

Taiyo Baru (via Siberia) ...

$4

ago. And it happens to be the

Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. p.shionable one of the moment.

FOR SHANGHAI

General Sherman

Jan.

181

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18

"

It is quite unrelated to the amount

#22 VIA SIDERIA Letters and post-

Pres. McKinley

Taiyo Maru

FOR INDIA

Jan.

FOR JAPAN

La Plata Meru

Kitano Maru...

General Sherman

Pres. McKinley'

Taiyo Maru

Jan.

cards for Europe and South America

are forwarded "vi Biberla" K. av superscribed.

Those two words seem to heavier than lead on millions women's hearts.

I wonder what such women would have done if, like our great lie grandmothers, they had gone into of lace caps and retirement at thirty? In 1935 there is opportunity for

In the hundreds, of letters I re-fevery woman whatever her age, to ceive each week, it is a phrase improve her looks out of all recog that occurs, or so it seems to me, nition, as well as to make a full

"If life for herself. more often than any other. only

"Is such a defeatist! attitude to adopt towards oneself, that I should like to see the words erased from every woman's dic- tionary of beauty.

Forget That Nose

Supposing your nose is not "pure Greek," supposing it has got a bump on the end and a hump) in the middle what about it?

Have you not the wit to lead in- terest away from your poor cof- fending feature, to the brushed sheen of your hair; to your eyes Rubber shoe heels, obtainable in and the exquisite arch of your

ANTI-SKID REMEDIES

22 REGISTERED and PARCEL small sizes the pair, are valuable

MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier

browa?"

Are your hands in the "If only than the time given above malsas anti-skid remedies for chairs and I had better handa" class? Then otherwise stated, and where malls are settees that are placed on a polish- keep them even more perfectly 18 advertised to close at or before @ amed wood floor. Just fix them in tended and manicured than your 13 registered and parcel mails are closed place of castors. They will pre- friend who has almond-shaped 18 at 5 pm, on the previous day.

AIR HAIL-Imperial Airways via vent damage to floora.

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Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis

FOR U.S.A.

Singapore Jaigon-Marsellies via Se1.)

Jaz.

gon. Correspondence for Europe and

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18 intermediate countries will be c

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General Sherman Pres. McKinley Taiyo Maru

CLIP-RING EARRINGS

Clip-Ring earrings in brillanta

nails and delicate, tapering fingers (she has her if only" troubles too, you may be sure)...

Be clever with your hands. Train them to be quiet and placid; don't go in for exotic nail varnishes,

22 vices. Rates and all particulars are are favourite gifts. Three to but take great pains to keep the

shown to the schedules exhibited at

the General Post Office and Kowloon four inch long clips in brilliants skin of your hands smooth and Ofee. All letters ald, must be mark-Jare shown.

ed "By Air Mail" and handed in at A scarf of cabochon sequins is

11

FOR MANILA

Jin,

Emp. of Asja

18

20

Pres. Hayes

18

24

FOR STRAITS

Jan.

Suwa Maru

1 available.

La Piata Mars

the General Post Once, Unlera good idea. It can be worn in

a

superscribed for despatch by poc dozen ways. It is obtainable in Ac air mail service, correspondenca

will be forwarded by the first servies black, silver and colours,

Shoulders in evening dress need not match,

firm with the daily use of hand

creams and judicious mazsage.

Joyous Morn!

Do you get up feeling

and in love with the wohappy, well, you sleepy-headed, bad-tempered, afflicted with a grouth against every

against gl body and everything!

If the latter just try a little dose of Pinkettes to-night, and see how much better and brighter you will feel to-morrow morning,

digestion, diepst constipation, banish sick-headaches and billousness, en sure clean tongue, pure breath, clear skin and good spirits. Of all chemists.

Pinkettes stimulate the liver, aid

PINKETTES

If your circulation is poor and your hands, de a consequence, are inclined to be red, don't rest at massage alone but exercise the hands as well. Exercise yours

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

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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.

12. 13 4 15 16

7 8

15

18

120

121

22

27

30

131

95 36 37

142

PS

HORIZONTAL 1-Deciphered 7-Scatters 13-Anger 14-Avanua (abbr.)

15-Member of the Tai

tribes 18-Falsehood, 17-Tolla 18-Long hair 19-Discovering

159

52

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 45-An Insect: (pl) 146-Carry.

{47-Joor

48-The coming together.

50-Native of Greece.

126

39 140 141-

VERTICAL (Cont.) {Zu-Woći for knitting

22-Grazie

23-Rops for checking

an animal (p).) {25-1de1

52-Any one who holds 26-Rao (Scol)

property in trust 54-Ever (contr]

spiral lack of 56-Man's name

21-Expenses

56-Even (cont

67-Have

58-Hate

24-American Associa· · 159-Wishes

tlon for the Promo-i

tion of Silenes

Tabbr.)

25-Demon 27-Promptly

28-Flame

20-A weapon with a pointed head 36-Untidy woman 12-9lips

33-A garden tool (pl) *84-Extend over

35-Trust

98-Pithlost.

42-Howla

43-8súby

44Combining form.

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VERTICAL

1-Quides

2-Before

3-A musical

Instrumant

4-A tropical frut

(pl)

5-Evenings (Post.)

G-Becomes hopeless.

7-8treak

B-Achos

9-Resound

10-Affirmed

11-Expire

12-A kind of day.(pl.)

128-Food (Blang!

129-Narrow strip

wood.

31-A measure of weight

: (ph)',.

132-Bhort galler

34-Notched he

like a saw

35-Hauled. ·

36-Eternity

87-Succession of taps

(pl.)

38-Fleshy part of an

animal 138-One who ejects

40-Look

41-A palt lake In Sputh

Australia

48-Penna (pl.): ¿ 46-Male hoga

47-5tupatias by

blow

140-Ons hundred three

(Rom.) 49-An Indian

81-Wild (@cot.).

53-A female sheep

The solution of the above with a new crossword puzzle

appear in to-morrow's issue.

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