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MAIL: SCHEDULES

CHINESE NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1935

The Woman's Page

ON

BEING FIT

On Monday, the 4th February, the General Post Office and Branch Post Office will be entirely closed. There will be no collection from the pillar boxes and no delivery by postmen, but ordinary correspondence will be de- livered to callers at the back entrance of the G.P.O, from 8 am to 5 pm.

the On Tuesday, the 5th February, General Pest Omee" will be open" from a.m. to Noon, Kowloon Central Post Office from 8 am to 11 am, and the other Branch Post Offles from 8 a.m. to 9 a.m1. There will be one collection from the pillar boxes as on Sundays, Riso at eight. Early rising keeps | Alao, as it contains no powder, nad one delivery

Do your but goes on like a smooth trans of ordinary corres you slim. Brush teeth. pondence by postmen at Noon: and one. delivery of registered correspon- dence at 11 am,

The Money Order Office will be an tirely closed during, the Holidays.

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INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Feb.

Chitral (via Suez)

7

FROM JAPAN

Fed.

Talauta Maru

Pres. Piereu

Arizona Maru

Gonon Mar Melbourne Maru -Tuushinna Maru Delagos Maru

Pres. JeffersOK

FROM SHANGHAI

Tateula Muru

BEAUTY SECRETS FOR THE

BUSINESS GIRL

daily dozen while the bath taps run. parent film, it is an ideal base for Put a bright thought into your rouge, On top of it you can work bending and stretching exercises in your paste rouge so smoothly. It makes them much more fun, that it might be your own natural Say "Younger every day" as you colour.

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touch your toes, and "Glad to be Make sure of this natural effect. alive" as you stretch your arms up by choosing a blood-tone rouge. warda.

Powder with pale. peach rather Soak a pad, of absorbent cotton then rachel or naturelle (which with skin tonic. Cleanse your skin jusually denotes

a very unnatural

of any impurities that have collect aweety-pink),

ed over-night, and then rub in" al Mascara for the eyelashes can- 2 little nourishing cream. Turn up not be recommended. There in an

4 the wisp ends of hair with curlers even better idea that can be applied. and fix the waves into place with It takes the form of a very dark metal grips.

navy blue paste that both tints the

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Just before your bath İs the lashes, and at, the same time. "en- psychological moment for attending courages them to grow..

to these Httle details. The heat of Time yourself.

This morning

the bath makes the cream sink into bath and beauty ritual takes just Feb. the skin to soften it and smooth under twenty minutes. Even

Pres. Pierce

Talthybius

Pren. Jofferson

Rawalpindi

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Feb.

Hakusan

* Maru

Conte Verde

Acnens

Shirais

FROM MANILA

Feb.

Tanada Changte

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FROM U.S.A.

Feb.

Emp. of Canada

Pres. Johnson

4 sets your waves and curls.

2 away the wrinkles, and the steam business girl in a hurry has that. time to apend on organising her Use a firm flesh brush and lots of good looks. soap and water, and scrub from tip! to toe. It's slimming!

Pres. Pierce

Pres, Jefferson

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OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Feb.

10

Pres. Grant (via Siberia).

Closes: Reg. 4.16 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m. Somali (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 8.30a.m. Fushimi Maru (via Marselles).

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Dreas quickly. Remove the nou- rishing cream with a soft towel, then tone up the skin with brisk patting with a pad of cotton wool soaked in skin tonic.

TENDER PASTELS

Contrasting Evening.

Shades

Paris.

Now for a good make-up and that means one that looks so

The newest evening shades are natural that you will not look very strong of very weak. There "made up" at all.

ure many tender pastels-notably

A lovely emollient, rose-tinted an ethereal acquamarine, at Main- foundation is best. It is made from bocher's. Vionnet uses change- 1 vegetable, and not animal, fate, 50 able grey taffeta. Molyneux puts a that it lasta all day without the gray velvet cape over a pale pink] face ever becoming greasy In ap-dress. Contrarily, Schiaparelli_cop pearance.

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WINTER

BEAUTY

bines strong ink-blue with red; Molyneux uses tomato-red with ab- sinthe, violet, and pink.

The entire range of blues is smart

Going to the extreme; a jewelled creation of genuine bugle beads, every one sewed on to a heavy silk crepe foundation by hand. Peggy Fears, actress-author, wears the extraordinary gown with diamonda and emeralda.

THE BIB CRAZE

A craze for bibs and Eton col- lars; for wide cummerbund gir

Beauty Problems

If your skin is dull and rather greasy, here is a way to lighten it and to get rid of the surplus oil.

Try an almond meal pack. It is simply prepared by moistening two large tablespoonfuls of almond meal, with rosewater and a few drops of peroxide until a smooth creamy paste is formed. Spread on the face and allow to dry.....,about twenty] minutes. Wash off the pack with tepid water and sponge the skin with rosewater.

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If your pores are rather large, tending to glye your skin a coarse look, try this.

You should use regularly a good astringent lotion. And, if you are not able to afford beauty, prepara-| tions, try making for yourself the following mixture:-

Four ounces witch hazel, Four. ounces rosewater, Tablespoonful eau de Cologne,. Tablespoonful simple tincture of

benzoin.

"EXALTATION" A NEW

PERFUME

Perfume can change the whole course of your life and loves. It is hard to do justice to a fragrance in print, but every woman, as she puts the drops behind her ears, has the desire, however faintly, to go, forth and, conquer new worlds, Particularly if she has the kind of scent that make peoplo glance round Instinctively to see who had it on. "Exaltation" is a pretty ex- pressive name for a perfume that gives you a new lift, It is the

newest creation of a famous American house, and one that has an amazing faculty of seeming to adapt itself to the person, who. Is wearing it.

To prevent tea-towels from leav- Black, of course, is universal dies; for evening flowers (espe-dip them into, weak starch water ing fluff on the articles being dried, often fired with red, worn with gold belt and gold shoes of a pikecially chrysanthmums); for even- immediately after washing. skin leather belt and gloves.

ing gloves as bulky as golf gloves. A continuance of high hussur hats,

Face, powder in the summer is a comparatively unimportant item. either uses aun-tan or none at Now, however, with the face

When straining liquid through a in constantly changing tempera tures, make-up stands out conspi-cloth, pin the cloth to the sides of cuously unless very carefully blend-the basin with spring clothes-pegs. forehead.

Clones: Reg. 8.45 am. Ord. 9 a.m. Chichibu Mara (via Siberia)

Closes: Reg. 11.15 a.m. Ord. 12 Noone

FOR SHANGHAI

Hakusan Maru

Pres. Grant

Conto Verde

Chichiba Maru

Feb.

12

all.

1 ed. Many women appear to hit on

FOR INDÍA

· Feb...

Sirdhana Arizona Maru

· FOR JAPAN

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Feb.

Hakusan Maru Pros. Grant Chichibu Maru

FOR U.S.A.

Feb.

Pres. Grant Chichibu Maru

FOR MANILA

Feb.

Pres, Johnson Nellore

Emp of Canada..

Pres, Plerce

Tjfbadek...

FOR AUSTRALIA

Nellore (due Brisbane)

Feb.

FOR STRAITS

Feb.

Sirdhana

11

Somali

Fashimi Maru

Muinam

Arizona Maru

dunce-caps, and flat pill-boxes, and rumour in the air that bonnets and brims will soon push off the

30th ANNIVERSARY

SALE NOW ON Most of our Articles being Reduced to HALF PRICE

Lovely Fur. Costs Greet

Bargains.

THE

Capes And Fobs For Spring CHINESE

China Bldg. Tel. 24744.

Trade Mark

a shade of powder that le slightly too pink, making the skin look sal- low by contrast... The only abro- lutely safe method of choosing face powder is to go to a qualified beau-

London. They appear in the evening, the BAZAAR tician and let her try different Spring is just round the corner are coupled with attractive after- blends on the face under a strong any corner so long as it leads noon frocks, they take the place of fight..

This may mean paying a little more for one's powder, but the into one of these quiet little streets Jackets on trim little suits, and if where the dress designers at pre- the jacket actually has managed to ont are showing their 1935 spring survive the competition it has al VIA SIBERIA Letters and post-models to buyers from all the Im-cape slung so cunningly from its ards for Europe and South America portant shops.

shoulders that you scarcely see it are forwarded.. "via Siberia" if *0

and capes with tweed suita. hidden away beneath. You even superscribed.

Most of these captivating little bar-capes are waist-length

Some have slits through which

results are worth the extra cost.

the hands are thrust, showing the

cuffs of the Jumper worn beneath.

If you want to be chic you must

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Just Received POSTAGE STAMPS CATALOGUE for 1935

Stanley Gibbons

84.50

None of these exciting, new style REGISTERED and PARCEL will appear in the shope, however, MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier until after the January sales. And than the time given above unless since a bargain frock is only a otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 am, xain if it can be passed of registered and parcel malla are closed spring model listen and learn. et 5 pr. on the previous day.

Capes, fringes, fobs, necklines AIR MAIL-Imperial Always vis Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam vis that perform transformation tricks, also be shaggy. All the wool hop- Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sesalceves that grow wider at the foot sack and light tweed suits and

Correspondence for Europe and and skirts that narrow so much that frocks have fringes. They are ob- Scott Stamp and Coin Co... $8.00 fatermediate countries these the hem has to have half a dozen tained by fraying out the edge of Yvert et Tellier Champion".- $8.00 cepted for transmission by these ser little allts to allow room for walk the material on scarf draperies, and rices. Bates and all particolare are thown in the schedules exhibited ting, waffle materials all these the hems of both capes and skirts.

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the General Post Office and Kowloon are included in fashion's newest

On the more formal frocks, in-

Office. All letters etc., must be mark bag of tricks as revealed by Linstead of fringe you may find all the od By Air Mall" and handed in at faw's new spring models." --

the General Fost Office. Unless

1 superscribed for despatch" by a speel-

2) 66' air mail service, correspondence |

will be forwarded by the Arst service

(available.

Concentrate on the capes.

edges scalloped or cut into a series No of tiny points.

will dream of wearing a jacket If you propose to wear a frock or a coat this spring if they can with a bright belt you must have a contrive to sport a cape instead.

metal fob dangling at one side.

Lat Part British Empire 2nd Part Foreign Countries... $7.00 Whole World"

$10.50 Simplified

$3.50

Dealers in Postage Stamps, Religious GRACA & CO.,

Goods, Garden Seeds, Post Cards etc.. No. 10 Wyndham Street. P. Q.. Box No. 020. Hong Kongf

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NOTICE

CHINESE NEW YEAR SALE

A Large-Collection of

CURIOS AND FAMOUS CHINESE PAINTINGS,

DRAWINGS AND PENMANSHIP

All Sorts of Flower Bottles and Blackwood Standi

AT ALL THE CURIO SHOPS

On UPPER LASCAR ROW and EASTERN STREET At Greatly Reduced Prices INSPECTION CORDIALLY INVITED

HONG KONG

TO

ENGLAND

A NEW WAY

Telephone 27761

A TELEPHONE CALL will suffice to arrange for the complete "RACKING, TRANSFER AND SHIPMENT of your Household effects from your HOUSE in Hong Kong to your HOUSE in ENGLAND. `

Our SERVICE attends to all details and our Repre- sentatives in England arrange for clearance through Customs and ultimate delivery to any address in the United Kingdom.

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BAGGAGE COLLECTED & PLACED ON

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BOARD ANY STEAMER.

Our Runners meet all incoming Steamers

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DELIVERY SERVICE

BAGGAGE

TRANSFER

SERVICE

founded and

operated by

CHINA PROVIDENT LOAN & MORTGAGE CO., LTD.

REDUCE WITH INKRETAN

A BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT IN TABLET FORM

STANDARDISED

made by the same factory as PROMONTA

THE WELL-KNOWN NERVE FOOD Obtainable from all dispensaries and stores-

Sole Agentes

BORNEMANN & CO.

Prince's Building

Des Voeux Road, Central HONGKONG

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From--17A - Queen's Bond, G.

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