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"MAIL SCHEDULES

PARCEL POST

A achodule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, is exhibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O. The rates will take effect sa, from lat March, 1935.

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Balgon Blagapore-Australia

Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by those services. Rates and all particulars are shown in the schedules exhibited at the Post Ofleas. All letters etc., must be marked "By Air Mall" and bo' handed in at a Post Office.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Маг

Cathay (via Suez)

FROM JAPAN

Mar.

Caloutta Maru,

Arabia, Maru

Bydney Maru

Prea. McKinley -

Chitral

Anyo Maru.

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, MARCH 5, 1935

The Woman's Page

Pros. cover

Tilswa

Emp, of Japan

FROM SHANGHAI

Mir.

Tyndarous

Pren McKinley

Chiiral

London

Fashion Conscious

Aeneas Athor II Malacca Maru

Pres. Hoover

Emp of Japan

FROM U.S.A.

Mar.

Pres. McKinley

Chitral

Pres. Hoover

Emp, of Japan ·

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DESIGNERS GIVE CORRECT

LINE TO LINGERIE

BEAUTIFUL FABRICS THAT WEAR WELL TWO TYPES OF MODEL-COLOUR

PROBLEM

Lingerie, in. Its modern phase, Lingerie, colours Incline to the is an all-important item in the new soft shades of blue and pale; wardrobe of the well-dressed wo-green, the pale primrose yellows man. Not a ripple or a seam must and, of course, the infinite variety mar the streamlined silhouette of of peach tones which range from the morning, afternoon or evening deep rose peach to the lightest tints. The great advantage of frock.

To this end" famous dress do this popular colour is that there signers have guided the correct are so many lingerie laces which other lines for all types of undergar-tone happily with it. In ments, and manufacturere are ex-colours, when lace is the decora celling in the production of fa-tion, the exact toning of the con- brics which, by reason of their trasting colour has to be selected beauty and lasting qualities, are carefully, if one is making up one's perfect materials for carrying out own lingerie-as so many women do nowadays. The safest choice these attractive designs...

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It matters not what the garment is a clear soft ivory-coloured face.

Stripes And Spols may be There are the slinkiest,

As a matter of fact the ivory of woven milanese, silks, the wash-

shades or very pale helge are able-satins, and, most favoured of all, the

among the most satisfactory lin- then erepe-de-Chines; there are charming flowered mous-gerie colours; they are attractive French And Englishness in our womenfolk. A Paris selines and chiffons, voiles, and in crepe-de-Chines, lingerie, satins, remarks that many of us have still other sheer cotton materials in and as a background for floral de- Women In Contrasts fashion writer visiting England which the lingerie designed for signs in all fabrics. In some of

INCOMPARABLE GAIT

to learn to acquire chic while 1935. day and night wear is modell-the newest lingerie fabrics Ivory preserving that "ladylike" air which'ed.

we are said to inherit with our

jor beige is used as a background

for stripe and spot designs in the latest 1935 spring colourings,

Slender And Willowy London. The Frenchwoman who is plung-clear complexions and incomparable

Lace and hand embroidery are fed suddenly into the whirl of Lon-gait. don life, as we know it to-day, finds our French observer, the two of the chosen mediums for the that Paris, by comparison, wears a Englishwoman unfailingly looks adornment of the present-day lin-

is a lady" (an ambiguous phrase, but geric, and although for day wear 18 D'Aguilar Ster Wellington St.

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Mar.

Santhis

Behar

every

Conte Hosso

Toyoka Maru

Toireslas

Doucalion

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FROM MANILA

Mar.

Taiping ....

Emp. of Ruzaie.

B

Nankin

FROM AUSTRALIA

Mar.

Taiping

J

Nankin

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There subduced air.

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Ta brilliance, a spirit of optimism in we know what she means) so long the lines are necessarily slender our capital which she tells us con, as she concentrates on outdoor and willowy, for night wear there 18 trasts altogether too strongly with clothes or simple styles. She can are two distinct styles, the slim- For the quiet, somewhat depressing at-appear on the golf links in a bat ly tailored and the "pretty-pretty" mosphere which prevails in Paris, tered felt and ell-worn tweeds and frilled and ruched designs,

these models there are flowered them off with an air no

silken To a Frenchwoman, the forma-carry lity of night life over here is al-Frenchwoman could ever achieve. silks and musling with a

surface and texture. The delicate The pitfalls appear, to our most startling. Opera hats and

frills are most beautifully finished

inset with the white tics, sables and ermine are crities, when wo "dress up." The'

finest ; and to be seen everywhere and every Englishwoman tends, then, to ex-

of hand needlework: Often there night. Dressing for dinner is the aggerate the mode of the moment. lis

ribbon trim- soft allk A That is to say, her dress will have 5 rule and not the exception.

Visitors from across the Channel one too many frills or flounces. ming in the form of side tie sashes Frills, wide or are amazed. too, at the rapid Further, it seems that it is in her over the hips, growth of dress conciousness in choice of evening dress that she narrow, are arranged over the their English

sisters: Whereas errs most often. The general im ahoulders of these sleeveless night- FOR EUROPE.

Englishmen, no matter what their pression the Parisienne observer gowns, or form a jabot, wide at the throat and narrowing towards social status may be, are undeni-obtains in London is that the wo

the natural waistline. Asama Maru (via San Fran-

sably the beat dressed men in the men do not sufficiently study per-

In more failored type, made fu ciscot

In the sonality in dress, and have not Clowos: Reg. t. p.m. Ord. B.20 a.m. world. English women,

whatever the pre-plain silk materiala, there is a lik 'Emp. of Russia

past, have had 'n great deal to realized that, learn from the Pariseans. on the vailing fashion of the moment, iting for hand embroidery in self- subject of clothes:

must necessarily be adapted to the coloured

OUTWARD MAILS,

Mar.

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Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 pm Aramis (via Siberia)

Chitral (via Marecillos)

Clonen: Reg, 9.45 am. Ord. 10, Aeneas (via Marsolilea)“.................

Cloacs: Reg. 8.45 a.m. Ord 9.30 Athos II (Marseillos Air Mail

Service)

Asama Maru

FOR SHANGHAI

Emp. of Russia Conto Rosso Aramia

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n.m.

But, nowadays, they have not wearer. 12 only just as many claims to chic

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am and elegance as the Parisienne. They may even be developing a re- putation for greater elegance than the Frenchwoman.

Mar.

FOR JAPAN

Mar.

H

Assina Maru .................... Emp. of Russia Arsunie.

Tiinegarn Fres. Wilson

FOR MANILA

Mar.

FOR U.S.A.

Mar.

*

Beama Maru Emp. of Russia Aramla

Arabia Maru Chitra! Aoneks

Arabia Mari

Chitral Athos II

FOR STRAITS

French Criticism

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BONNET-HATS

alike. Punched em- broidery in self-coloured silks. Punched embroidery is most effec tive. Collars and cuffs, yokes and should cape sleeves are are adorn- ed in this way on many of the new

We shall see a certain number models. There is a delicate vein- of bonnet-hats later on in the ing stitch which is also used in spring-only for the girl in her conjunction with extremely no And, now, for those exceptions twenties-but far newer than these tucks. ¡to this rule of fashion conscious-are the little Breton sailors which are worn perched on the back of the head.

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BEAUTY HINT

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Instep Length

Sleeping suits and nightdresses are instep long and full skirted, and in both the garment is practi- cally fitted to the figure, by meana of clever cutting, the finest of PARCEL For puffiness under the eyes, dis-seams, or hip.yoke empiecements MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier solve a dracham of powdered jor hip ribbon Bashes, Other! than the time given above unless tannin in an ounce Intherwise stated, and where mails are

advertised to close at or before 4.m. Cologne. Add a dracham of gly-little fitted jackets, but even these

REGISTERED

and

5 registered and parcel malls are closed cerine and

at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

shake

of eau-de-pyjama models are designed with

well. Apply are mainly waisted with dart with a fine camel-hair brush over seams at back and front.

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14-Near by

15-Parmit

16-8mall lump of butter

18-Mother (short) 1D-A-vegetable

20-Girl's name

22-Ireland (poet.) 24-Eagle 25-An emperor of

Rome 27-More sorrowful 29-Withhold $1-Nloer 36-A relativo: 30-Ennai (Fr.) [40-Grease

41-Girl's name

42-Bird home

44-Dry

46-Exista

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60-Preposition

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(68-Duyma:

64-Comrade

58-Dropped B

68-Gouneli of state,

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3-Indefinite article.

Part of the 6-Kind of dog

Trust 7-Persin 8-Plural, suffix

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VERTICAL (Cont.)

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17-Tinge 19-Command

21-A church omolat

(abbr.) 28-A bird

26-Torn seunder.

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62-Half a score 53-Quif mounde Deanyed

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TO-NIGHT OUTSIDE

OF FOOT-BALL NEW87,

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DOLLARS AN' THE

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WHY ARE YOU SO HAPPY. ME DEAR?

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SO SEE BY THE PAPER-

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