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MAIL SCHEDULES

PARCEL POST

A schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductione, a exhibited in the Pared Office, G.P.O.. The rates will take effect as from lat March, 1935,

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng Amsterdam vis Singapore. Saigon-Marseilles vis Saigon' Singapore-Australls Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates

THE CHINA MAIL MONDAY, MARCH 11, 1995

The Woman's Page

Musical Notes In Fashion's

Latest Spring Song.

Paris. ter semi-circular in fact, and mark straight

and all particulars are shown in the The first spring fashions show time side by side with

lines. Then a change comes with

achodules exhibited at the Post Offices off Marcel Rochas designing in an

# full accordeon pleated black, All letters etc., must be marked "By

different mood Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post entirely

from skirt that is given a mannish nota Office.

architectural tendencies, and he in a shirt blouse and tie of small leads you from one brilliant iden grey checked "de luxe" tle-silk. to another in double-quick time. This is covered by a short bloused Talking of double-quick time he jacket of the silk gripped to the issues à treble clef belt buckle waist.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Van Houtz (A Mail Itn-

perial Alrways)

FROM JAPAN

Malacca Maru

Tilawa

Pres, Hoover

Tilawa

Emp. of Japan

General Sherman

Allrore

Pres. Garfield Lyons Maru

Hakusan Maru

Taiyo Maru

Aenean

Athan 11

FROM SHANGHAI

Malacca Maru

Pron. Hoover

Emp. of Japan

General Sharman Pirs. Garfield Hakusan Maru Conte Ross0 Taiyo Maru

FROM U.S.A.

Mer.

1

The

also elips to replace buttons for a Sleeves charm the eye when| pale blue linen dinner frock which balloon puffed of floral taffetas in 12 has an open space at the skirt front plain dark coloured frocks:

encasing a kilted petticoat skirt of emphatic note is youthful with an black linen. Black carries out the ingenious galety that is 1900 but bolt theme, while small clefs of brought up to date 1985, Mar. silver metal fasten the simple In hats the shady "coolie" is ré-

14 bodice.

peated, but with a difference. 14

It A few musical notes might follow has a hole in the top of the crown the clef on a stave of white and and there is a wide brimmed shape there is a lyre motif for belt buckle that dipa bath back and front.

15 which is sometimes repeated to This applies also to a smaller brim-

15 adorn the front of a high neckline med shape with novel helmet

"High necklines lead up to dinner crown,

16

and evening gowns with ballon puft

17 sleeves to sleek down the silhouette into the new peacock trailed skirt that is cut shorter In front and lever so cleverly in double organza Mar. of brown, navy, and white.

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Mar.

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Other evening skirta In falle taffeta, moire, in delicate colours

such as Nile, green, white with aj

15 satin stripe freshly tinted iņ green.}

15 red and blue, hand to ground-

15 length in gored fashion, gores de-

16

EDWARDIAN COLOUR SCHEME

THE DEBUTANTE'S FLAT

London.

Modern designèrs have succeeded

acending in graduated lines of in convincing the modern debutante 17, four, six or eight.

that there need be nothing insipid Reviewing the latter gown, which in a pink and blue colour scheme has a new Directoire air with wide; the two colours that in Edwardian flat rovers, balloon puff sleeves and days were almost the only 14feandwich-board coroage, take note considered "young," and therefore is of a flat rosette at the front waist suitable.

15 line with streamers of narrow satin

ODEN

Blue walls and gelling and a ribbon to match the stripes run-pink and blue four-poster bed, ning down through the white reaching to the ceiling, with a taffela.

reversible blue and pink quilt

'.

12 A similar waistline garnish is figure in the attractive hed-room

floral being completed at 41, Bryanstor white square, for. Mias Joy Fitzroy Lyon.

Pros. Hoover

Emp. of Japan

Pres. Garfield

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Mar.

Toyoka Maru

H

Tairesina

12 that of a multi-coloured

Bellerophon

19

Deucalion

16

bouquet encased in ita

+

Kashima Maru

10 cartouche. This strikes a special while the latter is at St. Moritz with

Kumsang

FROM MANILA

Mar.

Pres. Wilson

11

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Aongas (vin. Marseilles) ...

Athos II (Marseilles Air Mail

Service)

Pres. Wilson (via San Fran-

cisco and Siberia)

Mar.

16 note on a black and white printed her mother for winter acorta.

"

12

· Lucerne green bagheera WAB

used to create the street costume Helen Twelvetrees, famed film star, is wearing, With a mink collar, muff and beret for colour contrast, the costume is a delight to the eye. Green suede pumps, trimmed in patent leather, mink- coloured hose and greep kid gloves, complete the ensemble.

INTRODUCING THE MINAUDIERE

The Stars Inspire Decoration

(By Mrs. GORDON STABLES)

London.

The stars in their courses serve just now as Inspiration for various items, in interior decoration, the silvery stara of the Northern Hemisphere and the golden stars; of the Southern skies.

On lampshades little constella- tions of stars, such as Ursa Major, the Great Bear, and Auriga, the Charloteer, scatter themselves in silver beauty over the ground of aplaated fabric that may be either of stiff glazed paper or of calico surfaced to look like one. Its colour wavers between blue and green, and If persevering you may light upon a colton material that will all but. match with it for your windows and dressing-table, cushions and covers. This steers, middle course be tween a cretonne and...a chintz having the softness" of the one combined with the pleasant. waxy sufface of the other..

New moons, RO charming i form and so felicitous in implica. tion, form a happy patterning 'for other furnishing materials. Their chaste whiteness punctuates. 1 ground in the earth-brown which [at present plays so important

part in interior colour schemes. Here and there. amidst the moons figuro Taurus and Orlon. Venus and Cassiopeia, in, a. fine irregu larity that excludes the formal..

A

Tints Of The Firmament Celling papers are at their most |·. pleasingwhen they suggest the in finity of the firmament by a scatter ing of stars, large and small, single and clustered. Such papers, once hard to come by, now present them. selves in a wide choice of heavenly

tints and of stellar density.

In the exhibition at Burlington House one of the most arresting of the exhibits, illustrating the alll ance of art with industry, is a by George carpet, designed Quilted percale blue backed with London grateful to "Princess Sheringham, adorned with the 12 Hawaiian Inspiration pink makes the bed curtains and Marina," as it sometimes still contellations of the Zodiac, fitted The "dalsies pled and violets the window curtains, too, and this thinks of her, for bringing to

ця into a central oval and with the

organza gown.

London

blue" notion brings other new floral room leads into an all-pink bath-new idear and new details of zodiacal signs Interspersed in the motifs to the fore in flat chemisier room, the rich banana-pink that is feminine interest. Enough has bordering.

DRESSMAKERS PREPARING

FOR THE JUBILEE ··

fronts composed of big daisies ap now associated with the Duchess perhaps been written and talked of plique on a black'evening gown as of Kent.

the chic and beauty of her hair well as an afternoon frock. Опо

Mirror Panels

with its multitude of tiny curls of the latter shows a pure white

and those diamond atars clipped A set of mirror panels for the into the strands by unseen pins, 12 garland of

Hawaiian inspiration built-in bath and a mirror splash which, by the way, were an idea Glonen: Reg, 8.45 a.m. Ord 9.30 a.m. posed within a looped cuff decol back are features of this bath-room of the great Van Cleef in the Plane makers are modelling their new All the time that London dress- lete. This loop just slightly be Directly outside is a clothes pass Vendome, Paris. 12 yond the garland in the black and

Įspring clothes, they are thinking of age, lined with shoe cupboards, ha+i But there is one other little dress the Jublice. "It is going to be a small patterned white daisy print shelves, and roomy dress cupboards oddment which was noticed lying wonderful day for clothes." they Closes: Reg. 4.15. p.m. Ord. 6 p.m. Ching from which the frock is that make it easy for the modern on the

made..

tablecloth beside the day, "a time of great public ́cere- debutante to keep her wardroba in Duchess the other night. Skirta widon in daytime-frocke

And one monies, for which women will want order. Mar. but not unduly. They are quar-;

can, Bafely predict that there will more formal day wear than for any Miss Fitzroy Lyon and The Hon. be many others like it in town be other period since the Edwardian " Nefertari Bethell, for whom their fore many weeks have passed. It mothers gave a joint dance last was miraudiere. The word comes VIA BIBERIA Letters and post-summer, both have vory decided from the French verb, minauder, 12ards for Europe and South America ideas about house decoration. There which suggests "making little

are forwarded "via alberix" it are many points of similarity be-feminine movements," and the red enamel has been helped by the The vogue for vivid, young, light nuperscribed.

REGISTERED

PARCEL tween the "debutante flat" that minaudier Itself may be of massive fact that it takes away the yellow 11 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier each girl has in her mothers gold or platinum and has a number tinge from hands and makes them

than the time given above unless house, one in Hyde Park-garden of separate compartments for ntherwise stated, and where mails are and the other in Bryanston-aquare. rouge, powder, a mirror and two

look whiter. advertised to close at or before 9 am)

While Mrs. Fitzroy Lyon has or. three cigarettes.. All this in 12 registered and parcel malls are, closed chosen a plum-coloured "tolle de one compact case, 14 at 5 p.m. on the previous day.

With manyį new Princessi

FOR SHANGHAI

Pres, Wilson

FOR JAPAN

Mar.

Pres. Wilson

'FOR MANILA

Mar:

Taiping

FOR U.S.A.

Mar.

Pren. Wilson Pres. Hoover Emp of Japan Pres. Garfield

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and

15 AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via Jouy" paper on ́a, cream': ground more novelties, our

15 Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via for her boudoir, and a cream-brought it with her from across

Singapore Balgon-Marseilles via coloured carpet her youthful daugh-the Channel, gon. Correspondence for Europe and intermediate countries will be ter asked for a panelled room-in cepted for transmission by these Ber paint where oil paintings aborn

FOR STRAITS

Mer.

Aeneas

+

Kutsang

13 H

Mar.

1

ed

11

H

FOR" „AUSTRALIA

Hai Hing (Air Mail Service) Taiping

FOR INDIA

Mar.

Athos I

Rates and all particulars are the walls, the curtains are

PIN SPOT MUSLIN

12 vices..

shown in the schedules eabibited at brown linen with a classical design Another old-fashioned fabric has the General Post Office. and Kowloon Ofice. All letters etc.; must be mark and bookcases are filled with vellum-flown back on the wings of fashion

"By Air Mail" and handed in at backed books,

-pin-spot muslin

the Genera! Post Office. Unless Miss Bothell's sitting-room is

It is used for dainty little vests

superscribed for despatch by a speel painted a very deep vellum yellow; to fill in the frilled square neck of de air mail service, correspondence with malachite green decoration, a navy wollen frock, and the effect will be forwärded by the first service; available.

and is simple to the point of Is very fresh and charming-like J'austerity.

'wise correctly" Edwardian.

LIGHT RED ENAMEL

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PEAK HOTEL;

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,"

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A GALAXY OF NEW CREATIONS JUST UNPACKED GAGE AND BRAE-BURN SPRING HATS

ALL WINTER FELT HATS

TO BE CLEARED AT $4.75 each MODE ELITE

Entrance Chinese Bazaar China Bldg.

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

This crossword 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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HORIZONTAL 5-Foundation 4-Agitatze 11-Rew metal" 12-Mortify 14-Negative

18-Unit

18-Addition to one side

of a house. 19-Indefinite artiola 20-Rubbers

22-Dens

24-Elagant

20-Combining form.

HORIZONTAL (Cont)] 41-Everlasting.

43-And (Lat.) 44-Look

46-8xinte (abbr) 47-The (Fr.) 48-Wales away with

grief

50-Dead 52-Reclaimed |68-Small chlidren

VERTICAL

1-Favors 2-Very:

gnawed

27-An atom bearing an 3-Appearing as if

afsatrie skargo ja 28-Agress

81-A measure of weight

(abbr.) 83-Pronoun

34-Foot-pound (abbr) 35-Reclinos

85—An inspot 87-Lick up 33-An English title: 30-Mistar (Bp.).

•Exiata 6-Pronoun 7-Having height. 8-Vował: mutations

(Teut)

9-Musical note

110-A Japanese coln.

(pl.): 12-Paint of compass

(abkr.)

The solution of the above with

will appear in to-morrow's

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VERTICAL (Cont.) {18-A'hunter of gigantic

elze (Gr. Myth.) 17-The wearing away ́of rocks, as by

water

10-8. W. State of U. 8.

(abbr.)

|21-Giria namo }28–Those in office |26-ta indignant at |29-Btreats (abbr.)

30-A school book (pl.)

35-Moved rapidly. 34-Interdict

37-Permit las-Build

[38_Wither)

40-City

of Nevada 42-Greek letter. [45-Ever (contr.)

48-Postscript (abbr.) 49-Point of compass

(abbr.); 151-Preposition

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