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INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Carthage (via Siberin)

Mar.

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FROM JAPAN

Mar

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THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1935

The Woman's Page

CURVES WILL BE “WORN”

THIS SPRING

SPECIAL

FASHION NEWS FROM PARIS

REVOLUTION OF THE CORSET

Women have not been so "figure your dresses. An inexpensive frock conscious" since Edwardian days will look well if worn over a well- as they are this season. Curves Atting corset, but wear

a court ar back again, and so are low decol-gown over a nondescript belt and letapes,

it is immediately a failure.

And Paris is preparing for it. The shoulder flounces, the front 22 Two or three famous dressmakers bodice drapery, and the exceedingly have chosen their most beautiful low decolletages for evening wear mannequins to the fitted for tho which we shall see this season will 27 new strapless corsets which they be accentuated by waistcurves and propose should be worn with the fullness either at the back or all latest off-the-shoulder gowns. round the skirt-and all this de.

mands a corset which gives on The trouble is that the Edwar-long unimpeded line from the bust dian figure does not exist nowadays, to well below the hips,

FROM SHANGHAI

Mar.

22

22

Pres. Grant

Carthage

Pren, Grant

Ixion

Aramis

Agamemnon

Mar.

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That Edwardian Figure

22 And while the dressmakers are try-f Paris suggests a corselette if you' 26 ing to persuade us to return tolare troubled with even an incipient 20 gowns built on lines most nearly "motor-tyre" round the waist, or at approaching to the Edwardian, the cast a corset which ends well above cornelette to match. Stiffening the waist. With the latter can 22 cunningly inserted along the upper be worn a deep brassiere which 23 or lower edge of the brassiere is fastans down on the coreet and

one answer to the question; this helps to give a sleek line. holds it.in position and gives an; impression of fullness. And ·A#

FROM MANILA-

General Sherman

Pros. Hoover

FROM U.S.A.

Mar.

Prex, Grant

22

none of these off-shoulder gowns

Emp. of Asin ›

28

+

Pre Polk

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is backless of course, the brassiere;

Mar.

22

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FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Thushima Maru

Yasukuni Maru

Archilles

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE~~

Pren. Hoover .. (via San Fran

cisco..

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A FEW USEFUL HINTS ON CLEANING WALLS

can have a certain amount of sup Fog leaves its mark on wallpaper, port at the back.

We are on the verge of a revolu-18" on

everything else.

out.

Walls

tionary change in corsetry. The jahould, therefore, be cleaned periodi 26 way is open now for the return of cally, besides being swept with a the real feminine figure a figure feather duster when rooms are be of which the modern corset-maker, Ing turned

The simplest both in Paris and London, is method is to use pieces of bread, heartily in favour. She says,

acveral days old, with crusta re- Mar.frankly, that if nature intended you moved. Always rub downwards; do to be what the 'nineties used to call not rub up and down, and discard 92 J a "fine figure of a woman it is the bread as soon as it gets soiled.

22rush to try

to be anything else. Some people prefer a stiff paste am. But what you can do is to keep your made from flour and water.

General Sherman (vla Siberia) Carthage (vin Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 0.45 am. Ord. 10.30 Andre Lebon (vin Siberia) Aramis (Marseilles Air Mall)

Closes: Reg, 19 a.m. Ord. 18.30 Yasukuni Maru (via Biberia)

FOR SHANGHAI

Pres. Hoover

Andre Labon

General Shorman Yasukuni Maru

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23

This

23 figure looking youthful and that should resemble Indiarubber when

gowns,

Trailing velvet robes are favour- ed in this season's array of hostess Frances Drake, screen player, selects this one of a mix ture of light and dark green," ac- cented by large dull gold buckler studded with green cabuchons. The gown bas double train and may be worn for dinner, at home, or In the boudoir.

PURE BLOOD ESSENTIAL

The most important ally, and in-

is where the newest corsets come made, and should not be in the least deed the root-cause, of a good or min.

20

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Graceful Curves They are built to support Mar. the figure instead of pressing

„22) down and 'more often than not #

FOR JAPAN

Mar.

Pres. Hoover

Andro' Lebon

General Sherman'

Yasukuni Maru

FOR MANILA

Mar.

Atsuta Maru Pros, Grant Emp. of Asia Pres. Polk.....

it

wet and sticky. Grease can be re- a bad skin lies in the blood. The moved from all but the lightest of blood nourishes the skin, and the the made from fuller's earth and water, and virile by means of correct wallpapers with a rather dry paste blood-stream must he kept healthy. Apply it to the spot; and when per air if the skin is to be fed and re food and the oxygen from frosh 23 client will be given 'n few hluts on

festly dry brush off gently. If the walking and holding herself while paper is pale grease spots are best juvenated from day to day as it she is being fitted for her girdle. removed by holding a piece of blot should be,

This is not to say, of course, that ting paper over them and passing a

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20

23

hot iron to and fro, we shall see a return to the ex-

Varnished exaggaraterly curved figure of 1900, wall-paper should be wiped with a That would be impossible with the cloth wrung out in warm soapsuds: oactive lives we lead in 1985. But wipe with a dry cloth, and then artificial flattening has gone, and polish with a little turpentine and our new dreases will demand olive oil. Tiled walls should be beautiful and graceful curves, polished with a little furniture cream

To give the right line, as well as occasionally, after washing.

28 to help the bust, brassieres must

29 give an upward lift.

FOR U.S.A.

Mor.

Pros, Hoover

20

Yasukuni Maru

FOR AUSTRALIA

Atauta Maru (via Thursday

Island) .....

Hvla

Mar.

་

You will have to develop beauti-

ful shoulders too.

That system of

"banting" which often accentuated

THE MODERN HEAD OF

HAIR NEEDS IT "

ugly and too-well-defined collar

It would be a benediction on bones is altogether discredited. No their heads if the majority of wo- smart woman will look gaunt, this men took occasional intervala of season. Shapely shoulders which rest from the coiffeur and insti- slope down into the dress will be tuted home scalp treatments. The

modern head of hair needs it.. an essential for the woman 1935..

Fit Your Corsets First Another thing.

It has alwaya been important to have your corsets

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REGISTERED And PARCEL

APPLYING TONICS AND "OIL TO THE HEAD

new The correct method of applying frocks, but this year. It will be tonics and oil to the head is to MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier taken into account. And you will separate the hair from the crown unless find it well worth your while to in inch sections, and with the fin- otherwise stated, and where mails are spend just a little more on your gera or a small brush rub In the advertised to close at or before 9 girdle and, if necessary, lesa- on liquid all over the scalp. registered "and parcel malls are closed

than 'the time given

above

at 5 pm, on the previous day.

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WOMEN THROUGHTM

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WOMEN'S EYES

Is beauty governed by the emo- tions? This seems to be the case, Jaccording to the opinions expressed in the following novels by women writera, AND

Faith Baldwin in "The Innocent Bystander." (Sampeon Low Mar ston, 78, 6d.)

"Her skin was cared for, she generally managed to get a requisite | amount of sleep, and, as she was en- tirely selfish, emotion had neither made nor marred hér. She had al- ways .. remembered that indul- gence in grief and tears. Is ruinous to beauty."

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Barbara Cartland in "Passionate Attainment." (Hutchinson 7d. 8d.)

"When a woman ceases to take a pride in her appearance it means that she has mentally gone to pieces."

Katharine Eggleston in "Under Arizona Stars." (Wright & Brown, 78. 6d.) }

"Her beauty was transcendent. It had acquired that final, illuminat- ing touch that love gives to the coldly beautiful type of woman."

HAIRBRUSHING A NERVE TONIC

Hairbrushing, in fact, la & splendid beautifler of the skin and the face as a whole, a nerve tonic, too. It ought to be included in the toilet of children as imony of as much importance as the toothbrush:

a cere-

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DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

China Bldg.

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.

HORIZONTAL

1-8nares

7-Feminina of tear

13-Look 14-Records

15-Used in negation 18-Honest 17-Most convenient 18-Most sorrowful 20-Want 23-Chief actor 25-Attention 20-Eager desire.......'

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50

10

[HORIZONTAL (Cont.) VERTICAL (Cont.)

46-British Islands off 12-Drawi

the coast of Florida 12-Judge'

|63-Make bigger

54-A windflower, 158-Born

167-One versed in al

craft 58-Lamentationa

(abbr).

(59-Runs around [60-East Indian sailors

VERTICAL

Empino suffix (Fr.)}"1-Scent

81-Butt

32-Organs of hearing 33-Plan 34-Plorca

35-Existed $7-A P

"pastry.

38-The altar and of a Pas church' 41-Ireland 42-Blemishes 48-insect

(44¬A serpent" (pl.) 45-8aturated with gaa

21-A church festival

22-Makes deeper 28-Dwelling or shop 24-Restraine 26-Devolopa 127-Rodant

28-A tropical fruit. (pt.)

· 84-A title 35-Enfeebise

198-An Impiamant for

Pippling

157-Kind of rubber 2-1a not found. (Lat, 19-Plane playing

abbr.)

3-Campera

4-Greek god of war B-The Christian'quar-]

ter of Constantie nepla 6-Moved rapidly ... 7-Large plant de - 8-Stations (alsbr.)

S-Ausistant (abbr)| 10-Want of energy 11-Numbers (abbr.).

mechanism [40-Regards

||45-Coarse-outer cost of

wheat 47-01d

46-Pronoun 49-Port

60-The apparent ande of Saturn's rings: 51-Pieces D

68-Lace fabelo. [66-Near (Prov, Eng)

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