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MAIL SCHEDULES

PARCEL "POST

A schedule of revised parcel post ratos, Including many reductions, is exhibited in the. Parcel Oßes, G.P.0. The rates will take effect as from int March, 1935.

Imperial Airways via Bingapore Bandoeng-Amaterðar vin Singapore Saigon Marseilles vis Baigon Singapore-Australia Correspondence will be accopted for transmission by these services. Rates and - all-particulars "are" shown in the schedules exhibited at the. Post Oflees,

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, APRIL 1, "1935

The Woman's Page

CHOICE ENGLISH FOODS FOR

JUBILEE GUESTS

Hothouse Strawberries Dinner Delicacies

By Air Last Minute Entertaining

London will probably never know the mir

All letters etc., must be marked "ByHE good things of modern Engacle of speed by which, the fruit

Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Office.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Ranchi (via Skies)

FROM JAPAN'

Pres. Lincoln

Manila Maru General Lee Cathay

Prok. Jefferson Brisbane Mara

Taima

'FROM SHANGHAI

Pres. Coolidge

Pres. Lincoln

Pres. Jefferson

land, including its food, are and vegetables served to them aro going to be discovered this sum Just picked an hour or two before mer by thousands of strangers who they are eaten Distances is to come here from all parts of the be eliminated. world.

High Standard In Food

There are peoples to whom the "Jubilee hostesses will demand Apr. famous English dish of strawber perfection in food" this correspon cles, and pream will becomes a dent was toldi już the fruit depart 'reality at tlast. They are already ment"That means that every- Apr. thinking of the days when they thing must be as fresh as possible. will cross the water and dine-in Where expense is no object wo honour of the King-on English ahall have fruit and vegetables peas, sweet as sugar and green specially picked in the country for the new grass, with English lamb orn dinner in town the same evening. duck:

If a melon la wanted, it will be They will prove for theniselves brought by car from Worthing, of that English asparagus is second sent by air from more distant to none. The hothouse forests of places. We shall use codes, tele peerless English peaches, nectarines phone and telegram. and melons will be stripped, in or

Cathay

Andre. Lebon

Proe, Coolidge

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Apr.

Apr.

Sirdhana

Conte Verde

Eumacus

FROM U.S.A.

Apr.

Pres. Lincoln

Pres. Jefferson Pres. Coolidge

FROM MANILA

Apr.

Emp, of Asia

Nellore Changto

FROM AUSTRALIA -

Nellore

Changte

OUTWARD MAILS.

11

"There is certain to be a great

der that, in their choice of food, deal of spontaneous entertaining 11hostesses may be patriotic to the Hostesses will set an extremely

coro."

high standard in food. They will Already in Imagination the West.not want what they see

on the end chefs can hear the mingling of counters, however good. They will accents in which visitors will dewant something rare and choice mand the choicest dishes that Eng And they will want it suddenly. |land can provide, Their one fear

"Imagine it May 8, in the

is lest there should be a shortage thick of Jubilee Week. A hostest of luxury foods, particularly inwalks.in. She says, 'I want 201b

view of the fact that the Jubilee strawberries, 3 or 4melons, 10lb of 11 celebrations coincide with either peas and 10 bundles of asparagus the beginning or the end of the for a party to-night. We should got on to the telephone and in two: hours time the goods would be picked, rushed off by car or train and in her kitchen."

season" of certain delicacies.

"English strawberries, peaches, nectarmes and melons will all be at

9 the very beginning of their sea

Bon," M. Rene Lobague, the chef at The type of Silver Jubilee meal

Grosvenor House, pointed out. Арг.

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$

FOR EUROPE

Apr.

Ranchi (vla iberia)

Folix Roussel (via Biberia)" Cathay (Air Mail Service)

FOR JAPAN

Apr.

Ranchi

FOR SHANGHAI

Apr.

Ranchi Conte Verde

FOR HANILA

Apr.

Nankin

Tisadane

Pros. Lincola

FOR STRAITS

Apr.

Glanbeg

Manila" Mara Cathay Cremor

FOR INDIA

Api.

H

Manila Maru Cathay

FOR AUSTRALIA

Nankin (via Brisbane)

Apr.

"

will contrast strangely with that

"English asparagus, pens, cucum-of the Diamond Jubilee of 1897. 9 bers and tomatoes will be other Courses will be few, and food light,

products for which there is a great but perfect of its kind.

The days demand.

"By making such provision 43 may still be practicable to cope with the expected demand,, home 4 producers should reap substantial 5 financial bencft. Any shortage is "bound to result in enhanced prices

In hotels and restaurants, and this would make an unfavourable Im- pression on visitors."

of many substantial dishes are:

over.

Deportment Is Everything!

In these days when women must huddle lop-sided in a corner, those stand up for themselves-even in who curl one leg snake-like round trama and 'buses we have forgot the other, and those who sit down

COAT LENGTHS TO SUIT THE WEARER ten to learn the art of sitting grace- heavily and spread out like a sack.

Spring Wraps

London-

fully.

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAY HOTEL;

PEAK HOTEL; . '

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping

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 Bidg

DAILY CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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.

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Look at the well-cut clothes ruin- Which is a pity. For we spend led by sitting. badly-skirts and Plenty Of Strawberries

much thought on our diet, much coats that bulge, backs that "There is no danger of any short-

money on our dentist, much time wrinkled; llnings that peep from [age, There will be plenty o

on the care of our complexions, yet under hems, and seams that strain! strawberries and peaches in May One of the first problems for an we undo all these efforts at beauty under rounded shoulders! and June unless we have excep English spring is the wrap, which

by lack of poise,

Then along comes the girl who tionally late froste," was the view in its 'turn must be guided by the

"Hunched-up" is not a pretty ex-fhas learned the art of deportment. taken in Covent Garden.

size and shape of hat that suits pression, but it describes very ac-She sits down with an easy grace, The whole countryside is prepar-the individual. For both the taste! curately the position.

head held high and shoulders back. ing so that the visitors may tak? is very elastic and varied; in fact,

All Wrong Attitudes. She does not slouch or twist her home tales of the English food the choice la large enough to be There are the women, too—and limba-her clothes neither bulge comparable to the fame that have bewildering, but the factors of they are many-who must perforce nor sag. won French dishes.

length and the general trend of swing one leg over the other, irre From this point of view the celo the silhouette will prove helpful.

This, then, is the lesson that spective of whether there is room to every woman who wishes to look. brations could not have fallen al

The girlish hip-cost is smart do so or not. There are those who her best should learn: that a grace- a better time, according to *H

and attractive for the young and sit uncomfortably perched on the ful carriage and perfect posture are (expert in the food department of

slim. This, if well tailored. is extreme edge of the seat, those who vital to an attractive appearance. a. West End store.

is

a clever idea to alter the appear-

JAM POTS

HORIZONTAL

1-8uroly

9-Lid

13-Approaches

12-Comparative huffix 13-Not the same 15-Mothar (skort) 17-Rodont

The Jubilee fortnight will be worn with a straight, narrow skirt in the middle of the hothouse ses of normal length, but in soft fa- 800, and a month before the peak bric it may have & certain fullness

*2-Decoyed Be sure and damp the string period of the outdoor strawberry at the waist. Then there is the ance of old wraps.

The coat-length question is very

20-Foot-like organ {season...

two-thirds coat, more becoming perplexing. Possibly one can cut when tying down jam-pot covers. 21-A class of birds.

the half-length. This is last season's long coat and add As it drys it tightens Jubilee erops are now torming than

23-A form

of pro 24-Epocha under glass at Worthing, Oxford, favourite for spring. There border of some rougher fabric or also the seven-eights and full-selvedge, using the same to trim and innumerable other places. .. VIA SIBERIA Letters and post- Although they may be 50 or 100 length. The latter

collar and alceves, Some plain Bards for Europe and South America miles away from London, these popular on account of the ten- are forwarded "via Biberia" if. \so

are lined and bordered with horse- Famperscribed.

acres of hothouses will serve na the dency of fashion to flaunt coats sporting tweeds in dark colours REGISTERED

PARCEL kitchen gardens of West End man-jand capes near the hem.

cloth, blanketing material. Smooth foreign

and

KAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier stona. Dominion and than the time given above

unless guests at important dinner parties etherwise stated, and where mails are

vertised to close at or before 9 4.1 egistered and parcel mails are cloned

will not be

The two-thirds or seven-eighths surface suitings can be mixed with lengths are adapted to the new worsted pebbly fabrics. Hema, nonchalance in style, with more indeed, will play their part in "all width and a certain "Black" ef dress scheme this season. Many fect. This looseness starts rather evening frocks have a wired hem

5 p.m. on the previous day AIR HAIL Imperiai Airways via the General Post Office and Kowloon low down, for walet and hips of A sand-coloured camel-hair aull Bingapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam via ofico. All letters etc., must be mark- Singapore Saigon-Marselles via Bad "By Air Mail" and handed in at Coats are close fitting. Some 'de for Egypt had a frock of the game on. Correspondence for Europe and the General Post Office, Unless signers seem to prefer the longer with a wide collar and belt, of Latermediate countries will be ruperscribed for despatch by a speel coat, quite slim till it reaches leopard skin, and the top yoke and septed for transmission by these Ser de air mail service, correspondence over half-length, when a flounce sleeves, of a seven-eighths coat in

Rates and all particulars are will be forwarded by the Arst perilor frill gives a tunic look. This is the same fur. khewn in the schedules exhibited at available.

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NOV COS

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CLOT TEL TONETSTOR

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milk MIK

34-Meal

36-Yentlisten 37-Fish eggs 39-Diminutiva sulik.

(Fr)

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41-Combining form..

Seven Way

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50-To emil

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gift

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1-Company (abbr) 2-Girl's name 3-Toro 4-Armles

of B-Cleave to B-Want 7-Etruscan god B-Parlod of time.

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Yearn for

12-To rost out 14-Total lows only

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The solution of the about

22-The intarsi part'

(pl.)

24-Soldier's dally

allowance (Fr.)- 28-United States ship

(abbr.)

28-Point of compass

(abbr.-. 32-Suggests Indirectly 33-Constructs.

34-Hold

35-Gaze fixedly 38-Open (poet) [41-Wither [42-Assistant (abbr) [45-June-bug

46-Point of compassi

(abbr.) 49-Horse-power (abbr.) 51-City of Chaldea

with a new ·croza-word puzíte

will appear in to-morrow's issus,

Bringing Up Father

30

MAGI

THE GUY

WELL AT LAST-HE

WENT HOME: I WUZ

BEGINNIN'TO : THINK HE DIDN'T HAVE ONE

AH, SURE AN HE'S FINE LAD HIS NAME IS MARTY "MSNOODLE -

AN' WHAT

DOES HE BE

DOIN' FER A LIVIN'?

HE USED TO MANUFACTURE AX HANDLES, BUT NOW.

· HE'S GOIN' IN BUSINESSMWW/

FER: HIMSELF MAKIN“ ROLLIN'"PING,

| WHAT?

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