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MAIL SCHEDULES

PARCEL POST

A schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, is azhibited in the Farcel Office, G.P.O. The rates will take effect as from Ist March, 1085,

Imperial

vin Singapore →

Bandoeng-Amsterdam & Engape

Saigon-Marseilles via Salgon Singapore-Australia main

Correspondence will be accepted for

transmission by those services. Rates

and all particulars are shewn in the

schedules exhibited at the Post Offices All, lettera etc., must be marked "By "Air Mail" and be handed in Post Offico.

INWARD MAILS..

FROM EUROPE

Memnon (Air Mall) Naldera (via Suez)

PROM JAPAN

Emp, of Canada

Talma

Pres, Coolidge

Katori Maru

Pres, Adam

Tatsuta Maru Telregias

Lima Maru

Bengal Marui

Apr.

FROM SHANGHAI

Apr.

Pres. Coolidge

Emp, of Canada

Katori Maru

Behar

Pres. Adam

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10,-)

The Woman's Page

COLOUR CONTRASTS GIVE

NEW VALUES TO DRESS

THE "SPLASH" SPOTTED SILK SCARVES AND BERETS — - APRICOT VOGUE ROMAN STRIPES

(By The Hon: Mrs. G. W. Forester)

London. These stripes for blouses and There is a desire to secure great waistcoats when in the best fabrics variety of colour countrasts. The and also in the more subdued "splashed" note of colour can be so colourings look their best worn gay and forms such a pleasing with the town suit. They give tha antidote to winter suits and air of the town outfit as against ensemblea Colour is now ex-woven wool or "Bilk," "Strongly. tensively used. In the popular coloured stripes will give place to 11 uniform of black or velvet Jersey pastel tones as warmer weather 11the whole affect is changed by a comea. •

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waistcoat in the old famillar strip-- Bother young and older women ed Roman-silk. There is that new are giving much fore thought to

12 scarf made in spotted taffeta or the allocation of clothes suitable to

12 striped silk that, with a matching environment.

beret, has a pleasing way of sug-. The cinema-cocktail dress Ir gesting that we had suddenly got severely smart, though the feagown of the country house may be grace new.spring clothesl

Even an "odd" splash of colourful and trailing. The typical 11 in a belt or collar can change our artistic party of to-day may show [12]

12 appearance entirely. Tea-rose or some exotic and wonderful clothes, 12 apricot is good as a "splash" with, but they will seldom be dowdy or 12 the all-black or all-white ensemble, ridiculous.

12 as yellow may be a trying shade,

A wood on the fabrics for the

12 especially that new yellow-ochre-first Dress Shows, Crepes in the Victorian tone. It is fashion-cotton, wool and silk are great able and very smart where it suits. favourites; there seems so many American tailor-auita in black or new shades and weaves. It in 12 brown tweed show a good deal of these new methods of weaving that the ring the greater change. The |apricot and this yellow in

facings also mixed with the dar- rougher surfaces are, I think, the kor tone for the self-edged border. amartest, especially in pastel Buttercup and pale and deepest colouring. The earliest

linens spricot appear in the spring hats. look more like wool materials The fabric straws and shining

tweeds. There are even brims in black or very dark brown coloured stripes or threads of

Tatsuta Maru

Conte Verde

Tantalos

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Apr.

Memnon

J

Dakar Maru

15

Burdwan

FROM AUSTRALIA

Apr.

FROM U.S.A.

Apr.

Prez. Voolidgo

*

11

Emp. of Canada

25

Pres. Adams

FROM MANILA

Apr.

Prés, Jefferson

General Lee Tilnegara

OUTWARD MAİLS,

FOR EUROPE

Apr.

or

many

ig show small clusters of buttercups,j contrast woven and interwoven in 12 the pale primrose or dark appricot both crepe and linen. Tortaz

coloured pansies.

Black And Yellow

A wool sulting in black for travel 12 12 was worn with a deep yellow and 1black-striped silk blouse. The hat

here was of black felt with straight yellow quill. Many grey and black tweeds are woven

a pale softer straw shade.

White canvas crepes are

a

IB

the name of 2 popular crapey fabric. Flecks or splashes of col pur again seem introduced into many of the new weaves.

POLISHED LINEN

in

Gray and brown are combined an ensemble · for Rosemary Ames, Hollywood actress, featuring full sleeved coat in Gothic- `gray with a double row of bettons from throat to waist, where it is bolted in sablcbrown 'auede." Note the gray chlison folda suspended from the "bishropic, off-the-face turban.

THE MODERN RETICULE

The modern reticule la more Egyptian than Edwardian, with its queer shapes and golden chains and

Maggy Rouff's use of polished scorna and golden egg ornamenta. with linen was a fresh and attractive Frocks will have petticoats and

2

note on many of her street outfits, saahes, and capes and shawls are good which were eminently Parisienne, greatly favoured in all kinds of Barpedon (via-Marseilles) 10 for the South-when worn with The effect of small jackets ao cut materials.

Closes: Reg. 8.45 a.m. Ord. 9.30 a.m. angora blouses and white pull-that they did not button, but rather Conte Verde (via Brindisi)

121 39 Closes: Reg, 2.15 p.m. Ord. 3 p.m.

overs, the cuffs, belt and collar be- had a casual look, gave a new Hae Katori Maru (via Marseilles)

18ing flecked with new-sweet-pea which was introduced by Schia- Closes: Reg. 845 a.m. Ord. 9.30 am shades. The most vivid of all

parelli.

Pres. Jefferson (via Siberia) 12 splashes are the striped Roman

Closes: Reg. 8 p.n. Ord. 4.15 p.m.

Behar (Amsterdan Air Mall) .__» 12

Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5. p.m. General Loc

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silks, like the sashes of long ago

thick heavy fabric that has warmth

and substance for early spring: Does Your Baby Sleep

These new Roman-silk blouses have

short sleeves with scar-drapery 'or j A wide Jabot as A neckfinish. Many of them have been ordered for cruising, but silk is not too good for sea or hot days-still, it gives colour on the ship,

12 VIA SIBERIA Letters and post. cards for Europe and South America ure forwarded #yla Siberia" e superscribed.

FOR JAPAN

Apr.

Hakone Maru

Pres. Jefferson

FOR SHANGHAI

Apr.

Hakone Maru

12

Pres. Jefferson General Leo

12

FOR INDIA

Talama Katori Maru

FOR U.S.A.

Apr.

Pres. Jefferson

FOR MANILA

Apr.

·Emp, of Canada

Pres. Adams Changte

Tjinegara

Apr.

FOR STRAITS

Apr.

Sarpedon Conte Verde.

Mart

Enough?

A young baby needs aleep, lots of

as much as

eighteen hours in few weeks of life, and when he is every twenty four during the first one year old he should still spend some fifteen hours of the day in alum- ber. Sleep is essential to his steady progress, without sufficient be will soon be ailing and backward.

On the condition of baby's stomach depends his ability to enjoy sound healthy sleep. If he is able to digest 12 REGISTERED and PARCEL his food, then there will be no trouble, 13 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier but if his food disagrees with him unless he will inevitably be restless, peevish, than the time given ? above otherwise stated, and where mails are and sleep

will come only

ftfully. advertised to close at er before 9 4m.

Faulty digestion is a common com- registered and parcel mails are closed plaint with young children, but in the Let 6 pm. on the previous A majority of cases it can quickly be

AIR MAIL Previous day.. Singapore, Bandoerg-Amsterdam vis Own Tablets. Those tablets have

Always vis put right with a dose of two of Baby's Singapore Saigon Marseilles

mild laxative action, and are equally ron. Correspondence for Europe and efficacious in the treatment of con

12 intermediate countries will be stipation, simple fever, teething diffi-

12

cepted for transmission by these Ber 15 vices. Rates and a particulars are

16 shown in the

schedules

culties, colds and croup, e diarrhoea, and we liked by chil- exhibited at

at Baby's Own" are

the General Post Office and Kowloon dren, who take them without fuss nice. They are the

Omes. All letters etc., must be mark because they taste hadica child-

od "By Air Mail" and handed in at prescription of a

the General Post Office. Unlesspecialist and are guaranteed.free 10 superscribed for despatch by upsel from opiates and narcotics. At 12 de air mail service, correspondenes chemiste everywhere you can obtain 12 will be forwarded by the first service Baby's Own Tablets, the ideal health 18 available.

safeguard for babies and young chll- drés

Feet Exercise

Here is a good exercise for the feet. Stand with feet kness stiff. Turn over 80

you are standing edge of the feet,

fading each other

possible. In doing. keep the knees stiff. Repeat ten IlToes in heels out. Rise toes. Come down so as to circle with the outside edge ΟΙ the feet from toe to heal. Ten times. III-Feet parallel. Arch feet to bring toes and heels to gether as

as far as possible, making

an effort to grip with them as though trying to pick up some ob- ject from the floor, Ten times.

HATS THAT GROW ON TREES

There is at least one place in the world where women do not have to go to shops to buy their hats, Lut pick them from the tree where they

grow.

In Oajaca a State of Southern Mexico, there is a tree called the Crescencia, which bears a bard, hollow, woody fruit of large size. The outer shell of this fruit is sawn in half, each half being used as a close-fitting hat for the nativo women.

The fruit is very useful, for ita shell also makes a good pair of soup bowls.

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HORIZONTAL

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antira

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Christiania

45-Bly person stak 48-A-beverage (pl.) 47-Animal Hidea ||49-A-pledge

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51-Heads

53-Sent in a church 54-Spots

56-One who raids

69-Nadelarmistake- 180-Epoche

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27-Inflamed places on

20-Tyrants

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En emperor 42-Adores

VERTICAL

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3-A bristle (Surg) 4-Trembling" 5.Passage

6.The haunch of an

arch (Arch.)

7-Diminutivo auffix

8-Elongated fah

VERTICAL (Cont.). 12-Feminine name 14-Scaroorg 16-Enclosure får, sheep 17-Matrio land measure 15-Pitot

21-Obstrusts 28-Bowing the hand 25-Part of the foot (pl.) 27-Breaks suddenly |28-Half a scorn ||$15A trea..

34-Frollo

36-Part taken by an

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[36-Happenings

87-Lock

of hair (pl.)

38-Panetrated 19-Harvested 40-Anxious 41-To distort: 44-High (Mus.) 47-One of Columbus

whips 42-T

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falsehood

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0-Book of the Bible: 56-Consumed.

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to-morrow's issue.

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