1935-05-24 — Page 2

MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL RATES

As from 6th May the air mail rates

to Great Britain via Imperial Airways will be reduced to

Letter $0.50 per 1⁄2 oz. P.C. each $32

Correspondence for this service must be clearly marked "Via Imperial Air

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam ria Singapore Saigon-Marseilles "via Saigon · Singapore-Australia

Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited at the Post Offices. All letters etc. must be marked "By Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Offct.

PARCEL POST

A schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, is exhibited in the Parte! Office, GPO

INWARD MAILS. FROM EUROPE

Hakozaki Maru (via) Negapa-

FROM USA.

tam-Air Mail)

Mantua (via Suez)

Pres. Johnson

May

May

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1935

The Woman's Page

BREAD WILL MAKE YOURĮ

SKIN SMOOTH

ABSENCE THREATENS

BEAUTY

MAINTAIN YOUR CURVES WHILE

SLENDERISING

(By Elisabeth Ann)

Beauty, to be lasting through the

Milk too, and one which has prov- teens, the twenties, the thirties, ed most successful has milk sond and the forties, depends on health- at lunch and dinner, and bread

with every meal. fulness.

You can have no early-morning sparkle about your eyes if they arej 24 not translucently clear-you can have to zest for life if you lack

energy.

FROM JAPAN

24

Prea. Taft Pres. McKinley

Pres. Johnson Hakone Maru Kitano Maru Tokiwa Maru Prea. Taft Hakodate Maru

Genoa Maru Tanda Mari Pres. McKinley

Tyndarers

Burdwan

And if there is one important de) tail threatening the future of beauty, it is the absence of bread

from the menu

Bread will provide the energy for It need not 24 work and for play. 24 threaten your curves. And since there has been predicted a return of the softer curve for 1935-6-the achievement of a delicately round-

38388

29 ed. feminine figure-Bread is being 31 included in many of the

Latest

V.

Curves

Beauty's standards, ever soaring, demand the clear, smooth skin sur- face which the regular habit of bread can give you. Not a lot of it at any one time, and you need not take it plainly if you prefer

your menus "coloured.".

There are so many ways in which bread can be presented to-day-in Melba toast, cheese toasted fingers. anchovy toast or the wholesome de- butter with light of bread and honey or sandwich spread.

.

Then there are those newer breads to tempt you-nut breads and rai- sin breads, and malt breads-each of them "aids" to this fresh cult of loveliness.

If you already possess sufficient: curves, take your bread with every vital

LANCASTER CLOTH meal, but do observe these

diets.

Hawaii Maru

3

FROM SHANGHAI

Мя

Pres. Johnson

Tokiwa Maru

Pres Taft

Pres. Mckinley

Kampars

FROM MANTLA

May

Pres. Grant

June

General Sherman

Nankin

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

May

Turnsung (Air Mail

perial. Airway Service)

Taima.

Tango Maru

Antilochus

Conte Verde

Nankin

FROM AUSTRALIA

OUTWARD MAILS. FOR EUROPE -

June

Juze

Excellent For Covering

Pantry Shelves

Lancaster cloth in a tiled patter 24 or in a light self colour is excellent, It 4for covering pantry shelves.

wears better if it is smoothly andi firmly pasted on to the wood than

rules while slenderising:

Have your food served as dry as it is possible to serve it, and your meat grilled, boiled, or roasted.

Take your vegetables moderation, and, again, as dry as possible.

Be sparing with your condiments.

Sweets To Est

Then so much more interesting

d'oeuvres,

A very smart"white wool sports coat with its powder blue over check worn by Virginia Reid, screen actress. White felt hat and white stitched, black suede shoes complete the ensemble.

LATEST FASHION IN MAILS

+

"Moon" Entirely Hidden

24

BETWEEN SEASON MILLINERY

Stockinette A Smart, Practical Choice

COLOUR COMBINATIONS

London

This season exploits novel strawa presented in striking manner. The new makes are so pliable and in- teresting that they appear like a new fabric Old favourites such as | leghorn and pedal are still with us. bat lovely light woven work resem- bling the old basket straw is now known as Rechella Other makes suggest soft strands of straw plait- ed with organdi.

Cellophane and celtagel are beautifully fragile and again are more like a finely manipulated fabric. In fact, straw to-day has assumed such wonderful qualities that the finest designs, such 23 shirred work and tuckings, all ap- pear in this season's straw shapes. Cockscomb effects right across the Crown are made in ne celtagel, or frequently a brim may be of pedal with striped straws forming the cockscomb-eTOWIZ.

Plain dark navy, or a black Crown of petersham ribbon are very popular for the straight and turned up sailor and for the curi- ons new Hombury crowns that are cleverly worked into straw, and

fabric.

Chiffon Texture

While pique also is employed for the brims of boaters and toreador shapes. A tiny little pork-pie”hat had a ganged brim of white-aero- phane with a round crown of navy ballibuntal

+

are

Rose Valois has a very amusing jockey cap beret in black pedal and white pique. The newer stockia- if it is laid loosely on and fastea- are. the foods you may take while

ette is so transparent that it resem res in a scullery or kitchen may be keep to smoked salmon, eggs, an-

s a chion, and worked into ed with drawing-pins. Open shel- slenderising. In hors

many practical shapes of the beret 26 effectively screened by short cur-chovies, and tomatoes. Eggs figure

largely in the new bread and milk Women who use very bright naill or cloche order is ideal for the tains, either of Lancaster cloth or

diet charts.

varnish should now paint the nail holiday hat. 31 of oiled silk. If Lancaster cloth is

Take meat such as beef, lamb, not only to the tip, but also entire

Colour combinations, too, used, it should be of the same!

veal, but never served with thickly cover the moon," thus giving 1 colour

Beige and dark the as

shelf covering.

ened gravy. Fish boiled or steam-the illusion of greater length and full of interest. Oiled silk may be had in various ed, and poultry or game. -

achieving a particularly soignee brown, stone-grey and lilac, navy shades and patterns. The plain] Vegetables such as asparagus, appearance.

and puce, green and yellow. Eitherf silver tone, which is not transpar carrots, cauliflower, celery, cucum-

stripes, spots or fecked effects are new However, if you adopt this ent, makes neat, cleanlooking curber, runner beans,

than employed in these stockinettes, The and spinach fashion you mast take more

be colours. The curtains should

an equally good make the hats completion to flannel tweed or the made to thread on expanding cords,

For the lighter spring suiting. 24 and to give them a good finish

small heading should be

country stockinette at the moment even than is somewhat smarter above the threading-slot.

taffetta, petersham or straw. provides the ideal choice between spring and summer.

Маг Pres. Grant (via Victoria B.C.)....

Closes: Reg. 11.15 am Ord. Noon. Burdwan (vis Marseilles) ...

Closes: Beg 11.15 am Ori Noon

211 Hakone Maru (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 10.30 am. Ord. 11 am. Hakozaki Maru (via Siberia).

Hector ...

FOR SHANGHAI

Halozaki Maru

Pres. Grant

General Sherman

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tains, and blends well with other Potatoes too, may be taken once ordinary care of your cuticles, keep results are most satisfactory. andi

daily.

orange

ing them nightly in warm almond Frait such 2:3 grapes pears, oil and gently running an grape-fruit, pineapple, prunes, and stick under the skin. allowed rhubarb.

FOR INDIA

May

Мат

Hoserg 24Hakone Maru 24 Tilawa

FOR JAPAN

Мат

Pres. Gramz

Hakozaki Maru

General Shenan

FOR AUSTRALIA

Мат

Kitano Mara (via Thursday

Island)

FOR U.S.A.

May

Pres. Grant

› General Sherman

FOR STRAITS

24ay.

Burdwan Hakone Karu Tilawa

FOR MANILA

May

Pres. Johnso

Kitano Mar Tinegara

Sweets like baked egg custard, egg jellies, and milk jellies, and have toasted bread

with served

ezch meal.

Or bread rusks, which

you can achieve in your own oven.

24, and which are delicious as well as

24 beneficial for the teeth.

VIA SIBERIA- Letters and post- 24 cards for Europe and South America forwarded via Siberia" if so 24 are 24 superscribed

REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 9 am, registered 25 and parcel malls are closed at 5 pm

on the previous day.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via

24 Singapore Saigon-Marseilles ris Sai-

NEW NAIL POLISH

Mother-Of-Pearl

Shades

Hands always provide z/good ex-

Your butter should not exceed four pats per day, and your milk cuse for a little waste of time, and it is fun, on these occasions; to ex- three-quarters of a pint.

periment with nail polish,

OLD WORLD STYLES RETURN AGAIN

-

The Debutante's Frock

There is a modern sophistication

If

CAPES POPULAR THIS SEASON

Costumes

THE

HONG KONG

-PENINSULA HOTEL;

HONG KONG HOTNI, REPULSE BAY HOTEL,

PEAK HOTEL;

SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL,

HOTELS,

LIMITED

in association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping

DAILY CROSS-WORD 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

1 2 K

12

15 16.

19

132

140

137 138

US

HORIZONTAL 1-Differenziates 12-Entomology (abbr) 13-Plural of ansa 14-A letter 15-Awaited settlement 17-Country of Europe

(abbr) 18-Makes a mistake 19-More lucid

20-American poet 27-A liquid measure

(abbr) 22-Series (abbr.). 25-Flowerless plant

24-Bind

25-Fall of moisture 27-Father 28-Man's name

29-Because 30-Mother

31-Bustie

33-Sailor

It

35-Purpose

If your polish is usually of the Evening And Sports quiet, unassuming kind, try some- thing a little more dashing. you do not care for anything too deep go in for one of the newi

Capes are even more popular than mother-of-pearl shades. These are they were last summer. Long cir- quite lovely, and outstandingly ori-enlar, ones in velvet for the evening ginal, without being glaring.

or in tweed for the sport costume; two-third and three-quarter length SPECIAL CREAM POLISH FOR for the street; matching the frock or in checks or plaids in harmoniz- BREAKING NAILS

ing colours; hip or waist length for

Ser-

mingle just now at evening. Taf- It may be that your nails are at both the street and afternoon cas- vices. Rates and all particulars are feta and organdie, favourite fabrics the maddening variety that break, tume, these of the same material 24 shown in the schedules exhibited at of other days, are meeting in the just when you get them all nicely as the frock;-capes that hang loose-! 24 the General Post Office and Kowloon medley of periods. Flowered taf-dressed up" to go out. For they from the back and sides; capes 25 Office All letters etc., must be mark-

ed "By Air Mail" and handed in at feta in sweet pea colourings makes there is a special oil polish remover that are wrapped around the arm, loose, elbow sleeve, Office. the General Post

Unless a coat of modern line with hooded) and a cream polish. These, instead forming a superscribed for despatch by a speci- cape effect. The debutante's frock of making the nails, brittle, lubri-jacket-capes and cape-jackets; capes wear that just cover the shoulders, fic air mail service, correspondence is in an equally fashionable large cate them so that you can 24 will be forwarded by the first service check design, with Puritan pointed them quite long without fear of shirred capes and pleated capes—

there is just no end to them!

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24 gua. Correspondence for Europe and about the old-world styles that

intermediate countries will be cepted for transmission by these

available.

collar.

their snapping

35-Girl's name 37-Equal

111-

{ "HORIZONTAL (Cont) ;. VERTICAL (Cont)

39~The whole

40-Wert Saxon (abbr) (10-Pronoun 41-And not

42-Boy's name 44-Greek woodland.

sprite

45-Half an em 146–Scottish race för a

prize

47-Period 45–Checka. 49-Prongs İ51-Tories

VERTICAL -Nisiveness 2-Sluggishness 3-Sterling (abbr), 4-Preposition 5-Mischievous children 6-Bird related to the

pellean 7-Beneath

8-River rizing in

Bohemia

9 Sorrowful

|

77-Ezmestnesz

6-Relieves

17-Because

120-Lever for the foot

23-Musical note

|25-Penetrate

26 Confict

|27-Obstruct

(30-Measure of length

132-Elderly lady with dignified bearing 34-Article

28-Very nearly 36-Prefix used in

German names

39 Onward 42-Ireland

43-Network

jas_Glass in'n window 146-Busy insect 148-Railroad (abbr.) 150-inte

The solution of the above with a new crocs-word puzzė

will appear in to-morrow's issue.

FOR SALE

Hong Kong Silver Jubilee Stamps complete set ~used on cover of

First Day Sale 6th May, 1935

GRACA & CO,

Postage Stamp Dealers 10, WYNDHAM STREET FO. Boi No 1. HONG KONG Established 1896

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