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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 o

P.C, each $0.32.

Correspondence for this service must

THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JUNE 4, 1935

The Woman's Page

Modern Girls PLAINEST SUITS CAN

be clearly marked "Via Imperial Air DEBUTANTES LACK #928,3*g***

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore" Saigon-Marseilles via Saigon Singapore-Australia Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates! and all particulars are shewn in the schedales exhibited at the Post Ofices.

CONCENTRATION

ACCUSED OF BEING GENERALLY “WHOLLY MADDENING”

BE BRIGHTENED UP

AN ATTRACTIVE SUGGESTION

If you use your ingenuity you can give the plainest suit an n- Fish-net usual air this season London. The shortcomings of the modern scarves, for instance, are new and All heters etc. must be marked "girl have had such a long rest lar-can be worn not only with a tailor- Air Mail and be handed in at a Post

terly, that the speech delivered at ed suit, but with your cruising out- Ofice.

an educational conference recently fit. They will look right with because they are by Miss Marguerite Steen, the nove either, mainly

PARCEL POST

list, has quite the ring of novelty easy to manipulate and are made in

gay. clear colours.

4 schedule of revised parcel post rates, including many reductions, is about it. exibited in the Parcel Office, G.P.O.

INWARD MAILS: "

FROM EUROPE

May

FROM USA

Jizze

Pres. Coolidge

Pres Monroe

Emp. of Canada

Prex Jackson

Santhia

FROM JAPAN

June

Sydney Mara Pres. Coolidge "Calcutta Maru

Emp. of Canada

Pres.

Monroe

Suwa Maru

Tatsuta Mara

General Lee B-kuyo Marz Anyo Maru

Malacca Maru

Sakar Maru

FROM SHANGHAI

June

D'Artagnani

Antenor

Pres. Coolidge

Emp. of Canida

Pres Monroe

Suwa Maru

Tabanta Mara

General Lee

Menelass

Ixion

Nankin

Changte

FROM MÁNILA

June

Pres. Jefferson

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

June

Terikani Maru

Agapenor

Sai Sang

Change

Menes bens

Bangalore

Sirdhana

FROM AUSTRALIA

Jene

Terukuni Mara

Nankin

Changte

LOUTWARD, MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

June

She concentrated particularly Another novel idea is to wear one upon he Young Girl who has just of those double-strand necklets silk round the] If left School, whom she accused of covered with fine lack of concentration; indistinct back of a small woollen cap.

the latter is pulled together at the intellectual values; bad taste in actions. manners, art, literature top to give it somewhat the line of a glengarry and the necklet slipped music; and staggering ignorance.

of everything not connected with over it, with a stitch or two or krep 6 herself personally in general of it in place, the effect is very at- tractive, especially if the strands] being wholly maddening.".

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are a good colour contrast to thei

Some of our readers may remem-cap, but match the scarf.

ber when "Rita" was making a

war

handsome income by denouncing ATTRACTIVE COLOUR SCHEMES the "Sins of Society.” In the years immediately followmg the

In navy, a broadtail cape is the Dean Inge launched similar tirades acme of elegance if wom with aị against the deplorable decadence of matching dress or with light grey the times. That was the day of in the latter case the accessories the Bright Young Things, who cer- must necessarily be navy blue. Grey tainly seemed rather poisy and silover grey is quieter, but looks well, Nearly 3,000 years a certain too, with green and certain lighters Hebrew prophet laid him down shades of blue.

Iy.

10 der, a juniper tree and prayed that}

13 he might die because of the appar-as much, or as little, justified as

decadence of now. 14 ently irreclaimable

Actually there is a good deal! his fellow-countrymen; for whics of reason to think that the average be was suitably rebuked. Read young girl to to-day is much keener almost any book of 18th century minded, more apt to take an inter- memoirs, and you will be struck by est in things outside her own lit- the extreme mildness of societytle circle than her predecessors} sias to-day as compared with the were. But if the Speech reported past

is a fair sample of Miss Steen's There was never a time in all method of approaching her juniors. probability when Miss. Steen's acit is not surprising if they did not cusations might not have seemed show her their best. side.

A BUTTON RUG

This combination outfit gives the appearance of being both a suit and a dress because of the bodice, which is cut across the stripe, giv

Maxine effect Jennings, Hollywood actress, likes -

abe contrasts lots of colour, so three shades of green with beige stripes.

ing

THE BERET IS BEST

FOR JOURNEYS

Piano Stool

Handy In Kitchen And Saves Much Fatigue

An old-fashioned piano stool with a revolving seat that can be raised and lowered is better than a chair for use with a treadle sewing- machine. The seat can be quickly [adjusted to the most comfortable | height, and it swings round easily, allowing freedom of movement for handling materials. The stool is! also handy in the kitchen, where its use may save much fatigue during ironing, silver-cleaning, pasty-mak- ing, and so on. An ordinary chair is too low, but the stool may be adjusted to a height that gives the arms comfortable freedom and an easy reach ozer a dresser or table If the stool is kept in the kitchen, the seat should be covered with Lancaster cloth.

Hats are a nuisance to pack andi a nuisance in trains. If worn on a long journey they give you a head-

The button · rug is especially-and dime, respectively. Each cir-ache, and, if removed they get sat lovely and well adapted to an early cle is buttonholed to its neighbour on by other passengers or squash- American type of rooms. It is a with thread of a contrasting coloured under a heavy package, or they reproduction and revival of those the button-holing beginning with fall on the door and get dusty. The steady popularity of the beret is used in Colonial days, when the the smallest circle.

thirfty Puritan housewife savedj Four shades of one colour may good fortune for the traveller, but

every available bit of wool, fromai the cast-off garments of husband appear in one button, the largest the woman who has the courage to circle being the lightest in hue, the do without a hat altogether is hap and children, in order to make such colours graduating towards

piest the 11 a floor covering.

centre, where the darkest tint isl

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The modern button rug is pret found in the smallest circle If tier than its predecessor, and as four shades of pink are used, for! rule, much smaller, frequently beinstance, blue thread may be used ing in use as a table runner. The for the button-holding. same design is also found in pillow other harmonizing tint. tops, chair and stool seats.

or any

Oblong or Rectangular

Each button consists of four cir-

If more variety is desired, two cular pieces of felt, ranging in size)

colours, maybel from a dollar, half dollar, quarter) shades of two

found in the two largest circles, and post-and two shades of another sympa VIA SIBERIA- Letters cards for Europe and South America thetic colour for the two smaller forwarded in Siberia" * disks. Yellow and green are good. 41 superscribed

blue and rose, or any other com- REGISTERED and PARCEL MAILS

Should still more gaiety are closed 15 minutes earlier than the bination. time given shove unless others be desired, use a different colour] stated, and where mails are advertised for each circle, such 28 yellow

D'Artagnan (via Marseilles)

Closes, Beg. 9.45 am. Ord 10.30 am.) Antenor (via Marseilles)

Closes Reg. 845 am. Ord. 9,30 am.

+4

Pres. Taft (via San Francisco)

Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 pm.

Chichika Marn (via San Fran-

cisco)

to close at or before 9 am, registered blue, rose and orchid, brittonholed; on the previous day.

Clases: Reg. 4th 5 pm. Ord. 5th 8-30 parcel mails are closed at 5 PM together with green thread, and the

Antenor (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 8:45 am, Ord. 9.30am Pres. Jifferson ...........

5

7

Closes: Reg. 415 p.m. Ord. 5 pm.

FOR HAXİLA

June

Pres. Coolidge Emp. of Canada.

Pres. Monroe

FOR INDIA

June

D'Artagnan

AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via button will present the appearance Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via of a circular rainbow. Singapore Saigon Marseilles viz Sai-

A neutral colour of felt is used Correspondence for European for the foundation of the rug, which intermediate countries will be C- cepted for transmission by these Sermay be round, square, oblong or vices.

Extes and all particulars are rectangular, according to fancy. shewn in the schedules exhibited at Buttonhole a completed button to the General Post Office and Kowloon the centre of this foundation, and Office. All letters etc., must be mark- ed By Air Mail" and handed in at around this in alternate rows. the General Post Office. Unless closely group the remaining but- superscribed for despatch by a specktons When the last row is finish- fe air mail service, correspondence ed, clip the foundation felt to con- will be forwarded by the first service form to the button edge, which will

be in scallops.

available.

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ONE HAT SUFFICIENT

FOR JOURNEYS

Berets May Be Included

One hat, perferably packed fo journeys, and one or two berets will serve you anywhere, except in countries where there is danger from the sum ör ́on luxury cruises. This is not written for the luxuri-1 ons traveller, but for the

of simple tastes who travels either fon her own or on her husband's business or merely from wanderlust

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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 althö.

137

HT

45.

148

56

57

60

HORIZONTAL

1...Ailment 2-Asserts 14-Beseeched 15-Body of soldiers Ti-Peis

18-Curdles 20-Girl's name 21-Series (abbr.) ww2-Commanded

24 Prefix Above

8

19

12 13.

15

19

20

223

163

| HORIZONTAL (Cont.)!

43-Bill of fare

49-Organs of hearing 50-Period of time

(abbr) 51-Pronoun

53-Disturb

55-Wild (Scot.)

VERTICAL (Cónt) 12-Frugal spenders ¡15-Sooner than *19-Understands (22-Raw metals

23 Performa 26-GOM mounds

128-Senior (abbr)

56-Hard shelled fruits (30—Javelin

58- Trailing shrub of

Australia '

25-Suffix used to form 55 Fortified seaport la

past tense

26--Gomuine

27-Man's name.

29-Pronoun

30-Appear

31-One who states.

... positively

33-Drinks alcoholic.

liquors excessively 35-Ascends „35-Insurance. (abbr)

22-Foot-like, organ

'38-Withers

39-An insect 40-Mineral spring

41-Cleansed

42-Iron

Italy,

(60-Man's name

62-Nude

64.Lower

65-Natives of Syria

VERTICAL

1-Sweet course 2-Spread ink upon 3-Agitate 4-Earie S-One (Scot.) 5-Bone of the body 7-Muzical study 8-Grected

S-A length measure

(abbr.)

44-Violent streams of 10-Anger

46-Large Cris

47-Arab (abbr)

15-4cngth measure

(PL) 112-Tombs

31-Military assistante 32-Prong 34-Timely

35-Ecstatic

-35-Trimmed off the fina

of fish 39-Sciences 43-Tinted

||41-Worthless plant. }<2-Remove the skin

43-Scattera 145-A paper, Pouzezre

(abbr)

45-A wild fancy

Possessive of Enid 150-Heroine of the ad ise walk

{54-Girl's name-

55-Girl's name. 57-Sardiola (abbr) {59-Greek Tatter

961–A compass point

(abbr), -163-Comparative rufir

The solution of the above with' a new cross-word pussis will appear in to-morrow's issue.

Bringing Up Father

VE GOT TO

O BACK

KIN

VELL REMEMBER!

JUST SNEAKIN

MY HOUSE WHILE WE ARE IN THE

DINING-RO

WILL

GO IN AND PEL

ALL MY OPERATIC „ÁRIA FOR

YOU

I'VE BROUGHT ALL MY MUSIC,

SO WE CAN HAVE HOURS OF MUSICAL

ECSTASY

THE PIANO IS

GONE! IT WAS HERE WHEN WE WENT IN TO

DINNER!

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