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INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Ang
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1935
Women's Tages
Slim Skirts
Oust Flairs
Paris Sets New Fashion
PIQUANCY IN HATS PROPHESIED
Paris is beginning to tire of the full skirts, so popular at the be During 16ginning of the season.
the Grande Semaine at the races iz at Auteuil scores of women long clinging dresses, or the new 14 tailored
summer suits, showed that dressmakers favour the re- tura of the slender silhouette.} Summerlike dresses in spotted or flowered chiffon with elbow- with contrasted length capes,
Yasukimi Maru.... Patroclus
FROM USA.
Emp. of Russia
Pres. Lincoln
FROM JAPAN
Ang.
Emp. of Russia
11
Pres. Harrison
Penanz Maru Delagua Mara Pres. Harrison
-Haruna Mamu
Pres. Lincoln...
FROM SHANGHAI
Tyndareus
Aug.
Agamempon
Porthos
Emp. of Russia
Bhutan
Pres. Harrison
Haruna Maru
Pres.- Lincoln'
FROM MANILA
Ang
Atsuta Mare
Tjisaizk
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Yasukumi Maru
Katsang
Patroclus
Muroran Maru.
Sirdhana
FROM AUSTRALIA
Aug-
15 others made from crisp taffeta 16 and worn with neatly tailored 16 jackets.
Taffeta suits had coats worn over crisp lawn blouses with stiff- ened lace jabots showing a for 13/ward movements. Mittens were
avoids 13 to match. Paris
meries, and these special daywear
flum-
14
16:
16
clothes are really dashing in s
16 simple. and often short-skirted
18
way.
19
Piquancy in Hats
As far as hats are concerned it is prophesied that piquancy will replace picturesqueness- 15 soon
They are fast growing smaller There are now and provocative.
in the shops black velvet caps with bunches of flowers on the
13 top, and black velvet caps with
13
16/eye veils-
19
A square plaid silk taffeta cap.
20 now on view in Regent Street, is
ADZ
Atsuta Maro
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Aug.
Chenonceaux (via Siberia)
12
Porthos (Marseilles "Air Mail
Service)
131
Closes Reg, 10 am. Ord. 10.30 am
Tatsuta Marn (via San FraD-
cisco and Siberia)................... Closes: Reg. 5. p.m. Ord. 8.30 am. Agamemnon (via Marseilles)
14
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Aug.
FOR MANILA
Emp. of Russia
Pres. Harrison
Changie
Pres. Lincol
*FOR SHANGHAI
Yasukuni Maru
Tatsuta Maru
FOR JAPAN
Aug.
made in navy and white and has
THE ART OF IRONING CORRECTLY
A FEW RESTFUL IDEAS
Inflated Mattresses
Modern Nannies will soon ex- usual formula to a blue veil and, beside it, a hat of tend their black straw, obviously inspired by "Come and have a nice lie down a solar topee, has an abbreviated on your nice "Li-Lo.” pugaree knotted around it.
USË FOR LEFT-OVER
SANDWICHES
Serve With Salad For Dinner
What is one to do with the wanted little pile of picnic sand- wiches left over from yesterday's 15 outing in the country? Here is a 16 bright suggestion worth trying so 20 if you should have to deal with
ups.
Different Fabrics Need Different Methods
THE SIDE TO IRON IS
IMPORTANT*.
Delicate fabrics need different methods of ironing. Satin, crepe
TO MAKE SPONGE SANDWICH
Simple But TastefulTMTM Dish
Whisk three large eggs
Iron process
ounces
in s
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PEAK HOTEL..
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ASTOR HOUSE, PALACE HOTEL
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DAILY CROSS. WORD PUZZLE
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phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho
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4 Slack S.Perfume
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(abbr)
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23-Serf 57~Try
60-Entry in an account 24-Part of the log 51-Organ of hearing
63-Telegram
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64-Place
14 Procures the loan of 65-Musical note
something
16-Anger
17-Mineral spring 12-Pronoun
19-Comparative suffix
20-$iceveless Arabian
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21-Gull-like bied
23-Large deer 25–Girl's name
26-Banners
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32-Ache
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34-Because 35-Sainte-(abbr.) 37-Even (contr.) 38-Exist
de Chine, and span silk, for in- basin sift in three ounces of cas- stance, which should have a gloss tor sugar, place the basin over, a of bot water, and whisk And a very nice "lie down” it
on the right side, should be ironed pan will be too, for these children's
The material again for 10 minutes. on the right side:
Remove the basin from the air-filled matteresses are as com should be fairky, damp and the fortable as the models for grown-iron het, so that each part of the heat, and keep on whisking until thick and garment can be thoroughly stif-the mixture is as
as a batter; the whole This year you can get a full-fened under the iron before the creamy
will take about twenty length one with a depression in next portion is touched. the middle which makes it impos-taffeta in the same way, but on minutes. In the meantime, warm
of flour with sible to roll off. These mattresses the wrong side, so that the marks three un-jare amphibious by nature, equally of the iron, do not show. Shar-pinch of salt, and sift it lightly comfortable as boats and as beratung should be ironed dry, and if into the eggs and sugar, not beat- Another restful idea for beach the iron is not enough it will be ing, hut folding it in Have sandwich tins, pre-) or garden is a low folding chair
Silk geor-ready two stiff and creaseless. with a padded cushion for
gette, which shrinks when wash-pared by wiping them with melt- be pulled back to its led lard and sifting over with equal parts of four and castor back of the neck. The bar ander gew
the ordinary 30
sugar. divide the mixture be- improvement en
tween them, and bake in a hot deck-chair.
No silks present the same diffi-oven for ten minutes. When cool! culties as artificial silk, which, de put the cakes together with le- spite its many advantages, is mon cheese or jam, and sift the usually difficult to Iron. It top with icing sugar- should never be allowed to get quite dry before being ironed: as it cannot be damped again. If the colours are known to be fast it is best dried in a warm place
the
the left over sandwich problem/the knees is also padded a great original shape if ironed damp.
try this tip.
Dip the sandwiches in batter and fry as an appetizing supper 13 dish. Make the batter with salad Joil stand for an hour, and whisk in a well-beaten white of an egg
Aug. 13 just before using. Drain," and
13 serve with a green salad
"
Aug
16 To make a sandwich look parti-, cularly tempting, roll each slice! of bread, (which has been spread 14 with perhaps, a mixture of grat- 14ed Cheddar cheese and anchovy paste), and place under a plate to
Tatsata Maru Yasukuni Maru Atsuta Maru
FOR STRAITS
Porthos Agamemnon Yuen Sang
FOR INDIA
Ang
13 14
Aug
Porthos
Agamemnon
Ynen Sang
FOR AUSTRALIA Changte (via Thursday
Island)
keep its shape.
LINGERIE IS VERY IMPORTANT
Foundation Of Good Dressing
Artificial Silk
material is just damp all over Designers of dress and lingerie wrapped in a towel. When the work in close alliance to-day iron with a warm but not hot iron. That wise old saying that the Never press heavily on seams or chain is no stronger than its
folds, as the fibres of artificial weakest link applies, though not ilk are weakened when wet or in the same phrasing, to the selec subjected to great heat. tion of modern underwear. 142m, registered and parcel mails aro
closed at 5 pm on the previous day-fitting or ill-cut under-garment AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via can spoil the effect of the costliest Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via and best-finished gown.
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20 Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Sei- That is why women who under gos Correspondence for Europe and stand good dressing give thought intermediate countries will be accept ed for tre msmission by these Services, first to the correct foundation. VIA SIBERIA Letters and post Rates and all particulars are shewn in cards for Europe and South America the schedules exhibited at the General are forwarded "via Sheria sorost Office and Kowloon Office All [letters etc, must be marked "By Air superscribed.
PARCEL MAT" and handed in at the General
Brand
REMOVING RUST STAINS
REGISTERED
To remove rust stains from MAIS are closed 15 minutes earlier Post Office. Unless superscribed for cloth wet it with lemon juice, and than the time given above less despatch by a specific air mail ser otherwise stated, and where mails are vice, correspondence will be forward then hold it over the steam from
la boiling teakettle advertised to close at or before led by the first service available.
Linen And Cotton
COOKING FISH AND CHIPS
Preventing Fat Flying
40-Save 41-Vast
42-Type measure 43-Open (poet) 45-The whole 48-And. (Lat.) 50-Twofold 51-Expires 54-Meals
57--Preposition 69-Rebant.
70-Lyric poem 71-Not the same 74-A letter
75-The true akin (76–5686~~ 77-Rapsir
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1-Endowed Z-A.trec 3-Withere 4Portion S-Conjunction 6-Verbal. 7-Very 8-Female shoap 10-Moon-goddess
11-Path of heaventŷ
body
12-School book 14 Prefix Twice'
|15-Senior (abbr.)
122-Pinck
25-Eagle.
27-Aeriform
28-Insect egi 30-Exist
31-Long, spiral lock of
hair
*34-imitate
35-Boy's 38-An insect
name..
[39–Conmame 44-Lump of butter 45-Otherwise 46-A Hebrew. month. 147-Perched.
49-Three-legged stand 30-Restrain 52-Use
needle and thread kafel, 53-Boiled slowly |55–Musical study 56"-Man's name “.... 158 Cut fine.
59-Dress with the beak |62-Stake in cards.
65-Egyptian god: 66–A naval officer-
***(abbr)
67-Combining form. Air (68-Treasurer (abbr.)
72-Upon
73-Pronoun
The solution of the above with a new cross-word puzzle
will appear in to-morrow's issue...
AVOID TOO MUCH STRENUOUS SPORT
Do Not Swim Or Play Jas disgusted with the idea of be-
Until Exhausted
ing a sports-wongan
Small. Doses Best Take your sports-in small doses Taking up outdoor sports in too until you get used to them. Do
To prevent the
e hot far from strenuous fashion is one of the not lose interest and give up a an exercise good outdoor game simply because flying while chipped potatoes are biggest mistakes
you cannot seem to make a high being fried, the chips should first minded woman can make.
or even moderately high score. Linen and cotton materials are be dried for a few minutes in the If you have been doing exercises That you are getting exercise in comparatively easy to iron. The oven. This removes all surface crinkly cotton crepe which is used moisture and helps to make the for only 10 minutes a day and the fresh air and that you keep for children's dresses should not chips light and crisp when cook walking very few miles per week happy while getting it are the im
it stands to reason that it would portant things be ironed at all; linen is some-led..
Riding and swimming are times slightly starched, but usual- Fillets of fish dressed with egg be foolish for you to play eighteen sports for beginners. They ex- ly comes up stiff enough for and breadcrumbs should be pre holes. of golf the first time on the ercise all of the muscles and, in dresses and suits if ironed damp pared if possible an hour or 80
course, and even more foolish to addition, can be done alone. You don't really need company for with a hot iron Organdies, before they have to be fried so
e or so across a bay either. Just be sure the horse is voiles, and muslins need a hot that the crumbs have time to be awit a mile iron to make them crisp and fresh, come well set. Before the fillets You might get across the bay, and gentle and that the beach where though it should be remembered are placed in the pan and loose even back again, but you would you swim your few strokes a day be completely exhausted as well is not considered a dangerous one. that they scorch easily.
crumbs should be shaker offe
fine
Bringing Up Father
HERE COMES HANDY
CAPP, THE RACE HORSE MAN. I WONDER WHAT HE WANTSKALE
HELLO, HANDY- WHAT'S YOUR MIND?
I JUST DROPPED IN TO TELL YOU MY HORSE ING LAME” WILL AWIN TODAY PUT A
-BET ON HIM-
-BET
ILL PUT A GOG ON HIM AND GET, RID OF SOME OF MY. MONEY. HE NEVER”
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