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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via Saigon

Singapore Australia

Correspondence will be accepted forl transmission by these services. Rates) and all particulars are shewa in the schedules exhibited at

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21; 1935

Women's Tages

the Post A FEW USEFUL

Offices. All letters etc., must be mark ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in at a Post Office.

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE

HOUSEHOLD HINTS

For cleaning carpets put a goodị It is hereby notified that from the First day of August 1955 the charges sprinkling of bicarbonate of soda! for telegrams wilt be collected at the on the carpet, leave on for about rate of Dollar 0.55 to qua Gold five minutes, and then brush off

with a very stiff brush.

Franc 1.00.

INWARD MAILS..

FROM EUROPE

Canton (Marseilles Air Mail)

Rampura (via Snez)

Memnon

Pres. Hoover

Aug.

*

+

Do you know that water in which onions have been boiled is very useful in cleaning white 21 paint?

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$878

For removing splinters "mix al little brown sugar and ordinary yellow soap together; moisten and Bandage apply to the swelling.

29 until the splinter comes out.

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FROM USA.

Aug

Pres. McKinleg

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Pres. Hayes

Emp. of Japan

FROM JAPAN

Aug.

Santos Maru

Kitano Maru

Asama Maru

Ranchi

Tokiwa Maru

Konco Maru

Hakodate Maru

General Pershing.

Tanda

Pres. Hoover

Pres Hayes B

Emp. of Japan

Katori Maru.

FROM SHANGHAI

Szechoen

Asama Maru

Kanchi.

Pres. McKinley

Chenonceaux Laomedon Sarpedea

Pres. Hoover

Pres. Hayes

General "Pershing

Eehar

Emp of Japan

Katori. Mara

"FROM MANILA

Aum.

*-.

*

*

If you wish to make an excellent polish for mahogany take three parts of linseed oil and

one!

23 methylated spirit. Shake till; thoroughly blended. First wash} the furniture with a mixture of warm tea and vinegar, using · 'a clean, soft sponge and some soapi Jelly. Wipe absolutely dry and polish with an old silk rag-

Summer Diarrhoea

A Danger to Babies. Summer heat is always likely to up-|- set a baby's digestion. -It may also partially spoit or affect foods fed to the baby, or taken by the mother, în which case mother's milk may become unsafe. Dreaded summer diarrhoes

is a natural outcome.

A wise precaution is to give Baby's

Fay Wray will be seen in the final screening of "Ann Carver's Profession" at the Queen's Theatre to-day.

How Shorts Were Born

Own Tablets regularly during the THE UNTRUTHFUL

ng summer months, for these tablets

30 prevent poisons from undigested foot

Amg

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Emp. of Russia

Pres. Lincoln Tjikembang

FROM STRAITS & INDIA -

Aux

Tango Maru

Teiresias

Memnon

Hosang

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE.

Emp. of Russia (via Siberia) Ranchi (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 9.45.a.m

Ord. 10.30 am..

AD'Artagnan (viz Siberia)...

Sarpedon (via Marseilles

Aug.

Closes: Reg: 5 pm. Ord 9 am

FOR MANILA

Kitano Mara

Pres. McKinley D'Artagnan

FOR SHANGHAI

Pampura Emp. of Russia D'Artagnan

Emp. of Bussia.

Ang

Aug.

FOR USA.

Ang

FOR STRAITS

Ang.

Cremer Santos Maru

Suisang.

Ranchi Sarpendon

Emp. of Russia

FOR INDIA

Santos- Maru

Spisang"

Ranchi

FOR US.A.

FOR AUSTRALIA Kitano Maru (via Thursday

Islandy

Auz

accumulating in the child's system..

MIRROR

And if diarrhoes does occur, Baby's Too Little Make-Up Is ing this condition. Each tablet cou- Better Than Too Much

Own Tablets are effective in correct- |

tains the right amount of a simple! substance given by children's specia

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It can

Fashion Started By An Amateur

FOREIGN HOLIDAYS

Limiting One's Baggage

FIBRE SUITCASES CONVENIENT

The foreign holiday is usually considered to be a-burdensome lafair as far as luggage- goes. largely owing to the inherited idea of the travelling Englishman with the dress baskets and portman- teaux of the last century. But the shorter holiday, abroad has killed

a great deal of the cumbersome travel which needed such prepara-] tions. Even the porters who dash on to the boats at Continental ports have recognised this and are much more ready to let a ̈ passen- ger go off carrring his own suit- case.

The idea of travelling light has been brought about mainly by the changes in dress in foreign travel Whereas the Englishman might once arrive in a German or French resort with his baggage fall of many changes of clothes, he wil now turn up with only one change. In one Belgian resort two English- men walked into the main restan- rant in shorts-and open shirts for dinner. Before the war they admit- would have been refused

tance

Change in Manners

can

The other change in FORÅRD.CTS which has worked against the necessity of a lot of baggage is the increase of the number small and ingenious cases which have room for "everything neces- space. *The ONE IDEA LEADS TO ANOTHER sary in a confined

fitted and expanding case offers in A famous dress designer tells an itself a limitation of amount of interesting story about the birth stuff to be taken, and, for a single Tsty for summer diarrhoea. To quote It is quite a fallacy to say that of a fashion which proved univer-person, anything above what the

case will comfortably hold an eminent authority. "As to the one's mirror cannot lie.. youngest and most delicate child this and badly too. It is as well to sally popular. It is still popular generally be left out. substance in small doses should gent keep this in mind, especially when Some years ago, Captain Molyneux The number of compact places ly stimulate liver, gall bladder and

enormously, and the average suit. intestines safely. Nothing is better one is indulging in a little make recounts, a lady came to him and of travelling equipment has grown. up For reflections are misleading asked him to design something in summer diarrhoea.”

case is no longer the heavy leather A Toronto mother proved the value and, seen through a looking glass. of Baby's Own Tablets last summer.all tones are lowered, all colours practical to wear when she did her piece which was weighty in itself She says: "Last year while at a camp dalled slightly-

physical exercises. After she had without its contents. One of the ja child of four got summer complaint. ¡

Few people use cosmetics success-made rough sketch on an enve-best cases for foreign travel is the of thin I gave her some Baby's Own' Tablets |

fibre case, or the and they improved her right away. I fully with the result that a too lepe, it was decided that garment metal covered with thin leather. have used them during teething and heary application of eye shadows, should be worked out in the way They stand the hard usage of Con- have found them unequalled. My

of pleated shorts. They were, children call them little candies and too harsh a use of lipstick and

black Batininental porters and get that well- 241 will take no other. I have used them rouge mar many an attractive en-eventually, made in

for sixteen years and would not be semble. Discretion is all impor-with an accompanying polo shirt worn and well-used look without

appearing shabby. without them in the house.”

tant în this matter and it is better in white silk.

Complicated Problem These sweet-tasting, harmless little to use too little make-up than to Baby's Own Tablets are safe for even

The idea was a good one. The A family, on a foreign holiday is Eyes and the most delicate baby. Complete indulge in too much." directions are given with each pack-llips should be the high spots in a designer was so impressed with it, always a more complicated pro aze, showing the correct number of clever make-up, of course, but re-that out of it sprang another idea blem where bag and baggage are tablets for different ages, from in-member not to take the mirror's Why not make these shorts in concerned. Here the canvas hold- fancy to 12 years of age. Use them

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[of diarrhoea, constipation, upset stomach, teething troubles, sleepless- ness, colds, croup and simple fevers,

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and port cards for Europe and South Ameno are forwarded "vis Siberia" K 30 superscribed.

USEFUL HINT ON DARNING

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24 to help keep your children in good reflection absolutely at its face white tussore for beach wear? he all is a useful piece of equipment, asked himself... And no sooner bad as it will take all the odds and ends 2 health as well as in the treatment value.

he thought of this than he put the for which there is no place in

That same trunk or cases. But Customs off notion into practice. season, he recounts, shorts put in eers are more than usually suspi- an appearance on summer beaches clous of it and will ransack it from and have since, as, we all know,jend to end, probably to the neglect been adopted by the whole world of the other baggage, of fashion.

The foreign postal convenience Here is an example, surely one of posting luggage at the of few, in which the amateur and tice to another post office reduces not the fashion dictator starts a the burden of carrying enormous.

[ly. Cases can be opened at the l}

office and reposted to the Text town. On one journey a traveller did this in stages from Innsbracă

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REGISTERED and PARCEL To Avoid Puckering

MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier

than the time given above unless otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close at or before 3. 221.m., registered and parcel malls are:

Wash Wool First

Darning on woollen garments fashion

on closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day- frequently leaves a hard puckered AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways viajarea, particularly after the articles

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gon. Correspondence for Europe and! Cause new unwashed wool is used intermediate countries will be accept for darning garments which have

ed for transmission by these Services, been washed many times."

CHINTZ FOR GOWNS

To Glazed chintz, once reserved for

post

to Cologne, and the arrangement did not once break down"

This plan of using the post

22 Rates and all particulars are shewn in avoid this puckering the darning curtains, is making chic evening office as an advance porter is ex-

the schedules exhibited at the General;) Post Office and Kowloon Office. All wool should always be washed he gowns this summer. It is always ceedingly useful for the walker or letters etc, must be marked "By Airifore use in fairly hot water. The printed and has a high shiny cyclist abroad, as he can replenish One frock of blue and his rucksack as he goes along. It 22 Mail" and handed in at the Generall wool need only be immersed for a finish. 23 Post Office. Unless superscribed for few minutes and then left out-of-white flowered glazed chintz is de- saves carrying heavy packs and 24 despatch by a specific air mail ser-!

¡doors to dry. “ This process will signed on very long slender lines, gives a certain sense of security vice, correspondence will be forward

shrink the wool so that puckering making the figure almost stemlike which many walkers like to have fed by the first service available. :.

in case of mishap. is avoided:

in silhouette

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