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.HONG KONG GOVERNMENT

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1935

4 Women's Tages

Home Dressmaking Difficulties

RADIO TELEGRAPH SERVICE BEAUTY SECRETS

I hereby notified that from the

-First day of August 1935 the charges. for telegrams will be collected at the rate of Dollar 0.65 to -qual Gold! Franc 1.00.

INWARD MAILS

Ranchi (via Siberia)

FROM: EUROPE

Aug.

Teiresias (Air Mail)

Memnon

FROM USA.

Aug.

Pres. McKinley Pre. Hoover Pres. Hayes.

Emp. of Japan

FROM JAPAN

Santos Mara

Kitano Maru

Asama Maru

Ranchi

Tokiwa Maru

Koago Maru

Hakodate Mara

General Pershing

Tanda

Pres. Hoover

Pres. Hayes

Emp. of Japan

Katori Maru

FROM SHANGHAI

Asama. Maru

Fanchi

Pres. McKinley

ChenonceasK

Laomedon

Sarpedon

Pres. Hoover

General Pershing

Pres. Hayes

Behar

Emp. of Japan

FROM MANILA-

Katori Maru.

Aug

Aiz.

KR8

FROM THE STARS

OF HOLLYWOOD

Elizabeth Allan'sTM

Method

The Secret Of Pressing During Operations

WELL. MADE DRESSES ARE MOSTLY PLAIN

press:

One of the snags in home dress- making is the difficulty of finish- ing-oL. This can, however, be dealt with, if the dressmaker will Elizabeth Allan's eyes are her take enough trouble, learn bo do loveliest feature, and she knows button-holes neatly, avoid-to many well how the perfect grooming of press-studs, and, above a

Lending in- brows and lashes, as well as the as she goes along.

terest to a dress is less easy and success depends largely upon the hances their beauty. Here are her way in which the blank spots are filled in Dresses may easily be- uninteresting immediately Skirts may be

23 make-up of the entire

30

30 hints for other women..

face. en-

She applies eye make-up first come After using eyebrow pencil, she above the belt.

22 grooms her brows very thoroughly desperately uninteresting unless a

23 with a special brush.

superb cut is available. Skirt and bodice may together offer an some

Next she puts on ber Toure with a lamb's wool paff, and then lof dullness. esblends in the colour with her fin-

• Importance Of Neck The neck is, perhaps, the most her skin important part of a dress and the on, and is right collars or neck-lines are es-

ger-tips. She uses a large puff. pats the powder on to rather than dusting it

30 careful not to powder anywhere sential. Once these are found, it

near her eyes.

30

After

powdering

remains to give some point to the Dresses with cape

she again space below.

brushes her lashes and brows to shoulders do this, the cape giving make sure that no. Trace of pow- an interesting movement just 23 der adheres to them. Last of all above the belt. It can be done by

she applies lipstick

so simple a means as buttons down the front

30

30

Aug.

Emp. of Russia

Pres. Lincoln

Tjikembang

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Aug

Tango Maru

**Memnon

Teresias

Hakone Maro Hosang

#92

30:

30

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Emp. of Russia (via Siberia)

Ranchi (via Marseilles) Closes: Reg. 9.45 am.

·Ord. 10.30.ait.

D'Artagnan (via Siberia) Sarpedon (via Marseilles)

Aug.

Closes: Reg. 5. p.m. Ord: 9 a.m..

FOR MANILA

Kitano Maru

Pres. McKinley

D'Artagnan

FOR SHANGHAI

Rampura Emp. of Russia D'Artagnan

POSIES CONSIDERED

FASHIONABLE

Used Both On Dresses And Hats

Bodice and skirt can be given coherence by means of buttons up one side which really button perhaps two on the bodice and three on the skirt, or the other way

Interest is added to round.

2

skirt sometimes by breaking it up. giving it a hip-yoke, or setting in pleats at the knees.

A seam in the bodice just above

Metallic fabrics, the latest - word in glittering formal wear, are used in this dull gold cloth evening ensemble. Claire Dodd, Warner Bros. actress, wears the luxurious affair, which has a trailing skirt topped with a silver. fox trimmed coat that has dropped V hemline and a soft tie belt.

DEPRESSED BY ACUTE ACIDITY

"There can surely be no doubit about the effectiveness of a re- medy for acidity that can give such permanent relief as in this woman"

"I suffered for many years from acidity in various forms," she writes. At last it became 30 acute that every morning I woke with a gnawing pain and a great depression of spirits. I tried Kruschen. Salts, and the effect was magical. The pain subsided and the depression lifted like a cloud. I have taken the daily dose u Kruschen ever since. That was about five years ago, and the Krus-

It chen does not lose its effect. did more than produce temporary benent-it completely relieved in a year or two, and I have not had that gnawing pains since."--(Miss) EM K

Kruschen is so effective with acidity because it neutralises, seid, takes all the torment out of it, and gently expels it from the system. And by stimulating your organs of elimination to perfect regalar action. Kraachen will prevent this harmful acid from ever accumulat- that you'll ex- ing again. After

after -perience 10 more misery meals.

THE NEW LINES IN

LINEN

Taffeta Combination Makes Smart Suits

All the new linens are distinc- tive, and cover a wide range, in their mottled. rugged smooth, La patterned or knitted effects. fact one could find enough differ- ent and suitable linens to make every garment in one's wardrobe.

Linen combined with taffeta is

It is fashionable to be dressed the belt has the effect of giving the AVOID PUCKERING Try smart for suits and tailored

Some-

IN DARNING .

up with posies. You wear a cor-bodice an inverted yoke. sage on your new dress, add a times an inverted tack in bodice dash of bright colour to your and skirt in front about 10 inches

ay, gray or tan suit with a posy in length gives interest to that Wool Should Be Washed in your buttonhole, and wear front.

Before Use

sun-

the taffeta forms frocks when wide stitched lapels, or ties in a large flat bow at the neck. A wide taffeta belt and covered buttons are new on a plain linen dress. If well-made dresses are

or if you are planning a flowers in your hair or on your looked at carefully it will be seen

bathing dress let it be tailored shoulder for evening-

that they mostly look very plain

Darning on woollen garments with a checked taffeta belt and Hats, too, have fallen in line indeed but that they are thus an- frequently leaves a hard puckered buttons like the one sketched A and are decorated with flowers-Jobtrusively broken up into zones of area. particularly after the arti-wide stitched collar holds a comeback that has been long in interest. Tails of ribbons, but cles have been washed. This is be-bodice in position, whilst the skirt returning. Here is a most betons, the flap of a basque; all these cause new unwashed wool is used part-wraps over at the back and ceming hat of red straw-and little touches are not much in for darning garments which have buttons down the left side. when did we ever see so many red themselves, but they contribute to been washed many times. 24 hats in

season? It has a the interest which prevents the To avoid this puckering the medium width brim which is turn-home-made dress from looking darning wool should always "be ed up at the side back to show a amateurish.

(Continued in next Column) 28 cluster of carnations.

FOR AUSTRALIA

24 Kitan Maru (vis Thursday 24 Island)

24

Aug

24

FOR US.A.

Aug.

Emp. of Russia

FOR STRAITS

Aug.

Cremer

Santos Maru

Saisang

Hai Hing

Ranchi Sarpendon

Emp. of Russia

FOR US.A

Aug

FOR INDIA

Acg.

"Santos Marni

Suisang Ranchi

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- cards for Europe and South America are forwarded "vis Siberia" it' so superscribed.

REGISTERED

and PARCEL

Tending Patent Leather Shoes

Vaseline The Best Dressing

USEFUL ON BRUSHES AFTER THEY ARE WASHED

MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above, unless for

leather articles, may be removed if it is well rubbed with vaseline The surface should afterwards be treated with shoe-cream or farni- ture polish.

Vaseline is useful for oiling

For the castors on furniture Vaseline is -the best dressing this purpose it may be slightly patent leather shoes. It warmed, if necessary, and then

otherwise stated, and where malls are should be applied to them before applied with a feather-

22 Advertised to close at or before they are worn, left on for several Rusty keys should be dipped in.

a.m. registered and parcel malis" am closed at 5 pm on the previous day, days, and then polished off with vaseline before they are tried in

22 AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via a soft cloth. Whenever the shoes a lock, and when trunks and suit-

the

The dress is easily slipped on and buttoned in position.

Red, white and blue machine stitching trims the collar, whilst the belt and buttons are of check- ed taffeta in the same colourings.

washed before use in fairly: hot The wool need only be. water. immersed for a few minutes and then left out-of-doors to dry. This process will shrink the wool so that puckering is avoided.

CADA

Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis are to be put away for a few days cases are stored away the locks "INTRA-TRERMAL” Singapore Saigon-Marseilles via. Sai- they should be treated with vase-should be smeared with vaseline.

24 gon. Correspondence for Europe and line to keep the leather supple

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Rates and all particulars are shewn in

When hairbrushes with ebony

the schedules exhibited at the General or polished wood backs are wash- rost Office and Kowloon Offse. All

letters ete, must be marked "By Aired the backs should first be light-

SKIRT PROBLEM

Mail" and handed in at the Generally coated with vaseline. This The Paris dressmakers are Post Office. Unless superscribed for protects the polished surface from odds on the subject of the wider despatch by a specific air mail ser- being dulled or spotted with soapy skirt Lanvin, Lelong and Faquín vice, correspondence will be forward-

like them shorter and wider. ed by the first service available.

Mildew on boots or shoes, or Schiaparelli and. Mainbocher keep on bags. straps, and any other them narrow."

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