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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935

4 Women's Juges

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FABRIC EVENING Avoiding Splitting Nails HOW TO

GOWNS

Two Fashions To Be In Contrast

NORDIC INFLUENCE ON COATS

AND DAYWEAR

One vogue, that will more than likely come to pass is an influence. emanating from the Italian Art Exhibition. A vague prophecy. It is hereby notified that from the however, since no one can guess First of September 1935 Night Letter up to date which epoch will be Telegrams (NLT) expressed in Plain chosen, and in what manner it will language may be exchanged between be interpreted by the "haute cou Hong Kong and Great Britain at one- third of the Full Ordinary Rate with ture.”

a minimun charge for 25 words.

Both stiff and supple fabrics

These tekrams will be delivered come into play for evening gowns. on the morning after the date

despatch.

of

Two distinct tendencies are sure

Further information may be obtain-to follow-the wide-hemmed fash- ion and contrasting slim skirt line. ed at the Radio Office.

There are modelists who have gone further afield for inspiration if only to break away from the 6. !obvious consequence of this recent Italian Art Exhibition in Paris.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Sept.

Naldera (via Siberia)

FROM US.A

Sept

Pres Grint Pres. Johnson Emp of Asia

FROM JAPAN

Sept:

Sydney Maru Pres. Grant Naldera Sydney Mary Heigo Maru -

Genes Maru Nato Mara Anyo· Mari

Pres. Johnson". Kashima Maru Lyons Maru

Malacca Maru

Esp. of Asia

Ixioa

Naldera

FROM SHANGHAI

Pres. Grant

Conte Bosto

D'Artagnan Pencalion

Pres. Johnson Soudan

Kashima Maru

Sept.

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Far Eastern Effect

The best influence from the Far East pegged its claim during the Summer season, so that can hard- y be tried again so promptly. Will it be Ancient Greece? tive approach and soft fabrics of great beauty

6/ something of the kind. :

A tenta clinging suggest

a Paris On the other hand, designer with an unusual faculty for research work for new ideas 13 in clothes has apparently brought 14/back a notebook full of them from 14 Nordic climes. These will pro- 14bably be introduced in coats

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well as ensembles for day wear, sland forecast a unique handling of $ embroideries and furs. Gay col- ours, too, with emphasis on wide sleeves.

HAT SENSATION

A millinery sensation is a bat made of 72 yards of ribbon.

It

Sis worn on one side of the head

like a Glengarry bonnet.

ELEPHANT'S SKIN

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10

13

13

11

Emp. of Asia

14

FROM MANILA

Sept.

General Pershing .

Pres. Hoover

Warning

70

Sept.

Achilles

Toyooka. Maru

11

Antenor

13.4

Komsang

141

Seen in a shop-window the

Suwa Mart ̧.

FROM AUSTRALIA

Sept

Taiping

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR SHANGHAI

Sept

Sept.

Pres. Hoover

General Pershing

Soochow

WOLN

Ultra smart for luncheon is this chic street outfit of navy by Joan novelty crepe Bennett, the screen actress. The collar is of crash linen and the bound in navy - gros, coils are grain The hat is navy straW with-turned-up brim and flat rib box trimming. “

Caused By Deficiency

Of Mineral Salts

NAILS SHOULD ALSO BE KEPT

ON SHORT SIDE

Splitting or flaking nails are a great trouble to some women, and this tendency is often made worse by a deficiency of mineral salts

in the diet..

You should eat plenty of raisins, spinach, cabbage, lettuce, and such things if you have this nail defect They help greatly to supply your system with what it lacks

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Also, keep the nails rather short, and trim them frequently. beautiful manicure with long nails! is quite impossible while this spitting lasts, and enamels only make it more noticeable. An ex- cellent preparation for this trouble is the following: Tincture of myrrh Dilute sulphuric acid... 1 drachm Distilled water...

2 ounces

1

HAVE LOVELY

WHITE HANDS

Exercise Is A Great Help

"REMOVES, UNSIGHTLY REDNESS

you wish for white hands there is no quicker way of attain-

them than by band exercises. They improve the cireglation, and relieve that congestion of the fine blood vessels which is the cause of redness

- Sit with your elbow, on the

rms of a soft chair.

Open the hands as wide as you can, stretch the fingers apart, then curl them the Siste forward and clench tightly. Repeat this 10 times. Here is another.

With the elbows on the chair arms as before, let the hands fall forward loosely from the wrists. then bend them back as far as they will go.

Inouces Flexibility

1⁄2 drachm These exercises sound too sbm- ple to bother about, but just-try them and see how rapidly they will conquer redness, and how fexible they will make the hands, too.

Will Harden Nails Get your chemist to make up this prescription and apply it to the nails with a tiny piece of cot- ton wool after you have washed It will harden the your hands. nails, and prevent cracking and faking

Needless to say, the greatest care should be taken to have the hands thoroughly dry always. An application of a simple cucumber lotion should always complete the drying, and a wide-mouthed jar of finely ground oatmeal, which costs only a few pence a pound, shouki always stand by your washbasin. Flunge your hands into this and rub them in it so as to let it absorb the last vestige of moistare

Will The Advance Fashions Stay?

Simple Bodices In Satin Frocks

15 other day, a bag collar and belt of DRAPERY MAY BE POPULAR

braided silk with fastenings jelephant skin.

FOR EUROPE

Emp of Japan (via Yaacoa-

ver). Closes: Reg. 9.15 am. Ord. 102mAthos Pres, Hoover (vis Siberia)

Closer: Reg. 4.15 pm. Ord. 5 pm. Naldera (Amsterdam Air

Mail)

Athos II (vin Siberia)

Conte Posso (Amsterdam Air

Mail Service)

Clösen Reg. 130 pim. Ord. 2 p.m. D'Artagnan (vis" Marseilles)

FOR JAPAN

Pres. Hoover

General Pershing Athos II

Heiyo Maru

FOR: INDIA

Sept.

Kutsang

"FOR STRAITS

Sept

Katsang

Conte Rosso. Suwa Mara

FOR AUSTRALIA

Sydney Mars

FOR US.A

Pres. Hoover Heiyo Mara

more immense downwards.

as though small capes were gather- jed in at the wrist to make sleeves. There are sophisticated dresses, the bodice made like a corset by

about

the gathering all down the front so Speculation is rife permanence of the fashions which that horizontal folds spread on have appeared in advance of the each side Folds start fra under rest. Some satin frocks have been the stays down the front seen in white and in black and purple with simply made bodices,

6 perhaps with a scarf thrown back- wards over the low neck and having skirts with their fallness partly set in front. They touch

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and port cards for Europe and South America

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ROMANCE

the ground and are a shade longer BEAUTY PARLOUR & BARBER. at the back

On the other hand, everything 9 are forwarded "iz Siberia” i seems to point to drapery of every PARCEL kind. Dresses may be gathered all

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superscribed.

REGISTERED

and

MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier down one side, leaving a fin of than the time given abore unless beading, and this makes for hori otherwise stated, and where mails are zontal creasing, fitting closely advertised to closest or before 3.

am, registered and parcel malls are across the figure Greek draperies closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day, may hang in pleats from

one

AIR MAIL-Imperial Always via shoulder and all down the opposite Singapore, Bandoeng Amsterdam via Singapore, Saigon Marseilles vis, Sai hip, but they are firmly chinch gon Correspondence for Europe and by a broad, sraight belt. intermediate countries will be accept-

ed for transmission by these Services.

Rates and all particulars are shewn

Afternoon Dresses

Some afternoon dresses have the schedules exhibited at the Gene Fost Office and Kowloon Office: Al close gathering on the inside-line letters etc., must be marked "By Air of the shoulders, so that drapery Mail" and handed in at the General waves across the chest and arms. Post Office. Unless superscribed for forming short- sleeves. Day: despatch by a specific sir mail dresses may button down ther vice, correspondence will be for ed by the first service: avail ba

front, but some plain shoulders irun into sleeves growing more and

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If you do this exercising and massage before going to bed. do not wash the cream off. Just rub it off softly with a clean towel. What remains will work into the pores during the night, and make the bands like velvet in the mor- ning

SCRUBBS

That's why my Stockings last

Always wash your stockings and danty underwear water containing Scrubb's Ammonia Scrubb's removes from the ter the fime

which ham the fabrics out your sīka. ckaner and with little rubbing with Stubb's.

and

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DAILY CROSSWORD 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

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25

19

1

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147

151

HORIZONTAL

1-Scow

5-Male bee

9 Walking stick

3-9wiss river

22-Girl's name

14-Skil 15 Coincide

Deep hole

19-Lively (Mum.).

-Negative 22-Large plant

25-Scente

27-Man's name

29-Unit AN 20-River Island 31-Naval station - In

NW. France, t 33-Fur-bearing 35-Cease:

37 Evenings

32-Preposition

animal

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132

HORIZONTAL (Cont.) |40-Cooked with hot

vapor 42-Father

143-Decay

45-Azations

46-Restrain

VERTICAL (Cont) 13–Small particles |15-A beverage. (FL)

16–Greek goddess of

discord 19-Restrains

120–Narootized

|22-Sounds

49.The sheltered side. [24–Slashes ›

47-Darling

150-Puts on

51-Bootes

{52-Part of a plant

EVERTICAL

1-Farm building - Z-Insect 3-Musical note "4-Large bird

5-Sediment A

6-Bone (Lat.) 7-Doza B-Ireland

{colloq.)

34-Wanders..

-37~Turkish official.

·33-Part of the foot

old-

4chen utensil (pl.).

44-Strike gently 46-Speck 48-Egyptian god :

-City in Egypt {71-Metric land mazsure 50--/

The solution of the above with a new cross-scord, pumnte will appear in to-morrow's izque.

THE DEMAND FOR COOL FOOTWEAR

Pin Heel Loses Favour To Low Heel

Shoes have probably never been 10 cool as this year, when many people have taken to sandals. They are inclined to match gloves, being white and perforated and rather elaborate. In Paris the pin heel is passed over where any sports suggestion is in clothes.

The low heel, which need not be

in the least cimsy, is freely worn and shoes are well cut, up underį

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LILAC AND GOLD SARI FOR PARTY

the instep, lightly made, and yet At a party given in London in have a low heel, which makes them honour of the Marharajah of My- extremely comfortable. Where sore's birthday, Mrs. Ranganatha height is wanted it is high enough.

But the French have imitated the Bao, the hostess wore a lilac-and

CLOUDY AMMONIA Americans in adopting the well-ent gold-sazi with a waistbelt of solid

why hom lower shoe, made sometimes with gold, studded with rubies and

Norwegian front.

emeralds.

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