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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis Bingapore Saigon-Marseilles via Saigon. Singapore-Australia- Correspondence

nce will be accepted far transmission by

by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn in" the schedules exhibited at the Post Be All letters etc, must be mark. ed "By Air Mail and be handed In at the Post Office.

CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR MAIL SERVICE-FROM CANTON, -Letters will be accepted at Hong Kong for transmission by the Chinese Domestic Air Mail Service · from Canton to all places in China at the rate of $1.00 per half once unit The charge is inclusive of the regular postage.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1936

Nomen's Tage

Forecast Of Fashions

For Spring

What To Wear At Home And Abroad

NE of the first enquiries about side just to show a glimpse

of

The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.0. are: Canton-Shanghai (via Swato)ther skirts are to be shorter or a very dark shade, which can be Wednesdays and Saturdays, Beg-waists higher, For some time repeated in a shirt-blouse worn” It is 10 am, Ordinary 10.30 am Canton-Kingchow.Nanning Mon- past the mode has been drifting under a little plaid cost.

towards shorter skirts and normal completed with knitted hat, scarf days

and Fridays, Beg 10 am.

waistlines for day-time, including and tie. Ordinary 10:30a.m. Canton-Langchow-Saturdays, Beg the skirts that accompany tailor- These aspects of the suit recall Ordinary 5.00ped jackets or little dresses of wool the Highland kilt in plaid with the Tuesdays and Thursdays Reg. 10 for informal wear.

that positions reversed, for a.m. Ordinary 10.30 am.

The formal reception or evening worn with the plain cost. the mails will be closed hour befrock is not influenced by such checked beige and red coat had a fore the above times.

4.30

At Kowloon Central Post Oce

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Feb.

Hakozaki Mara. (Imperial Air

Mail ex Service)

Mar.

Anhui (Air Mail)

Ranchi. (via Suez)

FROM SHANGHAI

Feb.

Burdwan

Hakodaki Maru

Hakone Marne

Emp. of Japan'

Pres. Polk Asama Mara

Pres. Pierce, Philoctetes Rawalpindi

Pres. Jexerxon

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decisions. They remain as they pleated skirt of plain, light beige were and, in some instances, trains wool. This was going to Egypt, are longer and more important.(and was charmingly crowned by The slit-akirt for the smart after-ja beige felt hat, with wool plait- noon or demitollette is cat to ed through the brim and formingi

28 rather below the Instep. It is tiro pan-poms at the side in the tight, and although not quite of brilliant colours of the plaid coat. the tube variety is glad of the A plain knitted silk jumper re- slit from below the knee to allow flected the sandy shade, which is of freedom of movement,

always the law for the traveller bound for the desert.

Many dresses are pleated, with 28 the skirt just clearing the ground. 23 These are good for all sorts of informal dancing frocks and after-

nooz gowns in mousseline-de-soie-for the traveller. Sand-coloured

23 plisse.

Max.

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Smart Novelty

Cashmere For Cruising

Cashmere and hopsack are good

bopsack is particularly smart for a tailored suit and has the ad- vartage of being 204 excellent foundation for any bright or sober skirt shade that may be worn with it--

A smart novelty in the tailored e world is the plain short

of heavy wool-jersey, slit at one black or dark brown shoes with

Mar

Gen Pershing

FROM US.A.

Feb.

FOR JAPAN

Emp. of Japan

28

Feb.

Pres. Polk

28]Hakozaki Maru

Mar.

Pres. Grant

Pres. Pierce

Pres. Jefferson

Asama Maru

FOR U.S.A.

Feb.

23 Pres. Grant

20

- Feb.

Mar.

23

29 Asama Maru

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

Fab.

Eumaens

Hosang

Hector

Taima

FROM JAPAN

Feb.

Burdwan

28 Hakone- Mara-

28 Tilawa

28

26 Philoctetes

29 Africa Maru

Eawalpindi

FOR MANILA

Feb.

Emp-of-Jap

Mar..

Pres. Polk

FROM MANILA

Tjísadane

Tanda

Feb.

Pres. Grant

Pres. Pierce

Pres. Jefferson

Mar.

Tanda

Emp. of Japan Hakone Maru

Pres. Poik

Hakodate Maru

Axams Marti

Pres. Perse

Banda

Africa Maru Pres. Jekerson Rawalpindi- Gen. Pershing

Tjisalak

Nankin

Taiping

Nankin Taiping

FROM AUSTRALIA

OUTWARD MAILS. FOR EUROPE

Mar.

Feb.

FOR AUSTRALIA

Mar.

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- cards for Europe and South America are forwarded "via Siberia” if. sa superscribed,

REGISTERED and PARCEL KAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time given above ander 28atherwise stated and where mails are Spadvertised to close at œe before 9 closed at 5 pm. on the previous day. am; registered and parcel malls are

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via| Singapore, Bandeng-Amsterdam via

28

Burdwan (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 415 p.m. Ord. Pres. Grant (via Siberia)·

Closes: Peg. 4.16 p.m. Ord. 5 pm. Hakone Maru (Imperial Ser-

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Closes: Reg. 5.m. Ord. 6 p.m. Hector (via Siberia)

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shirts and ties in spotted black or fred and white, brown with green,

or beige with blue, or purple.

"Much"all-white will go cruising. The newest wools and jerseys are (particularly successful in the paler tomes and that vast variety known as of-the-white. Cashmere is an

A charming afternoon frock of black crepe, its · peplum · blouse

braided with bow-knots and ning

Shampoo

Capes

Shoulder capes and head bands made of fine, washable rubber in (various attractive shades which jare intended for the protection of clothes and hair when one is mak- ing up the face are now obtainable quite cheaply.

They certainly save their cost many times after a week or so of use because dresses which show a film of powder around the neck and shoulders look most unsight- ingly and necessitate frequent visits to the cleaner.

These capes are also very use- ful for shampoo purposes

SMART NOTE PAPER

One of the smartest of the new! notepapers is in a pale coffee co- lour, much deeper in shade than the more usual cream.

If you decide to use this type of stationery then you will also like

to keep upon your desk a bottle of very dark brown ink, which looks most effective with the pale nota- paper.

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The size of the sheets is rather Amaller than before. They are large enough to be folded once and then slipped into rather large squarish envelopes.

NEW FLAT COMPACT

Compact, in the true sense of the word, is the newest silver mesh model in a narrow silver metal frame, two and a half in-

* double cluster of pink camelches square, it is unusually fat, lias at the throat, is worn here by Rochelle Hudson, screen actress. With it is wom a black velvet hat featuring a soft drop- ed bow at the side.

ideal cruising fabric for informal every colour and weight give

evening dresses. In colours. the ending satisfaction.

but the softness of the ALLOUT mesh provides a roomy pouch for your loose powder supply: High- light an unbreakable mirror that doesn't distort your features

pleasingly wearable without de

dirty-pink, pastel-blue and sea-| To return to the homeland, black tracting from their chic.

green are chosen for watner will be seen as usual for smartest climes

Knitted silk frocks

Accessories

Hats and accessories. nowadays It can be relieved make all the difference. They are

are street wear. also seen for evening as well as with a multi-coloured bonnet, or helpful, and it is interesting to for day suits, though for the lathat in one of the new straws.?

several of which closely resemble ties with the austere styles and combine foolish ultra-feminine fan- shaded laces or hand-drawn linens often strange colours into a prac-

Duvetyn is a material that brid-tical scheme, of dressing.

gon. Correspondence for Europe and ter wool and canvas are best. They

ed for trasmission by these Services look well under the loose homes 4

Rates and all particulars are shews pins and woven seafaring costs Gin the schedules exhibited at the Gen-of tweed,

Assama Haru (vis" Siberia)

Closes: Reg 5 pm. Ord 8.30 am. Rawalpindi (via "Marseilles).

Closes: Reg 9.45 m. Ord. 10 a.m.

FOR SHANGHAI

Hakozaki Maru

Pres: Grant

Flector

Kaama Marni

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Feb.

Mar.

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All letters etc, must be marked "By

Fanny Things

ges the difference between, velvet

Women frequently declare. they and felt. It is effectively and easi-would far rather be in the fashion

ly manipulated into the new fool's

even if it is ugly. This attitude caps, with curling brims added. A can be understood, but they will severe taflored suit in black

find plenty to assist them in turn- diagonal serge bound--with braid had a waistcoat and folded pect of a new mode or colour to

ing the first, perhaps crodé, as-) cap of yellow duvetyn, the gauntgood account. In the search after let gloves were also in yellow.

up..

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Parma and a deeper violet have originality even the best designers may make jistakes, which they appeared. Thick-ribbed. tailored suits in the darker tones of this rectify as the newer season warms colour look well with white acces- sories. For the evening, too, these days. Freaks creep in to No ugly fashion survives in shall see many frocks in. pansy cause a sensation, but the real sta shadings.

Chinese Green

There is an unusual Chinese olive-green that will be the choice of a few distinctive dressers. It is the most diffenit colour, as its muddy ingredients require skilful 45 make-up and a congenial back- ground. Black will help it-

Fashionable women know that,

especially for the tailored trend, once they depart from the familiar black, white, brown or navy, they come up against very complicated forms and mixtures in dress Air Mail" and handed in at the Gen.

{shades' Often the most novel and Experienced travellers" realise interesting colours are very eral Post Office. Unless superscribed 28 for despatch by a specific" air mail that silk slože does funny things becoming in themselves. Yet if 28 service, correspondence will be for at sea or in tropical lands. Linen, they can strike a really new note intermediate contries will be accept too, is more difficult to keep fresh, in fashion they are worthy of the warded by the first secriot available. but wool-weaves and wool-laces in trouble taken to render them more

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The solution of the above with a new cross-word puztie

will appear in to-morrow's issue.

GAUZE

A piece of game laid over the

of the creator of modes is-like dressingtable accessories when us that of an author-to discover

ing powder, and then shaken out bestseller.

of the window, will save many a dusting. Coloured ganze makes an ideal rag bay and button bag, as the exact material wanted can be easily seen,' which' saves en- ptying the bag for a weary search. A piece of gauze should also be kept in the ironing basket so that when a damp cloth is needed for pressing purposes one is always at band.

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