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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marselles via Szigon Singapore-Australia

Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn in the schedules exhibited

the

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 3, 1936

Women's Tages

Post CHINESE GOWNS AND

Offices. 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

FLOWERS

No Hard And Fast Rule

an in- Fowers have become nit tegral part of Chinese gowning. The charge is inclusive of the regular Many delightful variations may postage

suggest themselves for each ard The hours of closing mails for t every frock. service at the G.P.O. are:

1.

Canton-Shanghai' (vis

They are ideal for wear with

increas

Swatow)--evening gowas, and are

Wednesdays and Saturdays, Regingly evident, not only the dance' 10 am, Ordinary 10.30 am.

floor, but also at home parties Canton-Kiungchow-Nanning on They are even invading the day-

days, and Fridays, Reg. 10 am Ordinary 10.30 8.22.

Saturday's,

Canton Langebou...

4.30 p.m

Ordiary 5.00 Tuesdays and Thursdays Reg. 10

.. Ordinary 10.30 a.m.

At Kowloon Central Post Office:

the mails will be closed hour be-Ther must fore the above times.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE

Ranchi (via Suez)

FROM SHANGHAI

Philoctetes

Rawalpindi

Pres. Jefferson

Gen. Pershing

Ixion

Antenor

Emp of Asia

Pres. Coolidge

Mar.

Mar.

A be-

fime' with way unconcern. Regwitching airiness of spirit comes | Pwith them, pervading one's whole;

bearing with a becoming sureness. There can be no rule about them. blossom where they will, or where the mood of the wearer places them. In this de

of lightful uncertainty lies one

The far- their greatest charms, scurite way of wearing them is-in the hair, but even so they refuse. to obey set rules, and often wan- (der down to perch on one shoulder,; or trail across the front of one's frocks They may be large, or

There can be sprays

6 small.

or

8 single flowers. Combinations of

10 different smailer flowers or spraya There is no are worn together.

FROM U.S.A

Mar.

Près. Jefferson'

$

Emp. of Asia

12

Pres. Coolidge

Taima

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

*Lar

Achilles

9

Terukuni Maru

10

FROM JAPAN

Mar.

Africa Maru Pres. Jefferson Rawalpindi

Gen. Pershing Emp. of Asia -

Pres. Coolidge

FROM MANILA

Mar.

Nankin

Taiping*

Your.

end to the numberless possibilities for their use.

Tempo And Tone

The whole tone of a gown, the tempo of a mood, may be changed.! One petite woman was dressed in rich, plain black velvet, with a single BATTUW satin binding.

3 Rather ordinary black accessories, with but a touch of silver, would have left the gown too plain for levening wear, but for the silver Band green flowers sprayed from 6the left shoulder across the front-

12

6 of the gown. A single green

BOLDLY CHECKED

TWEEDS

Used For The Wrap Coat

NIPPED IN AT THE WAIST

English and Scottish treeds are seen all the time in the dress col- Jections now being shown in Paris. pre- Inconspicuous designs are ferred for costs and skirts; for wrap coats boldly checked materi- Jals are used.

coats

аге

Most of the wrap severely tailored and nipped in

at the waistline. Some have a Others box pleat at the back.

are slightly towards the hem.

Checked tweed coats are shown with walking frocks in plain ma- terials, as well as with cailored sults. For example, a coat with a large blue, red and beige check accompanies 2

simply- plain. tailored blue dress.

Most wrap coats are provided with outsize expanding pockets. Pockets, too, appear on most of the walking dresses in tweed or materials, light-weight wooBen which almost every designer shows for spring. Pockets are placed level with the hips, and many have a single button fastening in the

Smart simplicity is the style secret of this attractive evening gown of chartreuse pebble satin

by

Joe

Hodges, screen

centre. A slender rhinestone buckle fastens the girdle and an enormous fat bow of the dress fabric is tied at the neck.

worn actress.

FURNITURE CARE IN WINTER

Extra Care Should Be Taken

Short Jackets Most jackets

of tailor-made suits are very short. The most! fashionable reach to the hips or only just below. Some have

one others close fitting basque that flares outwards like a frill

Dark sweaters are worn with

Olivia De

Havilland, Warner

Bros. actress, prefers gowns that lend youthfulness, knowing their charming effect. Here she wears

frock

of bouffant taffeta heavenly blue with puffed sleeves cut in the butterfly panels.

&

2

fight suits. Usually the bag, swea- HOW TO FRAME THE

ter and shoes are the same colour, or the sweater or blouse picks up one of the colours in the suit. A beige and brown tweed suit fleck-

In winter extra care should bejed with pale leaf green has a tai- flower, with silver leaves, was set taken to remove dust from furni-lored blouse of pale green jersey

14 directly across the top of the best ture so that it does not get into fabric.

in a tiny flat spray. The touch the grain of the wood.

A good Almost every blouse or sweater

Some have

CURTAINS

Some Points To Keep In Mind

The way that curtains should be of green and silver gave the neces-simple treatment for most woods is high to the neck. sary brightness to the costume, and is to wring out a washleather in plain, low military collars; others framed nowadays is rather a vexed sparkle to the eyes of the clever ward water to which a little vine cut to the base of the neck at the question, writes a Home corres- 10 woman who had conceived this un-gar has been added, and wipe back, are carried upwards in points pondent. Some people maintain

thoroughly; this removes dust to the front of the neck. With a and grease and leaves a good sur-house or sweater made with a low that curtains made

or fabrics need no framing at all and face for polishing where this is neck, a coloured hankerchief

scarf is worn. This is carelessly that a simple heading left at the

10 usual touch.

Scharnhorst Athos. 11

Nankin Taiping.

FROM AUSTRÁLIA

OUTWARD MAILS

FOR EUROPE

Ansa Maru (via Siberia)

Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord 8.30 am.

(via Van- Emp. of Japur

Mar.

4

FOR_MANILA

Mar.

Tjixadaze

Tanda Pres. Pierce

Gen. Pershing

Pres. Jefferson

necessary.

It is, however. unwise to polish knotted in front or at the back. furniture indiscriminately. Highly

3 polished furniture, for instance!

5 should be kept clean with a damp washleather only, and occasional-į ly repolished by an experienced french polisher.

Waxed Oak

Waxed and limed oak should be

FOR AUSTRALIA

Mar.

couver)

Tanda

5 cleaned with a damp leather, too,

Closes: Reg. 9.15 am. Ord 10 am. Ranchi (via Siberia) ...- Rawalpindi (ria Marseilles)

++

Athos II (Air Orient Service)

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

FOR SHANGRAI

Mar.

Asama Mara ...

Emp. of Japan

Pres. Doumer

FOR JAPAN

Mar.

superscribed.

CHALLENGE TO PARIS

By Famous London Designer

of modern

top of the curtain is all that is necessary. I suspect that this contention is really due to a dis- like of ris rather than to com- plete satisfaction with curtains left in this raw, condition. How- ever ample a heading is left at the top of the curtain, the effect

Mr. Norman Hartnell, the Eng-seems to me untidy and unfinish-

as their surface has already beenish dress designer (heigned specially treated; but natural, un-

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-polished oak should be polished the Duchess of Gloucester's wedd. Usually one is aware of the 10 cards for Europe and South America regularly with a good furniture ding gown and the greater part curtain rod and hooks in spite of The heading itself! twelve other designers, has launch-hide them Closes: Bez. 9:30 am Ord. 10 a.m. are forwarded via Siberis" if so cream, and in time it will take or of her trousseau), together with the heading which is supposed to

la rich, warm hue.

ed a new campaign.

droops, and clusters in an ungain- REGISTERED and PARCEL Strong, cold sweetened tea is a

Their idea is to tempt Ameri-ly fashion, and without any kind MAILS are closed 16 minutes earlier: 4 than the time, given above unless good cleaner for black oak, while

cleaned with milk car buyers to spend two or three of pelmet or frill the top of the days in London looking at collet window seems unframed and un-| otherwise stated,and where mails are ebony is best

at or before 9; and polished up well with a piece tions here before they go over to finished. advertised to close am, registered and parcel mails are of silk Varnished wood is in Paris to see the January and July

At the same time I sympathise closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day-proved by an occasional rub with collections.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways finseed oil.

Last year, only

two with those who would do away! Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam via

Frills often do not A paste made of olive oil and buyers came over to London be- with frills. Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai- zon. Correspondence for Europe and salt will usually remove white cause, as they pointed out, it was look in keeping with materials of ed for transmission by these Services marks left by hot dishes on polish-hardly worth while to see only one modern design And they are * nuisance to deal with, especially Rates and all particulars are shewed wood. The paste should be London collection. in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-}| eral Post Office and Kowloon Office rubbed lightly on the spot, left

Asama Maru Emp. of Japan Pres. Doumer

FOR USA

Mar.

Asama. Mar Emp. of Japan

FOR STRAITS AND INDIATM

Philoctetes

Africa Mart

Rawalpindi

Kutsang

Mar.

one

OF

This year, London dress houses, if the windows are large. At least

All letters etc, must be marked "By the spot, left there for a time, then two hat people, and three fabric half the soot and dust that comes Air Mal" and handed in at the Gen-wiped off and the wood polished houses are putting on special shows in through the window seems to eral Post Office. Unleas superscribed as usual. If this is not sucessful, for American buyers three days collect in these frills. The wash for despatch by a specific air mail

little boiled linseed oil should be before the Paris shows begin. ing of them, with its attendant service, correspondence will be far-i

The clothes will be those which regathering and refixing of hooks, intermediate countries will be accept-rubbed on with a circular, motion, warded by the first service available. the mark afterwards being rubbed English women will wear this is a lengthy process, even if the

with spirits of wine.

spring.

[new type of curtain tape is used.

THE

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DAILY - CROSS-WORD 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

3 11 12

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9-Twisted hemp

71-A grain

13-Unfinished timber

14 Withdraw from

action

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16-Bind

18-Conjunction

19-Greek goddess

| HORIZONTAL (Cont.)

45-Ridge of sand in

water 47-Decay

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62-A beverage (pl.)

20-Tongue of a vehicic, 63-Coal container

22-Father

23-Fretful

25-College official 27-One of three equal

parts

-29-One or any

31-Crest

33-Answer (abbr.) 34-Perform

36-Residence (abbr)

* 27-Ordnance (abbr)

36-Walks

39-A type measure

(pl) 40-Charms 42-Musical note

surface

|64-Revolve

65-Item in one's

property

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17-Gaine

12-Makes a mistake

|21-Organ of the body

23-An ember 124-Móre lucid

26-Natural

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twige

38 Slumber (89-Large lake

$41-Guided

43-Excellent

44-Equal

46-Wild

48-Iron

53-Dip

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--Human race 55-Deface

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teeth 61-Very

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