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CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR.MAIL
SERVICE FROM CANTON. Letters will be accepted at Bong! Kong for transmission by the Chilseac) Domestic Air Mail Service from Canton to all places in China at the rate of $1.00 per half ounce The charge is inclusive of the regular postage.
unit.
The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.O. are! Canton-Shanghai (via Swatov)—
Wednesdays and Saturdays. Reg. 10 am Ordinary 10.30 am. Canton-Kiungchow-Nanning Mon- days and Fridays, Reg. 10 a.m1.
Ordinary
10.30 A.T
Canton-Langebow--Saturdays,
4.30
Tuesdays
5.00
Reg. pm. Ordinary and Thursdays Reg. 10 am. Ordinary '10.30 am.
Central Post Oce the mails will be closed hour be fore the above times.
At Kowloon
The Money Order Office is open from 10a.m. to p.m. except on Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon and on Sundays and holidays when it is entirely closed.
INWARD MAILS.
FROM EUROPE
Achilles (Air Mail ex, Im-
perial Service).
Menestheus
FRUM SHANGHAI
Rawalpizdi
Pres. Jefferson
Gen. Pershing
Ixion Antenor
Emp, of Asia
Pres. Coolidge Pres. Adams Suwa Maru
Mar.
Mar.
FROM US.A.
Mar.
Pres. Jefferson
6
Emp of Asia Pres. Coplidze Pres. AdamTES
FROM STRAITS & INDIA
Achilles
Terukuni Mara
Toyooka Maru
+229
THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 1936
Women's Page
For Milady who spends much time in lounging priamas, this pair worn by Anita Louise, the Warner Bros. screen actress, is ideal in its colourful appeal and comfort. It is composed of white satin trousers topped by a gally striped hip-length blouse of velvet, which shows a high neck- line.
"FOR JAPAN
Mar.
Emp, of Japan
Pres. Doumer Pres. Pierce Taiyo Mar
Mar.
10 Lyons; Mara
13
FOR U.S.A
FROM JAPAN
Mar.
Mat
Emp. of Japan
• FOR MANILA
Mar.
Pres. Pierce
Gen. Pershing
Pres. Jeferson Rawalpindi Gen. Pershing. Lisbon Maru Moriska Maru Anyo Maru Emp. of Asia Pres. Coolidge Pres. Adams
Suwa Maru
Malacca Maru
FROM MANILA
Mar.
Taiping
Scharnhorst
Athos II
FROM AUSTRALIA
Maz.
Taiping
OUTWARD MAILS.
FOR EUROPE
Emp. of Japan (vis Van-
couter)....
Mar,
"
Pres. Jefferson
10Pres. Coolidge
Emp. of Asia
Tjisondari
13
13
14.
FOR STRAITS AND INDIA
Mar.
Rawalpindi
Kuisang
6 Achilles
10 Kumsang
10:
Closes: Reg. 9.15 m. Ord 10 a.m. Ranchi (via Siberia) Rawalpindi (Imperial
vice)
Ser-
Closes: Reg. 9.45 am Ord. 10
Athos II (Air Orient Service)
Closes: Reg. 9.30 am. Ord. 10 Pres. Pierce (via Siberia) ·..
FOR SHANGHAI
"
Have!
Emp. of Japan
Pres. Doumer
Pres. Pierce Scharnhorst Taiyo Maro
Mxx.
Fashions On The Stage
Are Skirts To Be Shorter?
The frocks in the Noel Coward
plays at the Phoenix Theatre, are: Especially interesting, as:
They are full of valuable clues
to pring fashion secrets.
Are short skirts going to be; fashionable again? One day dress, made for Miss Gertrude Lawrence! in a heavy olive green silk and wool mixture, is considerably more
than twelve inches off the ground. It is severely tailored and button- jed to the throat.
Its coat, slit at the back, has à high collar of two cress foxes the heads meeting at the waist. Dou- ble bands of fox are carried round; the front of the hem.
Imposing Collars
Collars are going to be impos- ing. One reaches below the waist at the back and is gathered into xauging in front It is worn over a classical evening gown (evening dresses are still ground length) of aquamarine blue dull-faced crepe.
Dull crepe is used, too, for al dinner dress in a rich shade of Indian blue. It has a-high draped ineck line, long sleeves cut toi points over the hand, and a large bow which gathers up the skirt drapery to the hip.
Day dresses are simply tailored.
One of royal blue crepe printed with rippling white lines.
It has a turn-over white collar,: beit, and single pocket in the cen- tre of the skirt.
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PUFFS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
For The Smart Woman
For the races, something like this unusual tailleur of hand- loom wool is appropriate. The skirt is champagne-coloured, cut in flaring panels, while the modi- fed swallow-tail jacket is in two-
rest
tone beige with a ent-out front. Joan Blondell, the screen actress, is the model..
ENVELOPES FOR PACKING
Boon For Light Clothes
THE WELL-GROOMED WOMAN
Attracts Without
Beauty
SOME POINTS TO REMEMBER
The woman who "stands out” among a large group of people, at ja party, for instance, is not el- ways beautiful but she is invar iably well groomed. She has chosen her gown with care, and has seen that it fits her without wrinkle, and has no bits and pieces attached to it which will. detract from
the grace
of her figure.
Her face and hair are as near ¡perfection as possible, for she has xiven them all the care and "at- tention without which even X really lovely woman looks com-t monplace.
All in Harmony
You never find the well-groom- ¡ed woman using cosmetics which jare out of harmony with each other and with her own colouring. and personality. True, she may] experiment with new preparations) and fresh make-up styles, but such experiments are carried out in secret before the finished. re- jault is shown to the world.
She is quite sure that rouge and lipstick match each other an important point which is often overlooked by many women. In order to ensure a perfect match, the easiest way is to colour lips and cheeks with the same prepar lation.
The face should be still slightly moist from the cleansing milk or skin tonic, so that the colour is easily smoothed over the cheeks, towards the ears and the edges We are all hardened travellers worked carefully so that go hard (nowadays; though to many of us lines remain. Colour should also! packing and unpacking is still an be faintly indicated along the jaw unpleasant undertaking, which bas bone, near the ear. to be tackled in a very business-
like manner if it is to be simplified as much as possible.
Over The Rouge
In spite of attractive tiny com-
The foundation should be used pacts with diminutive flannel-like Large transparent "envelopes".
jover the rouge, for a natural ef- in which to pack undies, stockings fect, and time taken in smoothing powder puffa inside them, many of the
and forth smartest women
are a great boon, be- like to
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WE ARE MAKING FINAL DRASTIC REDUCTIONS DURING OUR SALE COST AND BELOW COST.
ON. OUR ENTIRE STOCK OF DRESSES, GOWNS, COATS Etc. Etc.
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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
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it carefully over the face and
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carry loose powder in a pretty cause they can be taken straight neck is well spent. little case. They add a swans- from the trunk to the drawer, andį 12 down puff, sewn to a chiffon hand-the contents can be seen at a 14 kerchief to the contents of thei glance.
handbag.
VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post 6 cards for Europe and South America
are forwarded "via Siberia" if superscribed.
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Powder should be puffed gen- erously over the skin including For packing shoes, the latest the ears, neck, then when the rest idea is to have a square of cre- of the make up has been accom- For everyday, or sports wear, tanne, with a coloured tape attach-plished, the face should be dusted [however, there are puffs, attached ed to one
corner. The shoes are over lightly with a perfectly clean to washing silk hankies.
folded in the cretonne, and the swansdown puff or a make-up And if you like to be exclusive tape wrapped round and
which round brush,
is rather kike a you might choose the brightest of them, the end being tucked inside. baby's soft little hairbrush. coloured silk handkerchieves and
swansdown in the centre. sew a vivid, contrasting circle of
For smart occasions, puffs are; also sewn to squares of pastel
MILK AND OIL STAINS-
Small children's garments fre-
REGISTERED and PARCEL tinted chiffon velvet, picot edged quently become stained with milk
MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier than the time
given above ̧ unless | 20 otherwise stated, and where mails are advertised to close
at or before 9: a.m., registered and parcel mails are: 6 closed at 5 pm. on the previous day. AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways vis
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in the schedules exhibited at the Gea- 10 eral Post Office and Kowloon Office. All letters etc., must be marked “By Air Mail" and handed in at the Gen- eral Post Office. Unless-superscribed 6 for despatch by a specific air mail service, correspondence will be for- 6intermediate countries will be accept- 10warded by the first service available
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Recommend..
HELENE CURTIS The Glorious Self-Setting PERMANENT
Marie's
REAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. Tel. +2508 (1st Floor)
are
In this way the make-up is tho- roughly blended and you well on the way to achieving aaį air of careful grooming.
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION
or caster oil. Glycerine is the best medium for removing milk stains on garments of this kind and should be applied as soon as possible. Dab the glycerine on the stains with a pad of cotton wool and leave it on for a time. Afterwards the garments may be washed in the usual way, and it will be found that no trace of milki stains remains. A solation of chlorinated lime will nearly ab M
Ar stubborn cod-liver ways remove oil or caster-oil stains. Use one teaspoonful of the chlorinated | lime to half pint of water. Soak the stains in the solution and then rinse well.
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HORIZONTAL 1-Contests of speed
-The theater 11-Estimated
13-Saving
15-Rauity
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HORIZONTAL (Cont) 46-Woot for knitting 47-An Insect 48-Locks of hair 50-0x-like animal of
Asix
16-That may be tuned 51-Containing more 17-Digit
18-A fabric of open-
work 20-Hinder
21-Brother of Jacob
.(Bible) 23-Approaches
24-Shape
25-Writing tables 27-Rights (abbr:) 28-Cakes of pressed
tobacco 29-To unbalance the
mind
31-Hesitate
22-Reciprocal
34-Grooves
36-Girl's name 39-Extends over 40-Drunken 'loafer
41-A sheath, as the
boot of a bird 43-Long for
44-Wild animal
recde
53-Place In a detached
position
VERTICAL (Cont) 14-Micro-organisma IS-An aquatic bug 22-Region in S. W.
Russi 24-Readiness of speecti 26-Cures ment 25-inner-court-of-a
Spanist LNG 30-Nights (abbr.)
| 33-Greek.goddess of
Vengeance
55-City thoroughfares |31-Chum 55-Real 57-Cuts (Scot) 58-Spread (Simp
Spell)
VERTICAL
1-Raated 2-Satisfy 2-Mongrel dog
4-English school 5.பேர்
5 Goada
7-Large cask
8-A constellation
|34-Antique musical in strument (pl.) |35-Portable light 37-Charge for hauling |38-Supplied with zie
29-Boxes 140-Frameworkctor carry.
'ing a corpse (PL) 142-A. Bquid measure of......
Denmark
44–Allowances for
waste in transpor tation
S-ieregularly rounded] 45-Reclines
110-Make bigger
11-Graded
48-Bound
49-A cleansing agent
|12-Cleanse, as in wound 52-Scotch river |13-Ceasca
164-Low Greek (abbr.)
The solution of the above with a saw arosa-bord puzzle
seill appear in to-morrow's issue.
POPEYE.
"Howdy, Saint Peter!
(YOU THINK" "ALL RIGHT TO)
I'M SURE
KILL POPEYE?
[HED LOVE IT –
HE'D GO TO HERVEN'
AND FLY ABOUT ON, GOLDEN WINES, PLAYING A HARP
WHY, OF ¡COURSE-
EVERYBODY. WOULD LIKE TO GO TO [HEAVEN,
HO-RAY I GUESS ALL RIGHT-IGO HILL HIM NOW
FLY AROUND WITH GOLD'
WINGS PLAYING PEERNO -
OH- TOO NICE
YOU LUCKY FELLOW!
To-morrow.
"The_Watching Eye.”.
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Price 55 cts.
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