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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

Imperial Airways via Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vis Singapore Selgon-Marseilles via Saigon Singapore-Australia

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

Ofices. All letters etc., must be mark- ed By Air Mail" and be handed in at the Post Office.

CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR MAIL

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 16, 1936

Women's Tages

Rather Quiet Clothes

The New Season's Fashions

HEAVY SATINS FAVOURED

SERVICE FROM CANTON. Letters will be accepted at Hong Kong for transmission by the Chinese Domestic Air Mail Service from

London and Paris are launching Canton to all places in China at the rate of $1.00 per half ounen The charge is inclusive of the regular the season's styles. Apart from

postage.

toit.

the altered aspects of social functions for London and usual practical requirements,

our

it

Continent, especially Americans.

The hours of closing mails for this would seem that women on the service at the G.P.O. are: Canton-Shanghai (via Swatow)|

Wednesdays and Saturdays, Reg. are choosing rather quiet clothes. depending on dress details for the 10 am, Ordinary 10.30 a.m. Canton-Kianschow-Nanzing Non-more sensational effects.

days and Fridays, Reg. 10 a.. Ordinary

10.30

Carton-Lungchow-Saturdays,

Colour for our earliest dress Reg. Ordinary 5.00 pm displays have been altered. Black 4.30

Ple Tuesdays and Thursdays Reg. 10 must be the predominating factor among well-dressed English wo- a. Ordinary 10.30 am. At Kowloon Central Post Office the mails will be closed fore the above times.

bour be-

mell.

The newer elegance is notice-

The Money Order Office is openable in that it shows a closer con- onnection with former Edwardian from 10 am to 4p.m. except Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon styles. This applies only to the distinguished ensembles and and on Sundays and holidays whenf it is entirely closed.

toilettes worn for afternoon and evening receptions.

INWARD MAIS, FROM EUROPE

Sirdhana (Air Mail

perial Service)

Naldera (via Suez)

Pres. Jackson

Corfu

Mar.

ex im.

FROM SHANGHAI

1 : 1

Very similar are the fabrics of Edward VIL's reign. (to-day and

Even tailors to use much ribbed 20silk. tareta and heavy satins, and clusive black chiffon, with its

Mar.

20

20

Pres. Jackson

Ajax

Pres. Doumer

FROM USA.

Mar.

Pres. Jackson ........

FROM STRAFTS & INDIA

Mar.

Kamsang

Sirdhana

Bangalore

Antilochus

Victoria

Tokushima Maru

Automedon

trailing draperies, has come back. The success of the Edwardian pic- ture frock was seized upon by the

24 fashionable portrait painters of

24 those days. Their clients were nearly always clad in chiffon.

20

To-day we add new fine meshes in nets, laces and tulles to vary crepes and chiffons, yet nothing will ever surpass the beauty of transparency of chiffon, especially in black, or the mysterious purple 17 and misty-grey-

18

20

FOR JAPAN

Taiyo Maru

Ixion

Emp. of Asia

Naldera

Mar. Kamo Mar

19 Pres. Coolidge

Mar.

17

19

Two Types Of Gowns

For The Evening

Wardrobe

COCKTAIL OR DINNER

ENSEMBLE

CHIN IS FIRST TO SHOW SIGN

Of Any Gain In Weight

Your chin and its skin need special attention at this time of year, writes a correspondent. In

Two types of evening gowns the first place, as nearly every- figure to-day in a woman's ward- one gains a little weight during few ounces of, the robe-the

or the winter, a Informal cocktail dinner ensemble essentially practic added poundage are bound to al, necessarily simple, with trim show just below the chin. Second- Įming visible only when the coatly. ceal dust in the air and fur or jacket is shed, and the formal collars combine to lodge foreign evening gown.

offering all the substances in the pores of this suruptuousness of fabric and in- area. tricacies of cut denied the former You should of course, clean a correspondent from your face and especially your

chin often and even Women attending glittering thoroughly in winter than in sum- social functions in luxurious sur mer. if pores seem

larger (don't roundings have demanded clothes wait until you notice

writes Paris.

more

a single

to harmonize with their surround-blackhead) improve upon and in- ings. Hence a number of models

crease the frequency of your achieve a degree of luxury new

cleansing routines at once. Don't to the ere because abandoned for

rely on either cream or soap and so many years.

water. Use both--cream, then soap. if your skin is oily. and soap, followed by cream if it is day or normal

Garishness Avoided

LuxuHousness, however, 1 never synonymous with garish- ness and glitter. The new formal Levening dress derives splendour in the beauty of its-fabric and in- tricacy of cut.

Complexion Broen

Sometimes daily use of a com plexion brush will remove dirt from the pores of the skin. If! this is too harsh, try

& Tough

preparations

Plain, conservative fabrics. A two-piece spring outät of

such as crepe or chiffon, can pro- navy crepe printed with small

vide a the formality desired if washcloth. Masks are good, too.

blackhead Special is worn here by white daisies

properly treated. I have used a June Travis, the screen actress.

dall crepe faconne to fullness at The dress fares the hemline and then shows demure high neck, pat and a tight walki.

sleeves

LONDON WOMEN WEAR COLOURS

Greys And Mauve Again

London. February

19 period of national

FOR MANILA

Mar.

17

Tsushima Maru

FROM MANULA

Kamo Marui

FROM JAPAN

Mar.

Alipore

16

Tjinegara

Pres. Jackson

Corfu

20

#

Pres. Jackson

20

FOR US.A.

Noto Maru

24

Mar.

Taiyo Mara

17

FROM AUSTRALIA

Ixion

19

Mar.

Yaldera

Kamo Maru

19 Pres. Coolidge

OUTWARD MAILS

FOR EUROPE

1-The mourning

in a model are worth a trial. which, at first giance, is extreme-

Remember that pinching and ly simple, but where formality is making with thumb and side of introduced in the skirt and the forefinger along the jawbone help decollete. The skirt features a

to preserve the natural contour draped effect which starts in front

No matter how of your face. train and continues in a long

gently you put creams and lotions looped up at the back over the

on the rest of your face, actually right shoulder, crosses the de slap them on your chin and al- collete in front where it is last-ways give it an extra siap or two ened at the throat with a huge | red rose and continues over the other shoulder where it falls in In addition, let me remind you The entirely again that many a double chin graceful folds. denuded back, only permissible comes from bad posture alone. in formal dress, is thus partly If the head is carried high with

the lines of model gowns to the! veiled.

neck supporting it, there will be

Shirring On Skirt

before you remove night cream.

ended on Thursday, and a good Another plain crepe model has no extra roll of fat below your many women in London have put a V-shaped fichu decollete in front jawbone-unless, of course, you on coloured frocks again, but ajattached to a high' double-pointed are just plain overweight. great deal of black is being worn, beit which forms the bodice and

especially in the West End. With tiny hip-yoke.

The skirt is shir-

21 in the next three or four weeks red to the yoke at the front in an

greys and

all shades of mauve intricate design which supplies a will probably be seen about the draped movement and the back streets. It is significant that the shows a graduated godet panel chairman of the fashian parade at forming a train.

20 the British Industries Fair next the decollette at

At the base of

the back two 23 month has instructed the exhibi-lhuge modernistic flowers in yel- with wing-like tors to show the things they bad low and orange

leaves introduced both selected some time ago.

originality and colour note.

the

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- Many of the colours selected by cards for Europe and South America the British Colour Council were

A third style, just as sumpto- are forwarded "via Siberia" if 10

chosen as long ago as last Junelous but quite different, features REGISTERED and PARCEL and as they were selected for use a wide, flowing skirt attached to MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier in every country in the world the diminutive bodice.

Mar.

Taiyo Marc (vix Siberia)

17] superscribed.

Emp, of Asia (vin Vancouver)

19

Closes: Reg: 4.15 pm. Ord 5 p.m. Naldera (via Siberia)

Corfu (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg.

3:45

Ord. 10.30 am.

3.1.

Victoria (via Siberia)

Pres. Coolidge (via Siberia)

Montevideo (Imperial Service)

"

This is

20 than the time given above unless international point of view has fashioned of a new taffeta, warp- 20 otherwise stated,and where mails are

had to be considered. The coun-printed, which imparts an entire- almost advertised to dose at or before

different surface, am, registered and parcel mails are cil considers that Paris is likely 20 closed xt 5 p.m. on the previous day to seize the opportunity to make iridescent. Such a medium neces AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways via a feature of black, since it showssitates no embellishment, and the 22 Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam vís

is simply outlind in richly-covered Closes: Reg. 1 p.m. Ord. 1.30 p.m. Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sathe lines of model gowns to the winged rever effect on the bodice

best advantage, but that black is Europe and gon. Correspondence for

velvet which also forms the two: ed for transmission by these Service not likely to have any great in- Rates and all particulars are shewolfsence on the rest of the world. broad straps at the back that end

in a butterfly bow. in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-The British Colour Council 17 eral Post Office and Kowloon Office isated

a statement about the

FOR SHANGHAI

Taiyo Maru

Emp of Asia

Naldera

Victoria

Pren. Coolidge

Mar.

H

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

Corfu

Montevideo Maru

Mar.

has

19 All letters etc., mast be marked "Bycolours that are likely to be worn

20 Air Mail and handed in at the Gen-

20

eral Post Office. Unless superscribed from no will the end of the sun-lilac, helietrope, violet, and panky 22 for despatch by a speciße air mikil mer. For Court mourning and may also be utilized with this service, correspondence will be fox-semi-mourning the colours are jet type of mourning. It notes that intermediate countries will be accept black, royal purple, then silver there seems to be no demand yet warded by the Arst service available.

grey. white, amethyst, and plum for these colours and similar. dark shades, while wear.

20

for

general

Why Endure A Pimply Skin? Unsightly pimples, cold sores, itch, ringworm, eczema, skin rough ress and other blemishes are best treated with

SHE-KO

FOR THE SKINĮ

skia

the cooling. soothing, antiseptic ointment, which keeps the smooth, soft fresh and clear,

Equally good for the curative treatment of cuts, burns, scalds, teratches, abrasions and other in juries to the skin, She-ko is ob tainable at chemists, or direct from the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451. Riangse Road. 'Shanghai, 70 centa per package; post free.

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