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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL.

Imperial Airways via Singapore Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore Saigon-Marseilles viz Saigon Singapore-Australia

Correspondence will be accepted for transmission by these services. Rates and all particulars are shewn in the the Post schedules exhibited Offices. Al letters etc. must be mark ed "By Air Mail" and be handed in at the Post Office.

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CHINESE DOMESTIC AIR MAIL.

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THE CHINA MAIL. MONDAY, MARCH 23, 1936

Women's Tage

FURS TO COST Black Ascot Planned

MORE

A New Trend In Fashion

SERVICE FROM CANTON. Letters will be accepted at Hong

Prices of furs are being increas- Kong for transmission by the Chinese

ed by from five to 30 per cent. Domestic Air Mail Service from Canton to all places in China at the owing to the increase in demand! rate of $1.00 per half once unit at a time of reduced production. The charge is inclusive of the regular Mink. one of the most expensive. postage.

The hours of closing mails for this service at the G.P.D. are:

and musquash, one of the cheaper! fura, are those chiefy affected.

Mr. Bernard Brunton president

National Fur of British

Week. Canton-Shanghai (via Swatow)-stated recently that supplies were Wednesdays and Saturdays, Beg, smaller for two reasons: America's greatly increased fondness for 10 am. Ordinary 10.30 am. Canton-Kingchow-Nanning Mon-furs and a falling off in the catch. days and Fridays, Eeg. 10 due to the animal cycle of produc- Ordinary 10.30 .. nton-Langchow-Saturdays, Beg tivity and decline.

4.30 pm

5.00 p. Ordinary

Tuesdays and Thursdays Rag. 10

a. Ordinary 10.30 am.

Markets Restricted

"Although several of the Euro-1

markets are restricted-

pean

At Kowloon Central Post Office the mails will be closed 4 hour beItaly. for instance, is out of it fore the above times.

altogether-the

demand has

rises," he added. "Spain and} South America are coming intoj The Money Order Office is open: the market in a much bigger way. from 10 am to 4 pm. except on Saturdays when it clones at 12 noon and they have more than made up

and on Sundays and holidays when for the loss of trade elsewhere. it is entirely closed.

INWARD MAILS."

FROM EUROPE

Automedon (Air Mail ex Im

périal Service)

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FROM U.S.A.

"Mink has always been very popular in America, and supplies jare short. The musquash catch.;

The too, is short this year. Hudson's Bay Company have pra-

a few where duced only

Mar.

they

23 usually supply thousands.

in- "I do not expect a great jerease of skunk prices at the Lon-

don fur auctions now

Tess."

in pro-

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Mr.

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Mar.

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FOR SHANGRAI

Mar.

Pres. Harrison ...

Emp. of Canada

Pres. Lincoln

FROM SHANGHAI

Pres. Doumer

Gen Sherman

Scharnhorst.

Somali

Pres. Harrison

Emp. of Canada

Eumaeus

Chichibu Maro

Victoria

Pres Lincoln

Diomed

FROM JAPAN

Noto Maru Toyama Maru

Montevideo Maru Gen. Sherman bed Fushimi Maru Atsuta Maru

Pres Harrison

•Emp

of Canada

Chichibu Maru Sagato Maru Pres. Lincoln

Nankin

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

27 Montevideo Maru

Scharnhorst

Fushimi Mara

Pres. Coolidge

Automedon

Emp. of Britain Hakusan Maru

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FOR JAPAN

Mar.

Pres. Coolidge

Mar.

Hakusan Mari

FOR AUSTRALIA

Mar.

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Atsuta Maru

FOR MANILA

Emp. of Canada

Scharnhorst

20 Atsuta Maru

Mari

Apr.

Kellore

FOR U.S.A

Mar.

Pres. Coolidge

Apr.

Hawaii Maru

FROM MANILA

Mar.

Tjisaroca

23

Apr.

Nellore

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Mar.

Acúmedon

2

23 superscribed.

Van Heutaz

24

and REGISTERED

Hakusan Mara

'Ginyo Maru

Shirala

Aeneas

OUTWARD MAILS

FOR EUROPE

When dinner becomes formal and Milady desires the ultimate chooses dress correct

she this pale blue something like materal, featuring braided trim- mings and a real flower corsage. Cecilia Parker, the screen actress;

is the model.

SPRING SUIT NOW

Midsummer Gowns Of Black Organdie

Behind the scenes of the. Lon-

BABY LIKES SOFT WATER

Buttermilk Soap Recommended

den fashion world preparations Baby likes extremely soft water are now being made for a black for washing his face, and a little Ascot Dressmakers are recall of that old-world favourite, elder- ing the fact that the black Ascot flower water. is just what

be

of 1910, when the Court, was in wants. mourning for King Edward VII, was most distinguished looking. from the dress point of view.

Thousands of yards of wonder- (according to the directions ful materials are being evolved to the bottle) added to the water. give novelty and variation to the black gowns and accessories

A bottle of the water should be kept in every nursery, and a dash

Gold Cup Day.

Month of Displays

THE

HONG KONG

PENINSULA HOTEL:

HONG KONG HOTEL: REPULSE BAY HOTEL:

PEAK HOTEL:

& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL

HOTELS,

LIMITED

In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping

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DAILY CROSS-WORD

PUZZLE

Baby's soap is of the greatest

of importance; an oatmeal or a but termilk one is excellent, as either jis so soothing for his tender skin Powder for Baby is very im- be extremely

Many of these fabrics

are

stamped with wax cut-out in

all

kinds of designs from spots and portant. It must stars to broken stripes.

fine, so if it is prepared at home.

Black organdie stamped with it must be passed through a piece cobbler's of fine white muslin, which must something similar to

to remove "dress," then well dried.

wax is now finding its way to the be washed first West End workroom to be made up into midsummer gowns for the Taffeta coming dress displays.

is being stamped out in the same

way.

те

A Useful Recipe

the

A useful one can be made up Оде from the following recipe: Mannequins

cultivating! ounce of kalolia, one drachm of curves for the parades. Now that orris root, five grains of boracie materials are again cut on the acid powder, and oae drachm of straight, curves are returning to starch. fashion.

HOW CORSETS HAVE la, then dusted into the remainder

CHANGED

Some Relics Of The Past Age

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The boracic acid must be blend- led with two drachms of the kalo-

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of the kalolin, and the mass well stirred

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The starch and the orris root must be added quite gradually to the bulk of the powder, and well blended into it.

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If this powder

is made in a

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HORIZONTAL (Cont) 40-Hzulad

50-Puts up stakes

Corsels have gone through gigantic revolution, but the tron-mortar, the pestle must be used ble is lots of womer have not kept with a very light hand; it is com lup with these changing fashion plete blending that is required, not jevents. That funny old idea of a pressure.

bundle of "stays" and unsightly canvas belongs with the hop

skirt era.

We are almost Grecian in our If you don't feel like baying a way of thinking about the body in 23 printed silk or sheer woollen dress these modern times, and after all these eras the normal feminine to freshen up your winter ward-gure, instead of being abnormal- robe, why not consider suits? Youly distorted, is the ideal. That, tremendous con- can get a navy blue, gray, brown along with a

|sciousness of physical beauty. or black one right now, wear it have simply annihilated the Vic- under your fur coat and, later on,torian heritage of what a "lady

26 with a topcoat. Gray probably willshould wear underneath her

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be the most important suit colour frock." The modern woman, fully expressing to-day's-sophistication

this spring. Men's wear fabrics and fashiot ideals, is molded like are best.. One interesting modellan alabaster statue, supple as an looks very much like a director's athlete and as lovely to see 28/suit.

it includes a slim skirt of chalk with gray black worsted Istripes and 3

Foundation Garments From the moment moderns re- nipped-in-at-placed an attitude of "harness" ith matter of corseting, things VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-the-waist jacket with man-tailored for one of luxurious clothing in

changed rapidly. It did jabsurd to have, fragile silk and lace undies, all clinging and fitted and luxurious, and to mix in with them some unlovely affair known

cards for Europe and South America lapels and cuffs.

are forwarded via Siberia" if sol

PARCEL

27 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier

than the time given above less

31 otherwise stated,and where mails are

cel mais are

2nd parcel

COLOURED SPONGES

women

seem

in

After the mixing, the made pow- der should be passed through the muslin, and then again wel!

stirred.

For Skin Trouble!

HORIZONTAL

1-A swindle 5-Box

9-Repairs with needie 52-Comfort

and thread

10-Walke in water

12-BII of fare 13-Ascenda

*S-Adult males 16-Une needle and

thread

18 Series

19is no manner 21-One time 23-Rescued

25 Greater in amount 25-Sheer

28-Moved rapidly. 29_Trouble#_________ 30-Steamship (abbr)

11-Youth 33-Obtained,

34-A thoroughfare.

(abbr.) 35-Abides

36-And (Lat.) 38-Noise

9.Recent. 41-Egyptian god 43-The nostrils 45-Welting fuld 47-Cut

53-Stamp (abbr.) 154-Grain container

|55-Affirmative· reply

67-The (Fr.) 58-Rate of motion 60-Dogma

62-Satisfied [04-Fruit of the pine

65-Darnel

60-in

VERTICAL

S-Dietant

2-Sciences 3-Part of the limbs 4-Plural suffix

B-A point of compass

(abbr.)

134

41 142

148

VERTICAL (Cont.) 75-Cryptogamous plant 17-Confict

18-Japanese coin

20-Examine

22-A sh 124-Herola

25–inzzne

27-City in France 29-Boxes

32-Lair

33-FOW!

36-Terminates

37-Small pastry (pl.) |38-Condensed moisture

43-Very small 41-To set again 42-Greek god of war |45–Harvests...............

45-Tavern 146–Instrument for

operating a lock 42-Valleys

50-Helper

-Removed the skin 191-A bristle (Surg)

7-Entrance to a mine 54 Greek letter

8-Residence (abbr.)

Frisk

11-A title (Sp)

12-A coin (pl.)

56-Dispatched

59 Consume 61-Combining (m.

New

14-inflamed places on (53-Prefix. From

the skin

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The solution of the above with a new ores-word puzzle will appear in to-morrow's issue.

For all kinds of skin complaints as well as skin injuries She-ko is unsurpassed. Soothing, cooling, an tiseptic, it is of the utmost valne 10r the earstive treatment of ecze ma, ringworm, wet and dry sores, as a "corset." In fact, this right-itch, pimples and boils.

Also for cuts, burns, scalds, canabout-face point of view has so 31 advertised to close at or before 91 Culoured sponges which

TAFFETA USED FOR SUITS am, registered and closed at 5 p.m. on the previous day-now be obtained to match bath-apped over that some of the most bruises, scratches, insect bites and stings, piles, cold sores, chapped

Taffeta is used to fashion some AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via room colour schemes are rather exquisitely costumed

The delightful via

fragrance and

of the smartest tailored suits for Singapore, Bandoeng-Amsterdam

than this one foundation garment beneficial effect. of She-ko renders

One particularly pretty Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai-expensive, but they will wear in-the world to-day wear little else lips and hands, and sunburn.

the spring. it the ideal preservative for and keep free 22 gon. Correspondence for Europe and definitely

-and this garment itself is really

models, or an imported taffet that skin. Pres. Coolidge (via Siberia).

ed for transmission by these Services-sliminess if they are occasionally something to behold. This is the

Obtainable at chemists, or from has a rather dull surface, includes Montevideo Maru (Imperial

23 Rates and all particulars are shown

the Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 451.

a slim skirt with one pleat at the Service)

thick Closes: Reg. 1 pm. Ord 130 p.m. in the schedules exhibited at the Gen-soaked in water containing a few way it should be, and definitely is.

Foundation garments of

Kiangse Road, Shanghai, 70 cents

front, a man-tailored jacket with eral Post Office and Kowloon Office.

" drops

of ammonia., Á sponge (Air. Orient

pink satin, or tailored net, or pat-

per package; post free.

notched lapels and smoothly fitted! waistline, and a soft white blouse of mousseline de soie. The blɔuse has a jabot of self material at the front.

Mar

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Closes: Reg. 10 am. Ord. 18.30

am.

+

24 eral Post Office. Unless superscribed

from

Service)

Automedon Ajax (via Marseilles) ......

Closes: Beg. 8:45 am. Ord: 9.30a.m. service, correspondence will be for-only more ammonia must be used are a matter of fact, not even a 26 intermediate countries will be accept and the sponge left to soak_for_luxury, and, best of all, not even Scharnhorst (via Marsciles)

warded by the first service available.

Air Mail" and handed in at the Gea which has already become slimy terned lace, or artistically treated

25 for despatch by a specific air mail should be treated in the same way, lastex and a dozen other things

Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m. Ord. 5 p.m. Fushimi Maru

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forty-eight hours.

Junusually expensive.

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Bringing Up Father

COULD GO OUT F HG 60T BACK" BSFORS DID-1 STAYED OUT AN HOUR LATER THAN I EXPECTED AND HE'S NOT AT HOME “YET-

ILL STAY UP UNTI HE COMES HOME IF HAVE TO SKUP.

ALL NIGHT-

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY COMING IN AT THIS HOUR? SHUT UP!! WHERE HAVE "YOU BEEN? SHUT UP! YOU QUSHT TO BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF-SHUT UP! WHAT'D DALISHTER THINK IF SHE SAW YOU COMING IN AD. THIS HOUR?

OH-HELLO, DAD AND-MOT UD LATE SEE-1 HAD GRAND

VENING-

2.21

· 1936. King *ximum Syahots, Inc. Grac·Benin sights

THE LAST WEEK OF OUR SPRING SALE-

“LANDERS" TALCUM POWDER

5 Tins for $1.00 CHARMAINE BATH SOAP

6 Tablets in Box $1.75 Box

4711 EAU DE COLOGNE BATH SOAP-

Boxes of 6 Tablets for $3.00

FLORAL TOILET SOAP

8 Tablets in Box for $1.25 Box

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