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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

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Saigon-Marselles via Szigun Singapore-Australia

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the Post

Offices. All letters etc., must be mark- od By Air Mail" and be handed in.

the Post Ofßee.

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The Money Order Office is open from 10 am to 4 pm. except Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon and on Sundays and holidays when it is entirely closed.

INWARD MAILS.

FROM EUROPE !

Apr.

Tilawa (Air-Mail OX KL.M.

Service)

ways direct Sorrice)

FROM US.A.·

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1936

Women's Tage

NURSERY SCRAP

SCREEN

Often Fetches Good Price

The old-fashioned nursery screen- that has coloured

and newspaper pictures pasted all over its black background by way of decoration usually finds a ready purchaser when it is displayed at furniture sales, writes a corres- pondent. It has decorative as well 14 as utility value. and can be most 15 attractive.. especially when the scraps are of a good date and the And whole is mellowed by time! the fact that such a screen was; produced only with the aid of great patiesce makes it a posses-

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R.M.A. Derade (Imperial Air-

Rajputana (via Sunz))

Apr.

Pres. Grant ........

FROM SHANGHAI

Apr.

Pres. Grant

Gen. Lee

Naldera

FROM MANILA

Apr.

Changte

Kitano Maru

Helenus

16 16

Pres. Hoover

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Khutan

Tilawa

Kutsang

Conte Verde

Hakodate Maru

FROM AUSTRALIA

17 sien within the definition of art! 17 objects. Unfortunately the work

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an inferior

done on A often frame, or rough usage has caused damage, so that it is comparative- 14ly rare to find one which is both! beautiful and in good condition. Often a whole wing is missing.

I saw the other day in a newly furnished old cottage a modern screen based upon the same idea." but the result was at once different

Apr.

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and up-to-date. so that it would

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have fitted well with almost any

Apr.

Changte

Kitano Maru

FROM JAPAN

Apr.

Tottori Maru

Gen. Lee

Naldera

Pres. Grant

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Emp. of Russia (via Van-

couver)

19 Interior scheme of colour and de

sign. It wES covered first with

strong black, shiny material, and fairly large illustrations in black 16 and white from modern

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news-

papers occupied the main central positions on each wing from top to bottom, which saved much work. Other small ones from magazines, some of them coloured-though

Betty Grable, the screen att- ress, wears this all-weather tweed coat of leaf-green, striped with white, as the darker green and perfect coat for afternoon west, when anything can be expected It is styled with a tricky collar looped in a bow effect.

Where Women Rule Supreme

Wives Work For Husbands

Chinghai, the little-known provel ince in West China on the borders of Tibet, is a kingdom of women where men play only a minor parti in everyday affairs.

THE SPRING DRESS SHOWS

-"

Very Parisian Trend

GREY A FAVOURITE COLOUR Unlike other provinces in China, where the man is the undisputed During the past month, all the head of the family, women of the principal London spring tribes in Chinghai not only do all shows have been held.

dress

the heavy work and raise the chil- Apparently, we are to look very dren but also support the family, Parisian during the coming including the husband.

months, for the majority of new

The men in Chinghai lead a models are in black, generally re- more or less leisurely life, acting lieved by white, and sometimes by as guards, assisting travellers andļa very deep and rich shade. In sometimes going to war.

cases of figured black materials,

All the actual farm duties with-preference is shown for extremely out exception are handled by the large patterns. women, who are extremely strong. Three days after child-birth they are back in the fields again.

Many ensembles include a blackj frock with enormous white designs

Most of the girls marry young, such as butterfly wings or huge Very striking and

at about 15 or 16. but divorces are white flowers. also easy and common. The mar-fresh-looking they appear, too. riage and divorce ceremonies are equally simple.

Grey

Grey, naturally, comes next on the list of favourites. As was fore- cast, many of these greys have been taken from the Chinese Ex- Continued at Foot of Next Comm)

How Murders Are Settled When a girl marries, ahe takes la number of animals with her to the groom's home. Friends and relatives present the bride with and & cows, horses and sheep. wealthy girl customarily drives a berd of 500 head of cattle to her new home. Even the poor girl will take at least 15 head with states that headaches are on the in- her.

to

17 these too might have been in

black and white-were imposed at and then ironed out on a block im-in Chinghai like the sides. And the spacES were provised from a basin.

Provencale prints in gay floral are drunk, generously filled in everywhere by

are about to bring If a man is killed in a fight, conventional shapes of stemless impressions

handkerchiefs into the murderer merely gives part of flowers and leaves. cut out from other

wear his property to the family of the rather thin paper in various pastel the foreground for beach

deceased. shades. The effect was all that neckties and gadgets. could be wished. The whole thing.

Apr.

[

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Closes: Reg. 4.15 pan. Ord. 5 p.. R.M.A. Dorado (Imperial Air-

ways direct Service)

Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 8.15 x.m. Aramis (via Siberia)

17 when complete, had been given a jcoat of pale varnish. which pre

served as well as unided.all the “scraps.”

·HANDKERCHIEFS

cotton

Headaches On The Increase. Speed of Living Blamed

An eminent medical authority

rease, and he attributes this to the According to this story, the men'speeding up which is so marked a

W drink and feature of modern civilization. fights are not uncommon when they are all in such a hurry to get about!

rapidly, to climb socially and to fill our lives with so many things, that we never get sufficient rest," he says. What the learned doctor means, of course, is that these headaches are Bet - mostly due to nezve strain. fortunately few of us can relax do so, we fear, would mean falling behind in the race. So the only course is to watch our nerves, our general bealth, keeping turned up to high efficiency.

Since the

nerves, the braiz, stomach, and all other parts of the human body, are dependent upon thei blood for nourishment, it is only by

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HONG KONG HOTEL; KEPULSE BAY HOTEL;

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& SHANGHAI

ASTOR HOUSE; PALACE HOTEL.

HOTELS,

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In association with the Grand Hotel des Wagons Lits, Peiping

DAILY

CROSS-WORD PUZZLE

This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert bat our readers are warned to look out for occasional phonetic spelling, such as harbor, plow, and altho.

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HORIZONTAL 1-Haggle over a

bargain

7-A ̋prisoner

13-Horseman

14-Military assistants 15-Lovers 17-Legarek

19-Territory (abbr.)

HORIZONTAL (Cont) 48-Abrupt

50 Jellies

152-Lincoln's son

53-Sofas

15%

VERTICAL (Cont.) -Butt

| 18-Make a mistet

21-Ruslan titis

24-Affirmed

¡55–Smail Jump of butter|26–Defling

56-Drug used to cam

tract pupil of aye

158-Supply

X-Church festivai (pl.) 60-A pompous walk

20-Grow old

23-Girl's name

25-One who holds

25-Combining form.

Narrow

27-Addition to one side

and

both

of a house 29-Swiss river

the

30-American novellat

The following are the guests stay and Mrs. D. H W. Kirkby, Col. and means of good, rich, red blood that Mrs. E. St. C. Kirke, Miss B. Kirke. we can restore them, when run-down. Mr. Lofee. Mr. and Mrs. F. Liongson to healthy activity. and family. Mrg. B. W. Lajeunesse.

31-Moved sidewine

33-slipe

34-Equal

35-A fuct

38-Digit

42-Ever (contr.) 4-Aged

Pres. Hoover (via San Fran-

cisco)

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Closes: Reg. 5 pm. Ord. 8.30 a.m.

Cante Verde (KL.M. Service)

Closes: Reg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.30 a.m.

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Naldera (vis Marseilles)....

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AS HATS

TI

Closes: Reg. 9.45 am.

39-Shoots from ambush

Ord. 10.30 0.

In Gingham Checks!

FOR SHANGHAI

Apt.

Emp. of Russia

16

Conte Verde

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And to do this Mr. Charlie Armitage, Mrs. and Miss Archer, Mr. and Mrs. B. S... R. Lynevitche, Mr. and Mrs. it wise to seek the aid without de- Araneta and family, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Lammert, Mrs. J. H. Lock, Mr. of a high-grade, reliable blood

and nerve tonic, such as.Dr.. WE-] A summer hat made from hand-1. Abbott, Miss Abbott. Major and D. Miller. Mr. R. L. Moncrief, Mr. linams Pink Pills, which

other helpful things, fresh 16 kerchiefs! Imagine the rest in sim-Mrs. L. L. A. Alston, Major and Mrs. K. O. Mackenzie. Mr. and Mrs.

supplies

that all-important ple plantation gingham checks C. Brnoke-Short, Miss E. A. Bark Maguire, Mr. P. M. Markert, Miss E. among

hardt, Col. R. Burkhardt, Mrs. C. Meadows, Mrs. E MacKerracher, strengthening element, iron, to the and stripes, with a gay primitive Bozarth, Lieut. Col. J. C. Brewer, Miss Mary Mackerracher, Mr. Cullen blood at every dose, thus revitalizing

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impart,

45-Paint of compass

(abbr.) 46-Moved rapidly

of

Rajputana

Pres. Hoover

POR JAPAN

Apr.

16

Emp. of Russia

Rajputana

Conte Verde

Pres. Hoover

Tjizadane

Pres. Grant Change

FOR MANILA

Apr.

Emp. of Russia

Pres. Hoover .....

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

imm-

¡61-Eating-car

62-Examiners

|63–Railnquishes.

VERTICAL

1-Volcano vents 2-Whipped with a

hide

3-Decorated

-4-Far (Obs.)

5-Release

28-Device for lifting 30-Level

32-The (Gor.)

33-Maritime distress

signal

į35-Having greatest

speed 37-Those I want 38-incipent decay in

fruit

140-Looking pryingly raw-41-A relative (PL)

S-Country of Europe

7-Free and swift

course

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(PL)

44-More profound 147-Mixture of flour and

water

48-Japanese coin 49-3y

B-Kitchen utensil (pl.) 51-Loaden

-Small bird

10-Formed into ideas

|11-Margin

112-4 sect of Jews

53-Local position ||54-Covers with turf

57-Wagon track 59-Seven

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

wul appear in to-morrow's issue,

crown band of narrow gros-grain Cant. S. N. Barling. Mr. W. N. Mather, Mr. H. G. McNeary, Mr. W. the nervous system. restoring

Summer Brown, Miss P. W. Brown, Mr. CL McKenzie. Miss Mary Manuk,strength to the digestion, and ingenuous A. Blum. Mrs. X. N. Blum, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. N. McGowan.\parting a joyous sense of renewed "hibition, and are entirely new. But

18 the other is so

gour and health.

for trimming. These sports shapes sound

William S. Crofford, Mr. and Mrs. Lieut. Col. H. L. Murrow, Miss P enough, but the super-imposition H. Catlin, Major G. M. Churcher, Mr. Marrow, Mr. G. D. Oyston, Mr. and

handkerchief over M. H. Curtis, Mrs. Gregory Callen, Mrs. G. B. Ott. Mr. O. H. Ochs, Mr-old and young, Dr. Williama Pink range, there are some most de

Equally good for men and women.japart from the semi-morning | 18 of one cotton

manoeuvred that Lieut. Comdr. and Mrs. H. R. Conway, and Mr. Phipps. Comdr. and Mrs. Puls have a record of over fifty years lightful shades from which 18 checks look like stripes and vice Mr. and Mrs. Morris Diamond, Mr.A. C. Pakenham, Mr. N. J. Perrin worid, service behind them, so you choose.

W. 3. Dyment, Miss P. Dimond, Mr. R. Pax, Mrs. A. Pax, Mr. R. Petri, can feel confident that what they Capt. and Mrs. W. Duckworth, Comdr. and Mrs. E. 0. F. Price, Mr.

Obtainable This old notion for summer hats Major and Mrs. H. A. Davies, Mr. F. G. A. Parker, Mr. W. G. Pine, Captave done for others they will do for 14 is a new idea from those of pique A M. Elliott, Comdr. and Mrs. and Mrs. E. H. Reeder, Mrs. B. E..

versa.

from

to

The shows have included lilac, chemists violet, heliotrope, petunia, jewel,

18 and duck that were once upon a D. H. Everett, Mr. W. F. Edge, Rokes. Mr. J. F. Robinson, Lieut verywhere: begin your care to-day delphinium and royal blues, and

21 time washed and starched at home

(Continued in next Column)

FOR U.S.A.

Apr.

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Apr.

Cremer

16

Naldera

POR AUSTRALIA

Apr.

Changte

Miry J, A.

and

and Comdr.

S Col. H. G. Robertson, Comdr. Eccles, Mrs. Faustine and family. Mrs. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. Capt. and Mrs. W. Field-Hook, Mr. P. J. Rafferty, Mr. T. Bamsey, Mr. Mrs. R. H. Shrap, Lieut. Camdr. and nd Mrs. Gibson Fahnestock,

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Bringing Up Father

YOU SAY YOU ARE MR.

WELL, YOU'LL HAVE TO

THAT AND THIS AFTERNI

I WILL GIVE YOU A CHANCE

TO EXPLAIN HOW YOU GOT IN THE JAIL-YARD AND WHERE YOUR CLOTHES ARE-OFFICER- LOCK HIM LD--

COME

ALONG

IT LOOKS AS F YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE A HARD TIME PROVING THAT YOUR NAME

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HERE'S SOME

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Trillo,

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lily of the valley green.

Jewel

blue should be very popular and it is Queen Mary's favourite colour.

Royal Name Adorns Material

materials were featured, in addi-.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

HALT DİONİCİDİS,

ROLE HOMERS ANT NOT LEA" GAP

OPENCAS 15:0

LON TENC PATES LEO

TOAD

TEL

INILE

LOWEST

四安

We'

At one single show, three new

Recommend

tion to many old favourites.

was an artificial silk Įname “Queen Mary" woven

with

trical pattern in black and white.

HELENE CURTIS The Glorious Self-Setting PERMANENT

Marie's

BEAUTY SHOPPE Bank of Canton Bldg. Tel. 32508 (1st Floor)

HELLO

Can you imagine a

cross be-

Perhaps the most novel of them tween white chiffon, organdie and the tulle? Well, this is a crude way

into of describing a second material

it, forming an interesting symmejused for the first time lately.

Crude it may be, but definitely

Maxe ja

From even 10 лет 25 three yards, there is no suspicion of descriptive, and writing. but upon close examina-“freezette.” It is an ideal fabric tion the name can be clearly seen for youthful evening or debutante running horizontally.

fracks.

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