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INWARD MAILS.

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936

Women's Page

LET YOUR EYES BE

NATURAL!

Joan Blondell Gives Her Advice

AN ACCENT TO BEAUTY

"Cultivation of a cheerful" dis- position is the first step towardį making the most of your natural leye beauty," says Joan Blondell: screen star whose own lovely eyes! fare famous.

FROM EUROPE

Apr.

Rajputana (via Suez)

FROM USA.

Tour

Apr.

Pres. Grant..

FROM SHANGHAI

15 “Learn to philosophize a bit

about 17 habit of looking on the brighter side of things, bring your sense of humour more frequently to the Ifore..

trouble.

form

the

Pres. Grant

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17

Gen. Lee

Terukuni Maru

Naldera

FROM MANILA

1

Asama Mar

Bangature

Kitano Maru-

Helenus

Pres. Huover

Apr.

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Kutsang

Coste Verde

Hakodate Maru

Agapenor

Lisbon Mara

Behur

FROM AUSTRALIA

Kitano Mars

FROM JAPAN

Tottori MATE

Gen. Lee

Naldera

Pres. Grant

La Plata Maru

Terukuni Maru

Kamo Maru Axama Maru

2

Apr.

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"The next important consider-

ation is clarity of the eyes and the!

23 skin around them. You should 24 eat sensibly, take regular exer cise and never try to burn the candle at both ends. If you neveri sleep enough and seldom get fresh

16 air and exercise, you have only

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16 yourself to blame when your eyes become swollen, bloodshot and dark circled.

. Then Miss Blondell went on to

16 talk about makeup and manners

18 for the eyes. Even screen stars! admit that "mannerisms" are out!

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Apr.

G

Apr.

of the beauty picture. Nothing is more annoying and less attractive than eyes that roll back and forthi

jin an attempt to be alluring. or

are raised from droopy lids în an effort to be seductive. Let your eyes be natural!

of

As to makeup. it should. 15 course, be chosen to match your

lashes and brows and the natural! colour of your skin. For exam-

brown ple, brown lashes need 23 mascara and brunette lids require brown eyeshadow or, if you like, plain vaseline. Whether or not!

Alterations In The Home

Maureen O'Sullivan, the screen actress, thinks a fur coat. is ideal for early Spring wear. Her swagger type Persian lamb coat features a cord fastening worn under the collar that may also be worn as a belt,

HARDBOARD NOW POPULAR

SOME USEFUL HINTS

SHORTER SKIRTS RETURN

Stopped At Smart Length

An interesting fashion

trend Many small alterations which featured by one firm is the re would improve the appearance and turn to much shorter skirts for comforts of a house are often neg-day wear.

lected because of the cost of re- Although they are taches shor decorating afterwards. This ister than they have been for sea- specially trae of alterations ofisons, they have stopped at the additions to the woodwork of smart length and have not revert- room, for the new paint on themed to the ugly just below the however skilfully it is matched, knee style. Heaven forbid that

the should happen again! can never look the same as

old paintwork. So when the deci- Evening dress lengths are dif- sion is made, as so often happens ferent, too. This year they all in- in the spring, that the time for clude a train effect at the back. redecorating has come. the best plan is to consider before the detouching the ground, now clears corators are called in what altera-the floor by several inches tions or additions are needed to

This makes dancing much easier,

while the front hem. instead of

the woodwork of the rooms. jand looks equally as graceful as

Often in a living-room there are

last season's "foor sweepers." aleeves on either side of the fire.

Waistline

place which can be filled in to the

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

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 barbor, plow, and altho

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1

12

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16

18

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24

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in the sleeves and elsewhere on

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Many trains are sunray pleated, height of the mantel-piece. thus and pleating has been introduced making two excellent low cup-¡j boards and a useful. pleasing- looking ledge which runs the macy day and evening gowns.

A further fashion point to re- length of the wall A bedroom re- cess can be filled up to the ceiling member for the coming season is to make a large linen cupboard or not to forget the importance of

the waistline.

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it can be built the height of wardrobe and take the place of Some- furniture. that piece of times alternative heating apparatus conspicuous belt. Worn extreme- has been installed in a corner ofir wide, of suede kid or pateat the new. belts include the kitchen and proves as indis-leather, pensable in use as it is ugly in many heraldic and fanciful-de-

signs in chromium. appearance. By boarding it in the be restored to its kitchen can

and former neat appearance good cupboard thus made for the housing of brooms and sweepers Modernising Doors

To be smart, see that you accen- ituate your waist by wearing a

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When such additions to the woodwork have been decided upon. use can be made of one of the

your eyes are brown, green or blue DECORATION WITH many kinds of hardboard now on

isn't important when choosing jeyeshadow for daytime. It should match your lashes--not your eyes. For evening, you can deviate from! this rule, providing, of course, you use the more colourful eye make- up with discernment.

OUTWARD MAILS.

FOR EUROPE

Apr.

Emp. of Ruszja

couver)

(via

Van-

16

Closes: Reg. 4.15 p.m.:Ord. § p.m.

R.M.A. Dorada (Imperial Air-

ways direct Service)

17

Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 8.15.m.

Aramis (via Siberia)

17

x

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

Pres. Hoover (via San Fran-

cisco)

17

Apr.

Cremer

+

Closes: Beg. p.m. Ord. 8.30 a.m. Conte Verde (ELM Service) 18 Naldera

Closes: Eeg. 9 a.m. Ord. 9.30 3, Naldera (KLM. Service) ..

Closes: Reg 9:45 x.m.

Ord. 10.30 251.

Menestheus

Is La Plata Maru

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

Ord. 10,30 am.

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FABRICS

Draperies Should Match

The B. O. T. Parade!

the market. Hardboard is wooden sheeting which has been made from compressed wood palp. It can be used in the same way as plywood and it has many advantages over the other cheap woods which are often used on small carpentering Los Angeles-There is a decid-jobs. It never shifts or warps; ed trend in drapery fashions to it is easy to saw and can be work- ward using matching fabrics for ed and sandpapered. When paint- the window draperies and for the led it has a smooth. plain finish bed. Sometimes only the side which goes well with modern fur-]

There is no holding back at medi- zine time when Baby's Own Tablets 16 draperies of a window match the nishing. And it is cheap to buy.

An excellent use can be made of are concerned. Children like them, 18 bedspread in colour and werve; at

not in the least like others the glass curtains are fea-hardboard for modernishing the for they are tured in the same material as the doors in old houses. Old-fashioned medicine in appearance or in taste.

Nor are Baby's Own Tablets doors often have a number bed covering.

new or untried preparation. On the For example, glazed chintz in algrooved panels which collect the contrary, for over forty years mothers aldust and make the door look or-in Canada, the United States and miaute floral pattern makes charming bedspread for the four-nate and fussy, especially in con-Europe have found them invaluable of children's ail- furniture. in the treatment poster style of bed. And curtains itrast to plain modera

ents, and since 1918 they have been

FOR AUSTRALIA

Apr.

21

-Tatsuta Maru (via Siberia)

Menestheus (via Marseilles)

Closes: Reg. 9.45 m

FOR SHANGELAI

Apr.

+

16 superscribed.

18

REGISTERED

Emp. of Russia

Rajputana Conte Verde

Pres. Hoover

Tatsuta Maru

and

In the latter case they are

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a favourite family medicine in China and other countries of the Far East.

What is the reason for the wide-}

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HORIZONTAL

1-Alteration 6-Endured

11-Tardy

12-Bustle 13-Small particle

14-Part of the verb

"To be" 15-Oscillats

17-A metal

19 Conjunction 20-Series

→

22-Bird homes 24-An Insect 25-Movable chattels

that descend to and heir

22-Hot vapor 30-Calloped with a

swinging motion

32-Strike gently 33-Same as Taic 34-To meet and salute 37-A Russian title (pl) 40-Hatred 43-Swiss river

30

HORIZONTAL (Cont) |45-Made of date las-Female sheep

48-$1x

49-A province of Can

ada (abbr)

50-Grow old

52-Upon

53"Paradiss

55.Consume

58-A land messure 58-Repulses

59-Burns with hat

liquid

VERTICAL.

1-Seizes- 2-Part of a horse's

haroces 3-Preposition

4- Reccrit 5-Anxicoz

6-A game 7-Evil

8-Preposition 9-English school

18 9 10

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VERTICAL (Cont.) 10-Started suddenly 16-Liveliness |18-Placing in a de-

tached position 21-Definite article |23-Cunning

24-Serpent 26-Consumed

27-Dame

29-Sailor |31-Make a mistake

54-More serious |35-Fruit-bearing part

of a cereai plant 36-Very warm |12-Affirmative vote

39-Paya out, es money

* 41-Couplea #2-Rests

(54-Military assistant

[47-A forest

49-Unit

51-Epoch

54-Eplatie (abbr.) 57-Sumix danating all

The solution of the above with a new erozz-woord puzzle

will appear in to-morrow's issue,

LINED CURTAINS

For Use In The Town

of the same material may be hung Before the decorations are done the at sides of the windows with a doors of a room can be brought VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post-1

be up to date by covering the entire may cards for Europe and South America valance at the top, or 16 are forwarded via Siberia” 14 so used as the only glass curtains- surface of each door with a piece spread and ever-growing popularity of Baby's Own Tablets? It is that at of plain hardboard. If a carpenther act almost like a charm in dis- PARCEL

those children's everybody pelling 18 MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier tractive made full length, then ter is called in this job costs about

door. So ailments which originate in disorder- tied back so that they make grace- twelve shillings for a 21 than the time given above unless

otherwise stated and where mails are ful curves from the top of the that if one has sufficient skill toed stomach and bowels. advertised to close at or before window to the side frames, where do the work oneself the expense ore, they are equally suitable for

In town houses "window-curtains a.m., registered and parcel mails are they are looped back. A band of of such a renovation is very small children of all ages, from birth

twelve years.

jare exposed to a good deal of dust closed at 5 pm on the previous day plain material may be used as a indeed.

And the action of Baby's Own land soot, and if they are made of Tablets? First they clear the stomach velvet or other substantial material and bowels in a thorough yet gentle the cost of frequent dry-cleaning manner, thus removing the causes oflis considerable.

FOR JAPAN

Apr.

16

Exp. of Russia Rajputana Conte Verde Pres. Hoover

Tatsuta Maru Talthybius

Pres. Grant Changte

FOR MANILA

FOR US.A

Exp. of Russia Pres. Hoover Tatsuta Maz

Apr.

카

Apr.

AIR MAIL-Imperial Airways vistrim on these chintz sets, one espe-|

16 Singapore, Bandoeng Amsterdam via

28 Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sai- cially pretty pair

recently seen

18 gon. Correspondence for Europe and having a dull orange banding to

eral Post Office and Kowloon Office.

tones-

All letters etc, must be marked “By

WHEN A COLD BEGINS

Further.

10

It is well worth while-to have!

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION CHAFFER CAPTIVC RIDER UA AUDES ERS ABNTERS CASTERS

AGE

R

CONA MRSER STEN RELL

AAR SHOLED

SILTOES FINGER A CER

OLO

3POD STCCO GELIS TAD- SCTTCCS PAT ESCRINE PROVODC STRUT A E OHNER TOSTERS RESIGNS

21fed fur transmission by these Services. contrast with a pattern that car- Most medical authorities agree infantile indigestion, constipation. 22 Rates and all particulars are shewn ried yellow and orange in zinnia that an alkaline condition has to colic, wind. Then they cool feverish-

in the schedules exhibited at the Gez-

be created in the system before ness, allay teething pains as if by detachable linings made from in- washable casement- The spread is quite often made the progress of a cold can be stop-magic, check diarrhoes, expel worms, expensive

if any, alleviate colds and croup. cloth. These linings, it carefully 18 Air Mail and handed in at the Gen-with a plain valance, if the pat-ped.

Thus relieved of its suffering the tacked in by hand, may easily be from outside should be chosen, cloth sound, natural sleep, from which it removed for washing when soiled and if possible the same awakens refreshed, happy, and They are a great protection to the should be used for all curtains hungry for its next meal. Chemists curtains, and soon save their cost, that require lining. This gives a JA shade of casement-cloth that uniform appearance to the win- everywhere sell

Baby's Own Tablets. looks neat and suitable when seen dows.

21 eral Post Office. Usless superscribed term is elaborate in the fabric In that case it is always wise in little one quickly drops off into

for despatch by a specific air maitself. An extra deep fold of the the first stages of a cold to avoid service, correspondence will be for intermediate countries will be accept spread makes a covering for the sweets and starchy foods.

Add to the diet a large amount 16 warded by the first service available. pillows, which are laid flat on the

bed. achieving a pleasing air of of fruit, especially acid fruits such

as grapes and oranges.

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I repose.

8

Bringing

Up Father

ID LIKE TO KNOW HOW YOUR FATHER DISAPPEARED – 1. HAD HIM LOCKED IN A BOX AND THEN I WENT TO SET A TAXI TO CARRY HIM HOME- WHEN I CAME BACK-THE BOX AND HIM

WERE BOTH (SONE-

BUT, MOTHER-CON'T WORRY AS LONG AS YOU HAVE NOTISED THE POUCE.THEY

WEL FIND HIM-

THAT'S THE PHONE RINGING – MAYBE IT

15 A REDORT FROM THE POLKE-

OH-IT'S YOU, IS IT? VE HAD THE POLICE

LOOKING EVERYWHERE

FÖR YOU FOR THE LAST SIX HOURS-

YOU SAY YOU HAVE HAD THE POLICE LOOKING FOR

ME FOR SIX HOURS? WHY,

VE BEEN IN JÄL“ NOW FOR. TEN HOURS-ITS NO. WONDER. THEY COULDNT

AND ME-

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