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MAIL SCHEDULES

AIR MAIL

Imperial Airways via SingaPOTS Bandoeng-Amsterdam via Singapore)

Saigon-Marseilles viz Saigon

Singapore-Australia Corpulence will los accepted for igs hy these services. Bates and a particulars are shewayin the Pos: the exhibited Awes. All letters etc., must be mark. "by Matt and be handed it

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open

The Moner Order Ofice is from 1 ans, to 4. except on Saturdays when it closes at 12 noon And on Sundays and holidays when

they word.

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INWARD MAILS. FROM EUROFE

Ranpura (viz Suez)

May

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936

~ Women's Tage

CHOOSING THE

RIGHT BOOKS.

Parents Should Be Reasonable

At a literary meeting recently it was argued that a certain au- great thor of high repute and literary ability was not suitable reading for school-girls. On all sides it was laid down that young people should not read this, that 14 and

the other type of book. doveis, medicals, philosophical and communist works being a few mentioned.

14

Donau (via Siberist

FROM ESA.

May

Tres. Jackson

15

Emn of Canada

FROM SHANGHAI

Pres. Jackson

Raputana

Agamemnon Chenonceaux Chichibu Maru

Emp. of Canada

Haruna Maru

FROM MANILA

Get Pershing

Pre

Coolidge

Atsuta Maru

May

The choice of children's read- ng may be guided, but should not be severely ceasured. Many otherwise sensible parents exer-

over their!

14 se undue authority

15

19

children's books and place on the black list a great many that would

19 be of value and interest. Further-

22 more, they arouse an immediate 22 and inevitable curiosity. Forbid jden fruit is notoriously attractive.

May

15

15

FROM STRAITS & INDIA

Kumsan

Mentor

Nagato Hami

Yasukuni Maru

Van Heuts

Victoria

Toba Maru Patroclus

FROM JAPAN

Ginyo Maru

Penang Mary

Pres. Jackson

Rajputana Naruto Mar: Chichibu Maru Emp. of Canada Harung Mari

Kitano ara

May

May

in

Individual Choice

Within limits, it is no wiser to

21 force a selection of books upon children than to impose upon them a code of social rules. Their individual choice should, in some measure, be respected. By read 19. much of the adult mind and 19 character is shaped by the child develop at 19 himself. Children

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21 different rates and come natural- ty to choose the books they need most, if they are left alone. Some times they may choose bad and foolish books, but the impression 14 left is not so great as anxious

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15 parents imagine. No sensible per son would advise a young mother 21 to study baby-craft when

children were

her

are

growing up, but the same person might fail to re-

that certain books 22/cognise

accessary at crucial stages in de- read velopment. If

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Buenos Aires Maru

FROM AUSTRALIA

May

Atsuta Mare

21

OUTWARD MAILS

they Are ater, they will not receive the same appreciation,

There is but one motto in read- ng for the young growing mind Read it now..

FOR EUROPY

FOR STRAITS AND INDIA

May

May

Donac 14

Rajputana Etap, of Asia (via Vancouver)

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

13 Agamenmon

Rajputana (K.L.M. Service)

Cluses: Reg. 9.15 a.m. Ord. 10 a. Buenos Aires Maru

R.M.A. Dorado (Imperial Air-

ways direct Service) ..... Closes: Reg. 5 p.m. Ord. 8.15 am. Pres.

Coolidge (via

Francisco)

San

2989

For the woman of business we have this two-piece dress in navy crepe, suitable also for informal afternoon wear. Its brief tailor- pleated skirt are ed jacket and softened by the organdie jabot Glenda Farrell, and tiny cuffs. the screen actress, is the model.

THE EVENING COIFFURE

New Materials And Fantasies

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Some

20

ате

LAVENDER BAGS

FOR LINEN

Good News For The

Cupboard

KEEP EVERYTHING FRESH

News for the linen cupboard is always good news, and here are

some items, not large in them! selves, for blankets as well as for sheets. The linen-proud woman likes to have some lavender or potpourri bags to keep everything sweet and fresh. but she is often annoyed by the way the bass fall

disturbed out when sheets are not to speak of their getting into corners. besides which their sweet- ness is rarely distributed satis factorily.

that! ΤΟ

across

MAN WHO LOST 21 lbs.

Lost His Indigestion Too!

The fat man is proverbially good natured and easy going. But bere is a fat roan accused of being diff- cult to live with. His wife writes to tell us about him. Just read

candid; it is amusing: it is worth what she has to say. Her letter is publishing word for word as she wrote it. Here it is:-

"My husband a little over twelve months ago started taking Krts- chen Salts for be now eat anything (including, my pastry), but he is now 13 stone only, instead of 15 stone. What I consider more in- portant than anything else, though. is the splendid effect Kruschen has had on his temper. He is zow fit for a woman (not an angel to live. with. My husband is 60 next April and I am 54 next Jure. I recom mend Kraschen Salts wherever I go."-(Mrs.) E. D.

Kruschen does not aim to reduce by rushing food through the body. Gently, but surely it rids the sys- tem of all fat-forming food refuse.

and of poisons

harmful acids which incidentally give rise to rheu- matism, digestive disorders many other ills.

NEWEST BRETON "SAILORS"

and

Charming Hats To Choose

The way to obviate these short-! series of comings is to have a thin muslin bags, cut to the exact ze of the shelves. The lavender er other scented petals must be put so sparsely into these

form when spread out they more than a single layer through- jeut. Each bag is then machined for hand-ru across and

into

compart. smallish square ments, each of which contains an equal amount of the scert staff. That is to say, the scent is quilt is the best choice at this time of jea into place. One bag is laid on year--the newest Breton sailors,

each shelf as a lining, being or small secured there by drawing pins at crowns each corner. This keeps it from brown panamalas, the brims of which are gauffered, are charm- lipping or rampling in use.

ing, writes a correspondent.

Between Sheets

The small or medium-sized hat

tereador shapes with

of black, dark blue or

In the piquant park-ple or bow- Similar bags may, if wanted, belier styles there are many coarse placed at intervals between

cire or lacquered straws,

sets

being! of sheets or towels, each one be mixed with a touch of petersbam ing fixed by two drawing pins at in colour and a veil adjusted in the right height to the back of the some fantastic fashion. cupboard so that they drawn forward or pushed out of

be Can

In the case of the bowler the

the way at will without any de upturned lining is generally of a tone. Sometimes the rangement. A last bag should lighter

not

We remCAT®

The vogue for the headdress certainly be attached to a strip of verve vell is tied tightly round. continues. Many new materials calico as wide as the whole pile Rather a hard shape, I think, ard

its novelty has

gone i and fantasies are to be seen on linen to be covered, and the once 15 fashionable heads after dark. calico pinned to the outside of should give way to a more becom

headdresses

asleach shelf. When operations are ing style. However, it does elaborate as hats. One of

the progress it is left hanging do to anticipate the Snish of any latest developments is a poke bon-down, suspended by the calico, popular fancy when

of the cupboard.ber the long reign, still continued, net in velvet with latticed brimet the outside

Another is a transparent hale Then it is a simple matter to fold of the beret. Possibly the bowler

it firmly over the whole pile so variety may go on appearing. gold galon and tied in a bow to that it lies on the top as a scent-

The Squared Front one side.

jed cover. By this device all the

There is a distinct tendency to When feathers are used for contents are kept both spotless headdresses, they are often die-

and scented; and the bags should the squared front about the holi- guised as some exotic fower

not need renewing oftener than day sports peaked hat, whether

made in wooL straw or tweed. Inl Silver Or Gilt

once a year.

imost instance I think the back !prettier than the front aspect

21ounted on a wide

FOR USA

151

May

Emp. of Asia Tyndarens

145

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FOR AUSTRALIA

May

15

Closes: Reg. 3 p.m. Ord. 4.15 pm. InMA. Dorado Chenonceaux (Air Orient Ser-

vice)

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20

Closer: Reg. 3.15 am. Ord. 103.m.

Agamemnon (via Marseilles)

VIA SIBERIA-Letters and post- Closes: Reg. 8.45, a.m. Ord. 9.20 3..ards for Europe and South America

FOR SHANGRAI

Emp. of Asia

Jean Laborde

Pres. Coolidge

Yasukuni Maru

Taiping

May

bandeau of

The feather Rowers are mount re forwarded "la Siberia” {f so ed

on a slender tortoise-shell superscribed.

small REGISTERED and PARCEL band, and arranged in a

MAILS are closed 15 minutes earlier bunch is worn a little to the side 14 am the time given above unless of the parting. They may be in 15therwise stated.and where mails are pastel shades, or are sometimes 15dvertised to close at or before 9

.m., registered and parcel mails are Sprayed with silver or gilt. closed s* 5

previous

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FOR MANILA

May

14

Pres. Jackson Emp. of Canada Pres. Van Buren

FOR JAPAN

Emp. of Asia! Taiping Jean Laborde. Pres. Coolidge Yasukuni Maru Tyndareus

May

Bringing Up Father

CTOWN

THE

HONG KONG

FENINSULA HOTEL:

HONG KONG HOTEL; REPULSE BAT 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 harbor, plow, and altho

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16

141

Ho

58 59

KORIZONTA'.

1-Struggles

*-Avera

13-Pronoun 14-Edible

15-Eagle

16-A descendant of

Exsu

17-Home port of an

alship

18-Musical note

20-Haut

19-Preferred (abbr.)

23-Bird homes

27-Wharf

24 125

26

8

HORIZONTAL (Cont)

| 49-Girl's name 151-Greek letter

52-To stick fast in mud (54-Inner bark of trees 55-Country of Europe

(abbr.) [56-Pipral suffix

58-Restoration to the

Ci

12,

1414

145

VERTICAL (Cont.) 12-Jeared 21-Pertaining to laughter (22-You and I

24-Anxious

-Look

25-Hindrance

127-Pair (abbr.)

protection of the law 28-Foca

$1-Artiză

30+Elevate

32-River in S. E. France

$5-Decay

63-Female deer

64-Landing place for

aircraft

136-A roe (Scot)

65-Metrie fand meature) 40-Opposed to flood-tide

29-A metric measure of 66-Terminations

capacity

67-Guaranteed

31-Combining form. Air

VERTICAL

32-Girl's name

33-Point of compass

(abbr.)

1-Coax 2-Clear of

unpaid

37-Crimson

38-Electric-bearing

atom

41-Fought

| -Interjection |44-Pertaining to the

sole of the foot

45-Penetrated

47-Egyptian god

34-Debts overdue and 3-Plaza in a detached 30-A weight measure

39-Girl's name

·40-To recede, as the

tide

42-Ocean vessel 44 Pastry

(abbr)

4-One inheriting from 52-Sprout of a tree

position

another

S-Consumed

6-Saints (abbr.)

& Slides

9-Slave

7-Sleeveleza Arabic

garment

53-To acquire

knowledge

55-Large web-ipated

water-bird

$7-Reats

59-Prefix. Not 160-Years (abbr)

61-A Hawalian food |32-Before

46-Loud, brazen sound 10-More willing

11-Treasurers" (abbr.) 48-Pronoun

The solution of the above with a new cross-txora quZILO

will appear in to-morrow's ikeme,

NEW FOB WATCH

Berets also take on this square UNDER THE PLATE

look. I prefer the real college! mortar-board style, although Fashions in table linen change cannot be termed practical. The with bewildering frequency, but,

well-Stted

with a softer The newest kind of watch for them may bel

folded beret-top in fine fabrics-

for the kind of day Bandeaux for the hair made of happily, many of

or linen-straws, are more comforsports wear, or can do quite simple table for most forms of sporting suit which you wear in the morn-

and semi-sporting, headgear,

watch. Jing in town, is the fob She must also have an eye for

Bright and neat are the scarves You wear it in the top pocket of

AIR MAIL Imperial Airways via clipped feathers and twisted into followed very easily by the wo

via Bandoeng-Amsterdam.

Singapore, Singapore, Saigon-Marseilles via Sala rouleau are as soft as chenille man who

The use of feather fronds is embroidery stitches. Correspondence for Europe and 16 intermediate countries will be accept-another idea for the halo type of

ed for transmission by these Services, beaddress, the fronds being treat-colour, and an aptitude for adapt

22 Rates and all particulars are houm infed in such a way that when theying new ideas to conform to her or jahots made of spotted or strip-your suit, and you will certainly

the schedules exhibited at the General are curled and stiffened they look own particular requirements. Post Office and Kowloos Office, letters etc., zaust be marked "By Air like horsehair.

jed surati and taffetta to match a want to choose a leather coloured

At the moment, large dinner folded beret-or boater, trimmed fob watch as soon as you see one.

14 Mail" and handed in at. the General For the debutante, however, mats with fringed edges are very with

15 Post Office. Unless superscribed for nothing is more attractive than a smart. They look most attractive and

a similar gay design. Red They are obtainable in various

white, navy or green and smart shades such as green, navy!

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION

CLPER SNDER RATURE TEANDO. DEMOTES ARE ATSMS GRA

SNORT BETVE

JERS

black, and the whole face. The fob "ribbon" is com. 15 despatch by a specific air mail ser- posy of real or artificial flowers when the set is composed of dif-white spot suggest the welcomed blue and

mounted on a thin tortoise-shell ferent colours and are easily note of colour with dark dresses, watch is covered in the leather, posed of a narrow strip of lea 15 vice, correspondence will be forward-

lor with the many grey variations with the exception of the actual ther to match. 19:ed by the first service available.

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WHAT IS IT-SONNY?You SAY YOU WANT DADDY TO COME RIGHT DOWN TO THE OFFICE AS YOU HAVE SOME- THING IMPORTANT TO TALK

TO HIM ABOUT”-

band.

NTH BUSINESS-HE

I'M GLAD TO SEE HIM TAKIN' AN INTEREST

HAS ONLY BEEN AT WORK A WEEK-

HOPE HE KEEPS IT UP-

Posture Szandicom, Jotu, Gems Bejcsin mghan znanać.

made.

SONNY-COME IN HERE- WHAT IS IT YOU WANT TO SEE ME ABOUT ? LETS GET DOWN TO

BUSINESS-

WHEN DO I GET MY VACATION YOU CAN TELL ME WHEN I

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