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Ideal House Attire

Cotton House Coat Just The Thing For Busy Hours

Dressy looking cotton house coats, Sundays, for shampoos, for washing which can go bang into the suds is dishes and for painting on china, the modern women's ideal home if that's your hobby. attire..

Very swish necklines, formal as Every woman has one oř more those in old master portraits; neat garments of the same type, but no waistlines which flatter the figure, matter how many she has collected step with the vogue in present day fate wills that they all get mussed excellent colour combinations and soiled and dumped at the interiors, zipper fastenings, gen- cleaner's at the same moment. Lerous cut and pretty print designs

That's life.

in

are among the excellences of the One is tempted to do splashy coats. In other words, to sum it jobs in house coats, and even the up without hyperbole: This depart- least exertion is enough to take the ment is but nuts about these coats. freshness off anything one wears.

So let's be glad of the new *cotton house coats, and wear them

for

breakfast, for dusting, for leisurely

CLUB CALENDAR

The following are the fixtures for the Women's Section of the

YM.C.A next week:

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13

WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP

Counting sheep W25 formerly

THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 7, 1938.

SUN-TEASER: Shady as a parasol and pretty too. Olivia de Havilland, Warner Bros. star, sports a wide sombrero in black straw, edged with white, with white wool pom-poms and grosgrain ribbon tied under the chin. For wear with Spring prints or summer cottons.

considered an unfailing cure for becomes restless, too; we begin to himself of sleeplessness quickly is sleeplessness, and there was sound toss and turn, and out of all this the person who makes up his mind reason behind the idea. The mono- disturbance the ugly bogey of in- to ignore the trouble and not give tonous train of thought with its set-somnia thrusts its head. We dread it undue importance. He does not ting of rural calm soothed until that this experience should become feel like sleeping, so he switches

Badmington Tournament, morn-finally the mind became a blank a habit with us, and the more we on the light and finds a light, quiet

ing and afternoon.

THURSDAY, APRIL 14 Bridge and Mahjongg in the morning. 25 cents per head for members and friends.

Friday, being Good Friday, there will be no contract bridge lessons.

book to occupy his thoughts; kait- ting or a jigsaw puzzle will serve just as well. The great point is to refuse to let the mind dwell on any worrying or exciting subject by of-- fering something else as a sub-

and the patient dropped off to sleep. worry the more wakeful we become, Many of us are afraid of wake- until at last Nature steps in and we ful hours once we have retired to fall asleep. Nature then takes her bed. A heavy supper or an exciting revenge for our excesses by making evening may have stimulated the us late for the day's work next mind to abnormal activity and our morning! Ithoughts race on. Finally the body i The person who is going to cure\stitute.

SPRING FOOD NOTES!

New Shipment Of Lamb

LEGS

(WHOLE OR HALF) 78 cts. per Ib.

SHOULDERS

64 cts. per lb.

SPRING PEAS!

FAME

GARDEN GREEN

HALF BLADE END

74 cts. per lb.

NO. 2 50 cts. per tin. HALF KNUCKLE END

56 cts. per lb.

THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE Co., Ltd.

Pure Food Specialists.