THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 2, 1940 Bringing Up Father
OH-DADDY-DON'T BE SO CROSS-1 JUST HAD SEND MY NEW DRESS OUT COD YOU ARE REALLY MEAN-
NOW-LISTEN-THE NEXT BILL THAT COMES IN THIS HOUSE COLLECT. IS NOT GOING TO BE PAID BY ME-DO YOU UNDERSTAND ?JUST REMEMBER THAT THE MINT IS IN A PHILADELPHIA=
A GENTLEMAN'S HERE TO SEE" YOU-SIR - HE HAS A PACKAGE AND IT'S COD-.
ANYONE THAT. COMES TO THIS HOUSE WITH A BILL IS NOT A GENTLEMAN ANG I'M GOIN TO TELL
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By George MacManus
MR. JIGGS-HERE ARE
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For The Wedding Jimmy's Kitchen
Perhaps you are one of those who think of having a "quiet" wedding as an economy measure during wartime.
ribbons are out of place. It should be something simpler, or better still a spray of roses or orchids should be pirined to the dress.
If the bride wears a going away
thing in the tailored line, bouquets are definitely taboe. The flowers must be in the form of a spray worn on the coat.
Having, decided on this, you must restrict the number of in-suit or a three-piece suit or any- vitations. For if you invite all and sundry, you will end up with a muddled affair that is neither one thing nor the other. So first of all the guests must be limited to in- timate friends and relations,
A bride in an afternoon dress may have a bridesmaid, or even two if they are children. They too must wear simple afternoon dresses with hats rather than
Proper printed invitations may be sent out, but it is quite in or der to let it take the form of an informal note to your intimate wreaths. friends,
What of the reception? It pre- The most suitable attire is a besumably will be small enough to coming afternoon dress, slightly on be held at the bride's home. There the picturesque side with a match-should be a wedding cake, and ing hat, or perhaps headgear that is midway between a hat and a
halo.
* a Of course, the bride may carry flowers, but not the customary bridal bouquet. Lilies and trailing
light buffet refreshment-anything that can be eaten with a fork or fingers.
ply only with a few words. In this way you dispense with all the elaborate formality that goes with a "white" wedding.
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'The quietest of all weddings is that which is timed to take place early--say about 9 a.m. after which the bridal pair go straight away. It is also correct to have it a little later, followed by a homely luncheon attended only by the relatives.
Supposing the ceremony takes place at the Registrar's office, then the bride wears afternoon dress or three-piece suit. There are no bouquets, bridesmaid or best man, and as space is general- ly limited, there are few guests.
Where the bride goes straight Beyond the single toast of the away from the church, it is a bride and bridegroom, there need happy idea to have a cocktail be no formal, speeches. And to party the day before the cert- the toast the brideĝfóom need re-mony. Nothing substantial need
Cheese For Strength
We should build up strong con-1 saaaaaaaaaaaa stitutions by investigating the pos- sibilities of that excellent food - cheese. Now let us see what we can do with it. For example, there's
Cheese Savoury. You need 2 slices toast, 11⁄2 ozs. butter and 11⁄2 ozs. flour, a third of a pint of milk and water, pepper, salt and mustard, 6.ozs. grated: checse. Cut the toast into 6 stripes, so that the savoury can be served easily. Put them close together on a dish. Melt the butter, add the flour and mustard and stir briskly. Add the liquid and boil well. Then add pepper and salt and of the cheese."
After the cheese. has melted, place the mixture on the slices of toast. Sprinkle with cheese and brown under the grill or before the fire.
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Interesting Recipes To Try Out
Ingredients:-1⁄2 lb. split lentils, ozs. grated cheese, 4 tomatoes, 2 ozs. dripping, 2 small onions, 1 teacupful of breadcrumbs, salt and pepper.
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be provided in the way of "eats." They should be of the "nibble" variety-potato crisps, salted al- monds, little sausages on sticks.
But let's get back to the bride. Her préparations should be com- pletely well in advance: a new perm in good lime, hair sham- pooed and set a day or two before the wedding day so that it has time to settle down and take on a soft natural appearance.
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Give extra attention to 'skin and hands for some weeks before. At night time use a cleansing cream or a lotion, and devote five min- utes to a simple massage with feeding cream. Once a week mask treatment will-be-beneficial. See that your hands and nails are looking their best, 'becatise that new wedding ring is going to them, and it draw attention to will take the edge off your pride if the nails are broken and the hands look neglected.
Choose a dainty, delicate tint of nail varnish rather than an exo- tic startling shade.
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Being halfpint of water to boil, put in the lentils and simmer slowly for 20 minutes. Add sliced tomatoes, pepper and salt, and continue simmering until the len- tils are perfectly soft, adding more water if necessary.
Unless circumstances force you Meanwhile slice Cheese Pudding..
the onions, to a very early ceremony, choose you to fry lightly in half the dripping a time that will allow and tasty.
'Ingredients:. 1 teaspoonful and add the lentils together with make a leisurely preparation for half the bread- the ceremony. Have a bath that breadcrumbs, 2 ozs. grated cheese, the cheese, and 11⁄2 teaspoonful of milk, 1 egg, crumbs. Mix together, put in a is fragrant with bath salts and 1 oz. margarine, 1⁄2 teaspoonful buttered ple dish, cover with rest linger in it. Follow it with an mustard, salt and pepper to taste. of breadcrumbs. Dot with remain-eau-de-Cologne friction to make Bring the milk to, the boil, add der of the dripping and brown you feel good and give your skin margarine, and pour the bread-well under the grill, "crumbs. Add cheese, yolk of
egg well beaten, mustard, and pepper, and mix all together. Add stilly whisked white of egg. Pour into a buttered pie dish and Trake for 25 minutes in moderate
oven.
Macaroni Cheese. Always good choice.
salt
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that lingering aroma of freshness that only eau-de-Cologne imparts. It also helps to keep you cool dur- ing the ceremony.
Cauliflower Cheese. Tasty
For the same reason you will have used a perspiration control quickly made.
Ingredients:-1 medium sized that you know is effective. cauliflower, 4. ozs. grated cheese, Choose your make-up carefully. 14, pt. white sauce, pepper and Let it be simple and natural
salt.
rather than smart, and startling.
a Cook the cauliflower, Arrange Most brides tend to be a litle in a ple dish. Sprinkle with salt pale with excitement, and so a Ingredients:1b. macaroni, 1 and pepper. Add half the cheese natural make-up looks more be-
to the sauce, heat up and sprin- | cothing. icle over the cauliflower. Sprinkle
oz. butter, 6 ozs. grated cheese, 1 small teacupful of milk, 1 oz. flour;
1 teaspoonful made mustard, pép-the rest of the cheese on top and
per and salt.
Break the macaroni into short
brown under the grill.
While Sauce. 1 oz, magarine, oz. flour, pt: milk, salt and pepper
ozs, cheese, pepper and salt.
potatoes, mix with grated chicese, Remove the centre from Baked
the potatoes, make hot end salt and pepper. Put the infxture
serve.
pieces, put into a pan of boiling salted water and cook fill tender to taste.
(about 20 minutes) Dmin but Melt the butter in a saucepans suve a cupful of the water.
cool slightly, then mix the flour Molt the butter in a pah, this in smoothly. Simmer for a in the flour smoothly, cook for a thinute or two so that the flour few moments, add the macaroni can swell in the butter (impor- Cheese Balls. A savoury for water and the milk gradually, tant), but do not let it browni stirring all the time, and simmer Heat the milk and add it to the six people.
be on the thick side.
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hot fat and try. a teaspoonful of the mixture inte tard, and place two strips of can-
Juled peel on top of each. for 10 minutes. The sauce-should flour very gradually, stirring, all -Ingredients:=-3 ozs. cheese; 2 Cheese Cakes. Make a curd by Cheese Fritters. Take 2 ozs. but
the time with a wooden spoon. ozs. hour, 1⁄2 oz. butter, 1 egg, adding a few drops of rennet w 1ter, 1 oz. bieadcrumbs, 2 Senson with salt and pepper and pt. tepid water, 1 teaspoonful mus- pt. hot milk. Press the whey from cheese, 1 egg, pepper and salt to simmer for at least 10 minutes, tard salt and cayenne, të kthe curd. Mix with the curd three taste, stirring carefully.
**** Mix the four and mustard, salt eggs, 3 ratifin biscuits, 4 table Grate the cheese and put into and cayenne, separate the yolk spoonfuls cream; 2oza; sugar and basin. Beat the egg und mix from the white of egg, milk it in a few drops of lemon juice, pound with the other Ingredients. Melt to the flour with the melted mar in a bowl,with a wooden spoon, some margarine in a frying pan, Baked Potatoes and Choose, garine, add the grated cheese a and pross the curd in a clean and when very hot drop the mix- Serve with green vegetables orittle at a time, and the whipped cloth to absorb the moisture. ture from a tablespoon into it. butter beans,
white of egg
Line six patty "ting"" "With puff Fry until fritters are a golden Mix all to a smooth batter. Drop | paste, up with the cheese cus-brown, drain," and serve hot.
Stir in half the cheese and the macaroni. Add mustard and salt and pepper to taste. Pour into a pig dish, put the rest of the cheest on top, -brown under the grill.
Cheese and Lentil Savoury. Here you have two Ingredients that are full of nutriment;
Ingredients:-2 Us. potatões,