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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, Saturday, „OCTOBER 10, 1936.
HOME PAGE COOK goes fishing (at the fishmonger's) finds it is most economical
Buy the
to
head & shoulders of
ALMON is an occa- sional fish. Very, for
most of us.
Fare expeditions in
search of it, we want to make sure
So, on our
of good sport.
a salmon
As many an angler nows, the tending to keep the head for him- castest way to success with rod and self.
"line is to find a friendly fishmonger.
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from #busines point of view, he khuwa that it will pay him to sell us this whole cut for less than two-thirds of the price which he is for three or four pounds of ni- asking for the middle of the fish. mon's head and shoulders,
Having
He will
found one, we ask him
be rather
Gorry
" he does this we shall have about bought our sulmon as economically
this, becntise be was probably in- as possible, so every one is satisfied
Give him his own DEN
W
(it sounds very Victorian
but psychologists approve)
E space-savers have for years been deriding that Victorian room described in whispers of cormous respect as "Daddy's Den" or "Philip's Den," or "My Husband's Den."
It is a pity. Because a den does not have to be a slage-set. berausen den is still an extremely sound idea,
Wise choice
e ask the fishmonger to tiske put the gills of the fish be cause he will do this with greater dexterity than we can command,
are at their very best. Not, 'I think, that eternal cucumber,
+ With cold salmon have
a plain green salad and, if you like, a few sinal cold new potatoes,
Slowly done
paper
Mlinon steaks can bc wrapped in greased grilled, but must be done slowly and turned oflen.
and very
Serve with a pat of maitre d'hotel butter on top.
Remains of cold salmon may be
If we only want a small steak of Haked up and mixed with n green pound or less we try to get it salad. froin that part of the Ash behind the stomachi where the cut is of
of flesh,
Strenuous efforts are often made
fo turn these fragments into Red- Keress, pies, pattles of navouries.
Fresh nlmon, frankly, does not
But as every one else is after that lend itself to relicated dishes. All
bit we may be unlucky.
Closer to the to the price gets lower by a few pence per pound, and it often pays to buy the whole sid, through your gourmet might complain of a lack of fat in the flesh.
The
size
his brings us tu the point of the fish which we should look for when buying it,
The salmon should be plump and afa good weight (suy fourteen pounds) beenuse when the fish has reached that size it has more of that curd or fat between the layers of And flesh which is so great a part of its
charm.
Any paychologist will explain why every ronn should have one, Man, they will tell you, in not a natural stay-out. His homing Instinct is netuully teener than woman's. It dates from the neolithle age when num's first home was literally a refuge from wild animals and unfriendly tribes.
Man thought of his home as a place to hide in.
Homing Husbands
It should be firm to the touch, with silvery scales and a clear pink complexion.
When the Ash is cut the blood should flow red and freely. If it is brown and congealed it is a sig
H'S instinct to-day is still the same; a place to hide in from that the salmon is not as fresh as it
the wolves at the City: where he can shut out all associations might be.
with breadwinning.
Look around you at any party is it not the husband who is first. to. - say, "Let's go home?"
But when he does get home to-day, what does he And?
He inds the one sitting-room occupied by his wife and one or two of her friends. Now he adores his wife and likes her friends, but at this moment he wants to be alone. The bedroom is obviously not a man's refuge.
It there is a dining-room, it will be in commotion a short time after he returns from the office. In any case, he cannot keep things fry it. If there is a playroom, the children are in it.
Finally, if his wife makes a deliberate point of kerping out of the; way, it only makes him feel guilty.
COLUTION? The den of our
forefathers.
extravagant and commodious
Scrapping their large scale rooms, we moderns can and should preserve their idea of an inner sanclum
rap it up
hen it comes to cooking,
take a piece of greaseproof paper, butter it lightly, sprinkle it with salt, and wrap the piece of fish in It steam It.
Three pounds will take three- quarters of an hour.
If there is no steamer available
put the fish on a stand above the level of your water in the saucepan, for our breadwinner. No and steam it thus, with the di matter how amail or how rudely furnished, if it remains exclusively his, tightly closed. he'll be happier.
Unromantic? On the contrary. Satisfy that primitive instinct to give him a real refuge and he'll take all the more interest in the rest of the home.
No sacrifice of Romance
.
THE cost? Trifling in comparison with the retures,
In building or buying your own house a smali extra roun can be added at a cost which added to the weekly payments, amounts to two or ree shillings a week.
If It's a flat or house which is alrendy built, one with an extra room need not increase the rest by more than the price of one cinema a week.
And when it comes to choosing between a cinema one evening and a den seven evenings the great majority of men would be quick to show their wives that the sacriflee would be rewarded a hundredfold.
The water must, of course, be boiling all the time the fish is there.
Flavour
or the sauce, make half. pint of white sauce and take it from the fire for a few minutes.
Then whisk into it the yalks' of ↑ three eggs and heat it up again without boiling.
Lastly, flavour it to taste with lemon Juice, Highly flavoured fish sauces are a mistake with salmon. For vegetables boiled new pota- toca,, and green pens when
they
the delicate flavour has deported.
Is Your Name
RHODA? Symbol:
For Our Junior Readers
A lowering rose tree
dabut-
Tiness, femininity and charm
of manner.
Suiday is your lucky day, and the luckiest hours for you are Your lucky il nm, and fi psa. days of the month are the 19th and 20th.
The colours which are most in harmony with the name of Rhodo are all shades of yellow, from the paleat primrose to the deepest orange.
Make use of these colours in pour personal adornment. Your lucky number is four and multi- ples of that number are also Jortunate.
Amber is your lucky stone. Wear it. It will give you vitall- ty and good health,
The flower assigned to you la the celandine,
WILL AIRPLANES EVER BE
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power- ful aircraft. weighing several tons and lifting 05
CRASHPROOF?
many moro tons Into the air with ease. may crumple up like a pack of cards in a slight landing mishap. How can they be so strong, yet so frall?
The renzon is this Deliind its tough fabric skin the airplano has only a skeleton structure, There are no heavy, solid areas to resist an im pact with the hard earth.
In the air the skeleton can hold out against enormous forces which try to pill it to pieces or compress it, but against sold forces it collapses.
Each important section in the Akeleton is actually made nearly ten times stronger than it need be, but it
A SLIGHT mis- judgment
·when funding-can cause
Berlos
accident..
still
depends upon all the ollier ecctions playing their part. The skele- ion transfers the loads throughout
the sections. Just as the wireless set transfers the incoming waves. If a heavy landing causés à section to crumble, then the skeleton tends to collapse.
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But there are some well-designed aircraft which seem almost crash- proof. Sometimes we read of pilots crashing badly, yet escaping injury.
This good fortune is often due to the fuselage being strong enough to Keep its shape after the impact, thus protecting the pilot. At
n
northern llying school a new type of training machine has been accidentally crashed three times by pupils without causing theat Injury, Tho strong design of the Lusclogo is considered to be the reascil.
Every funding means that the full weight of the airpland is being rushed on to the ground at a spred rarely below 50 miles per hour. No won- der n Mill
mis- Judgment can cause Such havoc al times. C. D.
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OUR BRITISH CROSSWORDS
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ACROSS
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1 Canine-headed, and altogether
very odd.
5 A dye from a flower..
French resort that shows men
to a certain direction.
10 What a brand might be but mostly what a slacker might be. 11 Wonder,
12 The sea can do this.
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13 A chawbacon, no doubt, but all
right inside.
15. I mar songa" (unag.).
17 There's something resilient in
this part of the garden.
10 If you
meet this unfortunate. you would be wise to this re- versed him.
22 When jolly this fellow inspired
terror.
20 The sort of person the confld-
ence trickster likes.
25 Armed like the eagle, but solit-
nry at heart
26 Not a nice position for a ship
in a cale.
27 A common covering, often. 28 Dend.
DOWN
i What young lovers keep.
2 Drink ran in different order to
upset thoroughly.
3 The cause of that rather distinc- tive smell in the underground Fillway.
This mon's activities often bring him to the dock.
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6 "Left Arran" (anag.).
7 Damaging, very.
6 One of the dark fair.
14 This is the first Ave letters of
11 across.
10 An anti-freeze
your radiator.
17 Expansive advice.
18 Kingly gear.
20 You, for example.
21 Regard.
substance for
23 This comes of introducing fruit
into the press.
24 Turn over,
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WHAT LUCK! WE AIN'T WEAH, WE'LL HAFTA EAT
WELL, I TOLD SHOT A SINGLE THING/ SARDINES AN' WILLMY COME, (TH' MISSUS OUR FER SUPPER! WIPE HAVE TH' LAFF ON || DUZZ/FIRST DAY WE'D
us!
HAVE A MEAL WE SHOT OUR-
SELVES!
LEAVE IT TO \WOT YA
ME! I'LL SEE GONNA, THAT SHE DO, SAM? WON'T HAVE TH' HA-HA ON YA'! LET'S BEAT,
IT BACK TO
CAMPI
FER GOSH SAKES, SET THEM SARDINES UP A BIT CLOSER | WE WANNA MAKE SURE
OF OUR SUPPER!
BACK
IN CAMP
T. M. RÍÓ, Ú. S. PAT. OFF.
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