10
MAN'S
If you are throwing a
Cocktail
party
these hints will save
you money, help to
make it a success
HEN loads of unrepaid luspinlity weigh you down a cucktail party In really the best way out. First thing to decide in how many people you want to ask.
Next, of course, comes the question, "What's it going to cost?" Laziest und-most expensive way of giving a party is to put it in the hands of the enterers. For Bn, a head you will get unlimited drink (you guests have eight cocktails to choose from), a dozen different sorts of cats, a bar and burman, glasses, crockery.
Much cheaper, though, if you do the ardering yourself. the sort of cocktall, you can figure out the cost pretty well. you have chosen a Martini. A good mixture is:
1 dash of orunge bitters,
1-8th gill of Italien vermouth.
2-8the gill of dry gin.
Hunning only
This half-gili recipe will adequately fill a cocktail gloss. Toughly fourteen cocktail glasses to the tre.
Suppose that
There are
Now, o 12a, bottle of gin holds two- once, so that nu one worries because thirds of litre and a 48. Gd, bottle of he/she hasn't got an invitation yet. -
that vermouth Mire. It follows
Write rather that telephone: it puts
་་
three bottles of gin and one ut ver- your invitation on record.
Fit your room with a long serving mouth should provide you with 42 cocktails, the cost of which will be table (or you can hire a real live bar, 378. Ud.
rail and all, for £1. 10%. Od.). If you can't seat all your guests make them
Just how many cocktails your all stand; they'll circulate better int guests drink dependa partly on how way. long they stay and partly on how
cocktail-conscious they are. Clearly Glasses and ash-trays four cach R generous allowance.
Allow three glasses to every two
If you run two cocktails (and it is guests. So many people forget where good plan to have one sweet, one they have put their glass when fill- dry, cocktall), the cost is more dim- up time coines; or else they change cult to calculate, but, at any rate, it from one drink to another. should be possible to get your drink on drink-or-return terms.
Have plenty of cigarettes, matches, sh trays. See that the ash trays are emptied during the party. The at-
One of the nicest and easiest-of sweet cocktalls to make is a "Doctor." mosphere will get thick enough with- The recipe is -gill fresh lemon out the odour of stale cigarette butts. julce, gli orange julee, -gill of Cover your high-polish furniture with caloric (Swedish) punch.
American cloth. Get plenty of ice.
Sausages are popular
open
1 possible, leave the front door for arriving guests. Hove notices where to put hats and coats. After drinks, the cals. If you must Bo as much roletail mixing as economise, economise on them rather possible before the guests arrive (or than on the drinks.
hire horman for a guinea).
Your party will be a success.
You ought to consider the smart hers d'oeuvres (caviare, foie gras, etc.). They work out at 4s. 6d. n dozen. Same sort of thing enclosed In brioche rolls rather less showy come to 3s. 08. Prawng and facts
go for 2s. 6d. a dozen, olives at 1s. 6d. n bottle.
Those little sausages are popularg you get about 30 to the pound, and they cost 2s.
In the biscuit line try the various Japanese sorts, and those long twiggy ones smeared with beef-ten paste.
Next the invitations. Don't "Invite your guests just as you run into them: one expansive day you'll ask too many. Make a list. Ask them all at
Cigar Test
DEST way to test n box of
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Ir it Keems list is loosely packed. If it draws badly it has been too lightly packed. Do not try to loosen it by rolling it he- Iween your Angers: makes it lighter,
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Race
Goer's
l'encil
Leather
Covered
Slip-
Handle
Ring
Hats and Umbrellas
19, 1936.
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WHEN you come to choose a new unstreita there's certain to be a battle between serviceability and op. 11. Compton, K. S. Morrison, Fan,
jaarance,
For material you
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sit and ration mixture or colton. 2. 57. DE, Fa Choose silk for appearance it rolls: on tunnet}, cotton for strength. Mixture for compromise. Your un- AMON brella should give you at d-ft. spin.
For handles, leather is smart, and BOMBAY dark pigskin most suitable. Efficient CANTON umbrellas have a metal ring which CEFOD lides down the umbrella stick over COLOMID the heads of the spokes, holding them
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If you are not less than average height,
take one of those narrow-brim Silk (say 14 inch) bowlers with a crown and that tapers towards the top. They than other hats with Cotton looks smaller Mixture the same hend room.
Snap-brim hata look larger than bowlers!
they have brims ranging from 2% to 2% Inches. To wear one
Incorporated by Royal Charter 1151, need a fairly broad face.
£3,000,000 Fald-up Capital of Proprietor "Anthony Eden" hats are
Reserve Liability, of Proprietors... $3,000,000 wider than the Barre Fond
.... £5,000,000 necessarily derper
Wooden
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· Slick
Ferrule
you,
not
average soft hat. But the elaborately! curled brim certainly makes them
scem so.
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