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WRONG
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OMING out of a cinema the other night I heard a young man say, "What extra- ordinary things women do wear on their heads." He spoke with horrified surprise as he gazed at a nice-looking woman wearing a fashionable but unbecoming hat.
Then turning to his own girl friend he added hastily, "Of Your course, I don't mean you. hat is charming."
Truth to tell her hat was just as quaint as the other woman's, but it happened to become her, which only goes to show that it does not matter within reason how much money you spend on your clothes provided you are willing to spend an adequate amount of thought,
The hats Angrave has sketched will give you the idea at once. Look at Miss Wrong with the long nose, who has been
A Lay Sermon
E
By HUGH REDWOOD
EXPLAINING the law of the Christian life, Jesus tells us that every Christian is a brunch of Himself. He is expected to bear fruit, and If he does so, God in-
Cast forth as a
branch,
JOHN, XV., 6.
creases his
fruitfulness by careful prun-
ing and dress-
Ing. If not, he
Is so much useless wood, to be cut away and cast forth.
Preachers are apt to stress the obvious truth in verse 6, that the branch which becomes separated from the vine cannot bear fruit and is therefore only at for the flames. They are apt to neglect, ot grave risk, the fact made clear in verse 2, that it is possible to be unfruitful while still abluing In
Christ.
The secret of fruit-bearing is in 24 "Abide in Ale and I ins Hou. Acceptance of Christ is one thing, bearing fruit is another ant is possible only when Christ's life abides in the branch. If you, ar your church, ore bearing no fruit, see what is choling the flow of the sap.
And do it quickly, for God must study the health of the Vine as a whole; the law of the useless branch cannot be abrogat-
cd.
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you drink)
THE HOUSE. FOR MUSICAL GIFTS
ON
A BUNCH OF
PARSLEY
NE of the things that Sarah, method, and what the Home Page Cook, likes fine fried parsley. most about the spring is the she serves up! principal knowledge that she will have fresh The
herbs to use again. It is lucky secret, she says, for us that parsley usually gels is to have lots of cheaper about Easter time, for frying Sarah knows a little tip that gives better
fat,
or,
still,
oll,
MISS RIGHT
careless enough to choose a high' hat
of the fez or Persian type.
At the expenditure of a little thought and no more money she could have found the becom- ing felt hat worn by Miss Right with the creased crown and turned up brim with a deep peak over one eye, which gives her face the correct proportions,
*
OUTHFUL Miss Wrong in the next - sketch-has-obviously-bron-childishly-- foolish to choose the kind of hat that makes her plump little face look like a
→ pudding.
The same face can be changed from the ridiculous to the distinguished by a tallish draped felt cap with a quill to give it added height, and, incidentally, by the added length of the hair which is pulled forward over the checks,
THE
E third Miss Wrong has clearly lost all sense of proportion by leav- Ing her intellectual but bulging brow naked under á balo brim. Her face cries out for the tall-crowned hat that Miss Right is wearing.
·
The girl who looks best in the halo type of hat is the one with the kind of face that ono sees in the carly Italian paintings of angels, with the smooth brow, the eyes set far apart, small features, and a modestly receding chin. English girls often have this kind of face,
These girls can also wear the Plantagenot cap which is tall and slightly pointed at the back, trimmed with a veil which can be worn In two or three different ways,
TOMEN with clear-cut features
Weywell in the Oriental
turbans of felt with twisted draperies in velvot that are so fashionable just now.
The high square crowns with wide brims which may be turned up at the sides and at the back, but are turned down in front, look well on the women whose noзcs and chins are inclined to be too long.
The clear-cut face of-the-business woman... who wears tailor-mades-looks-best-in-the medium-sized hats with crowns creased either square or acooped out down the centre, and the flat brima turned up at the edges in the Mexican style.
The older woman looks charming in the little draped velvet cap with the brim turned down softly over the face and pompons of fur or silk-to flafter-her features...
To-day's Menu
HORS D'OEUVRE
PARSLEY PIE
LEMON PUDDING
CHOOSE whatever hors d'œuvre you like, but if you can find in your, grocer's a amall H of sturgeon in tomato, ict me advise you to try that. It is rather like a coarse sort of tunny fish,
and really quite good. To make Parsley Pic, bolt some parsley. about a calander full, until it is tender, thes roith shart pastry), put sunie parsley on if, draht it and chop it finely. Line a
e a deep plate then two or three rashers of bacon cut in small pieces, then more parsley and finally three eggs broken over it. Season with salt and pepper, put a little more parsley on top, cover with a thin crust of pastry, make a hole in it and bake till brown in a hot oven.
just the last touch to a joint of and it must be lamb, and that is to sprinkle over smoking hot. The other secret is not or as a delicious sprinkling over ai It about a quarter of an hour to try the parsley too long. As soon' lettuce salad, before it is roasted a mixture of "
amoking, plunge the
The olf is
chopped parsley, breadcrumbs and parsley into it and take it out almost
a tiny triffe of garlic, and let this at once; three or four seconds ure get-a-golden-brown-while-the- roasting finishes.
Sarah is a great believer in parsley. "It looks very pretty, I know," she said
to me, "when it's used for decorating dishes, but if most cooks would use more parsley in their dishes, instead of on them, their food would taste all the better!”
enough. If it stays in longer it will get brown or black, -Try it and
sec.
Fried Parsley
NOTHER thing that Sarali always uses parsley for
Maitre D'Hotel Butter
YET another very popular use of parsley, more per-
hapa in restaurants then in our homes, is for Maitre d'Hotel Butter, so admirable with fried fish or grilled cutlets and steaks and many other dishes. This is simply made by
ls for what the French call "fines pounding up some butter with salt, herbes." It is not always casy to pepper, chopped parsley and a little. How much nicer, for instance, as get all the herbs which comprise this lemon juice, in the proportions that
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY. well as being prettier, is a sprinkling delicious mixture and which are you think fit, some people liking
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of fresh chopped parsley over some parsley, chervil, chives, and tarragon, more lemon, others more parsley. saule potatoes, and how could you But, if you can, they should be finely The best way is to mix. it together make a savoury omelette without chopped and mixed in equal quanti with a wooden spoon, and not pound parsley, or those delicious forcemeats ties. But a sort of substitute can be it too hard in a mortar. for stuffing spring chickens, and so made by mixing chopped parsley
· Fines Herbos
I
NEED not remind you how important a part parsley
on, to say nothing of freshly fried, with the green part of young spring crisp and green sprigs of parsley onions, and if it is to be used for stalics play in the bouquet garal for with various dishes.
salad, you can help matters still more flavouring stocks and sauces, parsley, by using tarragon vinegar for making thyme and hayleaf, but before I stop your dressing.
I should like to tell you about a But these fines herbes, or their rather amusing sauce for chickeri COME people, by the way, substitute, can be used to make a which Sarah came across in an old never seem able to fry savoury omelette, mixing the herbą cookery book the other day (It bền paraley properly so here is Sarah's with the eggs before they are cooked, longed to her grandmother, I think).
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