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The Perfect
·Lady. Dines Out
T
ABLE manners have altered considerably in the last fifteen
years.
Our mothers were taught to keep converso- flon general and their elbows off the table, to cat fruit with a knife and foric, and retire to drink coffee with the ladies."
To-day we may break all, thous rules and still be considered à "perfect lady."
When dining privately at a large house there are few mistakes you run make. Always arrive from 10 to 15 minutes befors the time jrranged for the Winner so that you have true to take ni your wraps and be introduced to your fellow
cats.
You will be given a Partner for the meal who will sit on your left hund a table; you should try
him keep conversation going with And not with the handsome man on the other side of the table.
Sit down. Slowly
WHEN you
Ret
to 1
table
elther □ servant
or Your partner should pull out your chalr and push you comfortably into your pince. You then unfold your napkin and put it across your knees, placing. any roll or bread on your small left- hand plate.
be
Cocktails or dry sherry can drunk before dinner begins and dur- ing the soup course,
Always break roll-or bread with your fingers, and if you like butter just-dab little bits on the broken pieces-don't make a butter cutting and ness of it.
1. She's tucked her tahle napkin
into the neek of her dress.
2. She's beckoning to the waiter
(frankead of learing that to
her host).
3. She's eating naparagus with
a knife and fork,
4. She's cut her roll instead of,
breaking it.
5. She's drinking £1 Kiqueur
early in the meal.
Ber
plate and glues are both on the wrong side.
7. He's eating melun
knife.
with a
3. He's drinking claret from
champagne glass,
af lemon should be squeezed over your fish, olives should be picked up and nibbled, brend-and-
asparagus should be held with one hand, spreading bu
White wines-usually dry-are drunk with fish and red wines with meat or poultry,
If you are faced with many knives and forks (which is unusual now- adays), the first course ones are al- ways lak on the outside and the last course ones un the inskie-so you work inwards.
When in Doubt
ALWAYS
use your fingers when
you are in any doubt. Plezes
CASTORIA
if you don't want any more wine, don't finish the glass right up or it is the servant's Job to reйt] it.
If you teave your knife and fork apart on your plate you have not Anished, if you place them together, you have at least that is how it will be interpreted by those waiting on you.
Remember
EAT
This
PATING out at a restaurant calls
for marc
knowledge of be-
host should call for you at your home and escort you to the restaurant,
drop fork, knife or spoon, don't pick it up-let the waiter do it.
If you have salad with your
joint, leave it
On its
If you no by taxi, get in first, poultry or
to the far side of the taxi and separate plate, don't take it on to sit down. When you alight, let your your main dish. If soup is served partner get out first to help you out, in a bowl standing on a soup plate Then go straight into the resturant eat it out of that bowl, don't pour and wait in the foyer while the tax it out. is being paid off-don't walt outside and watch the counting out of the fare.
Stand back Here
ET the wafter or your host go In front of you in the restaurant until you reach your table -never walk in front youself. Let the mon suggest the dinner menu- you can Indiente the things you pre- for if you like.
Don't attempt to choose a wine if
•
Eat oysters with a fork. Eat the whole of whitebait, heads and tails its well. Eat melon with a dessert spoon and hors d'oeuvres with a small knife and fork.
If you have a liqueur, drink it slowly after you have drunk your coffee, Brandy may be drunks with the coffee.
When you have Anished dinner put your napkin by the side of your plate-don't fold it up. Then get ip and wall in front of your host out of the restaurant.
you know nothing about them; it Ask his Help
In-
Seasonable Soups
THE
THE colder weather is approach- ing, and thickish soups
Dro
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Potage Lorraine
SLICE up eight or nine carrots
with an of celery, and put them into n saucepan with four ounces of butter
onion and a head
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and Ave ounces of sucked and drained huricat beans. Let them stew gently with the lid on for about an hour, then moisten them with three pints of water (or stock if you wish) and boll gently for an hour 2305 and a half. Pass through 'n sjeve and serve.
Potage Solferino
UT up a medium-sized onion
CUT
and the white part of three or four feeks and Ict them stew without browning in an ounce of butter. Add three pints of sulted water (or vegetable stock), bring to the boil. and three quarters of a
pound of tomatoes halved and with their pips
removed, a clove of garlic and half a
· poind of sliced potatoes. Cover and shamer until the potatoes are donc,
last halt an hour.
Then rub through
#sleve, ditute with more water if necessary, and serve.
To be absolutely correct this soup should be garnished with Jozenges of French beans, tiny boiled potato bails and a little chervil; but it is delicious without them.
Supé Flamante
PARBOIL and drain
wellin
pound of brussels sprouts and cool them for a 1ttle while in three oices of butter.
Then add a pint white stock or water and two medium-sized pointoes cut in quar- ters
When the potatoes are cooked. puss It all through a sieve and add. enough boiling milk 10 soup n
make the thekish-thin and garnish with croutons of fried one. Season bread and a few tiny cooked sprouts.
Is Your Name
ELLA?
A band of elves
Symbol: dancing in a fairy
grove.
neither of you knows much, then bear these points in mind.
S name represents romantic expensive burgundles
mit inex you are dining at a restaurant
fancy, whimsical humour, atry with another Afuman, don't be thought, original tastes. Friday is pensive hocks are safe: very cheap afraid to
talion wines are not, for they are maitre d'hotel regarding the dishes. p.m. hold out the greatest promise, ask assistance from the the lucky day, the houry from 3 to 5 invariably raw," and will either go You can also ask him to advise you and the best day of the month is the straight to your lead or make you on a feel unpleasant the next morning.
choice of wine-slating, of course, what price you wish to pay. medium-priced burgundy or claret is a good choice.
When the bill arrives check it up. and give the walter a 10 per cent. Not for you to Do
tip calculated an the total cost of dianer and wine. If the restaurant is not licensed and wine is sent out LIERE are some restaurant don'ts. for, give a 10 per cent. tlp to the Don't address tho walter walter fetching the wine, and give it
A
HER
haviour than dining privately. Your 'yourself-let your host do it. If you when the wine nelually arrives.
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Quick-knit SCARVES
for when it's really cold
TTERE are some suggestions for easy-to-make knitted presents: -For a man you can make warm scarf of two thicknesses. This scarf is warm and more masculine-looking than the usual single type.
Knit this on a steel circular needle and, when it's cast off two stitches together, using a second needle. This makes the scurf double. You will need about eight ounces of three-ply wool and do it in plain knitting. The ends of the scurf should be anished with a large woolly pompon. Wind the wool round a correspondence card and you will And this makes a big enough pompon. You might have the pompon in contrasting colour-sny. red on dark blue.
For a woman friend, knit a bright red scarf with wide white horizontal stripes at eneh end. This takes only four ounces of red and one ounce of white wool. Knit every row plain and cast on about alxty stitches.
Start with four inches of red (or uny colour you like) wool, then knit 14 rows of whlte. Now 20 rows of red and 14 of white.
15th. Pink and cerise are the most favourable setting for this merry and tender name; they accord well with the personality of Elin.
Of stones, cornelian will bring you gond luck and preserve you from delays and mishaps in travel.
Your lucky number is 0 and multi- ples and combinations of that num- ber are also fortunate..
Repeat until you have done enough white stripes and knit red until you are ready to begin the white ctripes at the other end. Fasten little white tussels to each scart end. To make the tassels, wind the wool (about -a - yard) over a surface of about two inches-four fingers would do for this,
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