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In many ways the years from sixteen to twenty-one are the most difficult; then comes the clash between the generations. This "Human Story" tella of one aspect of the problem (which is as much a problem for parents as it is for their children).
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TOT so much about this love business, please. Nearly every woman's page article I see is about how a girl may make herself attractive to men. Good heavens, isn't there anything for women to think about besides men? I am one of the girls who don't want to get married for a while, at least. This puts me in a very awkward position at home, and I want advice.
I don't suppose I'm the only girl in this position, so perhaps my writing to you will be helpful to kindred spirits, it, only you'll publish this.
Me-my work-my temper
THERE are three character
and I
in our little drama-Dad, Mother,
It will be easier to start with me, I am twenty-two, sald tu
be good-looking in a tomboyishway. I still live with my parents.
I have a decent Job which, unluckily, doesn't bring in enough to let me rent a room of my own. I'm not bad at sports, enn bent a good many young men at tennis, Chief interest outside my job, girls' clubs. If I had only thought of it in time and had been clever enough to qualify, I should have been a schoolmistress.
I've got a filthy temper when I'm roused which takes the form of sulkiness lasting for days I don't want to pretend I'm a perfect charac- ter, I certainly am nol. I'm a bad mixer. Can't stand a good many girls I meet, as all they can talk
about is clothes, dances, and 'boys.
Dad and Mother
EXT
there's Dad. He's
Just about
the sweetest
person in the world, He has a small
At the end of the meal mother says "I'm sure you young people want to be left alone."
business and works hard. I've never Family schemer
to
known him say a harsh word mother or me, not even when things
b
tions, and we used to gas about
BUT
UT the way Mother makes economics together for hours.
There was no love's young dream
were at their worst during the slump is the way she is always, trying to about que friendship. It was purely
it really diffleult for me and he nearly had to sell out at n
get me off "I want to see you safe intellectual. Did likes a good talk fearful loss.
and provided for," she says.
He's still young looking-people would take him for my elder brother.
Mother
chief
blush from the start. She
on these lines, and I asked Mother She's always scheming to get me if I could bring him into supper one Into the company of men.
evening. Naturally, she wis de- lighted. And the tense atmosphere Sometimes I quite dread coming in the house was lifted all the previ- Is the third and
asks some young ous day. character in the tragedy. She met horne. Mother
man in to supper. "We're having Dad when she was working in one
But when he came Mother made a few people in," she says, When of the big houses. It was love at fest sight and all that. And mother I get home I find an awkivard youth me has been in love with him ever since waiting there, and the table lofd for treated my friend on a sort of son- four-Mollier, Dad, the young man, in-law already. She continually re- and myself.
ferred to "you two young things," and made many sly winks at him The other guests, if they were coupled with remarks about what a ever-invited, were not able to turn ne looking girl I was though “she
P. At the end of the meal, which said it herself. is full of silences, Mother says why
then.
Though she's younger than he is in years, she's older in ways and really does appearance. Mother look like my mother. Now mother
und I don't hit it off.
Clashing opinions
MOTHER keeps the
don't we two young people go to the Spoiled friendship
pictures or something.
house Reproaches
wonderfully clean, and she's really a good cook. But she won't let me help her.
"You get a man of your own to look after," she says. She won't even let me make Dad his tea.
Once I tried to have it out with her. "Mother," I said, "You can't always go on liike this, doing every-
At the
end of supper the made the inevitable suggestion that we two should go to THEN I get angry. Why the pictures together. I did propose should I go to the pletures going. becouse I couldn't stand
with some one whom I remember as Mother's innuendoes any more. But a grubby lile boy at school, and it was the most miserable evening I with whom I have nothing in com- have spent in my life. I didn't know mon now? I say that I'm too tired, what to say, I was so angry and as I had a trying day at the office.
ashamed. After that our friendship died. I am sure that he thought I Mother's voice is full of resigned
well, dear, but was trying to get married to him. thing in the house. Suppose you reproach. "Very
da would like to
Needless to say Mother gets angry are ill.
HINTS ON COOKING
The Star of The Sea
THE herring is the star of Prepare overnight
the sea. It ought to SAVO
CAVOURY
for 'herrings twinkle when you buy it.
breakfast are prepared overnight. The scales should be INGREDIENTS: One herring per silvery-bright and unbroken, and pepper, one egg to every four person, cold cooked potatoes, salt and there should be a bright herrings, a tablespoonful of tomato look in its eye.
chutney or sauce, a little parsley, a lump of Spry.
Method: Clean, For size, it should be plump, bone and fillet the herrings, dry and belicad, scale, but not too large. For price, it leave overnight. In the morning dip should be cheap, because the in flour and fry a crisp brown in. herring has the rare, enchant Spry. Meanwhile, fry the potatoes ing quality of being in its prime in another pan.
Beat up the eggs with a dash of when at its cheapest.
pepper and salt, and when the her This is because it is a most self- rings have been lifted out to drain conscious fish, and only attends large on paper, fry the egg as an omelet. parties when looking its very best. Arrange the potatoes on a dish, place At this season of the year, the the herringa around, put the egg on herring-star is shining brightly. top. Garnish with parsley.
it
Like the stars of another sphere,
owes much to its versatility. There is hardly anything it cannot do.
It will bake, fry, grill,
or boll' without losing either Its remarkable nourishing powers or its delicate flavour.
How to clean them
NEVER
let the fish-
Superb at any time
OUSED herring makes a superb cold breakfast,
lunch, or supper,
If four have been prepared, lay them in a fireproof dish and spread over them a medium-sized onion which has been cut in rings.
Add twelve black
peppercorns, a monger clean my her- bayleaf, and a sprinkling of salt.
Put in just sufficient vinegar and. likes the heads. After all tic. pre- water in equal quantities to cover paration for Cooking is very simple. the herrings, put the ild on the dish, You just cut off the heads and and cook in a slow oven for three- clean the fish and scrape off its quarters of an hour. Serve them
as well as the flavour, is de- cooked.
must learn to help a bit." I thought you "shan't get ill," she said, "unless something to take your mind off that if I ever want to ask a girl friend, rings, because the Home Page Cat you worry me into my grave. You everlasting offee." I don't want to to the house. chose offee work, instead of learn- have a forally row in front of a vist-
So house when tor, so I say nothing. In fact, I get, ing how to look after
able, and he can do nothing about Don't scrape violently. The cold in the dish in which they were
what am I to do? Mother you were younger-well, you can't sulks, and in a little while the young grows dally more resentful. Her expect me to spare time over you man takes his leave in an awkward attitude to me makes Dud isey- when I've got Ďad and you to cook monner, meals for and clean up after every
it, anyhow, can't afford to live day,"
And I suppose she's right, When I was younger I set my heart on office work and always hated any sort of housework..
But really I know that she wants Dod to be dependent on her only.
One of the most delicious ways of Bloater fritters
One comfort is that a single in- unywhere but at home, and I would vitation of this sort is generally miss Dad dreadfully and he would cooking herrings is, as usual with enough to put him off and he doesn't miss me, even if I could afford it. come again,
Any advice would be welcome. The worst thing that happened Obviously I can't tell you my name Wus when I brought a man bacit so I sign myself myself. As a matter of fact he was intensely interested in soclal ques-
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THEN there is that salted food, one of the simplest.
herring so widely beloved You put a layer of salt in the under its name of bloater. Try bottom of a frying pan, lay the her bloater fritters. rings on it and cook them over IL INGREDIENTS:. 1 bloater for slow flumo.
flour each person, 1 egg, a little The fish provide their own fat, and milk for batter, a few table- and there is no danger of them
of grated cheese. Spry spoonfuls sticking to the pan if the slowness frying.
is not forgotten.
Wrap in greaseproof
FOR baking,
Method: Split open the bloaters and remove the lesh in long allets. Beat together the egg, flour and milk
you split to form a frying batter; stir in the open the prepared fish, grated cheese. Divide the fillets into spread a little butter on the inside, convenient pieces.
and season with pepper and salt be- Dip the fish in the batter, fry in tore closing it up again.
deep
boiling Spry until golden Wrap each fish in greaseproof brown. Do not put too many pieces paper, lay them in a moderate oven in the pan at once or you will re- for fifteen-twenty minutes,
duce the temperature too much. Mustard sauce, or even a few Drain well and serve very hot. drops of anchovy essence, Worces- Nothing can dim the herring- tershire sauce or lemon juice are star. An eclipse of the sun la o re- excellent accompaniments to this curring ovent. A total cellpse of
the herring would be unthinkable.
dishi.
HONG KONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN.
THE SOCIETY ASKS FOR
$25,000
in 1937 to continue its work for sick and
destitute children.
Hon. Treasurers:
M. A. MelELLAI, CÁ
c/o Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co,
P.&O. Buliding.
Mr. KWOK CHAN,
c/o Banque de L'Indo Chine,
Hongkong,
November 10, 1930.
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