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needn't
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Black is the best colour for middle-age
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Surprise Dish
SAVOURY PRAWN CUSTARD
PUT a bouquet of parsley, thyme,
and sage into a pint of milk, and bring slowly to the boll,
Take the milk from the fire, re- move the herbs, and add two well- beaten eggs. Season with pepper and salt.
Return the pan to the fire and stir until the custard thickens, taking care that it does not boll. Put two dozen whole shelled prawns in a ple dish and sprinkle them with finely chopped parsley. Pour in the custard, and sprinkle top. more chopped parsley on Bake in a moderate oven. Allow to get cold.
An excellent cold luncheon dish,
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Party Fun For New Year's Eve
Continental Divide.--This Kame should be played in room that has plenty of floor space.
Take 20 or more large pleces of cardboard, adjusting the number to the size of the room, and paint on of lakes, bays, these the namer rivers, etc., found in the continents and North of Asia, Africa, Europe, and South America, The choice should be about equally divided be- tween those bodies of water which
which are famous and those
are not so well known. Scatter the card- board pieces over the floor without regard for geographical accuracy.
The four corners of the room are then allocated as follows: The first corner is assigned to the "Asiatic Mermaids"; the second to the "Atri- can Mermaids"; the third to the
Mermaids"; und "European fourth to the
American Mermath and South |
IFE begins at forty as the Frenchwoman, if she wants; around the house at home. It is plders of the one in front of him!
She must
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cach The players form a line,
placing his hands on the not deplore advancing made of black velvet, has heavy -for the French- middle age, but accept every year coral tassels, and zips down the To the strains of a lively march, the fine weaves in and out among the
ard. When cardboard. of
the woman. At that age as an added charm, realize how much front.
Mules are blacie satin lined with pleces more she has to give,
silver. Make-up to go with this music suddenly stops, the leader she knows she is more
and the striped sult, new shade called brings the line to an abrupt hall. poised, more experienced,
player then found standing on, "printemps."
Each or partially on, one of the cardboard more amusing, than she
picces, drops out of line and joins was at twenty.
the "mermalds" of that continent in which his or her body of water is located. The line closes ranks and the game continues until each player has been removed to one of the four corners. At the end of the gume, that continent which has acquired the greatest number of "mermaids" is the winner.
and welf
cut. The
tunte
seen more pictures than when forty-five. She has always taken
she was a young girl.
for her to be admired.
Englishmen of earlier
TTER clothes should be simple Black, if it suits She has been more places, met line becomes her more people, read more books, her colouring, is, always elegant.
The womun we have drown is great care of her figure, and in this often more She is an expert talker and the Englishwoman is expert listener. It is natural blessed than the Frenchwoman.
She wears bluck nearly always. It shows off her silver blue hair. genera- She varies her make-up to go with tions have never expected so much the colour touches on her dresses.
they
useful items Here are the most from their womenfolk; uli
First Is have admired is Youth. Travel is in her present wardrobe. making the Englishman demand a suit she wears for her lunch dates, It is mude in a soft black angora Tu-day
the Englishwoman over fabric with a black fox collar blocks- forty ean come off every bit as well ed to stand out at the shoulders.
She carries black fox mulf bag. Her scarf is black velvet, her arc suede, crusader court shoes Colour notes are the bright blue ostrich feather in her hut, the sliver bowelips on her jucket-silver coin bracelet and coin-clip earrings.
more.
Guide to making
excuses
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Her eyeshadow is grey---blue,-and- her lipstick and rouge are of the new i purplish shades called viola.
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one
ta
she THE next dress
wears for bridge afternoons. It is tight-basqued, in black velvet. The rolled belt and collar are silver
suit.
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TT is a good Iden when roast- ing joints, particularly if the ment is likely to be tough, to put then between two tins of the same size, putting rather a lot of dripping in the lower tin. Take the covering tin off for the last quarter of an hour to allow the meat to crisp.
As the joint cooked by this method is roasted and steamed at the same time. It comes out beautifully tender and little nourishment is lost in the coolting. It also takes slightly less time than when cooked in an uncovered tin,
It would be well to prepare a re- ference list showing the correct loca tion of all bodies of water used, and to appoint a referee to settle any questions arising on these points. In this way, for instance, a player who found himself standing in "Lake: Nyanza" when the music Victoria stopped, and had a mistaken idea where it is located, would soon be sent to Afrien, even though he might insist that he was entitled to Joln the "mermaids" of some other con-
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When Husbands Are Content With Second Best
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lame with big sliver clasps match-row tired I am of these men who Nowadays she is still a housewife, ing the silver and onyx bracelets she wears over her sleeves. The sandals keep saying. "Modern women but for two grown-up song instead are black antelope and the hat velvet, can't cook; not as their mothers used of a husband. And she has come to the conclusion that all her work to du!" Her lipstick and rouge shade for
They have been chanting that in the kitchen is nothing but a waste this outfit is called victoire.
energy. The black broadcloth dinner suit phrase ever since I can remember, of
Her husband, like to many other with the heavily embroidered longish and I cannot recall a single intelli- coat she wears for restaurant dinners gent woman giving a sane and con- home-fed men of his generation, was vincing! reply when her husband interested in food. Flavours and And
a theatre date. The embroidery Vinc
makes that complaint. Usually she methods of cooking meant something I is done in cyclamen and silver.
The hat is black velvet, the gloves contents herself with a curt "What to him. He would enter the dining- are cyclamen velvet, and the sandals nonsense, John," or turns, the criti- room with real enthusiasm, hail
clsm Into a personal reproof and new dish with interest, and give his and int bag silver. She wears
honest opinion on every experiment. eyclamen lipstick and rouge with this looks hurt.
praised. But the silly old phrase sull re- When praise was due, he The thick black tweed suit and mains. Women are not much good When a dish was disappointing, he Without being gourmands he and short cape are for ears, plones, and cooks as they used to be, and there suggested an improvement, ~||~|~|~|~|~||~|-·|-|-|-|÷÷÷÷÷ trains. Touch of colour here is is a good reason why!
No sensible woman is going to his wife discussed food and enjoyed und fuchsia i
it. spend the entire afternoon cooking a "I had my hat on to go when old Jones came over fuchsia in the black,
knitted gloves,
The scarf and some viola muke-ine dinner if her husband is just as Moderns are Not Interested in Food and said, 'Smith, I wonder if you'd mind just run-
happy with tinned soup, a hurriedly- up as worn with the fox-trimmed
But her sons, being of this modern) aerge grilled steak, and no vegetable at black Quifit. Copacious
all! Why should she? Why, in snack-bar and cafe generation, con- ning through these?'"
A good excuse handbag slump over right shoulder fact, should she make any particular sider that it is stupid and even cum- Amateurish, over-done excuse.
looks like field-glasses. It box
to puss unrecognised and unappre- cat. They have, of course, certain maker knows that over-authenticated accounts sound chromium buckles. Show is high effort in the kitchen if it is doomed mnou to be interested in what they
fronted, medium heeled.
ciated?
dislikes quite a long list of them- suspicious. The simple "kept late again," said in
Yet that is the state of affairs in but otherwise they treat food not as almost every family to-day, Bus-a pleasure but as a kind of packing.
bothersome martyred tones, is far more convincing.
bands and families are not interest a
necessity that is COUNTRY sult is made of ed in good food and good cooking. frankly a bure.
black tweed, rough, with a They appreciate second-best just as I doubt if they notice the food "I didn't mean to buy a hat, but Elxtc, If Albert were here, I'm sure thin double wi e stripe, his velvet much ns, the best of their father's they eat. They sit down he'd make you buy it."
a black sweater and huge silver coine to the conclusion that clabor possible, If they can, they read at ate and fine cooking is simply not the same time, or do anything at all Hat and bag are of blacks felt, and worth while." are thick black fabric, stitched.
The teagown on the left is useful for Sunday night, week-ends, and
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The appeal to vanity or victimising expung. Useful where the victim facings to Jupels. She wears it with day, and the talking housewife has wearily and eat it up as quickly its
prides himself on generosity.
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choker beads.
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"I thought you'd like to spend selves, like we used to?" is, where bootees of black, calf. Her gloves whe Women are Home-Bakera
the day with Maisie, so
Appeal to sentiment like "But can't we have an evening to our- I've you can't escape your victim, better
tactics, fixed to play golf,"
"And "I have something I want to poor. exumple
This type has to be subtly talk to you about" is useful some- handled, especially when intended Umes, too. Introduces a for women (who will rarely admit curiosity, and that is a big help.
excuse.
of the unselfsb
to having the better bargain). In this instance, situation needed work- ing up so that hardship of a day's 5 golf, without wife, became apparent.
mora
"I'd love to, but
bit
of
a
million different tales. Enough to
Bick
bore, but he's come all the way from Gloskow").
that will help them to ignore the food. The only reshark they ever make is a critical bne. Interest or The few women (young ones at appreciation is the last thing they any rate) who are really good cooks would dream of.
Those two sons will be husbands are those lucky enough to have hus- bands who take an interest in food, one day, and just exactly like so modern husbands. Their or those who are forced by the limits many
of their purse to produce meals by young wives, with the enthusinam of all sensible brides, will be ambitious old-fashioned efforts.
Most
women who bake
do it about cooking. They will take les-
This last, used with discretion, is not as bad as the others. Still, in my years of evasion I have found the either for economy or because they sons and collect recipes and try to hus This general excuse
only fool-proof, unanswerable excuse like it; very few because their home turn out beautiful meals. But very they w walcen up to the fact the soon they will wal that had no back kick was simply: baking wins applause from mention a fow that never get by.
"What a pity, I can't, but there it is, household and all the credit that it that their husbands are not interest- The tick-friend or aged-relative I can't possibly, not on Thursday."
ed, not even enough to deserves.
10 praise them for formula it have I'm too tired M
a special masterpiece, Almost all the other women have A direct challenge: "But why
One is more interested in an ever- 4. bad excuse, be- friend (even your great-aunt cause, by some unexplained pay- Myfanwys, don't mention it); the old can't you?" must simply be politely, been discouraged long ago. I knew.
one who is an excellent housewife ing at, the pictures than a good din- chological twist, no one can under- school pal who is passing through on mildly ignored.
"If only it wasn't «Thursday,” you and whare knowledge of good nor. and he would rather spend Sun- sland any one other than himself her way to Moscow ("only in town!
and fine baking, was the day forenoon with her in the couif feeling Ured. Victim feels as insult- a night"); minor illness (the bit-of-answer back, "I would have loved favours
fire the Yorkshire pudding. nd as if you had said, "I have to a-sore-throat, the cold-that's-coming it." Put all the blame on Thursday, envy of her friends twenty years try than help to baste the roast and
on); the business contact ("awful old see? work" or "I want to read."
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