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SWING.. & Slow Crush
By
MARY BENEDETTA
URN back the rugs and turn on the gramo-
phone. There'll be
plenty of room to dance the new season's steps because they conform happily to lack of space.
You can practise them at
home without getting bruised on the furniture, and they make any sort of "evening in.”
Also they do not need special gramophone records. Your fav. ourite slow fox-trot tunes will provide the right music.
The two most accommodating new dances are called respectively the Swing and the Blow Crush. There is nothing difeult about Either them.
Romance Rhythm
The slow fox-trot has very ro- mantic music, but it is not the easlest of dances, and it does need plenty of room. Many people are shy of it, and either muddle through with an unbecoming im- provisation, or else att it out.
But now we have the Swing, done to the same music and with steps that do not need an álmost empty floor.
The "hold "for modern ballroom dancing seldom changes. But in
the Swing you can either use the recognised dancing hold, or else the man can hold his partner a little away from him-rather like the way Victorians danced the old- fashioned polka.
This is useful if you want to see your partner's face when you are talking him, instead of talking over his shoulder, which is what you should do if you are keeping - your proper dancing position in the ordinary hold.
Don't Bounes
All the long stops have a sight wing novement in them, but -yun-have-to-ba-enreful-nus-lo-Ko bouncing along ke a marionette. The short steps are snatched just
MIDGE: Dancing Lessons
"I can't make my
feet remember."*
OLD, dark evenings
zvan inore entertaining at home. Friends who drop in for a game of cards or a little music and talk will appreciate these unusual savoury suppers.
They're easy to prepare, so that you won't be long away from your guests. and they have just that dUference in Havour which will make them liked.
Prune & Tomato
Here's an unusual one to begin with. Cask five asked prunes with two or three tomatoes in a 1litie cooking fet until soft, then remove the prune atones,
Stir in a small grated onion, a chapped apple, and the juice of half a lômion, and season,
Spread un buttered toast, cover with grated cheese, and place under the grill to brown,
Banana & Sansage
This tastes curprisingly good, ab though the combination is unusuni.
Atix is cupful of cooked sausage mest with two mashed bananas, season with n pinch of powdered sage, salt and pepper.
Enuté in a frying pan in 2 little butter, then serve on toast.
Herring a la Francaise
Filleted "herring (your fishmonger wil het the fish for you if you ark
I Have Found-
THAT glass dishies will not crack when filled with hot stowed fruit, I dat placed on a wet clots,
Τα whiten discoloured garments soak them overnight In a solution made by adding 1 teaspoonful of cream of tartar to a quart of water,
Wine stains on lizen will usually yield if the stained part is put into bolling milk. When washed the faint mark left will disappear.J, J.
.
Save Space
In the correct hold the man's hand supports hil pariner's back. The other hand is held just above shoulder height.
off the beat, and are like rute Belie frills to the long ones.
For the first step the man Lakes a long step forward left foot), then a long step forward with the right foot.
Now It's frill. Draw the left foot up to the right foot and do two tiny quick side-steps-se quick they are hardly steps at all-left foot, right foot.
The girl does exactly the same thing with opposite feet.
All the steps in the Swing are on the same principle, and if you can do the first ones the others are. easily learned. It makes a perfect dance for dreamy conversation.
That is where they can switch over to the Slow Crush until there is
more room.
The first step in the Slow Crush that comes most easily to hand i where the man leads-off-with-a- quarter right and quarter left turn exactly as they are done in the quick step, only followed by two slow steps.
Correct Tempo
The Slow Crush is done to the usual time of a slow foxtrot. But for the Swing you have to put your gramophone on to a sightly quicker tempo-still using slow foxtrot music.
Even the easiest dances do not look attractive unless the dancers move properly and have neat foot- work. There is an ever-present
Every dancer knows those irri- tating moments when the smooth progress of a slow foxtrot is inter- rupted by a congestion on the floor. ་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་་ ་་་་་་་་་་
ENTERTAINING
SUPPERS . . for friendly
"At Homes
Sausage mufa make an appetizing change. him with the rocs, makes a flavour same supper dist..
Wash the roes, and season the-fil'els with salt, pepper, a dash of nutmeg Sprinklo and a little lemon juice. with finely minced parsley.
Roll up the lets, putting the roes Inside, Wrap each in buttered paper. set in a greased baking dish and bako In a moderate oven till the paper puffs out. Remove paper and serve.
Tomato & Mushroom
Another tasty "on toast" recipe. Akit and slice 2tb. tomatoes, pael four niushrooina. Cook the mushrooms for seven minutes in 3or, margarine. Addl the tomatoes and a tablespoonful of cream from the top of the milk. Bim. mer until cooked.
Pour on to buttered toast or fried bread; sprinkle with parsley,
Sausage Muffs
An appetising way of serving anus- nges and mashed potatoes.
Ingredients: 11b. pork sausages, or sausago meat. Flour, egg and bread- crumbs for frying 6 ranliers of bacon. Mashed potatoes, Apple sauce. Cookeen
11
for frying. Divide the Anurage mcat Into twelve equal pertions and form into cork shapes. Dust each with flour, brush over with benten egg and roll in breadcrumbs,
Lower into deep Cookeen and fry until a golden brown. Drain on greaseproof paper and keep hot.
Cut each raster inte two, roll up and fry their until crisp in
own fnt.
Have ready hot mashed potatoes and pile up in the centre of a dish, arrang. ing the sausages and bacon around, with a sprig of paralcy on the top. Serve with apple sauce.
Apple Sauce
To make the apple sauce, peel, core
Dance
Steps
reminder about taking your atops from the hips and making the fcct brush past each other.
You can tell a
a good dancer from
the way she wears her shoes-oni the insides. And your body should earry your legs, not your legs take your body along.
The art of following your partner without either anticipating his steps too soon or treating him like an omnibus follows if you keep these points, in mind.
Graceful Hands
Hands can look very undeauli- ful if they are spread like a star- fish on a man's shoulder. Also one sees all kinds of astonishing variations of the hand-clasp. In the correct one, the man holds the hack of the girl's hand in the palm of his own.
Take every opportunity you can of dancing in a room where you can see yourself in a long mirror. A mirror will disclose things you have never known of-like one weak ankle that wobbles. Or the fact that, without knowing it, you are leaning back too much or lenn- ing forward.
Follow Through
There is a phrase in dancing circles called" follow through." It means that you must have the feeling of constant flowing move-
ment.
There is no such thing being able to hesitate between steps with an attitude of "Now I've done that--Wasn't it clever! and what shall I do next."
People often contract faults when they try to do roomy steps in a crowd. The steps get cut off in the middle, and it is easy to get discouraged and to dance anyhow.
Now there is far less excuse for discouragement, There are plenty of steps you can practise in a small space at home, and emerge highly profielent to carry them out in comfort and with grace on an over- crowded dance Goor,
Surprise Dish
PAIN DE CHOUFLEUR' Blower and work through a POIL a medium-sized caull-
sleve. Add to tale purce twa tablespoonfuls thick white sauce, 1 oz. melted butter, two whole lightly-beaten eggs and kalt and pepper.
Aix well with wooden spoon, pour into buttered soufle dish, stand dish in tin of warm water and bake in a hot oven for half an hour. This makes a perfect first course for lunch or a light supper dish,
Heater Valentine.
A Tasty
OMELETTE
OU need eggs, potatoes. cooked ham and some spring onion (but the ordinary kind will do). Peel
and slice the potato thinly- one medium-sized potato or two small anes to two eggs. Chop up a small quantity of ham. Fry the potato slices in butter in an omelette pan till brown, but not hard. Add the ham and heat through.
Now pour in the bealen eggs sen- soned with salt. Add a pinch of the cayenne to the mixture in "wet," fold over the omelette and serve with a garnish of chopped raw onton.
How to Eat Nuts
NU
TUTS are popular delicacies but they should be eaten regularly because they are wholesome and nutritious foods,
With the exception of chesinuts they are richer in proteins and oils than in starch.
The wrong times to eat them are between meals and at the end of nourishing meals when the diges tive organs have done their share of work. It is better to let them form the main part of the meal.
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Added to fowl stuffing, nuts trans-. form a bread mixture into a treat; combined with honey or chopped dry fruits, such as dates, raising and fs, they make perfect sandwich Allings.
They can be used too for certain parts of sweets and In cakes and fancy home-made breads.
Nuts should be well chewed both on account of their hard consistency and their concentration. They lose | nothing in value by being minced or milled. A nut-mili is a useful ad- dition to the home where nuts are regularly eaten.
JUNIOR COLUMN
W. Th
It's quite easy
to learn to skate
ȚEARLY all Dutch children are expert skaters when they
Ne about six years old. The miles of canals that freeze
over in the winter give them plenty of scope for outdoor practice. In Hongkong we have no chance for ice skating, but in the last year or two drozens of boys and girls have learned to skate on rollers.
Once you can master the art of keeping your balance. it isn't hard To dicate to cut simple Agures. correctly, though. your body must be upright and not bent at the hips. Your movements must be graceful; there should be no sign of stiffness. When it is necessary to bend you inust do so only for a moment, keep- ing your head up all the time.
Jn the English style of skating the arms hang loosely at the sides. This is more difficult than the stylc followed in other countries, where they use their arms to help them along. But It looks nice.
FRIEND of mine has just A told me a story which he says is quite true. But I'm not at all sure of that,
A professor went with his pupils coach to study some plants. They hind
very
interesting time
in
and gathered one or two useful specimens, Then they all got into the conch again-the professor in front and started back through the country lanes to their school.
Against Now the professor had a very
infectious diseases
in Mouth & Throat
take:
long beard, and when the driver opened the windscreen a little the draught caused the professor's
whiskers to blow about. Suddenly his beard blew right up in his face.
"My goodness!" he cried. "Hold tight! We've run into a haystack!"
FORMAMINI STARTS MONDAY
and cut up lib. apples and place in a CANTON AGENTS
saucepara with 30% sugar, 107. margarine and 2 tablespoonfuls water. Bimmer very gently until tender. Before serving pass through a slove
or mash with a fork..
Mushroom Patties
These are appetising served hot.
Staw some pécled munirooma in ttle milk and water until tender. Hirn chop them up with a hard-boiled
for
The
Hongkong Geiegraphi
egg and a little parsley, Moisten with WM. FARMER & Co.
thick gravy and season with salt and pepper.
Line some email patty in with short crust, and, when the mushroom mixture in cold, put a little into enchi tla. Garnish with a ring of hard- bolled egg, sprinkle with chopped parsley, then-bake in a hot oven for ten minutes.--Mrs, 2.
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