THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938.
Radiant
Spinsters
Spinsters are more cri- ticised than war chiefs, and perhaps more discussed than the Far Eastern situation or the Income-tax.
Some say we are selfish be. Cause we prefer our freedom, and others, having successfully gained a husband themselves, pity us because there are not enough men to go round; and still others fear us as dangerous females, smartly dressed, with plenty of leisure, ready to give consolation to another harassed woman's husband at the slight- cat provocation,
But the radiant spinters of to-day load the world. Women who, If they have not got homes and husbands, have their jobs which often benefit Jarge numbers of people, and into which the richness of a personality, with time for leisure and cultural activity, can be poured.
Take a look at some of the leading spinsters of to-day.
Brown-haired Caroline Haslett started as a 10 week opprentice in an engineering office, and now earns a four-Bgure salary as Direc tor of the Electrical Association for Women, and is head of 7,000 women.
Popular Margery Fry, ex-Principal of Somerville College, Oxford, is a keen penal reformer. She treat favourite with the students at Oxford.
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The Hon. Dorothy Paget is worth several millions. Once she owned a fleet of racing cars, now she is a big racchorac owner.
And who is happler than Edith Evans, the actress? "I'm happiest doing work I love, surrounded by people I love," she said.
And then there are thousands of spinstera, not so eminent, but who, their sharC
⚫ nevertheless contribute
to modern life.
The Modern Maiden Aunts
There may no longer be malden aunts to look after little nieces and nephews, when mother is ill or busy. but these same aunts are now living in bachelor flats, os office workers, technical workers professional holding together the vast structure of modera Industry.
who women manage to get lots of kick out of life, with their theatre parties, week-end cottages, sociais, and often foreign
or
travels,
And, of course, we must not for- get the bachelor woman living at home with an invalid or aged parent, and perhaps helping to keep the home going.
She may not, in fact does not, lead the glamorous life of her freer sister, who can measure the value of but the worth of her job?
No, eminent splusters, ordinary everyday-spinsters-lend-the-world. Gone are the days when the un- married daughter was a liability, and gone are the days when she was just tolerated. She is not only an osset, she is top of the pole!
M. IL
Cooking Hints
SAVE the best leaves from celery
tops and dry them in the oven until they are quite brittle. When rubbed
into powder and stored in stoppered battles, they are excellent for flavouring purposes.
When reheating ગ inent or fruit pie, place the dish in a greaseproof
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UEEN ELIZADETH is a true housewife and takes a personat
interest in the supervision of her Palace and Castle homes. She has just bought an attractive and practical outrall. It is cut on the lines of an artist's smock, and slips on like a coat, being loose enough to wear comfortably over any dress or suit; a Latin, Quarter bots of black ribbon fastans it at the neck, and there is one button half-way down the front.
All the edges, including those of the two large pockets, are finished with grac binding: the overall is made of painted linen figured, and has a gay pastoral design "after William Morris" in red, green, blue, brown and white.
Home Page Cook tells Mrs. Wimblestraw
Some home truths
about
(a) herrings
(b)
pheasants
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OU were hoping you would run into me, were you, Mrs. Wimblestraw?
meal, and fry them in plenty of the best dripping.
DID you know that you can
cook them without any fat at all except their own? You wont this. for a thick Iron frying-pan Cover the bottom with a good layer of salt. Iny the herrings on this, and cook them slowly.
If you try to speed them up they will stick. Herrings cooked in this way are so delicious that many people, once they have tried it, can hardly be persuaded to revert to any other method.
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You are gazing at me with 11 dubious eye, Mrs. Wimblestraw. pains me, because I always tell, the truth about herrings.
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You have succeeded beyond your day, except Friday, Oh, I am so wildest dreams. You nearly knocked sorry, I thought you were asking
me to dine, me over.
You merely want Instructions as That is what comes of trying to re- to how to tell whether the bird is member a recipe, is it? Then refrain young or old. I am extra-ordinarily from attempting such feats of memory good at telling the age of anything. Quite an embarrassing accomplish- outside the security of the home.
ment sometimes, as you should be It was a recipe about herrings, was the first to admit, old dear. IL? And it began, "Ask your fish- From your description of its gay monger to fillet the herrings." Then plumage you have obviously been sent a cock pheasant. The tale of forget it.
lis age is in its spurs. If these are If I asked my fishmonger to fillet short and blunt the bird at its herrings for The, he would probably tenderest and in its first season.
never speak to me again. Since I admire his talents as a conversa- tlonist, I have always refrained from making him such a silly question.
COLUMN
Sail
a
fleet
on
the playroom floor
EXPECT a great many of you have made ordinary model ships, but you can have a good deal more fun by doing the thing in a large way with really small models.
This is not so absurd as it sounds, because keeping the scale
bag for then the crust will not be or size of your models means that you can plan a whole harbour
hard when the pie is hot.
Insfend of putting in the usual on a table-top. orange or banana when making a
Jelly, try #1 Rrated
dessert If you have a playroom you can lay out a town and dockyard apple just
de- it sets, as it licious served with or without cream.
in one corner, and let your ships steam slowly across the great sea
When making pastry that is to be of floor to another port in the opposite corner.
cold, use milk instead of
served
water, for the pastry will then keep made very easily of cardboard and wood,
short and crisp much longer.
To prevent pastry from rising and spoiling the appearance of custard tarts, spreatl "butter on the pastry before putting in the custard mix-
ture.
Sausages will not burst if filed in butter or lard. Allow the fat to be- come fairly hot, put in the sausages and turn them over lengthwise with a broad knife.
Fruit pies will not be spoilt by juice running out if the sugar is put In the ple-dish before the fruit in
stead of on top,
A cake, which sticks to the tin can usually be loosened by placing the sides and bottom in a bowl of boil- Ing water,
Surprise Dish
Cotelettes de Mouton Chevreull
RY this way of treating mutton chops. Trim four chops and beat them well. Brush them overt with all on both sides, and soak them in the following marinade:T bring half a tumbler of vinegart to the boil and add to it two, or three chopped shallots, sliced car rota, two crushed cloves of garlic, +sir black peppercorns, and d bunch of mixed herbs, including a bayleaf.
Candied peel, glace cherries, and preserved ginger will chop more casily It warmed slightly
before hand Strattarly, parsley will chop I quite eastly it first washed in cold water, placed in a small basin, and covered with bolling water for ten
minutes.
Before frying onions, boll then for ten minutes and this will pre- vent them from burning and turning black.
When cooking fish, fill the pan with cold water containing a tablespoon- ful of vinegar, for this will prevent
the usual odour.
'of golden Use a tablespoonful syrup instead of white sugar when stowing apples, Ogs, or prunes, and the juice will be thicker and sweeter. When cooking vegetables, add a small knob of butter or dripping to the boiling water on this helps them to cook quickly and brings out their full davour, besides preventing the water balling-over.
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Simmer for ten minutes, allow to cool, and sprinkle the mixture over the chops. They will keep three or four days in this, and must be kept at least two,
tot
The models can be
Suppose you start making the pic- Queen Mary. Try to find a ture of her-It will be very helpful. She is going to be your largest ship, but you only need a piece of wood about half an inch thick cut by
to an oblong, size four inches three-quarters of an inch,
SHAPE
CHAPE the bows and the stern with a penknife, and make
the decks of layers of cardboard cul to a suitable size and glued on to the wood hull. Cut a small plece
You can make
for the bridge, and make some tiny cardboard lifeboats. the funnels of very thin wooden eur- tain rod, cut into lengths and stuck
If the spurs are still short, but pointed, it is a second-scuson bird.
If they are not only pointed but long, I fear that the person, who sent the pheasant to you is no true YOU_can.uy_to_flllet_your_own_friend._Invite him for her) to come
herrings if you like, but 1 and dine off it. don't advise It. You know how one How long should a pheasant be
You
is apt
eat a liet of fish without hung?
In this cold weather al
any fear of the consequences. One least a week.
has a simple faith in all the benes
being gone.
VOU have heard of Cumber-
You
land rum butter, and' are Now, a herring has a lot of most anxious to try it? You would awkward little bones, and you would be. probably leave some of them in it,
Warm lb. each of butter and my fumbling old Wimblestraw. You Demerara sugar in a basin, cream see the point, don't you? I should them, and add three tablespoonfuls hate you to feel it.
of rum and a little grated nutmeg. Beat the mixture well together,
If you are anxious for a change and put into shallow glass jars. from the plainly fried and grilled, Spread it like jam on biscuits. But sprinkle the herrings with pepper not too thickly, please, Mrs. Wimble- and salt, coat them well with oat- straw,
on to the top deck, the masts can be someone to
To cook the chops put them in matches or long pins. bolling stock (enough Just cover them) to which you add the marinade. They can be done
in a casserole or
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water-colour varnish.
Chevreuit means roebuck, andt I hope your Queen Mary looks the dish is named after it because pretty good, because, if so, you will the chops get rich pame taste,+ want to go on and make lots more not unlike venison, after poaking ships. Make them all the samo in the marinade.
way, but, of course, make different type of craft
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