THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1938.
MEALS FOR LIVE-ALONES 2
Try these menus
Con
THIRSTY
THE gentleman "on the wagon" is a very dif-
forent animal from the total abstainer.
Yet he, too, has something of a
sweet tooth as a rule (to his surprise
MEN
and not altogether to his approval), on a bed of Ice in shallow soup is just to have a dinner that you
Most of his tastes, however, are plates.
left over from gayer days. He will
BEEF STEW
will enjoy yourself and let him cat it or not as he sees fit.
munch sweets absent-mindedly, but Three pounds of beef and two of Don't offer him wine; he's almost la real interest is still in good incats lamb are bolled until tender, the sure to prefer stronger drinks, but and such things as the sharper grease skimmed from the pot, and probably he'll drink anything within
salt and pepper added.
cheeses.
reach.
If he is a recent convert, he is pro- Ten small onions and ten small bably slightly on edge, especially be enrrots are bolled separately. Next, Give this man tomato juice and fore dinner, and inclined to be the juice from the carrots and cheese biscuits when he first arrives. critical.
onions is poured into the stew, and, Ile will be sure to come fortifled any- His entertainment, therefore,
e-while the stew is not, but not boiling, way, and this will bring him at least quires as much thought as that of a four tablespoonfuls of four, mixed part way back to scratch. gourmet,
If you feel that you must, you can It's a good idea to give him dishes with a little water are stirred in.
The carrots and onions are added
cooked with wine, since he will en- just long enough before serving for say, "Wouldn't you like a whisky and joy them particularly and will un- them to heat thoroughly, and a little soda?" just before dinner is served. doubtedly congratulate himself on Madeira may be added for flavour. Menu:
his sterling will power in being able (This Is more than enough for two, without demanding a hut beef stew is a dish that is delle- lous the next day, and even the next
to eat them drink.
But don't have any drinks around. but one.) He is, actually, struggling more than he admits.
Above all, don't have a cocktail yourself before dinner. Unlike the teetotaler, he won't think you're de- praved; he'll think you're tactless, and he'll be right.
If he Drinks
Instead, have tomato juice and for cocktail biscuits before dinner is served. Here is the menut
Oysters
Too Much
to
Onion Soup Cheese Croutons Tongue with Cumberland Sauce Asparagus
Hot Apple Tarts Port Salut Cheese Coffee
"If he is an active fusser tell him you just love vegetables and thought it would be fun to have a feast of them;"
For the
Young Beau
thoroughly
You won't need recipes for this not very original, but. masculine, meal. But take a little trouble in buying the cheese.
If Digestion's
On his Mind THERE are
SO
$1 TIFFINS
at-
Jimmy's
Also A China Bldg., Hongkong.
many men
Dottles of two sizes at
■ Pharmacies and Stores
around with their diges- tion on their mind that you might ns well make up a good menu for them. You'll have plenty of chance to keep in practice in preparing it.
Whether you do it openly, or act Sa matter of fact, this as if it were the type of meal you must depend on A young man may not even always have, be a beaut. He may be a nephew or whether he's reticent about his all- the younger brother of your current ments or loves to tell about them.
Either way, if you can feed him
man
You'd better use tinned soup,, If your time or space is limited, since there are excellent varieties to be And sprinkle a Hittle grated is scarcely worth while to hod. IT.
spend much time on meals cheese on the croutons before pul the Man Who Drinks Too Much ting them in the oven. (or to spend much time on him any-
The tougue should be balled, of young way), but you'll probably have
If you know him well, you also his diet and make it seem like a entertain him occasionally, av the course (get a small one, since you're
a Live-Aloner, and a tongue lasts know what to do about drinks. If party, he'll think you're the only rest of us do.
friend of your much longer than you think it will), you don't, you will have to use your woman who understands him. Perhaps he is u brother's. Perlinps you are indebted and the Cumberland sauce is made own judgment whether to overlook to him for some special kindness, merely by melting currant jelly, add (Heavy drinkers, disconcertingly, are ing meat stock or a little concentrat
" nicat often kind of heart.)
sauce, and some finely grat- Perhaps, even, you are going to ed erango peel. The beef stew and coffee are all reform him.
If this menu is a bit difficult, just for it. that you need to cook in this good Our advice-after urging you not serve him any menu that is masculine menu. Serve the oysters to look on him as a prospective beau venient.
Beef Stew with Vegetables Rolis PresETVER
Alligator Pear Salad
Ripe Camembert, Toasted Water
Crackers Coffee
03-
Do We Leave Too Much
To
Amah?
Those First Impressionable Years Need Watching
T-would-be-a dull subject in-seven years of their lives, which, I him harm never for a moment en-
deed about which there were the case of parents living in the tro- tered her head.
pics, who have to send them home to
not two opinions. The bringing school by the time they are seven, is More Tributes
up of children is such a interest the only period during which they
ren's
ing one to those of us who have bave a chance to mould their char- CHEILA Kaye-Smith in "The Child- any and even, or so it seems to aelers at all.
Summer" arid Eleanor me, to those who haven't, that
Acland in her unforgettable "Good-
Is it not the Jesults who soy:
monuments to the old-fashioned Nan-
no two of us are in entire agree. "Give us the children for the Brai bye for the Present" have both left ment.
Possibly this is because
seven years and anybody can have nie. In the latter book the nurse was ilem after that"? By seven in
are laid undoubtedly what would have been わか two short. the foundationa
termed in those days
ays "
treasure, children are exactly alike and a Whether they are well and truly laid, yet she was so ignorant and so en- theory that is vindicated when op only the adult that emerges from tirely devoid of imagination, that plied to one child is an utter failure them will prove.
one wonders how parents, themselves when applied to another."
It is obvious then that, if we hold so enlightened, could have tolerated Porents also difer enormously, the destinies of our children in our her presence in their household. There is the strict disciplinarian who hands, it is of the utmost Import- must have obedience at any cost and ance to whom we transfer this ficavy a hen laying an egg, Nannie?" asked the one who wants her child's per- responsibility it we cannot carry it sonality to develop-at any cost! entirely ourselves.
Again, there is the parent who says Formidable Nannie. all she wants for her children is a happy childhood, which probably GENERATION ngo, it was given
left in
"Will you take me one day to see the little girl thoughfully contemplat- ing her breakfast egg, "Anymore nonsense like that. Misa Mary, and you'll be slapped and put in the cor- tier.Be quiet and eat your break- fast like a good girl." .
means that all she wants is to be to a highly respected Nannie, in
can voluminous white apron and a bon- Pre-School Days peace and the children on with the being happy. Her net with starched streamers, who more honest neighbour, plump and ruled the nursery and very often the benign, smilingly admits that it is so entire household, including the par- HERE, in the East with our little much less effort to let children have ents, one of whom she had probably are almost inevitably more inter- ones süll safely at our side, wo their own way-and have their own nursed and spanked thirty years ested in the next stage, the school way they do,
previously.
there Es the
SCCS
stage,
Taking It Seriously
It never occurred to any body that,
We scan prospectuses, weigh their whatever she might have been to the LASTLY
mother, previous generation, she was not ne merits and choose so carefully the the school to which we hope to send the generally not long past child-cessarily the ideal guardian for
had children presently, but do we always hood herself, who takes this parent next one. In her time she busincas terribly seriously.
brought up so many children, which give sufficient thought to the pre- school days-those first impression- exactly where her own mother, aunt, fact alone gave her authority-like able years when habils and charac
the grand-mother and great-aunt' have the labourer's wife who said to gone wrong and, text-book in hand, young Health Visitor sent by a bene- ters are being formed?
At Home parents are no longer is determined to do better by HER volent Ministry of Health to invite
her attendance at the Cilnle: "And satisfied with old methods. The old do you think you know more about fashioned Nannie has given place to On the whole, though, it must be children than I do, when you've never a young, trained, nurse, competent Admitted that parents these days, had none yourself and I've had ten in matters of health and hygiene, in probably as a result of education and end burled eight."
having also knowledge of child psychology.
children..
of press publicity on the subject, Not Enough
take the rearing of their children
very seriously, from the earliest days
when to be breastfed or not to, bes Victorian Nannie would have
adolescenco and beyond.
Leaving It To Amah?
breastfed, to go to bed with a light given her life, willingly, for her QUCH ́ nurses are luxuries, which or to get accustomed to utter dark- charges and her loyalty to the family few of us, here in the East, can ness are momentous questions, up 10 loved her, we know now, or, if we the lives of our children as we ought, was unimpeachable,, but, much na we afford. Do we, however, supervise don't, we ought to, that these land- And so it should be, for, as ye sow, able characteristics are not in them or do we leave most of it to amabr so shall yo reap and parents, with a selves sumclent.
Who will suffer when the pamper-i few outstanding exceptions, get the
ed children, accustomed to, servants children they desreve, just na chil- I. L. Stevenson adored his old to fetch and carry for them, go home dren become what their parents, nurse to whom in lis manhood lie and find that they lonter have knowingly or unknowingly have de- dedicated his famous "Child's Garden merely to order to be obeyed, that creed they shall be.
Responsibility
of Verses," but he admits that her they are not reigning potentates any vivid teaching of Hell and everlasting more, but insignificant members of damnation caused him to lle awake a wider family in which there is, no night after night, fearing to trust himself to sleep in caso he should, and alas no love, for the spoilt Will the children rise up then, and That the teaching she gave this call us blessed? children's characters in the first most beloved pußli could possibly do.
No child excapes the effects of its
environment
pably true that we make, or mar, our
the matter altogether or mention the
If he is an active fusser tell him fact that you are having sherry, and you just love vegetables, and thought It would be fun to have a feast of is that what he would like?
Beer is the answer, more often them. This is, Incidentally, an easy than not, so you'd better be prepared plan to manage if you are getting
ite meal yourself. Once that is settled, give him
fire with most men.
steak. Steak is, incidentally, sure. Have alternative heaps of string
beans. asparagus, peas, stewed
It is preferred by practically all celery, broiled tomatoce, and small young men and unsophisticated men spinach moulds arranged on a round of any age, and by at least half of Platter, and serve crisp-bread bis- the rest of the sex. Substitute it for cults with the vegetables. the meat in most of these menus and you can't go very wrong.
For a dieting guest who tries to conceal his dieting (a very raju bird), you can serve the same plat- Steak (ask him how he likes it the centre, which will make it pus- ter with French 'chops arranged in
Vegetable Soup
cooked)
Baked Stuffed Potatoes (or French take it but fail to eat it, without sible for him to skip the chop, or Fried Potatoes, if you can manage under-nourishment.
Celery
Radishes
thems
Реда Fresh Fruit Pie and Cheshire Cheese
With a simple but good soup first and fresh fruit or compote after- words, you are almost certain to be a success with this guest,
NEW PARLOPHONE RECORDS.
F077. It's The Natural Thing To Do. F.T.
Say "Si, SI". Rumba.
F074.
Tavem In The Town.
Comin' Thro' The Rye.
F976.
Here Comes The Sandman. F.T. Remember Me? F.T.
HARRY ROY & HIS ORCHESTRA. F971. Afrald To Dream.
F990.
I Still Love To Kiss You Goodnight. For Only You. After All These Years.
LESLIE HUTCHINSON. F084. My Secret Love Affair.
F983.
S.F.T. Til Write A Love Song, Q.5. Girl You Used To Bc. Waltz, Am I In Love? · Q.S. F948. SUL Love To Kiss You Goodnight. S.F.T.
Dance The Moonlight-Waltz With Me. F085. Green Eyes. Rumba.
Maria, My Own.
Rumba,
Waltz.
VICTOR SILVESTER & HIS BALLROOM ORCHESTRA. F070, I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You. F.T.
Georgianna. S.FT.
Food. I'd Like To See Samon of Samoa.. F.T.
My Swiss Hilly Billy. F.T.
NAT GONELLA & HIS GEORGIANS,
etc... etc.,
TSANG FOOK PIANO COMPANY Marina House, 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel, 24648.
For a limited time only!
Richard Bionut
MA
Introductory sets of harmonir- ing face powder, rouge, lipstick, eye shadow and mascara. ; à in
- kits of junior bixes to tempt you to try this matched minkeup keyed to the color of your eyes!
Sole Agents for South Chinat
WV, IL Loxley & Co. (China) Ltd.
Itongkong
LOUS
MATCHED MAKEUP KIT
$50
COMPLETE
1709
..
la Carte
Hankow Rd., Kowloon,
A hint to
parents
Lack of nutriment in ordinary. foods frequently leads to under- development in children.
''KEPLER' COD Liver Oil with 'MALT Extract steadily builds. up their strength and increases their resistance to infection. It is a delicious food containing vitamins in rich supply,
'KEPLER'
(Trade Mark)
COD MALT
Liver Oil
with
Extract
Co.
Copyright
BURROUGHS WELLCOME
Proprietorge Tex WELLCOME FOUNDATION Lo.. LowopN.
LONDON AND SHANGHAI
Why haven't
heard?
Ladies aro enthusiastic over Supersilk stockings. When you wear them you, too, will want to tell your friends.
Supersilk
Full Fashioned CHOSIERY
Sole Agents-W. R. LOXLEY & CO. (China), 'Ltd.
SUMMER SHOES
First Shipment
just received
and now on
display
at
GORDON'S, LTD.