How's your
"Taste while make"
you
nerve?
Do you fuss about un-
important details?
Do sudden noises upset
you?
SHORTHAND TYPIST IN GERMANY
A
SHORTHAND-typist In
Germany has a harder life than in most places. Many other girls do not be- in work until 'ne, Baith at five, and have a Saturday morning of otten a month, as well as the restular half-holiday.
In a land where hard work really la the rule, ofce life cominences at e'ght in the morning. in faci, in one ofice where I recently worked In South-East Germany I had to rise at suffer from rest-x in order to be at work by seven
o'clock.
Do you
lessness?
It was a dreary morning, too, for there was no break until twelve, and as the people go in for central heat-
Do you answer peopleng and hermetically sealed double
sharply?
Are you afraid of the
dark?
If so, you need take yourself in
66T'M just a mass of nerves"
--that's a feminine cry,
not a masculine one.
And
to
hand
Don't eat
windows, the hours seemed arduous Indeed.
But, haril though she has to work. the typist manages to snatch five nilaules or ra from her labours to cat her "second breakfast." This the brings along neatly wrapped in Krease-proof paper, and it usually; constuts of Fairdwiches of thick brown bread spread with sausage.
It is amusing to see the whole ofice "down tools" for, a few min- utes and surreptitiously nibble brend under cover of their typewriters ([or conversation at this time la not sup- posed to take place.)
At this porteuler fhm mn hour and
a halt la allowed for lunch, and most
THE HONGKONG Telegraph, Thursday, OCTOBER 20, 1938.
E
EWO MALTONIO
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You will sleep well and arise feeling strong and full of energy.
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of the girls like something to cal. 600
end have this at the office, brewing their coffee by means of an electric hrater,
Afterwards they bring out
her crochet work or knitting, and
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horthand-typist I met seemed to be talk or sing as they wurk. Every | F1202-Maanlight in Wałkiki. F.T.
an adept at th's craft, and to lie It
their tasks far more than office!
It's the Little Things that Count, F.T.
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ESSENTIAL is an hun tonig te condition the Blond. And at all because the average the same time "cocktal" at lunch- The first thing I noticed about woman doesn't know how to me made either from the fees office life was that everything was F1188-King Revet Selcation,
queezed from young carrots, or much stricter than other places, nd relax.
those from celery. These are to en- | punctuality was insisted upon to an rich the blood for impoverished absolute degree. What was lacking! most of all was that spirit of friend-, Catch a man worrying over every blond means sick nerves.
Hngs which dues exist here between! niggling detail, and then carrying his Give your digestion a chance to employer and employee. In Ger- worries round with him. He's got relix too. Give up heavy meals, many "the boss" is quite definitely he would put it Don't eat when you are angry or the bur, and the tile chorthand- vape, ur, an
Atypist is looked upon as a machine; complacently, he. "kes the long entionally upset in any way. view." In other words, in doesn't little very nourishing food at reguler and nothing more. Hive on his nerves. Ha ah tin wn-hourly Intervals will help you we followed his example.
Good-night
IVELAS
Hut, rite .. Wom system is more highly pitched fun amin's, the must first learn how to get her nerves in good trim, and keep them that way.
is the rule for soup
113
drink
The Office Worker's Salary
---
She is very poorly paid, yet, even
her dry only ten chillings week (th's being, all she receives as commtaring solarg), Income-tax CUP of Rant at four | has to be piil, in welddition to a cer- o'clocit, instead of the usual! tain runs exgry month to the "party." brew of Indian or China, in grand True, that in exchange for th's the thing for nerve And, while you receives a magazine which is sup- are at the herbalist's, ask him for po ed to have a very uplifting effect!
but most of the girls would in- some herbs for your bath. will help as a roporific, so long as initely prefer extra pocket money the bath is not ton hot.
to spend on themselves!
These
A hot bath by death to sleep, for it. wakes you in, and you will He awake, every nerve as edge, for hours. After your bath it is a good
As an indication of the way one's l salary in taxed, from a gross salary of 120 marks per month (the, rate of exchange being about 12,50 marks
VEGETABLE soups are easy for the beginner to make, seeds. Add to 11⁄2 oz, hot butter idea to take a link milk beverage as twenty 1) the typ'st has to pay out
delicious and nourishing for her husband and her
guests to eat.
Like so much else a good cookery they depend"
seasoning. I cannot repeat tun often in this boginner's e ance of tasting roups and saures during the process of mel
an subtle
ghe import-
Can
No sezzoning directions such as "at pitch," "lefteur_(Jon," be infallible, and the good cook relies on her own malate to transform dull purce (though made from the best ingredients) into the sort of soup that every one taps up and asks for more.
ريال
NOW for the Leneral rules:
1. Allow roughly 1 th, vegetables to 1 pint of liqualet.
2. Clean them well and pare or scrape thote which need it.
them into small dice or see them thinly according to the reelpr.
with the shredded jetluce,
Meanwhile measure out 11⁄2 pints: ilk and water in equal quantities, put them in a saucepan with an! omias eat in half and a blade of mace, bring to the boil, and let them Zimmer five minutes,
a good-night drinkg
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lo
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relax.
Anuthier optic an.
point-as works out of office Whenever you can, wherever piedical mar When the lettuce and cucumber you are. When
you sit down for hours, all attention has to be had have simmered for the usual twenty a few moments with nothing to do, during the day, and the "time off" minutes, draw the pan to one side don't grab a book or the newspaper required to visit doctor, dentist, and work in a slightly heaped table or, if you are at home, turn on the and so on by the staff must aggre- spoon of plain flour or (better still) | wireless, Leave these diversions gate during a year quite a number
of hours cream of rice flour. Stir well round until the evening. Instead-flop. ur th
a wooden spoon to eliminate
I quid and its contents.
Cut Finish according to rules.
|
Dress and Make-Un
lumps. then pour on the bolling! Consciously withdraw the murcu
lar control from your arms and legsi This until they feel lie dend weights; let your backbone sagt, your head fall soup is much improved by the add-forward, your eye-lids drop. Do it our own. 3. Simmer them slowly for twenty minutes in fat in a saucepan with tion of a little cream, fresh or sour.
as though you had no more control The Ed on. Add the guld (water,
over your body, And, after a few minutes, feel the vitality pouring Into you.
Seasonable
Salads
or milk and water mixed according Mixed vegetable soup
to recipe), bring to the boll, season, +pk|~|÷~|~|~|~|~|~|~|~||~||~|~|~
ind somer till the vegetables are (really tender,
VER
JERY uneful and nourishing
you bed, if
The German offer girl does not dress or make-up half so smartly us,
Her hair, however, is al ways well set and cured for. Clother re expensive and make-up is of Berlin, very few firms will allow frowned upon. With the exception
their feinale employees to make-up Chase away at all. 4. Work the soup through
because you can use up odds
wrinkles The only way in which cosmetic seve (if the recipe says so) with and ends such as the stalks of caull-
manufacturers have maubged to wooden spoon into a busin You flower and cabbage or the outside
evade this ban is by advertising Do the same thing again in their lipsticles as being "colourless HERE are some suggestions for un-wil hve what is known in leaves. Cut all the stalks and any root vegetables available into small cookery as a "purec."
c't sleep and their powders and rouge - as usual anlads which are sure to Return the puree to the sauce, dice, niso onions. leeks, and celery Lift your legs up and let them fall looking entirely natural." be appreciated by the family:
As I previously mentioned, the small raw caul flower, cut pan and stir till it comes to the boil when in season, add them to the fat heavily, one after the other, and then
the seasoning If and
proceed as usual, using water your arms. Raise your head, press German girl does not like fresh alt only (no milk). out the lower part and chop it into. Correct
your chin on your chest to stretch during working hours, and altogether
and the back of your neck, If you have any water in which drop it heavily back on your plilow, life as her British sister, Camping then is not one-half so keen on outdoor them finely. Mix these and the crewn to a vegetable putec, soup for vegetables have been cooked save Do it all three or four limes-and and hiking, I found, was done chiefly
a special occasion, stir it in at the and use it for your soup. When the then give yourself up to the drowsi- only caulflower separately with salad
last minute, after removing the pan above vegetables are nearly cookedness which will steal over you.
by schoolgirls. But nym- cream and a few drops of lemon
nasiums are extremely popular and Julee. Then break the leaves of a from the stove. Soup must not boil add shredded lettuce, spinach, gor- rel, cabbage, or a few shelled peas
many shorthand-typ.sts arc 150 crisp lettuce into pleces of conven-ince the cream has been added.
And, finally, chose away your and go on simmering till they are wrinkles as well as your nerves accomplished gymnasts,
with a day-time nap, if you can Amusements with possibly manage it. Don't be
Take
very small pieces. Next obtain two
or three raw carrots, wash and shred
ent size,' and place in French drets-
necessary and serve.
6. If you want to add
And here are some recipes:~-~
Ing. This is made by m'xing to Potato soup gether a teaspoonful each of salt and
sugar, and a 4 teaspoonful paprfica. | ||||||funfufug Add. three tablespoonfuls of vinegar gradually and alternately with
time.
little
couked.
This soup is better eaten the vegetables left as they are in- ashamed of it. liave it and enjoy The cinema must take first place stead of putting them through at. In a room, well darkened, with as the German girl's chief source of ADD two sliced onions and steve. Use any vegetables you can a dark scarf over your eyes, your amusement, and it was interesting to cupful of olive oil, beating all the to 2oz. sizzling butter or good beef you have the
14lb. peeled sileed potatoes Iny your hands on the more variety head on a soft pillow, a light but find that such types as Shirley better. Serve with warm covering Tucking you in on Temple and Greta Garbo were even After arranging the lettuce on a dripping or bacon fat. Proceed plenty of grated cheddar ar parme-every side.
bigger public heroines than they are Cinemas, with, the Don't sleep in this country.
exception of Berlin's West End, are too long fairly cheap.
dish, put the cauliflower and carrots according to rules, allowing 1% pints san cheese. round the dish as a border.
Ratein Salad...
Peel and slice one orange, cutting the slices-into thin shreds. Slice a banana. Next peel and core two or
three apples, and chop enough to fill
milk and water in equal quantities. Work through wire sleve.
Bacon and cabbage soup
¡ONT allow yourself to sleep
A good garnish for this soup 19 4+++++++++++++++
teaspoonful of chopped parsley.
variations:
bages are in full swing:-
outlook
Another thing is n visit to a cafe or chervil, or tarragon, sprinkled THIS is made rather differently D
with one or two friends where she over the surface at the last moment.
too long; half an hour is has a coffee or a glass of beer, She That is the foundation recipe for want to give you the recipe as it will see that it is a deep, restful sleep."
from the above soups, but I long enough for most people. But sits for an hour or so, discussing all potato soup. Here are some of the come in useful now that spring cab Compose yourself to repose. A dally why, in Britain, we enter a restau
sorts of topics.
German girls cannot understand half a cup.
Mix with the orange and banano, LEEK AND POTATO: ́Leave out Slice two large or four small free of wrinkles, your
nap will do more to keep your face rant only to bolt down ou“ food as and add one cupful of seedless the onions. Use equal quantities of onions, ack raisins. Finally, mix all together leeks and potatoes. The leeks should 4oz. atrenky bacon rashers, roughly system in proper condition than any- whole evening, spending only a few them to zoz, fat with life serene and happy, your nervous again. They will willingly sit, the on quickly as possible and then dash out with a little salud cream, when it be sliced crosswise like entrols, chopped. Simmer Ave minutes, then thing else." will be ready for serving.
A nice garnish for this soup is a add a small roughly chopped or Peel a crisp cucumber
pence, and getting a great deal of and but shredded and blanched leek: slice shredded. blanched cabbage
And when you are on top of the enjoyment, out of listening to the (to into blocks two inches long, then into it thinly, put in cold salted water, blanch it put it into cold salted world again, how easy it is to tnice band and watching the other cus strips 1⁄2 inch thick and broad. bring to the boil, simmer five min water, bring to the boll, simmer five that "Jong view"! Sprinkle with salt and vinegar, and nutes, drain well and add to the soup minutes, drain well), liberal allowance of mind oil, and at the last minute. toss all lightly together.
•
Add two pinta water (preferably that in which vegetables have been
Allow to stand, and press through Lettuce and cucumber soup bolled) and s'mmer slowly for one
a fino slove 14 tb fresh tomatoes.
Heap the salad into salad bowls, pour over the juice and sprinkle with a tablespoonful of very finely chopped tarragon, chervil, parsley, and scrap of shallot,
G. G. T.
betttttfy and a half hours. This soup can be
cucumber SLICE a
mede equally well fa an earthen- rather ware casserole in the oven.
KATE CARR
thickly, peel half the slices Serve with all the vegetables lert $1 TIFFINS
(leave rind on the other half, as it intact in the same pan or casserole gives a good favour to the soup), cut in which it was cooked, Grated them all, in half, and scoop out the cheese should be handed with IL
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Kavcici's, Lauling Love Tamo
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"well, hardly avat,
afterwards!
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