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Saturday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPHTM
December 21, 1940.
PARTY FUN FOR GROWN-UPS
HAVE you ever consider anot the untry proper arrived its twin, post their own card a dollar only (if indeed it could
and the proper can be beside it and come back for an- be done) but that each one ed the psychological well and truly started. other. At the end of the even that had cost not more than a should be wearing, something effect of a paper hat?
ing award a little gift as prize
dollar. to the guest who has correctly "posted" the largest number of
Plan in Advance
It is really extraordinary, and the donning of a fancy The good hostess will have
planned hor games and forms of cards. hat, combined, of course, entertainmonts well beforehand, with the feeling of good fel- so that there are no awkward In the Dark lowship which prevails at gaps to be bridged, and the feeling "what are we to do next"
An "Inspection interval" can be arranged when each guest is told to make out a list of the wearers and the articles identi- fled. Read out the correct list and present a prize to the most accurate guesser..
Grown-ups have a childish party-time, is very largely is never experienced from start love of games in the dark, when
"Scents" is a game that you responsible for the gaiety of to finish. Christmas entertaining!
--- A start-off game which can be played at Christmas time at any guaranteed successful is "Ad- rate, and those with an appre can enjoy. Fill some muslin bags with household commodi- Get together a fairly ciation of the theatrical and ties in frequent use, such as Just try it and see. Issue dresses."
large collection of correspon- foolish will particularly appre- coffee, orange and lemon peel, paper hats to every guest dence cards, and write fictitious clate "Noises off."
nutmeg, cinnamon, and gorgon- zola cheese (but no pepper or as he or she enters the front and humorous names and ad-
Arrange the players in 11 onions for you don't want to door, and in less time than dresses on a couple of dozen or
Ho, and conceal them about the semi-circle, facing the door, turn start a ancezing or weeping it would take a chip of ice to house. You will want at least out the lights (the glimmer epidemic.) Then get each guest dissolve you will find the a dozen duplicates of each card, from the fire will provide all the the task of identifying the con-
and these you will place on a illumination necessary) and then tents of the various bags. guests laughing and chatter- tray in the entrance hall. ing happily.
When most of the guests make a series of about ten
Make it a
GIFT
Come and see our wide selection
have arrived, give each a num- noises outside the door. Chur- For Supper Time J. ULLMANN & CO.
A'variation of this game could | Instead of leaving guests to ber and give them one of the acteristic noises known to all, form little groups as they ar- duplicate cards with this num- of course, such as a dog bark- be played at supper time. Lead rive, introduce them and let her marked on one corner. Then ing, baby crying, cork popping, the guests into a dark room, thom mingle freely with one tell them that they must find
THE FLOWING BOWL
Wine Suggestions for the Host
alarm clock repeating, cock hand each a plate on which crowing, and so on. You will there is an assortment of things be able to think of plenty of to cat, and ask them to write jothers.
down, when the lights are turn- ed on, what they have eaten in Supply cach player with a the dark! pencil and scrap of paper, and And, don't forget to provide tell them beforehand that they card tables for the more serious- have to identify and memorise minded
among your guests. the noises and write them down Seclude them as far as possible, when the lights are switched on. so that the more boisterous A small prize is awarded to the spirits do not interfere with person with the longest and concentration! most correct list.
ȚITII the approach of Chris- Caviare or hors d'œuvres-Vodka
mas and New Year the green or while; hock. housewife is busily engaged Oysters-Chablis, dry champagne
dry graves, noselle, stout. stocking her larder. The man. Soup Dry pale hierry, dry of the house; howover, has also madeira,
champagne, graves, A an important job on hand Fish - Dry apart from paying the billa-chablis, hock, moselle. and that is the task of seeing, Entrees, roast, or bird-Claret or
Burgundy.
that the cellar, is not empty.
Sweets Sauterne or champagne. The question of wine in a worry- Cheese-Burgundy. port, brown ing one to every host and hostess, sherry. for what is one man's drink is very Dessert-Old port, sweet madeira,
ellen another man's poison, There brown sherry. ate, however, a few simple lines to
follow which will suve a lot of
trouble. If the meal is a a small and simple one, the wines should be in accordance with it. Supposing, for instance, that the guests
had
enjoyed glass of sherry before dinner-- the wine of troubled Spain a
Ba more
popular than ever and is very much
inore fashionable
than cocktails,
The of course, 11 is a matter of
Coffee Liqueur,
Novel Touch
For those who are fond of card games which are not too serious or brain-searching New- market, or even "Animal Snap" To provide a novelty touch to are intriguing, and a chcery your party, you could word your card game in which all can join invitations to make it a "dollar is a fitting end to a party which, [party." Not meaning, natural concluded with "night cap" re- ly, that your guests should ap- freshments will send all on their pear in costumes that have cost way happily rejoicing!
Masefield, Walpole,
Wodehouse
vides then with a good hock or John Masefield's new novel, millan, 10s. 6d.) he shows what the fun starts from the first page.
"Basilissa", (Ileinemann, 8s.). it
*
Popular Burgundy edifice Theodorn to whom the temperaments, but between men who Carvell (Faber, 1s. Od.).
love each other.
The Empress Theodora is Hardy; and in his new novel, citizens trying to steal a picture in personal taste the host who pro- the central character of Mr "The Bright Pavilions" (Mac-a country house of an American, and mellow burgundy as the sole drink
was like in the brave, during the meal need trave no mis- givings.
If we may trust Gibbon, she was beautiful, blackguardly days of
Jn general, books for the young Hock nowadays is in great demand a fur from exemplary character good Queen Bess. at dinner parties, and there certainly who with conspicuous inconsis- The main figures are the two have as little individuality as factory- LV a lot to be said for the merits of
rugged, made clothes. They fit persons of animal, loyal and conventionally this age or that size pretty well. some of the well-known hineland tency devoted her later years to brothers Herries-Nicolas, vintages. They are light and plea-endowing convents. On the same. Protestant, and Robin, imaginative, Rarely there appears a book that fits sant unicomparatively inexpensive groundwork of facts, Mr Mase- poetical and taking his friends among anugly into your very self. One such field produces quite a different the Catholics. There is a clash-of-ts-Klondike Gold, by lubert...V.. IL is meant for boys; but anyone endowing of convents might well The story of Robin's love for Sylvia with a
tales for hardihood To the bold palate which discards be a natural and proud ambition. is stold with details, amorous and can read it without a moment's hock as "thin." the full-bodied nature Gibbon's disreputable dancing girl cruel, and it is profoundly moving, slackening of interest. It is not only of a true burgundy makes an #ppeal.
wine, with sunshine captive in becomes in the Poet Laureate's Walpole writes lavishly and with very competent story telling. It is
girl decolved in love, a Its rosy depths, is obt
obtainable in many hands n vintages
and many qualities, but young woman of brains as well as those who pay a fair price need not beauty, u pupil of St. Tienoily, as be afraid of their purchase. Bur- well as a star of the ballet,
This
It should be noted, is at its gundy,
Theodore appears as a spirited in- best with the chill taken off before tellectual, who captivates the awit- serving:
ward yourg heir to the throne, the The following hinta may be of help set of their meeting being the to hosts and hostesses:-
fashionable ballet of the day,
Nover serve whisky with food. 1
is
BOOKS
Zcs,
sound, sympathetic, courageous human stuff within, the necessary limits, of cours
a
A second book that satisfies, though on other grounds, is His Little Black Waistcoat to China by Joan Kiddell-
Douglas, who goes to the Klondike to find gold to pay for his training as doctor, is a fine boy and he has as fine a
a dog as
as any boy ever had; a real dog. not
tragic sub-human. Even extraordinary narrative vitality, so without the postscript in which Mr that those whose lastes run to his Coryel gives his authorities, is casy torical fiction should have their to believe that this is what the gold- timos are "ment and drink" in this book of trail was like. The politics of the done occasionally, but from the health stand-point alone it. is a bad made to seem here to be a close more than 700 pages. practice. If you feel that your bud-f parallel to those of Europe in recent. get will only rise to whisky and years, with rival gangs of cut-throats, beer, serve beer with the med) by all sporting different colours, fighting A new book by P. G. Wodehouse Munroe (Longmens, 34.). This is a inanner of means. There is many a against each other.
(who is now in Nazi lands at Le picture book for small children and gourmet who enjoys a sloup of ale]. Mr Masefield's Interpretation of an Touquet) must always be the book tells how Boy and the little Giant and a glass of lager la muchi kindlier extraordinary woman is interesting, of the week for many thousands of Panda travelled on the back of a to the palate than indifferent wine.and his retelling of a fascinating readers. Few other story-tellers of young yait from Tibet to China. They Seo that your naswure does allee of history is done with a sure our time have made so many people met with robbers and were parted justice to your
and convincing touch.
laugh, and Wodehouse is just us from Yak. For a time they were in popular among intellectuals as among a Princess's household; but they were When a wine demands fee, be sure)
ordinary people.
glad enought when Yak found them that you make arrangements to have
Mr Wodehouse has added a number and took them home. the fee, a commodity not difficult to)
of memorable characters to English Te pictures are beautiful-line and obtain in these modern times.
Like Thomas Hardy, Sir Hugh literature, and in his latest book, one-colour decoration-and the story, Walpole has made an addition to "Quick Bervice" (Herbert Jenkins, simple but exciting, is satisfying too. he introduces us to o few In Plays for Older Children and the literary map of England, and 7.
rich Americans,
ericans, Plays for Younger Children by Enid in the Lake District signposts
butlers and valets, nitwit Blyton (Newnes 5s cach) will be found directing the aristocrats loquacious young dialogue is bright, the setting is traveller to various places in the gentlemen in need of money and in simple, and the dresses are easily "Herrics Country.",...
love. The word "impossible" is not provided. Though meant for schools, said in criticism, but in admiration. the little plays would be as welcome The Herries Country is to The plot is 4, rough and tumble in fambles whose children like act- Walpole what Wessex was to about a number of respectable ing.
wine.
Make sure your wine is delivered to you several days before it in re- quired, and handle it carefully be fore serving.
A Wine Chart
Tho
following
may prove useful:--
chart indicating
foods and their appropriate wings
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