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THE CHINA MAIL.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7, 1933.

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SALE

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EJUMPERS

ECARDIGANS

..from $20.00

2.50

3.00

DRESSES

12.50

ALL HATS HALF PRICE,

HUSBANDS AND

HOBBIES.

Occupation Tends To Good - Temper.

Some women are never satlofted. I heard recently of a mother who complained and nagged because her twenty-two-year old son, one of al

family part of four on holiday, pre- ferred fishing all day to dashing about the country in a car with the other three. She said he was un- sociable, sulfish and so on, writes Violet Dismore.

Many women are like that. They oppose on principle, a man's hob- bles and recreations. . "He spenda hours in the dark room with his! silly anapabota, when he might hel

|||||||||||||||||||taking me to the talkies," says one

woman. "I might be a widow for

All I see of my husband at week-

ends; he's golf-mad," says another.| "Hore I am, stuck in the house all

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day and all he does when he comes home is to tinker with the wire- less," says a third.

The fact le, some women do not know when they are well off. A man with a hobby is usually one of the most reliable of mortals and Jone of the best-tempered. A hobby takes his mind off the worries of the day, and, if he happens to be rather good at it, restores to him) the self-esteem, part of which hag been lost during the day in the course of verbal encounters with the Chief or ill-mannered clients.

Just Jealousy.

A queer sort of fealousy is at the root of many a woman's antagonism towards a man's hobby. It irks her to see that a man can be so happy without her ministrations, that at time he can actually prefer a mashle or à spanner or a coller- tion of grubby old stamps, to her own adorable company..

But men are like that. The most domestic of them have moods when they desire nothing, so much as to get away from women.

Scarcely a man breathes who does

The Woman's Page

|· Menu Suggestions For To-morrow

Tiffin.

Fried Sole au Citron Devilled Cutlets

Green Beans au bacon Riz nu chou Apple Tapioca

Dinner.

Curried Vegetable Soup Stuffed Shoulder of Voal Potatoes maitre d'hotel Cauliflower au beurre noir Jellied Fruits

When making jellies and moulds

a couple of tablespoons of grated cheese and a little milk to moisten. Season well and pile on * dish! sprinkled with coraline pepper.

Curried Vegetable Soup. Fry a large onion and 2 apples chopped in 11⁄2 oz. butter; add àj tablespoon of curry powder and mix well. Then add a cut up carrot, (turnip, 2 leeks and a stick of celery.

USEFUL HINTS FOR THE KITCHEN.

Keeping Woodwork

Whité.

After scrubbing white woodwork in the kitchen with hot water und soap, always finish with cold water. This prevents the wood turning yellow, and also hardens it.

Fruit cooked in a casserole in the oven has a better flavour than stewed fruit, and is more economi- cal if the rest of the meal is also being cooked in the oven. Put the fruit in the casserole, cover lightly and leave without raising the lid. for 40 minutes. Suco apples first,

or soak dried fruit overnight.

Hair brushes should be washed in cold water to which a little am- monia has been added.

When using vinegar for pickling, place a small piece of horseradish in the jar. If this method is} adopted there will be no danger of the vinegar losing its strength.

Directly the ment arrives from the butcher's during the summer months, rub it over with vinegar. } This will prevent flies touching it, and will also make it more tender, Moat in summer is inclined to bo tough, because it cannot be kept as long as in winter.

A few drops of paraffin oil added to the water that has to be used for washing windows will dis courage flies. -

YOUR BROKEN UMBRELLA.

Should the handle of an umbrella Toss a while, then add 2 oz. of rice, become detached, fill the hole. with

a tablespoon of vinegar, 2 quarts sulphur, make the screw red hot,

of stock salt, pepper and a and press it into the cavity. "When

Knife tangs that have come away from the handles can be mended In the same manner.

not appreciate a "den" of his own a ring mould is most useful, as it bouquet garn! (herbs). Simmer cold it will be quite hard and firm. And if there is no room to spare allows one to combine one or two hours until the vegetables are soft. for this purpose in the house. then different substances most daintily. Press through a aleve into a fresh the poor man should be allowed to For instance a fruit jelly made in pan and add a build a little workshop adjoining circular form may have the hollow the house.

centre piled with whipped cream or

Never mind if he spoils the look custard, according to the depth of of that eminently desirable re- your housekeeping allowance. A sidence. A man who is free to be pineapple jelly may be made of the a little boy whenever he likes and juice and fitted into the ring, turned retire into his "den" at will, is a out and the centre piled with the better possession than perfect cut fruit. architectural symmetry.

YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.

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Small individual moulds are ob tainable in fancy shapes, clubs, hearts, diamonds and spades, which are very attractive for afternoon tean.

over

Devilled Chops.

Make a devil paste by mixing 4 teaspoon of French mustard with 1of English mustard, 2 oz. of butter and 'pepper; split open the re- quired number of chops and spread the paste in the slit. Close and grill' a clear flame. Serve with mustard or chutney. Riz Au Chon (Rice and Cabbage). Cook a young cabbage and some rice separately: drain both and chop|, the cabbage Melt an ounce of butter in a saucepan and fry chopped onion therein; add the cab bage and rice, when quite hot, add

squeeze of lemon.

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