1937-06-25 — Page 2

Tips For The Garden Party Hostess

Garden parties, if the Hong Kong Plum cake. Cinnamon biscuits.

summer

permits, are a wonderful

way of entertaining.

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Scotch shortbread.

Ice creams, sherbets, or fresh fruit. Sundaes.

Your guests will want to experi- ence the joys, of the delightful open-air parties when hostesses in- vite a gathering of friends to their Toasted asparagus rolls are a gardens, and provide attractive but novelty. To make them, roll cooked not necessarily elaborate fare for asparagus points as usual in thin them.

bread and butter. The ceremonial garden fete fresh is no

less interesting in its own lightly under grill. way, but it is different.

Here is a menu which includes some attractive unusual foods as well as homely cakes:

Tea. Iced coffee. Orangeade.

Toasted asparagus rolls. Three- tier sandwiches, smoked salmon, foie gras and smoked roe sand- wiches. Cucumber cigarettes.

Walnut bread.

Scones.

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Toast

* For the three-tier sandwiches take a sandwich loaf, remove crusts, slice and butter both sides, but the top and bottom slices are only but- tered on one side.

Spread with alternate layers of chopped prawns, lettuce-moistened with mayonnaise and sliced hard- boiled egg. Cover with grease- proof paper and a cloth which has been wrung out in cold water. (Continued at Foot of Next. Col.)

THE CHINA MAIL, JUNE 25, 1937.

Make teething-time

easier

That first, eagerly expected, little tooth is about to peep through. And baby wants something hard to suck and bite upon to help it to come through easily.

Instead of a bone ring or comforter- which often results in infection from germs and causes malformation of the mouth-give ‘OVALTINE Rusks to Baby. Crisp-but not too hard-they give that biting exercise which ensures sound, well spaced teeth and correct jaw formation.

Then through childhood it is the continued- use of ‘OVALTINE Rusks that keeps the teeth strong and healthy and makes possible those perfect permanent teeth.

OVALTINE

RUSKS

APPETISING - DIGESTIVE & NOURISHING

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Light and breezy is this wool sweater, adaptable for sport and natural afternoon wear. The black interwoven knitting lenda a

The belt is of contrast that gives a "swing" to the appearance. mesh cloth.

DON'T FORCE YOUR CHILD TO DO THINGS

The futility of "making" a child, to him in the future. What is your do what is of no personal interest] advice?" to him has been proved all too Forcing is no good. It is pos- often.

the sible that you have chosen The child may go through the wrong instrument for him, and an- motions, if sufficiently urged or re-other might be more pleasing and warded or punished, but the spirit inspiring to him.

is missing that

valuable.

makes the doing

→

The parentally enforced practice of music belongs in that category. Pleasure Is Killed

Enjoy It

You can increase his interest in practising by sitting down with him and enjoying what he does.

You can manage a practice hour How many parents have worn before school, so that he has the themselves to a frazzle keeping afternoon to play with his comrades. children to their musical chores, and discovered once they removed themselves as a motive power that the child's interest died and mained dead for ever?

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What is even more possible is that the unpleasantness attached to music practice killed their delight in the art as well.

You can take him wherever he can hear good music, so that his ap- preciation for it grows.

Other than these steps I know of no way to force music upon him or to influence his self-denial of other pleasures in its interest.

BROILED GRAPEFRUIT

GRAPEFRUIT AND DATES

"I have tried to solve this pro- blem by every possible means," Place grapefruit segments in cus- writes a mother. "My twelve-year-tard cup, sprinkle with brown sugar old boy is taking music and we just and cinnamon and place under broil- can't get him to practise. We say er for about two minutes until evenly

browned. that we will stop his lessons, and he doesn't want us to do that, but he wants to roller skate and bicycle and play outdoors with other chil-

Arrange grapefruit in sherbet dren who have no music lessonsglasses, place out dates on top, chill. We feel that forcing does no good, but also that he is too young to understand what music may mean Good For Griffins' And

Press well and when required cut into dainty squares.

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Cut a peeled cucumber into cigarette shapes. Roll tightly in bread and butter.

Walnut Bread. 2 cupfuls of self- raising flour, 4 cupful of sugar, the same of chopped walnuts, 1 cup- ful of milk, 1 egg, 11⁄2 teaspoonful of salt. Mix the ingredients with the milk and beaten egg and allow to stand for 20 minutes. Bake for hour. Serve sliced and buttered.

"Old Timers' Too

is

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acts as gently as nature.