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THE CHINA MAIL, DECEME:

7. 1987.

Calm Down And Take Your Time

CHEESE BISCUITS BEST MADE AT HOME

Store In Air Tight Tin

For Future Use

Assorted cheese biscuits for af ter-dinner use can be made at home

Nearly ev activi known

mankind is capable of

ing or greatly

from the feminine aura of

Some women make the drinking of a cocktail a very charming rite. Others-No

Smoking a cigarette can be a very cheaply. If not eaten the day they intriguing affair or it can be are made they should be stored in series of nervous gestures

an airtight tin. They should be are far from "soothing to the made very savoury, kept very small,

and rolled out as thinly as possible.

looker.

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The application of make-up may

When biscuits are required flat they afford a companion either a de- Here are lightful sense of intimacy, or the

should be pricked well.

two basic recipes which can

be disillusioning impression of having

varied in shape and flavouring-been given a too hurried “behind one a rather short mixture con- the scenes" tour.

taining butter and mixed with egg the other a harder biscuit without fat and mixed with water.

For the first sift half a pound of flour into a bowl with nearly half a teaspoonful of salt, rub in three ounces of butter, and make into a stiff paste with an egg beaten with two or three teaspoonfuls of milk To this may be added two or three ounces of grated cheese before the lianid, the cheese must be finely grated and very dry. Roll out to the thickness of cardboard and cut into strips, which should be made into rings, twists, knots, or match- sticks. To vary, the salt can be left out and the biscuit sprinkled with celery or tomato salt after they are baked.

WE TALK SHOP

All of these subjects came up in a conversation I had with Rosalind Russell not so long ag

conver

sation in which we both Iked shop" a great deal and Miss Russell summed up in a few words a major remedy for the deglamouri- sing phases of any of these items of social habit

to

Rosalind Russell, who agrees with Max

be obtained by people their time.

ma

BY MAX FACTOR

at a great deal of down and take

effort to acquire

easing habit of making their motions more de- liberate ones. A rich reward of glamour will probably come from it

a

Remember cocktail can be glamorously imbibed Cigarettes can be smoked with charm. Every acticity can be a study in soothing motion.

That is, every activity except

"If people would only calm down and take their time, Mr. Factor" he said, "they wouldn't have worry about such things at all."

Rosalind was very correct in this know--are too completely victims Nervous hurry in any to the gnash through-a-sandwich observation.

Back in Miss Russell's dressing. activity is very fatal to feminine technique of the lunch counters. charm. particularly if the person witnessing this fury knows that room, I continued my observations one

I suggested to the star that she the occasion really requires noapply some of her own make-up rush at all. Such rushing is con-

"Just to keep in practice," was my For the second mixture just siftncive to an almost complete los

subterfuge and I noted that her half a pound of flour into a bowl of poise, and with this gone calmness extended even to with half a teaspoonful of salt and glamour is gone, too.

operation. There was no slap After Miss Russell had made her dashing on of powder or any of the make into a stiff paste with about a teacupful of water. Flour the pertinent observation, I started other make-up materials it was all board and rolling-pin well when considering her from that very done with a very soothing delibera- rolling out so that the mixture does viewpoint which she had mention- tion.

VARIATIONS

not stick, as it must be rolled out ed. I had always subconsciously

can conceive of no way in which In spite of all my inborn optimism,

my favourite taba-for-women, chew- thising gum, can be masticated to the

furtherance of glamour-

very thinly. To vary the flavour known that her mastery of poise No wonder, was my thought, that add a dash meat extract to the was a complete one. I had never this lovely Rosalind Russell has water or use onion or celery salt before. however, really analyzed such perfect poise; every move she instead of ordinary salt. A little this item by item, and I took this makes contributes toward just that cayenne or coralline pepper can be fopportunity to do so. added. if liked

These plain biscuits can be sand- ched w

TECHNIQUE

-poise.

My mind went back into "shop" channels I started wonder why all women couldn't acquire at same pure

various cheese fillings. I observed Rosalind's technique least some of this filling is made by mixing in handling her cigarette. I noted glamour of personality which is 20 Parmesan cheese with that it was altogether a gracefully naturally consequent to the proper ugh ipped cream to make a langorous process, She did not control of effort. stiff paste, favour with salt paprika terkily flick its ashes or viciously pepper, and sandwich between two hatter out its ember when she had biscuits. Or use equal quantities of finished with at Rosalind was butter and grated cheese and flav-taking her time.

our with lemon juice, mustard. At the luncheon table I observed salt, and pepper. Or add finely and marvelled at her atter chopped olive to mild-flavoured nosure in eating and drinking. To cream cheese, or mix chopped wal-many women- some by necessity, nuts with the cream cheese, which should be flavoured with salt and cayenne. Or add chopped salted almonds to the cheese.

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PRICES

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