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THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 10, 1940 Bringing Up Father

NOW-MY DEAR-I'LL CALL YOU IN THE MORNING-AS THERE ARE SO MANY POINTS OF INTEREST HERE- BY THE WAY-DID YOU KNOW MRS MARY AGGEN IS GOING TO GET A DIVORCE ?.

GOOD-BYE- GOOD-BYE- GOOD-BYE-

IT'S TIME TO SAY GOOD NIGHT-

WOW-CAN THAT WOMAN TALK- AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE WE HAVE BEEN-

MY-WHAT A WOMAN- DID. YOU EVER HEAR ANYONE

TALK SO MUCH?

SHE WAS GOING TO SHOW US THE SIGHTS SHE'S THE ONLY SIGHT I SAW -

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SHE THINKS SHE'S A SOCIAL LEAD- ER DID YOU NOTICE THAT HORRID HAT ON HER ? I DON'T THINK SHE EVEN KNOWS ANY PROMINENT PEOPLE I'VE HEARD ABOUT HER HUSBAND DID YOU NOTICE THAT MAKE-UP SHE HAD ON PAND HER LARGE FEET? MY-HER DRESS

WAS SIMPLY VULGAR-

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Onpr. 1940, King Features Symdien, The World rights reregerd.

Nourishing Puddings

sugar,

in The one thing we all hate Grated rind of 1 lemon

and Cream margarine pudding is excess weight, Al- though our confections may look mix in the flour and lemon rind. expansive-nay, positively puffed Then add the hut milk little by up-they should be as light as ali:tle. Stir till quite smooth. Last, feather, and as melting in thejof all, add the beaten egg. Bake mouth as butter. The right pro-in greased pie-dish In moderate portions of ingredients have ajoven for three-quarters of an hour good deal to do with a successful to one hour. pudding, together with light fin-

gers when it's necessary to rub Steamed Jam Pudding 1at into flour, and a strong wrist for mixtures that need beating.

Steamed Raisin Pudding And Sauce

14 lb. self-raising flour 4ozs, margarine or butter 4 ozs. raisins

For the sauce:—

1 oz. flour

1 oz. butter or margarine

pint of milk

1 tablespoon castor sugar

1 teaspoon vanila essence Rub the margarine into flour, add raisins and mix with

the

8 ozs. flour

2 small eggs

31% ozs. margarine or butter

4 tablespoons jam

4 ozs. sugar

11⁄2 teaspoons baking powder

pint milk and water

Sieve the flour and baking pow- der into a basin, and rub in the

ing well. half hours.

Steam for one and

Baked Pudding With Fruit Sauce

lb. self-raising flour

4 ozs. butter or margarine

Little milk

1 cgg

4 ozs. sugar

For the sauce: ---

1 teaspoon cornflour

4 tablespoons sweet fruit juice

(orange or juice from tinned. fruit).

Rub the margarine into the

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flour, add sugar, mix to a light, and enjoy Good food; Good wine and Good music.

moist dough with milk and beaten egg and bake in a pie-dish or bak-

fat. Stir in sugar, make a well tin well greased, for one hour in the centre and add the beaten in a fairly hot oven.

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at very moderate prices.

For the sauce, mix the corn- eggs one by one. Add the milk four with cold water.

Special monthly rates for Breakfasts, Tiffins and Add fruit and water, beat well. Grease

juice. Bring to the boil, and boil Dinners. Fish and Chips 80 cents at Snack Bar. pudding basin and put the jam until sauce thickens. into it. Pour on the pudding mix- ture, and steam for two hours.

cold water to a stiff, dry paste. Baked Sponge Pudding Steam in a greased pudding basin covered with grease-proof for three hours.

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To make the sauce, melt the butter in a small pan (enamel or aluminium. so that the colour of the sauce is preserved). Stir in

14 lb. self-raising flour

4 ozs. margarine or butter

4 ozs. sugar

2 eggs Little milk

Rub the margarine into

the

-She Made

It Herself! WHITEAWAY'S

the flour with a wooden spoon and flour, add sugar, mix to a light, The flowers that bloom in the' L wait until butter and flour bubble moist dough with the milk and spring make the gayest of hats all over. Draw the pan off the eggs, and bake in a greased pie- and cost very little. The florists' heat and add a little milk. Stir dish or baking tin for one hour in windows just now are a joy to the briskly with the wooden spoon a fairly hot oven. Serve sprinkl-eye and you'll find faithful copies until you have a perfectly smoothed with sugar. mixture. Then add the rest of

the milk, stirring well all the Date Sponge Pudding time. Put the pan back on the

of these lovely blooms in shops.

the

Try your hand at.making the posy hat sketched. It Is' quite easy.

-flame and bring to the boil, still! lb. dates (stoned and chop-The rounded part of the top of an

2 ozs: sugar

2 ozs. butter

stirring, and boil for two or three ped) minutes. Then add the castor sugar and vanila essence.

Baked Lemon Pudding

2 ozs, flour

2 ozs. súgar

1 oz. margarine or butter

1 egg

1 pint hot milk

6 ozs. self-raising flour

teacup milk

1 or 2 eggs Pinch of salt

Cream fat and sugar together, Jadd eggs well beaten in the milk. Stir in the flour gradually, then the chopped dates and salt, beat-

Treating Minor Accidents

uld hat will do for a foundation -be it felt, straw or ribbon.

First cut it to a size 6in. deep by Sin. wide-these measurements are for an average head (you may need it a little larger if your face is broad). Then bind the edge with a bias tape.

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The flowers required for the hat illustrated are one red rose, two pink carnations and a spray of lilies of the valley. Sew these to the foundation withi the stalks bunched to the back.

Try the hat on as you work and watch the effect in your mir- ror so that you keep your flowers well spread out and avoid a nar- row effect.

The addition of a bow of stif- fened veiling will give any neces- sary height and width, and ends

Small accidents can usually be for a second to release the steam, should float down over your hair. treated successfully at home-if then place on the injury. Cover you know how!

with

To keep the hat firmly on the a piece

or head, affix ribbon either side and of oiled silk

as shown grease-proof paper larger than the join with fine elastic Those Horrid Blisters! compress, and loosely bind. Re-in the small diagram below.

For wear in a country town use new the dressing when cool.

Do not break blisters. If the; blister has been caused by a burn, quickly place the part in a solu- tion made from one dessertspoon- ful of baking soda to one pint of) warm water. This will relieve the pain.

Dress the Injury by putting on strips of clean linen or lint soaked in clean soda solution. Cover with cotton wool and loosely bind.

If the blister has been caused by the rubbing of a shoe heel, apply a clean dressing of lint well smeared with boracic ointment; and bind up. It is most important to cover the blister.

Stressing Strains

A muscle strain is rather differ- ent, but there will be severe pain and probably swelling, Cramp may follow. Get the injured child] into the most comfortable posi- tion and apply a hot compress.

To make this, place an open clean tea towel over a basin. On it put a piece of flannel' or lint folded into four. Pour over the flannel some boiling water. Quick- ly fold the ends of the tea towell and wring the flannel dry. Shake

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Gold-digging

Gertle Baya

It's too bad when a romance fades but after.... all it's the present that counts.

ribbon instead of velling

and

meadow flowers, which will com-

bine beautifully in giving you a colourful hat-buttercups, daisies, small poppies and cornflowers.

Blue outfits are fashionable this

year. Anemones in soft petunia

and red tints will harmonise, and you will need only a few blooms to cover your cap completely as they can be stitched flat, each petal being lightly caught with thread. White marguerites with brown centres are good with green outfits.

Remember that flower hats are economical and becoming for bridesmaids, and even the Bride herself can make a charming headdress from

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Turkeys 1.30 lb.

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small shaggy Royal Jellies and Puddings 25 cts. per pkt.

white chrysanthemums, or came- lias topped with a jaunty butter fly-bow-of-tulle-

Look through your workbox, you may have some small lengths of ribbon-these looped between the the flowers help to reduce number.

This idea gives you plenty of scope for artistic colour schemes, Iso get out that old hat,, start right in on the crown and deck it with Mowers.

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