1940-10-14 — Page 11

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.

AH! AFTER ALL –

THERE IS NO

PLACE LIKE HOME BECAUSE FER. TH' MOMENT I CAN'T THINK OF ANY PLACE TO GO-

Page 11 By George MacManus

WHO IS THAT MAGGIE IS TALKING TO ON THE PHONEP

WHY-YES-MRS VAN ANTRUCK- WELL BE DELIGHTED TO GO WITH YOU TO THE OPERA THIS EVENINO - YES-ILL TELL. MY

'HUSBAND RIGHT AWAY

WHERE'S

MISTER

JIGGS ?

WELL-JUDGING BY. THE WAY HE RAN OUT OF HERE* HE

·MUST BE IN CANADA BY NOW-

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A PAGE FOR WOMEN

On Being A

Your success or otherwise as a hostess depends largely on good, household arrangements. An easy and agreeable manner makes suc- cess doubly assured.

It is important that your guest's bedroom be prepared with a view to his or her comfort. Which means that you should know in advance likes and dislikes.

Arrange a programme in ad vance, too. Order meals in time, so that everything you need is to hand, meals should fit in with the amount of service you can give. A tew courses of well cooked dishes, correctly and attractively served, are preferable to many courses of uninteresting and: indifferently prepared food. And have meals to time, which means planning be- forehand. This will leave you time to enjoy yourself and entertain your guest.

Refrain from scolding your ser- vanis or children before

your guest: And if something goes wrong, don't worry too much, make the best of the situation.

Some simple schemes should be decoration introduced for table

and service. Consider the whole colour-scheme together. If for dimer you use candies, these and the candleshades should harmon- ise with the flowers and the col- our of the china pattern. glass, tablecloth or mats.

A good breakfast-table scheme

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if the read⋅ 10`success were not lined with stop and go signals a lot of people would realise their ambition earlier in life,

is a yellow-bordered table cloth places the tray, or on and napkins, yellow and white china, and yellow and white slen-

der flowers in crystal bowls. Luncheon sets of cream

china

with deep blue borders, cream tablecloth or mats, and cornflow-

wagon.

Hostess

room, removes the cover from the dish to be served; and stands at the left of the carver if carving taices the has to be done. She plates to the guests, serving from the left.

He hands dishes containing vegetables, sauces, etc., on a nap- kin, and with a fork and spoon placed ready for service.

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Plates are removed from right of the guest, and are taken to the back, verandah where there is a table for them.

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Before dessert is put oh table, salt-cellars, bread, etc., are removed and crumbs taken away from the left of each person. Ser-¡ vice should be given quietly: 'and' with a minimum of fuss.

And what a lot of additional enjoyment can be had through good' service and food served'in än attractive way!'

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Fried fish should be served on a paper d'oyley on a very hot dish. Boiled fish on a. folded napkin on a hot dish. And make sure that all food that is meant to be hot is really hot-never just lukewarm.

and Serve omelets, souffles, grills as soon as possible after they are cooked. Dish up an ab- propriate garnish with each dish. Cress or tried "murunga" leaves ŰRNA for cutlets, steaks, and game. Croutons for clear soup. Cucum- ber for salmon. Lemon for steam- ed and fried fish and for muli- gatawny soup: Potatoes mashed

a dinner and filled with buttered peas for a joint. Rice to form a ring for minced meat:

Announcing Dinner

And a last word to. the hostess. If you have invited more than one Dinner is announced by the ser-group-of-guests be as sure as pas- ers and marguerites in slender vant, who either sounds a gong or sible that they are likely to be and says: congenial and place ladies and vases, make a delightful combina-goes to the mistress

"Dinner is served; madam." The gentlemen alternately round tion-fresh and inviting as the

the flowers of Up-country..

· servant remains in the dining- table.

Dinner is often the bugbear of the hostess. But with а intle thought and care: it' need not be. Atten to details beforehand. Cruets in order, salt, sifted so that it' is light and powdery; mustard; freshly made and at the right.con- sistency; pepper pots filled. Tum- blers and wine glasses well pol- ished. Silver counted and rubbed up with tissue paper or chamois. Knives and carvers examined and made sharp, if necessary,

Table cloth and dinner. napkins folded, and floral decorations arranged.

Arranging The Table

A Munition Girl's

Day

dustry are to receive equal pay "Women in the engineering in-

if they do men's jobs, but only. after. 32 weeks. Wages of women who have to be supervised will be subjected to negotiations," stat ed a recent British regulation..

The difficult' task of regulating},

making depth charges. It's funny,

"But. noisy! My ears never stop ringing,, even.

in' my. dreams. Canteen's the same, only it's the wireless on full blast and all the girls talking to drown it."

10 a.m.-Break. Eat sandwiches or cake packed at home.

Setting the table can be a jo instead of a worry if you go about it witii the right disposition. And that is the comfort of your guests; wages for women munition Work-10.10: a.m-Back to work. Furdes the appearance of the finished set-ers is thus being smoothed out in ting and getting the maximum of Britain but there are still many: effect with the minimum of ser-individual minor injustices that vice and labour.

need careful examination. The So lay your cloth (or mats) first. National Union of General and Place napkins in front of each

Municipal Workers daily and even person's place at table, arrange table decorations.

hourly thrash out their problems 12 Next arrange cutlery. The soup- with employers and the women, spoon goes to the extreme right content to leave these details: to next to it "the-fish-knife, then.

and blue smoke hang in the. air,' make øyes- smart, throat: hoarse, voice husky Hands are black with oil, steel splin- ters lodge under the skin. noon-Dinner hour. Dash home,, heat- and, eat, dinner prepared overnights: liver and onions, potatoes, cold pudding.

| dinnereknife" and "dessertspoon,more expérienced 'Hards; carry only; p.m.Bacle: at: work: The girl

and inside of all the cheese-knife. their work with unabated zeal,

On the other side of the space left

for the plates, the dessert-fork is: The following: Is a typical day. inside, the dinner-fork next, and in the life of a munition worker. the fish-fork' has the outside posi tion on the left.

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Tam-Get up, do beds, put sand-

Glasses are placed to the right onlu levels with the bowl part of the soup spoon. Where a tum- bler and two:wine-glasses are laid they should form a triangle. A breadplate is placed to the left. Carving tools are placed outside & the place reserved for the car- ver. Condiments can. be placed. between each pair of guests, or at: av small party, at, thes corners, be- || . tween the, serving spoons.

Table servants should woar spotless clothes, Additional silver should be placedión the sideboard in case. It is needed. A clean cloth should lo spread on the side-table, on which the servant

makers of ring bearings, tor aeroplanes work. to a sharp speed up.

5.30 p.m.-Break: for tem,

supper something quick. ---

wiches ready for husband 7 p.m.-Home, Prepare and eat (he's on night shift)} take 1d. bus to factory from own llitles. p.m.-Wash up, prepare and house on outskirts? di:town;

- cook mid dày dinner. Onwards.—for the morrowi. Tidy

a.m.-At work.. Off with frock, on with long-sleeved boltor suit. In hot weather, bathing dress only underneath. Mrs. Ri, who, tells the story; wears goggles, too. "They shut you away, and your thoughts: are all to yourself. You think. sometimes Ethinic of things that happened long ago, often of my Brother. I think of: Him in the destroyers, and me

up: Clean one room" or put sheets to soak. "The rest of the evening I have to myself,” says Mis. R. laughing.

She docs all the washing at homa, Week-ends, cleansTM the houss. thoroughly,.. finishes Washing and ironing. Pictures or dance on Saturday. Church:) Sunday evening..

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Under the arrangement entered into, cus- tomers of this Company will be able to secure their requirements of Highest Quality Fruits and Vegetables; local and imported, at competi- tive prices. Vegetables grown by this Company. at our Pokfulam Farm will also be available through the same: source.

For order purposes separate pass books will be required but all supplies sold on a credit basis will be billed by this Company:

It is hoped that customers will avail themselves of this added facility.

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