1940-10-14 — Page 27

AMY

HE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.

AFTER ALL- THERE IS NO

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

Page If By George MacManus

WHO IS THAT. MAGGIE IS TALKING

ON THE

PHONE?

WHY-YES-MRS: VAN ̃ANTRICK="

WELL BE DELIGHTED TO, GO. WITH YOU TO THE OPERA THIS EVENING. YES-I'LL 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 j 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 in means that you should know 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-}· few courses of well, cooked, dishes, correctly and: attractively servedį. ard preferable to many courses of indifferently uninteresting and

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- vants or children before youri guest. And if something goes. wrong, dur't worry too much, make the best of the situation.

Some simple schemes should be introduced for table decoration and service. Consider the whole colour-scheme together. If for dimmer you use candles, these and the candleshades shoulu 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 road to success were Not lined with stop and go signals, a lot of people would realise their ambition earlier in life:

wagon.

Hostess

room, removes the cover from the dish to be served; and stands at the left of the carver if carving has to be done. Sho takes the 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 whore there is a table for them.

the Before dessert is put on table, salt-cellars; bread, etc., are removed and crumbs. taken away from the left of cach person, Ser- vice should be given quietly and 'with a minimuch of fuss,

And what a lot of adultional enjoyment can be had through good-service and food served-in an 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.

Serve omelets, souffles, and -grills as soon as possible after

they are cooked. Dish up1ar`an-| | propriate garnish with each dish. "Cress or fried “murunga” “leaves 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

is a yellow-bordered table cloth places the tray, or on a dinner and filled with buttered peas for und napkins, yellow and white china, and yellow and white slen- der flowers in crystal bowls.

china

Luncheon sets of cream with deep blue borders, cream tablecloth or mats, and cornflow- ers and marguerites in slender vases, make a delightful combina- tion-fresh and inviting as the flowers of Up-country.

Dinner is often the bugbear of the hostess. But with a Intle thought and care it need not be. Attend to details beforehand. Cruet 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' nccessary... Table- cloth and dinner napkins folded; and floral decorations arranged:

Arranging The Table

•

Announcing Dinner

Dinner is announced by the ser- vant, who either sounds a gong or says: goes to the mistress and "Dinner is served, madam." The servant remains in the dining-

a joint. Rice to form a ring for minced meat..

And a last word to the hostess. If you have invited more than one| group of guests be as sure as pos sible that they are likely to be congenial and place ladies and gentlemen: alternistely round the table.

A Munition Girl's

Day

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

making depth charges. It's funny.

"But noisy! My ears never stop ringing, even in my dreams. Canteen's the saine, 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 with the right disposition: And

The difficult task of regulating that is the comfort of your guests, the appearance of the finished set wages for women munition-work-10.10 a.m-Back to work. Fumes ers is thus being smoothed out in ting and getting the maximum of Britain but there are still many effcet with the minimum of ser-individuali mirior injustices that

·vice and labour.

need careful examination. 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 Next arrangé cutlery. The soup-with employers and the women, spoon gues to the extreme right, content to leave these details to next to it the fish-knife, then dinner knife and dessertspoon, more experienced hands, carry on and inside of all the cheese-knife: their work with umbated 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 Dfe of a mutiltian worker: the fish fork has the outside posi tiatr on the left..

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7 a.m.--Get up, do beds, put sand- wiches ready for husband

Glasses are placed to the right on a level, with the bowl part of the soup. spoon. Where a tum- bleh and two wine-glasses are laid they should form a trianglo. brondplate is placed to the left." Carving tools are placed outside 8 tho place reserved for the car- : ver: Condiments can be placed betiveert each pair of guests) or at a small party, at the corners bo tween the serving spoons.”

Täble servants should' wear, spotless clothes. Additional silver should be placed on the sideboard in case it is needed, cloth. should be spread. on the "side-table," "oir" "which" the servant**

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and blue smoke hang in the air, make, oyés, smart, throat hoarse, voice husky, Hands aro-black with oil; steel: splin- ters lodge under thoʻsking.

liður, Dash 12noon-Dinner

home' heat and eåt" "difinér prepared overniglit: liver and onions, potatoes, cold pudding.

p.m.-Back at work. The girl makers of ring bearings tur acroplanes work to a sharp speed"up?--

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5.10 p.m.-Break for ten.

(he's on night shift), take. bus to factory from own little 18 house on outskirts of town, · [:

a.m.-At work, Off with frock

on with long-sleeved boller suit. In hot weather, bathing' dress only underneath.

Mrs. R,, who tells the story, wears goggles, too. "They shut you away, and your thoughts are all to yourself. You thinle -sometimes I think of things' that happened long ago, oftan- of my brother. I think of hlin In the""" costroyers, "and" "ma

and

p.m.-Home, Propare andi ent

supper: something- quick." p.m.-Wash up, prepare cook mid-day dinner, Onwards for the morrow, Tidy up. Clean one room, or put sheets to soalt "The rest of the evening. I have to myself?" says Mrs. R. laughing.

She does, all the washing at home: Week-ords, cleans the house thoroughly," "finishös washing and Irönifig, Pictures or dance on Saturday. Church. Sunday evening

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