1940-10-14 — Page 43

THE CHINA MAIL, OCTOBER 14, 1940.

Bring Up Father

AH! AFTER ALL THERE IS NO

PLACE UKE

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

WHO IS THAT

MAGGIE IS TALKING

ON THE PHONE

WHY-YES-MRS VAN ANTRUCK-

WELL BE DELIGHTED TO GO WITH YOU TO THE OPERA THIS. EVENING YES-VLL TELL MY

HUSBAND RIGHT AWAY -

Copt, 1940, King Features Syndicate, Ing, Wolf rights resence 1

Fage 11

By George MacManus

WHERE'

MISTER JIGGS

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

MUST BE IN CANADA BY NOW-

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

On Being A Hostess

Your success or otherwise as a hostess depends largely on good household arrangements. An easy and agrecable 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 mcans that you should know advance likes and dislikes.

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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 served. are 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

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

Some simple schemes should be decoration introduced for table

Consider the whole and service. eclour-scheme together. If for dier 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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room, removes the cover from the dish to be served, and stands at the left of the carver if carving takes 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.

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

Before dessert is put on the table, salt-cellars, bread, etc., are removed and crumbs taken away) from the left of each person. Ser-j 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 an attractive way!

Fried fish should be served on a paper d'oyley on a very hot dish. i 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 up an an- propriate garnish with each dish. Cress or fried "murunga" leaves for cutlets, steaks, and game. Croutons for clear soup. Cucum- ber før 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

and napkins, yellow and white china, and yellow and white slen- det flowers in crystal bowls. Luncheon sets of cream

china

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 little thought, and care it need not be. Attend 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

wagon.

Announcing Dinner

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

the dining

servant remains in

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 alternately round the table.

A Munition Girl's

Day

dustry are to

"Women in the engineering in- 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

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, wages for women munition work- 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. National Union of General and Municipal Workers daily and even hourly thrash out their problems with employers and the women, content to leave, these details to more experienced hands, carry on their work with unabated zeal.

So lay your cloth (or mats) first. Place napkins in front of each person's place at table, arrange table decorations.,

Next arrange cutlery. The soup spoon goes to the extreme right, next to it the fish-knife, then dinner nife and dessertspoon, and inside of all the cheese-knife. On the other side of the space left for the plates, the dessert-fork ist inside, the dinner-fork next, and the fish-fork has the outside posi tion on the left,

The following is a typical day in the life of a munition worker.

7 a.m-Get up, do beds, put sand-

It's

making depth charges. funny. "But noisy! My ears never stop ringing, even in my dreams. Canteen's the saino, only it's the wireless on full blast and all the girls talking to drown it."

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

10.10 a.m.--Back to work. Fumes and blue smoke hang in the dir, make eyes smart, throat hoarse, voice husky. Hands are black with oil, steel splin- ters lodge under the skin.

noon.-Pinner hour. Dasli home, heat and eat dinner prepared overnight: liver and onions, potatoes, cold pudding.

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1 p.m.-Back at work. The girl malters of ring bearings for neroplanes work to a sharp speed up.

3.30 p.m.-Break for ten.

wiches ready for husband 7 p.m.-Home: Prepare and cat (he's on night shift), take Id. bus to factory from own little 8 house on outskirts of town, [~~

Glasses are placed to the right on a level 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 8 a.m. At work. Off with frock, the place reserved for the car ver. Condiments can be placed between each pair of guests, or at a small party, at the corners be tween the serving spoons, 7.

Tuble servants should wear spotless clothes. Additional silver should be placed on the sideboard clean in caso it is needed. A cloth should be spread on side table, on which the servant

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on with long-sleeved, boltor suit. In hot weather, bathing | dress only underneath. Mrs. R., who tells the story, 1· wears goggles, too. "The chut you away, and your thoughts are all to yourself, You think -sometimes I think of things that happened long ago, often of my brother, I think of hlin in the dostrøyors, and " *ine

and

supper: something quick. p.m.-Wash up, preparo cook mid-day dinner. Onwards for the morrow. Tidy up. Clean one room or put sheets to soak,, “The rest of "the evening I have to myself,"

saya Mrs. R. laughing.

She does all the washing at home. Week-ends, cleans the house thoroughly, finishes washing and ironing. Pictures or dance on Saturday. Church

· Sunday evening.

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