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MUTT AND JEFF

GOOD MORNING, SIR! I REPRESENT THE FINEWAY PIANO COMPANY! AWOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN.

BUYING A BABY GRAND

¿PIANO?

WHERE 16 IT?

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 1, 1940.

MY DEAR MAN,YOU DIDNT EXPECT ME TO CARRY.A-PIANO.. WITH ME; DID YOU?

WELL, YOU- DON'T EXPECT ME TO BUY⋅ SOMETHING WITHOUT SEEING IT FIRST, DO

You?

DO YOU KNOW THAT A BABY GRAND PIANO WEIGHS 600

POUNDS!

·SO WHAT

50 WA

ME YOU EXPECT -

TO LUG THAT AROUND WITH ME?

AW THAT'S THE TROUBLE

WITH YOU WHITE COLLAR

GUYSTE

Page

By BUD FISHER

YOU THINK "YOU'RE TOO GOOD TO DO A LITTLE EMANUAL LABOR!

A PAGE FOR WOMEN

OnGiving Parties

or

Happily the informal party is matches or lighters, too. See that luncheon parties, informal tea superseding the elaborate affair the bathrooms are in good order parties. Ten days should be al- of our grandparents' time.

and that there is plenty of cold lowed for cocktail parties, and a Which is as it should be, seeing water on tap, and invite the guests fortnight at least for bridge that social customs are imposed to a wash and brush up imme- other card parties.. The longer or relaxed to fit the needs of the diately they arrive if you live at the notice you give in this latter age in which we live. And rapid an out-station.

case,. the less likely you are to movement is certainly the hall- A word about invitations for all have "odd" numbers when' mark of life to-day. Which occasions. A fortnight's notice is have to man your tables for the means that we have neither time usually given for the more formal game: And you know how awk- nor inclination for too much parties-dinner, . "At Homes," ward it is to provide partners at formality.

dances. Give a week's notice for the last moment.

Modes of dress must naturally conform to these social changes. So don't wear, an elaborate even- ing dress except on very special occasions. Choose a simple gown for dinner, or afternoon parties, If the invitation specially indi- cates "Not evening dress," wear a smart afternoon frock or plain semi-evening dress with sleeves.

Men can wear dinner jackets, black waistcoat and tie at in- formal parties. And this question. of the seems to bother a lot of

you

Simple Diet For

Health

Our modern conception of On rising: Glass of hot or cold

them. Is it to be "black or beauty is more than fifty per cent, water.

white?" The best guide is to stick good health. The languishing ty Breakfast: Grapefruit, orange or

EAT AT-

Jimmy's Kitchen

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to the dinner jacket and black tie, type no longer evokes any admir-fresh fruit in season, or stewed FIBRE CABIN TRUNK. A solidly built trunk, covered in brown unless the invitation says "Even-ation. If good health is present, fruit. Cereal with milk. Whole-water-proof canvas. Fitted two good locks & centre bolt. Cotton ing dress," when the more formal many of the things that make for meal bread with butter, honey or tail-coat requires the white waist-beauty are added unto you. For marmalade. Coffes with milk or coat and tie.

Garden parties are preferred to house parties.

At these informal gatherings tennis is usually provided and khose guests who play the game will attend dressed ready for the occasion. Naturally they will come equipped with rackets and

'balls:

Non-players wear their smartest frocks and shady hats, and the men lounge suits. or flannels,.

Indoors Or Out

instauce, bright eyes with clear cream. blue white; clear skin with that 11 am Fruit juice. lovely underlying glow; glossy Lunch Tomato and green salad hair, and strong growing anger with dressing, or egg or fish may- nails, firm healthy gums.

onnaise. Fresh, or cooked, fruit with cream.. Wholemeal bread with butter.

4. p.m.: Cup of tea with whole- meal bread and butter, or diges- tive biscuits.

Where shall we begin on this catalogue of health blessings. I think with the teeth, for so much depends upon them. The inside of the mouth is moist and dark, and so unless you are careful, provides Dinner: Vegetable soup. Lean a happy hunting ground for germs, meat. Potato and two green Nature does a lot in washing away, vegetables,

Junket, or a salad, germs with the quart of saliva fruit jelly, or fresh fruit in sea- which a normal person manufac- son, or dried fruit, tures every day, but it is: up to the individual to keep teeth scru- pulously clean.

The hostess with weather sense will make preparations to serve tea either indoors or in the gar- If you cannot manage to brush den. If the day should turn cool them three times a day, which is, or showery, small tables can be the ideal, at least do it night and placed in a large room facing the morning at the same time using garden (which has first been some dental floss to keep the cleared of all unnecessary: furni, spaces between the teeth free from are). Ices should be served to the any food debris. This is as impor tennis players during breaks in tant as the tooth brush, and will the game. Fruit cups and iced considerábly decrease the amount drinks 'áre: also welcomed. Fruit of tartar that accumulates. salad and ice-cream are other well appreciated extras.

10:

Bedtime: Glass of hot water. If it is more convenient to have: a midday dinner, serve the lunch menu for 'supper.

Of course a sluggish liver and perfect health and beauty, never did go together, nor yet a perfect temper, for there is none snappy as your bilious subject.

So

ed foods and fruit juice increased.

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Grapefruit and cereal, with wholemeal bread and butter, honey or jaggery are good for It is a simple list and includes breakfast. Tea should be weak. dairy produce, vegetables, eggs Tomato juice is generally well

tolerated. and fresh fruit.

Here again sensible diet can do a great deal to improve the con- dition. All foods which are in- digestible must be avoided as well A six-monthly visit to the den- "as those which are "liverish." tist saves a lot of trouble and pos- Meat, eggs and fat should be, On arrival guests should be sible pain. Eat plenty of the foods severely limited, and easily digest- shown direct to the garden. There containing the minerals and vita they should be. received by host | mins required for strong, healthy and hostess,

teeth, and at the same time benefit Invitations to garden parties your nails and your hair., should be so worded: that they include any visitors staying with friends. If children are included in the invitation, remember, to provide special games for them. A swing, rounders or clock-golf touch on a subject that is usually for lunch with lean ham 35. a. will keep them busy and out of approached with some diffidence; change. Mashed potato and sieved the way of the grown-ups, At bad breath. That is something that vegetables should be served. As refreshment time they, must have should never happen so see that it a second course milk pudding, tables to themselves and special doesn't happen to you. If it does, junket or a puree of stewed fruit. treats that appeal to them.: you need not necessarily conclude The last meal should be some- Large garden parties call for that your liver is out of sorts. thing simple. such as vegetable even less formality in the way of Teeth, tonsils; catarrh are just soup, macaroni and tomatoes, or invitations, Even slight acquaint as likely to be responsible as your a vegetable with white sauce. ances may be invited: Other forms other internal arrangements.. It Baked apples, or sieved stewed of entertainment besides tennis sometimes can be traced to excess pears or peaches are also permis should be devised; A band Corsive smoking, though maybe the Rible. small orchestra will be welcomed present price of cigarettes will band dancing encouraged. Refresh prevent you from erring in that

ments can be served in a marquee | respect. /

Before we leave the mouth, may

eretted at the end of the garden. If you should find your tummy (which must naturally be a large is responsible, take to a lighter -one for such,parfles).":

diet for a while, Lighten the pro- Arrangements for this type of beins, removing meat and other party are best carried out by a heavy dishes for a week or so and reliable catering firm.

to and milka kat

Steamed fish should be chosen

No Stockings

Going stockinglesa. is an excel- lent wartime economy. But the

Guests who prefer ten rely on a diet of fruit, vegetables problem for many women 'is: How

to keep one's belt or corset from riding up.

dancing will come in tennis If you suffer from constipation, clothes, Dancers, and those who supplement whatever aperient you Make a pair of big gar-, just prefer to look on, wear light-take by a suitable diet".

ters, out of Elastic at least 1 coloured afternoon frocks,

wide if narrower will

younger then res, and the Fresh fruit, dried fruit, well-be uncomfortable. Make the gor-

light dresses.

Care Of Detalls

cooked, green vegetables, salad, ter wide enough it should come whole-meal bread and country just where the tops of the stock- rice should form a large part ofing usually stops and it will stay Take care of details like place the diet, with a limited amount of put without being tight.re +ing ash-trays at convenient spots fat. Water should be taken freely Tinally, sow on each garter a tab: of doubled taps on which to where groups of people collect for botwean meals..

vmoke" und à chat......... Provide Here in a sample day's menu:affix your suspenders,

locks,

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Time And Tide

HERE come The Twins at last, “unpunctual and charming.as ever. Too late to offer them tea, of course, with the hands of the cabin chronometer standing at an uncompromising six-fifteen And so the visit will develop once again into an informal cocktail party as The Twins have quite possibly foreseen,”

Luckily there is still a shot or two of gin in the cabin locker, and a tall bottle of Bose's Lime.

rack. The Twins are quite firm about this gin and lime. They know it helps to keep those slender graceful figure lines which appeal to yachtsmen like some shapely beauty from the yard of a master-builder." The yachting world bestows no higher praise. And never by any chance can there be the tiniest trace of a headache after Rose's, an important point for young indies as popular as

· Juice in a cunningly constructed:umpunctual Twins.

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