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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER

-WOMANSENSE

Little Party Sandwiches Backward Look for Beauty

46 deinty

For New Year

IDA BAILEY ALLEN

Add 1

to make 4 c. has almost sandwiches sandwiches

sap- potato nerved by the Australians peared in America. It should grated medium-sized onlon, 1/ are delightful," observed the be revived. Day-old loaf bread c. shredded string beans and

реал 13% с. crust of e. green Chef. "They are email enough should be used; the to be enjoyed in two or three the loaf sliced off; the butter water, bites.

softened and spread evenly on unusual way they the end of the loaf. It should have of serving dainty plain then be sliced thin, the filing boll,

boiling 1 tsp. salt and sp. popper. Simmer 20 min; add 1 qt. whole milk and bring to a Cream together 2 tbsp. cach flour and butter buttered whole wheat bread added, a second alice butter margarine. Add c. of the hot

"It is an

cut and fitted on.

The cond- sandwichce with oysters on the half shell, or tomato juice and wich should then be cut into white

the 4 triangles. Wrap in waxed reast rolls with dinner.

paper or aluminium foil until served to keep from drying out.

Dinnor Chopped Vegetable Cream Soup

Buffor Party

buffet party good "AL

New Year or for enough for morning or afternoon tea, I like their filled sandwiches," the Chef continued. "These are very good

with the grated cheddar cheese Alling, Madame, And these chopped chicken sand- wiches are also good," he went on, passing mo the plate, "These others are put together with thin sliced ham, sardine and chulney butter, which

means minced anchovies or chutney stirred into butter."

Croutons

Frenched Lamb Sandwiches Whole Green Beans Tomato and Lettuce Salad Baked Honey Custards

Coffee, Tea or Mik All Measurements Are Level Recipes Serve Four Chopped Vegetable Cream

Grate

The custom of serving dainty make

By

Soup

enough raw carrot to I C. Grate enough raw

Teatime Classic

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NLY the woman who has one, and whose life

weathers during

winter, after five, knows the joy of a classic teatime.

suit.

We especially admire this true navy blue, not midnight blue, coat and skirt of silk Lyons type velvet, with its soft polish highlighted by roll collar and pocket flaps of heavy satin in exact matching shade.'

Buttons are of the velvet, and the only concession beyond the luxurious fabrics which the outfit makes toward frivolity, is the spray of big roses tacked to one pocket flap.

roup

Then

20

and stir until smooth. stir into the cooking and simmer until soup thickens, about 2 min. If de- sired,

the boiling hot pour coup into a beaten egg. Serve sprinkled with minced parsley.

Frenched Lamb Sandwiches

Mince enough left – over

Jamb to cooked

make 12 c. 1/3 Moisten with

C brown gravy or tomato catsup. Make

4 full-sized white bread sand-

with the lamb

wiches Alling.

a

Press together and 'cut Then beat 2 eggs in halves. slightly; add 1⁄4 tsp. salt and 34 c. milk. Dip the sandwiches in and out quickly. Drain a in butter от moment; fry

margarine on both sides until brown.

Baked Honey Custards

Beat 3 eggs untill foamy. Add 1/3 c. honey, 1/3 cinnamon and 2 tsp. salt.

tsp.

Sli:

a

in 3 c. milk. Transfer to large custard cups; stand them in pan, pour in boiling water to

moderate oven, 375

half the depth, and bake 30

min, in a

Before you don one of the new bare-top dresses, give your back Ilitle cosmetic care. In the tub, scrub with a long brush; after-

and trim,

wards pat on powder.

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Packing And Storage Ideas

Mo

OVING is just about the best time ever for getting

rld of white elephants, Go over all those stored-up possessions, than with more and

bead heart, decide what must and then what should be discarded.

and ask Call the family in each member about his or her

treasured property, and only

keep really

the stuff after you have been convinced that to it would be a major

discard

disaster.

Dort

After this la donc, what is to

be retained, cartons,

then pack in small

tle and inbel. If you have been

started

wise, you will have carton-collecting quite u wiy back, paying delivery boyu to large and small bring cartons to the house.

I there аго дпу valuable papers or documents about the house

now is the time to do what should have been done long time ago, that is, rent a satety deposit box. That's where such items belong, in keeping. safe from fire, theft for loss.

Sort Books

Dafe

Go over books, sort out any not wanted, see that they reach a local hospital, or similar in- stitution. Wrap and place in strong and the with

medium-sized Small or zopo. cartons aro best, the large

cartons

One3

ta

too heavy and are too

Get

dat unwieldy.

bold of you can, to pack cartons if dollars. It helps

linens and bedding. Liguro youthfulness of

glamour. sartorial

To

Ilfted.

By HELEN FOLLETT TEXT time you are looking million NE

around the shops for a new create

a triple and frock, stand before F or until a knife when in mirror and size up your back, attain it and to preserve it one serted in the centre comes out is it neat

with a should keep the chest clean.

people, Garnish if desired with graceful nip in at the waistline? abdominal abres packed against

Jittle

Let us hope. If the upper por- the backbone, shoulders tion is rounded you won't look an easy pose. If you throw your as nice going as coming. Few shoulders forward it is a good guess that your back will not a thought to rear women give appearance, not having eyes in be anything to brag about. the back of their heads.

glace cherry and shredded eltron

Suggestion of the Chef

Try

Frenched meat sand wiches with any kind of left-

ia a mixed A next, smooth back over meat or poultry with 1 Little

green good-looks asnet; it makes or-

like dinary clothes look

pepper.

minced

Seran

Shoulderette Is Top Fashion

VOU won't let this season go

by without CBC of these shoulderettes, so make yours early and know the joy of owning one. They are as cany as A B C to make, are eazy to wear, Battering, yet ever so practical.

You will want one to wear with your dresses, also one to

wcar

as a "hug-me-tight" in- stead of wrap. There are so many fabrics suitable to this design that we had difculty deciding what we would show it in. Original we finally made is deep King's Blue nylon velvet-very lush, very useful.

Diffaronco in Width

Buy yds of 40" or 50" velvet or 54" wool. The dif- ference in width simply makes sleeves come down farther on your arms.

Very tall girls may need as much as 4 yd. of fabric.

Straighten fabric. French- seam crosswise edges together, stliching from each selvage in about 8", as at A and B.

Slip-Stitch Hams

rows

Then stitch two baste. of clastic thread over turned- back selvages.

Ready-to-Wear

Turn right-side out, and your have shoulderette is ready to your arms inserted and for you to enjoy.

If you make this of a light- weight Bannel or jersey, and may

Fold raw edges under and alcoves are longer, you make slip-alitch hems on both wish to fold in three darts on sides of 24" opening (C). Turn each sleeve so they come to selvages over at each end and underside, as at D. slip-stitch them down to make

a casing, no at D.

the

A

Ribbon or jewelled banding may be used to ornament Insert elastic in each casing sleeves at bottom edges. and draw up fullness to fit lovely pin at left-side front to hold shoul- It you prefer, turn may be used selvacco at each end and derette to position on figure.

arm.

40"

23

Bare-Top Farmala

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with

If the move is to be a long one, get barrels for china and

from the

moving glass-ware

otherwise, strong, medium-sized cartons will do. Line bottom with a good baze of excelsior or shredded news- two Wrap plates with paper, thicknesses of paper between each one, and set on edge with base of plate toward the out- side. Flat dishes placed hori zontally are easily cracked or Fil centro with cups,

carefully

bottom dish heavy

With bare-top formals, chest, broken

wrapped. neck and arms require a certain handles amount of cosmetic attention. Top

layer with When bathing, use long-another

paper or ex- handled brush to scour the area celsior layer. The job should be of your spinal column. Have the started with the largest pieces, brush well soaped. The bristles such as platters, working up to should be fl so they don't

If

bend and weaken when moist the lighter and smaller pieces as you go towards the top, with Blackheads often form on the final layer of paper or ex-

celsior. upper portion of the back. they are already present sponge the skin surface lightly with eau de cologne. The alcoholle con-

tent will seep into the pores St. John Ambulance

soften the black points and, eventually, will dissolve them.

No woman can have an at- not tractive Agure who does possess a well-modelled back, covered with just enough fler to hide the bones. But there is more than beauty in the per fect back. The spinal

column

Is the cornerstone of the human

skeleton.

Hold yourself tall, walking, sitting or standing. That is the secret of good posture. It is the means of establishing splendid anatomical lines. Without cor- the rect stance

musculature weakens and body balance departs.

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