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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.

A CHRISTMAS DINNER- The Very Idea!

menta put forward. This morning's news reveals the fact that President Hoover is scoking co-operation with Mr. TOGETHER WITH A CHRISTMAS PRESENT Roosevelt, so as to ensure con- tinuity of policy. This is a decided advance, and it holds out the hope that some definite decision may be reached before the June payments become due. One thing has been made clear by Britain, namely, that she does not intend to continuo pay. ment of these debt instalments on the present basis. Thus the dominant fact is that some new arrangement has to be ranched, and the sooner that is done, the better will it be for all concerned.

By HORACE ANNESLEY VACHELL

Pet Superstitions

GIVE AND TAKE

By Edward ("Gimms"). Kally. It is not generally known, oven

Colonial

CAN RECALL, some fifty years (sunshine in your cellar. If not, by those in the know, that the age, a Christmas dinner at it would be easy to enlist the sym-real reason underlying the visit which a baron of beef was served pathies of your wine merchant, of Sir Samuel Wilson. Permanent In an immense pewter dish carried who would see to it that you wore Under-Secretary to the

tete de Cuves Ofce, is to confer with a certain shoulder high, into the dining. provided with a room by four resplendent foot Chablis, a 1916. Corton,

a 111 local export. mon. The butler preceded them Romance Conti, and a 1004 Cham-

The fact has not been reported bearing a bear's head garnished ertin. with rosemary. There was no The selection of the right food peacock-pie, and, unless my is comparatively easy, bocauso memory falls me, no turkey.

highly seasoned dishes are taboo.ourselves were discussing Hong- The other great Statesman and If you order a saddle of well-hung "Hopa and turkeys, Carps and Welsh mutton, it would be im-kong only yesterday.

Beer,

plous to add red currant jelly. But feel that ovon a saddle of mutton is not quite worthy of the greatest Feast of Christendom.

Came into England all in a

year."

sauce.

In the dally press, mainly through Jealousy:

What this place wanted to brighten up business, we decided, was a bit of give and take.

For all the efforts of our ra- tionalists, the cultured citizen of According to that good gossip,

For instance, take the cheese the Twentieth Century still likes Mr. Vincent Lean, this year was very dry old sherry will be the best

Before dinner is served, a light, business, as far away as you like. to hug a superstition or two, circa 1523. Small beer was drunk aperitif. Oysters and the Chablis the cheese business would be to All you'd have to do to liven up just "to bo on the safe alde." in England before the Thirteenth precede a clear, soup. A Dover, give a free mouse trap with every That "pet" superstitions are Century. The Encyclopædia Bri- sole should be grilled, because at half pound of Gorgonzola. usually petty as well only goes tannica affirms that hops were in this early stage of the banquet the every mouse trap required half a Say to show how sincere the belief troduced into this country in the palate might be cloyed by a rich in them is. Even those "en- reign of Henry IV. lightened" persons who make aį The swan-another special point of walking under dish-used to be called Norfolk suffice; and if it be your object Ono superlative dish ought to ladders, or thirteen at a table, are, in effect, many years ago, and quoted. the other I suggest to you a phendant

of sitting down venison. We attempted to eat a

wild gwan, shot in California, perfect harmony ench with the to combine nectar and ambrosin in honouring a superstition by go-wise raven. A cygnet is not un- ing out of their way to defy it. like a goose, which I hold to be too a la Soubaroff. A young fat hen The fact is that most of us grenay food for the delicato with foie gras, braised, and served

pheasant must be boned, furtively cherish a belief in palate.

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Yuletido

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as fish are abomination; and, curiously

pound of cheese every six weeks, and there were 100,000 mouse

be plain. Think of the expansion this burst of magnanimity would traps in the Colony, the result of

that would take place.

Sir Samuel and ourselves, with due modosty, do not claim that stuffed our ideo is original.

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Everybody knows that the safety razor manufacturera thought of the iden years ago. They started Kiving away salaty fantastic prices, and now every- body has to buy blades to fit them. two blades grow where one blade That's a real caso of making grow before.

(But what, you ask, has this to do with Hongkong? Listen!)

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to eat it. If you are entertaining be made between quantity and Well, us and Sir Samuel, we are

quality.

D "lucky" or "unlucky" events;

with potato chips. After this dates, and numbers, perhaps be-

dish of cheese might be justifica- cause, deep down in our hearts,

A magnificent turbot appealed tion for a glass of aged port; a to Victorians. we suspect that, fate

In Leviticus scale wise man will stick to the bur forbidden

gundy. you due warning. But the like enough, only the other day I was at short notice at any good res "catches you out" without giving

Such a dinner could be ordered llest explanation of the per- told that on that account the tur-taurant which has first-class wine. petuation of quaint superstitions bet is not eaten in the Island of It is not beyond the compass of a is that man cannot rid himself Skye. Perhaps for the same ren- good plain cook at home. With of the fear lest his continued son all good Scots abhor cels. the right company it ought to be What about the Shing Mun success in "conquering Nature" The right ordering of a Christ-ja memorable occasion, Over Dam? Haven't we been trying to should bring down upon him the mas dinner must be governed by coffee, old brandy, and the best get it for years and years, and wrath of jealous entities. He the tastes of those who are going cigar procurable, comparisons may years? feels that it may be just as well to propitiate what gods or de- children give them turkey, plum

going to corner Tue goldfish mons there may be lurking pudding, mince ples and crystal- Beware of an over-heated din market, and present them to the about, by faithfully observing liaed fruits galore.

ing-room! Beware, too, of excess

Water Authority. Estimating the time-honoured customs, only

The decoration of the table will speed in eating and drinking. You minimum amount of water requir curious because we have for-mean more to your young guests can wig champagne; but the ed by each goldfish, for drinking gotten what they symbolise. than the food. We attempted one great wines of the Cote d'Or must and bathing purposes, at 15 gal The superstition that it is un-

Winter Sports scene sipped, or their subtile ethera lons per year per head, and the lucky to light three cigarettes Swiss chalets, snow slopes, ponds, will escape you. A fine old brandy, average goldfish family at 12 per that the with the same match may not be and so forth. Silver tinsel lavish according to the experts of La rear, it will be seen

Shing Mun Dam will have to be ly used can produce a fairy-like Charente, should be "champed." understood by the post-War effect, the more startling if the generation, but the men who lit utmost brilliancy. of lighting is pagne can be served to them i

If ladies are of the party, cham- completed by 1985.

The scheme is capable of ex- their cigarettes in the firing-line concentrated on the table.

they prefer it and an ice.

Here Pansion.

The Hongkong Tele- know how it arose-or think

If a turkey must be the picco deia a recipe for the lec: Plain cream record profit next year, if it would phone Company could make A they do. But why do we throw but flavoured spilled anlt over our left braised. A chestnut stuffing is Maraschino must be frozen (not tent of deciding to recommend shoulders? Why do we turn ourivaatly improved by the addition of too hard) and served with a hot to every subscriber. So, too, with

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1932.

HOOVER'S SECOND

THOUGHTS

It is something to the good that President Hoover has re- considered his attitude towards the war debt problem to the ex-

year a

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carpet, if they had

furniture dealers. With every any sense,

to Congress the appointment of ailver when we catch sight of stoned raising, chopped olives, and sauce of melted currant Jelly into a special commission to review the new moon? Why do we płatachio nuts. Cranberry sauce, which brandled cherries are drop- the whole issue. The report "touch wood"? Are not these beloved by our transporting couped at the last moment.

they would give away (surropti- tionsly, if necessary) a pair of from Washington on Saturday, "absurd" practices the wreckage aina, is delicious, but, alas! it

pedigreed silver-flah. Then, when that Mr. Hoover had reached the of a primitive philosophy which vitiates the palate for the nobler Many ladles prefer the cherries the carpets had all been thorough- conclusion that the situation did insisted that all things, animate red wines. Possibly the synthetic preserved in Maraschino, which ly digested, they could sell more

or inanimate, had power

gin concocted and

by Uncle Sam can be bought at any caterer's, carpets or offer to buy in the not call for immediate action, purpose, and could consciously

vitiates his palate for cranberry Certainly the Maraschino cherries aliver-fish. BRUCE. left an unpleasant taste in the affect human beings for good or

look handsomer. The melted red mouth. The inference was that,, ill? And until we are sure that is often terrifying to the middle-clear and not too thick.

The ordinary Christmas dinner currant jelly must be brilliantly having secured the British pay- such a philosophy is ridiculous,

As a Christmas present, I give ment, he did not intend to bother most of us will continue "to be aged and elderly. "Safety first"

Yuletide is admittedly the my long-cherished recipe for a on the safe side." himself further with the matter,

clarion call of cowards; and the dish of cheese. big family gathering is sacrosanct; despite his earlier utterance that he welcomed the sugges- tion of a close examination of

An Innovation

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Eventually, the schome would become self-contained along the lines of that devised by the genius who bred rats to feed the cats on his cat farm, the cats being killed for their skins, the

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"Ace of Spades."-Neither tha calling nor the play is the most difficult part in the game of bridge. Dealing is the main thing, Needs practice, of course.

"Shroff". Your application is receiving consideration. Watch this column for our reply.

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Cut half a pound of Cheddar carcades being used to feed the one dares not interfere with its cheese into thin shavings: Put rate designed (as above) ultimate- ritual, but when the Bright Young them into a saucepan with thres ly to feed the cats. Things are not with us, is it not tablespoonfuls of milk, one gill of (De capo ad infinitum, in saocula The hitherto almost undis- permissible to cut loose from tur-cream, the yolks of three eggs and saecularum, only more so). the whole subject in preparationputed proposition that the fune-key and plum-pudding, substitut the whites of two eggs. Whip it for the International Economic tion of a parliamentary opposi- ing less commonplace fare Conference. In other words, he tion is to oppose the government selecting the

and till it bolle. Season with salt, a ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. wine before the dash of cayenne, but no mustard. appeared to take the line on the of the day was recently over- food? general issue which Mr. Roose- ruled with happy results in the

Serve with but not "on" tonst. "Amelia".--IL your husband velt did on the December pay House of Commons. Mr. George

"Serenely full, the epicure would | goes out at night as often as you ment-that the "baby" was not Lansbury

A burgundy dinner would be any.

Bay there must be 4. reason. and Sir Herbert the right thing, if you

are for-

Fato cannot harm me-I

have Possibly there is a new typewriter his. This development was in Samuel, who are respectively tunate enough to have this bottled dined to-day."

at the office whose ribbons need attention. tensely surprising after it had leaders of the Labour and been made clear all along that Liberal Parties at Westminister, Mr. Hoover, whilst compelled to were responsible for this in- insist on the December payment, novation. When Mr. MacDonald was willing and anxious that, moved the curtailment of debate once this was out of the way, by what is known as there should be a reconsidera- time-table" method in order tion of the general problem. He to accelerate the pasange of even went so far as to suggest legislation to implement the the recreating of the Debt Fund- Ottawa agreement, Mr. Lans. ing Commission. The response bury and Sir Herbert--both of Congress to this latter pro- of whom disapproved posal was not by any means en- this legislation-announced that couraging, and it now remains they would not vote against to be seen what the reaction the expediting of it. Mr. Lans will be to the similar idea bury sensibly pointed out that now put forward as the result of since the Government, had Mr. Hoover's consultation with overwhelming majority behind the Governor of the New York it and must unquestionably suc- Federal Reserve Bank and a ceed in the end in passing the number of politicians. As to legislation, nothing would whether the Hoover Adminis gained by prolonging the discus- tration will be able to make any sion when other and no less im- move in the matter, this ob- portant questions were pressing. viously, depends on the frame of Sir Herbert Samuel agreed with mind in which he finds Congress. this view, and the Prime Minis- If the present Congress decides ter's resolution cutting down to have nothing to do with the debate was in consequence matter, then the problem will cepted without a division. The have to wait over until the De incident is important, since there mocrats

into office in are few privileges more trensur- March. So far, Mr. Roosevelt ed by ordinary members of has not been very definite

on Parliament than that of making this war debt question, although "speeches. The action taken is a aftor his conference with Presi- step in the direction of render- dent Hoover some little time ing parliamentary procedure back he did indicate that, in his more businesslike, and as such view, the best method was to deserves to be regarded na a usc- treat with the aoveral debtora ful example--and not merely in moparatoly, at the same time Britain, but wherever legislative promising sympathotic copal, bodies waste time with useless doration to any reasonable argu- chatter.

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"I've saved sixty dollars, Mr. Benson, so I could work for

nothing while you taught me your business.”

car.

A SIMPLE INVENTION. ·

We are now hard at work on our latest Invention to aid motor- fate in a fog. Bubstantially, no patent agents say, the device 'con- sists of one or more extensible arms or "lazylonga" which may he projected outwards fore and aft from the front and tho back of the The one which projects to the front is tipped with a cushion or other suitable dovice for lesson- ing the impact with pedestrians and/or other occupants of the rond, and the liko. The one which projects to the back is fitted with an electric contact which, on boing knocked by a following vehicle, turns on an electric horn and au- tomatically opens all the doors of the car so that the driver can get out quickly.

We got the whole idea from watching a cat fooling its way with Its whiskers, but we had some. trouble with our

experimental

pedestrian. The cushion was not soft endugh.

Still, I hope to make a fortune out of it.