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Well-dressed

Dishes

make

your food

lovely to look at

GARNISH in the dial touch. It should please the eye and tempt the appetite.

No right-minded person would send a plece of boiled beef to table without its attractive surroundings of carroth, onions, and dumplings, but other dishes might be denied even that little green sprig of parsley, watercress, or endive, or that nunt slice of lemon, any of which can give an air of freshness and distinction to the plainesi dich.

Brighten up the dull Meals

Then there are these triangles of tonst which relieve the flatness of n hash, thore next and golden cubes of fried brend which seem to me indispensable with a thick tip, and those forcement balls which lessen the tedium of such things a veal and rabbit for those who And them ordinarily dull.

There are fish quenelles, shrimps and pornwns which ornament ishes of fish, to my nothing of the alleed eucumber which almunt too persistently dirts with the salmon.

There are the infant sauanges which cling to the skirts of poultry, the thin curled bacon and the small croquettes of ham and tongue.

All dumplinga, forcemeat balts, and the the should be small and

shape amount of vegetables should be in proportion to the size of the

dish. Their colours should form a pleasing contrast to the main theme.

The cooking or gamishen must

be done to perfection. Se must their

draining.

yfried A Lay Sermon

Brend uned for dice croutons should be two day? old. Cut it into the required shapes and plunge them into deep, boiling fat. When they are cooked to golden

colour take them and drain them thoroughly. A greasy gamish is ond of cooking's minfør crimes,

Overcooking is Fatal

4.

For dumplings you senson a quarter of a pound of flour with 4 little pepper and salt, und mix it with two ounces of finely chopped suet. The whale is then mixed into a paste with little water, and it should be stilī rather than sloppy

Shape it into little ball and

Tuit them

Indo

where boiling water, they should simmer until cooked, which will be in ten minute to quarter of an hour. If they, are overenaked they will "go back." and turn into little cannon balla,

Forcement balla can be made of all sorts of meat much as bacon, tuim, tongue and veal.

Simple but Good

One of the simplest and at the same time most satisfying forms is made from snusuge meat.

The main ingredients are a quarter of a pound of sausage meat mixed with half that quantity of brend- crumbs, boumi together with the yolk of an egg.

The seasonings added will depend largely on the sausage ment.

If it is under-seasoned in the rat place, chopped parsley or any other Lorbs which are liked, grated lemon -rind, nutmer: mace, or a touch-

tomato sauce are soine of the things which can be brought to the rescue, as well as pepper und salt

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By HUGH REDWOOD

SINAI and Zion, they are on ne

apart, the mountain landmarks

WORM HOLES in your Furniture

are made by beetles

and this is the

way to cure them

Y

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OU will not be surprised to hear that summer is the love-making time among

making love, so before they appear as fully fledged beetles have a look at the woodwork and furniture in your house and see if there are any worm holes in them.

It will soon be the time to treat your wood if it has been infected by the furniture beetle. Do not think that because a piece of wood han t worm holes in it the beetle la eating it all away. Quite possibly the

wood has been treated,

old

Many people think that furniture beetles only attack

woodwork. antiques and church roofs, This la Inat 90.

There are three conimun sorts of

of a forward march, the emblems of [boetie found in woodwork. They are

two dispensation. But both speak of the Death Watch Beetle (Xestoblum the unchanging rufovillosum), the Common Furniture A consoming

God, and though Beetle (Anolium punctatum), and fire. Dennews, xii, 2 men may come to Powder Fust Beetles (differing sprees

with joyful of Lyttus). Zion enager, nincs Jesus their Saviour has paid Dir ransom, there is still occas Fous for godly fear.

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"It will ann be the time to treat your wand if it has been interteil By rise bermuture brede."

This

gentleman

is chasing: (Top left) Comman furniture beeste. Top nghi) Deals

watch berile.

(Lower) Powder post beeste.

In the same way turpenting r paraffin may be applied to unpolished wood. Boiling water can do the trick if the appearance of the wood is not important.

If structural timber is affected, and ladly affected, an expert must be enii- ed. "He will puubably try fumigation, or heat (the beetles die in a teipern- ture of over 135deg. 1).

Benzine can be applied with a bru-l to unpolished surfaces (for instance, the underneath parts of old chuirs). Be careful to keep benzine away from any fame. A hypodermic syring should be used for squirting it down the worm holes. Naturally fun worm let holes after this shouht be filled up with beeswax and turpentine, after syringing, ea that no more eggs ean

brette is in your wood. But first This is what happens in the lite me tell you how to`krep [Eteway, Look at the giant, pylons which now of there beetles. In the early sin

Dust bestride the land. They speak tamer, when they arrive (either from

your furniture regularly a of beneficent power: Helt for our the wood or from the window), they polish where possible. A wax polish eilles, warneth for cair homes, earrent are little brown creatures that you ed surfare keeps the beetles off from to drive our machinery. But every would hardly notice, never more than a laying in the summer months, a quarter of an inch long and capable There are various quids eltainable pylon curries its red-lettered warning of shamming dead by tucking their for treating wood which may be ap- in France you will see them labelled legs under them and lying still when plied either with a brush or spray. "Danger de mort!" Disrespect of you touch them.

un- death. One this power means

The female beetle lays her eggs. guarded Louch on the ebles, and rarely fewer than a dozen) in gracka forth will leap the consuming flame. in the wood and in the grain of "There is no fear of God before coarser woods and sometimes in the

fold worm holes. his eyes," wrote David of the trans- gressor. The words have application, however, to others beside the wicked. There is not enough awe in religion

A month later tiny while larval 10-day. It is a fearful thing to fail into the hands of the living

God: appear, little maggots, which

bore their way through the surface Christ brings us tremendous power, of the wood, eating all the time.

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soon

head in them if any beetles@amvive the treatment till next year.

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THE modern girl can take care of herself. She has shouted it from the housetops for quite a long while, That is why the chaperon has been discarded,

But where men are concerned? If we may judge by the many cases that

but we are bilden to employ the When the maggot feels it would have recently been reported, men safeguards of holiness. To de despite like to become a beetle, it turns from would go through life much more to the Spirit of grace is to play with its wanderings inside the wood and fearlessly if, under some circums spiritual, death.

vata its way up towards the surface. tances, they could indulge in A little short of the surface it hollows chaperon. out a cell and waits. While it waits it turns into a chrysalis.

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Supposing, for instance, a jealous wife reads in the paper that charger have been made against other men whose business takes then into the houses of women, aho can hardly be blamed for wondering if he, too, makes love to the wives with whom he comes in contact. And once the "green-eyed monster" in this shapu creeps into a honic, the chances of happiness are gone.

Such suspicions are, however, often created by the workings of the Man is ever to a certain extent at woman's imagination, but this does the mercy of a designing woman. not make things any pleasanter, And, now that the sexes mingle so because undoubtedly it is our imagin- much more freely in the working ary wrongs and forebodings which world, inan's danger has become create the bulk of life's tragedies. greatly enhanced. In this age, when

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1 Great! Go on in Cal, (anag). 9 Brag, in high-sounding langu

age, about the doctor.

10 O.K. in Smithfeld, but not what one would export a Rolls-Royce

in.

11 Dear to Gaston.

12 Fiendish person.

18 Court dress for a lady with a

decoration. 16 Makes certain.

Then when the weather gets warm domestic servants have been discarded "Nothing Easier" it emerges from the chrysalis as ก fully grown beetle and cats its way finds it necessary to be guarded. in many homes, the doctor often

As an eminent K:C. stated after a out of the wood. After it, has Also, insurance agents, Inspectors, particularly distressing case had end- 17 She makes a happy start. nated, it dies. Mrs. Beetle leaves or men in any

to which calling that takes ed, not to his satisfaction:There 19 Apprehensive state legacy of eggs to some suitable wood. them into a home where there may is nothing easier than for a woman

the watch is subject. (Hypher, and all the trouble starts again. be just one woman.

to bring charges against, a man, and

42). 22 This will be strange to most nothing more difficult to refute." The Death Watch Beetle, or Naturally enough, all women are

solvers, Clergyman's Curse, attacks old timber not to ho feared. It is only the There are many men who won't 25 Pour girl, she will be lucky if which is immovable, such as floor- unscrupulous or neurotic type. Heal attend a cinema alone for fear some she gets even one letter. boards, rafters, joists and the roofs of thy-minded men and women are now false charge, may be mnde against 26 And this girl is at home in any churches. It likes wood which is so accustomed to mutual participation. tfiem; and, laugh at the caution as.

part of the world. Lin everyday

affairs that the matter we may, there is n large dash of 27 Bob and Porn Interested them-

cammansense in it. Decent men set of sex rarely enters their minds.

selves in Arabic on the voyage The Common Furniture Beetlo at- But should a man in the course of just as much store by their reputa

out (hidden). tacks almost any sort of wood, floor-ls duty come in contact with the

tions as do decent women. The baldera Sleep? Rubbish, dear sir, or boards, pine and plywood, as well as wrong type of woman, his character type of either sex may not care what madam: almost entirely so.. furniture. You must treat the wood can be torn to

is said of them, but far too often the 31 Just a whim, apparently, for shreds, shaukl it attacks several times.

innocent have to suffer for the think it worth her while to tear it.

the English church to be right guilty.

at the end of the island.

Bent for rice additional support. .DOWN

clamp and not ventilated.

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Imaginary Wrongs

unseriously, it seems

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Club Ices (anag).

at the matter dispas-132 Here men Not long siner, where in a caso a reasonable to believe that the man The Powder Post Beetle is nul woman mado д charge against a whose daily work taken him into found in properly seasoned wood, and professional man the solicitor con- house where there may be only one not in plne. It likes kapwood and ducting the defenco stated that he woman would be in, a decidedly safer the wood which is not heart wood. It thought we should soon need chaper position as regards his character, The nino Bikes coarse grained wood. You for men.

woman had no he were accompanied by an "assis- new proof of the charge made, but in the tant" on his rounds. may find its holes in quite furniture.

game manner the professional man

A new job for young men, tool--and had no real way to refute the state better than the dale, There is no need to panic if the ment.

Lillie Ross-Clyne

SALESMAN SAM-

I DON'T MIND TAKIN". ART LESSONS, BUT RIGHT OFFA TH BAT YA ASK ME TA PAINT A SUNSET! GOSH, PROF PALETTE, GIMME SOME-

THIN' EASY!'

VERY WELL) WHAT WOULD YOU SUGGEST?

LEMME

·PAINTA, HOUSE

THATS A

A Big Undertaking

WHY, SAM'S BEEN GONE VERY GOOD] | FER OVER TWO HOURS! SUBJECT FOR SAMMY! SAMMY! A BEGINNER! WHERE ARE YA"?

·GO AHEAD!

PAINT A

HOUSE!

as

2 One, four, five, for example; but

many would also do.

3 Bring up on two legs, like a

horac.

4 Tucks that may require, 6 Stitching

4 Without these; Cambridge would

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not have had such recent success In the boat race.

7 The science of a dwarft

8. Or in such a state of heat al-

ways.

14 Like her father: be about rid

of her.

15 Material that sounds. liko dog.

sounds,

18 It indicated a carping spirit when the old queen took part in a Service meal.

20 Take in that deceives to one. 21 In Sicily.

22 Identifies a healing powder. 24 Oh, what a row!

24 What a number in the Bush makes one show signs of shame. 28 Hidden in Clue 27.

29 Cleans after a reverse.

Yesterday's Solution.

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