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MAN'S

If you are throwing a

Cocktail

party

these hints will save

you money, help to

make it a success

HEN loads of unrepaid luspinlity weigh you down a cucktail party In really the best way out. First thing to decide in how many people you want to ask.

Next, of course, comes the question, "What's it going to cost?" Laziest und-most expensive way of giving a party is to put it in the hands of the enterers. For Bn, a head you will get unlimited drink (you guests have eight cocktails to choose from), a dozen different sorts of cats, a bar and burman, glasses, crockery.

Much cheaper, though, if you do the ardering yourself. the sort of cocktall, you can figure out the cost pretty well. you have chosen a Martini. A good mixture is:

1 dash of orunge bitters,

1-8th gill of Italien vermouth.

2-8the gill of dry gin.

Hunning only

This half-gili recipe will adequately fill a cocktail gloss. Toughly fourteen cocktail glasses to the tre.

Suppose that

There are

Now, o 12a, bottle of gin holds two- once, so that nu one worries because thirds of litre and a 48. Gd, bottle of he/she hasn't got an invitation yet. -

that vermouth Mire. It follows

Write rather that telephone: it puts

་་

three bottles of gin and one ut ver- your invitation on record.

Fit your room with a long serving mouth should provide you with 42 cocktails, the cost of which will be table (or you can hire a real live bar, 378. Ud.

rail and all, for £1. 10%. Od.). If you can't seat all your guests make them

Just how many cocktails your all stand; they'll circulate better int guests drink dependa partly on how way. long they stay and partly on how

cocktail-conscious they are. Clearly Glasses and ash-trays four cach R generous allowance.

Allow three glasses to every two

If you run two cocktails (and it is guests. So many people forget where good plan to have one sweet, one they have put their glass when fill- dry, cocktall), the cost is more dim- up time coines; or else they change cult to calculate, but, at any rate, it from one drink to another. should be possible to get your drink on drink-or-return terms.

Have plenty of cigarettes, matches, sh trays. See that the ash trays are emptied during the party. The at-

One of the nicest and easiest-of sweet cocktalls to make is a "Doctor." mosphere will get thick enough with- The recipe is -gill fresh lemon out the odour of stale cigarette butts. julce, gli orange julee, -gill of Cover your high-polish furniture with caloric (Swedish) punch.

American cloth. Get plenty of ice.

Sausages are popular

open

1 possible, leave the front door for arriving guests. Hove notices where to put hats and coats. After drinks, the cals. If you must Bo as much roletail mixing as economise, economise on them rather possible before the guests arrive (or than on the drinks.

hire horman for a guinea).

Your party will be a success.

You ought to consider the smart hers d'oeuvres (caviare, foie gras, etc.). They work out at 4s. 6d. n dozen. Same sort of thing enclosed In brioche rolls rather less showy come to 3s. 08. Prawng and facts

go for 2s. 6d. a dozen, olives at 1s. 6d. n bottle.

Those little sausages are popularg you get about 30 to the pound, and they cost 2s.

In the biscuit line try the various Japanese sorts, and those long twiggy ones smeared with beef-ten paste.

Next the invitations. Don't "Invite your guests just as you run into them: one expansive day you'll ask too many. Make a list. Ask them all at

Cigar Test

DEST way to test n box of

elgars is to sample one. I R goes out or the ash falls it is badly made, and does not smoke smoothly,

Ir it Keems list is loosely packed. If it draws badly it has been too lightly packed. Do not try to loosen it by rolling it he- Iween your Angers: makes it lighter,

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER

PAGE

Race

Goer's

l'encil

Leather

Covered

Slip-

Handle

Ring

Hats and Umbrellas

19, 1936.

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