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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 19,

MAN'S PAGE

If yoù are throwing a

Cocktail

party

these hints will save

you money, help to

make it a

succesS

cocktail party Is really the best way out. First thing to decide is how many prople you want to ask.

HEN loads of unrepnid hospitality weigh you down a

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

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

1 dash of orange bitters.

1-0th gill of Italian vermouth.

2-6ths gill of dry kin.

Running only

Suppose that

This half-gill recipe will adequately fill a cocktail glass. There are roughly fourteen cocktail glasses to the litre.

Now, 128, bottle of gin holds two- once, so that no one worries because thirds of Btre and a 4. Gd, bottle of he/she hasn't got an invitation yet. vermouth n litre. It follows that Write rather then telephone; it puts three bottles of gin and one of ver- your invitation on record, mouth should provide you with 42 cocktails, the cost of which will be 37s. Gd.

Fit your room with a long serving table (or you enn hire a real live bar, rall and ull, for 41, 10s. Gd.). If you can't sent all your quests make them

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

on how

cocktail-conscious they are. Clearly Glasses and ash-trays

four each is a generous allowance.

If you run two cocktails (and it is a good plan to have one sweet, ene dry, cocktail), the coat is more dit cult to calculate, but, at any rate, it should be possible to get your drink on drink-or-return terms.

One of the nicest and cuslest-of sweet cocktails to make is a "Doctor." The recipe is -gill frosh lemon Juice, -gill orange juice, V-gill of caloric (Swedish) punch.

Sausages are popular

After drinks, the ents. If you must economise, economise on them rather than on the drinks.

You ought to consider the smart. hors d'oeuvres (enviare, fate gras, etc.). They work out at 4s, Od, a dozen. Same sort of thing enclosed in brioche rolls rather lesa chowy Prawns and stocks come to Is. Od.

go for 2s. 04, a dozen, olives at in. 6d. I bottle,

Those little sausages are popular; you get about 30 to the pound, and they cost 25.

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

Next the invitations. Don't invite- your guests Just as you run into them: one expansive ciny you'll ask to many. Make a list. Ask them ail at

M

Allow three glasses to every two guests. So many people forget where they have put their glass when All- up time comes; or else they change from one drink to another.

Have plenty of cigarettes, matches,. ash trays. See that the ash trays are emptied during the parly. The al- musphere will get thick enough with- out the odour of stnie cigarette butts. Cover your high-polish furniture with American cloth, Get plenty of ice.

If possible, leave the frost door for arriving guests. Have notices where to put hats and coats.

Do as much cocktail mixing as possible before the guests arrive (or hirq barman for a guinea).

Your party will be a success,

open

Cigar Test

BEST WAY

to test a box of -cigars-Ik-to-sample-one.-H.

It goes out or the ash falls it is badly made, and does not snicke smoothly.

seems hot it is loosely parked. If it draws badly. has been too tirlitly packed. Do not try, to loosen by rolling it be- tween your Angers: that only makes it tighter.

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For material you can have silk, milk and cotton mixture or cotton. Choose silk for appearance (it rolls un thinnest). wlton, for strength. Mixture for compromise. Your um brellu should

least a give you at 4-fl. apan..

For handles, leather is smart, and noktay dark pigskin meet suitable. Eficient CANTON umbrellas have a metal ring which CHEFOO slides down the umbrella stick. over co The heads of the spokes, holding them PATER

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Men often blunder badly over hats, Don't do no yourself. For everyday use the choice is usually between; three types: bowler, snapbrim, and; "Anthony Eden."

if you are not Jess than average height, take one of those narrow-brim Silk (ny 134 inch) towlers with a crown and that tapers towards the top. They Cotton took smaller than other hints with Mixture the same hend

room. Snap-brim hats look larger than ranging bowlers: they have brims from 2% to 2% inches. To wear one you need fairly broad face.

not "Anthony Eden" hats necessarily deeper or wider than the

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