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needn't

Forty

Black is the best colour for middle-age

Surprise Dish

SAVOURY PRAWN CUSTARD

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a bouquet of parsley, thyme, and sage into a pint of milk, and bring slowly to the boil.

Take the milk from the fire, re- move the herbs, and add two well- beaten eggs. Season with pepper and salt.

Return the pan to the fire and stir until the custard thickens, taking care that it does not boil, Put two dozen whole shelled prawns in a pie dish and sprinkle them with fuely chopped parsley. Pour in the custard, and sprinkle more chopped parsley on top. Bake in a moderate oven. Allow to get cold.

An excellent cold luncheon dish.

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Party Fun For New Year's Eve

Continental Divide.--This Kame should be played in a room that hus plenty of floor space.

Take 20 or more large pieces of cardboard, adjusting the number to the size of the room, and paint on these the names of lakes,

buys, rivers, etc., found in the continents of Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America. The choice

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F003-Quicksilver. F.T.

Cat and Mouse. F.T..

F859-1 Looks Like Rain. FT.

You're Looking for Romance. F.T. F850-E1 Payaso Del Corazon, Tango.

Le Tue Carezze, Tango, F855-in an Old Cathedral Town. S.FT.

I Saw a Ship A-salling. Swing Step. F854-Sille When You Say Goodbye. Q.8.

Greatest Mistake. Waltz. F852-All God's Chilun, Q.S.

He Alu't Got Rhythm. F.T. FR50—This Year's Kisses. F.T.

I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm. F851-You're Laughing at Me. F.T.

Stumming In Park Avenue. F831-Tondle-oo. F.T.

Take Another Guess. FIT.

Poor Robinson Crusoe. FT. F803-Sweetest Music. S.FT.

should be about equally divided be-F828-I'm Gonna Kiss Myself. F.T. tween those bodies of water which are famous and those which are not so well known. Scatter the card- board pieces over the floor without regard

for geographical accuracy.

The four corners of the room are then allocated as follows: The first corner is assigned to the "Aslutic Mermulds"; the second to the "Afri-

Bedilme Music. (Medley),

.Kuster & Ile. Plano Orch.

.Eddie Carroll Orch,

Victor Silvester Orch.

Victor Silvester Orch.

Victor Silvester Orch.

.Nat Gonella Orch.

Harry Roy's Orch..

.Harry Roy's Orch..

Nat Gonella Orel,

.....Nat Gonella Orch.

Maurice Winnick's Orch.

PAUL JONES DANCES ON F001, R245, C1798. C2709. C2870.

can Mermaids": the third to the m "European Mermaids ard the

fourt

to the "North and South

American Mermaids."

players form a tine, cach it is player placing his hands

on the IFE begins. at forty as the Frenchwoman, if she wants around the house at home.

She must not deplore advancing made of black velvet, has heavy shoulders of the one in front of him. for the French-hoate ut out deplore advancing magi

French middle age, but accept every year coral tassels, and zips down the To the strains of a lively march, the

she knows she is more poised, more experienced, more amusing, than she was at twenty.

more she has to give.

HE

★

ER clothes should be simple and well cut. The tunie

She has been more places, met line becomes her. Black, if it suits more people, read more books, her colouring. is always elegant.

The woman we have drawn is seen more pictures than when torty-tive. She has always taken she was a young girl.

great care of her figure, and in this often моге She is an expert talker and the Englishwornants

blessed than the Frenchwoman. expert listener. It is natural for her to be admired.

She wears bluck nearly always. It shows off her silver blue hair. Englishmen of carller genera- She varies her make-up to go with tions have never expected so much the colour touches on her dresses. from their womenfolk; all they Here are the most useful items have admired is Youth. Travels in her present wardrobe. First is making the Englishunon demand a suit she wears for her lunch dates. 1 is made in a soft black angora To-day The Englishwoman over fabric with a black fox collar block- forty can come off every bit as well ed to stand out at the shoulders,

more.

Guide to making

excuses

ZOE

by

FARMAR

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2. She carries a black fox muff bag.

line weaves in and out among the Mulca are black satin lined with picces of cardboard. When the aliver. Make-up

suddenly to go with this musle

stops, the leader and the striped sult, new shade called brings the line to an abrupt halt. "printemps."

ach player then found standing on, or partially on, one of the cardboard +++++++++

pieces, drops out of line and joins the "mermalds" of that continent in

¡Her scarf is black velvet, her crusader court shoes are suede. | Colour moles are the bright blue 4

astricht feather in her hat, the silver bowclips on her jacket-silver coin bracelet and coin-clip earrings.

Her eye shadow is grey blue, and His lipstick und rouge are"of the new- purplish shades called viola.

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HE next dress

THE

one

she

is wears for bridge afternoons.

It is tight-basqued, in black velvet.

The rolled belt and collar are silver

Roasted And Steamed

Meat

I is a good idea which roust- ing joints, particularly if the meat is likely to be tough, to put them between two tins of the same size, putting rather a lot of dripping in the lower tin.

Take the covering in off for the last quarter of an hour to allow the ment to crisp. As the joint cooked by this method is roasted and steamed at the same time, it comes out beautifully lender and little nourishment is last in the cooking. Il olsa takes slightly less time than when couted in an uncovered tin.

Each

which his or her body of water IR

located. The line closes ranks and the game continues until each player has been removed to one of the four

At the end of the corners, At

game, that continent which has acquired! the greatest number of "mermaids" is the winner.

It would be well to prepare a re- terence list showing the correct loen- tion of all bodies of water used, and to appoint a referee to settle any questions arising on these points. In this way, for instance, a player who) found himselt standing in "Lake Victoria

Nyanza" when the music and had a mistaken iden stopped, where it is located, would soon be sent to Africa, even though he might insist that he was entitled to join the "mermaids" of some other

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Is Good Cooking Worth

While?

When Husbands Are Content With Second Best

fame with big silver clasps mate-row tired I am of those nien who

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Nowadays she is still a housewife,

ing the silver and onyx bracelets she keep saying, "Alder women but for two grown-up sons Instead

wears over her sleeves. The sandals

are black antelope and the hat veivel, sont coul; not as their mothers used of a husband. And she has come to the conclusion that all her work Her lipstick and rouge shade for to do!" this oullit is called victoire.

been chanting that in the kitchen Is nothing but a waste They have The black broadcloth dinner suit phrase ever since I can remember, of energy. with the heavily embroidered longish and I cannot recall a single intelli- Her husband, like so many other! coat she wears for restaurant dinners gent woman giving a sane and con- hume-fed men of his generation, was and a theatre date. The embroidery makes that complaint. Usually she methods of eacking incant something vincing reply when her husband interested in food. Flavours and ‡is done in 'cyclamen and silver.

dining- The hat is black golvet, the gloves contents herself with a curt "What to him. He would enter the are cyclamen velvet, and the sandals nonsense, John," or turns the criti- room with real enthusiasm, hail anl fat bag silver. She wears gism into a personal reproof and new dish with interest, und give his eyelomeri Upstick and rouge with this looks hurt.

honest opinion on every experiment. suit.

But the silly old phrase still re- When

praise was due, he praised. The thick black tweed suit and mains. Women are not such good When a dish was disappointing, he short cape are for ears, plumes, and cooks as they used to be, and there suggested an Improvement. trains Touch of colour here is a good reason why!

Without being gourmands he and fuchsia in the black.

No sensible and

wolnat Is going to his wife discussed food and enjoyed spend the entire afternoon cooking

1. "I had my hat on to go when old Jones came over nitted gloves.

and said, 'Smith. I wonder if you'd mind just run- ning through these?'"

fuchsia

acro-

black outfit. Capacious handbag slung over right shoulder

like Juk

deld-glasses. It

fronted, medium heeled.

11.

Amateurish, over-done excuse. A good excuse maker knows that over-authenticated accounts sound chromium buckles, sive is hit to pass unrecognised and unappre- cat. They have, of course, certain suspicious. The simple "kept late again," said in martyred tones, is far more convincing.

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"I didn't mean to buy a hat, but Elsie, if Albert were here, I'm sure he'd make you buy hi,” The appeal to vanity or victimising excuse.

Useful where the victim prides himself on generosity.

Appeal to sentiment te "But can't we have an evening to our- 3 thought you'd like to spend selves, like we used to?" is, where Tue you can't escape your vletim, better

tactics,

And "I have something I want to A poor example of the unselfish excuse. This type has to be subtly talk to you about" is useful some- too. Introduces n bit of handled, especially when intended times, for women (who will rarely admit curiosity, and that is a big help.

the day with Malsic, 30

fired to play polf."

to having the better bargain). In ility Instance, situation needed work- Ing up so that hardship of a day's goit, without wife, became more upparent..

"I'd love to, but

This generat excuse

has

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clated?

The scarf and sanie viola make fine dinner if her husband is just 5 Moderus are Not Interested in Food | up as worn with the fox-trimmed happy with tinned soup, a hurriedly. grilled steak, and nu venetable at

But her sons, being of this modern all! Why should she? Why, in snack-bar and cafe generation, con- fact, should she make any particular sider that it is stupid and even com- effort in the kitchen if it is donmed mon to be interested in what they

dislikes quite a long list of them Yet that is the state of affairs in but otherwise they treat food not as almost every family to-day us a pleasure but as a kind of packing, bands and families are not interest- #t bothersome necessity that is COUNTRY sult is made of ed in good food and good cooking, frankly bore.

black tweed, rough, with a They appreciate second-best just as thin double white stripe, has velvet much as the best of their father's they

I doubt if they notice the food ent. They kit down to it facings to lapels. She wears it with day, and the thinking housewife has wearily and eat it up as quickly as black sweater and huge silver come to the conclusion that elabor- possible. If they can, they read at choker beads.

ate and fine cooking is simply not the same time, or do anything at all Hat and bag are of black felt, and worth while.

that will help them to ignore the food. The only remark they ever Why Women are, Home-Bakers are thick black fabric, stitched.

make is a critical one. Interest or The teagown on the left is useful

The few women (young ones al appreciation is the last thing they for Sunday night, week-ends, nud any rate) who are really good cooks would dream of.

boutees of black calf, lier gloves

are those lucky enough to have hus- Those two sons will be husbanda bands who take an interest in food, one day, and just exactly like so bore, but he's come all the way from or those who are forced by the limits many modern husbands. Their Glasgow).

This last, used, with discretion, is of their purse to produce meals by young wives, with the enthusiasm of

old-fashioned efforts.

all sensible brides, will be ambitious not as bad as the others. Sul, in Most women who bake do it about cooking. They will take les- my years of evasion I have found the either for economy or because they sons and collect recipes and try to million different tales. Enough to only fool-proof, unanswerable excuse like it; very few because their home turn out beautiful ments. But very mention a few that never get by. that had no back kick was simply: baking wins applause from the soon they will waken up to the fact The sick-friend or aged-relative "What a pity I can't, but there it is, household and all the credit that it that their husbands are not interest- formula (even If you have

I can't possibly, not on Thursday,” deserves.

cd, not even enough to pralsa them Always, 6 bad excuse, be- friend or do visit your great-aunt] A direct challenge: "But why Almost all the other women have for n special masterpiece. cause, by some unexplained pay➡ Myfanwys, don't mention it); the old can't you?" must simply de politely, been discouraged long ago, I know

One is more interested in an ever- chological twist, no one can under- schoot pal who is passing through on mildly ignored.

one who la an excellent housewife lo at the pictures than a good din- stand any one other than himself her way to Moscow (only in town "If only it wasn't Thursday,” you and whose knowledge, of good ner, and he would rather spend Sun- feeling tired. Victim feels as insult- a night"); minor illness (the bli-of-answer back, "I would have loved flavours and fine baking was the day forenoon with her in the coun- dan if you had said, "I have to a-sore-throat, the cold-that's-coming- it" Put all the blame on Thursday, envy of her friends twenty years try thun help to baste the roast and work" or "I want to read."

on); the business contact ("awful old | sce?

fire the Yorkshire pudding.

"I'm too tired.

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