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MEALS POR LIVE-ALONES

These

menus

man

get your your

You've invited him to dinner for the first time

THOUGH you may live

will

Article On

Cuckoo Mothers

"SHE is always parking

her children at other people's houses,” complained

a friend of mine the other day, speaking of her neigh- bour who had asked her to look after her baby for her while she had a day in town. "I call her a mother."

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There is a difference be- tween the mother who is a slave to her children, who sacrifices everything to them, making them intoler- ably selfish by bearing all their burdens for them, and the cuckoo mother who thinks of herself first and her children: Inst.

Nobody minds looking after somebody else's baby in an emergency, but when it happens two or three times a week, it becomes too much of a good thing. Besides, there is the baby to consider. One infant who was continually spending days at auntie's down the road began calling her mummie as

The ment loaf should be a home his small cousins did. Stubborn- product, however..

MEAT LOAF

ly he insisted that his own mother was auntie. There is no

Fat men are often on a diet, and One pound of chopped beef, one snub worse than the one a small sometimes have meagre appetites to of chopped veal, a half-pound of child administers, start with; some small men ran fresh pork, and a half-pound of

nourishment.

any c

consume enormous quantities of sausage meat, are mixed with one "A SLAVE TO MY CHILDREN"

one cupful of bread crumbs, ense, it's better to have one tin of tomato soup or a half “I don't intend to be a slave A twittering hostess is exhausting, more than enough and use the feft- bottle of catsup, and salt and pepper. to my children, if I have any." and an apologetic ine is tiresome. alone, We hope you

overs next day. (Often, this is half Strips of bacon in the bottom of said a newly-married woman. don't dine alone with too opposite a serene woman presiding

Any man would rather sit down the fun of any party)..

The first

the pan add an extra flavour, and After her baby arrived, though test to apply to the the leaf should be batted

until everything was quite straight- great regularity.

over superlative scrambled eggs, average male, in planning his meal, brown, followed by big black cherries and is the alcohol test. A man's tastes Dining should be an adven- an epicurean cheese than a fussed and interest in food are pretty sure Mushroom Sauce ture in sociability as well as in and fussy one manoeuvring an array to vary according to his tastes and taste, and there's no telling to of expensive courtes.

what other adventures it may lead.

principles in drinking. SECOND RULE, needed only by If he doesn't Drink those entertaining with limited space or equipment, is-Never ask a man But don't depend altogether on to balanne his plate on his knee. getting___Invliations. You may get something even more advantageous

by Issuing a few yourself.

women, but not at mealtime.

slices.

of

forward, she and her husband went off on holiday, leaving the baby with the nurse. She saidj THOROUGHLY brush and it would give the baby such a

clean * hall-pound mushrooms before you cut them into splendid start to get into good habits of sleeping and feeding, WE

JE might as well start with

Then add them to three table- and besides it was not good to the teetotaler, who crops spoonfuls of melted butter, cook take a young baby away from up in every woman's life from time from three to five minutes, sprinkle home. Men may be better jugglers thun to time, and sometimes permanent- with salt and pepper, dredge with

ly.

For him, you'd better think up a one tablespoonful of dour, add one to a man's heart, there is something wants to put his feet under a table lot of creamy things and plenty of cupful of rich milk and two table sweets (remembering that he has his spoonfuls of cream, and cook slowly

the little one does not seem to very flattering to any man about an when he eats dinner. invitation to dine alone with a If you haven't room even for a good points, after all), This gentle for another five minutes.

man will like candy left. around

belong to her parent. At a year table big enough for two, have

little tables, for alle diner stuffing,

old, she is very independent, nest of little ones and zei one In

You'll do best with this If you and will as soon go to anyone and belly with the mear course.

You'd better take it for granted choose tile tender corrols of the that this guest will be very hungry same size. Clean and boll them in else as to her mother, and plan accordingly.

Apart from the well-known way

woman.

Any he-man we have

ever met

The chances are that he will front of your guest and one in front arrive, the first time, in a pirasod of yourself, when dinner is served. and slightly curious frame of mind, which is all your favour,

THIRD RULE.--Plan your meal according to your man.

We don't meant according to his

It's up to you to make the most

of it, and there are a number of standards of elegance. Your stan- rules to help.

Be sure of Yourself

dards will come through any vencer you may put on, like an old Anishi through a thin layer of paint, so you might as well forget his completely.

FIRST RULE-Don't Invito

him at all unless you are Size-is-Misleading- sure you can give him a meal he'll really enjoy. That means not too sketchy a meal and certainly no visible strain or fuss.

size.

DON'T, we beg judge

man's

Remember!

appetite by

Cream of Tomato Soup Meat Loaf with Mushroom Sauce Spinach and Carrots Vichy Hot Rolls Grapo Jelly Meringue Shells with Ice Cream Coffco

on

Bre

CARBOTS CHY

All this was true and the in- fant was well cared for in the mother's absence, but somehow

lightly salted water until tender, then slice them very thin (that is the DESTROYING AFFECTION trick, really) and soute the slice in butter to which a little sugar has been added.

Turn them till they are a nice

and brown

them sprinkle mhed parsley.

No one can tell the effect on

a baby of purely mechanical

with care and attention, however efficient it may be. There may Since you live alone and

The spinach is Just like any be some people who think that probably-limlled--as-to-space-and-spinach (washed and washed before equipment, you'd better start off on it's cooked in salted water and sea-a mother is not always capable

a this menu with a good tinned soup concd), but it should be heaped in of training and looking after his which is the best tomato soup any a mound on the serving dish with her infant, and to those, cuckoo

way.

the carrots piled gally round it.

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who looks to them for sympathy and does not find it, for she was not the centre of their world! during the period of babyhood, and now she wants them, she finds she has lost them.

It is worth all the self-sacrifice of outside interests in their! early days to gain a firm place, in the children's hearts. They grow up so soon into school

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