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MEALS FOR LIVE-ALONES

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You've invited him to dinner for the first time

en an apologetic one is tiresome.

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Cuckoo Mothers

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her children at other people's houses," complained la 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.

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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- Jably selfish by bearing all their burdens for them, and the.cuckoo mother who thinks of herself first and her children last.

Nobody minds looking after somebody else's baby in an emergency, but when it happens two or three times a wook, 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 asi The meat loat should be a home his small cousins did. Stubborn- produet, however.

MEAT LOAF

a half-pound of

ly he insisted that his own mother was auntie. There is no! Fal men are often on a diet, und One pound of chopped beef, one snub worse than the one a small sometimes have mesure appetites to of chopped veal, a half-pound of child administers. start with; some snall men

and can fresh parts. consume enormous quantities of sausage meat, are mixed with one "A SLAVE TO MY CHILDREN" nourishment.

egg, one cipfot of bread, crumbs,' "I don't intend to be a slave case, it's better tu hove une Un of tomate

Soup or a half THOUGH you may live A twittering hostess is exhausting, more than enough and use the left- bottle of catsup, and salt and pepper. to my children, if I have any," overs next day, (Often, this is half Strips of bacon in the bottom of said a newly-married woman. alone, we hope you don't dine alone with too opposite a serene woman presiding average male, in planning his meal, brown.

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

the pan add an extra flavour. and After her baby arrived, though The first test to apply to the the loaf should be baked until everything was, quite straight- great regularity.

Over superlative scrambled followed by, big black cherries and is the alcohol test. Dining should be an adven- an epleureun 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

principles in drinking. of expensive courses. taste, and there's no telling to what other adventures it may SECOND RULE, needed only by If he doesn't Drink

thase entertaining with limited space lead.

eRs.

A man's fastes

THOROUGHLY brush

clean :1 half-pound mushrooms before you cut them

stlees.

or equipment. is-Never ask a man WE might as well start with Then add them to three table-

ever met

ly.

forward, she and her husband went off on holiday, leaving the baby with the nurse... She said and it would give the baby such a of splendid start to get into good into habits of sleeping and feeding. and besides it was not good to the teetotaler, who crops spoonfuls of melted butter, But don't depend altogether on to balanae his plate on his knee.

cool take a young baby away from up in every woman's life from time from three to five minutes, sprinkle home. getting invitations. You may Ket

Men may be better jugglers than to time, and sometimes permanent- with salt and pepper, dredge with something even more advantageous women, but not at mealtime.

All this was true and the in- by issuing a few yourself.

one tablespoonful of four, add one For him, you'd better think up n Any he-man we have Apart from the well-known way

sweets (remembering that he has bls spoonfuls of cream, and cook slowly mother's absence, but somehow the little one does not seem to 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-fant was well cared for in the very flattering to any man about an when he eats dinner.

good points, after all). This gentle-

CARROTS VICHY:

belong to her parent. At a year If you haven't room even for a man will like candy left around on alone with a dine

old, she is very independent, table big enough for two, have a little tables, for after-dinner stuffing,

You'll do best with this if you and will as soon go to anyone nest of tle ones and set one in Tho chances

are that he will front of your guesttand one in front and jelly with the ment course,

You'd better take it for granted choose little tender carrots of the arrive, the first time. In a pleased of yourself, when dinner is served.

that this guest will be very hungry same size. Clean and boil them in else as to her mother. und allghtly curious frame of mind, which is all your favour.

THIRD RULE.-Plan your meal and plan accordingly. according to your man.

We don': mean according to his

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

Invitation

woman.

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It's up to you to make the most

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

Be sure of Yourself

URST RULE-Don't invite.

him at all unless you are Size is Misleading

sure you can give him a meat he'll really enjoy. That means not too sketchy meal and certainly no visible strain or fuss.

size.

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

for another Ave minutes.

lightly salted water until tender,

then allee them very thin (that is the DESTROYING AFFECTION trick, really) and saute the slice in butter to which a little sugar hus been added.

No one can tell the effect on!

Turn them 0001 they are a nice brown and sprinkle them with care minced parsley.

a baby of purely mechanical and attention, however efficient it may be. There may Since you live alone and are The spinach Is Just like any be some people who think that probably limited as to space-und-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 this menu with a good tinned soup (oned), but it should be heaped in of training and looking after appetite by his which is the best tomato soup any a mound on the serving dish, with her infant, and to those, cuckoo'

the carrots piled gaily round it.

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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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