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If You've in bed

-you may as well

make it a luxury

13.

A

10

DAY in bed need not be

a bore, even if you have got a cold. Plan to make the best of it and enjoy yourself.

#1

Wear new bed Jacket. Give yourself the best manicure you've Wever had. Catch up on your read-

ing. Write letters.

Give your face

L rest; don't

make-up, except for lipstick and vascline on your eyelashes.

. Here's a guide to details in this plcture:--

Her hair is thed back in un ordinary silk net, and the join covered with a broad satin ribbon,

Wooden frame for buelt of bed is made of ply- wood and covered in plain glazed chintz, plum colour and quited. Bound with ice blue, it clips on, and Makes off for washing.

for

3. Special pillow in-

vallds, quite easy to make, Net over sille tied with ribbons nt the corner.

Best bed jacitet. Raws of gathered pastel pink or blue lace make the sleeves, the Prest is a satin bolero, tied with broad

ribbons.

quarter.

You can have a telephone extension for 3s, 0.

#

Side tables, twins, with one handkerchief drawer

and a cupboard.

books.

8

Suppers of quilted matin, high tops: And, of course,

Needle

point

tapestry. Costs about a guinea, this

size, including wools,

9

Hot water bottle cover, quilted sntin, rlizy.

10 Dressing gown in peach

flannel, trimmed

Pringe of plum colour.

with

11 Coverlet of ice-blue glazed

chintz, Pleated frills,

bound in plum colour.

12 Bed tray with

題 centre

leaf in fly-weight ply-

wood: Lent supports a book or a

mirror,

13 Lampshade, home-covered

colour.

with ruched chiffen, peach

The nightdress a white crepe. mizatio, gathered in the bodice and lotted with plum colour natrow

12.

got to stay

with a

Are

a

cold

you

same

he

LOST-ES

still

girl married?

These questions--if you answer them

honestly-will tell you

As soon as you heard his key in the door you used to run to meet him, after a quick look in the mirror. Now do you just go on reading or knitting, not caring if you nose is shiny or your hair untidy?

When he came into the room while you were gossiping on. the 'phone with a friend you cut short the conversation and rang off-which flattered him. Now do you go on talking as if he wasn't there?

When he liked a dish and had two helpings of it you used to Now do you say, say, "I'm delighted you like that so much." "Take care, you'll make yourself ill"?

His job fascinated you: you plied him with questions about Now do you sigh, "How I should love to be the wife of a diplomat or a great writer''}

it.

Surprise Dish

SPINACH SOUFFLE

POIL a pound and a half of

carefully washed spinach for twenty minutes. Then put it into cold water, and afterwards aquecze out all the moisture possible and pass the spinach through a sieve.

Melt a walnut of butter in a saucepan, put in the spinach, season with pepper, and heat through.

Stir in gradually the yolks of two eggs, and finally the whip. ped whites which have been mized with a pill of whipped cream.

Allow the mixture to cool, tie some paper round the top of a soufle dish, put in the mixture, and bake for half an hour.

The flowers he brought you were always your favourites. Now do you say, "Thanics, darling, but you've forgotten again that narcissus always gives me a headache"?

When he forgot something you used to say with a smile. "Don't worry, it doesn't matter a bit." Now do you say, "The only time I ever

." nsk you to do anything.

the

Spinach As An Ice

Soke as the absence of AVOURY lees are specially supar helps in freezing process. Chop spinach very finely and then steam in the usual way.

To four cupfuls of puree add 4oz butter, and then beat in 4oz of cream cheese, one expful of whipped cream and the beaten white of one egg.

Season with pepper and salt to taste and freeze in the usual way. Serve on cheese wafer biscuits and sprinkle a very little chopped mint on cach just before serving.

MONUMENT

TO A.I.F. UNVEILED BY KING

On Scene Of Great Wartime Sacrifice

Amiens, July 22. Early this afternoon King George solemnly erected at Villers-Bretonneux to the unveiled the monument memory of 45,000 Australlon diers who fell during the Great War on French battlefields.

sol-

OK

You used to love going to the

The special train conveying King theatre or clacma alone with him. George and Queen Elizabeth arrived Now do you always suggest going in at the station of the

village a party?

Villers-Bretonneux shortly after. p.m. The road leading to the monu- You liked to tease him a little ment was lined by French infantry when you were alone. Now do you and mechanised

units. Before the make fun of him when other people monument a guard of honour com- oro there?

posed of

French, British and Aus- trallan

ex-servicemen had

beer When he said he had a headache, drawn up, Australian war veterans in you used to go about on tiptoe, Ket which had become

khaki uniform and wide soft hat so popular, in hlm remedies, make him a eup of France during the war.

Now do you grumble, “Just my luck; I wanted particularly to listen to the radio," and turn it off with martyred air?

ten.

COUNT THE TELEGRAPHS"

EVERYWHERE

British Sovereigns were welcomed by On arrival at the monument the the singing of the British National anthem by a choir of French school children. Among official personali- ties present were the veteran Gen. eral De Castelnau, General Gamelin, General Gouraud, Admiral Lacaze, Lord Birdwood, who commanded the Australian forces in the Great War, the British Ambassador, Sir Eric Phipps, and the Foreign Minister, Lord Halifax,

Shortly after the arrival of the Britali Sovereigns a second special train conveying the President and Madame Lebrun arrived at Villers-

This Column Is About Spinach

EXPERT modern methods applied

to vegetable growing have made It possible to keep spinach on the market practically the whole year round. Cooks have in their turn pressed their appreciation of this enterprise in kitchen gardening by concentrating so much on spinach cookery that this has now become a most Important branch of that cookery which adds dictinction catering. Spinach, good always, particularly welcome in

mentis.

to is

summer

One discovery that has been made by scores of women, who each thinks it is her own iden, is the practical ald of the mincer in the preparation of spinach. A specially selected re- cipe denling with this aspect, given below lins been chosen because of its concise and clear directions.

TAKE 1 pint of cooked and steved

spinach, make a jelly in the or- dinary way (lemon flavour would be suitable), using pint of spinach, stir well, season to taste with salt and capenne pepper. Mould and set.

This makes art excellent supper dish. Serve the jelly whole or cut up in chunks on a bed of crisp let- tuce, decorate with tomatoes, cu- cumber, the grated yolk of cap. The Jelly also make a good luncheon dish served with a macedoine of young vegetables.

An unsweetened jelly is, of course, required for this dish.

ND here are the directions men-

A umed for the easy creaming of

spinuch:

Creamed spinach sufficient for four persons can be prepared in a few minutes. Simply wash the spinach und pass R unstalked through the mincer. The stalks and veins are cjected at the back of the mincer and the pulp and juice emerge from the front, and can be poured straight in- to the saucepan. Bring this to the boll, summer for a few minutes to drive off superfluous liquid, and then add crearn to tuste,

SPINACH SOUFFLE

QUIL 12oz spinach In salt water

till soft

strain and pass through

a sieve and dry as much as possi- ble by stirring in a pan over the dre. Make a Bechamel sauce of 21⁄2 ta- blespoonfuls of butter, 3oz flour and early a pint of milk. Stir in three yolks of egg, one at a time; put the pan over the fire and stir briskly til the sauce thickens, Remove und whisk till nearly cold. Add the sleved spinuch and, lastly, Lour whites of egg beaten stiff. Season well,

Sicam in a greased pudding dish covered with greaseproof paper for about 50 minutes. Allow it to stand for five minutes before turning out. Decorate with hard-boiled eggs and serve as a separate dish with Hol- Jandaise sauce.

WITH MACKEREL TAKE lib spinach,

1 large fresh mackerel, 1 pickled onion (coar- sely grated), butter, salt, pepper and paprika.

Wash spinach well, strip from con- tre stalks and boil with one tea- spoonful salt for about 20 minutes in saucepan with only sufficient wa- ter to

cover the bottom of pan. Strain, chop

finely with lump of

oughly

val and

with

pepper. Mix thor- pickled onlon and luy mixture in bottom of fireproof dish. Cul open and fillet mackerel. Lay on top of spinach, flesh side up- permost

Dab with pats of butter, solt and garnish with paprika. Bake in hot oven about 10 minutes.

SERVED AS ASPARAGUS

UT the thick stems of spinach beet into lengths of about 7 inches. Strip off the leaves. Cook in bolling

water well aulted, until tender. Serve with olled butter sauce

or Hollandaise

in the same asparagus.

manner

5

GOOD LUNCHEON DISH TAKE one pound of whole leaf spinach. Cook it in the usual way, with very little water; drain and chop. Best four eggs, add four dessertspoonfuls of water, and the chopped spinach. Mix thoroughly,

Pour mixture into omelette pan, with sufficient melted butter, cook slowly, slipping a knife around the edges to prevent sticking, as with any other

omelette. When almost *set, finish off by slipping pan

under

the gas grill, where contents will finish cooking, will brown. Served with a thick tomato sauce, and steamed rice, this makes an excellent. luncheon dish.

and

RAW SPINACH

contalus valuable RAW spinach

medicinal properties and can be more easily digested by some people than cooked.

Try the quiele way of putting it through an ordinary meat mincer. Make the usual

salad of lettuce, tomato, cress, grated carrot, and so on. Add the dessertspoonful minced spinach

per person. The dark green enhances the general colour scheme.

of

Bretonneux. The Sovereigns greeted the President and Madame Lebrun on British soll as ground on which the Australian monument has been raised belongs to the British Empire nan result of the gift of the Franch nation just like the ground on which the Canadian monument stands at Vimy

King George and President Lebrun delivered speeches, following which the "Last Post" was. Bounded by. buglers. A ono-minute silence was then observed-Trans-Ocean.

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