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How's your

Taste while you make'

VEGE

nerve?

Do you fuss about un-

important details?

Do sudden noises upset

you?

SHORTHAND TYPIST IN GERMANY

SHORTHAND-typist in Germany

has e harder te thun in most places. Many other girls do not be-

, work unit nne, Anish at five. and have 3 Saturday morning off once a month, as well as the regular half-holiday,

Inland where hard work really is the rufe, onice lite commences at e'eht in the morning. In fact, in one ofce where I recently worked in South-East Germany I had to rise ut

Do you suffer from rest-six in order to be at work by seven

lessness?

o'clock;.

It was a dreary morning, too, for there was no break until twelve, and as the people go in for central heat-

Do you answer people in and hermetically realed double

sharply?

Are you afraid of the

dark?

If so, you need take yourself in

T'M just a mass of nerves" "I'M

-that's a feminine cry, not a masculine one. And all because the average woman doesn't know how to relax.

to

hand

windows, the hours seemed arduous Indeed.

But, hard though she has to work, the typist manages to snatch Ave minutes or so from her labours to This enter "second breakfast."

he brings along neatly wrapped In rease-proof paper, and I usually consists ut sandwiches of thick brown bread spread with sausage.

Its using to rea the whole office "down tools" for a few min- | ules and surreptitiously nibble bread under cover of their typewriters (for conversation at this time is not sup- posed to take place.)

At this particular firm an hour and a half is allowed for lunch, and most of the girls take something to ent and have this at the office," brewing their coffee by means of an electric heater. Afterwards they bring out Don't cater crochet work or knitting, and talk or slug as they work. Every when angry | shorthand-lypist i met seemed to be an adept at this craft, and to like it Car

their tasks in the more than ESSENTIAL is an tion tonic to

condition the blood. Amt at omfleet

The first thing I noticed about the same time "cockta ut lunch-

the Juices offer life was that everything was time made either from

or much stricter than other places, and squeezed from your carrots,

These are to en-panelinity was Insisted upon to an those from celery. rich the blond, for impoverished absolute degree. What way lacking most of all was that spirit of friend- Catch a man worrying over every blood means sick nervest

liness which does exist here between | niggling detall, and then carrying bis Give your digestion, a chance to employer and employee, In Ger- wordes round with him. He's got relax tou Give up heavy ments. many "the boss" is quite defnitely more sense, or, as he would put Don't eat when you are angry or the boss, and the e shorthand- typist is looked upon as a machine complacently, he takes the long emotionally upset in any way. view." In other words, he doesn't little very nourishing food at reguler and nothing more, It's about time two-hourly intervals will help you, we followed his example.

five on his nerves.

nervousa But, since £1 woman's system is more highly pitched than

a man's, the must first learn how to get her nerves in good trim, and keep them that way.

is the rule for soup

A

Good-night

drinks

four

The Ofice Worker's Salary

cer-

She is very poorly pa'd, yet, even her salary is only ten shillings week (this being all she receives as # commencing salary), Income-tax CUP of me ten at

has to be paid, in addition to o'clock. Instead of the usual thin suum every month to the "party." grandTrue, that in exchange for this she brew of Indian or Chinn, s

you receives n magazine which is sup- thing for nerves. And, while are at the herbalist's, ar him for posed to have a very unlitting effect some herbs for your bath. These but most of the girls would in- will help as a sonorific, so long as finitely prefer extra pocket money

to spend on themselves! the bath is not too hot.

A hot bath is death to sleep, for it wakes you up, and you will lie uwnke, every nerve on edge, for hours. After your bath it is a good

a good-night drink.

JEGETABLE soups are easy for the beginner to make, seeds. Add to 11⁄2 oz. hot butter idea to take a hot milk beverage as

delicious and nourishing for her husband and her. guests to eat.

Like to much else in good cookery they depend largely on subtle seasoning. I cannot repent too often in this beginner's course the Import- ance of tasting soups and sauces during the process of making them.

No seasoning directions such as "fat pinch," "half-teaspoon," can bo infallible, and the good cook relies on her own palate to transform a dull purce (though made from the best ingredients) into the sort of soup that every one laps up and asks for more.

NOW for the general rules:

1. Allow roughly 1 b. vegetables to 1 pint of liquid.

with the shredded lettuce.

Meanwhile measure out 11 pints milk and water in equal quantities, put them in a saucepan with union cut in half and a blade of mace, bring to the boil, and let them

Imuner five minutes

an

You

Learn to relax

10

zurance.

no

As an indication of the way.one's salary is taxed, from a gross salary of 120 marks per month (the rate of exchange being about 12.50 marks to the E1) the typist has to pay out twenty marks in taxation and in-

However, their policy is a

very comprehensive one, and, in addition to doctors and hospital fees, it in- cludes those of the dentist und

Another relax, optician.

point-as must learn

works out of office Whenever you can, wherever medical man When the lettuce and cucumber you are. When you sit down for hours, all attention has to be had live simmered for the usual twenty, a few moments with nothing to do, during the day, and the "time off" minutes, draw the pan to one side don't grab a book or the newspaper required to visit doctors, dentials, and work in a slightly heaped table- or, if you are at home, turn on the and so on by the staff must aggre- spoon of plain flour or (better still) wireless.

diversions gate during a year quite a number

of bours. Pream of rice flour. Stir well round until the evening. Instead-Hop. with wooden spoon to eliminate tumps, then pour on the bellinear control from your arms and legs

Consciously. withdraw the muteu-Dress and Make-Up Equid and its contents.

The German office girl does not until they feel like dead weights; let

Her hair, however, is al- your backbone sag, your head fall dress or make-up half so smartly as forward, your eye-lids drop. Do It our own. as though you had no more control ways well set and cared for. Clothes expensive and make-up 19 over your body. And, after a few re

With the exception minutes, feel the vitality pouring frowned upon.

uf Berlin, very few firms will allow into you.

their female employees to make-up Chase away at all.

wrinkles

Finish according to rules.

This

soup is much Improved by the add

2. Clean them well and pare or scrape those which need it. Cut them into small dice or slice them thinly according to the recipe.

3. Simmer them slowly for twenty minutes in fat in a saucepan with tion of a little cream, fresh or sour,

the lid on. Add the liquld (water,

Seasonable

Salads

or milk and water mixed according Mixed vegetable soup

to recipe), bring to the boil, e3:00), 4|t|ff|||||||||||| aun simmer till the vegetables are really tender.

5.

the

the

seasoning

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Do the same thing again in their lipsticks as being "colourless" bed, if you C't sleep and their powders and rouge Lift your legs up and let them fall looking "entirely natural"

As previously mentioned, the heavily, one after the other, and then your arms. Raise your lead, press German girl does not like fresh ur your chin on your chest to stretch during working hours, and altogether and then is no one-half so keen on outdoor the back of your neck,

VERY useful and nourishing 4. Work

soup through

because you can use up odds the stalks of cauli- sieve ( the recipe says so) with and ends such

You flower and cabbage or the outside a wooden spoon Into a basin.

root vegetables available into small HERE are some suggestions for un-will now have what is known in leaves. Cut all the stalks and any

usul salads which are sure to colery as a "puree."

Return the purce to the sauce dice, alan onions, leaks, and celery be appreciated by the family:-

Take a small row enul flower, cut on and stir it comes to the ball when in senson, add them to the fat If and proceed as usual, using water again. Correct out the flower part and chop It Into

only (no milk). and serve. necessary very small pleces. Next obtain twa

6. If you want to add little

If you have any water in which or three raw carrots, wash and shred them Suely. Mix these and the cream to a vegetable puree soup for vegetables have been cooked save it op it leavily back on your pillow. Lite as her British sister. Camping

by separately with salad a special occasion, sile it in at the and use it for your soup. When the Do it all three or four times and and hiking, I found, was done chictly

schoolgirls. But caulfower

ness which will steal over you.

nasiums are extremely popular and cream and a few drops of lemon last minute, after removing the pan above vegetables are nearly cooked then give yourself up to the drowal-only julce. Then break the leaves of a from the stove. Soup must not bell add shredded lettuce, spinach, sur-

many shorthand-typists arc

also rel, cabbage, or a few shelled pers

And, finally, chase away your crisp lettuce into pieces of conven!- ice the cream has been added,

and go on simmering till they are wrinkles as

accomplished gymnasts. well as your cooted,

with a day-time nap, If you can Amusemquis

manage 11. Don't be

ent size, and place in French dress-

Jog. This is made by mixing

gether a teaspoonful each of salt and sugar, and a

H

And here are some recipes:-- Potato soup

teaspoonful popriica. | ++++==+=+=

Add three tablespoonfuls of vinegar gradually and alternately with EX cupful of olive oil, beating all the time.

nerves

This soup Is better calen with possibly the vegetables left as they are in- ashamed of it. Have it and enjoy

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gym-

The cinema must take frst place stead of putting them through a it. In a room, well darkened, with as the German girl's chief source of DD two sliced onions and sleve. Use any vegetables you can a dark scarf over your eyes, your amusement, and it was interesting to 11. peeled sliced potatoes lay your hands on-the more variety head on a soft pillow, a light but and that such types as Shirley to 2oz, sizzling butter or good beef you have the better. Serve with warm covering fucking you in on Temple and Greta Garbo were even After arranging the lettuce on a dripping or

Proceed plenty of grated cheddar or parme-Į every alde. dish, put the cauliflower and carrots according to rules, allowing 11⁄2 pints san checae, round the disli nu u border.

Raisin Salad

and add

bacon fut,

milic and water in equal quantities. Bacon and cabbage soup

Werk through wire slève.

A good garnish for this solip In +E+||||||||||||||||| a teaspoonful of chopped paraley,

variations:

Don't sleep too long

bigger publie heroines than they are in this country. Cinemas, with the exception of Berlin's West End, are fairly cheap.

Another thing is a visit to a cufe with one or two friends where sho Peel and alico ono orange, cutting or chervil, or tarragon, sprinkled THIS is made rather differently DON'T allow yourself to sleep

has a coffee or a ginss of beer. She too long: half an hour is the allees into thin threds. Silce over the surface at the last moment. banana. Next peel and core two or That is the foundation recipe for want to give you the recipe as it will see that it is a deep, restful sleep.

from the shove soups, but I long enough for most people. But all for an hour or so, discussing all

sorts of topics. three apples, and chop enough to all potato soup. Here are some of the come in useful now that spring cab- Compose yourself to repose.

German girls cannot understand A daily half a cup.

bages are in full swing:-

why, in Britain, we enter a restau» nap will do more to keep your face rant only to boit down our food as Mix with the orange and banana, LEEK AND POTATO: Leave out Slice two large or four smail free of wrinkles, your outlook on quickly an possible and then dash out

cupful of seedless the onlons. Use equal quantities of onions, add them to Zoz. raisins. Finally, mix all together teeks and potatoes. The leeks should oz. streaky bacon rashers, roughly system in proper condition than any-whole evening, spending only a few fat with life serene and happy your nervous again. They will willingly sit tho with a little salad cream, when it be sliced crosswise, like carrots...... chopped. Simmer dve minutes, then thing else. will be ready for serving.

A nice garnish for this soup is a add a small roughly chopped or

pence, and getting a great deal of Peel a crisp cucumber and cut shredded and blanched leek: slico shredded blanched cabbage

And when you are on top of the enjoyment out of listening to the (to into blocks two inches long, then into it thinly, put in cold salted water, blanch it put it inlo rold

world again, how easy it to take band and watching the other cus- stripa 1⁄4 inch thick and broad. bring to the boil, simmer five min- water, bring to the boll, simmer five that "long_view" Sprinkle with salt and vinegar, and a¦utes, drain well and add to the soup minutes, drain well).

KATE CARR liberal allowotice of salad oll, and at the last minute, toss all lightly togelber.

Allow to stand, and press through Lettuce and cucumber soup bolled) and a'mmer slowly for one

Balted

Add two pints water. (preferably | that in which vogstabies have been

a ane sieve 1⁄2 lb fresh tomatoes, | 1664++++IS++++++++++++ste and a half hours. This soup can be Heap the salad into salad bowls, pour over the juice and sprinkle with o

tablespoonful of very finely chopped

To

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gives a good flavour to the soup), cul in which it was cooked. Grated them all in half, and scoop out the cheese should be handed with It.

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