1938-10-20 — Page 26

How's your nerve?

"Taste while you make

"

Do you fuss about un-

important details?

Do sudden noises upset

you?

SHORTHAND TYPIST IN GERMANY

SHORTHAND-typlet in Germany

ha hurder life than In most plarea. Many other girls do not be gin work until nine, Anish at five, and have a Saturday morning off once a month, as well as the regular half-holiday,

In a land where hurd work really Is the rufe, ofce lite commences at c'ght in the morning. In fact, in one offles where I recently worked in South-East Germany I had to rise at

o'cloal;.

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

lessness?

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

Do you answer people and hermetiently sented double

sharply?

windows, the hours seemed arduous Indeed.

But, hard though she has to work. the typist manages to snatch five

Are you afraid of the minutes or so from her inbours to

dark?

If so, you need to

take yourself in

"T'M just a mass of nerves"

“I'M

-that's a feminino cry,

not a masculine one.

And

hand

ezt her "second breakfast," Th's the brings along neatly wrapped in grease-proof paper, and I usually consists of sandwiches of thick brown bread spread with sausage.

It i amuning to see the whole office "down tools" for a few min- ules and surreptitiously nibble brend under cover of their typewriters (for conversation at this time is not sup- posed to take place.)

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At this particular firm an hour and u half is allowed for lunch, and most of the girls take something to cal and have this at the office, brewing their coffee by means of an electric heater. Afterwards they bring out Don't eat the'r crochet work or knitting, and

talk or sing as they work. Every F1202-Moonlight in Waikiki FT. when angry shorthand-typist met seemed to lie}

It's the Little Things that Count. F.T. an adept at this craft, and to like it j ASSENTIAL is an iron tonie to far more than their tasks in the F1197-You Couldn't Be Cuter. **Joy of Living”. 10 condition the blood. And at once!

Just Let Me Look at You. all because the average the same time a "cackla at lunch- The first thing I noticed about j

the Juices offee life was that everything was F1198-King Revel Selection. woman doesn't know how to time made elther from

squeezed from

or much stricter than other places, and young carrots, relax.

thuse from celery. These are to en- punctuality was insisted upon to an rich the blond, for impoverished absolute degree. What was lack ng most of all was that spirit of friend- Catch a man worrying over every bluod means sick nerves.

liness witch does exist here between niggling detail, and then carrying his

Give your digestion a chance to employer and employee. In Ger- lie's got relax ton

heavy worries round with him.

Give up

meals, many "the boss" is quito definitely! more sense, or, as he would put it Don't eat when you are angry or the boss, and the little shorthand- Atypist is looked upon as n machine complacently, he "takes the long emotionally upset in any way. view." In other words, he doesn't little very nourishing food at regular and nothing more." live on his nerves.

It's about time two-hourly intervals will help you. we followed his example.

But, since +1 woman's nervous system is more highly pitched thun a man's, she must Arst learn how to

get her nerves in good trim, and keep them that way.

is the rule for soup

A

Good-night

The Office Worker's Salary

She is very poorly pa'd, yet, even drink if her salary is only ten shillings a week (this being all she receives as In commencing solary), Income-tax CUP of time tea ut fourne to be paid, in addition to a cer- o'clock, instead of the usual tain sum every month to the "party." brew of Indian or China, is a grant True, thot in exchange for this the thing for nerves. And, while you receives a magazine which is sup- are at the herbalisi's, ask him for posed to have a very uplifting cffeel some herbs for your bath. These but most of the girls would in- will help as a soporific, so long as finitely prefer extra pocket money the bath is not too hot.

to spend on themselves!

A hot bath is death to sleep, for it wakes you up, and you will lie awake, every nerve on edge, for hours. After your bath it is a good to 14 oz. hot butter idea to take a hot milk beverage a with the shredded lettuce.

a good-night drink.

Learn to Meanwhile measure out 1% - pints milk and water in equal quantities, !

relax put them in a saucepani with onion cut in half and a blade of mace, bring to the boll, and let them sinumer five minutes.

VEGETABLE soups are easy for the beginner to make, seeds. Add

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

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

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

NOW for the general rules:

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

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.

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 21) the typist has to pay out twenty marks in taxation and in-

surance.

However, their polley is a very comprehensive one, and, in addition to doctors and hospital fees, it in- cludes those of the dentist and

point-a VOU

ΤΟ learn to relax. optelan. Another must

works out Whenever you can, wherever medical man

of office When the lettuce and cucumber you are. When you sit down for hours, all attention has to be had have simmered for the usual twenty a few moments with nothing to do, during the day, and the "lime off" minutes, draw the pan one side don't grab a book or the newspaper required to visit doctors, dent.sts, and work in a slightly heaped table-j or, if you are at home, turn on the and so on by the staff must aggre- spoon of plain flour or (better st01) | wireless. Leave these diversiona ate during a year quite a number

of hours. cream of rice flour. Stir well round until the evening. Instead-op. w tha wooden spoon to eliminate

Const'ously withdraw the rauscu- Jumps, then, pour on the . bolling Iqtrid and its contents.

lar control from your arms and legs

The German office girl does not Finish according to rules. This until they feel like dead weights; let soup is much improved by the add your backbone sagt, your head fall dress or make-up half to smartly us forward, your eye-ilds drop. Do tour own. Her hair, however, is al- as though you had no more control Ways well set and cared for. Clothes expensive and make-up ig over your body. And, after a few tre minutes, feel the vitality pouring frowned upon. With the exception into you.

Chase away wrinkles

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

the lid on. Add the liquid (water,

Seasonable

Salads

usual salads which are sure to

or three raw carrols, wash and shred

on the rely, these and the

for milk and water mixed according Mixed vegetable soup

to recipe), bring to the boil, senson; ++++++++||~|~||||||||~|~ and simmer till the vegetables are

really tender.

4.

Workt the soup through

Lieve

WH

Now

VERY useful and nourishing

beenuse you can use up odds

(if the recipe says so) with and ends such as the stalks of cnull-i a wooden spoor into a basin. You lower and cabbage or the outside have what is known in leaves. Cut all die stalks and any root vegetables available into small a "puree."

If you want to add

And here are some recipes:-

rel, cabbage, or a few shelled peas

Do bed, if you

the same thing again

can't sleep.

your

Dress and Make-Do

of Berlin, very few firms will allow their female employees to make-up at all.

to

The only way in which cosmetie manufacturers have managed evade this han is by advertising their lipsticks as being "colourless"

As I previously mentioned, the

hours, and altogether is not one-half so keen on outdoor

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Tango of Longing F1181-Fisy Gypsy ("Maritza") Tango.

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HARRY ROY'S -ORCIL

.HEINZ HUPPERTS & HIS ORCH

Vienna So Gay.-(“Mariizn”) Waltz. F1182-Waltzes from "Maritza".

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TOUCH

gym-

HERE are some suggestions for cookmy as a be appreciated by the family:- 5. Return the puree to the sauce- dice, also onions, leeks, and celery Lift your legs up and let them fall looline powders and rouge

Take n small raw eaul flower, cut pan and stir till it comes to the boil when in season, add them to the int heavily, one after the other, and then looking "entirely natural."

Correct the seasoning it and

Raise your head, press German proceed

As usual, using water your arms. out the flower part and chop Into

anly (no milk).

your chin on your chest to streich guring work Des not like fresh air necessary and serve. very small plects. Next obtain two

the back of your neck, Arxi then If you have any water in which drop it heavily back on your pillowlife as her British sister, Camping 11 Alithe cream to a vegetable puree soup for vegetables have been cooked save it Do it all three or four timesand and hiking. I found, was done chielly a special occasion, stir it in at the and use it for your seup. When the then give yourself up to the drows-anly cauliflower separately with salnd last minute, after removing the pan above vegetables are nearly cooked ness which will steal over you.

by schoolgirls. But cream and a few drops of lemon Jalco. Then break the leaves of a from the stove, Soup must not boll add shredded lettuce, spinach, sar-

nasiums are extremely popular and many shorthand-typists are Also crimp lettuce into pieces of conveni- once the cream has been added.

uway And, finally, chase and go on simmering till they are wrinkles as well as your nerves

pccomplished gymnasts. cooked.

with day-time nap, you can Amusements This soup is better calen with possibly manage It. Dun't the vegetables left as they are in- ashamed of it. Hove it and enjoy The cinema must take first place stead of putting them through ait. In a room, well darkened, with us the German girl's chief source of DD two onions and steve. Use

such types 13 Shirley tirne.

to 2oz. sizzling butter or good beef you have the better. Serve After arranging the lettuce on a dripping or bacon fot.

with warm covering tucking you in on Temple and Greta Garbo were even Proceed plenty of grated cheddar or parme- every side. dish, put the cauliflower and carrots | Record'ng to rules, allowing 1% pints san cheese.

bigger public heroines than they are round the dish as a border.

Don't sleep in this country. Clemas, with the exception of Berlin's West End, are too long fairly cheap.

ent size, and place in French dress-

gether a teaspoonful each of salt and

Ing. This is made by mixing toPotato soup

sugar, and a teaspoonful paprika.} Add three tablespoonfuls of vinegor gradually and alternately with 44

jafngg

be

cupful of olive oil, beating all the A b. Deeled alleed potatoes lay your hands Vegetables you can ad on a soft pillow, a light out

a dark ceart over your eyes, your amusement, and it was interesting to

Raisin Salad

milk and water in equal quantities. Bacon and cabbage soup

1

Work through wire slevo.

A good garnish for this soup is 4+++++++++++++++ZLETZTE a leaspoonful of chopped, parsley,

variations:-

LEEK AND POTATO: Leave out

She

Another thing is a visit to a cale Peel and slice one orange, cutting or chervil, or tarragon, sprinkled THIS is made rather differently the slees into thin shreds. Slice a over the surface at the last moment.

DON'T allow yourself to sleep with one or two friends where she

too long; half an hour is a coffee or a glass of beer, 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 steep sorts of topics.

from the above coups, but I long enough for most people. But sits for an hour or so, discussing all three apples, and chop enough to fill potato soup. Here are some of the come in useful now that spring cab Compose yourself to repose. A daily why, in Britain, we enter a restau half a cup.

German girls cannot understand bages are in full swing:- Mix with the orange and banana,

nap will do more to keep your face rant only to bolt down our food as Silce two large or four small free of wrinkles, your and add one cupful of seediens the antons. Use equal quantities of onions, add them to 2oz. fat with life serene and happy, your nervous quickly as possible and then dash out

outlook on raisins. Finally, mix all together leeks and potatoes. The leeks should 4oz. streaky bacon rashers, roughly system in proper condition than any- again. They will willingly at the with a little salad cream, when it be alleed crosswise like carrals. chopped. Simmer five minutes, then thing else. will be ready for serving.

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

whole evening, spending only a few Peel a crisp cucumber and cut shredded and blanched teek: slice shredded

pence, and getting a great deal of blanched cabbage into blocks two inches long, then into it thinly, put in cold salted waler, blanch it put it into

And when you are on top of the enjoyment out of listening to the| (Lo world again, how easy it is to take band and watching the other cus- cold strips Inch thick and broad. bring to the ball, simmer five min water, bring to the boil, simmer Ave, that "long view"! Sprinkle with salt and vinegar, and a ttes, drain well and add to the soup minutes, drain well). liberal allowance, of salad of, and at the last minute.

KATE CARR toss all lightly together.

Balted

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

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

a fine sieve 1 lb fresh tomatoes. HIZITETETTSS+$24ESS÷2♪♪ and a half hours. This soup can be

SLI

LICE ปี eucumber

Heap the saind into salad bowls, pour

made equally well in an earthen- over the juice and sprinkle with a tablespoonful of very finely chopped

rather wore casserole in the oven. thickly; peet half the allces Serve with all the vegetables Jeft tarragon, chervil, paraley, and a (leave rind on the other half, as it intact in the same pan or casserole scrap of shallot,

gives a good favour to the soup), cut in which it was cooked. Grated them all in half, and scoop out the cheese should be handed with 1.

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