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*Recipes from Hungary." By like, wipeable cover and spiral Evelyn Bach, Published by Cob stitching to keep it open at the right den-Sanderson.}

Ünts friendly little volume SIMPLE things seems different and a place in many kitchen

pake

libraries.

done a new way. This came upon me even more after dip- "Enquire Within?" By Elizabeth ping into Evelyn Bach's new Craig. (Published by W. Collins, book of Hungarian cookery. Sons and Co., Ltd.)

February, 15, 1939.

Keep Your Best Frock

Clean

DUR

URING the week-ends If your frock is patterned,

most of us like to wear however, I suggest you make our best frocks as often with a deeper tone of the same.

the apron up in plain fabric as possible for then, more colour as trimming.

than at any other time in the year, visitors seem to drop in unexpectedly.

A

BOLERO effect is cleverly given to the bodice of the apron shown in the

Yet, there are all sorts of odd centre of the drawing. This is joba to be done during the done by the curved seams at week-ends. So it's useful to each side which are emphasised have a pretty apron at hand by two rows of simple embroi that can be put on quickly when dery, Similar embroidery trims necessary when you allp out the hem and all the edges. into the kitchen to make some It is quite easy to work with hot coffee and sandwiches for out a transter-just zig-zag the callers, or when you sweep rows with dots between the up the crumbs from the carpet points. Full instructions after your children's tea-time given with the pattern. guests have gone,

are

Natural colour tussore with

The three aprons illustrated the embroidery in cherry red, here are all made from one put- green and bright blue would tern. And they can all look look attractive..

dainty as well as prove service- able if you make them up in

Unwanted Advice some nice materials. As you

By A WIFE

Do not tink I am alone when I say that I prefer to do things

can see from the back views in ming the small drawings, they cover panel your frock pretty well.

FLOWERED artificial

THE third illustration

shows another slim- line, for there is a long let in down the centre front. Make it of some plain soft cotton fabric so that the

| my own way, and that, if I don't

silk crepe would be trimming is thrown up in good

relief, know how, I prefer to find out for 'nice for the first one, trimmed myself rather than have people with contrasting fabric or bias Here again the trimming is a shooting advice and suggestions at fold tape in a plain colour-per- simple bit of handwork-just

haps the same colour as the rows

stitches of horizontal They have a clever way with their To those on the threshold

frock you will most often wear worked one below the other and humblest dishes over there.

of household affairs, and people who are apt to do so generit over. It's cut on very good apaced evenly. It will look Take pancakes for moment.

the best hearts in the lines, with elimming side seams good done in two contrast Starting with everyday batter, the others who are finding that ally have nuthor prescribes the following practice is never fully proven, world; they are genuinely anxious to into which the slight fulness of colours-say yellow and green filing for Brain Pancakes:

bodice fellow-creature comfortable the here is the happy housewife's see enlf's brain,

half-mon, ABC, compiled by that popular and doing a Job of work the right gathered. two eggs, salt and pepper, Skin the brain (after the usual preparations) Writer Elizabeth Craig.

until

me.

Let me say

outset at the

that

way. They are also capable, for

worth white, but what they have not realised is that trait in most of us which makes us jib at univited advice.

and cut Into small pieces; fry very As she tells us in the foreword, their suggestions are frequently finely chopped onion in butter, add she has planned these 2,000 prac the brain, salt and pepper and two tical ideas for quick reference in eggs. Fry

done. Filt the time of trouble, and she also includes panenkes with this mixture, fold a good deal of semi-technical in- and dip in egg and breadcrumbs and formation that often saves time,

ad fry in hot butter." Truly a hunger- labour

even money in the making recipe.

average home. From renewing 1 Biling sug- top washer to tying your husband's dress tle, there is the right answer mushrooms, in reliable, concise form.

Here Is her prawn gested for another occasion:

"Two rolls,

few

paprika, Built two. dessertspoons

cream. Shell the prawns and cut up the ment. Sonk the rolls and, stew the mushrooms in butter. Mix well together, season with paprika and

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add the cream. Fill the pan.

When Packing Parcels

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I myself amn by way of being a creditably good cook. Recently Woman friend, who is n Arst-class cook, came 10 stay the week-end with me. Well, I dreaded her en- trance into the kitchen. I could see ner keying herself up for command. Her eyes glenmed with enthusiasm. At her oWN duties such a capable manner would have deserved the greatest credit, but these were my duties, and all I wanted from her was passive observation. Her er

al and helpful manner, though admirably nicant, Was simply thorn in the flesh.

i can tell you a good way of cgg-whites quickly." "I

cakes with this mixture, roll to HE advice generally given to gether and dip in egg and bread-those who send gifts through the crumbs and fry in butter.

Nor are we at a loss for the pom is, "Choose non-fragile articles, sweet course. Palatschinken. with easy to pack."

cheese

stuffings, are real Hun- Liut you may know someone with of delicate china or garian pancakes, Do try them for a special love

glass. And it is hardly satisfactory beating specal meal sometimes,

If you find yourself with a sand-to send her the money and tell her shouldn't put milk in scrambled eggs wich loaf to dispose of and a large to choose her own.

The Chinese have on excellent family to feed you will find Puszta Loaf a satisfying yet savoury offer-way of packing fine glass and china mediately."

ware. They dip each piece in cold ing made with pork.

With its colourful, yet workman-water and twist tissue paper round it while it is still wet. is then wrapped in crumpled newspaper, The damp tissue paper, put on with a forms a protective pad.

Choose a box to fit the contents as nearly as possible and fill up the odd corners with crumpled paper.

Suedes have been given promi- nence in display recctitly. Here, reading from top to bṣliçm, are four types that have been fea- tured. At top is the butcher boy type of Jacket, belted af front and loose at back, and below is three-plece ensemble consisting of suede Jacket, short suede, top- coni, faced with the

plsla

of the skiri. The miedo vent over an- Fora sweater with hairy sixiped woollen skirt, also the boxy yoked-jacket below that havo been popular.

if I were your" "Spongecake spolls if you don't put it into the oven And so on, I got su flustered expecting her hints and an- ticipating her remarks that I made the most foolish mistakes, which no doubt further convinced her that I Was a helpless sout who urgently needed her nid,

I once took a friend of mine up to see my sleeping child. He had Narrow strips of paper pasted dia- cold, and he was breathing rather gonally across the frames of pictures | heavily, "Oh. dear!"

volunteered and mirrors will prevent them from my friend. "He shouldn't be cracking by vibration.

breathing like that. You must get Always dompen

before him into the habit of doing deep string using it to tie up parcels. There is breathing exerelves." That mus une no danger then of it coming undone, doubtedly a brillant suggestion, but, Be sure to label "Fragile" all par- cali me perverse or what you win, i cels containing breakable articles. resented her advice.

Characteristics

WHEN THEY ARE TOO PROMINENT

П

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softly alternately on a mid-blue or a wine-coloured background.

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At the left is a dress intended for spring wear, combining white and hunter green crepe, The dress is finely pleated from neckline to hem, except for the smoothly fitted corselet section. Sparkle on sheer is the story for the evening ensemble, developed in white net posed over white taffeta, and embroidered in silver. sequins in sterfish and scattered arrangements.

WE all have definite characteristics gives single confidence,

looka but quite frequently wo are pathetic, and sighs mysteriously and secretly rather fond of them. It is meaningly when human nature is only human that we should like our discussed, und generally tries to give selves a bill

the impression that she is "deep," but misunderstood. She, too, is dis- There is a danger, however, when tinetly chilly. we begin to overdo our characteris-

dle for n cause. And they chide you None of us likes people who are so very misguided way woman, for in-naive, ties. There is

of achieving most reproochfully if you do not that they givo themselves "dash." stance, who has a great deal of polse, away at every turn, but, at the same

share their hysteria. but she has so much of it that she is time, we do like a little warmth, a Can anything be more pathetic than tle, don't become maudlin and like Even enthusiasm can be overdone. Further, if you are kind and gen- almost like an iceberg She never little personal confidence, and a little the person who goes in so much for a doormat; If you believe in firmness gels excited, never allows a muscle response to our own warm impulses. "enthusing" that she loses all critical and self-control, don't become tough; of her body out of place when she is sitting, never allows herself to be-

one meets admiro sense and thinks everything perfect, if you consider it bumen to be a little tray the slightest emotion; in short, exoticiam. Again, a spot of exoticism whether it is the hospitality of every inemelent, don't become feckless; never make the slightest faux pas. ndda colour and piquancy to life, I hostess, or every "show" she goes and if you rather cherish your sen- think, but it you daub your whole to see? Such people are ustially sitiveness, don't carry it to the point Another type of woman believes horizon with it, the result is some-given to flaunting their enthusiasm where even the slightest unkind in naturniness. She hates studied what like eating dish of very hot in your face. They exclaim and reward hurts. behaviour of any kind and, if the curry. One such woman, though she marit about every detail of scenery Keep your characteristics. by all polsod one sits like a statue, she her- is British to the backbone, has, on they let you know that they will

through which, you are passing, or means, but don't "overdo" them. solf sita like, a loose-limbed rag doll the principle that French women are which has been carelessly thrown fascinating, adopted their excitable down. Further, she is abrupt with and gesticulating manner of speech, people, for she does not believe in

Other women

the necessity of oiling the wheels of Glorifying Untidiness social-Intercourse; sho' is painfully

frank.

| The “Mystery” Woman

and

A quality which is oxasperating when overdone is untidiness, quite a lot of people do overdo it, not so much because they are. in- Then there is the "mystery" wo- trinsically untidy, but beenuse they man, the type who likes to be an believe that 1 shows "dash" and enigma: "No one understands me," "serious" if you use a little-box; she murmurs, or "I don't like being they advertise the fact that they one of those people who are cally never "khow where to find in their read." To ashlove the effect she has gloves or golf-sticks; and they flory ¦ in mind, she talks;very Uttio, never in a paper-strawn room. It seems a

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