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Q.. When one !does not believe
in the custom of tipping, isn't
It one's privilege to omit it?
, A. Although there is nothing
compulsory about tipping, still
a person who tries to omit it
must be hard -shelled enough, to
shake off the black looks he will
receive from those who have
served him, and the possible
.accusations of "stinginess."
Q. When.. a woman has been
:Introduced to you as "Alice
Young," how do you know whe
they to address her as "Mrs.
Young" or as "Miss Young"?
A, The only thing to do in
this case is to ask her, unless
there is someone' else nearby
whom you can ask.
Q. Is it proper to use a visit-
ing card for writing one's re-
grets to a formal invitation?
A. No, If an answer is re-
quested on the invitation, it
must be written on one's per
conal stationery.
Q. When are bread and rolls
served at dinner?
A, As soon as the soup is
served, the rolls .or bread are
passed. Most popular contain•
er nowaday is a shallow wicker
basket that has a fringed nap-
kin laid in it, and several sorts
of breads displayed.
Q. To whom does a bride ad-
dress her letter of thanks for
et gift which has been received
from a married couple?
A. She writes to the wife and
thanks both: "Thank you for
the lovely present you and Mr.
Smith (or Jack) sent me, etc."
Q, Who are correctly asked to
verve as pallbearers at ai funer-
A.
Men who are close friends
trf the deceased, Members of the
Immediate family are never
chosen, as their place is with
the women of the family,
Q. What is really the correct
sition in which a person
xouid hold his head while eat-
s; et the table?
A. Than head should be held
r) , an erect position, without
Appearing stiff. The body can
ere Are Deli
ays o Prepare
aY DOROTHY MADDOX
THE Department of Agriculture reports that unusually large sup-
plies of broiler -fryer chickens are now on the market. So let's
take advantage of the lower prices.
Here's a wonderful version of that world-famous taste treat,
Hungarian chicken paprikas:
Chicken Paprikos
(Serves 4)
One-quarter pound salt pork, diced; 1 broiler fryer (3 to
31/2 -pound ready -to -cook weight), cut inserving pieces; flour, 1
tablespoon red (Hungarian) paprika, 1 teaspoon salt, 1/s cup
Tokay wine or soup stock, 1 cup sour cream, 1 cup heavy cream,
3 medium onions.
Preheat electric skillet or heavy iron skillet. Place diced
pork in skillet and fry for 10 minutes, turning frequently. Mean-
while, dredge chicken with flour. Blend seasonings into wine
or stock and mix with cream. Shred onions.
When pork cubes are glazy and slightly brown, add chicken
and brown well on all sides (about 10 to 15 minutes), Add.
onions, stir lightly; pour % of cream miture over chicken sand
blend carefully. Cover skillet; turn heat low and eook for 20
minutes.
Add remaing cream mixture, cover and cook until chicken
is tender (about 15 to 20 minutes). Sprinkle with paprika be-
fore serving. Serve with broad egg noodles.
you:
•r. * *
if you enjoy the flavor of curry, here's a good recipe for
Curry Broiled Chicken.
(Serves 2 to 3)
Two and one-half to 31 -pound broiling chicken, salt and
oiler, and Fryers
Chicken
paprikas 's only one of many zestful ways to
fryers and broilers now in abundant supply.
serve
• pepper, 4 tablespoons butter or margarine, melted; ?%z to 3/4
teaspoon curry powder, paprika.
Have butcher splitchickens in half. Remove neck and
backbone. Season in side and out with salt and pepper. Com-
bine butter and curry. With a pastry brush, coat chicken pieces
on both sides with butter. Sprinkle lightly with paprika.
Place in flat, shallow pan 6 inches from flame. Start
chicken cooking skin side down. Broil 15 to 20 minutes, or
until golden brown and tender. Continue brushing with the
butter mixture,
lean forward slightly, but the
head should never be bent at a
right angle.
Q. If a bride is extremely
busy, isn't it all right for her
to wait two or three weeks to
acknowledge her gifts?
A. She would be very un-
gracious and reveal an extreme
lack of good breeding if she did
Each gift must be acknowl-
edged promptly — the same clay
received, if possible.
Q. Who goes first when enter-
ing a room of her house, the
hostess or her guest?
A. The hostess goes first only
when it is necessary to show
the way. Then she usually says,
"Excuse me for going first."
TABLE TALKS
elartz Andrews.
Once again. the demand in
thousandis of homes is "cookies,
,end still more cookies." With
)hunch. boxes, to be packed, and
"after-school snacks taking their
tell its, a:woxnan-sixed,;,lob•,.;a.,,.
Atka that cookie" jar? anything
Oka filled. So perhaps the fol-
lowing suggestions will be ttme-
1g and helpful.
FUDGE BROWNIES
14 cup butter
2 squares unsweetened
chocolate (1 -oz. squares)
Vs. cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
l4e teaspoon salt
1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pre -heat oven to 350 degrees
F. Melt butter and chocolate over
hot water. Remove from heat and
ALLY'S SAWES
'His Intentions may be serious
Mother, but he. isn't."
add sifted dry ingredients (sift
them together). Stir in eggs, van-
illa, and • nuts. Pour batter in
greased and floured. 8 - inch
cake square cak an and bake 25-30
q
minutes ,••r until: sleeves'
of pan. Cool and cut in squares.
Brownies seem to hold. their
position as practically every-
body's favourite cookie. If you
like,, frost the above with a com-
mercially prepared marshmal-
low topping — or make your
own white or chocolate icing,
* *
LEMONADE COOKIES
3 cups sifted flour
1 cup sugar
1 cup butter
2 eggs, beaten
1 teaspoon soda
4 tablespoons frozen
concentrate for lemonade
or juice of .2 lemons
1 teaspoon vanilla
(optional)
Rub together :Flour, sugar. and
butter. Add beaten eggs and
soda. Stir in concentrate for
lemonade. Add vanilla (use this
only if you like lemon -vanilla
•Flavor). Either form the dough
into balls and flatten with a
fork --• or chill dough in refrig-
erator for at least 1 hour, then
roll out and cut Bake on greased
cookie sheet at 400 degrees F.
for 8-10 minutes, or until cookies
are baked but not brown. Makes
5 dozen cookies.
Thin, crisp and flavoured with
.roasted, unblanched almonds are
these refrigerator cookies.
Brown sugar and cinnamon add
"DOGGONE •- ALL GOl1/410" •-- "Fifi", French poodle, finds that
this Parisian sidewalk veetclor of "glaces" (ice cream to any gay
Canadian dog), is sold out of his favorite dessert. This is not
calculated to put a fellow in a "good hurnor,"
to their good taste. This recipe
makes 6 dozen, but you do not
have to bake theni ell at once.
Store' them in your refrigerator
— or you may .freeze the dough
for as long as you wish under.
6 months. If you de freeze, slice
while frozen and bake.
AlI,1t+IOND
REFRIGERATOR COOKIES
34 cup shortening (part
butter)
Ye cup granulated sugar
34 eup brown sugar
34 cup brown sugar (pecked)
1 egg
34 teaspoon vanilla
1% cups flour
34 teaspoon salt
%a teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon cinnamon
a/a eup chopped, roasted,
unblanched. almonds
Cream shortening and suers
together thoroughly. Add egg
and vanilla and beat well.. •Sift
together flour, salt, soda and
cinnamon • and blend into crew- -'
ed mixture. M i. x in almonds.
Shape into long roll about .1 %
inches • in diameter; wrap in
waxed paper. Chill overnight -in
refrigerator. Cut into very thin
slices and place on ungrease
enboki'e oleeetellake 'at"3S0'•iiegire
F, 10-12 minutes. Remove to wire
rack to cool.
* *
LEMON
COCONUT SQUARES
1 cup sifted flour
3 cup butter
3/4. cup sifted confecad&nrrs'
sugar
2 eggs
cup granulated sugar
1 package lemon pudding
and pie filling .nix
34 teaspoon double-acting
baking powder
cup thinly sliced dates
1 cup shredded coconut,
cut
Confectioners' sugar
Sift flour once and measure.
Cream butter and 3 cup con-
fectioners' sugar together. Add
flour and mix well. Press mix-
ture evenly into bottom of 8x8
id -inch pan. Bake at 350 degrees
F. 15-20 minutes, or until lightly
browned. Remove from oven.
Beat eggs until thick and light
coloured. Gradually beat in
granulated sugar. Add pudding
mix and baking powder. Blend
well. Fold in dates and coconut.
Spread mixture evenly over hot
• baked crust. Return to oven and
• bake 25-30 minutes longer, or
until top " puffs and is golden -
brown. Cut in squares and re-
move from pan immediately.
Dust with confectioners' sugar.
of Makes 2 dozen cookies..
olei The abode `recipe 'calls
r a powdered mix- which in-
cludes flavouring. If flavouring
comes in separate capsule, pre-
pare mix according to directions
and then blend with other in-
gredients.)
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PLAIN H
RSE SEISE ..
By F. (Buil) VON PILJS
A. E. Reily, London, Ont.,
writes: "As I am engaged in,
and have done a good deal of
research in the field of Con-
sumer Credit your remarks
about "trade for the necessities
Of life" was of special interest.
"There is certain opposition
to the distribution of goods on
credit which seems to me a
hardship to those people who
have had no opportunity to
amass any capital.
"It does seem to nee that since
oure entire economic life is
based on borrowed mone,Y there
is no logic in carping about the
same system being applied to
any responsible group of peo-
ple on any level."
Savings or Credit
The question appears to be
whether people should save
first and then buy or buy first
and then cut down on their ex
penditures to meet the instal
ments.
As far as the "necessities of
life" are concerned, like food.
shelter, clothing. schooling, care
of health. provision for old age,
Justice demands that every
able bodied mail should have
the opportunity to provide for
himself and his dependents..
Those who cannot look after
themselves, have to be looked
after by society.
The natural right to lite of
every man implies the duty of
every man to work for his own
maintenance. Time was when
men lived off the soil, either
by hunting or pasturing cattle
or eventually working the land.
The law of the jungle gov
erned and the victor took all.
Ivor his own protection man
began to live in groups and
delegated some of his rights
and powers to the group, In re
turn the group undertook to
look after his and his tarniliy's
safety and to ease the condi-
tions of life.
A Stable Economy
As our modern indestr'iall zed
states developed, more and
more people left the land and
concentrated in urban settle-
.tnents, becoming dependent on
the demand for unskilled la
bour. under conditions over
which they had no control.
• It is up to the group as rep
resented by government to cre
ate conditions under which the
members of the group, today
-called the state, can work and
earn enough to maintain them-
selves and their families in a
dignified manner.
. As the "Farmer's • Advocate
and Canadian. Countryman" put
it very neatly in a recent edi-
torial; "It is the duty of Par
lianient to find a way of main.
taining a stable economy and
of rewarding workers so all
may enjoy a reasonable stand
and of living."
In a country which provides
these opportunities to its +citi
zens, the question of buying
from savings or on borrowed
money will be of secondary inn
por tance.
This column welcomes critr-
tive, and suggestions, wise or
otherwise. and will endeavour
to .answerall questions. Address
mail to Bob Von Pilis, Whitby,
Onto,
IHS HEARTS ARE IN THE
it:
liuc ur PLACES
A man whose problem is wal,
deep down in his hearts is
Senor Gerald° Machado, of Bela
Horizonte, Brazil. His problem
is a nixed blessing he is the
possessor of two hearts; one on
the left and one on the right.
Machado's problem is whether
or not to accept th'e $2,500 of
fered by a local medical school
for his body when both hearts
cease to pulse.
rive With Car
}
Has To Fight A Li
To Win x :; rade
^M�
Marriage is a lottery — so
the saying goes. But it's even
more of a chancey business than
-that for some of Africa's native
lovers.
When a young Zulu goes in
search of a bride, for instance,
he first has to swim a crocodile -
infested river to prove his man-
hood, then buy the bride with
twenty or more head of cattle,
and finally take his mother-in-
law along on.the honeymoon!
The Pondo insist that the
brave must . fight a battle with
the girl's otter strait rsa t° er9yt
his superiority, and if she has
none, then he has to prove his
manhood in some equally dan-
gerous way. Wedding -day cele-
brations start at dawn and car-
ry on throughout the day to the
.following dawn, but the bride
and groom do not see each other
until it is all over.
The bride then goes to the hut
chosen for them and awaits
the groom. He comes to her at
the break of day and she gives
him a dish of food. If he eats
the food with relish,. it means
"the wiII. Y" ".:a ..I„«,e.. •
y r e h ppr y ver after;
but if he doesn't eat it all up,
it is a bad omen.
The dish comprises every
variety of vegetable and sev-
eral varieties of meat from that
of frogs to snakes and baboons.
The ardent groom usually steels
himself with house - brewed,
native beer before sitting de**
to the huge dish of strangely.
assorted food.
In the Kalahari desert
Southwest Africa the native
lover sends an emissary ±6 the
girl's parents. "We : can't let
him nnarry our daughter for she
is all we have,” is the invert:-
able answer. "Oh, but if he mato.
ries her, you will have a son to
work for you," is the time hon-
oured reply. "We'll see," the
parents reply, and the wedding
date is forthwith set.
The groom must move in with.
his parents-in-law and live with
them and work for them fee
sixty moons --- five years --
after which he may take hie
bride and -move to, where he
likes.
The marriage market of the
native world in Africa allows
for a refund of a husband'%
money if his wife proves un-
satisfactory. A native has to
buy his bride and many of they,.
work for years to save the mon-
ey to buy the first wife. Ther
price ranges from twenty to fif-
ty head of cattle, depending on
the girl's status in life and her
attractiveness.
Not all girls are good, how-
ever, and if the chosen orae
turns out to be a shiftless good--
for-nothing, the husband com-
plains to her father,: who either
whips her or gives her a stern
lecture as a warning the first
time.
The second time she is defin-
itely whipped, and if the hus-
band is still not satisfied, he de-
mands the return of his cattle,
the girl goes back to he'r father
—the greatest ignominy which
can be imposed .on a married.
native woman — and the man is
at liberty to look around for
someone likely to prove more
suitable.
That rarely happens, however,
for native fathers use leather
or rhinoceros thongs for the
whipping process and the white
man's law- never interferes. -It;
is a father's right, the native
law says, to whip a daughter
Once the wedding day has
been set, the girl and her girl
friends get to work and build a
hut. After the wedding she will
till the fields all day anc,i look
after her husband. In time he
may be rich enough to buy a
second and third, or even more,
wives, and each wi11 work for
him. Soon his daughters will
be getting married and he will
receive cattle for there.
But marriages will be care-
fuflly arranged so that when
daughter goes on her honey-
moons mother-in-law will be
able to go along.
And, always, the husbands
will be carefully chosen foe their
pliysigue and courage; lie wilt.
have to swim -that river of
crocodiles, or battle her other
. suitors, or meet a lion, armed
only with a knife — to prove
that if danger ever threatens
his bride, he will not run away,
but will defend her.
FUTURISTiC SKIRT ? To see what kind of skirt pretty Carol
Castaknoli, is wearing turn the page upside down.
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