TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 228, 19 June 1908, Page 5

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Specially Written for Tub Dominion.) • PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN EXPERT. FRIDAY. ?ish Pudding. Stuffed Loin of Mutton. Leeks. ' , Baked Potatoos. Cambridge Pudding. PISH PUDDING. Method.—Bono and' cut up about one pound of fish. Then chop four oz. of suet pr clarified fat. ' Beat two eggs in a large basiri, and add to them tho fish, _ suet, 1 tcaspoonful choppcd parsley, Bait, and pepper, i pint of milk or fish liquor, and two oz. of breadcrumbs. Next teat or pound all these" ingredients until they are thoroughly mixed together. Put them into a buttered basin and steam or'boil the pudding for an hour. Servo it with egg or parsley sauce. Either raw or cooked fish may bo used • for this pudding. If fish is not readily digested sarvo slices of lemon with it. . f FOR TO-MORROW. . Ingredients—Spiced beof for boiling, carrots, turnips, potatoes, 1 pint of milk,'onions, mace, parsley, Queen pudding. Soak some peas for Monday. SUNDAY. Ingredients.—Chicken • for boiling, parsley, boiled bacon, potatoes, : brussels 6prouts, apple snow, 2 lemons, cornflour. , ) : ' SUPPER. . Ingredients—Two rabbits, -pastry, bacon, rvriss roll, salad. ' ' ' BAG-PUNCHING AS EXERCISE FOR ■ LADIES. ; -j • Some. time ago. we published a reference to the fact that-bag-punching is recommended . by expert athletic instructors as an invaluable exercise for ladies who are anxious to become slender and active. It was asserted that .ten minutes a day givon. to this exercise would do moro to reduce a woman's weight than the' most rigorous dieting. Tho outfit required is/not very expensive, all that is necessary being a light punching bag with framework , support, and: a pair "of light weight boxing gloves. The bag can be procured from any ironmonger at a cost of from ten and six. to fifteen shillings. The gloveS must be bought-in a set of four, which is unfortunate, as they are seldom to be had for less than fifteen shillings to seventeen and six tho_ set. \ . . .... •The exercises can be taken in any costume just in tho most up-to-date gymnasium garm'ents. And a woman will derive almost as much benefit from .awkward bag punching, if she keeps at it,'as sho will from the real scientific kind. , Theso are the rules-of, the punching contest as laid down by an authority: Suspend the bag on a level with the shoulders and strike straight out' from, tho shoulder. '■ This stroke'brings into play, a greater number of muscles than any other, tends to, expand the chest, and gives , a good poise, to the neck. Ten minutes a day is long enough for tho average^woman, but twenty minutes will bo better if she wants ito reduce weight rapidly. ; Flinch' the bag twentyrfive times with the right arm swing, rest a few moments, and then try twenty T five strokes with the left hand. . , _ , _ Strike, with the greatest regularity posBible. Then alternate ono punch with the Tight and another with the left. Don't exercise' an hour one day and then forget all about it:for a week. . There are other fancy .strokes, and theso may be'learned, in time,, as. for instance, punching tbo bag with tho right elbow, alternating with punches from the'left fist'and vico versa. Another,'a little moro difficult, is tho elbow .punch, with alternating upper arm and tunder arm fhnrsts with the 'fists*. " Still other combinations will suggest themselves. Gradually tho punches can be made ■faster and,.faster,. ; .till .the.. b,i£ will ..beat, -a'• : regular tattoo.on the top of the 'framework • overhead.'

Practice only, maker, perfect, and a practised puncher enjoys the exorcise It is different - from handling dumb-bells, which to most folks is a stupid business. JJag punching is exhilarating: KUBEUK'S WIFE. iDuring his New Zealand tour Kubelik will be' Eccompamed .by his wife, the Countess Czaky Czell, whose great: love , for children was_ strikingly illustrated a short time ago, in London. She I,was one day driving through Regont Street with her ' husband when the; traffic was suddenly held up. On inquiring of a policeman the, cause of the 'Stoppage, slin Va sinfnrmed that Ihere had been ail accident to a flower seller, a hansom cab. having knocked the girl down. Sli'o at once, requested to be taken to the scene of too accident under the escort of the policeman. The crowd respectfully made way for the lady, and there on the ground "\ya3i a diminutive child, covered, with mud, with a dark purple stain' across her forehead, unconscious. .Forgetful of all clso, the countess knelt down and raised the child's head on .to her knee, and being told that the police wore waiting for .an ambulance to convey the child to the hospital, she insisted OI J tho child being carried to her carriage, when it was immediately driven to the hospital, followed by the admiring comments of the crowd. arrival at the hospital, tho pationt was quickly attended to, and after seoing that the sufferer had been mado comfortable, and out of danger, sho left, promising to call in tho morning. Before leaving, the houso surgeon promised to koep her informed as to the little one's progress. The Countess,- easily persuaded her husband to delay their departure from London for a few days. On tho following and successive days she called at the hospital, to see her little friend, continuing tho daily visits until the : girl, iad fully recovered. Tho joy''that lit up tho face of the child on her benefactress entering the ward -amply repaid for all the trouble she had been put to, and it can bo safely said, that in all the' wido circles of the Countess's friends, there jr. 110 one whrt has a more blind devotion for her than tho little flower girl.'

THE DRESS DESIGNERS' EXHIBITION. Merely to recollect the exhibitions now opon or ponding in ■ London is becoming a tax upon tho memory (says an English papor of recent date). Tho New Dudley Gallery is at ' present occupied' by tho Dross Designers' Society, who have a'very strong hold upon feminine interest. The mere man who is "earned," asPepys used, to say, to,see this display by some charmingly exacting companion of the better ses feck rather lost and out of his elemont, but may be amused notwithstanding his poorer humility in suc?j surroundings.: *\ All fthe articles shown are worked--by hand and are designed for weir ; ihey are not mere expensive curiosities. One js. therefore, startled to behold a gown modelled on the war costume of Barneses 11. A maiden thus ,clad would be an almost aweinspiring partner in a wa'tz. And one dreams a dream of,taking in to dinner a inatron clad in the cuiiass, helmet, and kilt of Julius Caesar's hardy warriors, or asking the charming girl who has just begun her soup whether she would mind handing her .javelin to tho footman. Tho Fine Needlework Association for Invalid Women Bonds an "embroidered zephyr studio overall" for art studonts of tho fair sox. ALABI THE BLOUSE MUST GO It is being borno in upon mo', as well as cvory other woman who watches the fashions narrowly (says an English writer), that the gala day of tho blouso is really gone. The.ro are sleeveless and sleeved chemisettes, it ia true, and for tho morning there are utilitarian linen and batisto shirts to be worn. But that resourco of the . multitude, tho; "dressy" blouso, or slip, fashion no longer welcomes, and as for tho evening model, that it is a mode with a past and no present, observation makes a surety. "Whether it has a futuro remains to be seen, w