TO-DAY'S DINNER

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 269, 6 August 1908, Page 5

TO-DAY'S DINNER

■ Specially Writli'n for Tns Domtuoit.l ' PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY AN EXPERT. ; - THURSDAY . Vegetable .Soup. ' Boiled Leg- of-:Mutton. ■ Caper Ssauce. ; ' ■ .. Potatoes.,. Mashed Turnips. ;-•••• . _ Compote, of Bananas. Rice. COMPOTE OF .BANANAS. Kemovc&tho peel , and threads from bix very inpo bananas; let■ stand covered witli boiling water a few seconds, then drain and coat each with'orange syrup; pile-in the form of a pyramid; pour, the : rest of-the syrup over them and sprinkle;, with . chopped almonds or candied cherries.; For the syrup; boil one cup,of orange juice and! pulp and the juice of half a ;lemon; with one cup of: sugar, five or sis minutes.;; .The syrup should be rather thick.; .'.FOR TO-MORROW., . Fish, soup, beef steak and kidney pudding, eggi i; pint of-milk,, lemon;, cabbage, potatoes.fashionable white notepaper . FLORAL CIPHERS MATCHED BY ' . , ; SEALING-WAX. 'Although nothing.is farther from the aspirations of the modern woman than : to sit down and write'page after page in pointed copper-plato < Italian caligraphy, sho admires what sue calls 'the quaint letter-paper. of : former, years (says- a : writer' in the : "Daily . Graphic"). " -V 1 - Her letters'are'formed in a large hand . in" the. veriest'-, dot-and-dash language, for '.instead-of-' committing all her thoughts, and the record of ' her doings to paper she babbles them into the telephone. ' that is no ; reason'why.'the brief epistles she 1 is called upon to indite' now' ana then shall not be . scribbled in'haste iipon paper fashioned like the-sheets -used before the days of : envelopes.' They are i white" sheets principally, "because; white is deemed old-world,-but d'decided blue is also being made modish, a revival' of : the : paper; men liked in - bygone 'times,' and much more'decided'in'tone'than-any- of'•the blues ' that, have "of : late been.'seen. ; ;

-' Paint lines'are traceable across the paper. Thero '.was; a 'day when they had their uses, acting'as a guido'-'to 'the penwoman, who prided herself uponher neatness/ and wanted to crowd much as'she could upon a P a ge. They obviated, also, /the use 'of the heavilyruled sheet; that some people and all children placed beneath their paper as an . aid to; straight lines and regular .writing. In all likelihood the first pattern of envelope will return to fashion again soon. It took a sheet of paper folded in three, and to, this day by old dowagers and statelylgallants .is l considered the only pattern "worth approval. . Such persons regard the; square envelopes as dreadfully ostentatious and by no means genteel, "as,, indeed, the Post OfEco did, -for/ a - long time; until,; in "responso "to a very'/gerioral demand;:it consented to 'issue such a brand;;, with'the embossed stamp on it'. .- -./-'.., ;■-/-/ /;/;'.

Naturally the ;cipher that, decorates ..such, paper must, bo in keeping; with.it".; -A' chap-, lot. 6f i "tiny.'.flowers;/.eiicircles; a': monogram traced \ ' oiy. dis-" pensing : with /the„monogram .altogether,- / the' writer's name /is printed in a colour across' the'left' corner and;the' address' on.the' right : side. Sucli. quiet, arid soft colours,; inclining towards the vapid, as /"old"/pink, lavender, and ; pale .green, 'are .chosen, . and ..the', sealing-wax employed, matches it.precisely. .'/ , From epistles treasured a very long'time,': indited by the .dainty belles of the early nineteenth century,'stiir : exudes : 'a faint and pleasant odour /of - scent. , . Is .it patchouli, tempered by,,time J ..and.'.so._no.longer overpowering? ./Is it musk? -vWas! it. just..tho old-fashioned ■; lavender.:bag that,.was respon-. Bible for /.the ? /-, One. can scarcely dccide.'-r..- v.:-. /■ -.-

It matters not.;- .The fact that it was perfumed 'reminds me to say . that to-day scented paper is just as fashionable as it was then,;-.and: that- which Madame favours for her: personal use is what. she puts, .in sachet /form,, with her papeterie, so that it may ' proclaim; 1 her. favourite fragrance .far and wide; -I . .. •' ■