TO-DAY'S DINNER.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 332, 20 October 1908, Page 3

TO-DAY'S DINNER.

'PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS BY.AN EXPERT. • '[Specially written for ,Thb EoatNioN.] ' ,' TUESDAY. " Mulligatawny ! Soup. Roast: Loin of Mutton. • ■ ■ Baked Potatoes. Cauliflower. ' Steamed Batter' Pudding."■■■• Stewed Fruit. '■ ■ STEAMED BATTER-PUDDING. , Three! tablespoonfuls. flour, 1 pint milk, 3 eggs, i. teaspdonful salt. Mix,the ilour sirioothly with a little of the milk, add the rest of the milk, and cook until it thickens; beat'the eggs well, add them and the salt. Butter a mould, pour the batter, in, , cover, with '~a buttered paper, :and steam for 1} hours. FOR TO-MORROW. .Beef (8 or • 91b. of the silver side of the round), : carrots, turnips, $lb. suet,' celery, 2 pints -stock, l 'lmndle rhubarb, 1 lemon, I pint milk, - '• i ■" ;^J : : '. ; THE ROMANCEOF DRESS. .There is'material ..for observation, research, and even in a derby hat aud cutaway" c(iat, : says an American paper. Bofore you' have studied the subject you feel that:the : abov'e phrase :is something of an exaggeration; but how easily the truth of, this'dictum can. be proved.-. "Ma- : terial : for : observation) research, and duction" can, be found such varying trifles : as inuff-chains, stockings, and 'rings, and i the.'vestiges of every .'essential article ■ of women's and. men's- attire can be traced from -.the •. earliest known ( date of -the exist-ence-of-clothes. ■- The.vestige of the J die Ages in.modern stockings is : very oft-er present, and takes the. form of the ornament_ which we know as a ."clock.'.' .The-name signifies a gusset; aiid-in modern socks and so on, -wnijjli. are woven or knitted all in ope piece, Ino: such arrangement is found; .Stockings, however, like those at first worn; by Queen. Elizabeth and used-at least by American settlers un-til-the; year. 1675,, were- made up ■• from p\ec.es of, cloth., . In these there' would bo sfeams down, the,.sides, and -it 'is. possible there may have been a gusset. In any case, it-is'evident'that-the. intention of the'clock was" to, hide .the .side seams. ■_ -: Of recent .years; where ladies have most sensibly adopted short skirts, the clock has developed into a, : series of •embroidered\ patterns which cover 'the front of the foot and ;ar.kle.- . . y ..- • ' TJiis. ornamentation has been carried still further, though it is- riot produced in; the same way: The patterns, instead of being embroidered, are.the result.of v perforations, or, in more technical languaE'e, f'openwork,' arid.the background,whicTi..snows up the design is no. longer, the material of the stockings,. but the skin oftheir .fair wearers.- ' "In many., cases . the .stockings are- dark in'/colour, .arid the effect of tattooing is produced jwithout, .the . preliminary, paiii • and inconvenience. . .'JVo. have here an instance, of the, ; way..:in '.which the .-.specially' human instinct of decorating the: bpdy f persists, and; at- the same .time ■, a- development, of, the fashion for displaying, in the daytime, under a : tliin veil of gauze or lace, the necks and arms ..which, since the time of our grandmothers, have only been allowed t-o appear uncovered in ! the evening. The Greeks arid Romans, says a book on this subject, .used betrothal rings as pledges, but not wedding rings.. There is a good deal of interesting,,spribolism in connection with -Tings, and it ..is- said that ..the third finger.,of the left- hand was chosen, because, times it was thought that a vein came .to ■ that : „finger direct- from tho, heart. The,'practical, point is' that' the,-finger . in question is not; very mucli usekl, and on it. the rings would not be so liablo to be worn- out as on some .'of the others. Much of the present-day wedding ceremony, is derived i from the quaint marriage customs of olden times. It -is customary forithe bridesmaids.to be dressed-alike, and they often wear some ornament which has been presented to them by the bridegrqom. It niay-be-that this is a survival, liko many, otter, wedding customs, of the old marriage by capture, for'in some countries the . girl frierids of the bride will riot allow her to.be approached by the bridegroom until ho has given them presents, or, in reality, bribed them. - Now,, like tipping, it is merely a custom arid, must be followed; but origirially„ no doutit, the bridegroom and his accomplice, the l>est man, might have found that- what they, could not .do by force they might encompass by - bribery.