POTATO PIE.

Observer, Volume XXXVI, Issue 43, 1 July 1916, Page 21

POTATO PIE.

One pint mashed potatoes, 2 tablespoons butter, 1 pint cream, 1 gill port wine, 1 gill sugar, 4 eggs, $ grated nutmeg, 1 scant teaspoon salt. Put the mashed potatoes through a sieve, add the sugar and cream gradually, then the butter (melted). Add well beaten yolks of egge, salt and nutmeg, lastly wine and the whites of egigs beaten to a stiff froth. Have two small plates lined with puff paste and pour this mixture into them. Bake one-half hour in a moderate oven.

Many of the girls doing Red Cross and relief work or serving at canteens cay that they get very footsore through the long and unaccustomed spells of standing. Few of us, I think, were ever taught to stand properly. The weight should be thrown well on the balls of the feet, with the toes slightly pointing out- t wards. One's boots or shoes should never cramp the ball of the foot and the heels must be. low and broad, co as to give stability without calling upon the muscles to maintain. balance. For tired feet hot salt water is soothing and healing, or hot water with a little spirits of alcohol in it. .

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The closer you get to some people the more distant they are.

I heard of an Irish lady who has a unique assortment of Chelsea china cottages, including a model of Shakespeare's house at Stratford and a cottage that is all but hidden with roses. When she gives a dinner party she arranges her "little china village" upon her long dinner table., and each little cottage, church, or barracks is lit up from within. The effect is. fascinating.

If a woman didn't have a better opinion of a man than he deserves, it's a safe bet that she would never marry him.

A coloured ribbon tied to scissors will save many minutes that are otherwise spent in looking for them. A piece of ribbon is pretty sure to show where the scissors are half hidden under papers or sewing.

"Conversation classes" are the fad of the moment among women in the United States. At a conversation class, of course, you learn to converse; and the American women who attend are desirous of reviving real conversation at the expense of mere talking. A friend of mine in Washington tells me that the members of the classes meet in one another's drawing . rooms, sometimes with and sometimes without a teacher or "director of conversation,", and one of the first tilings impressed upon the audience is tlrat intelligent listening is as much of an art as brilliant talking. When there is no teacher, little .groups of women meet and agree upon certain topics of conversation which each member informs herself about. One woman in the class is appointed to rule out interruptions and irrevelant remarks, and keep each talker to a time limit.