Another week filled to overflowing: with social engagements, looms ahead. The week-end promises to be a busy tone. Providing the weather is favourable Dr. and Mes. Essen, M. Gale are holding an "At Home" in the garden of their Route Ghisi home from 430 to 6.30 o'clock this evening. About 100 guests have been invited and if it rains the party will take lace In-doors.
The Ballan Club will be the setting for a large cocktail to-night at which Captain and Mes, A. Chiapparo will hosts. Afterward Capiain and Mrs. Chiapparo will join Mrs. Spunt's party at the Spanish Fiesta, "Another event to-night Is the dinner which Mr. G. W. Boissevain, the Nether lands Consul-General, and Mrs, Boissevain are giving in' honour of the Chilean Charge d'Affaires and Mme. E. Vega.
To-morrow night Mr. and Mrs.
Bond are entertaining guests to dinner complimenting Mr. and Mrs. Hendrik Bos who returned a day or ago from their honeymoon in Peiping, Last evening Mz, and. Mes, Philip Lo Fevre gave a small dinner for Mr, and Mrs. Bos who leave on Tuesday for Nanking where Mr. Bos attached to the Netherlands Legation. Mrs. Bos. is the former Miss Astrid Ungern-Sternberg.
The onrush of week-end activities began last night with the "At Home" of Major R. F. H, Massey-Westropp, C,, the Commanding OMicer of the Lancashire Fusiliers, at 63 Great Western Road between 030 and 8
O'clock. Invitations were Issued to over 500 guests, among them diplo matic and consular people. Chinese government officials, and prominent, members of the British community.
New Bags of Coral Those who have strings of coral, yer branch coral or beads, tucked should bring them out now. Instead of wearing them around one's reek, they can be made into all sorts Of bells, bags, and headdresses. Sewn to a strip of canvas, the beads or branches form simple and attractive bbands for the hair. Gold thread will make a good edging, and if there Is not enough coral to cover the head dress, other beads of gold, silver or white, may be judiciously' added, Round coral beads, again stitched fon to a canvas background, are best Used for belts. The canvas is lined with sith and a simple design is led in by the sewing of gold thread at the edges, and, if necessary, between each group of beads. The proper fastening for such a belt is a simple buckle of glass or gilt metal, "In much the same way can a bottle purse be made, The foundation and Tining should be cut out together, but the canvas part should not be seamed up until all the beads are applied A small edge Is left free all round, which is made use of in the seaming Tater. Last of all, the lining is slipped into place within "the canvas and fastened to it round the top edge with a narrow turn-in. No handle, of course, is needed for the bottle purse, but a ring or a bracelet is slipped over the neck of it, For Home Circulation If dried breadcrumbs are not available, a prepared cereal, finely rushed," serves the purposes. An sweetened cereal should be used for savoury "dishes. In place of candied peel in cakes, puddings and so on, an equivalent quality of mar malady is satisfactory. When parseloy isnot. available, Wwalereress may be Used for gai ishing cold meats, sand-wishes, ete.
A flaked cereal may be used instead of bread in an apple charlotte, Fried Pineapple rings are an interesting acconpaniment to fillet of veal or grilled cutlets. The tinned variety may be used,
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