Here is a menu and some recipes [which suggest sweeping skirts, shadey hats, striped awnings, and flowing punch bowls, It is the menu a very successful hostess used recently for what she called a "Victorian" garden party, and serves about 80 people:
5 gallons of tea, allowing 50z tea to the gallon:
6 gallons of coffee, half hot and half iced, allowing 80z coffee to; the gallon; gallons claret punch, allowing for each gallon 4 bottles claret and 4 bottles of &oda water; 12 quarts water ice; 12 dishes sandwiches, all different; 8 plates rolled bread and butter, 4 brown and 4 white; Bibs cake cut up into small, thick pieces; lbs of home-made sponge finger biscuits, In addition a salad of fresh fruit may be served and glasses of solid syllabus, Three pints of double cream want to look like?
She would like to be about 5ft. 3in.
She would like to be slimly' survey—what the French call fause maigre. She would like a tapering waist, gently curving hips, and long, streamlined legs. She would like live and highlighted hair, usually falling in waves or ringlets that look "natural." She would like creamy, matt-surfaced skin, a bright, curving mouth, [eyes that are clearly defined but taintly mysterious.
For her clothes there is a single criterion—that of smartness. On this theme there are many variations.
And here you have her. The modern woman as she lives to-ddy, here, there and everywhere. And should you doubt that you and I and the bright young things of Kalamazoo, Michigan are "sisters over our skins," consider this: The Japanese language is changing. One of the brand new words that has come into it is "maga,"
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