Some excitement has been caused by the gratifying compliments paid to English cookery by an expert from the United States, Professor Howard B, Meek, head of the Department of Hotel Administration in Cornell University. He said that since he had been in England he had sampled some of the finest cooking he had tasted, notwithstanding the many disparaging things he had heard about it before coming here.
The value of the compliment is slightly discounted by the fact that Professor Meek was speaking at the Ritz Hotel where he was being entertained by the Hotels and Restaurants Association. One would rather hear him, or perhaps rather not hear him, on the. average small household; cook's conception of roast and boiled, and what to do with the remainder cold loin of mutton (mostly fat) ud the relics of the bread pan.
1 speak feelingly as our household has been going through a servantless week. "Doing for oneself" teaches one a great many things. I am apthe new Sunday Shopping Act. Precisely what Act it is I do not know, nor I imagine do thousands of other people. That is what happens in this vastly overlegislated age. Some busybody high brow in Whitehall has a brain storm, he drafts a Bill which -an obedient Minister introduces and -a somnolent Parliament passes, and all sorts of inoffensive people are intolerably inconvenience-
The milkman is furious. It seems he sells a large quantity of eggs and butter on Sundays. As he works for a big company and is paid a fixed wage he may be believed to speak dispassionately in saying that the inconvenience to small households and to the crowds of Sunday hikers will In some places, small shop keepers are banding themselves together to defy the Act, for example in the East End, where by far the mos: important part of their trade is done on Sundays. They say it's a ques-ion of disobeying the law or starve ing, and that they would rather not starve, The worst of reformers is that they never know where to stop. The number of things we mayn't do. since that detestable old female "Dora" came among us would take up.at least a full "Woman's Page" to describe.
It is, or till recently was, the law that you might have hot coffee served to you after a certain hour, but not hot milk. So anyone thirsting for a glass of hot milk (supposing such a person to exist) would have a teaspoonful of coffee flicked into it, and it became technically coffee. woman didn't, and invented a match box which, combined a wind shield and an ash tray.
Another woman was bothered by the tendency of bodkins stick in fabric when pushed into a he took a ball-bearing from her bicycle and attached it to her bodkin, with such ssu that he "Bodkin-Ball^ promises to be a feature of the BLP. But I rather wonder how her bicycle gets on without the ball bearm Yet another woman is mentioned who loved flowers but, living in. London, coiffure for a could not have a garden, so took to making raffe flowers, and now it is said is the owner of a factory 30 other women which empl making raffia towers.
Apart from invention I read the other day that an extremely paying and as yet very little exploited career is open to girls in corset-making. From the recent experience of a friend of mine I can believe this, She is built on rather generous lines, and when she went recently to buy some stays the shop lady exclaimed "Oh but Madam has such a. beautiful figure, she really must
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