TABLE SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 88, 7 January 1918, Page 3

TABLE SERVICE

Homemakcrs are waking up to tho fact that their profession is changing. It is imperative that women learn housekeeping detail themselves, that they may intelligently direct, the untrained material. Efficiency is tho cry of the hour. Why should not women know how to direct others in every detail of lablo laying, serving, garnishing, and dishing up foods in the most attractive way? It is much more sensible, ovon though there is only one servant kept in a household, to keep all food —except protty things like olives, radishes, candies, celery—off the table, and let tho servant cook, dish up in the kitchen, and pass it around for all the members to help themselves. Family types of men who like to carve their ' own meats can bo indulged by giving them an opportunity at a serving table in one corner of the dining-room. Tho maid could servo from there occasionally. Less labour is entailed on a kitchen worker if she can dish up and keep vegetables hot until passed around. Maids who have not.been trained seldom know hoiv to pass a dish so people can help themselves comfortably. Platters should be held with the left hand flat under the dish—a napkin to shield it if it is hot. This should be done with the left hand, so tho servant can loan a bit, throw tho right side of her body around, to keep herself away from tho person seated at tho table, and to enable her right hand to cling closely to her own body just below her hip. It is the waitresses' style pose. It not only looks woll ordered, but makes for comfort and facility.

An old and highly esteemed resident of Greytown, Airs. Martha i Fry, rulict of the late Mr. D. F. Fry, died on Wednesday last. Following upon her marriage at Cheltenham, Mrs. Fry came to New Zealand with her husband in the ship Oriental, arriving at Petonc in October, 1887. Her husband pre-deceased her some twenty years ago. For three years after landing in, the colony Mr. and Mrs. Fry resided at the Idutt, then crossed into the Wairarapa, settling in this district (states tiio Wairarapa "Standard"). Of a family of ten children, the following are the surviving members:— Joseph (Christchurch), Miss Isabel (Fcatherston), Mesdames T. Bcnton (Greytown), E. Chapman (Martinborougli), Cruucher and Fegan (liitbirnic). There are 25 grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren of the deceased lady.

The death occurred at Nelson on Thursday of Mrs. 13nrdekin, wife of Mr. E. B. Bimlekin, of tho Public •Trust Office, Wellington. Deceased, who was the Becond daughter of tho late Mr. J. B. Sadd, lived in Nelson for many years, and subsequently at Napier and Wellington. She had two sons, Sergeant-Major Cyril Biirdekin, of the head office staff, London, and Sergeant Hugh Burdekin, of tho Thirty-fourth Reinforcements.

In other times all Paris would be ringing with the name of Eve Lavallierc. liven now the boulevards will give her a passing pathetic thought, for she lias left Paris to go into a nunnery. Tho once brilliant little actress is obviously honest and sincere; she liad vowed not to appear on the stage during the war", but broke her vow once to help her humbler fellowplayers. Now she will be seen and heard of no more. She has sold all the furniture she had in the vast flat she had in the Champs Elysecs, and given away all her jewellery and clothes.