TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 18, 18 November 1927, Page 6

TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW

The Fe-Mailed Fist. : | If you have ever had the privilege of attending a bargain sale at the end of a London Season-of visiting that bourne {and Hollingsworth) from which . no traveller returns,unscathed-I think you will agree with me that the much yexed question, ‘"‘Shonld women attend boxing matches " is an imterrogation of supererrogation. The "brutalities" of the ring seem to me to compare favourably with the brutalities of the bargain counter, for our woman-folk emerge from a jumper-fight in a far worse battered condition than our heavy-weights from a glove fight, I have seen the violet eyes of the morning reduced to overripe damsons by the evening; shell-like ears. have attained the size and consistency of crumpets; damask cheeks have proven that when Woman has a cause at heart she can always "come up to scratch." I have even known a permanent hair wave to be carried home in a paper bag." By all means, then, let women attend the ring. The only thing iswon’t they find the proceedings a trifle slow and tame? . . The Real Trial. The minister was going round the prison, stopping every now and then to spcak to one or other of the prisoners. ‘Ah, my dear unfortunate friend," said he to one of them, ‘‘this is a world full of trials." "Tt ain’t the trials that ‘wotry me, guv’nor,’? came the reply, *St’s the verdicts!"

Recipe for Christmas Cake, lib. butter, llb. sugar, 8 eggs, lb. flour, 1lb. currants, lb. sultanas, 2 tablespoon treacle {if a dark ccke is liked), }lb. cherries, ilb. almonds blanched and chopped, {lb. dates (if liked, stoned), 41b. prunes (stoned), 1 teaspoon each of vanilla, almond, and lemon essences, 1 glass whisky (rum or brandy, if liked). Cream butter and sugar together; add eggs, beat well; add the fruit, cleaned and dried, the chopped almonds, prunes, dates, and cherries, and then sift in the flour; add the treacle and flavourings, and, lastly, the spirits, Beat well, put into a lined tin or into two medium-sized tins, and bake in a slow oven for four or five hours. If the_frnit is put in before the flour it will not sink-to the bottom. * * Grilling and Toasting, These can be managed quite successfully with an electric zange, provided the upper element jis red-hot before commencing, It should be turned to high at least eight minutes before beginning to cook. No one attempts to grill over a fire which has just been lighted-the same thing applies to electricity.-From a talk by. Mrs. Sinclair at 2YA.

Woman’s Last Word. One afternoon during carnival week a lady rang up 3YA: ‘How is it we are having so much gramophone? I thought we were going to have a description of the races, with gramophone between." "So you are,’’ was the reply from the station. "Jt seems to be all gramophone," she retorted. "Well, you’re having all +he races." "No, we’re not," said the lady, and promptly rang off. . > * A Smart Repartee. Yvette Guilbert, who recently has been recalled to mind as a contemporary of Cavalieri in the programmes of the

oat "Ss Folies Bergeres and Ambassadecurs, once evoked from. Oscar Wilde one of the neatest of his repartees. He met her for the first time in her dressing-room in a Paris theatre. Continuing to get ready for the stage, as.she looked in her mirror, Guilbert murmered, ‘You know, M. Wilde, I believe I am_ the ugliest woman in all Paris,’? to which Wilde replied, with his most courtly, bow, ‘Du mende, madame,"