The Lonely Meal

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 9, 14 September 1928, Page 15

The Lonely Meal

FATING alone can be a very dull business, and there are many of us, alas! who must eat alone. Nine out of ten of us make no effort towards happy meals, but just set the table with whatever comes first, open a tin of some preserved viand, and proceed to eat it as quickly as possible with a book propped up in front of it. This is a bad habit-bad for mind as well as body. It is surprising how much slackness of this kind influences one mentally, and we all know that food is better digested when eaten in a happy frame of mind. So make the best of a bad business, and take as much care in laying a table for one as you would for six.

Buy or make yourself sets of table mats in gay colours-linen is cheap and the threads draw easily for hemstitching, Always have a bowl of flowers before you, you’d be surprised to know hvyw companionable flowers can be. Do not serve up your meal in dishes that hold three times as much as you need. The china stores cater a good: deal for those who eat alone, and you ean buy attractive little "one-man" flat and vegetable dishes. Arrange your fruit salad in a sundae glass, put your salad on a little dish that is made exactly like lettuce leaf. Be a party unto yourself. Unique Foot Rests. AUTHOUGH a foot rest adds to the comfort of the motorist, it is often left behind as it takes up a large amount of space. When the rest opens to reveal a ease fitted with all the toilet requisites and a mirror, still leaving room for luggage for a night or so, the luxury becomes almost a necessity. ee 2 ya