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Hashed beef, fried potatoes

Baked rice pudding.

Saturday. Soup from beef bones, with vegetables. - Steak pie, potatoes. - Rhubarb fool.

April-Vegetarian Dinners for.

No. 1, Vermicelli Soup.

Haricot Beans and Mashed Potatoes.

Plain Fritters.

Savoury Eggs.

Apple Puffs.

No. 2, Vegetable Soup.

Poached Eggs on Toast.

Potato Salad.

Stewed Rhubarb and Rice.

Pastry Sandwiches.

April-Dinner Table Decorations for.

Those who live in the country will have no trouble in making their tables look pretty if they only go to the fields instead of their gardens, for the flowers for decoration. None can be prettier than these for daylight dinners, that one can scarcely avoid in spring; buttercups, daffodils, and all yellow flowers look better without artificial light, mixed with plenty of tender green foliage or feathery grass. It must be remembered, however, that these wild flowers are not so strong as the cultivated ones, and require plenty of water, They should be put at once into the vases intended for them, and arranged as lightly and naturally as possible. The cloth should never be strewed with wild flowers, as it may be with hothouse or garden ones; and the former always look well in clear glass where their stems may be seen.

In towns, table decoration in April is not so easy a matter; for, except for those who do not mind an early visit to a market, flowers are scarce and dear. Dessert centres come as aids to eke out a few flowers, and the soft Ponjee silks, or even a cheap art muslin can be made to look very pretty if cleverly puckered and the flowers introduced into their folds. Fruit, with the exception of grapes, which are now always obtainable, cannot he depended upon to make a dinner-table decoration, there being so few kinds in season during this month.

APRIL, THINGS IN SEASON.

ARROWROOT PUDDING.

April, Things in Season.

Fish. Bream, brill, carp, crabs, dory, flounders, halibut, ling, lobsters, red and Mix to a smooth batter the arrowroot with 1/2 pint of the milk ; put the other pint on the fire, with the lemon-peel, and let the milk steep until it is well flavoured; then mixed arrowroot; sweeten it with sifted sugar, and grey mullet, mussels, oysters, perch, strain the milk, and add it, boiling, to the prawns, salmon (but rather scarce and expensive), shad, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, tench, turbot, whitings.

Meat. Beef, lamb, mutton, veal.