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Saturday (Fish salad from cold fish)

Fish salad from cold fish.- Chops from neck of mutton and fried potatoes. Apple pudding. August-Vegetarian Dinners for.

No. 1.

Vermicelli Soup.

Lentil Fritters.

Vegetable Stew.

Fruit Tart and Custard.

Cheese Salad.

No. 2.

Purée of Green Peas.

Haricots and Onion Sauce.

Vegetable Pie.

Stewed Fruit and Cream.

Cheese Straws.

August-Dinner Table Decorations for.

This being so generally a hot month, it is well to have the dinner table decorations as cool-looking and refreshing as possible.

A hot-house foliage decoration, without any flowers, is pleasant; and, again, ferns in white china receptacles.

For this purpose the pure white stands of different heights, with cupid or oldworld figures, or those commonly called the cactus vases are suitable; but it must be remembered that they require a base of colour, and the white china must not be stood upon a white cloth, or no effect will be produced.

A dessert centre of green plush comes in well for these stands, and if they be furnished with only ferns of different tints, a very pretty result is obtained.

Yellow, again, is not an oppressive-looking colour, and the white stands look well upon it, when they may be furnished with yellow or yellow and white flowers. The latter are usually plentiful in August, but the drawback to the many hot-house ones is their strong scent, so objectionable at a dinner table.

A simple, inexpensive, yet pretty decoration can be made for a table of ordinary size by three strawberry punnets filled with moss or sand, in the centre of each of which is a delicate fern, say pteris or maidenhair, surrounded by any foliage at command, while trails of green such as ficus repens or asparagus adorn the white cloth.

Still on the advocation of foliage versus flowers for this month's dinner table decoration, it may be noticed that any old prettily-shaped baskets with high handles, or some made so by wires, gilded by amateur hands may be made the prettiest receptacles for greenery; while, should colour be desired, they are always available for the introduction of a bow of ribbon.

AUGUST, THINGS IN SEASON. 25 August, Things in Season:- Fish. Brill, carp, crayfish, crabs, dory, eels, flounders, herrings, lobsters, mullet prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, soles, sturgeon, trout, turbot.

Meat. Beef, lamb, mutton, veal, buck venison.