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Show APPETIZERS IN PLACE OF SOUP Why do we consider it almost a social so-cial blunder to omit soup from our daily dinner? Why have we adapted this one-time very substantial dish, which still forms tho staple of diet of many peasant huts, to our modern system, wherein it serves only as an appetizer? And why do we consider It almost a social blunder not to eat soup? Wo don't nowadays. There was a time when every middle-class family in the land began dinner with soup, excepting on holidays, like Christmas, and Thanksgiving, when raw oysters preceded the soup. But lots of people don't like soup. Moreover, it is considered fattening and so many forswear it. Others pass It by because in its richer forms It Is too rich for tho ordinary digestion And so in some households soup is served only occasionally, or else for luncheon and not for dinner Instead of soup an appetizer or an entree Is served for dinner Here are some suggestive Ideas about th sort of thing to begin dinner with If you don't have soup: Appetizers. A fruit appetizer is .often tempting. Grapefruit in any form, In its own shell, garnished with a marschlno cherry, or cut In dice and served In cups or mixed with a little orange or pineapple, Is always good. Diced pineapple, pine-apple, with sugar and a little lemon juice sprinkled over It, is also good. Then there are the various sorts of canapes tiny strips of toast spread with some tidbit. Any of the fish pastes can be used and garnished with sliced hard-boiled egg or sliced olives Hashed leftover meat can be moistened moisten-ed with a little mayonnaise and spread on a strip of hot buttered toast, or meat minced and heated In a little cream or stock. Uso olives or hard-'bolled hard-'bolled eggs or a little minced parsley for garnish. Various vegetables can be used for canapes. A slice of ripe tomato, topped top-ped by a spoonful of mayonnaise and placed on a round of buttered toast of the same size is delicious. A long strip of toast an inch wide can havo thin slices of cucumber lapped one over the other its entire length, each dotted wit ha bit of mayonnaise Or a few diced beets moistened with melted melt-ed butter, very hot, can be piled in neat little mounds on rounds or buttered but-tered toast, and garnished with minced minc-ed hard-boiled egg. |