Sandwiches.
INDIVIDUAL MINCE-PIES.
VANILLA ICE CREAM. CAKES.

A CARD LUNCHEON

After a morning at whist, one should have an appetite for the noon meal;
let it be so delicious that the anxieties and disappointments of the
game may be speedily forgotten! The table may be prettily laid with the
usual doilies, and the flowers chosen chrysanthemums again, unless you
fancy carrying out the red and black colours of the cards, when the plan
suggested for the Musical Luncheon in January may be adopted, and red
carnations tied with narrow black ribbons may be laid by each plate, and
dark chocolate bonbons may be in the little dishes around a centrepiece
of red carnations. At each of the places may be a small box of cardboard
in the shape of a heart, a club, a diamond, or a spade alternately,
filled with bonbons. There are tin cutters which are in these same
shapes, and the cakes and sandwiches may still further carry out the
idea. The ices, too, are to be found at the caterer's in slices of white
with the figures on them in colours, but you may make a white cream at
home and serve it in paper boxes painted with the various figures around
the edge, if you choose.

Any one of the preceding menus may be used, or one may have something
different which yet reproduces the best dishes which have been
suggested, especially the delightful ice cream which was mentioned for
one luncheon, with the maple sauce, one of the delicious things among
new dishes.

MENU

OYSTER BISQUE.
LOBSTER CROQUETTES WITH TOMATO SAUCE.
MUSHROOM OMELETTE. HOT ROLLS.
FRIED CHICKEN IN CREAM SAUCE. POTATO SOUFFLE. ASPARAGUS TIPS.
WALDORF SALAD. CHEESE SANDWICHES.
FRENCH VANILLA ICE CREAM WITH MAPLE SAUCE.
COFFEE. BONBONS.

The mushroom omelette is easily prepared by putting a mixture of chopped
mushrooms and olives in a delicately browned omelette as it is folded
over just before it is served; there is nothing better in an egg dish
than this. The salad is made by cutting rather sweet apples in bits and
adding as much chopped celery and a stiff mayonnaise and laying on
lettuce leaves; if English walnuts are added, the salad is entirely
changed from the original, but it is thought quite as good by most
persons; the fact that these nuts are to be served in the dessert,
however, gives reason for omitting them from the mixture of apple and
celery. If it is desired to have a sherbet for this luncheon, add it
after the chicken, one of canned