r a
crown of artificial grapes and grape leaves.

A woman of very diminutive size who might be thought to be almost
ineligible for the gathering because she came without insignia of any
kind might represent short cake.

And these are but a few of the ingenuities. The entire list is too long
to give here, but each repetition is sure to call forth new ideas.

The winner of the first prize receives a pretty china cake dish, while
the second prize is a dainty cake knife in silver. There is a booby,
too--a small cook book giving twenty-five choice recipes for cakes.

The guessing of the cakes is followed by an informal supper. Serve

_Chicken Mousse with Lettuce and Nut Salad_
_Brown Bread and Butter Sandwiches_
_Olives, Salted Almonds_
_Peach Bavarian Cream, Fancy Cakes_
_Coffee_

MENU AND SERVICE FOR BRIDGE SUPPER PARTY.

If one wishes a dainty and appetizing menu for a card supper serve
sweetbread and celery salad, stuffed olives and tiny pickles, assorted
sandwiches and plain vanilla ice cream with hot chocolate sauce, fruit
cake, white cake and coffee.

While the judges are counting the points for game, have the maid lay a
lunch cloth on each table. Serve the sweetbread salad either in
cucumbers hollowed out or in red or green pepper shells, resting on a
wreath of watercress. A pretty effect is secured by using alternate
green and red peppers and leaving the tops with the stem for covers. Tie
the tiniest of red peppers to the stems with narrow green ribbon for
decoration. The sweetbread salad is made of cold cooked sweetbreads and
celery cut into dice and covered with mayonnaise. If one adds a few
sliced almond meats and mushrooms the flavor is improved. Serve ham
sandwiches cut in shape of playing cards and decorated with bits of
pickled beets to simulate card spots, heart shaped sandwiches of
chopped green peppers and mayonnaise, cucumbers and watercress mixed
with mayonnaise, plain bread and butter sandwiches, using brown and
white bread. If one wishes a hot course, serve oyster or cream chicken
patties and tiny hot rolls. The fork is brought on the plate with the
salad or hot course.

Serve ice cream in the sherbet glasses with stems. Place a lace paper
doily on the plate, stand the glass on this and lay a pink rose on the
plate. Pass the hot chocolate sauce in a silver or pretty china pitcher,
or have it poured over the ice cream before it is brought in. Pass the
coffee in after dinner coff