m of balls, a plain tomato
salad and slices of delicious home-made pies are among the good things
of the menu.

BIRTHDAY SUPPER. 1.

In the cake put a gold penny, a silver four-leaf clover, and a little
image or amulet to drive away bad luck. Wrap them in paraffine or waxed
paper or coat them with paraffine before putting them in the cake. Ask
each one to make some birthday wish as the birthday person cuts his
slice of cake. Place the cake on a table wreathed in greens or flowers
or on a flower-trimmed tray. As many prefer scarlet carnations, this
flower and red candles will make a pretty party. Just after supper pass
the loving cup filled with claret, or fruit punch or cider. Each guest
takes a sip to the health of the host. If your guests enjoy cards, let
them play bridge, euchre, cinch, hearts, or the new card games in which
figures are involved. If they do not care for cards a short program of
old ballads by a good singer is always liked. As a surprise arrange a
little series of funny tableaux showing the different birthdays of the
guest of honor. To do this darken a room behind the players, and have a
big screen for a background. No special stage properties are needed as
the more ludicrous this is the more it will be enjoyed. Have some one at
the piano play appropriate music for the different tableaux. For one
year old have a baby in a cradle or in its mother's arms; for seventh
birthday, a little boy starting to school with books and apple or candy;
for the fourteenth birthday have a youth in sweater with football in
arms rushing to the goal; have the twenty-first birthday represented by
the young man courting, the twenty-eighth by the wedding; and for the
thirty-sixth have someone dressed and made up as nearly like the guest
of honor as possible.

For decoration have a frieze of ropes or smilax caught with scarlet
ribbon. Cover the chandeliers with the greens and the shades with
scarlet tissue paper. Bank the mantels with greens, having a mass of
scarlet berries or flowers in the center of each. Red candles and shades
on the mantels help the effect. If you have a table in the dining-room
make the initials of the guest of honor in candles placed in a large
wreath tied with scarlet ribbon. At each corner of the table have a
single candle in a smaller wreath.

For supper serve a hot course, creamed oysters, or creamed sweetbreads
and mushrooms, tiny hot buttered rolls and tiny pickles, chopped pickle
or spice