OWBALL ICES. SNOWBALL CAKES.
COFFEE. BONBONS.

A MUSICAL LUNCHEON

The twenty-seventh of January is Mozart's birthday, and this anniversary
gives opportunity for entertaining a group of friends who have musical
tastes, or possibly a musical club. The guests might be asked to come at
eleven o'clock, and a musicale might precede the luncheon.

[Illustration]

Lay the table very much as for the New Year's day luncheon, with red
flowers, candles, and other decoration, and if you wish to emphasise the
national colours of Germany, Mozart's home, have red and chocolate
bonbons on the table and give each guest a little knot of red and white
carnations tied with black ribbons. For cards, go to the printer and
have him strike off small cuts of Mozart's head on squares of cardboard;
all printers have cuts of distinguished people, and they can be
reproduced for about a dollar a dozen. Just under the cut draw in pen
and ink a bar of music from one of the composer's works with his name
attached in tiny letters.

[Illustration: MUSICAL LUNCHEON FAVOURS.]

At each plate may be one of the ingenious favours to be had at the
confectioner's in the shape of a violin, a small piano, a banjo, a harp,
or a mandolin. The ices may also be in these same shapes.

MENU

GRAPE FRUIT.
CLAM BROTH WITH STRIPS OF TOAST.
PIGS IN BLANKETS.
VEAL CUTLETS, BREADED.
SWEET POTATO CROQUETTES. ASPARAGUS TIPS.
HOT ROLLS.
CREAM CHEESE SALAD. NUT SANDWICHES.
ICE CREAM IN FORMS. CAKES.
COFFEE. BONBONS.

The pigs in blankets are made by seasoning large oysters and folding
each one in a very thin strip of bacon, pinning it with a small
toothpick and browning in the frying-pan. The cutlets are to be cut in
strips the size and shape of croquettes, breaded and fried. The
asparagus served with this is, of course, canned. The salad is made by
adding a little olive oil or cream to cream cheese, colouring it green
with fruit colouring and moulding into balls the size of a hickory nut.
These are to be laid on lettuce and a spoonful of mayonnaise added. A
pretty change from the ordinary mayonnaise may be used with these green
balls: a tablespoonful of unsweetened, condensed milk is used in place
of the yolk of an egg; it is beaten, the oil and vinegar or lemon juice
and seasoning added exactly in the same order and proportion as is
usual; the result will be a stiff, foamy white mayonnaise. The
sandwiches to serve with this salad are made