d peach, quince or pear, or brandied quince; chicken salad, or
sweetbread salad on a lettuce leaf with cheese straws, stuffed olives,
coffee, ice cream frozen in fancy forms, (leaves being a pretty design),
and cakes in tiny squares with little red candies like scarlet berries
on green or white icing.

BIRTHDAY SUPPER. 2.

Candles may be used for a centerpiece and also to outline the figures
representing the number of years. A pretty ceremony, if you use candles
on a birthday cake, is to have each guest light a candle with a wish for
the guest of honor. When the cake is cut, blow out the candles and lift
them off.

For the red color scheme, garnish the dishes with radishes, slices of
tomatoes, red peppers, beet rings, candied cherries. Serve cream of
tomato soup, tiny radishes cut in rose forms, wafers, salted almonds.
Broiled lobster garnished with slices of fresh tomatoes and cucumbers.

Serve individual chicken pies baked in ramekins and served in red paper
cases. In making these pies add mushrooms, potato marbles, white of
hard-boiled eggs cut in rings and yolks cut in half. Make the cream
sauce by using the liquor from the canned mushrooms, strong chicken
stock and milk, thickened with flour. With this course serve a relish in
red peppers, creamed peas, tiny hot rolls and a slice of sweet cucumber
or watermelon pickle with a candied cherry on top. A beet salad
garnished with rings of hard-boiled egg whites and the yolk run through
a ricer, or chicken salad served in red peppers, tomato, cucumber and
celery salad served in tomato shells, fruit salad served in red apples
hollowed out. Serve wafers with the salad course. A pretty idea for the
ice cream is to have it moulded in shape of candles with a little wick
to be lighted just as it is brought to the table. Serve little square
cakes with white icing and red bonbons. This menu gives two hot and two
cold courses. Serve coffee or tea. At the close of the supper pass a
loving cup of fruit punch, grape juice or wine, and ask each one to
drink to the health of the guest of honor.

BIRTHDAY PARTY.

The guests are requested to represent, in some manner, their birth
month.

Most of them wear the birth stone suitable to the month which, as old
legend tells us, is sure to protect against misfortune, the jewel acting
as a talisman.

Some may substitute flowers appropriate to their birth month. A young
lady, whose birthday is in January, may wear a string of tiny