Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-02-16

And let your hearts gladden. with joy:
 The sehoel-room forsake,
 Your valentine take,
 We'll welcome
 Each girl
 And each
 Bow"
 Accompanying each invitation was dainty little card bearing this an- nouncement:
 At Miss Annabefs grandmotber's.
 Mrs. NJ. ". Bell. on West Third ave, February 14th, 1896, from to g."
 Long before the appointed hour the little girls and boys, with bright eyes and joyful faces, began to ar rive; some with bouquets of flowers, others with beautiful valentines, as emblems of appreciation and offer ings of love for their little hostess, who, showing due regard for each, met and received them with grace and gladness.
 Soon the large and spacious par lors of the little entertainers grand mother were literally thronged with bright faced and happy children, whose merry peals of laughter and 1 frequent outbursts of mellif1uous Ejaculation and chit-chat, betold the fact that joy had been enthroned and merriment reigned supreme. After amusing themselves with suit able games, such as "The Stolen Heart, ; .St. Valentine, "Clap in and Clap Out,o for more than an hour, the gay and happy throng was called to silence and their attention drawn to a collection of hearts made from cardboard, suspended and dangling between the folding doors. Mrs. Taylor, who assisted the little hostess in entertaining her friends, then announced that inscribed upon each heart was the name of some little girl, and in order to secure partners for supper, each little boy would have to leap for the heart containing the name of the girl he most preferred. This produced an occasion for much scrambling, since each little fellow was fearful of being cut out of the girl of his choice.
 Preparatory to being ushered out to supper the crowd was formed into a figure of a large heart, then each boy and girl was given the privilege of guessing at the humber of children embraced in the heart, the one guessing closest to be awarded a prize consisting of a beautiful and costly valentine, which was held up to view as temptation to their anxious eyes as the gUesses were being made. Forty-six was the guess of Margaret, The sweet lit tie daughter of MT. John M. Taylor, and it proved to be the exact num- Der of children present and in the heart. So with joyous smiles she stepped forth and gracefully received the valentine. The children then marched forth to the dining room, where too large tables, filled to over flowing with choice edibles and dainty nic-naes, awaited them. In this particular feature of the even ing's entertainment Mrs. Bell had been untiring in her efforts to please, and right royalty was she repaid, indging from the satisfaction with which each and every little one pres ent partook of and enjoyed the splen- did feast set before them.
 At each plate was placed heart shaped cake with a candy heart bearing appropriate lines and verses which each little fellow took delight in reading to his partner.
 After supper a large cake contain ing a silver coin was placed oh a table and each one as they passed around the table was permitted to cut for the prize After each had cut in their turn it was discovered that Louise, the pretty little daughter of Mir. P. NJ. Bridges, was the lucky prize winner.
 The crowd then returned to the parlors and for the remainder of the evening "tripped the lightfantastic. 7
 When the hour of arrived the happy throng, with expressions of appreciation and enjoyment which would well become older heads, secured their wraps and bade their fair hostess and her grandmother fond and loving adieu, and carried home with them indellible impress sions of the St. Valentine Day, 1886.