New-York tribune., 1909-02-09
ST. VALENTINE PARTIES.
Unioue Favors and Decorations for Festivals
Where Cupid Reigns.

81 Valentine party can be made a very pretty
thing nowadays II was always a charming 1esu-
val this old saints day to people OF the least OH
Of idealisIn; but Of recent years more artlsuc Val
entfnes are made than ever before, and especially
the decorations and favors for St valentines Day
erterta inuents most ingenious and attractlFe-
There is a Jack Horner' pie, for example
shaped like z shoe Few groVn-ups, even. are
proof against the fascination of pulling the en-
chanted ribbon and seeing the fat little mysterious
package at the other end come bouncing oul
These shot-shaped Jack Horner' pies. made OF
the daintiest materials. be purchased; but a
woman who IS clever with her fingers could easily
make one using an old shoe as a foundation or
if she desired larger pie, fashionlng me 1ounda-
ton out of cardboard. Another Jack Horner PIE
is shaped like heart, and covered with red roses
and stiIl another is a plain red heart with flower
border The quiver-shaped pies are q pleasing vari-
alton and the made in the semblance OF
rnossv log though logs have no connection with
St Valentines Day are pretty For the presents
70 be put inside are. of all kinds OF
+rines some inexpensive. quite the reverse
Nothing is lacking in the shops that make
speciality of such things 10 make the table harrno
nious for the St Valentine feast There are paper
+ablA cloths and napkins all covered with red hearts
and gay little cupids. Each napkin is rolled IN a
cupid ring and holds little favor There are
white heart-shaped plates, even. decorated with
tiny red hearts These may be USED as service
plates If desired
New this year are the big scales, with money
bag in one pan and q big red heart weighing down
the other These are for table ornaments, and -
hang over the table large red parasols- St
Valentines Day is certainly the red" festival.
Never is so much this cheerful color seen as on
that day.
For place favors are the little books of hearts
ease powders Containing thirty bits OF Then
there are heart-shaped cards Cinderella slippers
arrows wands fans, fairies-a bewildering collec-
ton from which 10 choose. Cunning little cups
surmounted by a winged cupid nice TO serve
the ices in So too are the little cups made in the
srise Of flowers. There are little red canoes for
the salted nuts tiny barrels for the olives, and
for bonbons large red hearts with formidable keys
Little heart-shaped boxes for bonbons contain tiny
mirrors like vanity boxes.
Hearts of all there are Of course, for decor
stive purposes and cupids in gold, silver. white and
red II the table is 10 be lighted with candles.
nothing could be pretter shades than the heart
shaped ones which in various sizes and coors
The paper vegetable cases for serving ice cream
etc though they haven't anything TO DO with St
Valentines Day especially, nice for a variety
II the supper is be served at small tables, a
rather pretty idea is shut them off from each
o+ber with few of the arbor screens which
decorative These screens have paper flowers.
tonishingly real climbing them. One woman
who Is planning a St Valentines dance will have
her supper room cut up into bowers, with four lit
tle tables IN each bower. the walls TO consist OF
screens with red wistaria climbing over them A
border of visaria will encrcle the upper part Of
fbe room The favors for the dance viii be wands,
cones EarIands Of hearts wreaths of flowers red
poinsettia parasoIs. cunning pals filed with red
and yellow paper tulips. paper bonnets feathery
fans and, last, ermne hat, stole and muf