The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-01-28
A PATRIOTIC TEA
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

| IL you would entertain a party Of
! thirty-five girls ranging from fifteen
to thirty years old at Il Martha Wash
ington tea, as one or our subscribers
wishes TO do, we would suggest that
those acting as host and hostess dress
| as George and Martha Washington,
and when all the girls arrive they be
given quaint caps of tho kind affected
by Martha with q iichu or kerchief--
these can be made of white crepe tissue
paper.
Tall candles on the table and the
gas jets yelled in shades of rcd, white
and blue give the atmospheric touch"
ii The tea Is TO be ut D. AS cor ref. esh-
'nents. Il simple and suitable menu is
as follows: oyster soup In blue bowls,
the bread sticks to be tied with mar
row red, white and blue ribbon. Roast
turkey or chicken and mashed rota-
to croquettes. served with Il tiny flag
stuck In each, and spaghetti in rama
kins. Make u salad of apples red ones,
and serve the salad in them. with tiny
tents OF white paper stuck on top If
you uso care you can cut tho apple
SO that you can get the entire centre OF
1t to make the salad and yet keen the
red exterior and thin lining of apple
intact. The salad looks very temptinr
pceping out from this. Make cannon
balls of cottage cheese and roll them
In toasted brown crumbs. Cherry shcr-
bet makes nice dessert. Small Gun
of coffee and hatchet-shaped cakes
complete the menu. The table decora-
tions of cherries, etc. are too numerous
to require much labor to obtain.
Guessing contests furnish nppropr!-
ate games If you have one of those
artificial Christmas trees cover IL with
candied cherries and offer prizes to
those who come nearest to guessing
the number of cheru<ts thcreon-with-
out being given any time to count
them, of course. Afterward the guests
could pick and eat tho fruit
n game that seems most appropriate
could be made of the following cues
lions:
QUESTION:.
J. What was the first American flag?
2 What Is tho origin OF the word
Yankee?
g. How did the term Brother Jona-
than" originate?
What wore tho original thirteen
States?
o How many times has the United
Suites been at war since 1916?
Answers.
l. To meet tho emergency, a British
Union Jack was taken and Stripes of
white cotton cloths were sewed across
the rcd, making the red and white
stripes Later the stars were put in
place OF the cross In tho upper left
hand corner.
2. 1t seemed impossible for the In
dians TO say 'Englsh": they always
said "Yengcse," and that is claimed TO
he the origin of the name that has
chung TO our Northern inhabitants ever
since.
3. a pamphlet published In l643 says.
when speaking OF the monument to
Queen Elizabeth: Our Brother iona
than wrote her epitaph In n loyal poem,
before he had a thought OF New Eng
land"
4. massachusetts,, Connecticut. Rhode
Island, New Hampshire. New York New
Jersey. Delaware Pennsylvania. Mary
land. Virginia. North Carolina. South
Carolina, Georgia
.. When Jefferson was President
there was war with the Barbary States
in 1904: under Madison there was war
with England in 1872: with Mexico.
under Polk, in 1S45: the Civil War. un-
der Lincoln. in 1861, and with Spain
in 1897, under President Mckinley
AS few persons can answer these
questions offhund. this game" pro-
Vides an evenings entertainment