Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-03-13
ST. PATRICK'S DAY
ElIBLEMS OF GREEN
INVITE TO FEAST
They Beckon From the Win
dows of Caterers and Prom
Use a Season of Joy and
Social Diversion
NOVELTIES FOR BANQUET
They Include Variety of Toothsome
Dishes and After Dinner
Games
Have YOU seen the Green7

Have you seen the Green7
1t smiles and beckons to one from the
| windows of caterers, telling of the coming
Of st. Patrick's Day. The Shamrock and
pipe festooned with green, which have lent
n touch of spring to wintry March In years
gone by, are in stronger force this year
than ever before. They are reinforced by
favors of green candies, green cakes, ice
cream nodded of pistachio in the form
of harps or potatoes, green hats, pipes,
| shillelahs, green cherries even candy po'
tatoes.
If you choose to entertain on st. Pat
rick's Day in the evenin' by n card party
the partners may find each other by means
of duplicates Of miniature pipes, harps,
tiny snakes and Irish blaclSthorn sticks,
small size, of course For prizes there
are small trunks filled with green candy,
the trunks being marked Belfast" or po-
tato boxes also filled with candy for the
boobies, for the higher prizes there are
pieces of real Irish linen for the women,
and blackthorn sticks for the men.
ST. PATRICK's DAY vIANDS.
For the supper one should have the
table covered with white crepe paper with
shamrock design, and napkins to match
The centrepiece should be a shamrock
plant in n green jardnlere. For the inner
man the following viands are both de-
licious and appropriate, carrying out the
same green and white color:
Celery and lettuce salad-chicken salad
may also be served If one wishes-cream
cheese and lettuce sandwiches olives,
green candies in the shape of shamrocks,
green mints fruit lemonade with green
cherries, and pistachio ice cream.
In giving a dinner party. the same
decorations could be used, but the menu
would be more elaborate. Grapefruit or
fruit cocktail first, with the green cher
ripq Gran NJ cT1nn ~, vii prn
baked hallbut with mashed potatoes and
green peas, olives for the salad, rings of
green peppers stuffed with cream cheese
and served with a French dressing on
lettuce with crackers, pistachio ice cream
in appropriate molds, angel cake or small
cakes iced with green. A harmless vege-
table colorlng matter can be bought and
tho ice cream and cakes made at home
If one wishes.
AFTER-DINNER GAMES.
After dinner the guests may amuse
themselves with n shamrock hunt, prize
being given the one finding the most candy
shamrocks.
A rather novel idea is that of having an
imitation Blarney stone built in to some
inaccessible place-the stone can be made
of gray cardboard-and the one losing in
any of the games must pay the penalty of
hunting out the Blarney stone and kissing
1t, then coming back and telling the other
guests wonderful tale For those who
kiss the Blarney stone are ever after
wards gifted with the gentle art of CAB"
For real st. Patrick's day party the
hostess should receive her guests dressed
In white, with green ribbons and wearing
a sprig of shamrock Stories of Ireland
should be told by the guests--the Emerald
Isle is rich in tales of romance and fancy,
both in prose and verse. Those who sing
have varied choice in the airs both sad
and sweet, kathleen Mavourneen," "As'
thore," "Acushla Machree," Come Back
to Erin" Peggy In the Low Back Car"
Upon the Shoogy Shoo," are general IA
vorites. The evenings fun should end
with an old-fashioned Irish reel and the
singing of the "Wearin' of the Green"