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Show flelpful fiint$ for Rostcss $. Ideal Occasion for Porch Parties Any Meal, From Breakfast to Midnight Supper, Served in tho Secluded Porch Corner Some Sample Menus and Decorations Two New Games With Prizes for tho National Holiday. MAPPY that hostess who on the Glorious Fourth can boast a porch, cither In town or country! If ever there Is a day when all the world and his wife wants to go a-sum-mering it Is Independence Das, and never are guests so easily pleased as then.. On her porch, therefore, the hostess concentrates her energies and her pret--tlest things. From the front porch the women folk will watch the men renew their youth in ball nnd tennis. In a secluded se-cluded corner of the same porch the table ahould be set forth, and again at night the guests will move to tho front steps to watch the fireworks. The hostess host-ess may, therefore, feel safe In despoiling despoil-ing her living room of its easiest chairs, softest cushions and prettiest tea table, ta-ble, the latter for the punch bowl and glasses. Decorations of crepe paper, paper lanterns or bunting should be used on the porch. At the favor counters of the department stores a bewildering variety or queer Chinese balls, fans and rings strung together for garnishing porches may be purchased. These are all made from folded papers and are easy to Carry to the summer home. They come In the National colors, qs do the lanterns. Nor should the host forget to have "Old Glory" run up on a pole on the cupola or fluttering from an upper window. If the dinner table is set on the porch screw a big hook in the ceiling directly above the center of the table. Make this the center for streamers of red, white and blue bunting or crepe paper, which can be run out to the four corners cor-ners of the celling overhead, or draped to hang above the table like a canopy. For the center-piece on the table use a cut-glass dish, filled with popples, bachelor buttons or larkspur and daisies dai-sies or marguerites, which will give the National colors In bloom. A Western hostess evolved the Idea of a centerpiece made of as many silken flags as she had guests. These were stuck into a mound of soft moss, and connected with the plates by red, white and blue ribbons. Surrounding this mound of flagy was a circle of thirteen guns, tiny brass cannon, each holding a small fire-cracker, the smallest size she could get. When the guests were seated the hostess touched off the firecrackers fire-crackers with a lighted taper, and the meal opened with a salute of thirteen guns to the flag. When the meal was over, each ribbon was pulled by a guest, who drew out a silk flag as a souvenir. If the hostess is a city woman she need not despair. If she has a balcony bal-cony overlooking tho backyard and the decoration of the backyard Is a matter of pride with most women who slay in town during the hot weather she can servo the dinner or supper to half a dozen guests or more by using small tables. If the porch is not available, avail-able, then she makes her dining-room as light and airy as jiosslble, and serves her dinner early, before lights are necessary. nec-essary. A music box sending forth patriotic pa-triotic airs is a pleasant accompaniment. accompani-ment. A heavy dinner menu is not appropriate appro-priate for the evening meal on this holiday, when all the world grows young again. Something on the line of an old-fashioned six-o'clock tea or supper tastes infinitely better to jaded city appetites or healthy country ones. Here is an excellent menu for a six-o'clock six-o'clock supper on tho Glorious Fourth, and it gives the touch of color which Is qulto essential to service on that day: Raspberry Cocktail. Creamed Fish In Forget-Mc-Not. Ramekin Cases. Olives in an Ice Tub. Erolled Chicken. Creamed Potatoes. Oherry Salad. Crackers. Frozen Strawberries with Whipped Cream. , Angel's Food. Coffee. Raspberry cocktail calls for dead-ripe fruit. A dozen berries are washed and heaped In a glass, with the Juice of an orunge poured over them and allowed to stand for a while. Then, at serving time, a heaping teaspoonful of powdered pow-dered sugar and a tablespoonful or finely fine-ly chopped Ice la added, giving a fine appetizer for hot weather. The forget-me-not ramekin cases are of paper in delicate blue, with artificial artifi-cial flowers outlining tho edge. The Ico tub is formed by melting a small cake of Ice Into the desired shape by the application of cloths dipped into hot wator, or a warm Iron wrapped round Avlth.a clean cloth. The object Is "to. get a crystal, tub, hollow-in the center, to hold olives. It is set in a nest of fern leaves. Cherry salad consists of rich ox-heart ox-heart cherries, stoned and served on lettuce let-tuce leaves, with delicate French dressing. dress-ing. When the hostess has a house party on her hands, whose members do not Incline toward athletic sports, lt is well to have some game or guessing contest to suggest when interest In fireworks fire-works wanes, especially If the afternoon after-noon Is passed on a shaded porch. Here ore two games which will tC3t the patriotic knowledge of the average gathering' and And 'It Badly wanting. The hostess prepares typewritten copies of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence, omitting every fourth word, and the guests are asked to fill In the blanks with tho correct words This Is tho way tho test Is arranged: "When In tho of human events becomes necessary for people lo dissolve political bonds which connected them with and to assume the powers of earth the separate equal station to tho laws of and of Nature's Na-ture's entitles them, a respect re-spect to the of mankind requires ,they should declare causes which impel to the separation. " hold these truths be self-evident, that men are created .that they are by their Creator Cre-ator certain inalienable rlghta, among these arc , liberty and the of happiness. That secure these rights, are Instituted among deriving their Just from the consent the governed. That any form of becomcrt destructive of ends, lt is right of the to alter or abolish It and lnstltuto new government gov-ernment its foundation on Iprlnciples ami organizing powers In 3uch a.s to them seem moat likely effect their safety happiness." The name of the author of the Declaration Decla-ration must alto be supplied, and there could bo no, moro appropriate prize ,than a good photograph of Thomas Jefferson, daintily framed. This goes to the guest who comes nearest to filling out all the blanlu?. Another contest, which will create no end of fun, and rivalry, requires tho use of a large flag, the field covered with plain blue cloth to hide the slai-3. This Is fastened on the wall, and each guest Is supplied with thirteen paper stars and as many pins or thumb lacks. The company io ther. invited to take turn a at pinning the thirteen stars in the order In which they appeared on the first flag of the United States. Not one person in a hundred knows the correct arrangement of the original thirteen stars. Tho prize for this contest might be a small picture of Betsy Ross displaying dis-playing her handiwork on the first flag to the committee nppolnted to view her design. This picture comes In a nmall color reproduction, as well as In black and white, Inexpensively framed, and makes a pleasant souvenir of the National Na-tional holiday. . |