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Show A VALENTINE BRIDGE TEA ST. VALENTINE'S DAY refuses re-fuses to be relegated to the era of lavender-and-old-lace. In spite of its heritage of lace-paper lace-paper valentines packed away in Bcented boxes, the envelopes bearing bear-ing handwriting in fine old script of another day, this day of romance ro-mance and delightful surprises continues in favor with each generation. Tea-and-Talk Today, with the vogue for bridge teas, instead of the more elaborate bridge luncheon, Valentine's Valen-tine's Day comes along as a particularly par-ticularly seasonable date for entertaining en-tertaining with a Valentine Bridge tea. Possibly one reason for the popularity of the bridge tea is the fact that it can include not only bridge fans of your acquaintance acquain-tance but also other friends who wish to come in late in the after-poon after-poon for tea-and-talk. This does not interfere with the game which can be started early in the afternoon, after-noon, so that the real bridge enthusiasts en-thusiasts have plenty of time to play before the later arrivals. It will give your tea a touch of ays-gone-by if you make a point Df sending invitations, instead of resorting to the telephone. If you can't find old-fashioned pink lacey valentines in your shops, make Borne by using a light cardboard stock, cutting it heart-shaped, covering, with a-heart-shaped piece Of. lace-paper doily and then past ing two small pink hearts on top of the lace-paper, in the center of the valentine. Write two lines of the invitation on each heart, letting the lines read thus: Be my Valentine guest. Please arrive For bridge at two. Or tea at five. If you would like a game for those who come a little early, but who don't pla,y bridge, try "Sweet Scents," which is an appropriate Valentine contest to see whose nose knows. Get samples of perfume per-fume from the favorites of your various friends. Place a bit of cotton, previously dipped in the perfume or sachet in a small bottle bot-tle tightly corked. Each bottle should be numbered. Let each ' one smell each kind and write 1 down the fragrance which they detect, writing down aUo the number of the .bottle. It is surprising sur-prising how difficult it is to distinguish dis-tinguish the odors after smelling a variety of them. Instead of perfumes, per-fumes, if you prefer, you can use spices from the pantry clove, cinnamon, sassafras, almond extract, ex-tract, etc. Tie prize should be a small bottle of good perfume. Here is a simple but delightful Valentine tea party menu with tested recipes: Frozen Fruit Salad Shrimp and Caper Sandwiches Piquant Ham Sandwiches Tea Candy Heart Cashew The following recipes are simple to prepare and designed to serve eight persons: j Frozen Fruit Salad: Cream one package of cream cheese, add two-thirds two-thirds cup mayonnaise auu one cup of cream beaten, mixing until un-til smooth. Soften one-half teaspoon tea-spoon gelatin in one tablespoon cold water. Add two tablespoons sugar to one cup of crushed canned pineapple, bring to boiling and pour over the gelatin mixture, mix-ture, stirring until dissolved. CooL Add this to the mayonnaise and cream mixture. Then add one nanana, cut in small cubes, and one-half cup of halved, canned, red pitted cherries. (Substitute maraschino cherries, if you prefer). pre-fer). Then add one-half cup ol chopped nuts. Freeze in refrigerator refrig-erator trays. Serve on crisp lettuce let-tuce hearts. This serves eight persons. Shrimp and Caper Sandwiches: Drain one can of shrimp and mince finely. Add two tablespoons chopped capers, one-eighth teaspoon tea-spoon salt and five tablespoons :j Thousand Island Dressing. Spread between thinly sliced and buttered but-tered whole wheat bread, j Piquant Ham Sandwiches: Mia the contents of a small can ol deviled ham, one teaspoon chopped chop-ped mustard pickles, one tablespoon table-spoon chopped walnuts and on tablespoon mayonnaise. Spread between buttered slices of white I bread-1 . f3, . |