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Show ERIN GO BRAGH ! the sandwiches In the shape o shamrocks, pipes and pigs. Wraj some square ones in green paper and have some open-faced rounc ones spread with cream cheese col ored pale green, with a greej maraschino shamrock in the cen ter. In the box is a party menn anc here are tested recipes for whole some foods "all greened up" foi the greenest day of the year. Whole Wheat Nut aid DaU Bread: Sift together one and t half cups white flour, six tea spoons baking powder and on and a half teaspoons salt. Add i cup and a half of whole wheal flour. Add three-quarters of a cui of chopped vacuum packed nut( and one cup chopped dates, and mix with your finger-tips unti! pieces are well covered with flour, Add two-thirds of a cup brown , sugar and two beaten eggs. Add one 6-ounce can of evaporated milk mixed with enough water t make a cup and a half. Pour int well-greased loaf pans, one ven large, or two medium which ii .better. Bake in an oven at 321 degrees for about forty-five min utes (a little longer if you usi one loaf pan). Two niediuri loaves will cut into about twentj slices, each. Banana Ice Cream: Mix thre! cans condensed milk with one an! a half cups water, and add on; tablespoon vanilla. Add three cup mashed banana pulp. Add thre tablespoons lemon juice and thro cups of cream, well beaten. Freezi in refrigerator trays or in ici cream freezer. Serve with an lcei animal cracker, preferably a pig standing on top. This serra twentv-four. T. PATRICK", as the patron saint of going to school, may not appeal very strongly to imall scholars of today. But ;reen shamrocks, white clay pipes, ind little pink toy pigs are three nemorials of him that make the ;eventeenth of March popular with hildrea -zverywhere. And when rou add a potato hunt and re-Ireshments re-Ireshments gay as a jig, you have !he start of a St. Patrick's Day 5arty that is sure to be the top of .he afternoon. Begin your party with Invita-lions Invita-lions written on green cardboard shamrocks or pale pink paper pigs with green ribbons tied around their necks. Have these invitations invita-tions read: "Come all ye lads from far and near! Come every gay Colleen f For good St Pat ncll dance a jig A'neariri of the green." Friday afternoon Three fclocfy Come to John Bray's house 5 Eastwood Street As soon as the young guests arrive, ar-rive, present each boy with a necktie neck-tie made of green crepe paper and every girl with a colleen's head iress, a green mob cap or two green rosettes connected by a narrow nar-row band of wired green ribbon. Spuds and Clay Pipes The first thing on the program Is a potato hunt. For this you need small well-scrubbed potatoes. They may be hidden exactly as you hide Easter eggs. To make the hunt more exciting, scoop out a few larger potatoes, put in them tiny trinkets wrapped in paper, and tie or glue the tops back on them. Give prizes foithe largest collection of potatoes, the biggest Sliced Chicken Sandwiches Whole Wheat ISut and Dale Bread Sandwiches Chopped Celery, Raw Carrot, and Peanut Butter Sandtcich.es Cream Cheese and Apricot Jam Sandwiches Cocoa with Mar&hmalloiv Irish Punch Banana ice Cream with Animal Crackers Iced in Green Lime Stick Candy Dates Stuffed with Green Gum Drops potato, the smallest one, and for 4the ould man," a funny bumpy potato with a face marked on it. If the children are old enough you can nmke the potatoes into race horses and hold an Irish Sweepstakes. "Write names like "Danny," "Brian Boru," "Dublin Boy," "Pride of Cork" and "Gal-way "Gal-way Gossoon" on slips of paper and attach one with a pin to each potato. Each child chooses a "horse," which he moves ahead by Inches, according to the throws of j a dice. For a large group of chil-! dren, you can have as many as four or five different race courses, with four children assigned to each one. If the children are too small for this exciting game, give each one a clay pipe and let him do honor to all the "little people" of Ireland by blowing soap bubbles as fragile and rainbow-tinted as an Irish fairy's wings. Good Green Foods Jigs, reels, and songs are "grand intirely" on St. Patrick's Day. And then come the refreshments on a table all green and cold. Cut |