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Show f St. Patrick Decorations Prevail - By E. M. H. IN tAPPKO ACHING the season for St. Patrick's green nature once more supplies us with flowers and foliage enough to cover several weeks of decorations decora-tions appropriate to the patron saint's day, having exhausted the scarlet, cardinal, crimson and ' deeper reds of St. Valentine's day and the flowers required to furnish the tricolors honoring Washington: Even the golden thuliced. daffodils and jonquils are palling, and it is with great thankfulness we welcome the crooked hats, pipes, harp, shamrock sham-rock and even the squirmy serpent, ser-pent, whieh have already made their appearance upon the luncheon, lunch-eon, dinner and card tables in anticipation of St. Patrick's day, belonging to the Emerald Isle but happily observed and used as an excuse and an incentive for entertaining everywhere, relieving re-lieving the monotony of "spring flowers." As a close rival of nature, confections and frozen dainties further seasonal ideas, glazed candies and mints come in all' the wanted shades, and as for -ice . molds they - come from - pump- kins to chariots. Silken flags and frosted cakes all enhance the color effect, be it red, green - or gold. So with these hostess helps the hospitality offered during dur-ing March will no doubt be rosy lint called emerald, Nile, leaf or Irish green, and luckily it is a soothing color to both eyes and nerves. a |