Show FOR valentines DAY the heart hunt and other amusing games and pastimes gj KE the first suggestion for a valentine day party is in the form of a heart hunt small paper hearts red and white should be hi den all about the room with occasional chocolate or other candy hearts here and there the object Is for each person to search tor the hearts and the one who finds the greatest number of pa per ones which are the real counters in the game wins the first prize the first prize should be something in the form of a heart say a photograph holder a charm a locket or a some of the hearts should be broken into two pieces if candy ones or torn it paper and caal prizes offered to those who find the pieces that fit together the player who finds most hearts Is supposed to be the one who will first be married to the one who finds least a consolation prize should be given it a girl a suitable prize would be a tea cup and saucer or a worsted kitten as she Is destined to be an old maid A suitable bonso conso prize for a boy would be a card of buttons or a little wark basket as he will have to learn the use ol 01 them in his bachelorhood another game appropriate to the lay is broken hearts cut out alf red cardboard as many hearts about sh inches across as you will hadje pairs of guests then with sharp shears cut each of these into many small pieces square crescent shaped wedge shaped and so on keeping the pieces of each heart separate from the others by putting them into an envelope now from different colored papers cut small hearts two of each and put them into two bowls the players then select one each the girls from one bowl the boys from another and the boys then find their partners in the girls who have hearts matching in color those they have selected the envelopes are then dist one to each couple and they must try to put the pieces together to forra a perfect heart the two who first do this stand up and are crowned with red roses made of paper as this was a classic honor bestowed upon cupid the god of love it you prefer the girl may be crowned with roses and the boy with a laurel wreath this diversion Is especially good fun get a sheet of heavy cardboard twenty five or thirty inches square and draw on it as large a heart as you can then cut the heart out and cover it with white muslin to strengthen it it may also be braced at the back by strips of wood around the edge of the heart paint a border in green about three inches wide which of course gives you the outlines of a green heart inside this paint a black heart of the same width and again a third in yellow a fourth in blue a fifth in red and in the cen ter a bull s eye of gold paint leaving a space of white unpainted having prepared as many arrows as there are guests and a gilded cupid s bow of classic shape set up the heart as a target at the end of a long room rom which you have removed as much of the furniture as possible dress a small boy as king of hearts in a coat of turkey red with knee breeches cut at the knees in points and covered with hearts of red paper he should have a collar of three hearts the points fastened to a band around his neck and he should also have a cloak of hearts or covered with hearts A crown of gilt paper with a heart in the front will complete the costume cupid the king presides at the target and as each guest shoots his arrow recites or reads one of the fol lowing couplets according to the col or hit if your arrow hit the red you will very shortly wed should your arrow pierce the green io wedding bells tor you queen when your arrow hits the blue cupid takes a shot at you it tl e arrow touch the black A true love you 11 never lack it it chance to hit the white you will meet your fate to night all alone your years will mellow should our arrow meet the yellow it the dart go wide astray you will throw your heart away should it pierce the heart of gold joy for you and love untold if you have a valentine day party you will serve refreshments and the idea of the day of hearts and love must be carried out as far as pos sible in everything arranged A very pretty way to send your guests to the dining room is to ave some pink flowers in two separate baskets pink carnations for the boyd and pink roses for the girls for is the special color of the god of love write beforehand on small cards the names of some famous lovers of his tory and fiction fastening the cards with the names of men to the carna eions and those with the names 0 women to the roses such named should be selected as romeo and juliet orlando and rosalind hamlet and ophelia petrarca Petr arch and lauraa dante and beatrice leicester and queen elizabeth john aiden and piscilla queen victoria and princel albert and so on then as each boy takes a carnation and reads the name on the card he must find the card with the corda sp rose card that is to say romeo must find juliet orlando must fl rosalind and so on and they go to the dining room matched in that way the dining room decorations should the K ng of hearts and the fortune tell ng target be in pink and as far as possible heart shaped pink crepe paper can be effectively used to give the shape to all the dishes the ice cream should be served in heart shaped molds or in the form of two doves billing and cooing and the cream might be pink in color pink hearts with attle love verses attached should be placed at the guests places and these may be taken away as souvenirs of the evening following are a few verses that might be used oh there s nothing halt so fn life As love s young dream moora pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are dryden for love ts heaven and heaven Is love scott better to have loved and lost than neer to have loved at all tennyson there s beggary in the love that can be reckoned shakespeare for toasts those who remember any other quotations about love may recite them or each guest might read aloud between the times of serving the quotations on the heart shaped cards above the table a bow and a ar row might be suspended or a cupid or both when the guests have come back from the dining room to the parlor hand to each one a little lace edged valentine with a pencil attached by means of a narrow pink ribbon and on the back of which the following questions are ansten the answers to the questions all begin with the word heart or the letters heart 1 what does she take from us 2 how do we greet hera 3 by what do a sita 4 what oftentimes Is her con ducts 5 what then comes to usa 6 how do we feela 7 describe the catastrophes 7 8 what consoles usa 9 what do we become under its influence 9 the guest who answers most of the questions should receive a prize a silver heart pin an arrow shaped pa per cutter or a box of candy here are the answers to the ques alons I 1 1 hearts 2 heart ily 3 hart h 4 heart less 5 heart ache 6 heart sick 7 heart rending 8 heart s ease 9 heart whole |