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Show NEW IDEA FOR VALENTINE PARTY Saint Valentine's day has so long 1 been considered an auspicious time for n ical frolic that the would-be hostess , Is ordinarily rather put to 11 to think of some new and novel form of entertainment. enter-tainment. This gume. which Is good for an Allure All-ure evening In a crowd of eight to a 1 dozen couples, might be called 'The I Sea of Matrimony." L'pon arrival. I each girl is given a large, red card-' card-' board heart on which Is a list of per-I per-I sonal questions. These questions have not only to do with the color of one's I eyes, but concern tastes, characteristics of disposition and the like. The hearts with the an-swers written after the question are collected by a representative represent-ative of the hostess stationed in the ; dressing room. Meantime, the men h.iv,. been given strings of little hearts 1 numbering as many as there are girls : present. I l-h Over Screen. The "sea of matrimony" is nothing more than a 6croen, appropriately dec-I dec-I oralod, over which the men fish In ' turn with a hook and line. Back of I the screen somebody attache-, hit or miss, one of the hearts containing the I questions answered by the girls. After I each man has caught a heart, he reads I It carefully, pins It on his sleeve and ; a ihe tap of a bell starts proposing to 1 the girl he thinks answers the descrlp-1 descrlp-1 Hon on his heart. The glrLs having ibcen warned to I disguise their handwriting, the men ! make many mistakes. For each mistake mis-take they forfeit one of the hearts on 1 tholr tallv strings to the glr who s.ts 1 "No." Who Wiivs, The length of each proposal Is determined de-termined by the tap of the host.-sv' bell. The man who retains the nnst 1 tally hearts wins the men's prize, while the girl who has dlsgulfcd her characteristics char-acteristics cleverly- enough. though truthfully, of course, to have th most 1 tally hearts, wins the girl's prize. |