Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1914 — MME. MERRI’S ADVICE [ARTICLE]

MME. MERRI’S ADVICE

DUTCH SUPPER THAT IS AT ALL TIMES ENJOYABLE. % Appetizing and Not Especially Hard to Prepare, Even in an Emer- - gency—Choosing Partners for SL Valentine’s Day. At this season of the year Dutch suppers are very popular along with studio teas and all sorts of informal affairs. ; A jolly crowd received invitations like this not long ago: “If you is frent of urs Und like fun pretty much. Shust come to our party Friday night Und help us’down the Dutch.’ Thursday, December 12.” The hostess had made quantities of paper tulips and by the help of crepe papers in windmill pattern she had transformed the room into a good imitation of Holland. Dutch wooden shoes were the favors, filled with salted nuts, and the prize for pinning a shoe on Cinderella's toe was a box of Dutch cocoa. The following menu was written on shoe-shaped delft blue cards: Robgenbrod ,Scbnittchen. Welsbrod Schnittchen. Spanischer Salat Kaese. kaffee. Eis-Cremes. Nubs Kuchen. Teufel’s Kuchen. It really means rye bread sand wiches, white bread sandwiches, salad, cheese, coffee, ice cream, nut cake, devil’s cake. This is the recipe for Spanischer salat: Take the yolks of three eggs and add one-half teacupful of salad oil, stirring it into the eggs slowly. To this mixture add a teaspoonful of mustard, two tablespoonfuls of tarragon vinegar, one-half teaspoonful of sugar and a saitspoonful of salt. Slice three apples, three pickled gherkins, two cooked beets and from six to twelve boiled potatoes, according to their size; then skin and bone twelve good-sized sardines and mix all the Ingredients together in a salad bowl. Serve with lettuce and garnish with hard-boiled eggs, sliced beets and lemon. For a card club this supper will "be found most acceptable and somewhat different from the ordinary refresh ments. Choosing Partners on Valentine Day. Make hearts of red or pink and cut in twain, writing the half of a love motto on. each, when matched partners are found. Below is a list of sentiments used at a recent shower ; the couples mated ate refreshments together. It is a fine scheipe for a card party: ~~~—~~— - . ‘ Love me little—Love me long. The sweetest joy—The wildest woe is love. Love is the load stone —Of love. Love is of heavenly birth —But turns to death on touching earth. Love is blind —And lovers cannot see. Love is, or ought to be—Our greatest bliss. The pleasure of love —Is in loving. 1 The sweetest thing in life —Is love. Love—What a volume —In a word. Oh —the heart that truly loves — Never forgets. Love is the root of creation —God’s essenop. Love will find —Its way. For love 1b heaven—And heaven Is love. Love’s reign—Is eternal. True love is the gift—Which God has given.

MME. MERRI.