Fasten a large white handkerchief on the wall or door. Paste or sew a small red paper heart in the center of it.
Let each person in turn be blindfolded and try to pin a heart of corresponding size over the heart on the handkerchief. The one accomplishing the feat or coming the nearest to it receives a valentine or appropriate prize.
Washington's Birthday
To give a patriotic air to the surroundings should be the aim of the hostess in giving a party or entertaining on Washington's Birthday.
Use the American flag, various sizes, for draping and decorating pictures, mantels, door-ways, windows etc., and red white and blue bunting hung from the chandeliers to the corners of the room, over archways, twined around the banister of stairways, etc., etc.
Red, white and blue paper garlands, paper hatchets and clusters or branches of artificial cherries are attractive; and pictures and busts of Washington draped with flags or bunting would be very effective.
A military Euchre Party would be very appropriate for this occasion. Invitations written on a card with the American flag painted or printed on may be worded as follows:
You are respectfully requested to enlist in a
Military Skirmish
On Friday Evening February twenty-second
At the Barrack, seven forty-six First Street.
Assembly call By order of
Eight o'clock Mrs. John Smith
sharp General pro-tem.