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American Agriculturist, February 3,1923 
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For the Valentine Party 
Games and Decorations That are Suitable 
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J UST why that rigorous old Roman, 
Valentinus, of whom nothing is 
known except that he suffered martyr¬ 
dom on February 14, of the year 270, 
should have been chosen as the patron 
saint of lovers, is shrouded in mystery. 
Scholars say, however, that it is all 
because the ancient Roman festival of 
the Lupercalia, in honor of Pan and 
Spring, fell on February 15. The early 
Christian fathers, whose policy it was 
to adopt all the popular pagan holi-. 
days, therefore arbitrarily assigned to 
Valentine this festival, when the girls 
of ancient Rome put their names in a 
box from which they were drawn by 
the young men. 
Whatever the origin, the day is one 
replete with sentiment, symbolized by 
hearts and cupids and mating doves, 
and it is a favorite occasion for parties 
and entertainments. 
Decorating the house for a Valen¬ 
tine party is almost as much fun as 
getting it ready for Christmas. Red 
is the conventional color, and any ordi¬ 
nary room may be made festive by the 
use of festoons of red crepe paper, 
hearts of all sizes dangling from red 
ribbons, and cupids and red tissue 
paper roses. Now that there are on 
the market luncheon sets, napkins, 
place cards, invitations and festoons, 
all of crepe paper and bearing special 
Valentine’s Day designs, it is very easy 
to decorate a home or schoolroom. A 
luncheon set, consisting of a table 
cover, 61 by 84 inches, one dozen nap¬ 
kins and one dozen paper plates, all 
emblazoned with red hearts and other 
symbols, cost but eighty cents. One 
can also obtain red hearts of varying 
sizes, in packages of twenty-five for ten 
cents, as well as gummed seals with 
appropriate Valentine designs. 
With plenty of red crepe paper and 
red cardboard, however, one can dis¬ 
pense with these other aids. Large red 
hearts may be placed in a border 
around the table, for instance, and fes¬ 
toons of narrow strips of the red crepe 
paper hung from the chandelier to the 
corners of the room. Red ribbons of 
diiferent lengths, each ending in a 
small red heart, may hang from the 
chandelier. The table centerpiece .may 
consist of a bunch of red paper roses 
surmounted by a Kewpie doll disguised 
as Cupid. From his quiver of arrows 
narrow red ribbon go out to each place 
where a very small red-sashed Kewpie 
is attached to a red-covered paper serv¬ 
ing cup. 
Invitations for a party on February 
14 may be written on inexpensive val¬ 
entine postcards. To assign partners 
after the guests arrive, a number of 
valentines should be cut in two, one 
part of them going into one box from 
which the girls are to choose, the other 
into one from which the men draw. 
Each guest must then “match” up the 
other half of his valentine. 
Games appropriate to the Valentine’s 
Day party are: 
Lovers’ Tournament 
The girls, each holding a cracker, 
line up on one side of the room, the 
boys on the other. At a given signal 
the knights run to their ladies, each re¬ 
receives from her a cracker and returns 
to the starting point and eats the 
cracker as quickly as possible, then re¬ 
turns to his lady, kneels before her and 
whistles a tune which the girl must 
recognize and name. The first girl to 
identify her knight’s tune gets the 
prize. 
What Hearts Answer These? 
To quiet down after the tournament, 
which is apt to prove rather uproar¬ 
ious, the following is suggested as a 
guessing game: 
1. A simple and lovely flower? 
Heartsease. 
2. A novel by the “Wizard of the 
North”? Heart of the Midlothian. 
3. A heart poem from the pen of 
Wordsworth? Heart-Leap Well. 
4. The heart of a famous canine 
movie actor? Strongheart. 
5. One of the things in which Wash¬ 
ington was first? Hearts of his coun¬ 
trymen, 
6. The heart of an author who wrote 
Western tales? Bret Hart-C. 
7. The Heart of one of the New 
England States? Hartford, Conn. 
8. The heart of a great English 
king who seldom visited his kingdom? 
Richard Lionhearted. 
9. A signer of the Declaration of 
Independence? John Hart. 
10. A proverb about hearts for 
lovers? “Faint heart ne’er won fair 
lady.” 
Heart Quoits 
Fasten a stick about the height of a 
walking stick to a wooden base, and 
make a dozen heart-shaped quoits of 
wire covered with red cloth or crepe 
paper. A prize is given to the guest 
who tosses the most quoits over the 
stick from a given place in the room. 
Heart Pass 
Players form in two lines facing each 
other. Place a dish of candy hearts be¬ 
side each leader and an empty dish at 
the end of each line. Everyone in line 
clasps the right wrist of the player on 
his left with his left hand. At a given 
signal the leaders picks up one heart 
at a time and passes it down the line. 
If a heart is dropped it must be picked 
up with all the hands still clasped. Thq 
side which first passes all its hearts 
from one dish to the other gets all the 
hearts, including those passed by the 
opposing side. 
A simple menu for a Valentine’s Day 
luncheon follows: 
Creamed Chicken and Mushrooms, or 
Peas in Heart-shaped Pastry Cases 
Waldorf Salad Hot Rolls 
Cocoa with Whipped Cream 
Ice-cream Hearts Valentine Cakes 
Sugar-coated Almonds 
Brick ice cream sliced and cut out with 
a tin cookie cutter may be used. For 
the cakes, a plain white cake about an 
inch in thickness cut out in heart 
shapes after it is baked and iced with 
fancy pink and white icings, is suit¬ 
able. 
Parties for children, or where sim¬ 
pler refreshments are required, may be 
amply served with heart-shaped sand¬ 
wiches of various kinds, such as 
chicken, tongue, cream cheese and 
nuts, with heart-shaped cookies and 
ice cream or hot chocolate. 
Heart-shaped boxes or heart-shaped 
bags of red cloth, filled with candies, 
may be used for prizes or favors. 
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A knitted set, for skating or tobog¬ 
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The set shown here was made in black 
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in turquoise blue with black; in green 
and heather brown, or in white, with 
any color. 
Full directions for making both 
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