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How To Play Cards For Wholesome Recreation: 79 total pages.

Bank the fireplace with cotton sprinkled with diamond (lust, have an electric; fan with white ribbon streamers going, and use glass bowls of cool green foliage for decorations. Have a "snow mound" (diamond dusted cotton heaped around a small table or stool) in which is bedded a crystal punch bowl of ice cold lemonade, from which the guests help themselves at will. Pieces of crystal glass are appropriate prizes. Lemon ice shaped into halls with a round scoop, "snowball" round cakes dipped all over in white frosting and cocoanut, and white cream mints make cool looking refreshments. A "Seashore" Card Party City-bound guests bidden to an afternoon "Seashore Card Party" arrive to find the hostess' rooms cooly decorated with long grasses, ferns, water lilies, and bowls of gold fish. A tub covered with green crepe paper and filled with sea sand stands in the center of the living room or porch, and each guest is in­vited to dig with a child's shovel until she finds a double shell (on sale in novelty shops) containing her table and couple num­ber.

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