Lay the table with lace doilies over pink silk; have several vases of pink roses on the table, and have all the sandwiches, cakes, and ices in heart shapes. Use arrows of stiff silver paper in the ices. Give heart-shaped boxes filled with heart-shaped candies to the guests, unless you care to invest in pretty little stick-pins with gold or silver, or coloured enamel hearts on the end.

An appetising menu would be:—

MENU

Oysters on the Half-Shell.

Bouillon.

Fillet of Flounder. Sauce Tartare.

Potato Balls.

Chicken Livers on Skewers.

Fillet of Beef, Sliced, with Mushroom Sauce.

Potato Croquettes.

Frozen Fruit in Candy Flowers.

Devilled Eggs on Chiccory. Mayonnaise.

Heart Sandwiches.

Ice-Cream Hearts. Cakes.

Coffee. Bonbons.

The chicken livers are prepared by putting good-sized pieces of cooked livers on rather small wooden or silver skewers, alternating them with bits of thin bacon, putting them when ready in the frying-pan, and turning them till brown, and serving on toast with lemon. They are what is called en brochette in cook-books, a formidable name for a simple dish. Fillet of beef is really a dinner dish, yet it is seen not unfrequently at luncheons, sliced in the kitchen and put on the plates with a spoonful of mushroom sauce. The frozen fruit has been already given,—a mixture of sliced oranges and bananas with a foamy sauce poured over; it is served in sherbet cups, or in candy flowers.