Among Us Teens

St, Patrick's Day Parties Should Be Gay, Colorful

By Val Our Irish is up—St. Patrick be-1

longs to all of us; whether we've much or a little Irish or none. This holiday has become legen- dary American heritage, trans- planted here by our Irish ances- tors, so why shouldn’t all of us get out and have fun on March 17? It seems particularly a Teen holiday—merriment reigns, and even Lent takes a breath and allows us be gay.

Informal Teen fests are on the calendar all over the country, but others can be organized on short notice in your own particular gang.

St. Patrick’s Ball—Every girl in a certain group is going to wear her white “initiation” dress or any white summer dress, or white bal- lerina blouse and skirt—long or short—it's optional. The girl who is giving the party has ivy grow- ing winter and summer in her kitchen, she has made a green wreath for each girl’s hair. She has bought green candles; will have a four-leaf clover hunt; is using small gold harps as place- cards; will serve lime punch, pis- tachio. ice cream, green-frosted cake. The boys will be jaunty in green paper Irish derbies with

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shamrocks in their lapels. The

girls want their escorts to wear

tuxes—if they have them or can

borrow Pop's or older brother’s— they plan to do this. Of course,

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dancing, concluded by 11 p.m., as it’s a weekday. A marvelous

party, and easy to arrange. Potato Party—Another Teen

gang is gathering at Jerry’s house for a fireplace potato roast and this bunch will wear their oldest clothes. It’s a “shanty” affair, with the girls in wool skirts, ancient blouses and shawls; the boys in old plus-fours from the attic, red flannel or army shirts, scuffed loafers. They’ll roast po- tatoes in the fireplace, eat white homemade cheese, boiled eggs, and drink a lot of milk and tea.

■Irish jigs and reels are the order of the evening. (You can buy, in some cases rent from public libraries, records with directions for jigs, reels, square dances.) Of course, the gang will warble every Irish song they ever heard, while they bask in the firelight. Don’t be surprised if somebody comes dressed as a leprechaun.

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Junketing and Jogcarting—The Irish don't go much for cheese except their own semihard variety, made at home by a special process. We can very nearly approximate this cheese by using junket and setting it in the usual way. Follow by putting the completed junket, after thoroughly and firmly set,

£to a thin wire strainer, and al- w all nonsolids to strain out.

Next, make little patties of the remaining curds, and place in re- frigerator. (This cheese keeps very well in a saturated solution of salt, first sterilizing the salt water by boiling 7 minutes.) Simple, but good enough for a party; or to take to market or the fair.

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I Irish Eyes—Old and new Irish songs, plays, dances are given each year by Teens at Greenwich House, located in Greenw'ch Village in New York City, which is not so arty as it is a home center for countless Teens. Greenwich is a

settlement recreation house, but it gives young people of all ages such wonderful dramatic and art ex- perience that Teens travel down from upper Manhattan each week for its benefits. It is heart-warm- ing for all of us to see Teens and pre-Teens of every nationality and race singing songs of Erin in stumbling Irish brogue, along with real colleens. It certainly pro- motes the spirit of brotherhood.

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Green by Osmosis—In every schoolroom of the United States, unless prohibited by teacher, at least a few Teens will have some- how obtained a carnation, slit its poor little stem ever so slightly,

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refine and clear your skin. Wet the palm of one hand, pour the grains onto it—then moisten the fingers of the other hand and make a paste of the grains. The other items pictured are

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and be soaking it in inkwell or ink-

j bottle to convert it to a green, St.

Patrick's blossom. Scientific Teens

will tell you that this seeming miracle is accomplished by capil- lary action and osmosis.

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Teen Mosaics—“Silver and gold have I none"—but we do have our

pockets full of tinfoil and other silver paper from candy, gum and

> (some Teens admit) cigarettes. We have gold paper from candy bars and individually wrapped pieces of candy in a box: we have every other kind of color from bars, gum. etc. As a result Teens have gone mad over mosaics made from bits of paper of silver, gold and assorted colors. Any Teen

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who has a moment has a white sheet in front of her and is snip- ping (with her fingernail scissors) various shapes from paper bits, dotting the back of these scraps with tube glue, and placing it in

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landscapes; some resemble Flemish tapestries

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