Marinate 1 cup of cold boiled fowl cut into dice and 1 cup French chestnuts, broken in pieces, with French dressing. Add 1 grated red pepper from which seeds have been removed, 1 cup of celery, cut into small pieces, and mayonnaise to moisten. Trim crackers, 4 inches long by 1 inch wide. slightly salted, at ends, arrange on a plate in form of a box, keep in place with red ribbon, 1/2 inch wide, and fasten at one corner, tying ribbon in a bow. Garnish opposite corner with a sprig of holly berries. Line box with lettuce leaves, put in a spoonful of salad, and mask with mayonnaise. Any colored ribbon may be used, and flowers substituted for berries. - Mrs. W. H. Willis, Glen-coe, 111.