Chapter III: Part 3

19. What minister married them (Jack-in-the-pulpit).

20. What was wished with regard to their happiness
(live-forever).

21. When he went away, what did she say to him
(forget-me-not).

22. With what did she punish her children (lady's-slipper).

23. What hallowed their last years (sweet peas).

FLOWER BAZAAR

Six booths, if properly planned, will mean a small but picturesque bazaar. Five of these booths may represent flowers, and many of the articles sold from them may be made at home by members of the society which the sale is designed to aid.

Drape the Lily booth in white, decorate it with Easter lilies and light it with fairy lamps with white shades. Little novelties for Easter gifts may be sold here--the pretty trifles which are easily made.

The Violet booth may be almost self-decorative if Easter cards and dainty booklets bearing the flower are displayed. Many choice bits of verse and short paragraphs of uplifting thought may be found in the religious publications of to-day, and if these are carefully mounted on white cards and tied with violet ribbon to a bunch of the fresh flowers they will make the most cheering of Easter messages. Provision should be made at the booth for the cards to be autographed with the names of the senders.

The Tulip booth may be the gayest of the gay, and there the children should find Easter eggs in all colors of the rainbow. The booth should be lighted with gay lanterns. Those in charge should appear in Oriental costumes.

The choice of decorations for the Pansy booth is a wide one. Light green would make a good background to set off the bowls of different colored blossoms adorning the table. At this booth flower seeds, bulbs and plants of all kinds might be on sale. Seedlings are always ready sellers.

A booth which would prove very popular with housewives would be the one where Daffodils are in evidence, and there the egg delicacies for Easter menus might be on sale: stuffed eggs, pickled eggs, egg salad, custards, and angel and sponge cakes. Over this booth place a large yellow umbrella, fringed with daffodils. On a card fastened to the handle have the familiar quotation:

"Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares."

Butterflies fluttering over the Candy booth, as if attracted by the sweets there, will induce others to come for the same sweets. The butterflies may be made of crepe paper and suspended above the booth by invisible wires; the vibration of the air will make them appear very real. The little maid who presides should be gowned to represent a butterfly.

Care should be taken that the attendants at the different booths are dressed in colors to harmonize with the decorative scheme.

FLOWER GUESSING CONTEST

1. My first wears my second on her foot. (Lady's slipper)

2. A Roman numeral. (IV-Ivy)

3. The hour before my English cousin's tea. (Four-o'clock)

4. Good marketing. (Butter and eggs)

5. A gay young man and a ferocious animal. (Dandelion)

6. My first is often sought for my second. (Marigold)

7. A young man's farewell to his sweetheart. (Forget-me-not)

8. Her reply to him. (Sweet William)

9. The gentler sex of the Friend persuasion. (Quaker ladies)

10. Its own doctor. (Self-heal)

11. My first is as sharp as needles, my second is as soft as
down. (Thistledown)

12. My first is a country in Asia, my second is the name of
a prominent New York family. (China Aster)

13. My first is the name of a bird, my second is worn by
cavalrymen. (Larkspur)

14. A church official. (Elder)

15. A very precise lady. (Primrose)

16. A tattered songster. (Ragged Robin)

17. My first is sly but cannot wear my second. (Foxglove)

18. The color of a horse. (Sorrel)

19. A craze in Holland in the seventeenth century. (Tulip)

20. My first is an implement of war, my second is a place
where money is coined. (Spearmint)

21. A disrespectful name for a physician. (Dock)

22. Fragrant letters. (Sweet peas)

23. My first is a white wood, my second is the name of a
yellow Rhenish wine. (Hollyhock)

24. What the father said to the son in the morning.
(Johnny-jump-up)

25. My first is a facial expression of pleasure, my second a
woodsman's means of livelihood. (Smilax)

26. An animal of the jungle is my first, my second is the
name of a tall, fair lady. (Tiger Lily)

27. My first is made in a dairy but is seldom served in my
second. (Buttercup)

28. My first wears my second on his head. (Coxcomb)

29. A close companion. (Stick-tight)

30. A fashionable shade for evening dresses. (Heliotrope)

FLOWER LUNCHEONS

DAISY LUNCHEON.--Just before luncheon the hostess may crown each guest with a wreath, which she has prepared by tying the blossoms on circles of fine wire.

In the centre of the luncheon-table have a large bunch of blossoms and also a few scattered carelessly over the table. Trim the edge of the table with a chain of daisies, looped up here and there. At each corner have a large bow of ribbon, either white or of three colors, yellow, green and white.

Serve only light refreshments. Yellow and white ices served together would be pretty. By all means have your cakes cooked in patty-pans. Ice the little cakes with chocolate, and on top of each have a life-size daisy. Any amateur can make this decoration successfully. Boil your icing thick and squeeze it through a small funnel made of thick writing-paper in order to make the long, narrow, white petals of a daisy. Reserve a small portion of the icing and tint it bright yellow for the centres. The effect will be quite pretty.

After refreshments are served supply each guest with a sheet of paper and a tiny pencil with a ribbon bow at the end (these pencils can be purchased for a cent apiece). Announce that the guest who draws the most natural daisy will be awarded a prize. Distribute the blossoms for models. Pin all of the papers upon the wall and let the guests decide which is the most lifelike flower. Award a pretty book to the one who succeeds best and a booklet of pressed flowers to the second best.

BUTTERCUP LUNCHEON.--A very effective arrangement of buttercups for a luncheon is here suggested. It must be remembered that this flower closes at night and therefore is not suitable for an evening decoration. In the centre of the table arrange a circle of large rock ferns, and in the circle thus made place an inverted round pudding-dish, surrounding it with a large wreath of buttercups. Place the wreath so that half of each fern leaf will project beyond the buttercups. On the pudding-dish, the sides of which are hidden by the wreath, place a fern-dish full of growing ferns, and almost hidden among them a green glass vase filled with buttercups and grasses. This same idea may be carried out with daisies.

OX-EYED DAISIES may be used for a luncheon-table decoration very effectively. In the centre of a round table, arranged to seat eight people, place a mound of daisies and mountain ferns and have a rope of daisies running from each plate to the centre. The ends of the ropes may be hidden in the mound.

VIOLET LUNCHEON.--In the centre of a table stand a large cut-glass bowl on a violet embroidered centrepiece. Fill this bowl with smilax and pink carnations. In the centre of the bowl place a tall green glass vase and make it secure by passing four lengths of ribbon crossed over the top of it, fastening the ends on the edge of the centrepiece with little bows. In the green vase place eight bunches of violets. From each bouquet run violet baby-ribbons ending in a little bow at each place. This will make a number of ribbons resembling a May-pole. After the luncheon each guest may unfasten the little bow at her place, give the ribbon a jerk, and draw a bunch of violets. The ribbons passing over the top of the vase will hold the vase firmly in place.

APPLE-BLOSSOM LUNCHEON.--For this use blossoms which are but half blown. Place branches of them in glass bottles full of water and fasten with wires to the backs of the pictures in the dining-room. The sideboard should be covered with great branches put in tall cut-glass vases and low silver bowls; the mantel banked, and in the corners of the room tall Japanese jars filled with great spraying branches. In the centre of the table may be placed a vase filled with pure white cherry blossoms. The candlesticks should be shaded with white and silver. Back of a screen at each end of the room a lamp may be set to give a brilliant light to the flowers on the wall, without the glare of the lamp being visible.

PANSY LUNCHEON.--A pretty and an original way to decorate a table with pansies when one has quantities of these flowers is to place in the centre of the table upon a glass salver an old-fashioned glass fruit-bowl on a pedestal. Fill the fruit-bowl and salver with white cornmeal which has been well soaked in cold water, and in this insert the pansy stems. They should be placed as thickly as possible. Around the outer edge of the salver have a border of maidenhair fern. An oblong glass dish arranged in a similar manner may be placed at each end of the table. If desired little dishes arranged in the same way may also be used.

"RAINY-DAY LUNCHEON."--This is certainly an original idea. Place an old umbrella frame vertically in a fernery and twist smilax around the frame and down each spoke. At the base of the fernery make a bed of violets as large around in circumference as the umbrella. At the luncheon hour hide a small lump of ice in the smilax at the end of each spoke, allowing it to melt and drip on the violets. This makes a pretty decoration for a luncheon, particularly if wild violets can be procured.

FLOWER PARTY

When the guests have assembled, each one is given a tiny flower-pot. These are easily made out of red paper--a long strip and a round, with the aid of the mucilage pot. In these tiny pots the following list of flowers to be guessed is tucked away:

MAKE THESE HIDDEN FLOWERS SPROUT

1. An amiable man. (Sweet William)

2. The pulse of the business world. (Stocks)

3. A title for the sun. (Morning-glory)

4. A bird and a riding accessory. (Larkspur)

5. A pillar of a building and a syllable that rhymes with
dine. (Columbine)

6. A flower between mountains. (Lily of the valley)

7. A farewell sentiment. (Forget-me-not)

8. A dude and an animal. (Dandelion)

9. A part of the day. (Four-o'clock)

10. The result of Cupid's arrows. (Bleeding heart)

11. The place for a kiss. (Tulips)

12. A yellow stick. (Goldenrod)

13. A product of the dairy and a drinking utensil.
(Buttercup)

14. One of the Four Hundred. (Aster)

15. What Cinderella should have advertised for. (Lady's
slipper)

16. A wild animal and a bit of outdoor wearing apparel.
(Foxglove)

The list of answers is of course kept in hand by the hostess. When the first part of the game has been played and the answers verified, a continuation of the fun is a contest of all as to who can write the best verse containing in any way whatever all the above flowers. Judges must be appointed, and, of course, prizes awarded for the verse contest as well as for the guessing game. This last contest may be omitted, if wished, but it adds fun and calls forth much ingenuity and cleverness. The prizes might be little potted plants, so many of which grace the florists' windows at this time of year; these for the women, and scarf-pins in the shape of flowers for the men.

To select partners for refreshments, give to each lady a flower of a different variety; if it is impossible to secure a sufficient quantity of natural blossoms, paper ones will do quite as well, and these may be made at home. To the gentlemen hand cards bearing quotations referring to some flower, but inserting a blank where the name occurs. Each gentleman may claim his partner when he finds the flower that fits his verse.

The following are a few suggestive quotations:

"A (violet) by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye."

"As the (sunflower) turns on her god when he sets
The same look which she turn'd when he rose."

"Gather ye (rosebuds) while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying."

"And there is (pansies); that's for thoughts."

"Pale fear oppress'd the drooping maid--
And on her cheek the (rose) began to fade."

"And the blue (gentian-flower), that, in the breeze,
Nods lonely, of her beauteous race the last."

For the supper have a salad served in little paper boxes decorated with strips of pink tissue paper cut either in narrow slashes like the chrysanthemum petals, or in broader ones to represent the rose. Ices can be obtained in many flower forms, and if to these be added real stems and leaves, the service will be as dainty and attractive as possible.

FLOWERS ILLUSTRATED

1. Buttercup.

2. Daisy.

3. Sunflower.

4. Trumpet vine.

5. Lily of the valley.

6. Morning-glory.

7. Violet.

8. Dandelion.

9. Lady's-slipper.

10. Bachelor's-button.

11. Aster.

12. Tulip.

13. Goldenrod.

14. Cat-tail.

15. Sweet William.

16. Sweet peas.

17. Ragged sailor.

18. Bleeding heart.

19. Poppy.

20. Black-eyed Susan.

21. Foxglove.

22. Queen's lace handkerchief.

23. Bluebell.

24. Everlasting.

25. Marshmallow.

26. Solomon's-seal.

They are illustrated in this way: 1. A cup of butter. 2. The picture of a book, cut from a magazine, having the title blotted out, and showing only the words, "by Charlotte M. Yonge" (the author of "The Daisy Chain"). 3. A colored illustration of the solar spectrum. 4. A tin trumpet. 5. A picture of a valley. 6. A card upon which is printed "6 A. M." 7. A picture of a book upon which is written, "by Julia Magruder" (author of "The Violet"). 8. The picture of a lion, to which has been added, with pen and ink, a silk hat, collar and cane. 9. A pair of slippers. 10. A variety of buttons, poorly sewed upon a piece of cloth. 11. A card upon which is written, "A well-known hotel and library." 12. Photograph of a part of a face. 13. A slender stick, gilded. 14. A picture of cats. 15. A card with the words "Dear Will." 16. A few peas in a saucer of sugar. 17. A Brownie sailor, torn and dilapidated. 18. A red paper heart. 19. The written words, "Sleep, sweet sleep." 20. A picture of a girl, the eyes having been painted black. 21. A pair of gloves. 22. A dainty handkerchief. 23. A small bell, painted blue. 24. A leather advertisement under which are the words, "Never wear out." 25. A box of marshmallows. 26. A large seal with the letter S.

To the one who succeeds in finding the greatest number of flowers can be given a beautiful basket of roses.

FOURTH OF JULY MUSEUM

The invitations, gay with the national colors, stated that Miss Blank, in order to encourage patriotism in her native town, had made a museum collection of curios connected with noted Americans, and bade a choice selection of her fellow-townsmen to meet and view the rare objects.

The booklets passed around among the guests upon their arrival were attractive enough, a tiny flag being painted in one corner of the cover, which also contained the legend:

The Fourth of July Museum
At Miss Blank's
July the Fourth
Nineteen hundred and blank.

A red, white and blue ribbon held the booklet together, and at the end of this was a small white pencil.

We found it best to pair off the players, for two heads are so much better than one, and it is a great satisfaction to give help to one's neighbor without fear and without reproach. Each of the booklets contained a date or an event in United States history, and the man who drew the booklet containing "1492" became the partner of the girl who held "Discovery of America."

The museum specimens were arranged on tables or mounted on cards, and each one was numbered conspicuously. The following list of twenty-two names was used. It can be lengthened, or the celebrities may be otherwise represented, according to the resources of the hostess. Magazine pictures of the articles may be substituted for the real thing, to simplify preparations. Here is the list, which may be greatly extended:

Paul Revere--a toy horse with rider, labeled "The Horse
Travels Best by Night."

Abraham Lincoln--two small darkies, labeled "All Free."

Washington--a bunch of cherries, labeled "Our National
Fruit."

Carrie Nation--a toy hatchet, labeled "You Think You Know.
Guess Again."

General Grant--a chocolate cigar.

Theodore Roosevelt--a doll's Rough Rider hat.

Richmond Hobson--a confectioner's "kiss."

Barbara Frietchie--the national flag.

Theodore Thomas--a bar of music and a street-car
_conductor's_ cap.

Benjamin Harrison--his grandfather's hat.

Mark Twain--_Two_ pencil-_marks_.

P. T. Barnum--a hippopotamus, labeled "The Greatest Show on
Earth."

Harriet Beecher Stowe--"Uncle Tom's Cabin," represented by a
toy negro cabin.

Priscilla Alden--a picture of a Puritan at a spinning-wheel.

Jefferson Davis--a Confederate dollar bill.

William J. Bryan--a silver dollar (number _sixteen_ in the
collection).

Miss Stone--the _stone_ figure of a woman, labeled
"Kidnapped," or a copy of Stevenson's "Kidnapped."

Joseph Jefferson--a little dog, labeled "My Dog Schneider."

Nathaniel Hawthorne--"The Scarlet Letter," represented by a
medium-size red envelope.

Eli Whitney--a cotton-gin, represented by a branch of
cotton, and a bottle, labeled "Pure Holland Gin."

Robert Fulton--a toy steamboat.

Benjamin Franklin--a kite and a key.

The national colors may be used effectively in the decorations of the rooms or of the table, and the prizes for the winners may be silk flags, photographs of historic places or other souvenirs suggestive of the day.

Appropriate place-cards for a Fourth of July luncheon or dinner may be made by covering small glass bottles about the size of a firecracker with red tissue paper, and filling them with little candies. By cutting the corks even with the bottles and drawing a small piece of twine through for a fuse, a clever imitation of a cracker is made. The names of the guests may be put vertically on the bottles.

GAME OF NATIONS

Provide each guest with a list of questions, with spaces left for the answers. The answers consist of words ending in "N-A-T-I-O-N." Here are the questions and the answers:

1. A popular flower. 1. Carnation.

2. Unruliness. 2. Insubordination.

3. A gift for charitable purposes. 3. Donation.

4. The installation of a king. 4. Coronation.

5. Resolution, or "grit." 5. Determination.

6. The murder of an eminent person. 6. Assassination.

7. Fancy, or mental representations. 7. Imagination.

8. Making anything clear. 8. Explanation.

9. A small surgical operation legally enforced.
9. Vaccination.

10. The giving up of an office. 10. Resignation.

11. A joining or putting together. 11. Combination.

12. The choosing of a candidate. 12. Nomination.

The prizes should then be awarded. A pretty silk banner will be acceptable to a man, while a big bunch of red and white carnations tied with a blue ribbon, or a pound of confectionery in a box decorated with flags and other patriotic emblems will make a pretty gift for a lady.

GEOGRAPHICAL GAME

Seat the players in a ring. Let the first one say aloud the name of a city, mountain, river, lake, etc., located in any part of the world; the next player give a name beginning with the final letter of the previously said name, and the third supply one beginning with the final letter of the second, and so on around the ring. Thus: America, Athens, Santiago, Ohio. Each player is allowed thirty seconds in which to think. If, by the end of that time, he has failed to supply a name, he must drop out of the game. The one who keeps up longest is the champion. Any player, at any time, may be challenged to give the geographical location of the place he has named. If, on demand, he cannot do so he must pay a forfeit.

GEORGE AND MARTHA TEA

The walls should be hung with red, white and blue bunting, relieved at regular intervals with shields and small hatchets made of flowers in the national colors.

Have George and Martha receive the guests, and there may be also a number of men and women attired in colonial costumes to introduce strangers and see that all have a good time.

Behind a bower of foliage an orchestra might play the national airs, and as the object of the evening should be to promote sociability, it would be well to have a number of interesting games in which all can join.

One of these might be a list of the presidents in anagram form, written on a large blackboard; the names in parentheses, of course, are not written out, thus:

1. L m jak pokes (James K. Polk)

2. Yatch lazy roar (Zachary Taylor)

3. Lord film rill a me (Millard Fillmore)

4. Knife lancer rip (Franklin Pierce)

5. Jamb haunce ans (James Buchanan)

6. Berth your she fad (Rutherford B. Hayes)

7. C H hurt a rare set (Chester A. Arthur)

8. Jasmine in horn bar (Benjamin Harrison)

9. Willie m mink clay (William McKinley)

10. O shogging rantwee (George Washington)

11. Jam nod has (John Adams)

12. Oft John fear mess (Thomas Jefferson)

13. Mard jess moan (James Madison)

14. Jo means more (James Monroe)

15. Jay chins Quon dam (John Quincy Adams)

16. Son rack and Jew (Andrew Jackson)

17. A rum Tannin verb (Martin Van Buren)

18. Harsh iron aim will (William H. Harrison)

19. If gales mead jar (James A. Garfield)

20. Carver delve long (Grover Cleveland)

21. Man in cab or hall (Abraham Lincoln)

22. Yes glass turns (Ulysses S. Grant)

23. Holy rent J (John Tyler)

At the end of half an hour present to the most successful guesser a George Washington hat of violet candy, filled with red and white bonbons.

But let the main feature of the evening be a small room fashioned into a portrait-drawing studio, the lads and lassies in charge and everything about the room having an old-time look.

Above the door have printed in the quaint spelling of long ago that all who wish can have a silhouette picture of themselves for only five cents, and doubtless a goodly sum will be realized, as people are always interested, not only in their own, but in their friends' physiognomy, and much fun will follow in exchanging shadow pictures.

Have ready a quantity of large sheets of paper, black on one side and white on the other, also white cardboard; a sheet of paper is to be fastened to the wall, white side out, and a lighted candle placed about three feet from the paper. Then the one having his picture taken is seated between the candle and wall, so that a strongly defined profile falls upon the paper; the shadow is to be traced with a steady hand, cut out, and then pasted on the cardboard, with the black side of the paper out.

An old-fashioned candelabrum, surrounded by a wreath of blue violets and red and white carnations, might grace the centre of the dining-table, and at either end tall silver candlesticks with candles burning under shades of a rosy hue might be placed.

Let the bonbons be held in boxes imitating the cocked hat of the Continental Army; have sandwiches of different kinds and sorts, with tiny silk flags bearing the name of the sandwich. Besides these the eatables might consist of good old-fashioned gingerbread, crullers, doughnuts, and coffee, followed by apples and nuts.

GIRLS' NAMES CONTEST

1. What an army would do if it found a river too deep to
ford. (Bridget)

2. An admirable quality in a young woman. (Grace)

3. The most prominent of Easter flowers. (Lily)

4. The time for violets. (May)

5. A gem. (Pearl)

6. What papa does with the baby. (Carrie)

7. How to write a postscript. (Adaline)

8. The flower of June. (Rose)

9. What a scissors-grinder and a locomotive have in common.
(Belle)

10. A virtue. (Patience)

11. An article. (Ann)

12. First steps in music. (Dora [do-re])

13. Two consecutive letters of the alphabet in transposed
order. (Effie [F-E])

14. The night before. (Eve)

15. A little valley. (Adelle)

The slips are to be collected and the one having the greatest number of correct answers may be rewarded with some inexpensive souvenir.

GOLF LUNCHEON

When our golfing enthusiast desires to entertain her golfing friends, she cannot do better than bid them to a luncheon set to the keynote of their favorite sport.

Naturally, the table decorations will be red and green--deep red roses or scarlet geraniums laid in flat bunches upon the "fair field" of snowy cloth and encircling the dishes, caught together by "links" of smilax. Perhaps, too, pale green candles, beneath ruby-hued shades, might still further carry out the scheme of color.

The table may be arranged with a "putting green" in the centre made of a square of sponge cake frosted with pistachio. A little hole should be cut in the centre. Miniature caddy bags made of red satin and filled with red geraniums and ferns are pretty decorations. A little golf ball for the "putting green" can be made by covering a preserved cherry with white icing. "Bunkers" can be made across the corners of the table by using fine wire netting. At each place a small caddy bag can hold the knives, forks, and spoons of the service, and in the bottom of the bag can be placed a "Jackson ball"--one of those hard, striped red and white, old-fashioned candies.

The bread sticks and cheese straws should be fashioned like golfing sticks, and the ices be in the form of balls, small and white. Lastly, with the coffee and bonbons, are passed souvenir cards on which are daintily painted bags of golfing implements, heads of pretty girls in outing hats, or bits of rural landscape.

GOLF PLAYERS' GUESSING CONTEST

1. A coachman. (Driver)

2. An oriental herb. (Tee)

3. A receptacle for the herb. (Caddie)

4. What an impudent fellow is apt to be. (Brassie)

5. A rustic expression for aimless working. (Putter)

6. A bazaar, and a color. (Fair-green)

7. The point of a pen and a lap of the tongue. (Niblic)

8. To crush and two letters. (Mashie)

9. A chance. (Hazard)

10. A large social function. (Ball)

11. A definite and an indefinite number. (Foursome)

12. Parts of a chain. (Links)

13. A bed and to mistake. (Bunker)

14. Number twenty. (Score)

15. Little pits. (Holes)

The two who, within a given time, answer the most of these fifteen questions should be rewarded with appropriate prizes, as one of the handy little score books to be slipped upon the belt, containing the official score; a picture of the typical golf girl; or some volume on the popular and fascinating game.

GOOD LUCK PARTY

This was given by a clever maiden to a departing girl friend, but the idea could be utilized in various ways.

Each invitation took the form of a cordial note which was written on white note-paper bordered with pen-and-ink sketches of horseshoes, wishbones and four-leaf clovers.

Enclosed with each invitation was a guest card with the name of the person receiving it written in gilt at the top. Below this was a row of horseshoes, also done in gilt. Each guest was requested to write on this card a toast, in rhyme, to the departing friend, and to bring it to the party on the appointed evening.

The decorations of the rooms upon the evening of the party were appropriate to the occasion. Horseshoes gilded or covered with tin-foil hung over the folding doors and window-curtains, and depended from the chandeliers, which were draped with festoons of ribbon ornamented with wishbones and horseshoes of all sizes cut from gilt paper.

A large screen standing in front of the dining-room doors was decorated with artificial clover blossoms. In the dining-room similar decorations prevailed. In the centre of the dining-table, upon a centrepiece embroidered with the emblems of good luck, stood a candelabra bearing green and white candles. Encircling the centrepiece was a large horseshoe of cardboard covered with green paper. Outside the horseshoe outlining it were small glasses resting on green paper clover leaves.

At each corner of the table was placed a plate of delicious sugar cookies baked in the shape of four-leaf clovers; each one was topped with a gilded wish-bone.

The chairs were arranged around the room in the form of a horseshoe.

The main feature of the evening was the hunt for four-leaf clovers. These leaves, which were cut out of green glacé paper, had been hidden by the hostess in every nook and corner of the down-stairs rooms, and much amusement was afforded the young people as they eagerly sought them. At the conclusion of a given time the signal to stop hunting was given and each guest counted the leaves he or she had found. The one having the greatest number was presented with a dainty stick-pin in the shape of a four-leaf clover.

The refreshments consisted only of ginger ale and cookies, and as her guests partook of them the hostess read aloud the toasts which had been handed to her. She presented them at the conclusion of the evening to the guest of honor.

Each guest was next asked to tell "the biggest piece of good luck which ever came to you." The numerous recitals given created no end of fun.

When the party broke up and the good-nights were said each guest carried away as a souvenir of the occasion a bright new penny for a "luck piece."

GYPSY FORTUNE-TELLING

Added to the charm and mystery of having one's fortune told is the great pleasure which may be derived from having it told by a gypsy, even though she may be an amateur.

An hour of amusement may be passed very delightfully in this way, provided the hostess can make the necessary arrangements with some quick-witted, bright young girl, who will be willing to take the part of the gypsy. Several days before the evening's entertainment the hostess should give her friend a list of the expected guests, with a few notes concerning their traits of character, environment, etc., and these suggestions, in addition to the knowledge of the persons which she possesses, and her own inventiveness, will give her an excellent opportunity apparently to look back in the past, and forward to the future--especially if she happen to discover that any engaged couples are to be present. The gypsy should arrive at the house of the hostess a little early on the evening of the entertainment, and be shown to an up-stairs room to don her gypsy attire. She should then descend to the dimly-lighted parlor and seat herself in readiness for the guests when they shall arrive.

As the guests arrive and remove their wraps they should be received and greeted in the library or reception-room, and the hostess should then announce that a gypsy is in the parlor. Having learned in some way that there was to be a large party there, she has begged the privilege of coming in to tell fortunes for the pretty ladies, so that she might earn a few pennies. The guests repair to the dimly-lighted parlor, where the gypsy is seated. As each guest advances and seats himself, the gypsy takes the extended right hand and reads the lines--improvising as she does so in broken English.

HALLOWE'EN BOX CAKE

The newest fashion in Hallowe'en supper-table decoration is a cake made of white pasteboard boxes, in shape like pieces of pie, which fit together and give the appearance of a large cake. Each one of the boxes is covered with a white paper which resembles frosting. At the close of the feast the pieces are distributed, each box containing some little souvenir suitable to Hallowe'en. One box, of course, contains a ring, another a thimble, a third a piece of silver, a fourth a mitten, a fifth a fool's cap, and so on. Much fun is created as the boxes are opened, and the person who secures the ring is heartily congratulated. The unlucky individual who gets the fool's cap must wear it for the evening.

HALLOWE'EN GAMES

Have a card and a candle for each guest, the candles in as many different colors as possible, and one corner of each card turned down and tied with baby ribbon--one color for ladies, and another for gentlemen. On the cards have couplets written foretelling future events, such as:

Who gets the candle colored red
Will have long life, but never wed.

If you choose the candle green
You'll have the prettiest wife e'er seen.

For you the kind fates have a plan
Whereby you sure _will_ get a man.

Let each guest take a card and a candle (if the base of the candle is warmed it will stick to the card), read the couplet aloud, then light the candle, and holding it at arm's length blow it out. If it is blown out upon the first trial the person will be married within a year; if upon the second trial, within two years, etc.

Write rhymes of four or six lines on thin paper, and place in chestnut shells. Tie together with ribbon, the ladies' in one color, the gentlemen's in another. If there are personal hits in the rhymes, tie the name of the person for whom each one is intended on the outside of the shell.

Hide a ring, a thimble and a penny in the room. To the one who finds the ring speedy marriage is assured; the thimble denotes a life of single blessedness; the penny promises wealth.

Have one of the young ladies who knows a little palmistry be the witch of the evening. A short, bright-hued skirt, a gay plaid shawl crossed over her shoulders, a scarf bound about her head, will make a very striking costume, and, with the aid of a little paint and powder, quite an effective disguise. If she is enough acquainted with the guests to give some personal history she can produce some very "telling" fortunes.

After the witch has exhausted her ingenuity as palmist, let her offer to disclose the name of the future bride or groom of each one present, by means of the fairy mirror. The room she uses should be dimly lighted. She writes the name on a mirror with French chalk, rubs it off lightly with a silk handkerchief, and calls in the person for whom the name is written.

Prepare a basket of rosy cheeked apples, each with the initials of a name pricked in the skin, which names must be used in counting the apple seeds.

After the supper table has been cleared of all except the decorations and candles, have a large dish filled with burning alcohol and salt brought in and placed in the centre. Seated around this ghostly fire, all other lights except the candles having been extinguished, let the guests tell stirring stories rigmarole fashion; that is, some one starting the story and stopping short at its most exciting point and letting his neighbor continue it, etc., each one trying to make it as interesting as possible.

HALLOWE'EN PARTY

All formality must be dispensed with on Hallowe'en. Not only will quaint customs and mystic tricks be in order, but the decorations and refreshments, and even the place of meeting, must be as strange and mystifying as possible.

For the country or suburban home a roomy barn is decidedly the best accommodation that can be provided. If this is not practicable, a large attic, running the entire length of the house, is the next choice; but if this also is denied the ambitious hostess, let the kitchen be the place of meeting and of mystery, with the dining-room, cleared of its usual furniture and decorated suitably for the occasion, reserved for the refreshments.

The light should be supplied only by Jack-o'-lanterns hung here and there about the kitchen, with candles in the dining-room.

The decorations need not be expensive to be charming, no matter how large the room. Large vases of ferns and chrysanthemums and umbrella stands of fluffy grasses will be desirable; but if these cannot be readily obtained, quantities of gayly tinted autumn leaves will be quite as appropriate. Festoons of nuts, bunches of wheat or oats, and strings of cranberries may also help to brighten the wall decorations, and the nuts and cranberries will be useful in many odd arrangements for ornamenting the refreshment table.

Have the table long enough (even if it must be extended with boards the whole length of the barn or attic) to accommodate all the guests at once. Arrange huge platters of gingerbread at each corner, with dishes of plain candies and nuts here and there, and pyramids of fruit that will be quickly demolished when the guests are grouped about the table. No formal waiting will be desirable.

HALLOWE'EN SUGGESTIONS

Have mirrors everywhere: big mirrors, medium-sized mirrors, and little, wee mirrors, all reflecting and multiplying countless candles that burn in candlesticks of every description (most novel are those made from long-necked gourds and tiny squashes).

Across the top and down the sides of each doorway hang festoons of yellow and white corn and turn the husks back to show the firm, glistening kernels. Each window can be garlanded in like manner as well as the tops of mantels and picture frames. Clusters of red ears may depend from the chandeliers. Here and there, in the most unexpected corners, can be placed Jack-o'-lanterns, smiling or gnashing their teeth, amid great shocks of corn. The great hall and stairway can be draped with fish-nets through the meshes of which are thrust many ears of corn. A stately Jack must point the guests up the stairs where two other individuals will usher them to the dressing-rooms.

Drape one doorway with a portière of apples--apples strung on strings of varying lengths. As the guests pass through, the tallest stoop for those suspended on the longest strings and the shortest reach for those on the short strings. Those who succeed in throwing three tiny apples through the horseshoe, which is hung in the midst of these apples, are assured of phenomenal luck for the ensuing year.

In another doorway hang a big pear-shaped pumpkin, on whose shining surface all the letters of the alphabet have been burned with a hot poker. Keep this rapidly twirling while the guests, in turn, try to stab some letter with long meat-skewers. The letter that is hit will establish beyond question the initial letter of one's fate.

Place in a tub of water red, yellow and green apples. Provide each guest with a toy bow and arrow. The young man or maiden who succeeds in firing an arrow into a red apple will be assured of good health; plenty of money is in store for those shooting arrows into yellow ones; and good luck is in store for those hitting the green ones.

Blindfold each girl present and, presenting her with a wand, lead her to a table on which have been placed flags of the different men's colleges. The flag her wand happens to touch will indicate the college of her future husband.

Browning nuts, popping corn, roasting apples, and toasting marshmallows will add a great deal to the pleasure of the evening.

The dining-table should be draped in pale green crepe paper, the lights above being shrouded in gorgeous orange. Pumpkins of various sizes should be scooped and scraped to a hollow shell and, lined with waxed paper and filled with good things to eat, should be placed in the centre of the table. Lighted candles and quaint oriental lanterns will add greatly to the decorations.

The menu should include bannocks, scones, and other Scotch dainties. If desired, droning bagpipes might accompany the feast.

After listening to ghostly tales related by white-draped figures, the guests may receive all sorts of amusing souvenirs from a large pumpkin placed on a table at the door.

HANDKERCHIEF BAZAAR

Of all our friends, both far and near,
We beg the kind attention;
So please to lend us now your ear,
While we a subject mention.

To carry on our C. E. work,
In the country and the city,
We need more money very bad,
And hope you'll help us with it.

The committee intend to hold
On a day not distant far
A sale for both the young and old,--
A handkerchief bazaar.

So this, then, is our plea in brief:
To aid our enterprise
We beg of you a handkerchief,
Of any kind or size.

_Please send by mail before April 5th to_

The above invitation, which should be printed on a neat card, explains itself. The details of the bazaar may be arranged as desired.

HATCHET PARTY

If the Hatchet Party is given at home appropriate invitations can be issued in the form of a hatchet, bearing the words in quaint letters:

"_Ye Young Women's Christian Temperance Union extends ye
invitation to meete ye Hatchet Familie of ye anciente tyme at
ye home of Miss May Caspel, 236 Bell Avenue, on Wednesday
evening, ye 22d of Februarie of ye year of our Lorde 1905, at
eight of ye clock._"

The decorations should conform to the spirit of the evening. A large hatchet covered with white curled tissue paper may be hung in the hall. Plaques of little red, white and blue hatchets may take the place of flowers, and in the hall or reception room there should be a little table of "Souvenirs." These should be little bronze hatchets with the letters Y. W. C. T. U. on one side. Their handles should be tied with narrow ribbon--red, white and blue--and each guest should be allowed to select his color. Thus everybody has the opportunity offered to him of becoming a member by selecting the white ribbon, and in this way everybody is compelled to "show his colors."

If simple refreshments are served, let the Japanese napkins have a big hatchet gilded on them, and let there be some plates of hatchet cookies, formed by the cutter that any tinsmith will make from a pattern.

Have old-fashioned candy--peppermint, wintergreen, sassafras and molasses--instead of bonbons. Play the old games--hunt the slipper, blind man's buff, hide and seek.

Names for the members of the Hatchet Family who are to receive the guests:

Johanna Adams Hatchet,

Tomazine Jefferson Hatchet,

Jamesina Madison Hatchet,

Jemima Monroe Hatchet,

J. Quinciana Adams Hatchet,

Andrewsia Jackson Hatchet,

Wilhemina Henrietta Harrison Hatchet,

Johnesetta Tyler Hatchet,

Marty Van Buren Hatchet,

Jinny Keturah Polk Hatchet,

Zacherina Taylor Hatchet,

Millarella Fillmore Hatchet.

Ask the girls who impersonate these characters to come in Martha Washington dress, a flowered chintz or silk overdress, opening in front to show a silk or sateen skirt of a plain color, which may be quilted if desired. The waist is made to open over a white neckerchief and has elbow sleeves. A little round mob cap of muslin or lace, with a frill, a band of ribbon around it, and a coquettish bow complete the costume.

ICE FESTIVAL

To step from midsummer into winter was a surprise, when the admission ticket was dropped in the box at the door on the night of the festival and its erstwhile owner passed into the hall. Small tables stood by pine and cedar trees that were covered with alum icicles and sifted over with diamond dust. Here groups of friends ate their cream and cake together, served by snow spirits in white tarletan gowns that sparkled with diamond dust, or ice fays whose white costumes glittered with glass beads. On the stage, white canton flannel and diamond dust, heavy gray wrapping paper folded into rocks, trees and a rustic bridge made a realistic representation of a snowclad landscape. The pleasing program consisted of dainty dances by children dressed as snowflakes, a pretty ball game played with snowballs, recitations and songs appropriate to the winter season. Another novelty was a tree covered with raw cotton snowballs, with numbers attached. These were sold for twenty-five cents--each purchaser choosing a number--and contained the small fancy articles usually sold at fairs--pincushions, needle-books, cups and saucers, etc. The windows were all screened and electric fans hidden by evergreens kept the hall from getting overheated. In one corner was a large pond, made of a shallow wooden tank surrounded by more gray paper rocks and white cotton snow, in which real cakes of ice were floating, and from which any one was at liberty to dip as much ice water as he cared to drink. This festival was a great success.

INAUGURATION DAY LUNCH

The guests at this luncheon are to represent the Vice-President and the eight members of the Cabinet, but if the hostess wishes to entertain a larger number, she can introduce one or two of the foreign Ambassadors. Give to each guest, as she arrives, a card bearing the title of one of the Cabinet, as the Secretary of State, the Attorney-General, and, if necessary, the English Ambassador. While waiting for luncheon, each one must guess the name of the man she represents, in order to know her place at the table, where only the proper names, not the titles, will be used. It will be surprising to discover how few of the members of the Cabinet are known by name to the majority of persons.

Pink carnations will be appropriate for all decorations. Have a large bowl of these in the centre of the table, and at each corner lay on the cloth as a doily a spread eagle cut from gilt paper, the pattern for which can be taken from a revenue flag or a ten dollar gold piece. Make the distance from tip to tip of the wings about twelve inches, and from the head to the tail seven inches. Place upon the eagles dishes of olives, nuts, and pink candies.

From the chandelier to the corners of the table have sound money festoons, which are made by cutting out of gilt paper a number of disks the size of a twenty-five cent piece. Paste these together in pairs, first laying between them a long thread which connects them through the middle and forms a chain.

For favors have cards of water-color paper painted around the edges with a festoon of pink ribbon, in which, at intervals, are knotted scrolls and documentary envelopes upon which are printed some of the principles of the Republican party, such as "The Monroe doctrine reaffirmed," "Reduction of war taxes," "Allegiance to the gold standard," etc. At the top of each card write the name of the person whom each guest is to represent.

In the centre of the card will be the menu, which is as follows:

Post Office Soup
The Army
The Navy Small Shot
Agricultural Salad
Cabinet Pudding
Ices Philippine Cakes
Coffee

A clear soup, with noodles for letters, fills the requirements of the Post Office. The second course is creamed sweetbreads served in small paper boxes, which stand upon large pilot crackers, or, in army language, "hard tack." A sheet of paper folded double, like an army tent, rests upon the crackers, covering the box; wooden toothpicks stuck through the sides of the tent into the paper box will prevent the former from slipping out of place, and can easily be removed after serving. On the outside of the tents paint in large, clear letters U. S. A. The crackers are to be eaten with the sweetbreads.

The navy is represented by having the chicken croquettes formed in the shape of a ship, flat, and having one end pointed, the other somewhat rounding. From a druggist get two or three straws, such as are used for soda water, cut them into short lengths, and just before serving, stand two or three in each croquette to represent smokestacks. If these straws cannot be obtained, toothpick masts with paper sails will be quite as effective. The croquettes should be served with green peas--small shot--and scalloped potatoes.

Agricultural or vegetable salad, served in beets, makes a most attractive looking dish. Beets of medium and uniform size are first boiled until tender, then peeled and placed on the ice. When cold cut off a slice at the bottom, so they will stand firm, scoop out the insides, leaving only thin walls. For the filling use peas and apples, celery and beets, cut into small pieces, and mixed well with mayonnaise; fill the beets, serving them on lettuce leaves. The cabinet pudding is that which is to be found in any cook book, baked in individual forms, and served with foamy sauce.

The ices are in the form of horseshoes for good luck, and with them are the Philippine cakes. These are small cakes having in the centre of each a tiny black china doll, two of which can be purchased for a cent at any toy shop. These are put in after the cake is baked and before icing, leaving them just far enough out to show the arms.

The "coffee which makes the politician wise," may be served at the table or after returning to the parlor.

INDEPENDENCE DAY NECESSITIES

1. A powerful submarine weapon of offense.

2. A destroying element, and an accompaniment to an
oyster-stew.

3. An ancient civilization, and a feeble means of light.

4. A woman's toilet necessity, and part of a wagon.

5. A color, and the means of warmth.

6. The chief implement of warfare.

7. A two-wheeled vehicle, and the peak of a house.

8. Where Nature's wealth is stored.

9. A kind of stone used in paving.

10. Bardolph's companion in King Henry IV.

11. One kind of headgear.

12. What a wise mother does not do to her baby.

13. A carnation with u instead of i.

14. A musical organization, and a long lapse of time.

15. An Irishman's name, a disorderly uprising, and an
intellectual fad.

The answers are held by the hostess, of course, and are only divulged after all the guesses are in. They are as follows:

ANSWERS

1. Torpedoes.

2. Fire-crackers.

3. Roman candles.

4. Pinwheels.

5. Red fire.

6. Guns.

7. Cart-ridge.

8. Mines.

9. Flag.

10. Pistol.

11. Caps.

12. Rock it (Rocket).

13. Pink P(u)nk.

14. Band-ages.

15. Pat-riot-ism.

INDEPENDENCE DAY MENU

Soup a la Americaine (Potato)
Colonial Pot Roast
Baked Tomatoes Stewed Corn
Butter Beans
Columbia Salad, with Star-shaped Wafers
Virginia Corn Bread
Independence Pudding, Hard Sauce
Washington Pie Election Cake
Nuts Fruit
Coffee

INDIAN DINNER PARTY

Invitations may be printed or written on birch bark or paper imitations of same, or on paper cut into the shape of tomahawks, tepees, etc., and may be hand-painted if desired. Decorations should be Indian blankets (as portières, couch covers, and mantel draperies), Indian rugs, baskets, tomahawks, bows and arrows, war clubs, chromos, colored photographs, clay or papier-mâché Indian heads, plaques and busts, etc., any of which would make suitable favors. A miniature wigwam made of blankets in an out-of-the-way corner, adds effectiveness. Footman and maids may be dressed in Indian costumes made of burlap with bright colored trimmings and fringes; or the guests may be invited _en costume_.

For table decoration a skin should be placed over table cloth through the centre of the table and upon it an Indian basket filled with any red or yellow common flowers, such as marigolds or nasturtiums (red and yellow), or better still with wild flowers, red or yellow.

The menu cards and name cards, of stiff ecru paper, have Indian decorations in brilliant red, green and orange; the candles are also striped in the same vivid colors and the candle holders are made of corn husks. The canoe, designed for the entree, which is the chicken, is made of heavy brown paper.

MENU FOR INDIAN DINNER

Squaw Soup
(Bouillon)
Wigwam Croquettes
(Fish)
Chicken a la Canoe
Saddle of Mutton
Choctaw Peas Apache Gravy
Arrowhead Potatoes
Calumet Squabs
Pappoose Rolls Wickiup Salad
(Romain)
Prune Sioux
(Feather Cream)
Hiawatha Cakes Indian Punch
Grasshopper Cheese Tomahawk Coffee

INDOOR LAWN PARTY

Our social committee, of which I was then chairman, wanted very much to have a lawn party; but the season for such things was quite over, as the evenings were too cool. However, a bright idea occurred to one of our number, and we decided to have an indoor lawn party.

The Saturday afternoon before it was to take place, four of the committee took a team, went out into the woods, and secured a lot of pine boughs, autumn leaves, etc., and Monday evening, which was the evening before it occurred, we increased our force of workers, and went to the vestry to turn it, as far as possible, into an outdoor scene. We trimmed the chandeliers, posts, and every available spot with boughs, strung Japanese lanterns all across the room, made a beautiful bower in one corner for the orchestra, for which we had three pieces, a piano, a violin, and a cornet. In the opposite corner of the room we had a canvas tent where fortunes were told at five cents each (by palmistry) by one of our young lady gypsies. Hammocks were swung from the large stone posts, and a standing double swing was placed on one side of the room, where the younger people enjoyed themselves hugely.