The Dickinson press., 1889-01-19
WOMAN AND HOME.
HOW FANNY BENSON WOULD CON-
DUCT A LAWN PARTY.

American Girls in Notwithstanding Girl
wivcs-Storics About Famous Women.
Useful Hints for the Housewife-How to
Make Pretty Things.
Arches and rustic effects with boughs
should be put wherever there is a suitable
position. These should be hung with lam
terms of Chinese and Japanese designs, and
also with fairy lights. The softest part of
the turf should be selected for dancing. AL.
though a wooden floor is more acceptable to
dancers, these are not in good form on private
grounds. AT the fete c%hampetre, the stroll
and promenade, listening to music and ad-
miring lovely scenes are the chief amuse-
ments, and dancing is only n minor feature.
A german is generally danced after the col
lation, when the floral favors are presented.
These can be made with slight expense, will
low and rush baskets filled with flowers,
Swiss muslin aprons trimmed with ribbons
and flowers, Swiss caps, canes, fairy wands
and shepherds crooks. The variety of quaint
faveTs is inumerable.
A movable screen to place before musicians
may be a work of art in grecnery, if it is so
desired. Procure foliage of MI shades and
teNt1res. Tn foundation of the screen must
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ton with stout, dark foliage, such as ivy
leaves or evergreens. Then festoon with
clusters of ferns aud form rcliefs of begonia
leaves. and fronds Of adiantrums. The be-
gonia rex is highly ornamental for this prr-
pose. Aspray Of flowers may be applied to
each panel of the screen if it is desired that
it be more conspicuous.
The collation. Of the lawn party may be
served on small tables, which is probably the
most convenient way unless there is plenty
of room; or n large board is set in some po-
sition in the rear of the house. Rough tri-
pods garlanded with %lalrels, or pretty greens
of any kind, are used if the former way is
preferred. Ii a large table is spread, have n
rough one made in the form of u clover leaf,
and bed it with sods of clover i'll q wide band
around the edge. Make n mount of fine moss
i'll the center, and surmount this with n cor.
nucopia which is formed of pasteboard COW
cred with foliage this can be sewed ON. In
the %cornucopia u wide mouthed glass jar, or
bottle. of water may be put To hold the flower
aad foliage stems. Let the horn be filled pro
fusely, unu the flowers and vines appear to
b, tumbliLg out! Wooden dishes and puper
napkins are III order for out Of door meals.
Elegant rustirlty is the aim in all the appoint
ments of n garden party.
Asa rule the garden party is held from s
O'clock III the afternoon until midnight, and
the collation. is spread from 5 until l0o'clock.
After dark, fairy lamps add greatly to the
beauty OF the table, and ~lantcras to the
garden. On large grounds, an Indian tent
formed of wire and vines is put up, where
lemonade and ice water is served contantly
by an attendant. This tent is made with
cross poles, gurlanded, and with wires filnlcd
in the ground by pegs. The wires arc
matched with boughs. Inside a bank or
green bench is made, and sometimes Il moss
covered bucket is the receptacle for the
lemonade or ice water. Fanny ~. Benson in
Woman.