Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-29

ish in G. was pumpkin social, and
the young ladies of st. PauPs had repu-
tation of doing about the best in all their
work. The social was given in the Sun
day-school room of the church edifce, the
seats having been cleared away to make
room for the free circulation of those pres
ent. The affair was advertised as pump
kin social, and the following verse was
run in the paper as many times as it was
thought necessary:
Pumpkins large and pumpkins small,
Pumpkins short and pumpkins tall,
Pumpkins yellow and pumpkins green,
Pumpkins as dainty as ever were SEEN,
Pumpkins baked and pumpkins stewed,
Pumpkins in all shapes for food,
Pumpkins TO look at and pumpkins to eat,
Pumpkins spicy and pumpkins sweet,
Pumpkins in pie as yellow as gold,
Pumpkins cooked both hot and cold
Pumpkins for every use under the sun,
Pumpkins in some shape for every one.
This was followed by the announce
ment of the place and date of the social,
and succeeded in filling the room full to
overlooking with people curious to know
in how many shapes pumpkins could be
put up for sale.
Very little decoration was INDUCED in
beyond a few crook-necked gourds tackled
on the wall to form the word "Weleome,'
and row of jack lanterns along the
front Of the church. This latter idea
brought good many in who were simply
passing and was a source of great jov 10
the younger ones. A lantern was also
placed on each of the small tables in the
supper room.
The cook-books were ransaeked for
recipes from which were concocted all
manner of savory dishes containing
pumpkin and squash. They are very
numerous, and every cookbook gives a
great many of them. In the line Of arti-
cles for sale the ingenuity of the young
ladies was best shown. There were pin
cushions made of yellow and green plush
and very like pumpkins in shape and
color if not in size; gourds of all shapes
and sizes were made to serve as match
boxes, toothpick holders. brush stands
perfumery cases, ink-stards, candle sticks,
and even collar and cuff boxes. OF their
variety there was no end; the whole
country seemed to have been secured to
procure the oldest and most unique speci-
mems of the gourd family. They were
decorated, gilded, swathed in ribbons
fastened to standards, stuffed, clothed in
plush and silk, swung up by silken cords
and utilized in every possible manner
Some of the crook-necks were given fea.
lures and fantastic garments and masquer-
raded as dolls in whose heads, after one
had removed their hats, were found
matches or pins. One little squat gourd
was dressed to represent Chinaman and
by pulling his queue one disclosed re-
ceptacle filled with bon bons. Some o.
the long-necked gourds were sold foi
clothes sprinklers, and they were made
useful by piercing the bulb with many
small holes and cutting off the small enc
enough to permit of putting on a stout
wrapping of coarse thread to give resist
ance to the stopper, which was used tC
close it after the water was poured in.
A number of tableaux were given, and
during the evening huge paper pumpkin
was trundled into the room and Cinderella
stepped from it and delivered an address
in praise of the great Yankee product
Those who attended this social were more
than pleased with the entertainment, ant
the articles made from gourds were al
sold before anyone had been served. 1t i.
a novel idea, and is worth trying.-Enter
f1jn10enf for N0re1nber