St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-06
IDEAS FOR ANNIVERSARIES.
Points for Birthdays and We'd
ding Anniversaries.

Every woman with a single grain of senti-
upon her to celebrate as the years roll by the
various wedding anniversaries that are
vouchsafed to her. Beginning with the fifth
or wooden one, she sends out her invitations
on bits of birch bark, which fabric of nature
permits of written messages on its surface
and is entirely in keeping with the nature of
the celebration. When the guests are asked,
she looks about her in order to devise some
unique and pleasant novelty in the way of
entertainment and decoration. If the house
is large enough to admit of it's being turned
upside down, she resolves to remove from
one large apartment the carpet and uphol-
stored furniture, leaving only the wooden floor
and chairs in keeping with the prevailing
idea. bare room with a few wooden chairs
set about is not very artistic or even en-
couraging to the most hopeful hostess, but
with great deal of patience and a modicum
of taste much can be done even with so small
foundation. On the mantel, if mantel there
is, should be placed great wooden chopping-
bowls filed with plants that grow in the
woods. The hub of a wheel suspended from
the ceiling makes unique bit OF decoration if
in the holiows left by the spokes are placed
hollow bits Of bamboo lined with zinc far
enough to hold in safety candles that can be
used instead Of the more conventional gas
light. Shavings, those curling delights of
childhood days, make wonderfully pretty
festoons and can be obtained for the asking,
When it comes to the matter of serving the
refreshments, no cloth should be used on the
table, leaving the polished wooden top quite
bare Every plate and dish should be of
wood, and even the knives and forks can be
furnished in this material. The ices should
be served in little wooden tubs, the salad in
wooden wheelbarrow. As souvenir of the
occasion there could be at each plate tiny
wooden spoon tied with ribbon on which
the date of the affair was painted in gold.
One aspiring hostess had her flour sprinkled
with sawdust; but this, though strikingly
original, is too suggestive of the butcher shop
to prove popular.
The next anniversary in order is the tenth
or tin wedding. For this substitute tin bowls
and plates, and in the decorating hire those
tin roses and bits of ornamentation that are
always to be found as samples in the modern
hardware store. To be quite correct the
repast should be Of that sort that is served
in tins; but this does not follow of necessity.
This wedding is hard one at which to Sc
cure more than passing originality, for the
value Of the metal that gives it its name is
such that decorative purposes were the very
last for which it was intended. As souvenirs,
however, tiny tin coal scuttles filed with
bonbons are pretty. The essence of beauty
is to be found in the fifteenth or crystal we'd
ding. The woman who cannot make this func-
ton one of joy and beauty has no artistic
sentiment in her soul. Beginning with the
invitations, which should be lettered in silver
on squares of isinglass her fancy can run
riot, and she will be met at every turn with
suggestive ideas that she has but to follow
out. At crystal wedding mirrors are the
key note Of all decorations. Glass bead Dor
there's, crystal chandeliers, cut glass bowls,
tables of glass. and even entire costumes of
this fairy-like property are in keeping. The
table should, if possible, be covered with
glass. If this idea is too expensive lay in
the center u large mirror, surrounding its
edges with artificial roses that have been
covered with diamond dust and glass drops