The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-13
LAWN PARTIES FOR MONEY.
MRS. BRICE CREDITED WITH
BRINGING THE IDEA HERE.

II
PoHrs Tea, and Another One Pre-
sides over the Golf sticks
New York, Sept l2-Instead of the fair
and the sale for charitable purposes there
! is going to be the lawn party for money.
This can be held as late as Christmas in
| the coolest portions of the country, and
outdoors all winter in more salubrious
Chimes such as Lakewood, Hot Springs,
the winter resorts and the soft southern
places.
The lawn party for money is an entirely
new institution It halls from London
town, where the Princess of Wales gave
one this summer. At the Wales lawn
party the titled men and ladies attended
! in great numbers, purchased freely and
came away walking humbly down the
street as though they were ordinary buy
ers at the common shops, with the car
riage waiting further cn-
The lawn party for money means pre-
cisely the same thing as the lawn party
where the hostess, in picture hat" re
ceives guests and hands them oyer to q
tea pourer and chocolate server. The only
hiAACiNlANC 10 lildl LiiAS law II party NOSAS
you something, and the money is sent to
your pet charity
Cards of admission TO the lawn party are
| sent out long in advance. If you desire
them, keep your cards and send a check
paying for them If you do not want to
purchase the cards you return them to
the hostess. A dear little wicker gate is
placed at the entrance to the lawn, and at
this gate you deposit your cards of adnis-
sion. The gatekeeper is one of the hand
soonest women of the city, and as she takes
your card, she places it in a little flower
trimmed box and thanks you with a sweet
smile that rewards you, at this early hour,
for the money you have spent. After that
all is free gratis, in your estimation, If
you are a man.
At Paris lawn party the Countess de
Castellane acted as gatekeeper, and de-
posted the little tickets carefully in a
box made of autumn leaves from their
early turning trees And at the Wales
lawn party Princess Maude was gatekeep-
err.
Inside the gate" stands the hostess
with a number of receiving ladies. You
approach and pay your respects. She
introduces You along the line and you are
free to enjoy the lawn and its hospitali-
ties
On luE TlBHl a DOOtI dllIdClS SOuI at
tention. 1t is a screen shape with high
sides and open top Inside, as you turn
the corner, to peep within, you see a
man kneehng and a pretty woman tell
| ing his fortune. 1t is the fortune teller
| booth and you pay half a dollar to have
your fortune told. You can have it by
| cards or by your palm. And who does not
choose the palm? Behind a wing in the
screen sits a little scribbler, who is a
| stenographer in disguise She is dressed
in white and writes with wand. She
| listens to the fortune and takes it careful
ly down. If you will pay half a dollar
more, she will send it to you next day,
| typewriter upon yellow satin paper. Gen
| orally you tell her to send it next day.
The tea booth IS very interesting. 1t is
| a Japanese island The island is little
| fowery spot way off In a grove of palms
| and rubber plants. Here there is a tent
and a tea-pourer, several of them. To get
to the tea booth you must pass little
| lodge-keeper who will want Is cents, but
once there you may linger and drink as
many cups as you want, provided you do
not pass the lodge. Once out and you
must go on TO something else.
There are seats at the little lawn party
that are absolutely free, but If you want
TO sit in a Powered chair you must pay a
dime. These chairs are very large and
| easy and covered with flowers of the
/
/ tically made of them, and when the lady
| departs she may take a corsage from the
| chair and the gentleman a boutonniere.
| Thus the chair loses it's back and arms
through the dime pillage
1t is claimed that Mrs. Calvin s. Brice,
who is the queen of hostesses, brought
| this practical lawn party to this country
and that Miss Kate Brice made the ideal
| fortune teller at a lawn party on the Wal
dorf Aston place abroad. But the honor OF
| introducing anything new at country
! house is so great that there are other
! people to dispute this with Mrs. Brice
There is a small cafe in full action at
! the lawn party. At this is served small
/ hot things, oysters birds and trifes that
/ house without putting the cook to great
| inconvenience. An arch leads to the cafe
/ Once within, and you can have all things
| for the ordering, but to enter you must
pay dollar. Ice cream and cold drinks
are managed in the same way. And there
are the necessary accompaniments of ev-
cry sale, the chance bag into which you
| plunge and take out something.
/ The beauty of the lawn party is much
enhanced by the goling and croquet the
4 tennis and the bicycling that can be in
/ troduced. At the Gould place at Sea-
/ bright there can be all these games, and
yachting added. Tickets are sold and "A
/ hi0AAS htNi0 bodtWOAlldH secs you OH III
/ your boat. II IL is golf you want to cn-
! JOY, she supplies you a caddy from
among the little brothers, and you buy
your golf sticks at so much stick.
As any one may see, the golf lawn
party for money is the same as a church
fair, or any Lenten sale, but a great deal
/ pleasauter. You don't have to buy a
great lot of things you do not want and
would not carry home. You get your
4 moneys worth in pleasure.
The charities OF the winter are being
| greatly helped along by this kind of lawn
/ party. Great sums are made and people
! pay very willingly. Beer on draught was
disposed of one humid day to the lawn
! party frequenters. But no charge was
\ made for it. 1t pleased everybody all the
more, and did not offend the license laws.
/ The good humor into which II threw the
masculine portion of the party made II
| the most paying key OF beer ever pur-
! chased.
At one of the lawn parties to be held
Just before Thanksgiving, in Brooklyn.
when everybody is in town, there will be
sale OF winter hats. The party will be
given upon the lawn OF a house a little
1 on the outskirts of the city. Under a
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