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My Dear Kate:
| have lust returned from visit in
the country, where midsummer festival
was held by the children, and as | par
ticipated in the fun. I suddenly thought
that you could use the same idea in
fall festival at the church.
The pavilion was decorated with fruit,
flowers and vegetables. and beautiful
decorations they made. Most prominent
OF all was the American flag. made of
cars of corn. red and white. and the OLD
fashioned blue bachelor buttons. over
the platform were festoons of corn and
husks. and beneath them were horns of
plenty, filed with plums and currants on
the stem. The children guessed how many
plums were in the receptacies, and the
one guessing the nearest right had the
honor of lending the procession. which
marched around the pavilion singing the
| Star Spangled Banner"
Next came tho games and then the
lunch. the chief feature of the afternoon.
Across and around the place were drawn
strands of different coored worstede.
Each child had an end put into his hand
and then followed 1t out until he came to
the place at the table to which the strand
/ led. When all were seated the serving
began. The young mon and women from
the summer school were asked to serve,
and they came in dressed in odd and sug-
gestive costumes, representing characters
from Mother Goose. The children were. OF
course. delighted and anxious to sec them
closer, and the procession marched around
the table and back into the serving room
from which they again issued, bearing all
manner of good things to cat.
Everything was most simple and whole
some. Snowballs, made of popcorn. and
dolls. made of Co"ncobs. with molasses
candy heads. were the principal oddities
while whipped cream and Celatine formed
served In odd shapes such as ROSTERS or
n sugar mound, Holsters. fishes and other
familiar objects to Juvenile eyes. This
mode of entertainment gave me a very
enjoyable afternoon as we'll as the chill
dren. and / was not the only one who
begged recipes for the good things. Among
the best was tho following:
Half a box Of gelatine soaked in half
pint of cold water for ten minutes. Ther
add a pint of hot water sweeten an,
flavor to taste. Pour n little in moul,
which has been dipped in cold water
When sufficiently hard, place slices o
bananas on II, and pour over enough o
the gelatine to cover. Then put In fnel.
cut oranges and when this is hard, adj
more gclatine and so on, alternating tn
oranges with oandied cherries I'll, the moul
is full When done set away for tw
hours and then turn out and serve wit
whipped cream.
On leaving the pavilion each child wa
presented with a tiny horn about three o
four inches long made of paper. and file
with fruit. which was wrapped in a ga
paper napkin and tied with n piece O
baby ribbon. TO the ribbon was attache
card with quotation from one Of tn
Mother Goose verses written upon 1t. Tr
this plan some afternoon for the chldre
and sec If they are not pleased. You wi
then have amused them and helped to pas
away a dull day. particularly "A rainy one,
Write me again soon. and believe me.
| Yours for health.
COMFORT JONES,
Doctor of Cookery.