The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
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A few weeks ago a friend invited Six
teen young people to a Butterfly Tea,
says the sWoman's Home Companion
She had for decorations yellow roses and
smilax. festoons of the green's We're loop
ed along the tops OF the curtains and
fastened to the walls. and over the pic
lures were large yellow butterflies. made
by painting a common clothespin black
for the body, and then slipping through
the centre a double sheet of yellow tissue
paper, the corners drawn out to resemble
wings. The cloth which covered the
table was of the purest linen, and as a
centre piece was a wicker basket, the
handle tied with green satin ribbon and
filed with yellow roses. Some of the
roses were carelessly laid on the table
as if they had fallen from the basket,
given a charming effect. At each corr
ner Of the tables were smaller wicker
baskets filed with the same flowers and
lowering over the blossoms were yellow
and white butterflies made of crape-paper
and tinted with water colored paints:
they were attached to fine wire, which
made them tremble and sway in a very
lifeli,re IN
The candles burned under yellow
shades and the bonbon dishes were filed
with yellow and white candies. The sand
witches were rolled and tied with yellow
ribbon, and even the ice cream was sug-
gestive of the occasion. each one le-
ceiving on a yellow plate a butterfly al
most perfect in form and color.
Two young sisters of Daisy's served
as mattresses and were dressed to re-
present butterflies. They were in white,
their dress dotted with ~spangles and had
wings deity fashioned of wire, covered
with paper and then painted to represent
the tintings of the butterfly wings.
The name cards were very dainty, be-
ing adorned with Manipulated roses and
the name in gilt: on the other side of the
cards were the following letters, also in
gilt. "B-u-t-t-e-r-f-l-y-" The guests were
requested to give the name of nine we'll
known works of fiction, each of them to
begin with one of the letters painted.
Two prizes were ordered. a first and a
second.
Ono young woman having written
"Black Dwarf .Uncommercial Travel
err ..The Magic Skim" saToilers of the
Sea-, Eugene Aram,'' "Romola.' For
tunes Fool Little Minister 'Young
Mrs. Jardine." received a butterfly shade
made CT Grape paper. The other prize
was a bunch of yellow roses tied with
a yellow satin ribbon.
Just before refreshments We're over,
four little tots representing butterflies
danced INTO the room, and sang several
merry motion songs. Then the gssis
gathered in the parlors and played a
new form of the old-time donkey game.
On the wall was pinned an enormous
butterfly minus one wing, and a cores
poniing wing handed to every one of
the girls: they were then told that the
point of the game was to see which one
after being blifnafolded. could pine it
nearest the butterfly; the jolly crowd in
turn tried their luck, and the one who
was nearest right, which was really
ten inches wrong. received a butterfly
pen-wiper, and the maiden who. after
having her eyes covered. lost all idea
of direction, and pinned the wing on the
opposite side of the room, was given
a toy compass
Don't be a~stounded if. when refreshing
cups are being poured. your hostess offess
a whitish, circular. infiexible edible I'M
stead of thu easily chewed dainty you ex-
reetcd with your Oolong, says the Phila-
dels1ia Press.
1t is only h~ardfack-army bareback. Tea
tables are row serving this.
Biscuits, sweet and salt, gingerbread,
50 - -1--o al
of them. to the military morsel with the
the fun Of them.
OF course, originally, it was the idea of
q girl whose heart is far away with one
of the boys in blue. Her friends seized
the notion with avidity, and now there is
from four till six.
II possible the regulation Government
bareback is used: but VIXEN BONA fide
41nsweetened water crackers are filed into
the jar. They do very eieverly, ana cost
only about eight cents the pound.
The hygienie qualities of the rev fash
ion are at onece apparent. Ore man wio
has lately crunched his way through a
number of suburban five o'clocks, de-
clares that the new dainty ought to be
dubbed .the dentists friend but this is
manifestIy unfair.
Hardtack may require a little more mus
cuIar effort than some Other foods, but it
is one of the wholesonest things III the
world. There was ne more interesting
testimony of camp life than that of the
Squadron A man who. after being a dys-
peptic for years and dieting like an old
woman" suddenly found himself. under
the conditions OF open air life ami hard
tack, well and hearty, with an appetite
like a razor and able to digest anything.
There is not only a sense Of loyalty in
thus eating what our soldiers and sailors
eat. but there is even the feeling that in
a limited gastronomic way we are shar-
ing the fortunes OF the war.
Think of the child in a modern home,
how happy his relations are with those
who surround him, and how wholesome
the atmosphere is in which he lives, says
Harper's Bazaar" In the first place,
aestheticaily as well as hygienically all
that is possible is done for his advance
ment. The nursery, besides being one of
the sunniest and pleasantest rooms Of the
house. is SO prettily and daintily furnish
ed that it is a charming place for any one
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