The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-01
A MAY-DAY LUNCHEON.

The president of a woman's club for
studying Shakespeare, inaugurated her
administration by inviting its members
to a May-day lunch party. AS each guest
arrived, she was handed a card, upon
which was written:
OF trees, fruits and flowers, have some
thing to saw
To celebrate fifty the coming of May;
The language. you see, is simplest of
rhyme
With little attention to meter or time
The work of poet is measured and true.
But these simple rhymes are the best
can do.
bers. opposite which the bearer was ex-
pected TO write the answers to flower
puzzles correspondingly numbered, which
were written on similar cards and hung
about the different rooms
The DarlorS were decorated with dog
wood blossoms. and here the cards were
suspended by white ribbons. The dining
room was a, perfect orchard of wild era b.
with pink. The guest room was dainty
with bowls of blue violets, and here, too
the cards were found, with violet-tinted
robbons.
At the end of an hour of pleasant talk
and questioning. the cards were collected
by the hostess. and the most fortunate
guessers rewarded in order, with gifts OF
flowers, roses. Dinks and a branch of
dogwood
Refreshments were served from Ores
den china, the ice cream taking the form
luncheon. a tiny girl, the Queen o the
May dressed in a daffodil-colored gown,
appeared with basket of cards, each
tied with a pansy for thoughts" and
study These were selected at random by
the guests, with later instructions from
the hostess that changes might be made
ii desired.
These are some of the charades. which
any ouick-witted woman can multiply at
pleasure:
I'm little country cousin of the stately
garden queen,
And l tarry by the roadside in my gown
of pink and green,
To unlatch the gate for summer, where
the woodthrush fingers long,
On my perfumed breath. uplifting his
(sweet Brier)
Ny first, with rosy finders,
Folds back a curtain gray,
To let my second issue forth.
In sunlights earliest ray.
NY whole remains scarce longer
Than tints of dawninG stay,
So in rainbow dip your brush.
And paint it while you may.
(Morning GloryO
III
A grave ascentic of historic fame,
My first and second ate for daily meat;
Join them; a lovely Towering tree you
name,
A grateful shelter from the summer
heat.
(Honey Locust.)
".
Soft and pure and STILL over vale and hill.
Fell my first, and clad the world in
white.
Braving winters frown, came my second
down.
Shining with the diamonds sparkling
light.
Both together wrought natures fairest
In nv Whole. the brown earth's first de-
light.
Snow Drop
In my first. my second grows.
Pure and white as mountain SHOWS.
pond Lily)
The color of the summer sky
When winds with roses daily.
The sweet-voiced herald, sounding forth
Its call DER hill and valley
My whole. its bright face cannot hide,
The bees and children know it,
'Tis Scotland's darling. loved alike
BY bee and child and poet.
Blue Belly
Nv first is one of babys needs;
MY second is the gardens pest.
Combine the two. and east and west, s.
The wind will watt my airy seeds.
milk Weed.)
VIII.
NV first is a flower fair to behold.
My second the name of a woman in his
tory;
My whole, when the story of Hamlet is
told.
Will help us remember and ponder the
mystery.
(Rose Mary)
Behold, new conner. Pray, tell US the
name
Now heralded forth on the trumpet of
fame!
1t is great as the world which she comes
TO adorn
With lovely robes dyed in the tints of the
morn.
She brightens our garden till winter winds
blow;
Now tell US what name will you on her
bestow?
MIRA c. PARSONS.