Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-11-27
THANKSGIVING FEAST
An Original Celebration Designed by Clever
Girls.
Studio the Scene and the Guests
Fellow Artists-Souvenirs
and Menu.

The two girl artists laid aside their
| brushes in despair. 1t was the week be
fore Thanksgiving. and the joint and
eral assets of the studio maidens were not
sufficient TO transport even one of them TO
the New England villages where the old
| folks at home would next week dispense
| liberal hospitality.
! The girl artists had a weakness Cor the
! good things of life and their hearts hank
cred after the mince and pumpkin pies
and the roast turkey of their native New
England There had not been much of
boom in book covers. magazine illustra-
tons or fashion sketches, and the money
| that the more gifted Of the two had re-
ceived for a water color sketch of some
pink chrysanthemums a couple of weeks
before had been almost all expended in
paying tribute to the landlord. who was
cXacting in regard to rent.
They worked away silently for an hour
or more, and then came d rat-tat at the
door and there entered the girl who wrote
! the fashion articles. She had come up for
new batch of fashion sketches. and she
ordered the fashion artist to put on her
hat and jacket and come out with her
fer the morning in quite d mastery man
ner.
They want Thanksgiving party story
down at the office, and l need for il some
sketches of real society women. dressed in
clothes that are really fashionable, 50 l am
| TO have you make them for me instead of
Artists Pugersley or WhopperSnap at the
| office. l told the city editor that those
| men wouldn't know ball dress from a
bath robe. they'd better let me get you
| to make the pictures. He said all right, so
we can go out and take our time doing the
shops. Well lunch somewhere along the
route ana can charge it to the office, you
know.
L suppose" continued the girl who wrote
fashion articles obviously, you will both
be going home for Thanksgiving day and
getting all sorts of good things.
A Dreadful Prospect.
She groaned as she contemplated the
prospect of her own lonely feast in some
dingy uptown restaurant. for the girl who
| wrote fashion articles had nowhere to go
on that festive day, even if the demand for
copy in the office down town would have
permitted her to leave the city.
No, We can't go home" the studio air5s
replied, And that was how the plan oriei-
mated, plan so brilliant and so susceptible
of giving a touch of originality to any
hody's Thanksgiving celebration that it is
thought to be worth telling. Invitations
were at once sent out to seven friends of
the studio women, the girl who wrote fash
ion articles having invited herself that day
| as reward for suggesting the plan
In the evening, when their daily tasks
were done, the artists got out their boxes
of water colors. and. until bedtime painted
away industriously on slips Of water color
paper. The woman who wrote fashion ar
ticles contributed some slips of paper COW
cred with her queer hteroglyphics, and
these We're transferred to the painted paper
in equally ambiguous characters called old
English lettering.
Now might often be seen the studio
young women holding serious conference
with the keeper Of the restaurant in the
next block; all of which was done with a
delightful air of holiday mystery.
Began Work Early.
There was an unwonted stir in the stu
n ia pf he on Misunderstanding
morning. Everything that did not add to
the handsome appearance of the rooms was
tucked away somewhere.
A large table was improvised by spread
ing across d couple of small tables some
boards loaned by the well fed and obliging
janitor of the building. a thick piece of
paper was spread over the board, then
thick cloth, and over this the tablecloth.
\ bowl filed with chrysanthemUms was
placed In the center of the table and at
each plate was placed a souvenir flower.
The result Of their efforts was much like
any other festive dinner table, for the
young artists We're women of good taste
and experience.
When the guests began to arrive they
were greeted at the head of the stairs by
one of the hostesses, for they had to walk
up, as the elevator did not run that day.
Their wraps We're laid aside in the studio
of another forlorn bachelor woman who
had been invited to the dinner partly out
| of kindness, because it was known she had
because her studio would be useful.
The strangers roamed about the deserted
halls until dinner announced. The
| great brown turkey and the cooked viands
had been sent in by the restaurant keeper
| from whom they had been ordered The
| pies and cakes, delicious bread and but
ter and jelies had come from the mothers
of two New England girls. They had been
sent from home to the absent daughters
with many another dainty stored in the
studio pantry.
The Fancy Touches.
Beside each plate was a little booklet
which apparently bound in cartridge
paper. When opened, the colored cover
was found to be merely turned in over the
pages and secured to the booklet by means
of narrow ribbons forming tiny bows. The
menus, which We're lettered on separate
pieces of water color paper were pretuly
decorated. Each guest lifted out his or her
menu and then examined the book. They
found them to be dainty souvenir volumes
of verse and sketches. On the first page
was a Noahs ark house at the door of
which stood a couple of wooden ladies in
very comca! dress. They were represented
in the act of welcoming eight arriving