The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-03
GARDEN PARTIES POPULAR.
THANKS ARE DUE TO MRS.
 ROOSEVELT
For Reviving This Form of Summer
 Entertainment.

Many thanks are due our First Lady
 of the Land" for reviving that old and
 beautiful form of summer entertaining
 styled "The Garden Party" Owing to
 Mrs. Roosevelt's lead in the matter,
 hosts everywhere have become interest ed, so that they are now the rage, and
 the more you have an opportunity of attending, the better from society standpoint. And outside of it's pleasure as an outdoor affair. it is available for extending hospitality in any shape or form, from breakfast or luncheon served al fresco as the windup to
 morning meeting of a morning fancy work club, to a moonlight fete, where
 guests indulge in various games or trip the light fantastic toe on pavilion erected on the lawn.
 An unusually successful al fresco af- ternoon and evening party was given
 her friends by an evening hostess resid- ing in the suburbs, in honor of her daughters eighteenth birthday anniver- Sary.
 The weather was propitious and being a trifle cool was all the more enjoyable.
 The lady was the possessor of spa
 cious yard, blessed by the shade of sev- eral old forest trees and a number of
 pretty flowerings of shrubs bordering the line fences, and dotting at intervals the grassy turf. The out-buildings filling in the yard at the extreme end
 were almost entirely concealed by big
 branches of catalps, maple, poplar. etc., stuck in the ground tree-fashion, while
 others depended on the projecting roofs, thus serving the dual purpose ot scheen and a decoration. The lattice work crossing the yard midway between front and back and partially draped ln Virginia creeper, had the green luXuri- ance of the vine relieved by frieze of ow-balls laid on the top, and clumps of red peonies showing here and there through the apertures into which the
 stems were thrust to hold the gorgeous blooms firm. At 8 little distance from
 this stood a round summer house en-
 powered in pink climbing roses that
 were just blossoming in all their glory,
 making of this suggestive retreat a pie ture of enchanting beauty and perme- ating the air with their delicious fra
 grance; the base was encircled by ivy,
 and of different kinds of flowers
 A table and convenient chairs occu- pying this small house furnished those disposed to cards a nice nook in which to indulge in game. It proved popu-
 lar with many of the older folks, espec- ially of the masculine gender, who
 amused themselves with the spotted deck while their companions enjoyed other sports. The shady grape arbor was used as ping-pong alley in the
 afternoon, and at nights was illumined
 by double row of electric lights.
 There were bags for the game of bean
 bag, a swing and hammock handy,
 and any amount of rustic seats and
 lawn benches piled with gay-colored cushions for the guests to sit and chat.
 Above, swinging from tree to tree, and from thence to the house, festoons of
 electric bulbs were suspended in vari-
 hued paper globes. and when seen peep ing behind the foliage resembled huge firefies; when the current was turned oh Loi IHe evening lesti'iticS tAe"e eio~- tric Examinations rendered the scene like one.from fairyland.
 Under bunting-ceiled shelving roof
 at the rear of the house an impromptu table was arranged, and from this the buffet lunch and dainty refreshments were served, the visitors partaking of the viands there or bearing them off to some mart of the yard where small ta-
 bles were stationed Numerous swing ing baskets hung within the temporary
 dining room, and as the white-covered
 board was trimmed in vines and deco rated with vases and bowls of fresh spring blossoms, the whole presented a
 very tempting and hospitable appear
 ance-Pittsburg Dispatch.