Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-21
COLLEGE GIRLS CLEVER
THEY ARE RESOURCEFUL IN AR
RANGING ENTERTAINMENT
Can Make Much Out Of rittle-Adapt-
able as Hostesses H4d Helpful
as Guests.


bility.'' says a summer hostess. give me
college girls. They are the most helpful of
guests. and can evolve much out of little
in way that Is truly remarkable. We are
six miles from a lemon and pretty much
everything else. but last week we got up an
impromptu cotillon. and had the prettiest
and cheapest favors possible through the
ingenuity and cIeverness of two Vassar
girls who were among the house party for
the week.
They got those cheap straw hats sold
at the village store for two or three cents
apiece. bent and twisted them. trimmed
them with field grasses and bows, made
from ribbons that were strips of gay cam
brio and slesia and turned them out the
smartest garden hats one could wish. They
made pompon aigrettes for the hair out of
milkweed fluff and broom splints; they
made wands by winding sticks with crepe
paper and finishing them on the end with
big bows of the same Out of the paper,
too. they made stunning corsage punches of
violets for the girls. with boutonnieres for
the men of a single chrysanthemum. Birch
bark they utilized in many clever ways.
and carried through the prettiest figure of
all with little Japanese lanterns.
we had given a garden party the year
before. and lot Of small lanterns had
been used to decorate the trees. These the
girls found seized upon with avidity and
carried off to their workshop. Then they
got the gardener to cut them lot of ma
pie branches fastened lantern to each,
and the figure was danced to the light Of
them. One of the girls was skillful with her
brush, and made pretty dance cards out of
common manila paper They did everything
SO quickly and easily and would take no
credit for originality vowing that it was
only as we do at college,
Impromptu Parties.
IT'S this way" explained another college
undergraduate, who was approached later
for further enlightenment on the subject,
I'VE simply have to get things up quickly
and out of nothing. because there is no time
nor opportunity to do anything else. We
always have our larks Saturday night
and just have a little time Friday after
noon or Saturday morning to rush things
through. The girls really do get very in
genious, l suppose, though we don't have
much time to think of 1t.
"One night last year we gave a Mother
Goose party. I was going as Miss Muffet
and had to have a big spider in a hurry AS
l had been busy all day at something else
l got some black ribbon wire, twisted an
oval for the body and attached legs by
winding them on this frame. Then 1 made
a body of black cambria, stuffed it with
cotton, stuck shiny black-headed belt pins
for eyes and there was my spider. At the
party three girls in together cleverly
representing the three blind mice, in COS
tunes of gray cambria with paws, tails
and all complete. which they had made
that afternoon. -.
I'VE gave a coronation Of King Edward
the year before that was really very effec-
tive. For the train for the queen we took
two lace curtains, shirred them in at the
shoulder, letting them sweep out on the
ground behind her. The kings erminc-
trimmed robe was of. red cambria, with
white cotton flannel dabbed with charcoal
For the men of the court some of the girls
appeared in boomers and vests, with gay
m op1 NJ rryhf lob Hryoc han
up over the left shoulder. The kings guard
were dashing soldiers, with high boots of
black glazed paper cambfie. red suits of the
same material, and red urban hats set
over the left eye, the black strap passing
under the nose. There were ten of these
hats needed, and one girl made them ali.
She covered round pieces OF cambria for
the crown, to which she sewed straight
cardboard bands also red covered, thus
forming the little inverted bowls Kilted
Highlanders made up the orchestra, wear
ing doublefaced golf skirts turned inside
out, and shortened to the right length for
the kits. Even the bagpipes were sim
ulated, and were made of black cambria,
stuffed, while the music came from mando-
Inns held behind them. The Duchess OF
Bath was one of the noble ladies who at
tended the function. and she came in a
gown of bath towels with a sponge in her
hair as a pompon. She wore bath slippers
and cake of soap as belt buckle.
All Sorts Of Affairs
"a Japanese entertainment Is, of course,
very easy nowadays 1t only needs a
himona sashed in painted eyebrows and a
fan, with the hair dressed la Gesha. 1t
must be admitted that sometimes our in
ventions need a good deal of !magina ton
to be understood, but it is there, we think,
that the real fun comes in. During the
Pan-Amer1can autumn one class gave
take-off on the exposition. long corridor
was the midway, the different rooms
being it's various shows. In one was
merry-go-round. On a heavy box were
placed at right angles two boards, which
were nailed together in the center. gay
shawl covered the joining and box, and on
this pivot was perched GIRL who revolved
with the four arms as they were pushed
around. after receiving their passengers,
by four girls in grotesque costumes. The
music to this remarkable carousel was fur
nished by solitary girl in the corner with
a mandolin. At the end of the corridor
stood the Pan-American poster girl. She
was tall, had her hair down and arms out
stretched-they were, in fact. upheld by
invisible wires. Sheet drapery fell from
her arms and shoulders, and in front of
her hung, one in front of another, curtains
of cheesecloth, in all the primary shades.
A strong light thrown upon her gave an ex-
cellent reproduction Of the well-known pic
ture."