The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-24
Dainty FaVors
For Summer Dances
Flower Pins Lead in Popularity
These Are Initiated in Small
Silk Pincushions.

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The younger the girl, the more apt
she, is to count her measure of popu-
larity by the number of dance favors
which she receives. AS one result,
the cotillon hostess tries to collect
things as new and charming as pos
sible to give originality to her dance.
One of the new favor fads is birth
flower pins, with due regard to the
superstition for wearing the birth
flower as a little fetch to bring good
luck. These pins are made in gold
enamel with little sprays or small
bands of the flowers.
January exhibits a wild rose, and to
February is given the carnation. The
girl who gets a March flower will
wear violet pin, and she who was
born in April sticks an Easter lily
in her collar. The maiden of Nav
wears lilies of-the- valley, and the June
girl rose. There is something dis
tinctly appropriate in having a daisy
as the flower for July, and the pond
lily for August while the September
girl is crowned with peoples. To the
October girl falls the golden cosmos
flower, the November maiden is born
under the influence of the chrysan-
themum, while holly goes with the girl
who flutters into this world amid the
December SHOWS.
A hostess who wanted to follow
this fad and could not afford to pur-
chase the pins decided upon a novel
homemade device that produced a
charming effect upon the favor table.
She bought a lot of small, fiat, cir
cular pincushions and covered each
in the color of the birth-hower. She
stuck short piece of wire into the
bottom of each cushion and wrapped
it with bit of cloth, nd then with
ribbon the color of the flower A few
small ARTIFICIAL violets were sewed
around the lower parts of the cushion.
leaving the top uncovered, and a bow
tied under them. Another bow of the
violet ribbon was tied at the end of
the ribbon stem and a little bunch of
violets with cushion nestled among
them.
These little favors from pretty dec
orations upon the dressing table, are
both useful and ornamental, and can
be produced in ribbons for ali
blooms.
Birthstones set in hatpins. rings
and stickpins are also popular, but NOT
so new, while for a farewell dance
before breaking up for the summer
girls like to give each other some
thing for the writing table as a re-
minder that letters are welcome visi-
tors.
A girl who can paint made a LOT of
small square boxes out of stiff water
color paper, and tinted them. The cor
ners were merely tied together with
little ribbon bows and the TOP was a
cut-out bit of the paper Just big
enough to cover the small box. ono
top was clover leaf painted In
natural colors and the box was tied
with green baby ribbons. Another
box was in pink, with wild rose ton:
and so on through the dainty list of
boxes for stamps.
At one farewell dance the favors
were planned to form decorations fo,.
the rooms Of travellers who would like
some such dainty ornamentation In
strange quarters to remind them of
the loving thoughts of friends ar
home. There were small. stained ana
cut-out leather mats decorated I'm
flowers. upon which to stand flower
potts. little candle and lamp shades I'm
japanese panels upon a frame that
folded up fiat for packing in a trunk.
pretty sewing and laundry bags az
thin Powered silk and Japanese creme
decorated with ribbons and so thin
any room In the trunk; and
little nests OF bags for tuck-
ing away the small things that
traveller finds so useful.
Each nest consisted Of four silk
bags, each the size OF a chid's hand.
curved rounding at the bottom and I'M
a sharp point at the top. The outer
part Of the bags was Of green bro
caded silk and the lining OF white
satin. and as a little brass rod ran
through the gathering band OF each
and terminated al each end with rib
bon bows In white and green, the