The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-24

need not be omitted, and an hours
amusement may be provided by a con-
test in making either spring hats or
artificial flowers from tissue paper. 1t
is wonderful what pretty things the
kindergarten-trained child OF to-day
can evolve in this sort of a contest.
All that will be needed in tissue paper
in a variety of colors, pins. coarse
needles and thread, with a plentiful
supply of scissors.
A pretty prize for the successful
work would be a new fairy wand,
a May day souvenir, shaped some
thing like a small Maypole and tied
with many colored ribbons. The ham
die is bulb-shaped, and when the cap
is pulled out. it Is found that the
wand is filed with tiny candies.
Arrangements for entertaining older
people on May Day must be equelly
simple, and the dishes should be Of
the lightest, freshest sort.
The center piece should be either
blossoms from fruit trees, or a plateau
built from moss, stuck thick with
woody blossoms, like violets, ane-
none, hepatica, jack-in-the-pulpit and
Quaker ladies If it is a breakfast.
nothing can be more effective than the
decoration scheme of green and white,
with white tulips, coTcuses or hya-
clients and featherly fern for the CEN
ter piece.
There should be neither candles nor
shadows of the May-Day breakfast,
but sunlight should furnish the illu-
mination of the dining-room. Paper
cases and nut dishes can be scured in
palest green, and the linen should be in
solid white, the plain, heavy Irish EN-
broidry being the most effective for
center pieces and doylies.
For dinner, violets from an effective
center piece and admit of a dainty
combination in the service and menu
violet green and white. Do not
use solid violet shades, but have them
white, painted in violets garland
ed with delicate paper violets. The
doylies should be embroidered in vio-
let's, and candid violets in low sill
yer or cut glass dishes should adorn
| the table.
If the dinner is to be quite a for
NAL affair and souvenirs are desired
violet pins, long, fiat bars of sterling
| or tripe-plate in the center to hold the
| corsage boquet of violets, make dain-
| ty gifts for women, with silver PEN
ellis, chased in floral designs, for the
men.
Menu for Green and White Break
fast.
iced White Grapes.
Hominy Balls with Whipped Cream.
BroiIed or Planked Shad.
Dreamed Potatoes.
Dreamed Sweetbreads in Paper Cases.
French Rolls. Coffee.
The hominy balls are made from
fine hominy, boiled the day before,
and set away to harden in small cups
or individual moulds. They should
be very small, as course breakfast
precludes the possibility of heavy serv-
ice.
Crisp parsley should be chopped
and added at the last moment to the
creamed potatoes, and the shad should
be dressed with parsley stalks.
Planking a shad is not a daring UNI
dertaking. even Tor the inexperienced
housewife. Shad planks can be pur-
chased at any housefurnishing store.
The board should be buttered and
then thoroughly heated in the oven.
Split the fish, lay 1t skin downward
on the plank and fasten its corners
with thumb tacks. Rub with melted
butter. salt and paper. and pop IL into
a hot oven for thirty to forty-five min
utes. according to the size of the