Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-04-23

Add the dissolved mixture from the stove.
and pour into three small Jelly tins. When
cold frost with white icing.
If the weather Will permit. there is no
more pleasant way of entertaining children
than with outdoor games, including the
winding of the Maypole ribbons and the
browning of the queen.
If circumstances keep the children indoors
the browning of the queen need not De
omitted. and an hours amusement may be
provided by a contest in making either
spring hats or artificial flowers from tissue
paper. 1t is wonderful what pretty things
the kindergarten-t trained child of today can
evolve in this sort Of contest All that
will be needed is tissue paper In variety
of colors. pins. coarse needles and thread,
with plentiful supply of scissors.
pretty prize for the successful worker
would be a new fairy wand, a May day
souvenir, shaped something like small
Maypole, and tied with many colored rib
bons. The handle is bulb-shaped. and when
the cap is pulled out 1t is found that the
wand is filed with tiny candies.
For Older Folks.
Arrangements for entertaining older peo
pie on May day must be equally simple, and
the dishes should be of the lightest, fresh
est sort
The center piece should be either bios
SONS from fruit trees, or a plateau built
from moss, stuck thick with woody bios
SONS, like violets anemone, heptica, jack
in-the-pulpit and Quaker ladies. If 1t is
breakfast, nothing can be more effective
than the decoration scheme of green and
white, with white tulips, crocuses or hya-
cinths and feathery fern for the center
piece.
There should be neither candles nor shad-
ows for the May-day breakfast, but sun
light should furnish the illumination of the
dining room. Paper cases and nut dishes
can be secured in palest green, and the nm
en- should be in solid white, the plain.
heavy Irish embroidery oeing tne most Ell
fective for center pieces and doylies
For dinner, violets form an effective cen
ter piece and admit OF a dainty comnlna-
ton in the service and menu-violet, green
and white. Do not use SOLID violet snaoes
but have them white, painted In vioiets or
garlanded with delicate paper violets. The
doylies should be embroidered In Violets
and candied violets in low silver or cut
glass dishes should adorn the table
If the dinner Is to be quite formal af1air
fiat bars of sterling or triple plate silver,
with a bullying semi-circle In the center to
hold the corsage bouquet OF vioiets, make
ellis, chased In moral Designs LOT the men.
Menu for Green and White Breakfast,
Iced White Grapes;
noninS DaHs Will IN w hipp g., Sieei'
brolieo OF Fiahkeu ohau.
Sreamea 5ota.ogs. &c.
Creameo SWee1oreaos IN Faper Eases
french hoiis. Cehee
The hominy balls are made from fine
hominy, boiled the day before, and set away
to harden In small cups or individual molds.
They should be very small, as course
breakfast precludes the possibility of heavy
Crisp parsley should be chopped and add
ed at the last moment to the creamed po-
tatoes, and the shad should be dressed with
parsley stalks.
Planking a shad is not a daring under
taking, even for the inexperienced house
wife. Shad planks can be purchased at
any housefurnishing store The board
should .be buttered and then thoroughly
skin downward ON the blank and fasten it's