The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-09-01

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Skein~W Winding and Knitting Con
tests-A Fruit, Grain and Vege
table" Guessing Game.
After a matron has planned the en-
tertainments for her cotton and leath
er weddings she feels quite equal t
any task OF the kind until she il
confronted with her wooden anniver
sary. This comes with the seventh
Jear OF welded life, and Immediately
follows the fifth, or wooden anniver.
sary.
Just why the sixth ano other years
OF married life are omitted in the
celebrations Is not recorded unless the
bright mind that planned the ami
versary list took compassion upon the
close friends of married folk wont to
celebrate.
WoClen, seemingly, lends itself leas.
OF all to the entertainment idea. I'm
less the anniversary date zones in
the dead of winter when the very sight
OF wooden things is comforting, the
hostess will fnd the entertainment IN
usually difficult to arrange.
In the first place issue invitations to
a small company of the closest friends
only, and then the hostess may have
the courage to work the invitations
in the old-tine sampler form. For a
large company this task would be end
less.
Instead of flowers decorate the house
with yarn in many colors. If old spin
ming wheels can be secured, they will
form an appropriate part of the deco
ration, but the yarn can be draped very
prettily, and should be as attractive
as novel, if taste is shown in the COM
bination of colors.
The first part of the evening-when
the small company of guests are gath
erlng-is the most difficult of all the
time for the hostess. This is true of
any entertainment, but particularly
true of the time when a very few
gather to eat. There is more or less
constraint, and everyone waits for the
next one to advance topics of CONVEX
sation while the hostess is busy receiv-
ing. For this particular entertain
ment the hostess can use a bit of a
scheme which will serve a ~three-fold
purpose-as an ice breaker, as a means
of matching partners for the informal
dinner which is to follow, and as a
contest for the men.
In a set apart for the purpose
have as many skeins of yarn arranged on
the back of chairs, in the old-fashioned
manner of our grandmothers, as there
are men in the party. Just before dinner
is announced open this room and set
the men at work on a b~all-rolling con-
test. Each chair will bear the name
the man intended to roll each bali
this because buried in the yarn on
the end of every skein will be found
a card bearing the name of the woman
to be taken to the dining-room. This
will afford the hostess the opportunity
to arrange her place cards correctly at
the table.
The man who succeeds in winding a
ball first will be given some trifing
prlze-a black sheep candy box, for
instance, filled with cigars instead of
candy.
The ceiling Of the dining-room
be draped in pure white yarn,
after the fashion of a canopy, and in
he same style smilax or asparagus
FERN are used. Instead of the regular
-ablecloth use a fine white wooden
for a table covering. For a
;enterpiece use a toy spinning wheel
With the wool placed ready for spin
ling, If possible. Pure white roses
nay be scattered over the table to add
/ touch of floral decoration and take
lway the stiffness of the center
piece. ~.
For the place-cards use tiny doll !
blankets tied with white ribbon for
he women. For the men pure white {
ards through which a very small knit I
Ing needle is run, will bear not only +
he Lame but a quotation on wool. r
FOR instance: ,
Dead sounds at night come from the 4.
inmost hills,
ike footsteps upon wool.
Tennyson.
{ woolly fieeces spread the heavenly a
way, $,
10 rain, be sure, disturbs the sum- "
mer's day. q,
Old Weather Rhyme. III
Many go out for wool, and come II
ONE shorn themselves. If
Cervantes.
All cry and no wool. %,
Butler. pl
&c
Have you summoned your wits from
DOL gathering? ps
Middleton. or
sa
The menu should be rather SIM
e. Mutton broth, celery. white Ia
h, crown Of lamb with French as ali
'ragus and potatoes faxed and baked Sc