The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1906-07-28

Auction of Wooden Souvenirs
Progressive Solitaire Party for
Bachelors and Bachelor Maids
Supper Served at Individual Tables
-"Reveries of a Bachelor and
"Spinster Book" as Prizes.
The possibilities for the celebration
OF & wooden wedding are as numberless
as the sands of the seashore. Wooden
novelties are so easily obtained and de-
tails which may make the entertainment
novel are SO easily carried out that this
celebration of this fifth year of welded
life is most attractive.
At this season of the year q wooden
wedding celebration can be made a bit
unusual by having a forest as the set
ting for the affair. If the host and
hostess-to-be are fortunate enough to
have a summer home in the country or
near the water then these plans are half
made. Gather together a few friends
for an informal evening by sending out
invitations printed on shavings and
wrapped in green leaves, to bring out the
forest idea.
The room of the cottage must be dec
GRATED in branches and leaves, with
leaves strung for curtains, if the enter
tainment may be celebrated near the
house. Whether the forest yard of a
summer home or the depth Of the forest
Itself is chosen for the entertainment,
amusement and novelty can be intro
NUPpd hV HAVING an q natorr nrndunfinp |
of ome of the scenes in Midsummer
Nights Dream or Forest of Arden scenes
from AS You Like 1t. Where the friend
ships are close and the productions are
given with q view to fun, nothing is more
interesting than amateur theatricals.
and this could easily be carried out in
these scenes from Shakespeare, since
historians tell us that the original pro-
auctions of the work of the bard were
given with no stage setting but those Of
nature.
If the entertainment is given in the
forest. the refreshments, of course,
must be of picnic style, and served imme-
diately following the theatricalS. If in
the yard of the home, the same idea may
be carried out, but if in the home. the
dining should be made as nearly
like a forest as possible, with it's dec
orations of branches and leaves. The
table should be left bare, except for many
green leaf doilies. The centerpiece may
be sticks crossed in imitation of the
crane. Hang from this a small wooden
bucket filled with wood vines or flowers.
Light the table with green candles set in
wooden candle sticks and shtded with
green leaf shades. The refreshments
may be as elaborate or as simple as the
host or hostess chooses-a nut salad
would be appropriate, as would potato
chips, olives, chocolate or carmel ice
cream, if the brown idea is carried out,
if the green, with chocolate
cake and coffee and finally bon bons }
made to represent acOrns.
All of these must be served on wooden L
dishes with wooden knives and forks
and spoons. q
If a contest is desired the following,
the spaces to be filled in by names o
Of woods, may be used:
A Fable of the Forest. n
The day wind met the night wind at :
The day had been fair, but
the night came on with a sudden cool II
ness which told of advancing storms. a
the clash of the meeting resounded
the forest. I
Whence contest thou with thy cold
BREATHE" cried the day wind.
Il come from the -, where the
strong current from the north seas car o.
lies past the message of the ice-bound re
the land of flowers" said the night W
Wind. Whence goest thou?' tt
Il go to the east, to come again with OF
he morning sun. But thou-thou hast D.
net me and taken away the warmth W
within me. And now l must tarry here re
- for the night among the - m
rees,. who will take away the cold and ii
ring back again the warmth for an fl
,ther day" m
The night wind, wrapped closer it's 70
.hued cloak, and watched the day w
Wind %shivering at its breath. to
81 know that with thee l am not" to
said, cynically. Il know thou lowest w
he not. For thou contest like al 10
ooted maiden, with flowers springing up re
Or a carpet for thy feet nd scattering es
weet scents upon the breeze. Thou sa
endest to the four corners of the globe if
1nshine and gladness and maketh OF my re
but --es. Thou slashest my w
ack with a velvet-wrapped - rod,
nd thou drivest me away with a smile.
We, even the night wind may be he
lat turns" St
The day wind lifted high its head be
ld-with dignity. w;
Thou f1atterest me, good f:iend," We
answered. 1T is true that tbs flow CO
S give me greeting, that the trees pr
ap soft hands at my coming, that the Dc
gladly gives forth its sweet stream oil
hen | blow my warm breath upon it, pr
1t these are but sweet influences; &C
tle> did | reason that thou, with thy til,
Ight and thy power shouldst envy me les
csc things. Thou Eiyest me courage. Su