The Tupelo journal., 1906-06-15
SPREAD n PICNIC

minced ham or chicken, or with nuts
finely chopped, or with a paste of hard
boiled egg, or with leaves of lettuce,
crisp and green and favored with a
mayonnaise dressing.
A girl who can make a dainty may
onnaise is already a good cook, and
shows, herself possessed of a fine in
telligence.
The pile of sandwiches placed on a
great platter may have a touch OF
beauty If every n is tied with baby
ribbon of your class colors.
Do not be too ambitious about the
cake you provide for a school spread.
Nothing for this purpose surpasses old
fashioned ginger snaps and nicely
Drowned cookies made from your
grandmother's recipe. Ask her to give
it you and you will acknowledge that
l am telling the truth. Sugar cookies
have a toothsome flavor that is just a
little heightened by the addition OF
nuts chopped and literally sprinkled
into the dough.
A picnic differs from q spread in the
important item Of environment. One
nay have a spread in the classroom
or in ones own room or at a friends
house. A picnic implies an excursion
to a selected objective point. 1t may
be by rail or by water or one may
prefer as a picnic ground a place
within walking distance. We picnic
out of doors.
One of the most delightful picnics in
nv experience was on the Long Is
land shore at a point where the
waves of the great South bay comes
rolling and tumbling in. We started
on the picnic at four in the afternoon
driving to the shore, a merry COM
pany of boys and girls with an aunt
or two and a mother and a jolly old
sailor uncle, and We unpacked our bas-
kets at six and ate u supper in the
sunset light. We boiled the kettle
and made tea and we Toasted on cold
broiled chicken and ham, bread and
butter, biscuits cheese and pound
cake, and later went home by moon
light singing all the way.
An essential thing for the success
of any social function, whether 1t De
an informal spread or a formal dinner,
is good temper. A single cross or fret
full person may act as a wet blanket
on everyone concerned. There is no
surer way to spoil a good time than to
carry along somebody who Is selfish
or blue or disposed to find fault and to
try for the best place and the least
labor. Very possibly there is no such
girl in your school, but once in a
while she strays in at a picnic or a
party from some other locality. For
ourselves the best recipe for good
times is a sunny disposition united to
a brave heart and real unselishness.
Everything in this world goes bet
ter if judiciously planned for and
managed according to system. Before
inviting people to a function be sure
that you have arranged every detail.
If you are going on a picnic let 1t De
thoroughly understood at what time
you start and from what place, how
much it will cost each person for car
fare or steamboat ticket and at what
hour you will set out for home.
If possible always on such occasions
have the company of a teacher, a
mother or an old friend. Emergencies
sometimes arise when the presence of
somebody with experience is a COM
fort and a safeguard, and a sympa-
thetic older friend adds to the enjoy
ment of the hour instead of detracting
from it.
Do not leave the provisions in the
care of an absent minded person who
may blunder into forgetting them
when she steps from the boat. This
once happened at a picnic where | was
a guest, and we all stood forlornly on
the beach watching the departing boat
that carried away our lunch baskets
and left us lamenting because the con-
tents of our combined pocketbooks
were not sufficient to purchase any
thing except a few dry crackers at a
country store.