The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1906-09-15

Farewell Dancing Party for the Col
lege Boys and Girls-'Hop Vines
for Decoration-A "Hop Pole''
Dance-Fall the Time for House
Warn1ings-Key Souvenirs Signify
Hospitality -"An Ideal House"
Contest.
september is bit early for dance
and yet for the younger sets the
time to dance" is any time the op-
portunlty affords, no matter what the
temperature records. In June we ar
ranged a reunion party for the col
iege boys and girls. In September q
farewell party for those same boys and
girls would give quite as much pleas
ure, Tor everyone is getting in readi-
ness Tor the winters separation. With
them the dance is the thing, so why
not arrange a hop" party?
If ever it has been your good for
tuneto be in the northwest states Just al
the hop season, it will be easy for you
to realize how beautiful this "hop
party may be made. The north
west is the hop country. In some Sec
lions OF Washington during August
and September, as far as the eye can
reach, it rests upon great draperies Of
the hop vines-feld after field of
latticework bearing the green leaves
and The fruit of the vine like nam
moth drapery.
For the northwestern hostess, there
fore, this chop" party will be particu-
larly easy-if she can persuade the
hop merchant to part with his ware:
to her-but even the hostesses of the
portions of the country where hops are
not as plentiful as in the northwest
may find some good country woman
who still cIings to hop-raising for the
making of her own bread yeast.
The invitations to the hop party may
be the regular dancing invitations OF
they may assume the more informal and
mystical form of the following:
Wont you come to my hop party,
All your good friends will be there
Come to feast your eyes on beauty,
To say 'good-by' to friends and care.
Underneath write the date and place
Of the party.
Fer the decorations, use hops only
The rooms may be draped Throughout
the house in this vine. for nothing i:
more beautiful as a decoration. The
| walls may be draped, the ceilings can
opted, the doorways curtained with thu
hop vines and the house may be COL
verted into the prOverbial bower. The
hostess and her assistants should wear
gowns of delicate green; in fact, every
detail should be carried out in this
color as nearly as possible.
If the house in which the party is
given possesses a ballroom, one enc
of tue room should be set aside fol
the after-supper fancy dance, which
will take the place of the usual cotil
lion. For this erect an old-fashione(
hop pole and arrange long strands O.
the vine as it would cling to the pole
naturally. When the time comes fo]
the dance these strands will be fount
to take the place of the ribbons on :
May-pole, and sort of May-pole dance
may be danced. Otherwise let tn.
dance programme be the regula
chop"
If the supper is informal, and is tx
be served in buffet fashion about tn,
djning-table, use the hop pole as
central decoration for the table, allow
ing the vines to wander out over tn
board and fall from the sides in nat
ural draperies. If the affair is to b
given formal and very elaborat
touch, seat the guests at small tables
each bearing it's own decoration O
the central hop pole, the four strand
wandering to the covers and Dearir;
the place cards on the end The menu
carried out in green, should be in
trusted to the caterer, and is guided D.
the formality of the affair.
During the dance serve lemonade O
the ordinary punch. The young WON
en- assistants may alternate in presid
Ing over the punch bowl. which shout
be sunk in nest of the hops. Tn
booth where the punch is served shout
be hung with the hop vines an
2OWncd III DAINTY green, so attractiV
picture will she make that it wi
not be difficult to persuade the youn
woman to forego a few dances for III
privilege of being mistress of tn;
green bower.
For the close of the evening hav
the musicians play familiar airs, clos
ing with Aud Lang Syne, and askin
the young people to pledge each Others
health with the lemonade or punch, a
they sing. A college stein song woul
please the young guests for this pal
Of the programme, also.
zone Evening House Party."
With the close of September com
the housewarmings. The young fol
who have been married during tn
summer months are throwing one
new homes, and the folk who have
number of welded years to their cred
are often doing the same or are Jus
getting settled after another fall fiji
ting.
Ordinarily housewarming may b
nothing more than the giving Of til
new home over to the possession G