Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-24
A FLOWER PARTY.
An Original Entertainment in Japa-
nese Style.

| nese style.
| At this time of the year a Japanese flower
party would be especially pretty and easy
! to arrange. The decorations can be real
| chrysanthemums and roses, using the same
coloring, or at the paper shops you can
| get the most artistic paper blossoms and
vines already cut ready to be attached to
wires or branches, or paper in every va
| riety for making them. If you wish real
Japanesy' effects you can get at the Jap
anese stores wistaria vines and great sprays
| of cherry and plum blossoms.
At a Japanese party given by a Leland
Stanford girl last year, in California, the
F.! rooms were decorated with rows of red
japanese lanterns and in the center was
suspended large basket of roses and ferns
The guests were seated on the floor, two
cushions being provided for each person
A low banquet table was made of boards,
spread with Japanese paper table CLOTH
decorated with a rose border to match the
napkins. Rose petals were thickly strewn
and shaded in colors.
The refreshments were served in courses
sixteen of them with a change of napkin
in each instance, but this will not be ad-
visable in your case. The sandwiches were
made of bread, cut very thin, put between
damp napkins to moisten, then cut out with
an oval cutter and spread lightly with rose
perfumed butter.
One or two rose petals were laid on each
slice, then two put together, allowing the
edges of the petals to show. Arrange the
sandwiches on individual blue dishes like a
chrysanthemum. Other refreshments may
be nodded jelly with a full-blown rose i'm
bedded, small cakes cut in flower shape,
frosted, and each decorated with rose pet
ais, candled violets or angelica cut in the
form of leaves, tea with rose leaves scat
tered In the cups, ices in different flower
shapes and the bonbons to correspond
The souvenirs may be the large Jack"
paper roses that can be purchased at the
confectioner's, concealing in their rich CEN
tiers a box to be filled with bonbons If
you are clever with your fingers you can
buy small round pasteboard boxes. cover
them with pale-green crepe paper and orna-
ment them with large rose made from
pink, red or yellow tissue paper, to suit the
color scheme Dainty place cards may be
made at home from cards of yellow or pink
cardboard bordered with wreaths Of roses
You can buy the floral scrap pictures If
you cannot use water colors. Write each
guests name and the date across the CEN
ter of the board and finish with a little
bow Of ribbon.
Costumes representing the different flow
ers can be made from paper, and at the
will be given for the different costumes
For instance, to make rose costume, use
a slip or corset cover and petticoat for a
foundation. Make the skirt of two rows
red, pink. white or yellow. For the green
part cut large sepals from green crepe
paper to form the calyx, and cover the
waist down to the petals of the skirt For
the sleeves use the rose petals like those
on the skirt, only smaller. Finish the neck
with pink maine, or small roses. For the
hat to go with this make big rose, ar
ranging the petals on wire frame, or
make big rose, leaving out the center,
finish of the stem about eight inches long
and invert like a rose upside down on the
head. Cover the stem with green to imi-
tate the calyx.
A chrysanthemum skirt may be covered
with rows Of tissue or crepe paper in
fringed lengths. the tints Of the color se-
lected being graduated. lightest at the
waist and shading down darker. Rows Of
fringed paper fall from neck to belt and
q large chrysanthemum rests like a crown
on the hair, suitable foundation for this
is green cambria.
For carnation costume put four rows
of large carnation petals on skirt. Cut
green crepe paper to go tight around the
hips like the calyx of the flower, allowing
It to fall over the petals in five points
For the waist use smaller petals, two or
three rows outstanding, as If the head came
out of the center. Finish at the bottom
with green crepe. The petals should all be
of the issue paper. Make the sleeves of