Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-02-28
AN APPLE PARTY

novel entertainment Is an apple
party.
The guests at such party are ex
pected to wear some adornment of
an apple character At the one at
tended by the writer every gentle
man wore crab-apple as button
hole bouquet. A rosy young miss had
strings of dried apples festooned
about her, while big, red None Such
and Baldwin apples were very much
in evidence as novel waist adorn-
mcnts.
Each guest on entering, was given
card bearing letter and num-
Der. This letter was one in brand
of apples and the number referred
to the brand. For instance, pippins
were numbered three, seek-no-
furthers, five, etc.: OF course, in group
three were six persons, one for each
letter in the word "pippin," while in
the fifth group were fourteen persons.
Each group was provided WITH one
pencil and one sheet of paper, was
assigned to particular corner in the
room, and told to write poem on
its particular kind of apple. At the
end of fifteen minutes the poems were
collected and read aloud, and com.
mittee. previously appointed, decided
on their merits. The group present
ing the best poem was provided with
basket of assorted apples, which
were Immediately passed around and
eaten.
Then came an apple gathering con-
test resembling potato race, in
which twelve apples were arranged
in two rows at regular distances from
each other. and the company divided
itself into two sides. One person at
a time from each side, armed with a
tablespoon, tried to pick up his six
apples in his spoon, carry each, as
spooned, to the basket at the head of
the row and return for another. The
side which scored the most winners
beat.
The literary part of the entertain.
ment, which followed this, consisted
of readings, recitations, songs, all of
which treated of the subject of apples.
These were both selected and origi-
nal. Among them were Bryant's
Planting of the Apple Tree" The
High-Top Sweeting," by Elizabeth
Akers. selections from Hollands Bit
tersweet." and The School Boys
Apple Tree" by Hezekiah Butter.
worth
BY this time appetizing odors were
creeping in from the kitchen, and
soon we were called out to supper,
in which the apple scheme was stnl
carried out.
Lamb chops, with which were
served hot rolls and apple butter
fried apples, apple fritters, and apple
sauce, were followed by Waldorf
salad, which, as everybody knows, is
largely composed of chopped apples.
Then came a course of baked apples
and cream, followed by an immense
pan-dowdy.
Apple pie and turnovers and tarts
of pastry filled with sparkling crab
apple jelly followed, and then was
brought on snow pudding, which is
kind of glorified apple custard over
topped with a quaking mound Of
whipped cream. Nuts, apples and cof-
fee wound up the feast-Good Lit
erature.
INC ~
Turtles are always captured at
night. and usually on moonlight ones.
This is the time they go on the
shore to lay their eggs. They select
smooth, sandy beach. dig holes in
the sand, deposit their eggs there,
and leave them to be Matched by the
heat of the sand. When the turtles
are on shore for this purpose the
hunters come upon them, and they
are easily overtaken, for turtles are
slow movers. The hunters have not
a very, strenuous undertaking. All
that is necessary to be done is to
turn the turtles on their backs and
leave them until the next day, when
they are removed
Another more curious way of catch
ing turtles, according to the Wash
ington Star, is by fishing by the re-
mora. a fish found in tropical waters.
The popular name Of the fish, ana
the one by which the children OF
those countries call them is the suck.
ing fish,, This name is given to them
on account of disc on their heads,
by which they can attach themselves
to any smooth surface, like the side
of shark. ship, or the shell OF
turtle. This disc is like the SOFT
leather suckers that are popular with
schoolboys. When this fish has once
attached himself to anything you car
pull him to pieces rather than force
him to release his hold.
Turtle hunters go in boats and
carry several of these remoras in
tubs. When they see turtle and
get near him the sucker is sent afte,
him. He is held by the ring Oh
his tail, which in turn is attached by
a stout cord. Soon the fish is Sc.
curely fastened to the shell of the
turtle and turtle and fish are hauled
into the boat together. Once in the
air the remora loosens his hold and
is dropped back into the tub to rest
until another turtle is sighted.
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