Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-03-30
AN APRIL FOOL PARTY.
How to Start and Garry One For
ward

Send out the Invitations for your party
on foolscap paper. folded into the old-time
FOOLS cap. ON the invitation an original
idea would be to have water color sketch
of fool with cap and bells.
In writing, ask each guest to dress as
fooIishIy as possible, impersonating va
rirus characters in Mother Goose, with
masquvs or without. preferred.
Have hall reception room and dining
room decorated as grotesquely as possible,
with cabbage heads and vegetables for bou-
uurJs and candles in bottles for lights.
Have tables and step ladders arranged with
cushions for seats. Serve the supper on the
Moor For the tablecloth use large sheets
Of brown wrapping paper. and napkins OF
CNrts-ClOth or gay-COlored calico, each one
different Let the table centerpiece be
bunch OF onions in glass can or bottle.
Have the dishes odd possible, with
carving or kitchen knives and oyster forks
or nut picks for forks. Should you prefer,
you can get chop sticks for or 10 cents a
pair in the Chinese quarter and use these
instead Of knives or forks, letting each
guest carry hers home souvenirs. Your
plates may be pie tins. cups might be little
Tin measures small bowls. If sugar is
on the table have II in salt cellars or sha-
kerS. and salt in the sugar bowl. Cream
may be in the syrup jug and water in the
teapot In with your plate or sandwiches
have three or four fakes that look like the
rest, nut are dtCelNlnR as 10 taste. MAKE
the filling OF one extra strong of pepper and
give another good dose of Glove or
ginger. If you can have homemade crullers
make two three with cotton filings. The
way 10 do this is TO roll thin covering of
dough over ball of cotton. then fry in the
boiling lard with the others that gen
u!ne. II will look exactly the same, and the
surprise Is great when the teeth sink into
the cotton. Apples may be filled with fine
thread. using a long needle to draw the
thread in and out and being careful not to
puncture the skin so that 1t is noticeable
on the outside AS you do not wish TO be
wasteful with the viands, two three
April fool specimens of each kind Will be
sufficient.
As the guests enter. each could be hand
ed a cap and bells TO which is attached a
card with the number of a stunt which
each must do. Those for the girls might
be first a game of marbles, after which
the successful contestant should receive a
wreath of pink roses: dropping peanuts
into a small mouthed jug. with rabbit
for the prize, and carrying potato on a
spoon the length of the room. the prize a
tiny nest with little white chicken In 1t.
For the boys there could be hipplty hop
game with a leather medal on chain as
prize: a whstling contest after eating a
couple of dry crackers, the first TO ar
rive receiving a tin horn, and dressing a
doll In the neatest and latest costume. the
prize the doll itself Each guest might also
be requested to write jingle on an April
fool and read II aloud.
II literary contest is desired. list Of
quotations in which the word fool ap-
pears could be given to each individual.
together with pencil and paper and the
request that each write the name of an
author. Shakespeare Will be found a rich
treasury 10 draw upon In selecting these
quotations.; also the Bible and Poor Rich