Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-01

~ OR a wooden wedding serve rerresh-
ments on wooden tables without any
4 CLOTH and wherever convenient put
food on wooden dishes. A pair of WOODEN
shoes or sabots filled with flowers Will
make pretty centerpiece. or one OF the
pretty red and gilt wooden bowls tina.
come from Russia. These may be pur-
chased in some of the department or art
stores. but much more cheaply in the
Russian quarter.
If you have the wooden shoes fill them
with tulips and make your refreshments
along Dutch lines, to suit the land of the
wooden shoon.'
If you have a Dutch supper. OF course
you must have fish of some sort. oysters.
smoked or picked herring or Finnan had
die Cheese. rye bread. picked eggs, dill
pickles sauerkraut, picked beets and cab
bage are all suitable for a Dutch supper.
with honey cakes and pfefferkuchen or
other Dutch cakes for sweets. For drink
ables, coffee and chocolate are both IN
order.
If YOU do not care to make it Dutch SIM
PLY arrange to have your refreshments
substantial. such as cold boiled ham. tea
biscuit. deviled eggs, baked beans. pic
kles a vegetable salad, doughnuts and
coffee.
Wooden Toys for Favors.
For inexpensive favors buy wooden toys.
and if you do not set the table but serve
your refreshments buffet style. distribute
the gifts in grab bag, burying the ar
ticles securely wrapped in a wooden tub
or butter firkin with sawdust or excelsior
for the filing. If your guests are seated
at the table place a toy at each plate
suited to the tastes of the individual. For
instance. for a sporty chap get wooden
horse or automobile. For the woman who
likes to cook, a little rolling pin. and for
the one who never has her laundry done
to suit her. washboard. Give the pro-
spective bride a little house. and to the
woman who is going into farm for the
summer a milking stool or rake.
Among the games suited to wooden
wedding a progressive game that includes
jackstraws. dominoes. checkers. fox and
geese. block building or the putting to-
gether Of dissected picture puzzles will be
found entertaining and novel.
Guessing Contest.
If you would like a quiet guessing con-
test have a list of familiar quotations
each containing the word wood" or some
article made from wood. written plainly
on sheets Of paper with spaces opposite
for the answers For instance.
l. Spare the rcd and spoil the child.
i . Woodman spare that tree.
3. Don't give uD the ship
4. Land of brown health and shaggy
wood.
j. What's table richly spread.
Without woman at it's head?
e. Like the leaves of the forest when
summer is green.
I. Hush. my dear, lie still and slumber.
Holy angels guard thy bed.
=. s. The. boy stood on the burning deck.
=. Tis easier to build two chimneys
than maintain one in fuel
10. A book of verses underneath the
bough.
The answers TO this list of questions
which may be extended to greater length
IL you wish. are:
l. Solomon - g. Byron.
2. G, p. Morris. 7. Watts.
$ Commodore Lawrence. s. Memans.
5. j. Wharton TO- Omar. "'n"''
For prizes the Swedish wooden bread
plates or carved Jaranese bowls are ap-
propriate. though anything of wood will
answer the purpose.
An Auction.
wooden auction is another jolly form
Of entertainment. For this the hostess
purchases all sorts of inexpensive wooden
articles including everything from a box
Of Japanese toothpicks to a bamboo stool
These are. wrapped upin most mysterious
looking packages to disguise the contents