Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-04-02
FLOWER LUNCHEON
FOR YOUNG GIRLS

Young girls are delightfully."- easy 10 en-
terrain because they are responsive and
appreciative. With pretty decorations
simple but dainty refreshments. and a
hostess who does not show line of worry
in her face, but looks directly at each
guest while talking to her. making each
feel for the time being that she is the
only person who occupies her thoughts.
your party will be a success.
Girls like pretty ornamentation and a
flower luncheon will appeal TO them.
With green dining room. candelabra
shades, etc. you combine white. vel
low o. pale pink. Daffodils and jonquils.
tulips and pussy willows. little later
/, the fragrant pink arbutus. be used
| in combination, or one kind may be used
exclusively. AT charming college
| luncheon last year the tables had center
pieces of ferns, then pansies purple and
| gold. sprinkled carelessy over the cloth.
/ Violets would answer the same purpose,
or the wood hepaticas If one can get
! them.
| For place cards one can have water
color paper decorated with the flower or
| fern one has chosen. and on each an APP
| propriate quotation If one does not care
to have the flowers all alike, suit them in
dividually to each guest. For instance.
! for q girl named Margaret, there would
| be the daisy. with either of these quota
/ tions:
Wee. modest. crimson-tpped how'r
Burns.
Or.
| OF all the foures in the medc.
| Than love l most these figures white and redo,
| soch that men callcn daisies in our toune-
-Chaucer.
| For a Violet or girl with violet eyes,
| violet by a messy stone.
Half hidden from the eye:
Fair star when only
Is shining in the sky
Wordsu orth.
| For Rose. a very queenly girl,
| Queen OF the rosebud garden Of girls.
| Tennysc
/ oh. my loves Ike a red. red rose,
That's newly sprung in June.
! For Lillian. there are no end OF beau.
| tiful quotations For the girls whose
names do not suggest flowers. their APP
pearance or characteristics may be called
! upon for suggestions as to an appropriate
| flower
dainty menu for the luncheon might
he as follows: Grape fruit with straw
berry in the center. or a slice or orange
| on pretty plate, mounded nigh With
| powdered sugar and about 1T a circle OF
| Stra Wberries with stems and hulls. This
is quite new here, but popular in Rich
| mond. Va, and is pretty and appetizinS
|
| with tiny bread and butter sandwiches
cut in stars or flower shapes Then sal
mon timbales or omit this and serve
| chicken croquetteS or SWeetbread and
mushroom patties Lamb chops en- cas-
serole with peas. potatoes and carrots
could be the substantial course. followed
| by lettuce and asparagus salad. Ninai-
grette dressing, then ice cream baskets
with strawberries or ice cream served In
the tiny flower pots with grated chocolate
over the top to simulate the earth, and Il
bit of maidenhair fern sticking in the pot
Ices in regular flower shapes are also
dainty and can be ordered from the
caterers or packed at home. The fancy
cakes that go with this course would be
frosted and decorated with candied vio-
LET'S and rose leaves. and chocolate could
close the luncheon instead of the coffee
that older persons prefer.
A sample two-course luncheon would be
chicken salad, with delicate sandwiches
OF biscuit. pineapple sherbet. with little
cakes and chocolate.
There are a number of flower games,
any one of which would be appropriate
For instance. have ready lists of questions
for each one to answer. with prizes for
the one who does the best. The prize can
be growing plant in a pretty jardiniere
a rose vase or Il bunch of violets. If YOU
choose the planting game your questions
might be as follows:
III plant my foot what would come up?
4 lady slipper.
If l plant boat what might spring up?
Leeks.
If plant menagerie what birds.
beasts and reptiles would come upo Ad-
der's tongue. dandelon. snake root. VOLTS
bane foxglove. pussy willows. larkspur
ragged robin.
If l plant theologian what will come
up? Jack in the pulpit.
If plant a history what will come up?
Dates.
I'll plant lively boy what will come
up - Johnny jump up.