Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-04-10
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Edited by
M. N. F. Bridgham
NOUelfieS for Easter

tainment, also the menu and favors.
Would it be proper to have it on Easter,
and If not, when? Do you think 1t
proper to have 1t to make money, or
not? COMMITTEE.
The entertainment should be during
Easter week, not on Easter day. / see
no reason why you should not make
some money. 1 do not know how elab-
crate refreshments you care TO serve.
You could have eggs In all sorts of
ways, ice cream, shaped; cakes,
egg-shaped, and for favors little chicks
or rabbits.
You could have an egg hunt" They
are always suitable and always enjoya-
bic. There could be prizes offered for
eggs colored gold or silver to make it
interesting.
A Japanese Tea
A unique way to issue invitations for
Japanese affair Is to write them on
Japanese napkins, roll tightly and tuck
inside little Japanese lantern to which
is tied card bearing the name of the
guest OF course, these must be deliV-
cred by messenger. Japanese post
cards are also used for invitations, be-
ing very pretty. There are small cards
with Japanese decorations, and at some
large shops real imported stationery
may be obtained that comes apparently
by the yard, with long, narrow envel-
opes.
The rooms should be properly deco
rated with fans of all sizes, lanterns of
all shapes, parasols small and great,
and paper panels, also screens. Many
of these things may be rented from an
accommodating tea merchant, of whom
there are many, or at least one in al
most every town.
Chrysanthemums, cherry blossoms,
oil ma n1D6a from
purchased already made. The rooms
should be devoid of all possible furni-
ture FloWering shrubs in Jars and
flowers arranged simply a la Japan
should be around the rug-covered
rooms. The hostess and those who as
sist will wear kimonos, and to be strict
ly in good Japanese form they should
bow until the forehead touches the floor
and be kneeling on cushions when the
guests enter lit is understood that only
ladies are asked to an affair of this
kind. Tiny cups of weak tea are Of
fered at once.
A pretty table decoration for the din
ing room is to have a fine square of
mating outlined into squares by strips
of bamboo; inside these squares place
bowls or vases containing single bios
som of whatever flower is liked with
few blossoms and petals scattered over
the table. Place cards should be OF
either lilac or pink or lilac with pink
lettering, this combination is perfectly
Japanesque. The letters should be in
odd square characters which read down,
not across, the card.
The first course should be a sweet
meat, preserved fruit or ginger, lifted
by the hostess with a pair of silver
tongs from bowl to tiny plates. A
PURGE of peas may follow, then an
omelet, followed by fillets of fish either
boiled or baked with soy sauce. A
salad may be served or next a stew of
chicken with mushrooms The last
course will be a cream or sherbet with
tiny cakes, nuts and preserved plums.
Tea comes again in the wee handleless
cups.
With the finger bowls have for each
guest little box containing the Jap
anese water flowers, which look like
pieces of wood until they are dropped
into water, when they expand into Won
derful little flowers, fishes and figures.
Rice cakes may be obtained at most
of the large city shops, but sponge
cakes may be used in place of them.
The Japanese are very fond of all ball
games, especially DANA" which is
bag ball, and is played with what we
call bean bags. The art is to keep as
many bags going as possible without
dropping them, Indoor tennis, battle
door and shuttle cock. ping-pong and
any game with ball. including diabolo,
are suitable astimes for Japanese az
fairs.