The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-26
Midsummer Entertainments

. AN ICE PARTY. 49,
r-HE rooms were decorated with evergreen boughs. on which hung snow.
made in thin layers of cotton waddins or batting wet and sprtnkled with
l powdered mice to make it gihten Glass iceies were bought IN hns
here and there and large and small glass beads to CIV the erect OF frozen
drops OF water.
little SNOWFALL of whipped cream floating in each cup Dreamed chicken vas
sarvod in White naner cases with delicate white sandwiches. n then celery
salad with a cream ayonnaise n eameheee balls scattered over it.. Snow
balls of ice cream, with white frosted cakes, cam last
The main feature of the evening a a guessing contest, each guest being
sven a decorated card bearng~th h following list of questions with blanks fol
hling " the answers:
Ian ice that the wordw would be better without dn four letters Vhe,
. An ice that is easier 10 give tina to take cix letters) Advice
8 An ice that lures x lettrs) Entice
l. An Ice we hope to enter tdsht leters). Paradise
s An ice much menuone dint the scriptures enine letters) sacrince.
g. An icet that occurs threet times ex leters} Ihree
!, An ice that hscut give letters. Slice.
An ice that repeats itself ave letterso Twice
3. An ice that gives a piquant flavor five letters, Spice.
10 An ice seen at weddings dour letters, Rice.
-,HE hostess in her notes of invitation requested the guests to CON dressed
in white. and to regard the warning that IAN guest wearing a fan pr
\ using n word suggestive OF hat will invite the penalty OF a i"lert
The party vas held in alarge white tent o the lawn, with openings al both ends
A tiny Christmas tree, whose branches were dotted with cotton tufts, stood in
me corner On the tree we're tie small packages fapp !" ""e paper. s."
the centre Of the tent stood a table on which was a big biock of ice set in a nat
tin pal, which was covered with a towel and cotton On the ice a school Of seals
and several skimos made OF paper-mache had made their home says a writer
In the woman's Eomec Companion.
md pencn mt tod to write is man. words suggestive of cold as she could
a NJ, pe"" \. t. end Of ten mute the papers we're exchanged for correction.
N hostess read her list slowly. an ech wore as she read it was crossed off
the lists of the others. If found % n turn zach read the words not given by the
others The nrst winner was The M whose list contained the greatest number
of words not rossedo off or the greatest number ofw lords lot thought o. by the
A KrNpERcARrEN BREAKFAST.
Pr vas a gathering of n nine Undergraduates spending their vacations at
home Each girl represented a different training school, and the xcnan
= of Ideas "a most interesms Aer "saN"s W. w. w. ,asaa o. 4ans-oe
iet and fun regned supreme as we listened to mock gti lesson or a take-on
of a mothers meeting Lastly, W we're given a card or (which had been draw
nart o q circle. These we were to embody in an Illustration of n kindergarten
story. =
THE GAME "sANDPIPER"
vr IL mt alway Easy tt nus children at a summer place where there's only
the beach I'd serve as a plays therefore, the game of "Sandpiper" is
1 one we'll adapted to both thu place an the little people. Let them play 1t IN
their bathing suits.
The children. Ill except two, form a flock of andpipers, hopping up n
aoun Tho beach. while the remaining two are The hunters" who try to catch
the wary birds. They run afterth them, singing:
"sandpnm. sandpiper. hopping N the sand
Come, let us catch you n join our hand!
Then the hunters 10 their pest to catch two Of the ndpipers nj. once
.ught become hunters their turn The only way a sandpiper can escape
hs,n. cantnred lis To hop N one leg, d so log as he is ndin thus M Ii
49,. MN 1t bio beein TO run. an he is again prey for the swift hunter