The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1912-02-23


Leap Year Party.
A week previous to Feb. IA, most of
the young people received the follow
ing invitation:
'"The Young Ladies' Auxiliary of the
Baptist Church will give a Leap Year
Valentine party next Wednesday yer
ing at. the residence of Mrs. E. A.
Penn. You are cordially invited to at
tend and learn your fate. Gents free,
if accompanied by a lady,
1t was reported that all the boys who
did not receive dates and the girls who
did not check were engaged" conse-
quently it was a care-free, jolly crowd
that anxiously awaited the first Leap
Year chance of the season. It was
quite a pretty sight that met the eyes
of the arrivals, when Mrs. H. ]. Ray
ushered them into a hall literally
crowded with pink hearts and large
pink chrysanthemums. Hearts of all
sizes, suspended from baby pink rib
bon, hung from every conceivable place
-festooped from every chandelier
and nantes decked with chrysanthe-
NUNS, were indeed a sight to help al
lure the hearts and minds of the young
people already attuned for the newt
able.
The girls very reluctantly paid into
the pocketbook carried by Mrs. V. R.
James, the price of the two tickets.
while the gentlemen accompanying
| them were lost in their admiration of
the decorations in front of them, and it
would have taken a very close observer
to detect the delight in their Eyes at
Al ,o,~ 1alsoc3 l,oaopcG<muo 1r-oc;-
ally when a few at the last moment
forgot their money and were compelled
to ask, "please charge"
ushered by Mrs. Penn into the lovely
red punch filled with tiny red hearts
presided over by Mrs. Marks, assisted
by Mrs. L. B. James and Miss Mar
garet Thomas, was quite the prettiest
arrangement of the affair. Hearts,
pink chrysanthemums, and candle
, sticks with colored lights, together
with he rest of the room harmonizing.
lent a soft pink glow over the faces.
From here they followed Mrs. Ray to
the parior, where exquisite music, un-
der the same glow of decorations, was
most enhancing.
Miss Ethel Kimbrough acted as usher
to a very unique Leap Year Progress
sive Conversation. Envelopes bearing
on their faces, "Darn the heart you
broke last year," were passed to the
bachelors. Within they -four d needle,
pink silk thread and a pretty pink heart
slashed numerically. Some proved
themselves quite adept with the needle,
and at this day and time when the at
mosphere is filled with "woman's suf-
frage," the girls watched with special
interest. When completed, the envel-
opes were sealed, addressed to a girl
present, and mailed in the postofice in
another o. for same. The girls were
now given a chance to vote Secret
ballot) for the ''prettiest' boy in the
house. Although every boy posed
beautifully" Mr.. Wallace Hudson
won the honor, and as Miss, Ethel
York. had been mailed the greatest
number of darned hearts, this couple
was blindfolded and seated in the hall
and given a bowl of cracker crumbs
and a spoon to feed the other with, and
for every crumb Miss Yorks put into
Mr.. Hudson's mouth. two went into his
ear, much to the amusement of all
, present.
The maids were next provided with
paper and pencil, with Instructions to
write proposals of marriage to the diff
ferent bachelors present. When COM
PEELED, they read their own proposals
but 10, and behold! they found quite a
number of bachelors had accepted pro-
posals on the way over and had to be
excused. l. was ''quite sudden to
some, a few accepted with thanks
and the rest are now thinking it
over"
We have this much to say. If Gren-
ada real estate. building aid loans,
preachers and boarding houses do not
improve in business, it can't be
BLAMED on the girls. One gentle
man present expressed a bit of indig-
2 nation to another, for begging to be
excused to the sweetest worded pro-
posal from the prettiest girl present.
TIE intruder was already owned, viii h
+ furnished the only pathetic" incident
of the affair. Progressive conversation
was again INDUCED in, and with every
change, low murmurs of 81 am Sc
sorry etc, were distinctly heard.
Refr, shments. consisting of salad, il
pink crepe caps, heart-shaped sand
wicnes, pickles, olives. crackers AM
n SOU enir valentines, were passed at
l. te h r..
The uniqueness of this affair alon,
bespoke its enjoyment, without tn
participants expressions, which wer
profuse. The only way by which tn
boys who did not attend and are heart
free, may escape their fate this year
ne will he to join the navy on the hunt 70
Id the o Pole. X. x.