The daily sentinel., 1914-02-26

cnce more Mrs. Oris McVay told in
a very charming manner all about a
youth who loved maid and who
wrote his love for her in the sands of
the seashore only to have 1t washed
away and then in despair uprooted a
huge birch tree and dipping the tip
in the seething crater of Mt. Vesuy-
ius wrote on the midnight sky in
letters of flame Florence love you"
there to burn forevermore. The
hearty applause Mrs. McYay receiv-
ed made the lady quartette feel
somewhat slighted in comparison. but
then you know there are some peo-
pie who cannot appreciate classical
music
Following this number Mrs. Gala
way sang very sweetly Loves Old
Sweet Song" AS Mrs. Galloway
gained confidence in the perfectly
harmless intentions of her listeners
her voice gathered strength and vol
ume and the old love song filled the
room with melody. The audience
was then bribed with the promise of
something good to eat If they would
sit quietly through the next number
which was Annie Laurie sung by the
brave and bold lady quartette, two
thirds of the singers keeping on the
right key most of the time. Before
anyone had time to recover from this
Mrs. Scott partly sung and partly re-
cited a dainty little thing called "a
picnic For Two" playing her own
piano accompaniment. Mrs. Scott's
voice is as sweet as her face and I
could pay her no greater compliment
than that II sat up all night to try.
Afrn
ward with n pretty little package in
her hand and asking tho young bride
to be to stand. she handed her one
by one half dozen aluminium kitch-
en- necessities accompanying each gift
Mrs. Rice is adept at this sort of
thing, being gifted with an unusu-
ally strong sense of humor and per
feet self-possession BY this time
every one was almost exhausted from
laughing so much and were quite
ready to obey the signal when Mrs.
Scott struck up the wedding march
and march into the dining room and
serve themselves at the buffet with
salad. sandwiches and coffee and with
piping hot rarebit from the chaf-
ing dish.
The color scheme of the dining
room and menu was confined to yell
low and white, both colors being ex-
ceedingly becoming to the dusky
beauty of the bride elect Four long
strands of clothes pin dolls. dressed
in yellow crepe paper and white rib
bon reached from the corners of the
chandelier to the four sides of the
table and were held there by huge
bows of yellow. Tiny kewpie dolls
hung suspended by yellow ribbon,
like laughing gods of love, directly
ever the mound OF white and yellow
wrapped packages containing the
shower for Miss Florence After the
refreshments white cards with vel
low pencils attached were passed to
each guest. At the top of the cards
were the words, "Florence=Mat-
thias," and ten minutes was given to
determine who could make the most
words out of the two names. Of
course Miss Florence won the prize,
two cooking spoons and a roasting
fork
Then Mrs. Montgomery presented
the future housewife with new
broom at the same time giving a de-
lightful reading about the unequal
battle woman forever wages with her
great enemy, dirt. After this the
shower" was placed in front of Miss
Florence and as she unwrapped sauce
Fans, butter moulds, ETC.. she thank
ed the givers in pretty and gra-
cious manner. The jolly afternoon
wound up with an experience meet
ing, each woman being called upon
to tell exactly how he proposed
Some were rather shy about it, one
or two somewhat bold, one little wom-
an declaring that she did the pro-
posing, and another vowing that 1t
was all too sacred to talk about,
that she would not even tell her
mother" but everyone proclaiming
themselves perfectly contented and
happy (talk about the courage of the
Spartans). The happy party broke
UP at six O'Clock in Ito quote from
dear old Cranford) "a perfect gale Of
merriment.'