Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1920-08-02
GOOD HOUSEKEEPING.
BY Laura A. kirkman.
A CHUD'S BIRTHDAY PARTY
THAT COSTS THREE DOLLARS

81 have three dollars. writes a reader
of this column who signs herself Working
Mother" especially for my little girls
birthday, which comes the last OF August.
she Is nine years old and has never had q
birthday party, so an going to spead tins
money on party instead of on a present
But the thing that puzzles me is this: do
YOU think | can give a really nice party
Ia five of her friends three boys and two
other girls) for So? If so, just how shall |
spend the money?
| consider II privilege to be allowed
Ia take part IN such interesting planning
as this Three dollars is an amply sufficient
amount for nice birthday party for six
children | would advise YOU To proceed as
follows Be content TO serve oaly.
Frosted Sponge Cake
Iced Cocoa Vanilla Ice Cream
Nuts and candies cannot be included
# YOU are To have money left for other
things. but the children will be better
oh without them anyway and will never
miss them. Sc the following Sponge
Cake Recipe.
Frosted Sponge Cake for Party of
Six 4 eggs. | large cup flour, | large
cup sugar, juice OF lemon. Beat the
whites and yolks separately until very
light. Mix them and add sugar, sitting
il IN lightly Next add -four, also sitting
IN lightly Last add the lemon Juice
Bake 80 minutes. (The success lies IN the
bcating) In various vlcinIties, OF course,
eggs are at various prices, but assuming
that eggs IN your vicinity are about TO
cents 3 dozen, we will count the cost of
the four eggs, roughly, at "a cents; the
cup Of flour, roughly, at 5 cents the large
cup Of sugar, at ) cents and the lemon
Juice at 5 cents. This makes q total of
81 cents-but let us call IT 40 cents to be
on the safe side We will allow about II
cents for the boiled icing q cup sugar al
5 cents and l cgg-white at 6 cents1
BUY the ice cream-which viii cost
about 80 cents Il quart is enough for SIX
children). We have now accounted for
81 II of the s3.
With milk at about II cents a quart, the
cocoa will come to about % cents (12 cup
cocoa powder at about cents and l cup
of sugar at cents. This brings the food
total up 10 81 37-but we will again be
on the safe side and call it 81 40.
With the menu taken care OF, we can
now turn our attention TO game prizes
and table decorations Buy a ten-cent
roll OF crepe paper and cut it into stream
ers running from beneath the cake (which
should stand in the centre of the table,
10 each plSte u tItdIlJ LIS accounts
for 81 so. For table favors buy three ten
cent china dolls for the three little girls
(dress the dolls in leftover bits of crepe
paper and three ten-cent tops for the bows.
THIS brings the total up to S2l0.
The remaining 90 cents viii buy two
game prizes-a paint box at SO cents
for the child who can draw the best pic
ture of a house IN five minutes: and a 40
cent box OF writing paper OF a silver book
mark at 40 cents for the child who best
pins the tail on the donkey in that time
honored game of ''pinning tails on the
donkey" without which no child's party is
complete. Use an old sheet for this game
trace a donkey from child's book and
cut tailless one out of colored cloth:
make the SIX tails yourself out of paper
Use leftover Christmas candles for
around the cake.
Tomorrow Letters.