The Madison journal. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1888-current, 1920-01-17
LITTLE PATRICIA GILPIN EN-.
TERTAINS LITTLE FRIENDS

| On Thursday afternoon, January
Is, little Miss Patricia Gilpin enter
tanned her friends with most beau'i
full and delightful party, celebrating
her third birthday.
A color scheme of pink and greer
was most effectively used to decorate
the entire house. GarlanGs of pinl
crepe paper were festooned over tn:
doorway and around the chandeliers
While baskets OF ferns and pink chry.
santhemums graced the piano, tables
and manteis.
The charming little hostess was
herself dressed in most dainty ard
becoming pink sheperdess costume
and greeted her little guests wi::h her
usual engaging smile-on this occas.
ion more suEshiny than ever. She
was assisted in welcoming them by
her mother and father, Mr.. and Mrs.
W. A. Gilpin, Misses Vertner Sewer,
and Fannie Mae Wright.
Her many friends both old and
young showered her with display of
most beautiful and elaborate gifts,
attesting to her already unusual
popularity.
During the afternoon the delight
ful contest of "pinning tails on the
donkey" was enjoyed by the little
folks, the prizes being a tiny little
french Doll, which had been beauti-
July decorated by Mrs. Rowan won
by little Miss Clara Ellen Myers and a
Drawing Book won by Master STAN
.ey Coad.
After this, a series of Mother
Goose tableaux was enacted by the
various little guests at the party, and
each story in turn most impressively
told by Mrs. R. W.. Moreland. Miss
Patricia made a perfect miniature CT
Little Bo Peep" Master Hump
Gilbert would have made the real
Jack Horner heartily ashamed of
himself, little Marion Ward PLAYED
Little Miss Muffet to perfection when
she became frightened by a horrid
old spider, and Master Ralph Hollo-
way played the Little Boy Blue who
was discovered in the, haystack, this
time very wide awake. Mrs. ]. NJ.
Rowan played delightful music.
Miss Eta Witherow and Mrs.
Victor Wright PRECEDED in the dining
room whittier the now enchanted little
people were led to partake of the de-
Ecious candies, cakes, nuts, lce-eream
and all the goodies dear to the hearts
and appetites of children. The table
was beautifully decorated in pink and
green, end in the center, alight with
three tiny candles, was handsome
birthday cake presented to Miss Pat
ricia by Mrs. j. Wright. Around
the cake were grouped small pink and
green baskets of candy, presented as
favors to the guests and at each end
Of the table, candles east their soft
glow from pink ahsdea cahdelabras.
From the chandelier; were. draped.
festous, Of pink ccsssPa paper fastened
20 the table tc mark The, place of each
little guest. Much Hin was afforded
by blowing out the candles after
which, feature the b. ppy little ones
bade farewell TO their radiant hostess,
each one declaring this most won
.;erful afternoon and wishing for her
many, ,r1any more happy birthdays
nd allthe good things of life in the
vears before her. 4lr
The fortunate ones who enjoyed
''e gracious hospitality of the Gilpin'
home were:
Little Misses Elizabeth Tweddle
rarion Ward, Thelna johnson.
Elizabeth Belts, Sarah Amn1ond.,,
Nary Helen Candy, Clara Ella Myers,
Ielen Lucille Yerger, Katie Mae
Vance, Margaret. Sanders, Martha
Boswell and Masters Ralph Holloway
lump Gilbert, Harry Don Morton
Meredith Holt, Stanley and Hunter
Coad, Robert Wiley Candy, Stanley
Vcak, JEFF Allen aid woodson Dale.
Mesdames Yerger, johnson. Coaj
Tweadle. Allen. Holloway, Moeller
Gilbert, Rowan, Morton. Bondy More
and, Candy and Wright. Misses
Amanda Stone, Amy Holmes, Eta
Witherow, Louise Ward, Vertner
Sewer. Emma Louise Sewer, Fannie
Mae Wright, Annie Louise Vance.
Louise Dale and Martha Sanders.
Owing to the rainy weather, many
others who were invited were unable
20 come.