Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-02-08
A Party for Children.

FrOSllnS instead Oh MIX.
A. Party for Children.
All our entertaining cannot be con-
fned to- the grown-ups, but the chill
dren's: rarty need not be difficult or fa-
tiguing to prepare. 1t is easy to salts
fly them. Let there be- New Years bells,
with cut-outs of Old Father Time and
the Baby New Year. These answer for
a party any time in January-the ba apy
hood of 1921.
The good old games Of Going to Je-
rusalem, Hide the Thimble, and Button,
are always popular, and what child
does not enjoy peanut hunt?
Turn off the lights and have the dill
ing room lighted with bright red can
dies The table can be made quite at
tractive with very little work. Make
little turtles by sticking cloves in big
fat raisins, and scatter them all over
the table, In the center have a Jack
Horner pie made by covering a white
enameled basin with a Crust Of brown
paper. From the top of this pie have
narrow ribbons leading to each placs'
Use paper napkins suggestive Of the
season. Places may be found by cut
ting picture post cards in half, and put
ting one-half Of each picture at the
plate, and giving the other to child.
AT, fS-ac cty~oo nj
should be served. Creamed potatoes,
peanut butter sandwiches, ice cream,
small cakes and cocoa are sufficient
Frost cakes with boiled frostlng; be-
fore it hardcns, stand an animal crack
er upright on top. Add tiny flag to
each helping Of ice cream.
Then the pie! A signal is given for
the children to pull the ribbons, the
crust is broken and out comes a small
box of candy or toy for each guest.
Belinda.
The quaint and charming name OF
Belinda is derived from the Italian.
Though most frequently applied in
modern fiction to the sweetest of the
sex, and pretty coquettes, Belinda
means a serpent. So beware. you men,
Of the baby doll who answers to the
cunning, old fashioned name.
How Belinda came to be evolved Is
not clear to etymologists. She simply
appeared in Italy, and is believed to
have had her origin in the fashionable
craze for names ending in "a" which
swept Europe in Queen Anne's Angus
tan age. The first Belinda recorded in
history was the wife of Orlando, de-
but sufficiently prominent to spread her
but sufficiently prominent to spread the
name far and wide. But greater vogue
was to be hers, and when Pope chose
Belinda for his heroine of 1.-THE Rape
Of the Lock-" her permanence was as
sured.
In those days it needed only fam
Gus author to irnmortalize feminine
name by putting her in book and all
the fashionable maids Of the country
adopt her for their own. just as today
screen favoritcs' coiffures and costumes
are copied by adoring flappers.
Belinda fourished in England ana
Italy, but her popularity was negligible
in France, and Germany refused her
completely. Spain took her from Italy,
but despite the vowel ending, she was
a bit too harsh for Spanish ears. Amer
lea welcomed her whole-heartedly, and
she flourishes here today. both actually
and in fiction.
Belinda's gem is the cat's-eye. 1t is
a talisman against evil and disease, and
has a mysterious magnetic power which
renders it's 'wearer irresistible to those
whom she wishes to attract. Friday is
her lucky day, and her lucky number.