The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-02-02
HOn1eCanBe
Made Into
Pacific Isle
BY MRS. PENROSE LYLY
Written for NEA Service

written Tor MA Service
VOU may not be able to take YOU
Il friends on winter cruise
among the palm islands of the
Pacific, but you can turn your liv.
ing room into an exciting jungle
and make your kitchen over into Z
beachcomber's hut with very little
trouble.
Invite your guests to wear Their
gayest sports clothes and beach
pajamas, buy a few new Hawaiian
Cuban or Spanish dance records
prepare simple tropical supper
and your party will have all the
langurous charm of night in the
tropics, even though the snow falls
white on your roof.
For your decorations, gather sew
eral rolls Of green and orange crepe
paper, strips Of old mating from
the attic, all the batiks and In.
dian prints you can borrow anc
much bright calico.
Laurel Boughs Help
Some fresh laurel boughs viii
give added jungle-like appearance
to the house. These things, plus {
little imagination, will result in tn,
gayest and most unusual party o
the winter season.
Your kitchen will make a gooC
beachcomber's hut and is convent
ent for the refreshment bar anC
supper. For the roofs use large
pieces Of mating or gayly printed
calicos, yet low enough to give al
intimate effect.
On the walls hang strips Of mat,
ting, Indian prints or Hawaiian ia
pas. At each end of the hut plact
a window frame picked up from TIT
old wood pile or else make them OH
of stiff cardboard.
Those TrOpic Suns!
Make "glass" of orange paper
and place an electric light behind
each window. Now you have your
hut flooded with warm tropical
glow.
Make bar out of a long, strong
plank, firmly fixed in place, put
two plain wooden benches against
the mattinged walls, and a table
at the one end, covered with calico
for the supper.
Hang few old oil lamps from the
roof and stick few boughs OF
laurel around the top of the mat
ting on the walls.
During the evening, serve your
ginger ale and punches over the
bar. Keep an extra supply nearby
in the refrigerator. At one end OF
the bar, place large bowl filled
with iced small cubes Of canned
pineapple, Cut-up green maraschi-
no cherries and canned shredded
cccoanut, mixed together.
Serve this in small glass cups
You will need small bowls of nuts,
assorted pickles and olives, sailed
crackers, cocoanut candies and Gig
aret about the hunt.
Then to the Jungle
After your guests have paid their
first (though not their last) visit
10 the hut, take them out to the
jungle in the living-room, to dance
to the pulsatitlg tropical music yol
have provided.
The jungle is flooded in soft or
ange light thrown up from the floor
giving the effects of long skyline
Of sunset color.
The yellow paper over your lamps
set on the floor against the wall
produces this lighting effect.
The two or three cocoanut ano
banana palm trees that give touch
Of unusual realty, are made Of rolls
Of cardboard eight feet high, for the
trunk, with large, floppy leaves made
Of green crepe paper held up by rib;
Of copper wire.
Vines Add to Effect
Creeping vines fall from the cell.
ing, made of thin strips of crepe
paper run through the fingers tx
make them curl. OF course, all the
chairs and tables in the jungle are
OF WICKET
The couch is covered with STRIP
of mating and piled with soft color
full cushions. Over the couch, 6
decorative awning is suspended or
two thin sticks. The awning is JUS
wide piece of calico.
Make or buy an orange or rec
: leis or flower wreath for each CUES
to wear. These leis make white
clothes look even more lovely anC
give each guest a festive appear
ance. You can make them by string.
ing paper flowers together.
Supper, served in the hut, shoulC
be simple. Use brightly patterned
wooden or paper plates and some o.
the new henstitched, three-ply It's
size napkins.