Bright Ideas for Entertaining

Two hundred forms of amusement or entertainment for social gatherings of all kinds: large or small parties, clubs, sociables, church entertainments, etc.; with special suggestio...

Choose sides as in a spelling match, and let the leader of the first side give the first syllable of the name of some Bible character. The leader of the opposite side will then...

For a tenth birthday, quite a long table is needed, and a pretty arrangement of vines in scallops, with a small bunch of flowers at each point may be carried out, the viands bei...

Ottoman Country Roasted and Gorged. (Roast Turkey) Red Swamp Fruit Sauce. (Cranberry Sauce) Hibernia's Pride Crushed. (Mashed Potatoes) Cucurbita Maxima Crushed. (Mashed Squash)...

This feast if well planned and carried out is most pleasing in its results. There are seven tables. These tables are set in white, with centrepieces and other decorations to car...

For the supper have a salad served in little paper boxes decorated with strips of pink tissue paper cut either in narrow slashes like the chrysanthemum petals, or in broader one...

Have the table long enough (even if it must be extended with boards the whole length of the barn or attic) to accommodate all the guests at once. Arrange huge platters of ginger...

The refreshments may be served from a buffet--the guests seated Japanese fashion on floor cushions--and may include rice cakes; tea punch; tea as a beverage; "Japanese" salad, m...

Brown Croquettes Potato Balls Brown Breadsticks Chicken Salad, yellow Mayonnaise Orange Ice Cream, served in orange-peel baskets Chocolate Cake Chocolate Icing Chocolate and Lem...

Place these objects tastefully on the dining-room table, each guest on entering the room being furnished with a catalogue of the subjects, supposed to be different paintings, ma...

You can help make an hour at a social fly so quickly that the most bashful person present will say it was only ten minutes long, by the help of cards bearing small pictures whic...

The entire color scheme of this Fourth of July luncheon must be worked out in the national colors; as far as possible the doilies used should be designed in star-shaped patterns...

Each guest on arriving should be presented with a white card on which has been pasted a picture of General Washington. These need not all be alike--in fact, it will increase the...

As fast as each one is guessed, the slip is taken off the back and pinned on the breast. Allow fifteen minutes for each person to write an original poem on the tree he represent...

The invitations for the cotton wedding may be written in ink on well-starched cotton cloth. Cut the pieces to fit regular-sized envelopes. You may request the guests to wear cot...

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