Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 December 1895 — A Christmas Entertainment. [ARTICLE]

A Christmas Entertainment.

A novel idea for a children’s Christmas entertainment is a butterflies’ ball, writes Elizabeth Robinson Scovil, in tha Ladies’ Home Journal. This need not mean late hours nor expensive dresses. The boys wear tight-fitting suits of black or dark-brown, the girl any pretty, fanciful dresses. The framework of the wings is deftly fashioned of wire and covered with paper or the cotton crepon that comes in such vivid colors; these are spangled with gold or painted to represent the tinting of the butterfly’s wings. A light yoke of wire is constructed to fit the shoulders, fastening under the arms, and to this the wings are attached. The effect is very brilliant and graceful. Another pretty fancy is an archery fete. The children carry small bows dressed' with flowers, and sheafs of arrows in flower-bedecked quivers.