Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1910 — PURELY FEMININE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PURELY FEMININE

SOME PARTY IDEAS METHODS OF CELEBRATING LITTLE ONE’S BIRTHDAY. Candles and Flower Baskets to Set Off the Always Necessary Cake-~ Games May Be Many and Varied. Have your table set prettily and on each side of the birthday cake with Its candles place pretty baskets of flowers. The plate favors may be baskets of flowers or the quaint little flower pots, which may be obtained in any of the shops at a cost of about 10 cents, says a writer in the National Food Magazine. As for games, you might have a hunt for four-leaf clovers. Have the clover leaves cut out of cardboard,

hand colored, and place several dozen of them about the rooms for the children to ■ search for. If you have baskets as favors the guests may place their clovers in these and the one getting the greatest number may receive some trifling prize.. The Japanese toys will be found of great service for this purpose, since so many attractive little articles may be -had at very little expense. Tiring of this

game, one may always “pin a tail ona donkey," or put a "head on a duck," or "go to Babylon," as follows: The players form a line, holding hands. The player at lower end of the linej whom we.will call B, begins by stog-j ing the opening verse of the charming! ditty, “How Many Miles to Babylon?" 1 To this A (the extreme upper end of) the line) responds: Three score mile* and ten. (B) Can I get there by can-; die light? (A) Oh, yes, and back! again. The chorus composed of alt the players, then takes up the refrain.! Then open the gates as high as thej sky and let King George and his troops ride by. 'As this is sung 0 leads the lower part of the line to the upper end, where they pass under th« arched arms of each two players. A‘ proposing the question and B answering, after which the line is led up from the opposite end, and as a conclusion all join hands and dance together in a ring.