Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1912 — Pretty and Novel Device. [ARTICLE]

Pretty and Novel Device.

A girl who has passed part of her life in Japan invited 16 friends to dinner recently, and in the center of the table was a large bird made of forget-rfe-nots. That the bird covered a phonograph was not known until the finger bowl stage of the banquet In the water were floating rose petals, and they gradually unfolded into a scroll, on which was written: “Get my secret from the bird." Curiosity was at high pitch when the young hostess turned the key and the bird softly sang “Marie and Philip want me to tell you that they are engaged and invite you all to the wedding.” Congratulations then were in order, but the secret was kept so well until the bird talked that no one suspected more than a casual friendship existed between the hostess and her admirer.— New York Press.