Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1913 — MADE HAPPY BRIDAL TABLE [ARTICLE]

MADE HAPPY BRIDAL TABLE

Novel Ideas, a Feature of Recent Dinner, May Be Worth Keeping In the Memory. At a dinner given by some college | lads and lassies to a couple who had been very popular and whose engagement was made during their college 1 days, the following were some of the ( novel features? For a centerpiece there was a good-sized sailboat afloat on real water, which was supposed to j represent the “Sea of Matrimony” and the name on the boat’s side was “Just ; Launched.” The two college colors ■ were flying and the cargo consisted of I white roses and red carnations, the 1 two class flowers. When the clear soup was served, a tiny bark made of thin bit of toast with'toothpickmast and paper sail floated in it and the ices at the end were in the shape of. ships, the bonbons were in tiny canoes. The two class colors were also In evidence in great bows of red and white tarletan, which adorned the chairs occupied by the honored guests. The guests acted as sponsors for the happy pair, and all gave toasts in honor of the newly launched craft, which was aptly called “We Two" in a rhyme read by one of the guests.