Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1909 — A Fruit Contest [ARTICLE]

A Fruit Contest

The hostess passed cards done in water colors to represent big grape which yellow pencils were The table center piece consisted of a large round plate filled with delicious looking fruits, all of which were artificial, and when passed were filled with hard, transparent candles in imitation of raspberries, strawberries, cherries and currants. The ices Were frozen, in fruit forms, and were most realistic. The place cards were also in fruit, shaped and colored by the hostess. Following is the list of questions: What fruit does a colored man prefer to pick by the light of the moon? Watermelon.' What was once called “lady fingers’’? Bananas. What happens when a girl’s plans for a runaway match are frustrated? Cantalope. A light brown, a French pronoun and the last of a girl’s name? Tangerine. What are people sometimes handed? A lemon. ' A letter and something found In the kitchen, also in the mountains? O (range). What was pulled out by a character of Mother Goose? Plum. On electric wires? Currants. A fowl that comes before a berry? Goose-beiyy. - My first is a monkey, my second $ grain and my third a place of rest Apricot. Made famous by George Washington? Cherry. USed often In lemonade and what we do with the dead? Strawberry. An evergreen and what Eve gave Adam? Pine-apple. More than one? Pear. Best frozen before eaten? Persimmon. Used by worms for food? Mulberry.