Browning nuts, popping corn, roasting apples, and toasting marshmallows will add a great deal to the pleasure of the evening.
The dining-table should be draped in pale green crepe paper, the lights above being shrouded in gorgeous orange. Pumpkins of various sizes should be scooped and scraped to a hollow shell and, lined with waxed paper and filled with good things to eat, should be placed in the centre of the table. Lighted candles and quaint oriental lanterns will add greatly to the decorations.
The menu should include bannocks, scones, and other Scotch dainties. If desired, droning bagpipes might accompany the feast.
After listening to ghostly tales related by white-draped figures, the guests may receive all sorts of amusing souvenirs from a large pumpkin placed on a table at the door.
Of all our friends, both far and near, We beg the kind attention; So please to lend us now your ear, While we a subject mention.
To carry on our C. E. work, In the country and the city, We need more money very bad, And hope you'll help us with it.
The committee intend to hold On a day not distant far A sale for both the young and old,-- A handkerchief bazaar.
So this, then, is our plea in brief: To aid our enterprise We beg of you a handkerchief, Of any kind or size.
_Please send by mail before April 5th to_
The above invitation, which should be printed on a neat card, explains itself. The details of the bazaar may be arranged as desired.
If the Hatchet Party is given at home appropriate invitations can be issued in the form of a hatchet, bearing the words in quaint letters:
"_Ye Young Women's Christian Temperance Union extends ye invitation to meete ye Hatchet Familie of ye anciente tyme at ye home of Miss May Caspel, 236 Bell Avenue, on Wednesday evening, ye 22d of Februarie of ye year of our Lorde 1905, at eight of ye clock._"
The decorations should conform to the spirit of the evening. A large hatchet covered with white curled tissue paper may be hung in the hall. Plaques of little red, white and blue hatchets may take the place of flowers, and in the hall or reception room there should be a little table of "Souvenirs." These should be little bronze hatchets with the letters Y. W. C. T. U. on one side. Their handles should be tied with narrow ribbon--red, white and blue--and each guest should be allowed to select his color. Thus everybody has the opportunity offered to him of becoming a member by selecting the white ribbon, and in this way everybody is compelled to "show his colors."