IN June, when the roses are blooming in the garden, or climbing over
the piazza, you must be sure to have a rose party! Give it on the lawn,
if you are fortunate enough to have one, or else on the piazza.
If you do not mail your invitations but have them left at your friends’
homes, tie each note with pink ribbon to the stem of a pink rose.
For your party you will need to have ready “Rose Ring Toss.” If you
have a set of “ring toss,” wind the hoops with pink paper, and if you
have not a set, you can easily make one, by winding different size
embroidery hoops with pink paper, and driving a stake in the ground
where you are ready to play. Have ready, also, a number of pink bean
bags.
The first game to play is “Drop the Rose,” which is just like “Drop the
Handkerchief,” except that you use a long-stemmed pink rose (be sure
and trim the thorns off!).
This can be followed by “Rose Ring Toss,” and of course you know that
this is played by standing some distance from the stake, and trying to
throw the rings over it. The large ring counts five, the next ten, and
the next fifteen. Mother will keep score for you, and she can decide
what number will win the game.
A party wouldn’t be complete without “London Bridge!” But as this is a
rose party the “pillars” of the bridge can offer each child the choice
between a red rose or a pink rose. Next you can enjoy a game of bean
bag.
By this time you will be ready for refreshments, and mother will not
have any difficulty in decorating the table, with plenty of roses at
hand. In the center of the table should be a “Jack Horner” pie, in
the form of a large paper rose, and from this “pie,” pink ribbons run
to each place. (A Jack Horner pie can be bought, all ready to set on
the table.) Little candy boxes with a rose decoration will be just
the thing for souvenirs to take home. For refreshments have creamed
chicken, or chicken salad, rolls, small cakes iced in pink, salted
nuts, pink bonbons, and strawberry ice cream. To serve the ice cream
in a very pretty way, take small flower pots, and scrub them well,
till they are as clean as clean can be. Then they can be filled with
strawberry ice cream. Next, chocolate is grated, on the top, until the
pink is covered and it looks like a little pot of earth. Now stick a
pink rose in it, as if the rose were growing in the pot, and you will
have a “dainty dish to set before a king!”
After you have finished, when mother gives the signal, pull the pink
ribbons and out from the Jack Horner pie will come a present for each
of you.
[Illustration]
I’m going to give a “Daisy Tea”;
Of course, you are invited.
Now won’t you please say “yes” to me
And I will be “dee-lighted!”