MAY DAY always makes us think of a May pole, and May dance, and a
pretty queen crowned with flowers. But May Day is apt to be chilly and
disagreeable, so you couldn’t very well think of tripping around the
May pole with your winter coat and your overshoes on. But how about a
Sunshine May party for your Sunday-school class? If mother is willing,
invite your teacher, the girls (for this is a girls’ party. We’re
sorry, boys, but you really wouldn’t enjoy this!) Buy some colored
crepe paper and a couple of dozen round paper cases such as are sold
for fifteen cents a dozen. Paste and scissors will be needed also. When
your friends come you can all busy yourselves making May baskets from
the crepe paper and the paper cases.
When they are all finished they may be filled with spring flowers and
sent to a children’s hospital. Wouldn’t you enjoy a pretty little
basket of flowers if you were sick?
Then it will be a simple matter to “clear up” and set the table
for afternoon tea. But perhaps the “best mother that ever was” has
decorated the table in the dining-room with spring flowers, and has
prepared an appetizing supper of creamed chicken, peas, potato chips,
cake and tutti-frutti jelly. That would be better, even, than afternoon
tea!
[Illustration: Queen of the May.]
On Fourth of July, please be my guest,
But don’t fix up in your Sunday best!
The reason you know, I well suppose,
You can’t have fun in your Sunday clothes.