A Japanese Party may be made very attractive and picturesque if
Japanese costumes, properties and music are featured.
Write the invitations on Japanese paper fans and ask the guests to
come in Japanese costume. Light the room with low-hanging Japanese
lanterns and decorate it with Japanese screens, hangings and flowers.
Artificial cherry blooms, which look surprisingly like the real ones,
can be made in the following way. Out of pale pink French tissue paper
cut little circles about one and a half inches in diameter and make
a pin hole in the center of each circle. Slip these circles on bare
branches, creasing them around the branch so as to give the effect of
a budding blossom. The hostesses, who are in Japanese costume, should
preside over the tea trays. Have the guests sit in small groups on the
floor and be served tea and rice cakes in Japanese fashion. By way of
entertainment the story of Puccini’s opera, “Madame Butterfly,” can be
told in some such charming way as the following.