A little group, girlhood friends of more than twenty-five years
standing, recently planned a pleasant shower for a popular friend, the
president, as it happened, of their fortnightly sewing club, on her
silver wedding anniversary.
None of the ladies was rich and the gifts were planned to cost not
over fifty cents each. Many of them were less than that.
Silver fittings for a work basket were chosen and included a silver
needle case, a silver thimble case, a silver hem gauge, a unique
tatting shuttle, a little silver ripping knife, a cunning strawberry
emery with a silver hull and a wee wax cherry with a silver stem.
The gifts were wrapped in white tissue paper, tied with silver cord
with a tiny shining bell inserted in the center of each knot. They
were presented in a lovely sweet grass sewing basket, which in turn
was wrapped and tied with silver ribbon.
This was not given, however, till the close of the afternoon's
sewing, which had gone on as usual, though there was an atmosphere of
ill-concealed expectation.
Simple refreshments were brought in and served in buffet style.
Home-made ice-cream was passed in little ice cups which had as
decorations around the rim a circlet of glittering silvery tinsel.
"Silver Cake" and bonbons in silver wrappings accompanied the ice
cream.
Last of all, the "shower" was borne in on a silver tray and set before
the surprised guest of honor. A little rhyme explained this turn of
events to the delightfully mystified recipient:
_Because of many a happy hour
With you, well spent, we give this shower,
Just to remember in a way
With love, your silver wedding day_.
As an amusing little contest each lady was asked to write down ten
things she had learned in the last twenty-five years. The replies made
good reading and furnished plenty of conversation till home-going
time.