[Illustration: FOR A FOURTH OF JULY LUNCHEON]
[Illustration: IN PLACE OF A GUEST CARD.]
Stand a toy cannon on your table for a centrepiece, draping it with
delicate vines; or, if this proves too expensive to buy, and too
difficult to borrow, suspend a large bell from two wooden supports in
the middle, with the same vines. At each plate lay a bonbon box which
exactly resembles a cannon fire-cracker, filled with small red candies;
the name of the guest may be printed on the side and it will serve for a
guest card. Or you may give the guests small liberty bells instead of
the large crackers, and use small crackers for cards. Or, instead of
either of these things, you may give each one a bunch of real
fire-crackers with her name printed on the outside.
[Illustration]
Have several vases of flowers on the table, with red and white carnation
and blue bachelors' buttons in each; or if you do not like them mixed,
alternate vases with red ones alone, white alone, and blue alone. In
your little dishes of radishes, almonds, and bonbons, stand tiny
American flags; tie the sandwiches with narrow red, white, and blue
striped ribbon, and the handles of the currant cups as well; the table
may also have little tents and soldiers as in the military luncheon
already suggested.