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HOWARD B.--You could have no more appropriate name for your dancing club
than the one you have selected, "Lads and Lasses." All sorts of pretty
and tasteful trifles may be used for favors, such as little bells,
rosettes, flags, stars, butterflies, sashes, pictures, and flowers. At
present tiny Japanese fans, umbrellas, cups, and vases are fashionable.
Flowers are always appropriate as favors. The German affords scope for
individual taste, and the favors may be very simple or very costly, as
circumstances may regulate the affair. But while in some cases gold or
silver jewelry has been given in the way of favors, it will be better
for a club of young people to confine themselves to trinkets which,
while of small money value, may still be pretty enough to be kept as
souvenirs of a happy evening.
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DEAR POSTMISTRESS,--We have had a little discussion as to the
proper method of hanging our pictures, and as we can not agree,
will you kindly settle the question. We have hung them about on a
level with our eyes, and are satisfied that that arrangement is
good. The trouble is to know the proper angle of inclination. We
had the tops of the frames about four inches from the wall; but a
friend came in the other evening, and deliberately told us that
that was all wrong. He then made rolls of stiff paper and, with
them behind the pictures, forced the top of each frame about
eighteen inches from the wall. Some of the family like the effect,
and some declare it hideous. Which plan is considered the correct
one by those who ought to know?