A COLONIAL WEDDING
The third girl, with a delight for old-fashioned ways, was followed by six maids in quaint Colonial gowns of plain or flowered silk, no two costumes alike, save for soft white lace fichus. Black velvet neckbands, powdered curls, and "nosegays" of small pink carnations in lace paper holders quite carried out the lovely effect.
The old-fashioned rooms were hung with smilax and asparagus fern, and in every window stood a pot of flowering fuchsias.
End of Project Gutenberg's Entertaining Made Easy, by Emily Rose Burt