BIRTHDAY TABLEAUX.
Tulips.
Group the children so that they look pretty. They could wear green clothes to represent stalk and leaves, and have large, colored-paper petals fastened to their waists, and with wire shaped and bent upward they would look like veritable tulips. Then a few others could, in a previous tableau, show the act of planting tulip bulbs and watering some growing tulips.
The Cotillon.
Eight girls and boys should be dressed in Knickerbocker attire, and stand as if ready for the first figure of the Cotillon.
This tableau should be set in a drawing-room.
Flitting Fairies and Butterflies.
Gay music is heard and in come the fairies dancing, followed by a train of dancing butterflies, costumed in red, yellow, and white.
The wings may be of tinted crêpe paper or tarletan held in place by stiff wire.
The fairies should wear short fluffy gowns of airy gossamer, heavily covered with spangles and diamond dust. With each movement they must glimmer and glisten.
The scene may be set in any pretty drawing room, but more properly with a background of palms and potted plants.