ILLUSTRATIONS
| PAGE | |
| Dressing Up | [Frontispiece] |
| A Candy Pull is Lots of Fun | [9] |
| Come with a Skip | [11] |
| Come Around and Stay to Tea | [13] |
| Come Spend the Afternoon with Me | [25] |
| The Braves and the Squaws | [39] |
| A Dance of Grandmother’s Time | [61] |
| Queen of the May | [75] |
| A Hallowe’en Party | [83] |
INTRODUCTION
There is nothing that is much more fun than a party, is there? Mother hasn’t forgotten the days when she set a little table in the attic with the dolls’ tea-set, and had cambric tea and jam sandwiches. As for a birthday party, why it doesn’t seem a bit like a birthday without a frosted cake and pink candles and ice cream in forms—but there! That was to be a surprise.
Birthday parties only come once a year, of course, but there are other parties in between, afternoon teas on the piazza or in the playroom, or in the barn, if you are so fortunate as to have a barn. These parties oughtn’t to mean extra work for mother, for you can have them all yourself, if mother is willing.
So when she says, “Yes, you may have a party,” after you have hugged her, and told her she was the dearest mother in the world, you can begin to get ready.