The following conundrum was also propounded: What is the longest word in the English language? The answer is "Smiles" because there's a mile between the first and last syllables.
Humorous recitations and others relating to smiles were given by some good readers.
Just before the refreshments came a smile-measuring contest. All stood in line and grinned broadly while a girl with a tape measure took account of each one in turn. The winner received as a prize a grinning little china darky.
The refreshments were enough to make everyone smile—they consisted of pink lemonade and ginger cookies with features marked on them in white icing. The most conspicuous feature was of course the grin.
AN AVIATION MEET
Try this plan for recruiting attendance at your next church social. It would also "fill the bill" for a jolly midwinter school party. The invitations are made to look like tickets of admission; the men's of red pasteboard and the girls' of blue. They read this way:
Admit Two
To an Aviation Meet
In the —— Church parlors
Friday evening
February 21 8 o'clock
Each member who receives a ticket must make a point of inviting somebody else, and should conduct the guest personally to the social.
The hall or assembly rooms may be decorated with American and Allied colors, and it would be appropriate and effective to suspend in each window a trio of toy balloons, red, white, and blue in color, respectively. Miniature airplanes hung overhead at intervals down the length of the room would add realism.
In different places on the walls fasten conspicuously large posters boldly lettered with the program of events, as follows: