FLAGS OF NATIONS

Secure as many cards as there are to be guests, and paint or paste on each of them some five or six small flags of different nations, numbering each flag. Sometimes one can obtain small buttons with these flags on them, and these answer quite as well. It is better to have each card different, and to assort the flags, so that every card may contain some not very generally known. The United States flag might be omitted, as every one would be familiar with that; but the flag of Liberia could be used on several cards, as its resemblance to our flag would be apt to deceive many. Plates showing the various national flags in colors may be found in the front of almost any unabridged dictionary.

Hand a card and a pencil to each guest. The pencil may be made quite attractive by covering it with a strip of crepe paper in some bright color. This can be easily accomplished by cutting the paper into lengths a little longer than the pencil, pasting one side, and rolling the pencil in the paper, then tying with a bow of narrow ribbon. After the guests are supplied with cards and pencils let each one write opposite the flags the names of the countries whose emblems they are. This will be found no easy matter, unless the guest should be a sailor or a globe-trotter, and many amusing guesses will be recorded.

The one who succeeds in guessing the countries correctly, or in guessing nearest, might be rewarded with a United States flag pin or a pretty silk flag. For making awards the hostess should have a list of the flags that are on each card, which should be numbered, and compare the list with the guesses handed in by the company.

FLORAL LOVE STORY

  1. The girl's name and the color of her hair (Marigold).
  2. The color of her eyes (violet).
  3. Her brother's name and an adjective that just describes her (Sweet William).
  4. Her brother's favorite musical instrument (trumpet).
  5. At what time did he awaken his father with it (four o'clock).
  6. With what did his father punish him (goldenrod).
  7. What did the boy do (balsam).
  8. What office in the Presbyterian Church did her father fill (elder).
  9. Being a farmer, what was his occupation in spring (plantain).
  10. Her lover's name and what he wrote it with (jonquil).
  11. What, being single, he often lost (bachelor's buttons).
  12. What confectionery he took to her (peppermint).
  13. What he did when he proposed (aster).
  14. What ghastly trophy did he lay at her feet (bleeding heart).
  15. What did she give him in return (heartsease).
  16. What did she say to him (Johnny-jump-up).
  17. What flower did he cultivate (tulips).
  18. To whom did she refer him (poppy).
  19. What minister married them (Jack-in-the-pulpit).
  20. What was wished with regard to their happiness (live-forever).
  21. When he went away, what did she say to him (forget-me-not).
  22. With what did she punish her children (lady's-slipper).
  23. What hallowed their last years (sweet peas).

FLOWER BAZAAR

Six booths, if properly planned, will mean a small but picturesque bazaar. Five of these booths may represent flowers, and many of the articles sold from them may be made at home by members of the society which the sale is designed to aid.

Drape the Lily booth in white, decorate it with Easter lilies and light it with fairy lamps with white shades. Little novelties for Easter gifts may be sold here—the pretty trifles which are easily made.

The Violet booth may be almost self-decorative if Easter cards and dainty booklets bearing the flower are displayed. Many choice bits of verse and short paragraphs of uplifting thought may be found in the religious publications of to-day, and if these are carefully mounted on white cards and tied with violet ribbon to a bunch of the fresh flowers they will make the most cheering of Easter messages. Provision should be made at the booth for the cards to be autographed with the names of the senders.