The Tulip booth may be the gayest of the gay, and there the children should find Easter eggs in all colors of the rainbow. The booth should be lighted with gay lanterns. Those in charge should appear in Oriental costumes.
The choice of decorations for the Pansy booth is a wide one. Light green would make a good background to set off the bowls of different colored blossoms adorning the table. At this booth flower seeds, bulbs and plants of all kinds might be on sale. Seedlings are always ready sellers.
A booth which would prove very popular with housewives would be the one where Daffodils are in evidence, and there the egg delicacies for Easter menus might be on sale: stuffed eggs, pickled eggs, egg salad, custards, and angel and sponge cakes. Over this booth place a large yellow umbrella, fringed with daffodils. On a card fastened to the handle have the familiar quotation:
"Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares."
Butterflies fluttering over the Candy booth, as if attracted by the sweets there, will induce others to come for the same sweets. The butterflies may be made of crepe paper and suspended above the booth by invisible wires; the vibration of the air will make them appear very real. The little maid who presides should be gowned to represent a butterfly.
Care should be taken that the attendants at the different booths are dressed in colors to harmonize with the decorative scheme.
FLOWER GUESSING CONTEST
- My first wears my second on her foot. (Lady's slipper)
- A Roman numeral. (IV-Ivy)
- The hour before my English cousin's tea. (Four-o'clock)
- Good marketing. (Butter and eggs)
- A gay young man and a ferocious animal. (Dandelion)
- My first is often sought for my second. (Marigold)
- A young man's farewell to his sweetheart. (Forget-me-not)
- Her reply to him. (Sweet William)
- The gentler sex of the Friend persuasion. (Quaker ladies)
- Its own doctor. (Self-heal)
- My first is as sharp as needles, my second is as soft as down. (Thistledown)
- My first is a country in Asia, my second is the name of a prominent New York family. (China Aster)
- My first is the name of a bird, my second is worn by cavalrymen. (Larkspur)
- A church official. (Elder)
- A very precise lady. (Primrose)
- A tattered songster. (Ragged Robin)
- My first is sly but cannot wear my second. (Foxglove)
- The color of a horse. (Sorrel)
- A craze in Holland in the seventeenth century. (Tulip)
- My first is an implement of war, my second is a place where money is coined. (Spearmint)
- A disrespectful name for a physician. (Dock)
- Fragrant letters. (Sweet peas)
- My first is a white wood, my second is the name of a yellow Rhenish wine. (Hollyhock)
- What the father said to the son in the morning. (Johnny-jump-up)
- My first is a facial expression of pleasure, my second a woodsman's means of livelihood. (Smilax)
- An animal of the jungle is my first, my second is the name of a tall, fair lady. (Tiger Lily)
- My first is made in a dairy but is seldom served in my second. (Buttercup)
- My first wears my second on his head. (Coxcomb)
- A close companion. (Stick-tight)
- A fashionable shade for evening dresses. (Heliotrope)