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GEORGE AND MARTHA TEA

The walls should be hung with red, white and blue bunting, relieved at regular intervals with shields and small hatchets made of flowers in the national colors.

Have George and Martha receive the guests, and there may be also a number of men and women attired in colonial costumes to introduce strangers and see that all have a good time.

Behind a bower of foliage an orchestra might play the national airs, and as the object of the evening should be to promote sociability, it would be well to have a number of interesting games in which all can join.

One of these might be a list of the presidents in anagram form, written on a large blackboard; the names in parentheses, of course, are not written out, thus:

1. L m jak pokes	(James K. Polk)
2. Yatch lazy roar	(Zachary Taylor)
3. Lord film rill a me	(Millard Fillmore)
4. Knife lancer rip	(Franklin Pierce)
5. Jamb haunce ans	(James Buchanan)
6. Berth your she fad	Rutherford B. Hayes)
7. C H hurt a rare set	Chester A. Arthur)
8. Jasmine in horn bar	Benjamin Harrison)
9. Willie m mink clay	William McKinley)
10. O shogging rantwee	George Washington)
11. Jam nod has	(John Adams)
12. Oft John fear mess	Thomas Jefferson)
13. Mard jess moan	(James Madison)
14. Jo means more	(James Monroe)
15. Jay chins Quon dam	John Quincy Adams)
16. Son rack and Jew	(Andrew Jackson)
17. A rum Tannin verb	Martin Van Buren)
18. Harsh iron aim will	William H. Harrison)
19. If gales mead jar	James A. Garfield)
20. Carver delve long	Grover Cleveland)
21. Man in cab or hall	Abraham Lincoln)
22. Yes glass turns	(Ulysses S. Grant)
23. Holy rent J	(John Tyler)

At the end of half an hour present to the most successful guesser a George Washington hat of violet candy, filled with red and white bonbons.

But let the main feature of the evening be a small room fashioned into a portrait-drawing studio, the lads and lassies in charge and everything about the room having an old-time look.

Above the door have printed in the quaint spelling of long ago that all who wish can have a silhouette picture of themselves for only five cents, and doubtless a goodly sum will be realized, as people are always interested, not only in their own, but in their friends' physiognomy, and much fun will follow in exchanging shadow pictures.

Have ready a quantity of large sheets of paper, black on one side and white on the other, also white cardboard; a sheet of paper is to be fastened to the wall, white side out, and a lighted candle placed about three feet from the paper. Then the one having his picture taken is seated between the candle and wall, so that a strongly defined profile falls upon the paper; the shadow is to be traced with a steady hand, cut out, and then pasted on the cardboard, with the black side of the paper out.

An old-fashioned candelabrum, surrounded by a wreath of blue violets and red and white carnations, might grace the centre of the dining-table, and at either end tall silver candlesticks with candles burning under shades of a rosy hue might be placed.

Let the bonbons be held in boxes imitating the cocked hat of the Continental Army; have sandwiches of different kinds and sorts, with tiny silk flags bearing the name of the sandwich. Besides these the eatables might consist of good old-fashioned gingerbread, crullers, doughnuts, and coffee, followed by apples and nuts.

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