Over the table was an Italian green-grocer's sign, and the smiling attendants were dressed to represent Italian women. The table was loaded with fruits and vegetables, all made of tissue paper. The stock included pumpkins, squashes, cabbages, cauliflower, curly lettuce, beets, carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, radishes, oranges, and grapes. The vegetables sold for five or ten cents, according to size and contents, for each contained a prize. The radishes and grapes were candies covered with the proper shade of paper and tied in bunches.

There was enough mystery about the contents of these artificial vegetables and fruits to make them sell. One person might open a cucumber and find a child's handkerchief rolled within, but if a neighbor bought one, hoping to secure a handkerchief, he would be quite as likely to find a china doll. The proceeds of this sale were donated to charity.

A slip of paper entitled "Vegetables in Disguise" was passed to each guest, and twenty-five minutes allotted for puzzling out the answers. The following is the list the paper contained:

• A pronoun preceded and followed by a preposition. (Onion)
• A painful projection. (Corn)
• Hard to get out of. (Maize [maze])
• What vegetables should see a great deal, and why? (Potatoes. They have so many eyes)
• A basement and a question. (Celery [cellar-why])
• Every good Chinaman has my first. My second is to overload. (Cucumber [queue-cumber])
• A bivalve and a vegetable growth. (Oyster plant)
• Normal, and a very small piece. (Parsnip)
• A small waste. (Leek [leak])
• A letter. (Pea [p])
• A boy, a letter, and a part of the body? (Tomato [Tom-a-toe])
• Yielding water, and connections? (Pumpkin)
• To crush. (Squash)
• A purple part of the year, and sick. (Lentil [Lent-ill])
• A tour on your wheel, and years. (Spinach [spin-age])
• Hot stuff. (Pepper)
• An English dignity, and a platter. (Radish [R. A. dish])
• A hen. (Egg plant)
• Tramps. (Beets)

The supper, as one would expect at a vegetable party, consisted of vegetarian dishes only, but it was surprising to find how attractive and how palatable these were.