In June, when the roses are blooming in the garden, or climbing over the piazza, you must be sure to have a rose party! Give it on the lawn, if you are fortunate enough to have one, or else on the piazza.

If you do not mail your invitations but have them left at your friends’ homes, tie each note with pink ribbon to the stem of a pink rose.

For your party you will need to have ready “Rose Ring Toss.” If you have a set of “ring toss,” wind the hoops with pink paper, and if you have not a set, you can easily make one, by winding different size embroidery hoops with pink paper, and driving a stake in the ground where you are ready to play. Have ready, also, a number of pink bean bags.

The first game to play is “Drop the Rose,” which is just like “Drop the Handkerchief,” except that you use a long-stemmed pink rose (be sure and trim the thorns off!).

This can be followed by “Rose Ring Toss,” and of course you know that this is played by standing some distance from the stake, and trying to throw the rings over it. The large ring counts five, the next ten, and the next fifteen. Mother will keep score for you, and she can decide what number will win the game.

A party wouldn’t be complete without “London Bridge!” But as this is a rose party the “pillars” of the bridge can offer each child the choice between a red rose or a pink rose. Next you can enjoy a game of bean bag.

By this time you will be ready for refreshments, and mother will not have any difficulty in decorating the table, with plenty of roses at hand. In the center of the table should be a “Jack Horner” pie, in the form of a large paper rose, and from this “pie,” pink ribbons run to each place. (A Jack Horner pie can be bought, all ready to set on the table.) Little candy boxes with a rose decoration will be just the thing for souvenirs to take home. For refreshments have creamed chicken, or chicken salad, rolls, small cakes iced in pink, salted nuts, pink bonbons, and strawberry ice cream. To serve the ice cream in a very pretty way, take small flower pots, and scrub them well, till they are as clean as clean can be. Then they can be filled with strawberry ice cream. Next, chocolate is grated, on the top, until the pink is covered and it looks like a little pot of earth. Now stick a pink rose in it, as if the rose were growing in the pot, and you will have a “dainty dish to set before a king!”

After you have finished, when mother gives the signal, pull the pink ribbons and out from the Jack Horner pie will come a present for each of you.