tuce across with the scissors
until leaves of grass result; mayonnaise is to be passed with this.

The ice cream is to be in forms of any sort, but the figure of a man is
the most appropriate.

This luncheon may be changed from a gastronomic to a literary guessing
game, either by furnishing the guests with a copy of the titles of the
books without the authors, making them guess both the writer and the
dish which is represented, or by furnishing the actual menu and asking
the guests to give a title of a book which will suitably represent the
course. In order to give opportunity for some choice in this luncheon, a
slightly altered menu is also given:--

MENU

Toilers of the Sea.
A Study in Scarlet.
The Water Babies.
Between Whiles.
A Dead Secret, and Plain Tales from the Hills.
The Desert of Ice.
Wing and Wing.
Leaves of Grass, and Unleavened Bread.
The Snow Image.
Over the Teacups.
All's well that Ends Well.

"Wing and Wing" is by Cooper, as doubtless your guests will know, and
may be represented by a course of game, either pigeons or duckling.

November

The principal gala day of this month is toward the last, the historic
gala day of our forefathers, Thanksgiving; still, it is quite proper to
have a luncheon at any time during the month which shall have the
characteristics of the time.

A THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON

[Illustration: FOR A THANKSGIVING LUNCHEON.]

should remind us of the dress and food of our ancestors, but all of
their austerity and asceticism may go without mention; we do not take
kindly to these things in our days of luxury and ease. Have your
guest-cards bear a sketch of a Puritan girl, or a man in a tall pointed
hat and long cloak with a gun over his shoulder, or some other
suggestion of Colonial times. Have your menu made up largely of dishes
said to have been used at the first Thanksgiving Day meal, judiciously
combined with every-day delicacies which are more warmly approved by
this generation. Let your bonbons be in the shape of candy vegetables;
they are odd, and wonderfully accurate, and are to be had in the form of
radishes, carrots, potatoes, turnips, beets, and almost everything else;
and buy favours in the shape of miniature roasted turkeys.
Chrysanthemums are the flower of November, and they are beautiful in any
shade, but yellow is the most brilliant, and a mass of this splendid
color in the centre of the table will make it attractive. If you