o the one who guesses the largest
number correctly.

PATRIOTIC TEA.

"While other constellations sink and fade,
And Orient planets cool with dying fires,
Columbia's brilliant star can not be stayed,
And, heaven-drawn, towards higher arcs aspires;
A Star of Destiny whose searching rays
Light all the firmament's remotest ways."

"That force which is largely responsible for the greatness and
grandeur of the Republic is the woman behind the man behind the
gun."

Booklets with small silk flags mounted on the covers and bearing these
quotations with tiny red, white and blue pencils attached make suitable
favors for the guests at a high tea. For one contest give twenty minutes
in which to write a list of words ending in "nation" as, carnation,
condemnation, etc. For this prize give a red, white and blue streamer on
which tiny flags of all nations are fastened. For a second contest
allow a given length of time in which to write correctly the words of
the American national anthem. A book containing a description of
national music would make a suitable prize for this contest. Decorate
the dining room with silk flags and red, white and blue bunting and in
the center of the table have a blue vase filled with red and white
hyacinths or carnations or roses. Have the ice cream frozen in form of a
bust of Washington on a shield in three colors.

DEBUT TEA.

The leading color in the refreshment room is yellow. The table has a
beautiful lace cover and in the center is a large basket of yellow
roses, the Golden Gate variety. Around the center are candles with
yellow silk shades and a silver compote holding green glace grapes tied
with yellow ribbon. The mantel is filled with ferns and a mass of yellow
roses in the center. The electric lights at either side of the mantel
have yellow silk shades. Instead of ice cream and cake, the menu for the
afternoon tea is a delicious meringue filled with whipped cream and wine
jelly, coffee and glace grapes.

YELLOW TEA.

Yellow is a pretty color for a bridal tea given in June. Use scores of
yellow candles in crystal candlesticks and candelabra and yellow roses
in vases, baskets and wall pockets on window and book ledges, plate
rails, book cases and hung in the doorways by yellow ribbons. An
immense basket of yellow roses and ferns with a white cupid in the
center is pretty in the center of the tea-table. Outside this basket
have a border of individual crys