rey Ward, Mrs. Burton Harrison, Mary E. Wilkins
Freeman, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Margaret Deland.

The menu is strawberries in little twig baskets with brown paper caps
filled with sugar, planked fish with sliced cucumbers, deviled
sweetbreads and mushrooms on toast squares, Saratoga potatoes, hot
rolls, brandy peaches, waffles and hot syrup, coffee.

A MAYPOLE BREAKFAST.

This breakfast is given the last week in May and can be copied by the
summer hostess substituting different flowers in season. The guests are
seated at small tables, each table being decorated with a different kind
of flower--the iris, marguerites, sweet peas, roses, mignonette, etc.
Before each plate stands a tiny Maypole about the size of a lead pencil,
wound with baby ribbon of different colors. These are souvenirs for each
guest. For the first course have fresh strawberries served with their
leaves and blossoms. Then a cream of celery soup served in cups.
Croutons are served with this. The soft shell crabs are served on a bed
of water cress and radishes cut in fancy shapes. With them is served a
thick mayonnaise on half a lemon; and cucumbers with French dressing.
The brown and white bread sandwiches are cut in the shape of palm
leaves. Delicious orange sherbet is served in champagne glasses. Then
comes broiled chicken with new potatoes, French peas and hot rolls. The
fruit salad is served in head lettuce with square wafers accompanying.
The ice cream is molded in the form of red and white apples, with a
cluster of real apple blossoms laid on each plate. With this is served a
white cake with whipped cream and French coffee.

MAY BREAKFAST.

Carry out the May basket idea for a breakfast. By searching the ten-cent
stores one can find little imitation cut glass baskets with handles. Use
a large cut glass basket or bowl with wire handle over the top for the
center of the table and one of the smaller baskets filled with pansies,
valley lilies or May flowers at each place. Or make a pretty crystal
wreath a short distance from the center by using crystal candlesticks
with white candles and shades of glass beads, alternated by the little
glass baskets filled with dainty flowers or maidenhair fern. Or use
these baskets for green, white or pink bonbons. Another pretty May
basket idea is to suspend little baskets of flowers from the back of
each chair and use an immense basket of flowers for the center of the
table. Suitable toasts for the name car