sts talk, play cards or have music. The
supper table is arranged much as the tea-table save between the small
vases are small candleholders with lighted candles. The host and hostess
are at either end of the table and each serves a meat, the plates being
passed by a maid and by the guests. There is a vegetable dish at each
end of the table. The meats and vegetables are served on one plate, the
only extra plate being the small bread and butter plate with the bread
and butter knife laid across it.

The maid removes the first course dishes and places a large bowl of
strawberries and dessert saucers before the hostess who serves
strawberries, the maid and the guests passing the saucers. The guests
hand the nuts, cheese, fresh fruits and other edibles about, doing away
with the services of the maid.

The supper menu includes a hot beef-steak and onion or other meat pie,
cut by the hostess, hot fish, Finnan Haddie being a great favorite, cold
tongue, mashed potatoes, cauliflower, celery, cheese, bottled pop,
lemonade, white bread, graham bread, scones, fresh and salted butter,
jellies and jams, marmalade. The second course is fresh strawberries,
oranges, bananas, English walnuts.

After supper cards, music and chatting fill in the hours until midnight
and sometimes longer for the bonnie Scots are typical night owls.

A GYPSY TEA OUT OF DOORS.

A Gypsy tea is the occasion of entertainment of young men by young
women, wherein the young men have nothing to do but come and be treated
just as hospitably and courteously as is possible. The girls must do all
the hard work, all the planning, all the inviting and bear all the
responsibilities of every kind. Twelve or more girls meet and appoint
committees to attend to the necessary arrangements--one committee to
select a picnic ground, another to invite the young gentlemen whom they
desire to attend, another to arrange for the music, and another to get
the refreshments. All the other committees work under the directions of
the committee on arrangements. A Gypsy tea always begins at twilight.
The girls who are to select the picnic ground must exercise much
judgment in deciding on a convenient and picturesque location, and as
dancing is always an attractive feature of such an outing, they should
see that there is a suitable pavilion nearby. Then there must be a spot
well adapted for a campfire, for a Gypsy tea would never be a success
without a campfire burning in the twilight. O