of brown paper and pasted on; or the invitations can be written on
pieces of white birch bark, if you happened to have gathered and saved
any from the summer vacation. Paper imitation of birch bark might also
be used.

Put all the gifts, wrapped in brown tissue paper and tied with gay
ribbons, in a toy wigwam which you can make with three sticks and a
piece of brown burlap. When the right time comes, the engaged girl is
led up to the wigwam and asked to receive the gifts. If there is a
small brother or cousin who can be dressed up in an Indian suit to
hand out the presents, so much the better.

The hostess may make this any kind of shower she wishes.

After the wigwam has been sacked, it would be fun if you could sit
around the open fire to pop corn or toast marshmallows and play the
Indian Summer game of "Pipe Dreams." Each girl writes out an imaginary
dream of the bride's future. The dreams are read by the hostess, and
then each dream paper is consigned to the fire.

The refreshments ought to be very simple, and may consist of hot
chocolate and little chocolate cakes, cone-shaped to simulate wigwams,
or they may be merely apples, nuts, popcorn, and sweet cider. Serve
the nuts and apples in Indian baskets.

A CHRISTMAS TREE SHOWER

For the bride who announces her engagement in December, a Christmas
tree shower might be given Christmas week. Send out cards of
invitation in the shape of small Christmas trees, or else paste or
paint little evergreen trees on white cards. Ask the guests to bring
something small enough to be hung on a little Christmas tree. The
bride should be asked to come a little later than the others, so that
they may have time to hang their gifts on the tree.

The tree may be as elaborate as you wish to make it. Where trees
are hard to procure, a cunning little one on a table is quite large
enough. It can be decked with gold and silver hearts and candy kisses,
and on its branches should hang the shower gifts, prettily wrapped and
tied.

When the bride arrives, she must strip the tree. Among its treasures
may be English walnut shells, gilded and tied together, with fortune
verses inside.--The hostess provides one of these for each guest.

The refreshments may consist of sandwiches cut in the shape of
Christmas trees and filled with green pepper and cream cheese; caraway
cookies cut in the shape of Christmas trees; and hot chocolate, with a
sprig of evergreen tied by a tiny bow of red