room for the plates or single candlesticks
set in tiny wreaths at intervals between the larger wreaths. A wreath
dinner is very pretty and easy to plan, for the different dishes may be
garnished with wreaths of parsley, radishes, endive, cress, or the
sweets with rings of kisses, macaroons, whipped cream roses, candies,
etc.

Here is a suitable menu. Oyster or clam cocktail, wafers, consomme,
bouillon or cream of celery soup, celery, radishes, small square
crackers. If one wishes a fish course, creamed lobster or salmon with
potato balls. Roast Turkey or game of any sort, glazed sweet potatoes,
corn fritters, creamed peas, peach, currant or grape jelly, hot rolls.
Cranberry sherbet; nut salad with plain bread and butter sandwiches,
individual plum puddings with burning brandy, ice cream in any desired
shape, white cake or fruit cake if one does not have the plum pudding,
cheese, crackers, coffee.

AN UNUSUALLY ORIGINAL DINNER.

A quail dinner given recently will furnish ideas for others who wish to
give a dinner out of the ordinary. Let the oblong table on which the
dinner is served represent a field with miniature shocks of grain and
stubble in which are quail, pheasants' and other birds' nests. A border
of toy guns stacked mark the edge of the field. At each man's place have
a toy figure of a hunter with some toy fastened to the back telling some
joke on the diner. The women can have birds' nest candy boxes surmounted
by birds. The name cards can be English hunting scene postals.

This is the menu:

_Blue Points,_
_Celery Hearts, Olives, Stuffed Olives,_
_Cream of Asparagus with Asparagus Points, Crackers,_
_Broiled Fresh Spanish Mackerel served on Lettuce Ribbons,_
_Cucumbers, Cannon Ball Potatoes,_
_Sherry, Champagne Punch,_
_Quail on Toast, French Peas, Stewed Mushrooms on_
_Toast, Hot Rolls,_
_Champagne,_
_(Salad, Head Lettuce, French Beans, Ring of Chopped_
_Whites of Eggs, Ring of Powdered Yolks_
_of Eggs, French Dressing,)_
_Crackers and Melted Cheese,_
_Chestnut Ice Cream molded in Form of Broiled Quail and_
_Asparagus Tips, Eggnog Sauce,_
_Coffee and Liqueurs in the Drawingroom._

A SPRING DINNER.

To secure a pretty effect pull the extension table apart and fill in the
center space with palms and ferns, keeping the foliage low enough not to
interfere with the vision of the guests. Across each end of the table
lay a pale green satin and lace cover on which p