frieze around the room of ears
of corn from which the husks are pulled apart. This will form a festoon
from which will hang down like tassels, the ears of white and yellow
corn, and if one can find a few red ears so much the better.

Bank the fire-place and corners with boughs of autumn leaves, and
festoon them in garlands wherever there is a vacant place. Scrub the
bare floors well, put a little wax on them, and engage one or two
musicians to dispense old time melodies.

Carry out the Harvest Home idea in the dining-room. Have most of the
decorations, fruits and garlands with graceful sprays of the Virginia
creeper in the glory of its autumnal colors, festooned from doors to
windows and back again, and have the table decorations the same. Serve
the guests sitting around the room, with delicious turkey, ham, bread,
sweet and sour pickles, doughnuts, cider, etc. By all means have pumpkin
pie, which would be so much in keeping with the occasion.

AN AUTUMN SUPPER.

Just before closing your cottage for the season, send out invitations to
friends, asking them to spend an evening with you at your home. The
invitations may be written upon scarlet maple leaves. When the evening
for entertaining arrives the cottage should reflect the glory of the
woods. Boughs and branches of silver and sugar maples decorate the hall,
"den," dining room and kitchen, and berries, vines and burrs fill jars,
vases and cornucopias of birch bark. In the rough stone fire-places, log
fires burn. The guests go to the kitchen to make maple sugar creams, and
while the candy is hardening, games are played and stories told. Each
guest, blindfolded, must draw the outline of a maple leaf. Next, leaf
shaped cards are distributed with the names of different trees written
upon them, acrostically arranged. A nut race closes the games, and the
prizes are then awarded. Then the company may gather around the fire.
Bundles of lichen covered twigs, of pine cones and of twisted tree roots
are selected according to individual fancy and put on the fire, each
person telling a story, original or otherwise, until his bundle is
burned away; the changing shapes in the fire suggesting many quaint
fancies.

For table decorations have a garland of leaves encircle the polished top
just outside the plates. A large wreath and a low bowl of nut burrs and
sprays of bright leaves and berries make a gorgeous centerpiece. Have
smaller wreaths around the bonbon and nut dishes, a