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When giving invitations have in one corner of the card the word "floral."

Decorate the rooms as prettily as possible, and the tables also. Before announcing refreshments distribute cards among your guests, on each of which is written a line of a poem. Inform them that the line on each card matches a line on some other card, and when joined will form couplets from well-known poets, and are all about flowers. The holders must match cards, and so find escorts to dinner. Have for some of the lines : In May, when sea-winds pierced, in solitude I found the fresh rhoda in the woods. -Emerson.

Another:

Buttercups that will be seen, Whether we will see or no. -Wadsworth.

O sweet is the new violet, That comes beneath the skies. -Tennyson.

When sunset clouds are hued with rose, Down garden paths my lady goes To pluck the pink sweet peas. -Clinton Scollard.

There are many pretty couplets by Shakespeare, Longfellow, Campbell, Felicia Hemans and others. After dinner, when in the parlors, arrange small tables as if for cards, with a supply of paper and pencils. Announce that the game is to be a "floral tale," told by questions and answers, and that a prize will be awarded to the person answering the most questions. "What was her name?" "Lily."

An adjective that just fits Lily and her brother. Ans.-Sweet William. What is a favorite sport for young people in winter? Ans. -Snow ball. What is a boys' favorite musical instrument? Ans. -Trumpet. The early hour in which he woke his father by playing on it? Ans.- Four o'clock.

With what did he punish him? Ans. -Birch rod.

What did this make the boy do? Ans.-Balsam.

What office in the Presbyterian Church did his father hold? Ans.- Elder.

The young man's name and what he wrote it with? Ans.-Jonquil. What he being single often lost? Ans. -Bachelor Buttons. What did he do when he popped the question? Ans. -Aster. To whom did she refer him ? Ans. Poppy.

What minister married them? Ans.-Jack-in-the-Pulpit. What did John say when he was obliged to leave her for a time. Ans.-Forget-me-not.

What color was the horse that his father rode? Ans. -Sorrel. How much was he worth? Ans. -A (mint) of gold.