Breakfasts and Teas by Paul Pierce (spanish books to read TXT) 📕

The answers to the above should not be arbitrary. There are many songs that afford quite as good answers as those given above, and the score should credit anyone that makes a reply which fits the question.

"I find earth not gray, but rosy,
Heaven not grim, but fair of hue."

Here is a pretty breakfast for the month of June.

Have for the centerpiece a huge bowl of jacque-minot roses. Use long sprays of the leaves and arrange the flowers very loosely in the bowl.

Have for the boutonnieres at each cover a bunch of red rose buds tied with scarlet ribbon.

The place cards are also red roses cut to the required shape from rough drawing paper and appropriately colored.

Of course the red touch will be introduced as frequently as possible into the menu. Serve tomato soup, salmon salad and claret water ice. Cakes must be glazed in red, and the ice cream, served in artistic little baskets of spun sugar, to take the form of red roses.

Have side dishes filled with pink coated almonds and candied rose petals.

Then, during the dessert course, introduce what is called a Rose Shower.

This will be on the order of the literary salads that were so popular some time ago, but it is newer.

The idea is this: Cut from red tissue paper a couple of dozen little leaf shaped pieces to be crimped and creased and coaxed into representing rose petals. On each petal write a familiar quotation relating to the rose.

These leaves are to be passed around the table, each guest taking one, and when done with it, passing it on.

Prizes will be offered to the guests who are able to name the authors of the largest number of quotations.

Here are some of the verses:

That which we call a rose,
By any other name would smell as sweet.

—Shakespeare.

But earthlier happy is the rose distilled
Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn
Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

—Shakespeare.

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new;
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.

—Scott.

'Tis the last rose of summer
Left blooming alone.

—Moore.

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

—Moore.

He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.

—Shakespeare.

As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.

—Keats.

She wore a wreath of roses,
That night when first we met.

—T. H. Bayley.

The rose that all are praising
Is not the rose for me.

—T. H. Bayley.

Loveliest of lovely things are they
On earth that soonest pass away.
The rose that lives his little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower.

—Bryant.

Flowers of all hue and without thorn the rose.

—Milton.

A rosebud set with little wilful thorns,
And sweet as English air could make her, she.

—Tennyson.

Let us crown ourselves with rosebuds before they be withered.

—Bible.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old time is still a flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow wille be dying.

—Herrick.

Their lips were four red roses on a stalk.

—Shakespeare.

And I will make thee beds of roses
And a thousand fragrant posies.

—Marlowe.

These, of course, will be only about half enough, but the hostess can add others to them.

The prize for the best list of answers should suggest roses in some way.

The time ten o'clock. Invitations, to be on a large sized visiting card, this wise:

Mrs. ——

At Home,

Wednesday morning, November Seventh,

Nineteen — ——

ten o'clock,

340 —— Street,

Please reply.

Breakfast.

Enclose card in envelope to match.

Have three schemes of color for decorations—white chrysanthemums for parlor, pink for library, and yellow for dining-room.

Serve at small tables, with rich floral center pieces, and handsomely draped with Battenburg, or linen center piece and plate tumbler doylies.

Place cards, two and one-half inches by six in size, should be decorated with a spray of chrysanthemums on a shaded background in water colors, leaving sufficient blank for a name and outlining the top card with cut edges of leaves.

A small cluster of grapes served on dessert plates.

Baked apple—(Remove the core and fill with cooked oat meal; bake and serve with whipped cream over the whole.)

Chicken croquettes, scalloped potatoes, buttered rolls, celery, coffee.

Fruit and nut salad, served in small cups on a bread and butter plate, with a wafer.

Ice cream, in chocolate, pink and white layers; angel food, and pink and white layer cake.

Have a dish of salted almonds on each table.

White and green are the colors for a September breakfast. Have the dining room decorated with luxuriant ferns and dainty, fragrant water lilies, the fireplace banked with ferns, the lilies scattered carelessly over the mantel.

In the center of the table have a miniature rowboat heaped high with the lilies. For the souvenirs have very small oars which could afterwards be used for paper knives; besides clusters of lilies.

Harp music is the most in harmony with our ideas of lilies and the lily naiads, so the soft strains will form a delightful accompaniment to the breakfast.

This is the menu:

Cream of Lettuce Soup

Steamed White Fish

Hollandaise Sauce

Potato Balls

Maitre de Hotel