cream must be "April Fool" ones made of sawdust, cotton and similar
substances. Serve real sandwiches, coffee, cake and ice cream.

A COLONIAL TEA.

A delightful way to entertain six elderly lady friends would be to give
a Colonial tea. Word the invitations thus:

"My Dear Madame:--Ye distinguished Honor of your Presence is requested
Thursday, ye Second of October, from Three of ye Clock until ye early
Candlelight, at Four Hundred and Seven, Sheridan Road, ye City of ----,
ye State of ----, to meet your most Obedient and Humble Servant,
Mistress ----."

Light the rooms with candlelight and decorate with nosegays of garden
flowers and autumn leaves. Seat the guests at round tables. Have all the
viands on the table at once. Let the menu be cold turkey, pressed
chicken, cold tongue, tiny pocketbook rolls, jellies and preserves,
gelatines, pound cake and fruit cake, hot tea and chocolate. Decorate
the table with old-fashioned flowers in quaint vases. Women of that age
generally prefer to bring their own needlework and visit, so have a
brief program of old-fashioned music, or an interesting old-fashioned
story read.

PRETTY ROSE TEA.

One of the most beautiful "rose" teas can be given if one has a rose
garden. Hundreds of dozens of roses, white for the drawing-room, red for
the hall and library, yellow for the music room and pink for the dining
room can be used. The roses are placed in immense Oriental bowls on
polished table tops. The tea table has an immense basket of pink and
white roses in rare varieties and the surface of the table is covered
with a smilax mat bordered with pink roses and tiny electric light bulbs
looking like glow worms. The ice cream is in the shape of a pink cup
with green handles filled with fruit the whole being of ice cream and
very delicious. With this is served little pink cakes and candy roses
and chocolate with whipped cream.

OMBER SHADES OF ROSE.

A beautiful color effect can be secured for a tea by placing on a long
table a series of French baskets of roses shading from American beauty
to white. The basket at the lower end of the table is in the American
beauty shade, the next basket of roses of a lighter shade, the third a
deep pink, the fourth a pale pink and the fifth basket bride roses. Tied
to these baskets are ribbons in the omber shades of rose. The candles
between the baskets are the same shades as the different roses and the
electric lights of the chandelier are ho