re issued in the children's own names, and may be
written or engraved. Usually they are written upon small note sheets
and enclosed in small envelopes. If the invitation is for a
Christmas-tree, or an Easter-egg hunt, a tiny tree, or a colored egg,
may ornament one corner of the sheet.

The form varies hardly at all: Miss GERTRUDE HALL requests the
pleasure of Miss CLARA WINSHIP'S company, on Wednesday, June
twentieth. From three until five o'clock. 3 Madison Avenue.

These invitations should be carefully and promptly answered in the
same form as given and in the third person. (See "Invitations," etc.)

This teaches the little host or hostess the gravity of their position
as entertainers, and impresses the little guests with the importance
of their behavior. Also giving them an early lesson in the etiquette
of social life.

If it is a birthday party, a birthday cake will be the chief feature,
and it is a pretty fancy to have it decorated with as many tiny wax
candles as there are years in the child's life in whose honor the
party is given. These tapers may be placed around the cake, or put in
tin tubes and sunk into the top of the cake. Light them just before
the little guests are called out to the table.

At the close of the supper the child whose birthday it is, blows out
the candles, and, if old enough, cuts the cake and passes it.

Presents are sometimes brought by the guests, but it is not best to
encourage this fashion.

Dancing or games may follow the supper, and older persons should
constantly superintend the amusements to see that the merriment does
not flag, nor the little folks become too boisterous.

At an Easter party, dainty little egg-shaped boxes, filled with
bon-bons, may be placed at each plate, or else hidden in a room from
which the lighter articles of furniture have been removed, and the
children permitted to search for them. The hunt is the chief pleasure.

If it is a Christmas party the tree is the source of interest, and
often a make-believe Santa Claus adds to the merriment of the
occasion. The refreshments should be simple but fanciful. Make the
table bright as possible--snowballs, cornucopias, lady-fingers,
assorted cakes, love-knots, sandwiches (fancy), crystalized fruits,
tarts, sliced tongue, pressed veal, thin bread and butter, rolled and
tied, ice cream in molds, and one large heavily-frosted cake. A host
of flowers, and the table is complete. Lemonade for a drink, or
perhaps h