ere proved to be just fifteen streamer, and each child was allowed
to pick out a streamer to correspond with the color of the cap worn.
Thus a little girl with a pink cap would pick out a pink streamer; a
little boy with a green cap, a green streamer, and so on. The children
who held the May poles were then asked to stand at some distance apart
out in the open space of the park, and each little group of five
danced round and round, and back and forth, holding and twisting their
colored streamers.

Somehow this amused them almost all the long spring afternoon.
Different children took turns holding the May poles and sometimes they
would even form a procession and hippity-hop around the park. They
paraded down Main Street for a little way, but came back to the park
in time to play "Drop the Handkerchief," "Hide and Seek," and "Tag,"
before refreshments were served.

They were perfectly delighted, of course, with strawberry lemonade,
brown bread sandwiches, and little frosted cup cakes, which their
teacher's mother had made and on which she had outlined in pink
candies the individual initials of the children.

OUTDOOR AFFAIRS

Out-of-door entertaining is perhaps the easiest kind of all--if you
live in the country or the near-country. Anything elaborate in the
arrangements would be quite out of keeping and there's something about
being outdoors that takes away constraint. That's probably why outdoor
parties, because they are simple and natural, bring people together in
a spirit of good fellowship and are certain of success.

Children especially love them and young people always find an evening
garden party entrancing.

One of the jolliest kinds of outdoor parties is a bacon bat. It may be
a breakfast or a luncheon or a supper, but there is always bacon and
an open fire.

Now that automobiles are so abundant, the possibilities for motor
picnics and progressive motor parties are many and various.

A BACON BAT

A girl who lived in the country and had some city friends visiting
her gave them the time of their lives at a bacon bat. She telephoned
around to some of the young people and invited them to appear about
five o'clock in picnic clothes. The hike wouldn't be long, she
announced.

At the specified time a jolly bunch assembled to squabble
good-naturedly over the various packages and bundles assigned to them
to be carried. Under the hostess's direction they betook themselves
via footpath and trai