eese and white grape salad, and
vanilla ice-cream in blue frilled paper cases.

Toward the end of the ice-cream course the hostess asked the guests to
announce their telephone numbers, in turn. Whereupon, each person was
requested to rise from the table and act out his number. This was
comparatively simple and made everyone quite hilarious.

When it came the turn of the hostess, she said that her number was
Springit 42. The two (2), she said, were Elizabeth and John, and
this was the time she had chosen to spring the announcement of their
engagement.

Another way in which the announcement could be made is to prepare
telephone messages of the news and tie them to the ends of blue
ribbons hanging from the tongue of the bell. The hostess may announce
that the "bell tolled" when the guests are allowed to open and read
their messages.

AN APPLE SHOWER

A girl who was very fond of apples in every form, so much so that all
her friends knew about it, was given a clever shower after she became
engaged.

The invitations were cut in apple shape and tinted a little with red
and green water colors. The following verses voiced the plan of the
party and notified the guests:

_Invitation to a Shower_

_Apples, apples everywhere
Will doubtless make up half the fare
On Elsie's future menu pad,
As they are Elsie's greatest fad.
So if you'd keep that fact in mind
In shower presents--'twould be kind;
Send it to me the day before
And come on Saturday at four_.

_January the twentieth
At Mary's house_.

The first amusement of the afternoon was an apple-guessing contest,
the names of different varieties of apples to be guessed from literal
definitions, thus: The Royal Apple--. King. After that there was an
apple-peeling contest in Hallowe'en fashion and each girl threw the
peeling over her left shoulder to discover the initial of her future
husband.

Immediately following this, the hostess, with the help of one of the
other girls, brought in a big bushel basket apparently filled with
huge rosy apples, and set it down before the guest of honor.

When the green ribbon around the stem of each make-believe apple was
untied, the red crepe paper opened out, disclosing, in wrappings of
soft cotton, a variety of gifts for the apple-loving girl.

There was an up-to-date corer and a plate for baking apples, a fat
plush apple pincushion for the kitchen, a red apple "bank" with a slit