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A very pleasant entertainment to be given about Eastertide is one at which the all-engrossing head covering of the season is to be manufactured. The materials required are simple--two sheets of tissue paper for each guest, numerous pairs of scissors and silver table knives, and pins without limit. The workroom--preferably one provided with a large table--is decorated with plates of fashionable hats borrowed from a milliner, advertisements of all sorts displaying bonnets, and half a dozen pattern hats previously made by the hostess. Placards announcing "Fashion's Fancies" or "Hints on Headgear" give substantial advice like the following: "Bald-headed gentlemen are no longer affecting the pompadour style of hat;" "A simple crown is King Edward VII.'s favorite headgear at present;" "None but the very fast set will wear more than fifteen colors in any one bonnet this season." Each guest is furnished with a roll of two sheets of paper which harmonize in hue, and is told to make a hat or bonnet in fifteen minutes. Really surprising results will begin to appear. Some very lovely creations will be evolved by the tasteful fingers of the wonderful woman who can stretch a dollar; exceedingly funny dunce and soldier caps with nodding tassels of paper fringe will be the products of the big men who can always laugh and give others an occasion for mirth. Hats with brims and without, crownless and with peaked crowns, with streamers and with ties, so small that they challenge the ever-present bow in the hair, and so large as to give cause for another arrest in a New Orleans theater--all the hat family will be there--and so will fun. Did you ever make one? Lay together two squares of tissue of different colors (white and blue are pretty), gather it--with pins--in a circle, so as to form a crown, leaving the four corners sticking straight out for the present. Roll back two corners loosely, so as to give a pompadour effect for the front, and plait the others so they stand stiff for high trimming behind. This gives you a foundation. For trimming use aigrettes--long fringe pinned so tightly as to stand stiff and curled on its edges with a table knife--and ostrich plumes--short fringe well curled. Pin on the back a pair of bewitching strings, pat, punch and pull into shape, and you have a fetching bonnet. That is only one--an easy one. Numberless forms come when one begins to invoke them. When the time has expired, form couples for a cake walk before the judges and award the prizes. A bunch of Easter lilies, or a clump of hepaticas or pasque flowers growing in a tiny china bowl is appropriate for head prize; a hat-pin or a book of nonsense verse for the foot prize. The following games are also suggested. Next: Matching Eggs Previous: A Luncheon In White And Yellow
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An Easter Bonnet Party
