“Five! he loves—­good pumpkin pie,
  So learn to cook it—­thus say I.”

The refreshments were served in buffet style in the dining room.  In the center of the table was a blossoming pot of marguerites.  There were individual daisy salads, formed by little mounds of chicken salad covered with yellow mayonnaise and surrounded by a fringe of petals cut from the whites of hard-boiled eggs.  With the salad simple bread and butter sandwiches were eaten.

As a second course, frozen custard in paper cups with borders of white paper petals was served with squares of angel cake, frosted in yellow, and squares of sunshine cake, frosted in white.

The principal feature, however, and the final one, was the favor pie.  A big imitation daisy was made from a round basket, by covering the top with yellow paper and surrounding the edge with as many petals as there were guests.  Each guest was asked to pull a petal from the daisy, and in so doing drew from the basket a tiny doll dressed like a “rich man, poor man, beggar man, thief, doctor, lawyer, merchant or chief.”  The girl whose fate was already assured had been guided to choose a particular petal and her favor doll proved to be dressed in the garb of her fiance’s profession.

FORTUNE RHYMES FOR A “ONE I LOVE” SHOWER

  1.  If you’ll only wait a while
     Some one nice will make you smile.

  2.  You will have to choose between
     Walking or a limousine.

  3.  If you only ONLY knew
     Who was thinking much of you.

  4.  At a motion picture show
     From the screen your fate you’ll know.

  5.  Something nice you’ll sure know
     In about a week or so.

  6.  Don’t despise
     Hazel eyes.

  7.  Far across the briny sea
     Comes thy lover now to thee.

  8.  Your career you’ll surely ship
     And substitute a wedding trip.

  9.  A dance, a ride, a moonlit lawn,
     Your heart will be completely gone.

  10.  One—­two—­three—­
      The third it will be.

  11.  Beware, beware the eyes of blue
      Or they’ll surely capture you.

  12.  Your intellect will meet its equal,
      Happy though will be the sequel.

  13.  A word, a smile, a bow,
      Married in a year from now.

  14.  Try a smile
      For a while
      To beguile.

  15.  You will travel far away
      Sixteen years from yesterday.

AN INDIAN SUMMER SHOWER

For the girl who is to be married in the winter, an Indian Summer Shower might be given some November evening.  The cards of invitation can have a little brown Indian wigwam painted in one corner, or cut out of brown paper and pasted on; or the invitations can be written on pieces of white birch bark, if you happened to have gathered and saved any from the summer vacation.  Paper imitation of birch bark might also be used.