MAY DAY
May Day always makes us think of a May pole, and May dance, and a pretty queen crowned with flowers. But May Day is apt to be chilly and disagreeable, so you couldn’t very well think of tripping around the May pole with your winter coat and your overshoes on. But how about a Sunshine May party for your Sunday-school class? If mother is willing, invite your teacher, the girls (for this is a girls’ party. We’re sorry, boys, but you really wouldn’t enjoy this!) Buy some colored crepe paper and a couple of dozen round paper cases such as are sold for fifteen cents a dozen. Paste and scissors will be needed also. When your friends come you can all busy yourselves making May baskets from the crepe paper and the paper cases.
When they are all finished they may be filled with spring flowers and sent to a children’s hospital. Wouldn’t you enjoy a pretty little basket of flowers if you were sick?
Then it will be a simple matter to “clear up” and set the table for afternoon tea. But perhaps the “best mother that ever was” has decorated the table in the dining-room with spring flowers, and has prepared an appetizing supper of creamed chicken, peas, potato chips, cake and tutti-frutti jelly. That would be better, even, than afternoon tea!