American Agriculturist, June 7, 1924 
If 
Making Plans for a June Wedding 
Whether It Be Simple or Elaborate, the Bride Wants It Right 
O F course it must be a pretty wedding, 
for it is THE day in a girl’s life, so 
whether the ceremony takes place in 
church or at home, let's decorate for it! 
The woods and fields and gardens are 
filled with loveliness, and from such a 
wealth of material, it will b.e a delightful 
task to arrange a charming “frame” for 
the bride and her attendants. 
Choose a Color Plan 
First, select the color plan to be fol¬ 
lowed. Yellow and white form a pleasing 
combination, provided the girls who are to 
act as you! bridesmaids can wear yellow. 
It isn’t becoming to everybody, you know! 
The same is true of green and white, a 
charming plan for a summer ceremony, 
provided the bridesmaids look well in 
green. Pink or rose combined with white 
will be becoming to almost everybody', 
while France has given us the lovely idea 
of introducing a touch of blue with the 
pink. 
Now for the Flowers 
Now for the flowers! It is not a good 
plan to use wild flowers and cultivated 
varieties in the same decoration, so pro¬ 
fessional decorators assure us. If the 
gold and white combination pleases you, 
then gather buttercups and daisies in 
abundance. For a green and white wed¬ 
ding, you will need delicate maidenhair 
ferns, which can be combined with white 
roses, sweet peas, peonies, or loveliest of 
all for a wedding, white lilacs! Does a 
suckle or clematis or trailing pines will 
conceal the humble holders very effec¬ 
tively. 
Place in the fireplace a large bucket or 
small tub filled with ferns, and bend down 
the ferns so that the holder is completely 
hidden. Arrange vines over window 
frames and doorways. 
Here is a truly artistic centerpiece for 
the bridal table! Take an inexpensive 
for little outlay of money. There is no 
sweeter sight under the summer sky 
than a happy bride surrounded by a bevy 
of her girl friends, plighting her vows 
amid the flowers. So in planning your 
invitations, don’t forget to include the 
ferns and flowers!— Elsie Duncan Yale. 
A SONG OF THE DIRT 
COHERE is a fiend who stares at me; 
An ever-present enemy 
He frowns upon me ceaselessly— 
His name is Dirt. 
I fight him bravely hour by hour 
With brush and broom of deadly 
power. 
Sometimes he does grow pale and 
cower 
Yet takes no hurt. 
He creeps inside the window panes; 
Every obstruction he disdains— 
I really think he’s in my brains 
I feel so blue. 
If there’s a land, indeed, where we 
From that foul tyrant shall be free. 
I’ll strive to reach it valiantly, 
My whole life through. 
Mrs. La Verne Palmer. 
Does This Fit Your Case? 
OOME very pat little rhymes are con- 
^ tributed by Ida A. Brown, who has 
often appeared in the American Agri¬ 
culturist columns. Mrs. Brown writes 
in old-fashioned obituary style two 
suggested inscriptions for modern house¬ 
wives : 
Poor Anna Smith lies in her tomb, 
She died of wielding a heavy broom. 
Her husband grieves, but too late to keep her, 
He should have bought an electric sweeper. 
Hannah rubbed her life out on an old wash¬ 
board, 
While John continued the money to hoard. 
She’d have been here now alive, serene. 
If he’d only bought her a washing machine. 
basket of pretty shape, and paint with 
.. , __ ^ ^ aluminum lacquer. Line with paraffin 
pink and white color scheme appeal to P a P® r » then fill with damp sand. In the 
your Then use roses or pink sweet peas, 
or peonies, while if you wish that very 
artistic “touch of blue” let your brides¬ 
maids’ bouquets be of larkspur and pink 
snapdragon. For the bride’s bouquet, 
choose white roses or sweet peas or lilies 
of the valley, and tie with soft white 
ribbon or tulle. 
Trim Up the Church 
Of course your girl friends will want to 
decorate the church or house for you, so 
just whisper these few suggestions to 
them. Gather the flowers the evening 
before and place them in tubs of water, so 
that the stems may become thoroughly 
saturated. Then the flowers will not be 
so apt to wilt. Be sure to have plenty 
of greenery, for this makes a most effec¬ 
tive background for the white bridal dress, 
and the pretty colors of the bridesmaids’ 
gowns. 
Bank the space around the pulpit with 
ferns and greenery. Large clumps of 
ferns may be dug up in the woods, and 
placed in boxes covered with green crepe 
paper. Potted- ferns may also be used. 
Be sure to tilt the pots forward slightly, 
so that the ferns will extend toward the 
audience, rather than straight up. Place 
a wad of newspaper under each pot for 
this purpose. Among this greenery place 
jars of flowers, to contrast with the mass 
of ferns. A very lovely decoration of 
daisies and buttercups is contrived by 
covering shallow pans (such as baking 
pans) with green crepe paper and filling 
with wet sand. In these pans “plant” 
daisies and buttercups, or other field 
flowers, together with ferns, and arrange 
around the edge of the pulpit. Mesh 
wire fencing, such as is used for poultry 
yards, is a great help to the decorator. It 
may be fastened flat upon the wall back 
°f the pulpit, and the meshes twined with 
greenery and flowers, thus forming a very 
effective background. Tie a bouquet to 
each pew in which members of the fami¬ 
nes are to be seated. 
Make the Home Festive 
Decorations in the home should be 
quite simple, for with a throng of guests, 
v ases on tables or stands are apt to meet 
with accidents. The mantel may be made 
a very decorative feature. Remove the 
ornaments from it, and arrange instead 
a row of quart preserve jars holding 
flowers and ferns. Long sprays of honey- 
sand “plant” white sweet peas, or other 
white flowers, together with ferns, prefer¬ 
ably maidenhair. Twine the handle 
of the basket with smilax or honeysuckle, 
and place on a mat, formed by laying 
ferns flat on the table. 
A pretty wedding is not necessarily an 
expensive one, and some of the loveliest 
ceremonies have been those which called 
Risen Cornbread 
K cake compressed yeast 
1 tablespoon brown sugar 
1K cups corn-meal 
1 level teaspoon salt 
1 cup lukewarm water 
1 tablespoon lard 
Yv cup flour 
1 beaten egg. 
Dissolve the yeast and sugar in the 
water; add the melted lard; stir in the 
meal and flour, salt and egg. Beat and 
mix well, fill well-greased pan two-thirds 
full, set to rise in a warm place about one 
hour. Bake as soon as light; they usually 
require about 30 minutes.—Miss Edna 
Dalton. 
Bloomer Play Frock 
The One-Hour Blouse 
TIME-SAVERS FOR THE WOMAN WHO SEWS 
No. 2103—A pert little bloomer 
frock which looks adorable in 
gingham, chambray or soft colored 
linen. It cuts in sizes 2, 4, 6 and 8 
years, taking 2 yards of 40-inch 
material for a medium size. Price, 
12c. 
No. 2042—A One-Hour blouse. 
A glance at the diagram shows why 
it can be made so quickly. It is 
economical of material as well as of 
time, for it takes only \ 5 /i yards of 
36-inch material for size 36. No. 
2042 cuts in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 
40 and 42 inches bust measure. 
Price, 12c. 
No. 2097 fills a variety of needs. 
Simple, yet with a dressy little air, it 
is becoming to any type of figure. 
The June bride will find it a charm¬ 
ing frock made in soft white satin 
or crepe de chine; it also looks very 
pretty in printed crepe, a gay taffeta 
or a cotton fabric. No. 2097 cuts 
in sizes 16 years, 36, 38, 40 and 42 
inches bust measure. In the 
medium size it takes V/i yards of 
40-inch material. Price, 12c. 
No. 2102 is a slenderizing frock 
to be worn around the house. It is 
loose and comfortable yet neat in 
appearance and flattering to the 
figure. No. 2102 cuts in sizes 36, 
38, 40, 4tf, 44 and 46 inches bust 
measure. In the 36-inch size, 354 
yards of 36-inch material will make 
the dress. Price, 12c. 
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