NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder : 13 
clubhouses, the verandas may be waxed and used for 
dancing when some special function is on, that requires a 
bit of real entertaining. 
We have spoken ‘of the simple attributes of the ver- 
anda and the many quiet, homely purposes that it fulfills, 
but it remains to show to what eloborate purposes a ver- 
anda may be used if necessary. At some North Shore 
houses this summer as many as six or seven small tables 
will be used for dinner, and the entire menu of several © 
courses will be served by well trained servants, on the 
outside of the house. With the small tables attractively 
decorated with flowers and the simplest of napery and 
china used, the effect is informal and altogether. de- 
lightful. he 
The guests who are favored with invitations to these 
veranda luncheons and dinners are usually so delighted 
with the success of the idea that they straightaway .re- 
turn to their own homes, and demonstrate to their own 
satisfaction, be their veranda great or small, what a luxury 
it is to partake of one’s meals in the one air, and with 
absolutely no conventional restraint. 
At a veranda luncheon, given by a well-known North 
Shore society woman one day last summer, the guests 
were informed that it was to be a sweet pea affair and 
each one was requested to appear in some shade, that 
could be reproduced in that fragrant blossom. When 
they arrived, they found the veranda set with four small 
tables, one decorated in pink sweet peas, one in pale 
lavender, one in cerise, and one in pale blue, and there 
was a great deal of genuine amusement in placing the 
guests according to the coloring of their attire. It was 
a charming sight, when the ladies were all seated and 
the veranda, which by the way, was not an unusually 
large one, looked like a garden in very sooth, with beau- 
tiful living flowers, gathered about the tables, for the 
guests happened to be a coterie of unusually attractive 
young women. Huge bunches of sweet peas were laid 
at each plate and the menu which was extremely novel, 
was composed of dishes of varying delicate tints, that 
entirely fitted with the general color scheme. 
Such affairs are out of the ordinary and seem to be 
in great favor and it leaves the ingenious hostess much 
room for unique ideas and originalities. 
One up-to-date society woman gave a bowling party 
on her veranda recently that was a great success and re- 
quired but little labor. The entire side of the veranda 
that was absolutely level was prepared, and the balls 
and pins brought out from the billiard-room, and the 
game was enjoyed by the guests in the out-door air until 
late in evening. 
The veranda party is almost a necessity this season, 
and as the fresh air fad gains and the younger generation 
comes up with practically no idea of remaining within 
doors except when absolutely necessary, the veranda will 
become a recognized institution that neither time nor tide 
will eradicate. 
THE ANDREW W. PRESTON VERANDA, 
SWAMPSCOTT 
