Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-07-30 | Page 20 | Give Your Boy a 'Pirates Party'

BIRTHDAY FUN , Give Your Boy a 'Pirates Party' ' By MEUA FERGUSON Why not have a pirate partem . for your son en his birthday, siurgests Mrs. Fnuik L. Holt, lu Woodrow St., Murray, In a letter to our "Hew I Do Jt eoluma. . Well, why aotf We sak .' "eept for the fact that we wouldn't even know hew s begin. be-gin. . But Mra. Holt anUrtpated thta t aad, luce a R"hrt Louie Bte-vensen Bte-vensen er a Kalaat Babetlni. she unfolded plans for a pirate party "for little boys only." which made one remember the tap-tap of John Stiver's wooden lee; in the exciting story of "Treasure Island." or the moment mo-ment whea gaudily drseaed cutthroats cut-throats hacked open the treasure boaaa. looted from the Spanish iain."i "Invite boys enly, she wrote, "and saad roughly constructed j Invitations on any old paper, such as maaila drawing paper.1 Provide Atsseephsra When the boys arrive, pass out pirate beta and eye paten ea. Make the hats of heavy red crepe pa par, cut m the ehape of a triangle, the siee to fit your own eon's head. Staple the corners cor-ners together. On the front of each hat, glue a akull and croae bonas, cut from black gummed tape. Fill In the eye sockets with white Ink. Make the eye patch aa out of black satswi, using rsd string to Ue them on." While yon are preparing refreshments, re-freshments, ehe suggests, let the boys play at being pirates. Thea, before your best sofa really begins be-gins to look like a plrate-et-tacked Spanish raid shin, switch Taaa-Tiliini im rmiIH MILITARY DECORATION Davtd Mark, 8, left, pins a medal on his guest, Dale Barker, 8, at start of his "pirate's party." Dale aucceede la looking- tough. Is- I A- r their Interest to a "puvthe-tail- on-the-donkey" gem a e a 1 y have them pin an eye patch ea a homemade pirate'a picture. Newspaper Tableotsttis For tablecloths, use news-paper news-paper with a treasure map drawn oa them. Draw a pirate sword in black crayon en plain white paper napkins, and write . "Yo-ho-ho" la red crayon beneath be-neath It. For place cards, make little bubble gum ehipa, with colored toothpicks for the flag-poiee, flag-poiee, on which a flag can have a akull and erosebonee oa one side, and names of the boys oa the other. For refreshments, ehe suggests sug-gests serving chocolate angel food eake and root beer floats in mugs, using white frosting for the cake, with "Yo-ho-ho" written on It Use new pennies for candle holders, attaching red candies to them with waa. ' Caady Kiss Treasure - After th children are through eating end the table la cleared, net a "treasure chest" in the center cen-ter of the table, made of a small draaaar type cedar chest. The honored guest opens It to find it full of colored candy kisses. New pennies can be put in with some ot the kisses, te make an extra surprise as each sand takes a handful of kisses for himself. Rave a few extra pennies, pen-nies, and If some aren't lucky enough to pick lucky kisses, give " them two or three pennies. i A pirate party for children, using Mra Holt's plan, is as aimple and almost as Inexpensive Inexpen-sive es the old "ice cream and cake routine." But doesn't it eound hke lota more fun? f Tnswn tusiissi .rassi rsiseiins BlINDMAN'S BLUFF David cant help guiding Dale aim. as he pin catch oa ptrate's eye la this different version of "ptn the tail oa the donkey." ,