Show Favors for the Guest Fashion has invent a new extravagance This applies t the favors given to tho guests at parties The custom bpgan quit innocently inno-cently enough Inexpensive and odd souvenirs that vie iS ved the memory of the occasion without being vulgarly costly or extravagant in character were given Now only money ca eitabli the popularity of a dance favor I is no longer a question of how quaint the device is or how appropriate but of bow much it costs Society is laughing at the story of a woman who gave a party the guests at which carried off t set of unique salt cellars that she had bought under the impression that they were intended as souvenirs souve-nirs The other afternoon I came upon quite a gang of young men and women leaving a stylish house up town each of the women carrying a canary in a tiny ege The ho teas had conceived tho i ea of giving a songbird song-bird as a favor for her afternoon t The next thing in this line may well b Skye terriers Maltese kittens Indeed I riers pug dogs or ale kittn Indod am told that at a recent party of some thirty people each lady received a pair of love birds i a cag Love bird it may interest you to know are tiny paroquets about the size of sparrows that do nothing but fight one another srows other while they are together yet die i a male and female a not kept together in the mae cage In South America the natives thanks to this propensity call them man and wife Alfred Trurnble in New York News |