item: #1 of 11 id: 11883 author: Burt, Emily Rose title: Entertaining Made Easy date: None words: 19125 flesch: 79 summary: Little tables had been set on the lawn with a bouquet of old-fashioned marigolds in the center of each one, and a toy orange balloon tied to the back of each chair by a long string. For a wedding breakfast, you might serve creamed codfish in heavy crockery, and follow it with helpings of cream of wheat either cold or hot, which can be served to resemble ice cream in little paper cases. keywords: apple; basket; blue; bride; center; children; course; cream; daisy; evening; friends; girl; green; guests; hostess; ice; paper; party; pink; place; pussy; red; ribbon; room; rose; shower; table; time; watermelon; wedding; white; yellow cache: 11883.txt plain text: 11883.txt item: #2 of 11 id: 25857 author: Wells, Carolyn title: Patty's Social Season date: None words: 67286 flesch: 92 summary: You're right, little Patty, and Hepworth looked at her kindly. But our trials are over now, Patty girl, and we can take a little rest! keywords: adèle; big; bill; blue; christine; christmas; course; daisy; dance; eyes; farnsworth; girls; going; good; help; house; jim; lansing; little; look; love; man; mean; mind; miss; mona; mrs; new; patty; people; philip; reypen; right; roger; room; things; thought; time; van; way; young cache: 25857.txt plain text: 25857.txt item: #3 of 11 id: 28805 author: Raymond, Evelyn title: Dorothy's House Party date: None words: 57947 flesch: 88 summary: There, Miss Dorothy Calvert, that don't begin to show how tickled I am 'bout your good fortune! Next? Dorothy Calvert. So far so good. keywords: alfaretta; alfy; aunt; betty; boy; calvert; course; day; dear; dinah; dorothy; eyes; face; girl; good; helena; herbert; home; house; jane; jim; know; little; luna; mabel; man; master; molly; money; morning; mrs; oliver; party; place; poor; right; room; seth; thee; thing; thought; time; twins; way; winters; young cache: 28805.txt plain text: 28805.txt item: #4 of 11 id: 36007 author: Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) title: Ethel Morton and the Christmas Ship date: None words: 59381 flesch: 86 summary: Any way, I used up the piece of cloth making dolls and cats and dogs. I'll trust old Roger not to pay compliments, responded James. keywords: afternoon; blue; boys; brown; children; christmas; club; cotton; cut; day; della; dicky; dorothy; ethel; ethel blue; ethel brown; father; frã¤ulein; girls; good; helen; home; house; idea; james; mademoiselle; making; margaret; morton; mother; mrs; need; new; orphans; paper; people; point; right; roger; school; ship; things; thought; time; tom; war; way; work cache: 36007.txt plain text: 36007.txt item: #5 of 11 id: 36671 author: Speed, Nell title: A House Party with the Tucker Twins date: None words: 55798 flesch: 89 summary: It seemed like ol' times to be a-packin' all them victuals. But this isn't thinking up something to do about poor little Annie. keywords: annie; aunt; boat; country; course; day; dear; dee; dum; father; girls; going; good; harvie; help; home; house; jessie; lady; life; little; look; man; maria; mary; maxton; milly; miss; new; page; party; poor; pore; price; right; room; sleepy; store; tell; thing; time; tucker; war; water; way; work; young; zebedee cache: 36671.txt plain text: 36671.txt item: #6 of 11 id: 40463 author: Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows) title: The Little Colonel's Holidays date: None words: 51496 flesch: 86 summary: And she said, 'Tell that blessed little Betty that she has given me an inspiration for life. It was always ready in her loving little hand. keywords: allison; aunt; away; betty; boys; children; christmas; colonel; day; door; dot; elise; eugenia; eyes; face; girls; good; hand; head; home; house; jack; joyce; kitty; life; little; lloyd; look; looking; miss; molly; mother; mrs; night; people; picture; place; room; story; things; thought; time; walton; white cache: 40463.txt plain text: 40463.txt item: #7 of 11 id: 41632 author: Sherwood, M. E. W. (Mary Elizabeth Wilson) title: The Art of Entertaining date: None words: 113336 flesch: 76 summary: It is made with _brioche_ paste, mixed with madeira, currants, raisins, and potted cream. Quails, with a twang of aromatic herbs, are followed by macaroni flavoured with spiced livers, cocks' combs, and eggs called _risotto_, then golden _fritto_, cooked in the purest _cru_ of olive oil, and _quocchi_ cakes, of newly ground Indian corn, which is all that our roasted green corn is, without the trouble of gnawing it off the cob,--a process abhorrent to the conscientious diner unless he is alone. keywords: american; art; ball; beef; breakfast; brown; butter; cheese; chicken; children; christmas; coffee; company; cook; cookery; country; course; cream; cup; cut; day; delicate; delicious; dinner; dish; dishes; dress; eggs; end; england; english; europe; family; fashion; favourite; fine; fire; fish; flavour; flowers; france; french; fruit; game; gentleman; german; glass; good; green; guests; half; hand; head; home; hostess; hour; house; ice; king; ladies; lady; left; life; little; london; lunch; makes; man; men; new; night; o'clock; oil; order; paris; party; people; pepper; perfect; person; place; play; poor; pretty; queen; red; roast; room; salad; salt; sauce; servants; set; silver; small; society; soup; sugar; table; taste; tea; thing; time; water; way; white; wine; woman; work; world; years; york; young cache: 41632.txt plain text: 41632.txt item: #8 of 11 id: 42863 author: Linscott, Herbert B., Mrs. title: Bright Ideas for Entertaining date: None words: 64873 flesch: 85 summary: Then small white cards were passed tied with cherry-colored ribbon and vinter-gjaek, each card containing a verse and below this the initials of a name pricked out with a pin. To select partners for refreshments, give to each lady a flower of a different variety; if it is impossible to secure a sufficient quantity of natural blossoms, paper ones will do quite as well, and these may be made at home. keywords: answers; blue; book; boxes; boy; brown; cake; candy; cards; centre; children; coffee; color; contest; corn; corner; course; cream; cut; day; decorations; dining; dinner; eggs; end; entertainment; evening; flowers; following; form; game; girl; glass; good; green; guests; half; heart; home; hostess; hung; ice; invitations; japanese; ladies; lady; list; luncheon; man; menu; names; new; number; orange; paper; party; people; person; picture; pin; place; prize; questions; read; red; refreshments; ribbon; room; second; silver; sociable; state; supper; table; tea; time; tin; tree; water; way; wedding; white cache: 42863.txt plain text: 42863.txt item: #9 of 11 id: 43025 author: Abbott, Eleanor Hallowell title: Rainy Week date: None words: 42089 flesch: 86 summary: Here it is almost February, he brooded, and even with what we've got, we're still short the Celibate and the Singing Voice and the May Girl. Before I had been in the Carolinas three days the telegram came. Have found May Girl. keywords: allan; allan john; ann; ann woltor; bit; brenswick; bride; course; day; eyes; face; george; george keets; girl; hand; husband; john; keets; kennilworth; man; miss; moment; morning; new; night; paul; rollins; room; saw; think; thought; time; voice; way; week; woltor; world cache: 43025.txt plain text: 43025.txt item: #10 of 11 id: 43278 author: Spencer, Edward title: Cakes & Ale A Dissertation on Banquets Interspersed with Various Recipes, More or Less Original, and anecdotes, mainly veracious date: None words: 71865 flesch: 74 summary: Put into a silver mug, or jug, previously heated, two wine-glassfuls of overproof (or proof) Scotch whisky, and one wine-glassful of _boiling_ water. where _dry_ curry is served as well as the other brand, there is a procession of three brown attendants. keywords: ale; beef; boiling; bottle; bowl; brandy; bread; breakfast; butter; champagne; chapter; cheese; coffee; cold; cook; cookery; course; cup; curry; cut; day; days; dinner; dish; drink; eating; eggs; english; fact; fire; fish; flavour; food; french; glassful; good; gravy; great; green; half; head; hour; house; juice; lemon; little; man; meal; meat; milk; mixture; mutton; onions; oysters; pepper; pie; pint; place; poor; potatoes; pour; punch; recipe; roast; salad; salt; sauce; sir; sort; soup; stew; strain; sugar; supper; table; tea; time; tumbler; vinegar; water; way; white; wine; writer cache: 43278.txt plain text: 43278.txt item: #11 of 11 id: 5893 author: Wells, Carolyn title: Two Little Women on a Holiday date: None words: 56128 flesch: 94 summary: But trust little Alicia to do something big! Will you be good little girls, and not finger the exhibits, except such as I say you may? Of course we will. keywords: alicia; bernice; berry; course; day; dolly; dotty; fayre; fenn; forbes; girls; good; home; house; jeff; look; mean; miss; mother; mrs; party; people; right; room; thing; thought; time; uncle; way; yes cache: 5893.txt plain text: 5893.txt