Part 4 (1/2)

Then, during the dessert course, introduce what is called a Rose Shower.

This will be on the order of the literary salads that were so popular some time ago, but it is newer.

The idea is this: Cut from red tissue paper a couple of dozen little leaf shaped pieces to be crimped and creased and coaxed into representing rose petals. On each petal write a familiar quotation relating to the rose.

These leaves are to be pa.s.sed around the table, each guest taking one, and when done with it, pa.s.sing it on.

Prizes will be offered to the guests who are able to name the authors of the largest number of quotations.

Here are some of the verses:

That which we call a rose, By any other name would smell as sweet.

--_Shakespeare_.

But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which, withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness.

--_Shakespeare_.

The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new; And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew, And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears.

--_Scott_.

'Tis the last rose of summer Left blooming alone.

--_Moore_.

You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.

--_Moore_.

He wears the rose Of youth upon him.

--_Shakespeare_.

As though a rose should shut and be a bud again.

--_Keats_.

She wore a wreath of roses, That night when first we met.

--_T. H. Bayley_.

The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.

--_T. H. Bayley_.

Loveliest of lovely things are they On earth that soonest pa.s.s away.