| With a family of children April fools Day can be | | | | without striking an odd note. It was lovely to look |
| one big headache or it can be fun for everyone | | | | at and there was nothing to indicate that things |
| depending a lot on how you take it. There is | | | | were not what they seemed. |
| nothing grad ester-age children love better than | | | | Mary was the first guest to run into trouble. She |
| playing tricks and April fools Day is the day of | | | | took a drink of water, and immediately with a |
| opportunity for such activities. | | | | chagrined look around dabbed at the water on her |
| The spirit of the day is an excuse (if you ever | | | | chin. Teddy wasn't so reticent. After a couple of |
| need one) for a party. It is bound to be fun | | | | drinks he burst out, "What is the matter with me |
| because everyone is specially geared for fun on | | | | tonight? I can't drink without spilling". |
| that day. Let your youngsters invite in their | | | | Hey, there is something the matter with these |
| friends for a dinner party it wont be formal, but | | | | cups. "On the quiet Johnny had been looking his |
| we will guarantee it will be exciting. | | | | cup over. Examination proved that every third or |
| Written invitations seem to whet the edge of | | | | fourth cup was a dribble cup. (A dribble cup is one |
| anticipation. For such invitations our youngsters | | | | with small holes about an inch from the top out of |
| used small white cards on which they wrote: | | | | which water leaks when the cup is put to the |
| Dinner at Six on April fools Day After which | | | | lips.)" |
| comes an evening of play. Come be amazed and | | | | Now the youngsters were on the alert for April |
| curious for fun will grow fast and furious. | | | | fool tricks, but it did not lessen their appetites. |
| Promptly at six o'clock all the guests arrived in | | | | Chicken and dumplings, fruit salad, and new peas |
| their best "bib and tucker". We had gone all out to | | | | disappeared like magic, but not without a hitch or |
| make the dinner table look as pretty and partyish | | | | two. Sally was embarrassed when her fork broke |
| as any grown-ups party with lace tablecloth, best | | | | just above the tines as she tried to spear a bit of |
| china and gleaming silver. Spring colors, pink, | | | | chicken. With many cautions about care of silver |
| lavender and green were in evidence in candles | | | | she was given another which broke in the same |
| and the sweet-pea centerpiece. Paper | | | | way. Then someone tumbled that these were |
| drinking-cups and paper napkins in the same soft | | | | trick forks. |
| pastel colors added to the beauty of the table | | | | |