Musical Card Party
A good color scheme for this affair is brown and yellow. Invitations may be in the form of a scroll, engraved with a selection from some favorite opera, or may represent the “G” clef in brown and yellow water colors. For decorations use yellow flowers, yellow shaded lights and yellow and brown hangings. Tally cards may be painted to represent different musical instruments, such as violins, guitars, mandolins, etc.; or miniature tambourines and banjos may be used for scoring, hung by long loops of ribbon over the shoulders, and becoming before the close of the evening gayly decked with ribbons—yellow for the winners and brown for the losers. Musical quotations in halves may designate partners. For prizes, musical pictures in brown coloring, burnt wood plaques of famous musicians, a Flemish musical stein in brown and yellow, a brown leather music roll tied for the occasion with yellow streamers, musical novels, an upright piano candy box with the key board movable to show the candy inside, etc., may be used. Toy music boxes and grotesque musical instruments make amusing booby prizes. A triangle, like those for orchestral playing, may indicate progressions, instead of a bell.
For a brown and yellow menu:
| Brown Croquettes | Potato Balls | |
| Brown Breadsticks | ||
| Chicken Salad, yellow Mayonnaise | ||
| Orange Ice Cream, served in orange-peel baskets | ||
| Chocolate Cake | Chocolate Icing | |
| Chocolate and Lemon Bonbons | ||
| Yellow Cheese Balls | ||
| Coffee, with yellow whipped Cream | ||