London, Aug. 14.
No matter how socially important the host and hostess, how forge and impressive-sounding the list of gusts for garden and indo: parties, the most popular ana general Type of. entertainment these "August days is the "Merry Party". "Dress as you please" is the favourite wording for gers invitation cards and uneanventinnality ithe keynote of these gatherings.
Yet, In other ways, to-day's "Merry Party" is much the same as any other party. Gipsy orchestras make cheerful music' under the trees, dancers Jdance on Mlood-lit lawns and refresh {themselves in flower-decked Jquees, where the lamp glow Is soft and as pink as fashion just now de-jorees it should be, For pink Is obviously the coming colour for delcorative table schemes.
Unless I am very much mistaken, Jnext season in London will see many mirror-topped dining tables, on which crystal vases are massed with pink flowers, so that the colour is" fected "in the glass surface. Some American hostesses are responsible for bringing back to London another Victorian flower treatment and we shall soon be dining under sweet-smelling pink umbrellas. Ramblers were arranged over a wired umbrella frame at a recent dinner party in the same way in which they are grown in a garden,
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