Then will come the chicken salad, and after that the ice-cream--she's going to make an angel-food cake to go with it--and then coffee and crackers and a new kind of cheese I got at Worlig's, he says is very fine." Alice was alarmed.

"Don't you think perhaps it's too much, mama ?" "It's better to have too much than too little," her mother said, cheerfully.

"We don't want him to think we're the kind that skimp.

Lord knows we have to enough, though, most of the time! Get the flowers in water, child.

I bought 'em at market because they're so much cheaper there, but they'll keep fresh and nice.