"What are you going to do for ornaments," asked another.
Helen laughed.
"James Hancock has an idea for decorating the walls so that they'll
interest the babies, and we're going to have fresh cheese-cloth
curtains at all the windows, but that's the end of our possibilities."
"I have several bureau scarves that are in good condition but they have
been washed so many times that they're a little faded. If you'd like
those--?" she ended with an upward inflection.
"We would," replied Helen promptly.
"Could you use some prints of pictures--good paintings?" inquired yet
another, a person whose taste Helen knew could be trusted.
"We'd be glad of them. We can frame them in passepartout. We'd be
especially glad of madonnas."
"That's just what I was going to offer you. A club I once belonged to
studied celebrated paintings of madonnas one winter and I made this
collection. Many of them are only penny prints and some are cut from
magazines--".
"They're perfectly good for us," Helen reassured her, and made another
note in her book.
Most of the visitors went home with the falling dark, but some stayed
to see the rose lanterns lighted, and others, who had not been able to
come in the afternoon, drove or walked out from town in the evening and
were served with ice cream and strawberries from a supply that had been
wonderfully well calculated.
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