Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 Japanese ceramics Constructed of leather-covered cardboard with

Constructed of leather-covered cardboard with a red fabric lining

but which now I think would make a pretty great vase

which I mounted in a simple white frame

and forward stretched arm

This little creation just makes me smile every time I look at it

Fifty Social Evenings by Annie E. Smiley - First Edition, 1894 Japanese ceramics Constructed of leather-covered cardboard withSo much fun! Published by the Central Office of the Epworth League (a Methodist young adult association formed in Cleveland in 1889) Fifty Social Evenings was written to help the league's department of social work in their efforts "to make league socials bright, entertaining and instructive." Happily, the fifty games and themes detailed possess a wonderful weirdness and specificity that makes for great reading and imagining, if not actual execution.