Finding Love in the Cake with Candles
Much sport may be had at suppertime by, haying a large cake in the center of the table with as many candles around it as there are guests, each candle a different color. The cake is passed last. The guests each take a candle and a piece of cake, choosing whatever color pleases their fancy. As they do so some one reads:
He who takes the candle blue,
Will find Ms Sweetheart ever true.
The pink, the sweetest of them all
Will wed a fellow six feet tall
Alas for yellow, bright to see;
Your lover ever will jealous be.
Happy he who orange takes;
Now begin your wedding cakes.
Hopeless, homeless bachelor he,
If white candle his should be.
The hostess" may evolve some other pleasant and clever couplets to finish the list. The candles come in play later, when each tries his or her fate. All candles lighted, each holds his at arm's length, and blows three times should the candle go out the first time he will be married that year; if the second, in two years; if the third, in three years.
