Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1884-02-14
We are three brothers frOmSpain,
Come to court your daughter Jane.
My daughter Jane is yet too young
To be eourted by your flatterlnp tongue


Warm
And two or three kisses viii do us no harm.
am a poor widow, a-marching around,
And all of my daughters are married but one;
SO rise up my daughter and kiss whom you
please,
And kiss whom you please to marry
"Philander's. March" is another New
England game done with much ceremony
of marching and kissing:
Come, Philandei, let's be marching,
Every one his true love sarchng,
Choose your true love now or never,
And be sure you choose no other.
so, my dear how do love you:
Mit M9ithng on earth aG af 40 prize above you;
a. And will never, never leave YOU.
An innocent and popular amusement
for the winter evenings used to be count
ing apple seeds. There was always cider
to drink and apples to eat at the young
peoples gatherings, and much amuse-
ment was derived from eating an apple
with a favored suitor, and counting seeds
to this formula:
zone love,
Two love,
Three love, say,
Four love with all my heart
And five cast away;
Six he loves,
Seven she loves, VS.
Eight tney Doth love;
Nine he comes,
Ten he tarries,
Eleven he courts,
Twelve he marrieS.'
Redeeming forfeits is still a favorite
game in many parts of the country and
it is said to be one of the forms of amuse-
ment practiced most frequently by the
Vassar girls.
TO GO TO ROME.
~ hoy nd ryyrIc of -.
are very fond of this game, and nothing,
delights them so much as to initiate a
city belle who may chance to be visiting
them into its mystery by beginning the
game with her, to which she gives a
questionable consent, not having the
least idea what going to Rome means.
1t is to kiss every girl in the room, and
the country youth do not hesitate to car
ry out the contract to the full limits.
Flatirons is for couple to join hands on
the wall and kiss. Measuring yards of
imaginary tape and cutting it off is to
join hands and extend the arms, cutting
off kiss each time.
A rather silly love. game is Little Sally
Waters, the heroine of favorite dance
in present vogue. The girl is the center
of ring of young people, seated on
chair, her face covered with her hands.
tAo iLAS SiNSS tilc ooiiSJ anu Wnen Jne
singers come to the word 'trise" she turns
to the one she has selected and salutes
him:
Little Salle Waters,
Sitting in the sun,
Crying and weeping
For young man.
Rise Sally rise,
Dry your weeping eyes;
Fly to the east
Fly to the west,
Fly to the one that yoG love beSt'
Newell, in his excellent compilation of
games and songs, says of these games:
Kissing games were as familiar in the
classic poriod as in later times; for Pol
lux quotes the Athenian comic poet
Crates as saying Of coquette, that she
plays kissing games in rings of boys,
preferring the handsome ones"
The romping which accompanies kiss
ing game was the means of bringing it in
to contempt but it would have been a
very tame affair without it, and the
youth who could take kiss without
chasing the coy damsel round and round
the room, and wrestling it from her lips
by force, would scarcely have valued it.
The well known game of pillow is the
last one of the old kissing games to die.
1t is still in practice in many New Eng
land towns.
AS hloSllS-iOou hIlOW1l dS Ming
Georges son or King James son, is still
used at children's parties, and is very
musical in tbs recitative motion:
King William was King James, son,
And all the royal race he run;
Upon his head he wore a star
Star of the East
Star of the West,
Star of the one that you love best.
II she's not here don't take her part,
But choose another with all your heart.
| Ia q RI vnt ,1ISf lyf,na
As the grass grows on the fieds
Salute your bride and kiss her sweet,
And rise again upon your feet.
The demerits of the games past were
atoned for by the fact that they broke the
social ice at parties, and allowed the half
frozen young people the liberty of mo-
ton, and led them into graceful revolu-
ton, and freedom of limbs, that has
found counterpart in the later and uni
versal accomplishment of dancing. 1t
was rather inconsistent in the guardians
of the youth Of a past age, to object to
the waltz and countenance promis-
cuous games of kissing, but it is possible
that the harm in either is supposed by
theory rather than practice, and the
surest way to eliminate wrong from an
amusement is to take it into the family
circle under the vigilant eyes of fathers
and mothers, and give it the sanction of
domestic usage. A circle of young peo-
pie sitting in solemn state, indulging
only in conversation, have more oppor-
| tunity for envy, hatred and malice, than
| they possibly could find time for if
| running around the room shouting
Button! Button! Who's got the but
| ton?"