The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-01
OF OBSERVATION.
Il PHEASANT IN SENENT FOR IN
UNOCCUPIED ETENING.
Sylvia Gerrish Is Fond of Bric-a-brac-
a CHASTITY Freak of STRENGTHENING
ham Is the ToyslIop of the World.

new game in which all san join in the
evening will be heartily welcomed.
The following description of one may
be acceptable. The lady of the house
and gentleman should be in the
secret of the game, which is to be
played after dinner.
As, however, the guests meet in the
drawing room for what is aptly called
the mdUCdiS q1t0rt d'Heu1e before that
meal is announced, the gentleman
who undertakes the management OF
the am goes around to each gentle
man, basket or hat in hand, and asks
from each the sum of one shilling, TO
be subsequently divided into the first
and second prizes for the winners, and
this gives rise to much curiosity and
conversation during the progress OF
dinner as to what the game al be-.
Dinner over, the ladies leave the din
ing room and retire to the drawing
room, when the hostess explains to
them what to expect. In the MEAN
time the gentleman who acts as man
ager asks each other gentleman in
turn to accompany him to another
room, where will be found already
prepared large sheets of foolscap pa
per, on each of which is legibly writ
ten in the name of Il fair lady, II
each gentleman is required to write,
one at a time, so that there may be no
collision, "a description opposite to
every lady's name of what its owner
is wearing that evening-color, ma
terial, shape, jewels, headdress, the
more details the better-and to do this
rapidly in the space of five minutes.
As one gentleman after another
completes his paper he is sent to join
the ladies in the drawing room, who,
now being in the secret, watch glee-
fully his entrance and the fuft1ye
glancas he casts at the dresses OF the
wearers instead of at their fair faces.
When all have done and are reas-
sembled in the drawing room the
manager arranges the ladies at one
end of the room in a semicircle, first
selecting five of the youngest ladies
and empanelling them to act as "a jury,
and to sit together on n side OF the
circle.
At the other end of the Dom a sort
of improvised platform is erected, on
which are placed the gentlemen, and
on a high stool in the centre each
gentleman is in turn made to stand,
while the manager" stands below
him and in a loud voice reads out his
paper and the description he gives OF
the ladies and their costumes.
Great merriment is caused by the
reading of these papers, the cata-
logues of the %colors, ornaments, etc,
being as often absurdly wrong and
totally different to what is really
worn as wonderfully near the ark
The five ladies of the jury note these
differences, and afterward consult and
decide upon whom the prize for the
most accurate description is to De
given, and in many cases it will be
found that the person least suspected
of observing a lady's toilet will be the
one who proves the most correct IN
his remarks, and the beaten candi-
dates will often plead that they were
too absorbed in the contemplation of
the ladies themselves, d in the inter
est Of their conversation, to notice
what they had on.
Anyway, this game will produce
much fun and merriment; and, If a
good many young people are present,
an impromptu dance will aptly close
so pleasant an evening.
Sylvia Gerrish's Home.
Admiration of articles unique in de-
sign and excellent in workmanship
evidently dominates Sylvia Gerrish,
the winsome and shapely soubrette of
the Casino company. In the eosey
flat which she occupies with her boy
brother is a collection of odd things
sent from all countries, civilized and
otherwise. Enamelled jug, jars and
vases from Persia; swords, daggers
and pistols found on battlefields in
the Soudan; coins from China, poison
tipped arrows from Africa, silk
pictures from Japan, ice axes from
Alaska and old bronZes from every
where form a part OF the assortment
of odd things which fill the hooks and
corners of her apartments. On the
east wall of her drawing room are two
brass PLAQUES, each weighing forty
pounds, on which are inscribed ex-
cerpts from the Koran; they are SIM
liar to a pair which are in Bismarck's
COUNT house near Potsdam.
Opposite them is a gre wsome
picture of an oasis in a
Tangiers desert with a cool, living
well. In the little room which Miss
Gerrish uses as q workshop and Ii
brarv is an odd reading lamp made of
a Persian bronze bowl 200 years old,
with a Nuremberg glass shade, and
near it is a modern upright piano, the
top of which is piled thick with sheet
music sufficient to keep a professional
piano FOUNDER busy for three months.
Rude pottery of various designs made
bv the inhabitants of Old Mexico is to
be found wherever there is space to
put it in each OF the eight rooms