The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-12
AUNT MARJORlE'S HINTS
She Suggests Several Ways to Make
the Evenings at Home Pleas
ant for Little Ones.

lor OF O town house, and F. with
his violin, and mamma and little sis.
ter at the piano, had given us some
very charming music. There was
still an hour before the children's
holiday bedtime should arrive, and
some ono proposed that it be spent
in a pleasant game OF word guessing.
The sweetest and dearest, obliging
as usual, volunteered to go out OF the
room while a line of poetry was Sc
lected. The line, from a stanZa of the
Ancient Mariner" was presently
chosen
''The wedding guest he beat his breast"
and our friend came in, and begin
ming at one extreme of the circle,
asked questions of each person in
turn. She was allowed to ask any
sort of question she pleased, and the
person questioned, in his or her re-
ply, was obliged to bring in deity,
and with as little emphasis as pos
sible, the word which had been as
signed, for each of us had taken a
word in order. Thus, No. 1had the;
No. 1, wedding; No. 8, guest; and
so on. The questioner was permitted
three separate guesses as to the word
on hearing the answer of each, and
you would hardly believe that the
familiar line went twice around the
circle before it was finally discovered.
Such an exercise is very much to be
commended for an evenings pleasure
at home. 1t gives an opportunity for
nimble wits in constructing puzzling
sentences; and those who take part in
fhn oo n oofhnr I'M q dhnaf of n0otiao1
lines which linger in the memory.
Odd bits of information come to hand,
and even wellread people are some
line they thought belonged to Moore
was really written by Campbell, or
that some fine sentiment which they
had attributed to Shakespeare came
from a long-gone classic source.
After this game, if there be nuts and
for sociability, and a song or
two from the pretty daughter or the
older brother, another violin solo, or
a chapter from "Ben-Hurn or some
other good book, the evening will be
voted charlningly satisfactory. For
aloud at home, s'The Capt.
tails of Spanish America" by William
Curtis, has proved delightful,
enlisting the attention of everybody,
and giving the pleasant experiences
of travel without going away from the
fireside.
In summer, when the conservation
the piazza flags, such quiet amuse-
as these come in very we'll to
put the listless mood to fight. 1t is
worth while to plan a little for an
evenings enjoyment, so that to young
and old there may be no place like
home.-Aunt Maajorie Pfecept, IN
Harper's Young People.
That's the Way the Money Goes.
Five hundred thousand visiting
cards have been engraved in Wash
this season, says the Paper
World. One stationery firm has
turned out 300, 900 in the last two
months and the money spent on
.asteboard during q season amounts
to tens of thousands OF dollars. The
most ordinary card cost one cent
apiece otter the plate is made, and
of the dinner invitations sent
put cost $40 a dozen. A prominent
of the expense account of a
Washington belle is her engraving
and printing, and society ladies who
give dinners spend at times hundreds
Of dollars upon the stationery for a
feast.
Mrs. Leland Smith lately paid $e5
for fifty cards to be used as menues
one OF her big dinners. The map
Of the United States was stamped in
on the cards and the drawings
and engravings were exquisite. AT
the dinner which General Brecken-
gave the cards cost So apiece,
and Mrs. Justice Blatchford gave not
long ago a luncheon, the cards for
which were engraved by hand at a
cost of $18 a dozen. Some of the cards
were in raised silver and gold. They
look as though the gold and silver
had been melted and poured into let
ters on the cards, and cost seventy
five cents apiece.