St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-26
SOLVING A PROBLEM.
Suggestions Which Will Be
Welcome to Many Host
esSeS.
Clever Ideas for the Euter-
tainment OF an Evening
Party.
Novel Contests Between Neck
ties and Bonnets--A Pi
Party.
Peanut Parties to Be an At
traction During the COM
ing Season.

UeI uuHlDcf Ol TIE LauleS' Home jour
nal will doubtless be warmly welcomed.
Here are some of them:
For utter whimsIcality and absence of
all stiffness i'll an evening party the
bonnet party cannot be excelled. In
vlte from ten to twenty of the incest
girls you know, and ask each to bring
with her pair OF scissors, thimble
and an old bonnet frame of any age,
size or shape; if some of them come
from grandma's trunks in the garnet in
stead of from last ears hat box, SO
much the better. The frames must be
absolutely bare, but each young lady
Will be asked to contribute enough ma
terial-old ribbon, silk, velvet, artificial
flowers or featherS-to trim all average
bonnet, allowing generous measure.
Send invitations TO as many young
men as girls, and ask each to bring any
stuff whatever, enough to make a neck
tie. whether ''four-in-hand," puff"
"claudent or plain straight bow. And
tell each one to come provided with a
thimble.
When your guests have assembled the
first step is to divide the company into
pairs. The partner cards" having all
been drawn, the lady and gentleman
holding No. 90 together to the tables
where the frames, ribbons, ETC., have
been arranged: and while he chooses
bonnet and the materials which he
thinks most appropriate, she picks out
from another pile the piece of goods
which she thinks will make him the
most becoming necktie. Then they
procure supply of the needles and
thread provided by the hostess, and sit
down to sew; while Pair No. 3 come for
ward and, and so OH until each lady is
busily engaged with gentleman and a
necktle; and each gentleman is giving
his attention to lady and bonnet. AS
neither is supposed 10 give the other
any help ar advice. the fun is endless.
AT the expiration of the time set the
hostess rings bell, and each pair of
contestants present themselves with
bonnet in place. and necktie arranged
with all the art its fair maker can mus
ter. AS lie comes before the committee
every gentleman must. if requested,
make a little speech, pointing out the
chief merits of his production, and the
difficulties which attend its manufact-
ure. When the review is over the COM
mittee-cOnsisting of the hostess and, if
possible, several other conteStantS-re-
tires to compare notes, and soon the
award of prizes is announced Two of
these will be sufficient; one to the gen
tleman who. all difficulties considered,
has produced the most artistic and be-
coming bonnet. and the other to the
lady whose necktie is pronounced most
satisfactory. The prizes may he neck
tie OF handkerchief cases, eourtplaster
cases for the needle WoundS), scarf
pins. hatpins, bonbon boxes in the
shape of hats, etc.
An original evening was that given by
a bright girl whose invitations bore. in
ali upper corner, a cleverly drawn pie.
and, in lower corner, "Pi-December
81, 1890" Some though her spelling
was bad; others consulted the dictionary
and waited.
When all the guests were seated, for
convenience, in groups of four, each
was presented with pretty souvenir
bearing a number. Then the fun began.
Little slips were distributed, typewrit-
ten, apparently in foreign tongue. for
the first line read: 'Howtut eth rodo
cit wosror ell" But when. in ten min
utes, time was called, there several who
had made out four lines of an ancient
Christtide song. The next task was to
find out the real names of twenty cities
in list which began with "Thinans-
wog," "Selimsaler" and "Bunghider,"
and little longer time was allowed.
The third slip contained fifteen
startling statements, such as:
Sion.'" Napoleon invented the cotton
GIN" Wordsworth was called The
Little Corporal" etc., the problem
being to put the proper subjects and
predlcateS together. After several more
rounds of original pi came the final test.
Each guest was given a paper arranged
like this:
No. "a, Mr.. Brown, six words.
4. early % Preserve 6. Love.
This meant that Mr.. B. was to 60
about till he found six papers bearing
his number ga. From each he would
get one word, and these six words he
was TO arrange in quotation with a
personal application to be immediately
written down and handed in. AS every
one was moving about at the same time
the search in each case was long and
merry one.
After this the prizes were awarded to
those who had presented the best and
poorest sets of answers during the even
ing; they consisted of pretty china
"ple plates" ''pie knife" paper cut
ter, real mince pie, and copy of ",The
Pied Piper of Hamelin." At supper
The cakes. merngues, and even the ices
were served in pie shapes, and huge
paper-crusted Christmas pie held favors.
The auction" party was surely in
vented for the hostess who wants to
abandon her guests to delicious fun.
The auctioneer, who stands at the head
of the table, has two decks of cards; the
bidders, who sit around the table, have
ten beans each. Six cards drawn from
one OF the decks are placed at intervals
OH the table. face down, and covered
with the packages OH sale, the deck be-
ing left i'll front of the auctioneer.
Holding the other deck behind him, the
auctioneer proceeds to sell it's cards in
twoS, threes, tours or fveS, deciding before
offering them what bid will buy them.
There is deafening chorus when the
auction opens. Zone beanr' Three
beans!" Give beans" Only the most
profiigate offers ten beans in the first
round. If the cards are knocked down
to him he is out of the auction. If he
buys with seven or eight beans he can
bid two or three beans for the next
cards, or combine with his neighbol
and divide the cards, if their combina
ton buy any. When the deck has been
bought up, the auctioneer calls out the
caruS III Une Impoverished deck on the
table in front of him. The persons hold
ing the cards answer and discard them
as they are called. But six of the cards
will not be called for. The cards Oh
| the table are then turned up and the
persons who hold the corresponding
cards buy the packages that have GOV
cred them. The auction continues til
the last article has been sold, the fun
growing more and more intoxicating as
| it progresses.
''Assembly will sound on April Il
1890, at No. 81 Blank street. Please re
port to Miss DASH" In response to this
dainty, hand-decorated invitation some
twenty-five young people gathered OF
| the specified evening at Miss Dash:
| home. In the dreSsIng-rooms the guest.
found streamers of red, white and blue
ribbons for their adornment, and they
were then ushered into the parlors 10y
two small boys clad in army uniform
| The rooms were tastefully decorated
with flags and bunting; guns ant