The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1891-04-29
COBWEB PERTTES.
One of Fashions Games Where All Find
Prizes And Fun And Food For Re-
Election.
A cobweb party is great fun.

| n Coo"CU party Is SIedC 1uu.
1t is work, too-work for the amiable
and inventive hostess and most tan
talizing and pleasurable work for the
as chase, with the game Just beyond
the tips of your fingers. or the reach of
your gun.
At first it seems as if one were trying
to catch a -the-wisp or find the
bag of gold at the root of a rainbow.
In fact, the effect of the CAV yarns,
chooses to use), crossed and recrossed
and interlaced and interwined, is not
unlike a very beautiful rainbow, which
has at the end of each bright strand a
real prize. Not the traditional bag of
gold to be sure, but anything from a
silken shoestring to a diamond pin, or
a book, or picture, or anything and
! everything that ready, inventive facul-
ty, artistic taste or fun loving fancy can
make or devise.
Cobweb parties may have a Juvenile
sound, but they are not for the enjoy
ment of rollicking youngsters; but for
the diversion of those who have
learned, as the years increased. to rein
in their animal spirits and to take their
| pleasure with certain amount of self
control.
| So the hostess knows as she weaves
her cobweb of ribbons for her party,
that no matter how often they are
| twisted and intertwisted by her there
will not be any fear of them getting in
to hopeless tangle.
She takes as MANY strands of wor-
| steds or yarn of ribbon as the number
of people she has invited and fastens
at one end of each strand a prize.
Some of the strands are yards and
yards in length and some are short.
The prizes are snugged away in hooks,
under chairs, behind pictures, up stairs,
down in the cellar or up on a shelf
The different strands are crossed and
woven and interviewer like the airy
threads of a cobweb. The ends are left
within reach.
The guests are invited to select a
strand and to find the other end of it
which holds the prize. Each goes to
work and follows the wanderings of his
strand in the seemingly inextricable
mass of bewildering twists and turns
and colors.
It's great fun to watch the busy prize
seekers. At first it seems deliciously
silly; but the philosopher forgets the
fun of it as he marks how each one
works according to his temperament.
With what zest and energy and enthu-
siastic haste one grabs his string and
follows its lead with eager expectancy.
With what slow, deliberate INQUIRY
another pursues the windings of his
strand! With what doubling timidity
and misgiving another hunts for his
prize asking numberless questions and
having to be helped by his comrades in
the knotty places.
But cobweb parties are not intended
for the entertainment of philosophers,
but to while away an evening in a
novel and pleasant way. And they do.
The most Indifferent are piqued to
action by having the thing they wish
just within possible reach. At the end
each one has his prize as satisfying
result of his labors; no matter if he
found it behind clock after many
times wandering about the room he
first entered; or whether. after sxirmish-
ing down stairs into the cellar up
again. down and up the hall and up
stairs to the garret and down again to
the drawing room to find the end of
his apparently endless strand that led
him into diverse places in diverse
ways. fastened to gem of a picture,
which he is privileged to take away
with him to his own domicile and tell
ever after what time he had finding
1t at cobweb party.-N. Y. Herald.