St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-05-03

GEszsszzzzESD Just beyond the tips
/ of your fingers or the reach of your
| gun. says the New York Herald.
At first it seems as if one were trying
| 10 catch '-the-wiSp or find the
| bag of gold at the root of a rainbow. In
fact, 1.-The effect of the gay yarns, worsteds
| or ribbons (Yhichever one chooses to
uSe). crossed and recroSSed and inter-
laced and intertwned, is not unlike a
very beautiful rainbow, which has at
| the end of each bright strand real
! prize Not the traditional bag of gold.
| to be sure, but anything from a silken
| ShoeString to a diamond pin. or book,
or picture, or anything and every
thing that a ready, inventive faculty,
artistic taste or fun-loving fancy can
make or devise.
Cobweb parties may have juvenile
sound, but they are not for the enjoy
ment of rOlicking youngsters. but for
| the diversion of those who have learned
as years increased TO rein in their ami
mai spirits and to take their pleasure
with certain amount of Self-control.
So the hostess knows as she Weayes
| her cobWeb of ribbons for her party,
that 10 matter how often they are
twisted and Intertwisted by her, there
will not be any fear of them getting into
hopeless tangle.
She takes as many strands of worsteds
or yarn or ribbon as the number of peO-
pie she has invited, and fastenes 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 stairs,
down in the cellar or up on 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 i'll 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 in
quiry another purSueS the windings Of
his stand With what doubling timidity
and miSgiving another hints for his
prize. ASKING num0erleSS 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 pleasing way. And they do.
The most Indifferent are piqued to ac-
ton by having the thing they wish just
within possible reach. At the end each
one has his prize as a satisfying result
of his labors: no matter if he found 1t
behind clock after many times wander
ing about the room he first entered; or
whether. after skirmishing down
stairs into the cellar. up again. down
and up the hall and upstairs to the gar
ret and down stairs TO the drawing room
to find the end of his apparently end
less strand that led him into diverse
places in diverse ways fastened to a
gem of picture. which he is privileged
TO take away with him to his own DOM
icile and tell ever after what time he
had nnding it at cobweb party