The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1891-02-06
POPULAR PARLoR GAMES.

Toronto Globe. .....
Bring clay pipe was the start
ling addition to an invitation to recep-
ton the other evening. Nobody could
decide what it meant. They could
scarcely believe the exquisitely refined
young hostess had fallen victim to
the smoking craze and wanted all of
her friends to join her, but what else
could it mean? The mystery WAS
solved when the guests entered the
pretty white and gold parlor and saw
on round table in the centre of the
room hall q dozen punch bowls, in
rose and blue glass and Japanese ware
filled with tlaky soapsuds. Each guest
was entitled to blow three bubbles,
and hammered silver handglass was
the prize for the Indy who blew the
largest bubble, and q meerschaum
pipe the gentleman's prize. Three
judges had trying time in deciding
the winner of the prizes. Amateur
blowers were allowed to practice in
the corner out OF range of the prize
bubble blowers.
Bring your thimblen Is a rather odd
request to make of a young society
fellow, but Mrs. James Hude Beck
man, who Is the iolliest and prettiest
young hostess in New York, said that
IL she put it on the girls invitations
she would favor the gentlemen In the
same way.
When they reached her house on
Tuesday evening they found what the
thimbles were wanted for. There were
sixteen guests, and on each chair were
placed sixteen little mousseline de
sole aprons, with the hens carefully
basted.
Miss Carrie Hoe got the lady's prize
for the best hemmed apron, and
Amory S. Carhart the gentleman's
prize. Harry Cannon got the BOBBY
prize for the largest stitches, and Rus
sell Hoadley never got his needle
threaded until the hour for sewing
was yer.Afterward they had an infor
nal dance, with music by the Hun.
garian band.
Walking" not for cake, but for a
pair of hammered silver shoe buckles,
was the original entertainment pro,
yided by Miss Louisa Spoane, of Madi.
son avenue, New York, for the guests
of her Thanksgiving party. The way
the head and shoulders were carried,
as well as the manner of walking. was
considered by the Judges. Eighteen
couples in full evening dress MARCHED
and countermarched to the ''Darke,-'s
Dream, Golden Slippers and other
popular plantation melodies as dis.
coursed by Ltnder's Band. The only
difficulty about the walking business
is that of deciding to whom the prize
belongs. AT this entertainment there
were four prize winners. and three
more buckles had to he ordered.
II you want u mirth-provoking game
tell him heis to guess the name OF the
game from the actions of the guests.
Let him in, and when he sits down
they sit; il he walks to corner of the
room, they accompany him; where he
looks, they look; what he says, they
repeat. Some times it takes a really
clever person quarter of an hour to
guess that the name of the game Is
Limitation"
Bring a lemon" is another puzzlipg
addition to an invitation which Ii
usually printed on lemon-colored
paper. After all of the guests have
piled up their golden fruit the lemons
are cut and the seeds counted, and the
owner of the lemon containing the
largest number of seeds is the prize
winner. while the luckless individual
whose lemon Is seedlesss or nearly 50,
gets large tin or leather medal.
A game which is very popular with
young people is played with all of the
guests in line The first whispers to
the second long sentence; she repeats
in a whisper and very rapidly to the
third, and SO on until the end man I'd
peats what he heard aloud, and the
one who gave the sentence repeats il
as he gave it. Never do the two sen
fences bear the slightest Resemblance
to each other, and tho fun comes in
comparing them and seeing how far
the last given sentence misses the
mark.