The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-02-13
Nothing Equal to = Jolly Game
Which Contains q Spice
Of Chance.
Such - Are Intended to Make
People Throw Away Their OK
Dignity.
"The Worlds Fair" IL . New Game
Quite P0pular-"rhe Princess In
the Tower"

over the amusement she shall offer her
guests when her invitations say neither
dancing nor cards. Unless the affair 10 to
be q crush reception some provision for
pleasure il absolutely necessary-doubly
necessary when people are hidden to hos
pitality during the unhappy process OF
paying debts." In the latter case careful
sitting Of elements is impossible, and the
hostess brings together an unsssorted
number Of young and old, friends and
strangers. bores and bored.
To mingle all these people in harmony
there 10 nothing equal to a jolly game which
contains a decided spice of chance. Most
Of the new and popular games now on the
market have connected with their flamo-
work . modified roulette wheel.
This wicked little spinner IL. however, 40
disguised in its attachments to innocent
games like Nellie BLY,, Worlds Fair. Penny
Post, etc.. that the hostess would not dream
Of calling them gambling games"
Silly games, most of them, but they are
intended only to mako people throw away
their dignity and enter into the spirit Of the
sport. All these games entail the giving Of
prizes in oil shapes, sizes and degrees of
magnlficence. limited only by the pocket
book Of the host. What the prizes shall be
must be left to the good taste OF the givers.
game which IL selling rapidly is ring-a-
peg, an improvement of tiddledewinks. On
a circular board is q number of little pegs.
Rings of bono are to be snapped over these
by small squares OF celluloid. The game is
200 points. A ring snapped upon the outer
circle OF pegs counts i've, second circle ten.
central peg fifty, etc.
1t is useless TO turn our back upon q
game like this with a furtive effort to save
your dignity. When statesmen have gone
wild over Pigs in the Clover" and poll
ticians have brooded hopelessly over the
better auccumb to their instincts and 60 in
to win.
1.-THE Worlds Fair" is new and quite
edifyiEg in the amount of information it
conveys. 1t ia played upon n birds eye
view of the exposition grounds. whore every
building 10 faithfully reproduced and whore
routes are laid out from one to the other.
Upon these stopping places ara marked, and
the counters are moved over the number of
them shown by the spinning indicator.
In front OF each building ia printed
the word ENTER" and here the traveller
ers be forced to move to the SPOT already
occupied by another player he is seized and
placed in the "house of detention" where
he must lose . turn at the wheel. After
touring the grounds the first man out by
the gate marked exit" wins the game and
he does not deserve it on his own merits at
all. There is also the penny Postman,"
a hurrying leaden figure, who starts and
stops with the indicator.
Instead of counters the players use tiny
rostal cards addressed to any number on
the cross streets of the postman's beat.
But tho postal system is decidedly faulty
concerning it's delivery, for If ths postman
isn't fortunate enough to be stopped at his
number he is forced to wander back and
forth upon tbs street until some lucky turn
brings him exactly to His destination. The
first player who disposes of the FIVE postals,
which are his share. of course wins the
game.
Still another game. which differs materi-
ally from the other two only in being per
pendioular instead of horizontal, ia the
princess in the Tower" She is a beleag-
uered damsel at a window. guarded on the
next story by two warriors, whose dnpgers
cover one of the pegs by which aspiring
knights on the ground tloer are to climb to
her relief. II the ~all-powerful indicator
brings q knight to this particular peg, down
he must tumble and begin ngain. If the
number of his upward steps takes him
safely by the dagger tefore he pauses the
maiden and the prize are his-if he can
reach them ahead of his rivals climbing up
ON the other side of the board.
n bOmeWuHt lIVclAoT game WnlCn mas TO DO
with Wall street is bulls anu bears"
Upon the board is q large circle and
around it are the names of favorits stocks
Erie. Lake Shore. corn and wheat. Now
the players choose a banker. who divides
the money among the others, reservinp
half as price OF the contracts. Each player
puts his contract on the red or blue section
If the stock in which he chooses to specu.
late. The red half indicates ~''rise,'' the
blue "fall' in stock. Each Spectator spins
the star and makes a gain when the
word on the point of tho star Is the
same as that On the section contain1
ing his contract and Il loss when the
words arc different. and he must pay the
Lanker. Thus, if the star point 'fall,n a.
fan b re8ts upon q section of Lake Shore
the Spectator in the stock pays the banker
$500. Az soon as u player ia Unable to pay
hls losses he drops out OF tho game and a
settlement may be effected. This is done
in IL very businesslike fashion, and tho
winner is called the king of the bulls md
bears.
There are dozens of such games as these
for sale. but they are all on the snme prin-
ciple of chance.
ACROSS the Continent and '.Nellie Bly'
10 not differ greatly from the Worlds
Fair"
"Corkette" is like Ring a Peg" except
that tho snappers strike a cork, on tho tor
of which is u little ball. If the ball and
COIA INIl III u CeItulu ulr6CtO1 something
ia addsd 60 or taken from ths score of the
players. The game requires a good deal
of manual skill and will be played this
winter,
"Shutilstte" is a p; oppressive game PLAYED
usually by five mr. FIX tables. Upon q large
round board is marked five circles which
are divided into sections by radiatinr lines
In the first circles are fifty. In alte. mating
spaces of tho next are twsnty-iv in The
next fifteen; then ten. and last Ave.
II a disk Id mapped upon a space in which
10 marked a number. the player sdds that
to his score. Ii a disk is knocked from =
number. the player adds tho amount TO his
scofs. and it is taken from the score of his
opponent.
Players failing to score place a rcd s,n,
on the tally; players scoring, a blue one,
and thus the winner Of progressive
schuflette ia determined
Lotto and Letters are being revived this
winter.
The strange fascinating games of Plan
Ghetto and Ouija are more popular than
eyer among people who enjoy mystery and
a dash OF sptritualism. Ouiiu, or the Gspii.
10 especially fascinating, for there in a dis
tinct hypnotic power felt by the plpyers,
II may be personal magnetism-possibly
imagination only--but conjecture at any
ratio ID inter esting.
Games in which re sonsl hynotism Ia thu
motive power are a triile too siren mons IN
please n thoughtlsss, plsasure seeking
crowd. They make ne think Of the unseen
forces. and there Is only enjoyment in for
getting.
Curtain scrim tlis week At Tha Rea H.. -