St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-01-13

The other then asks: What has it
brought you?" The leader makes res
ply: "A fam" Thereupon with his
right hand he makes gestures as if
tanning himself. The next player then
takes the place of the leader in stating
that his ship has come home from
China. The questions and answers are
repeated as before, until the second
player is also engaged in tanning him
self. In this manner the round of play
ers is made and at the end all are
industriously working an imaginary
fan with their right hands. The leader
then begins the second round with
similar remark from which is evolved
the fact that he has received two fans,
and he illustrates this by tanning him
self with both hands. This, in turn,
makes a round of the company until
all are waving both hands to and fro,
The leader then begins the third SER
les, making three fans in fancy by
swaying his right foot back and forth.
Then he includes the left foot. Finally
the head is reSorted to. The effect of
whole company engaged in waving
their hands, their. feet and heads is
altogether ludicrous. 1t outmandarins
the mandarins themselves. The fail
ure of any to maintain the movement
| incurs forfeit.
The floating feather is a game sure
to destroy dignity. The company is
arranged in a circle, as close to one
another as may be. The leader then
throws a feather in the air in the
center of the group. If the feather
falls on any part of any person in the
group that person must pay a forfeit
To avoid this calamity the players are
restricted to the use of their breath
The hands must not be resorted to.
The more serious the person on whom
the feather threatens to fall the great
er the drollery of the situation, for the
appearance of Sedate person when
engaged in frantic efforts by puffed
cheeks to resist the attacks of an in
nocent seeming feather is particularly
comical. There is great danger, too,
lest the resistance fail at the most
critical moment. One cannot blow to
advantage when laughing, and one is
quite likely to burst out laughing lust
when intending to blow nightly. In
that case the feather may drop easily
lillO the open mouth.
THE COMPOSITE STORY.
| A more orderly device for funmaking
is that of the composite story. The
! company agrees on the title for the
| story. The leader writes on sheet Of
| paper one sentence as the first chapter
of the story The last word of this sem
tence he writes so that when he has
| folded the paper the last word only will
be visible, although the sentence cannot
be seen by the next of the authors The
second, having received the paper in
turn, proceeds to write a sentence ap-
| propriate to the subject of the story
agreed on, but the sentence must be
| based upon the word from the leader S
sentence which was left visible The
second player then re-writes the last
word of his sentence, and having fold
ed the paper passes it on to the third
author. In this manner the paper
makes the round of the company. When
each one has written a sentence the
reader takes the resulting manuscript
and reads aloud to the company the
complete story, and most eXtraordi-
nary story it will surely be.
A variation OF blind mans buff which
is amusing Is played seated The play-
ers are in a close circle The victim of
the lot, or the volunteer, is blindfoIded
The players then arrange themselves in
any order they choose, and the blind
| man is brought to one of them and
clasps that persons hand Cropping is
strictly forbidden. The blind man NAV
| guess the identity Of the person whose
hand he holds, in which case he is for
tunate, OF he may guess any other in