The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-29
AN UPTO DATE GAME
Novel Recreation Which Ex-
acts a Good Knowledge
of Geography.
PLEASURE COATED INSTRUCTION
Possibility Of Funny Blunders-
The Little Queen of Holland
Baked Indian Pudding.
PLEASURE COATED INSTRUCTION

One gets tired of dancing and of cards
as a form of social entertainment. 1t
Is TOT THIS reason many hostesses are
constantly looking about them for novel
ways OF entertaining guests, says the
Philadelphia Press"
l VIII tell you of a clever new game,
IT is called 1.-THE Escape from Prison.
Ihe name might suggest the games OF
Prasoner's Base" and Runaway Slave
SO familiar to children who have been
brought up in the South. But this one
! speak OF requires more mental thar
physical abilities.
l was II at such a game last week.
Not only gray-haired veterans but young
cohege students and boys and girls at
the High school were also in it. 1t was
one OF the jolliest affairs / ever tried,
liz I la nf ignominiously. for ! knew as lit
who saw the school maps every day, Or
rnose others who were globe trotters
mace some brilliant strokes
,Ceriain1y y must have an dequate
knowledge of the surface of this globe
t Me I'VE On TO play IT intelligently. but
ere create mis Stakes Of Of T. the ignorant served to
put to the game.
1t was proposed and managed by a
y Gun war correspondent who was over
OF wars with which aver the casual
reader is now familiar, add a personal
inTsres5 TO the play just at present.
line details are these
The. director, or master of the game.
~ has a geography or globe for ref.
erence. places each player on the floor.
The whole lower floor can be brought
into use, if necessary, and one can Sit
as Wen as stand. Each one is a prisoner.
zach one is told just where his prison
to Philadelphia.
For instance. I was in Berlin and was
{ sing 70 get nome. and a friend near
reach the Quaker City. Then each person
mao TO tell the Judge exactly what coun-
tries ne is crossing in his Homecoming
the ship at Hamburg or Southampton.v
put must tell each step that got me to
= that ship. of course to detail each city
what direction I went to get to the ship,
etc.
The Judge sat in the center at a table.
we took one step nearer his table-that
is. nearer home. My friend from Yoko-
nama came nome in a few moments with
lying ccolors. I won't. tell how long /
stayed in Germany. l fear had the game
been In reality the war would nave been
over before | ever got out of that coun-
II the prisoner can't tell successfully
Just what seas and countries nj large
adelphia he has to remain where he is
until he does, or. until some kind courier
comes to his aid.
OF course. the favorite 1ails were in the
stantinople, and even Berlin and MOSCOW.
The rooms soon became filed with the
prisoners just outside their walls rying
TO get home: half of them are stalled
IN the center. wildly thinking or implor-
ing some one to acquaint them with the
When the game has been played FREE
quentiy those who Join in get quite IA
miliar With the junction of countries and
learn many straight lines and clever cuts
aeross country that had not appeared
There is no question that, in the Ian
guage of the children. its lots of fun
1 saw a Yale graduate trying to get
out of the Transvaal in a manner that
made the war correspondent roar. and
from Venezuela after a fashion that
would have emptied her fathers plen-
te0us purse.
But, apart from all the merriment and
jollity OF il, do you know there's a deal
Instruction that is pleasure-coated is
always willingly swallowed by young
and old. The contest sharpens the mem
Dries of the man who has stayed home
and made money" and it delights the
the world in which he can give the odds
to his father and win.
1t gives women and men, child and
sage. a better grasp of the things they
read daily; It makes eager globe ~trotters
The next evening when time lags on
your hands and you can call in some
interesting people try this Escape from
The game can be made more
come out Of their prison in the surest and
Way.