The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-12-25
JOLLY GAMES FOR THE FAMILY
SPORTS THAT CAN BE PLAYED
BY YOUNG AND OLD.
The Clothespin, Electric Shock, Pea
nut and Rachel and Reuben Are
All New and Amusing.

A new game that proyokes peals of
laughter is to have all the assemblage
take their places in two lines facing
each other like choosing sides for
spelling match. Big and little are in
the line, just as they happen to come.
The tallest man in the company is
chosen to begin it. To him is given
basket Of clothespins. These he takes
in his hands, as many as he can grasp
between both OF them, and then begins
| to give them, first to the first person
on the right side of the room. This
! person takes them, but if in the trans
fer he or she drops enc or more a Tor
| felt is to be paid for each one dropped.
! The tall person takes the place OF the
/ one who receives the pins, and that one
must cross over to the opposite line and
give the handful of pins to the first
/ person there, and so on until tine ends
| of both lines are reached. The move
ments must all be rapid, the object be-
| ing for the giver to cause all who re-
! ceiYe the pins from another to drop
! some and for the one receiving to clasp
them all. 1t is safe to say that the
! original number never reaches the emu,
| Prizes are given now with nearly all
games. This game can be played to the
accompaniment of music, but this must
be played in spirited manner, so as TO
give the least possible chance to grasp
all the clothespins firmly.
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The electric shock is another quite
new game, and it is very funny. There
is, first, an election of the person TO De
shocked. The votes are slips OF paper
or pieces of ribbon, one being mucn
longer than the others. The ends are
hidden in a book, and everybody takes
one; the one getting the long piece is
to be the subject of the electrical ex-
pertinent. He or she is then led out OF
the room and blindfolded, while the
rest of the company decide upon what
shall be the electric button. Some
times it is ring on some ones hand,
a brooch, or it may be a part of an ar
ticIe of furniture When this is agreed
upon the victim is led in bEndfolded,
and stood in the center of the room,
and bid to touch the button" He
knows nothing of the article chosen
and must find his way to it by feeling.
As he approaches it he is guided by the
words, ''Warm, warmer, hot, hotter,
fire." And when he goes from 1t ne
hears, "Cold, colder" etc. When he
reaches the object, whatever it is, the
company all gather around him softly
and as ne touches it, they all call out
''Fire." as loud as they can scream.
This is the electric shock.
There is another game easy to play,
but full of possibilities in the way OF
amusement. Two large dishpans are
set at opposite ends of the room on
chairs. One is empty and one is filled
with peanuts. One person is stationed
at the empty one with a pad and pen
ell. The players, one by one, go to the
pan of peanuts, and, putting both hands
together, palm downward, take up as
many peanuts as they can carry on the
backs of the hands and carry them tins
way to the other pan. They can DIP
into the pan only once. The number
each carries safely is noted on the pad
and the number dropped on the way Is
also noted, so that after all have
: brought their loads the one succeeding
best gets a prize. It is not always the
one with the largest hands who does
get it.
! Reuben and Rachel is a pretty new
game To play it, two girls and two
boys are chosen and blindfolded. The
two girls are both Rachels and the two
, bows Reubens But each Rachel ha:
! her own Reuben, and so two have blue
ribbons tied to their arms and two
: have red ones. Ali the company take:
, part in this game. The blindfolde(
5 ones are stood in the middle Of the too1
f, clasping hands across. The leader calls
7 lone, two, three; turn around three
:. times and catch whom you may"
The four then loosen hands, turn
: three times and set out blindly to catcl
some one, but if they catch others no
I their own Reubens or Rachels, they ar
j obliged to keep on until they find thei
: own mates, while one of the four VIII
u catches his own proper mate can deliv
a err the ribbon to another Reuben AM
x Rachel the first to be caught after tn
d important capture. Prizes or forfeit
i can be added to this game.
OLIVE HARPER.