The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-01-31

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learn how to play it. The learning how
to play it is as interesting as the play
ing itself.
The game consists of so many cards,
each bearing the picture of some we'll
known-or should be well known build
ing in this old town
These pictures have no name under
them. 1t is a matter of surprise to many
who believe they know their city fairly
well to find that forty out of the one
hundr buildings are strange to them.
A dozen old Philadelphians, each one
an adult. had this game, one night last
week, and grew quite excited over the
fact that it was more interesting than
the cards they were playing.
Even such buildings as the Mint and
the Rush Library, which they thought
the knew well, remained unguessed.
Outdoor games nave been adapted to
the ~exigencies of indoors. For instance.
kick off. or freside foot ball, a card
game which only two people can play
and they mus be provided with pencil
and paper for scoring the points. The
cards are dealt alternately, and whoever
has the ball card takes the choice of
the deal or playing. The cards on the
back marked Reserved have to be
separated from the others, shuffled well
and placed on the table.
The card marked Half time is taken
out, ana, after cutting and shuffling, is
placed in the middle.
The cards are divided between the
players, and must not be looked at, but
kept face downward and turned up al
ternately by each player. When those
marked saTry,. Penalty kick" etc, APP
pear, a card has to be turned up from
the reserve. Different ones count GER
tain points, and the highest number
WIS.
there is a capital croquet game which
is played on the dining room table in the
same kind of way.
knanhoo is a Chinese card game for two
or three players-a very popular one in
the Celestial empire, and has existed from
tn twelfth century. The word means
watch the pot" The cards do not take
one another, but are exchanged to form
certain combinations. 1t is played with
two packs of thirty-one cards, well
shuffled together. Each player receives
fifteen cards, dealt one, two or three at a
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his hand, and to be the first to score fifty.
There is a great deal of play and plenty
of amusement. It i a decided improve
ment on the old favorite, bezique.
Olympia is not at all a bad game. The
target has many sharp pin points, and the
players are furnished with feather darts,
to which wax balls are attached. Who
ever succeeds in launching the most wax
a. - : .-r.+ x-tnc rha oo M ond
it takes some little play to accomplish
this.
OF to the K1ondike is one of the newest
and most popular amusements of the mo-
ment. Every player chooses a figure to
play with, and the moves are governed
by the throws of the dice which each
player makes m turn.
figures take up their position on the
nearest numbers. Each player has to be
provided with counters, for there is a
pool, into which forfeits are put, and
counters are demanded when the players
with red numbers
There is an outward journey, a ~sojourn
at the goldfields, and a homeward jour
ney for each of which there are special
rules, and in the end the pool is divided
as follows:-One-third goes to the player
arriving first, and two-thirds to the player
with most counters.
There is a great deal in this game,
what, with the claims, the million to be
collected, represented by four counters,
the route to be chosen for the return
journey, and some very acceptable diver
stiles in the play.
Revolution requires two players, one on
the side of the revolutionists, the other
for the loyalists; the former are red
pieces. the latter green, and they occupy
discs of the same hue. The object of the
game is for the king. protected by his
men. to escape to England, by way of
Paris and Calais, while the revolutionists
arrest his progress. Victory remains with
those who gain their object.
The tendency toward the peplum and
overdress is quite as marked in light
gowns of delicate tissue as in smooth
cloths and silks. In some gowns there is
an attempt to introduce long apronlike
fronts without black drapery, but the
favorite method of introducing the over
skirt is by the long apron Joined COM
pletely, or at most opened down the front.
One reason for this is that long garments
tend to make even very plump figures
look slender, whereas rounded aprons ap-
parently increase the wearer's size.
An example of this kind is given in
ssHarper's Bazar'' in an ''at-home" gown
composed of crepe de Chine and mousse
line de sole. The slightly trained skirt
fits with sheathlike smoothness over the
figure. but appears to gain fulness be-
cause of the additional founces of NOUS
seine. which rise, one over the other,
quite to the waist-line in the back. The
long crepe de Chine overdress, of the
apron variety, is longer at the left than
on the right side, where it curves from a
point Just over the left hip.
At the left side and back seam there is
no similar curve. the crepe being attached
in a straight line where the back ruffles
end. The over-skirt is finished with a
deep ruffle of mousseline de sole, doubled,
and a garland of large flowers which runs
I'D the left side is embroidered upon 1t In
chenille. All embroidered crepes or nous
selines nave the flower petals and leaves
formed of colored mousselines or lighter
crepes. The bodice of this dainty costume
for a hostess shows a combination Of
mauye taffeta and white mousseline de
sole. The latter material forms the long
yoke and the shirred close-ftting sleeves.