The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-26
SOME HIDDEN WOOD GAMES
WILL KEEP AN EVENING PARTY
WELL AMUSED.
New and Original Guessing Contests
-Impromptu and Easy Made
Home Fun-Word Poses.

A very interesting game calling for
quick wits and fairly good capacity for
spelling is played in this way: All the
company sit around a table and each
has paper and pencil. The hostess gives
! out name, or a very short proverb, or
a very long word. This is written down
and the company all try to see how
many other words they can find in it
in a given time, say ten to fifteen min
utes. These are all to be written down,
and the rule should be that no obsolete
word can count, nor a proper name,
though the name of a city or country
may.
For instance, from the name Henry
w. LongfelloW the following words
We're made in less than ten minutes:
Hen, men, new, long, fell, fellow, ell,
yell, hell, gone, won, we'll, low, no, go,
heW, few, you, yeW, how, hollow, lone,
one, were, fern, wrong and row. Doubt
less many more could have been found
by brighter person, or if the time
had been longer.
Another little game may follow this,
since pencil and paper are at hand. The
hostess gives out u sentence like THE
battle of Bunker hill This is read to
the company, and each in turn writes
persons present the sentence must be
longer, so that each one shall be allot-
ted one syllable. When each one has
written his or her syllable, the pieces
Of paper are folded and thrown into a
hat and shaken up, and then they are
taken out one by one and laid off just
as they come. The line of syllables is
then read off just as they lie, and often
in fact, always, the result is very
oil ho hun hot n ono
result read.
A jolly good game for a crowd of
jolly people, young or old, is word
poses" This game, or, perhaps, to be
more nearly accurate, this combination
of several old games with added i'm
provements, has been found to be
success in actual use, and is confidently
expected to make friends everywhere.
Any number of people may participate.
Two stage managers are chosen, who,
in turn, select their individuals alter
nately until everybody has been appor-
toned. No. 1 company goes out of the
rom while the members Of No. 2 select
a word. Then the stage manager of
No. informs the rival organization of
not t d ,eal word, oh, no, but another
one of lie syllables and rhyming with
it. The stage manager of No. 1 now
proceeds along other like words and
must enact their conception before all
the others until the right word is
shown and recognized. No. 2 company
then have their innings.
The word rhymes with table, an
nounced the stage manager, during a
recent most enjoyable evening spent at
word posing"
A second or two of hustle in the hall
way. Then one of the ladies appeared,
prancing around the room, equipped
with a broom, a draped shawl, and
wearing an army hat with a paper
cone to accentuate its height.
Mother Goose! No, no. 1t is not
fable" cried the audience, amidst
much applause.
The whole company next appeared,
and, at signal, all began talking at one
and the same time, not wisely, but
too WE'LL
NO, not babel" shouted the we'll
night deafened audience. And SO on it
went with other words.
Finally a little pet dog, with a fur
collar tied about him. was let loose.
Sable! Sable! Rightp came the an
swer
The above is only a single illustra-
tion. Many ingenious renditions are
given, and unsuspecting histrionic
genius buds forth amazingly.
AS to words especially appropriate,
the whole dictionary can be utilized.
However, among others, sun, ton, one,
gun, fun; sheep, peep, leap, sleep, heap;
ball, fall, call, tall, bawl; and estimate,
animate, overrate, elaborate, tabulate,
have been found to be very mirth-
provoking.