The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1899-12-19
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Here are q few games which may
chance to be new to some, and which,
il one enters into them with zest, will
help an evening slip away happily.
And for gracious sake il you cannoi
enter into q game with heartiness ard
good will don't go into it at all. Dyn't
be a wet blanket; better go off some
where out of sight and take a nap.
If you want something new, novel
and very funny, try a "Christmas
Party" at which grown people dress
like children and play children's games.
Some will like to appear in costumes
representing Little Bopeep, Cinderella,
Little Jack Horner, etc others will be
satisfied with short skirts, pinatores,
hair braided 10 two tails, big sashee,
anything childish and absurd on a
grown person, for the object is not to
look pretty but to be funny. Attle-
doore and shuttlecock, hunt the slip
per, @ its, peas, beans and barley
grow" "Round and round the bar
berry bush" and kindred games are the
order of the evening. At supper each
guest is provided with a bib instead of
a napkin, and all the crockery you can
find that is inscribed with the alpha
bet, To a Good Child" IF II a Good
B by" should grace the table. A "BA by
Show" is a very funny addition TO
euch q party. D:ess up five or six mo g
or less mature persons as babies and
put them on exhibition.
A more noisy game is called "a
Spoonful Of Fun" The play ers form
a circle, with n in the center, who is
blindIolded and furnished with a long
handled wooden spoon. To music or
singing they cir Gle round the spoon.
holder, and as the music stops they
stop also. The n with a spoon gropea
ill he touches one in the circle who
must stand perfectly still while the
player with the spoon touches him
tere and there in the endeaver to dis
cover his identity. All, of course, try
to pr zz.e the blindfolded one. II
identity is discovered, the victim is
bllndtoIded and the other takes hif
pie ce in the circle.
Jenkins is a game of great anti
q 1Ity and known to nearly every
nation. To play it WI captains are
| chosen, who choose sides until the
! players are co tally divided. They
then seat themselves on two sides Of
a long table, the two captains in the
{. center opposite each other. A silver
quarter Is provided, and the captains
decide by lot which side shall have Il
first. ..
The captain who gets it - A II
hands ahder the table, as do all thC
play ers on his side, and they then shit
. the piece from hand to hand 30 as t.
deceive the OPP osite players as to it,
whereabouts. The captain Of the Other
side no calls out jenkins says handl
W ! and all the hands come up, closed
then jenkins ssys hands down. anc
all the hands fall, palms downward, or
the table. To drown the cliDk Of the
coin as it strikes the table all make al
much noise as possible in putting doWI
the hands.
The other side now tries to gueeI
whose hand the coin is not under
:, Olly the captain Of this side can give
orders to the side holding the quarter
He directs the players who, he or hit
party think, have not the coin under
their hands to take their hands off the
table; but should any Other players o.
/ this side give orders the side having
l the quarter must not obey, under pair
of losing it. Should the captain make
? q mistake and call up the hand undeI
t which the coin is hidden the coin re-
!, mains with the same side and the mum
Der of hands still on the table counts
, for the side which keeps the coin. Bat
if the last hand left on b table v
the coin it then goes TO the other SIDE
= The side which first score fourteen
points wins the game. Tnis sound
rather intricate, but is not really SO,
and the game is a lively and q merry
one, though much depends on tne
| cleverness Of the captains.
> Try some of these games as q means
If amusinO q COMPANY for an evening