The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-02-14
FOR WINTER EVENINGS.

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Some Interesting Games Now In
Vogue for Entertaining
Young People.
"New and original ways of enter
tanning small company of young peo-
pie excluding dancing and cards." are
not so easy to discover, but perhaps
you have not heard of some of the
many new literary games that are at
the present time so very much in
vogue; literary amusements, it seems
to me, will be especially suited to fur
nish diversion for your husbands
pupils whom he and you wish to enter
tain on successive Friday evenings.
Throwing light" is good simple
game. Two officers are chosen who
must be quick and clever. After con-
sultation with each other they agree
on word that has several meanings,
such as box-shooting box, theater box,
bandboN-they then proceed to dis
course on the word to the general COM
pany, being careful not to s'throw too
much light" AS soon as anyone
guesses the word he consults with the
officers, and if correct in his surmise
he too proceeds to throw light" A
time limit is imposed and forfeits are
collected from those whom, say ten
minutes-have not guessed the word;
but, on the other hand, if all have
guessed it in ten minutes, the officers
must pay the forfeits. Another more
complex game, which requires some
preparation, is one where the hostess
has ready numbered cards with paint
cd or pasted signs, scenes, small ar
ticles and clippings to distribute among
her guests; everyone is allowed few
minutes TO guess the meaning Of each
card, and to write the answer on small
score cards provided for the purpose.
A prize is given at the end of the even
ing TO the one who has the greatest
number of correct answers. Here are
some suggestions for the cards: large
bow of hay indicates Hayti, a red c is
the Red sea, the names of two states
joined together is the United States,
and an eye and tally card is Italy.
L Any number of combinations will read
lily suggest themselves, and this game
is always taking with young people.
Perhaps not less amusing than these
newer games is an old-tine spelling
bee, where the company are equally
divided into two portions and stand in
lines opposite each other; word is
given out first to the person at the end
of one line who may spell 1t correctly,
when another word is given out to the
opposite line, but if the word is not cor
rectly spelled it is passed to the next
person opposite, and so on alternately
up the lines until the one who spells it
correctly has the privilege of choosing
one of the opponents to be on his side;
the game ends when either side has
won sufficient majority. To vary the
game evenings, why do you not have a
palnlistry evening? Some one should
dress as gypsy, and, having studied
up on the subject little, tell fortunes
and read hands; this will be sure to be
popular. A Scotland evening is also
very much ''the thing" there may be
readings from Scotch authors, and
games where Scotch topics are treated;
one might be. game ofquotations, and
cards given to the guests with mis-
quoted extracts from Scotch verse writ
ten on them; whoever is able to change
the greatest number of quotations to
their correct form to win a prize. On
the same order would be game Of
cards with written questions about
Scotch books and Scotch history, the
one who is most apt in the answers to
receive prize-a book of Scotch verse
as prize. Have one evening devoted
to charades-young people always en-
JOY these and on another Mother
Goose party. For the latter the hostess
must provide cards with the name of
some Mother Goose character written
on EACH and when all the company has
gathered she must demand of everyone
the verse to which his character relates.
and demand a forfeit of him who cannot
correctly quote it.-Harper's Bazaar.