The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1900-04-06
A Left Handed Party,

A LeftH Handed Party.
Have you ever been to left handed
| party? No? Then You have missed Just
the greatest fun.
Who it was that invented this style of
entertainment nobody quite knows. but
| all Of sudden it WAS here.
You know what Il task it is to devise
| the something new that shall entertain
Il company of guests and make every
| one feel quickly at ease. Well, one OBJ
| servant one recently discovered that
! whenever guests hands are filed they
| are at ease, and all stiffness vanishes.
| So, as she could not think of anything
new with which to fill both hands. she
| had an idea that she would only try to
| fill one. She sent out invitations for a
small evening at home, and to every
note she appended the strange request:
please come with your right hand
bound up
OF course that set everybody's curios-
lty Oh edge. and when some of her most
intimate friends tried to induce her to
explain, she only laughed and replied:
Just come and see.
When the evening arrived she received
them all with her own right hand Sc
curely tied up. extending her left in vel
come, and asked that each guest should
register i'll the blank book she had pro-
vlded. Or course. only the free hand
could he used, and this made plenty of
fun to begin with, and broke the ice at
once. Even the finest penman could
scarcely write lcgibly, ana soon the page
rcsembled the first copy book of be-
sinner with all sorts of funny lines and
angles
There was one exception There
CHANGED to be a guest who was left
handed. and her beautiful chirography
stood out in marked contrast to the rest
OF the ScraWlS.
The hostess, by the way. has kept this
hook as a souvenir of the occasion, and
she delights to display it as her choicest
collection of autographs.
Then the entertainment proper began.
Several games. familiar to all. were in
troduced. and they were played with the
left hand only. a friend who recited
beautifully was asked to entertain the
guests, hut on no account could she use
her right hand for gestures; all must be
done with the left hand. The singer
could use only that hand to play her
accompaniment. Then a blackboard was
brought in, and pictures were drawn,
with results as funny as the writing of
the autographs. Prizes were given for
this contest the left-handed friend was
not permitted to participate. unless she
would consent to have her left hand tied
instead of her right AS she did not
want to be out of the fun she consented
and she won the prize for the worst
drawing. It was difficult to decide which
was the worst, when all were so bad. but
the claim OF the left-handed member was
nnaliy assented to, and she went off tri-
umphant with the prize. There was a
system of forfeits, and several who were
caught trying to use the right hand were
sentenced to do the most absurd things
that could be imagined by clever judges.
when supper was announced the fun
increased: for the hostess had taken es-
Feclal pains to serve as many dishes as
she could devise to be eaten with fork
OF spoon. and those as difficult to take
up as possible. In fact, the entire menu
was selected with view to~tbe aws-
wardneSs Of the party, and that only
made the fun the greater. Everybody
Matched his nelghbor, and shouts Of
laughter went up as one tried to take a
forkful Of the peas that garnished the
chicken croquettes, and the provoking lit
his plate 0e'
Said one of the guests at the time Of
leaving: Il have had most enjoyable
time; but out of all the fun l have learned
one lesson, and that is to cultivate both
sides Of the body. If ever l have chill
dren, l shall insist that they be taught
to use both hands equally We owe
something to our hostess besides the graf
itude. for a good time. We have. through
her, learned a valuable scientific lesson"
And since that left-handed party, sew
erai OF the guests are practicing the use
OF the left hand ITO be ready the next
time we are invited" explains one.
Lenten Diet.
Uusually the arrival of Ash Wednes-
day brings q change in the dietary Of
many families: And the alteration is by
no means confined to the tables Of those
VINO, on account of their faith, whether
It be Catholic or Episcopal, always fol-
the Lenten season. There are, indeed,
many persons who conform to none or
the ordinances of either church, who vet
recognize the wisdom of a changed and
lighter diet in the spring, and they take
advantage of the excellent condition Of
the fish markets at this time, as well as
the plenty and the freshness Of eggs.
When the first hint Of the warn,
weather comes in spring, the languors
OF the season are very generally felt,
and with this lassitude often comes a
loss of appetite. Food thatshas hereto 3.
fore been we'll relished no longer .tempts
the palate, and one turns from heavy
meats and strong soups win repus-
nance: This is natures own way Of de-
mandlng q change of diet. Heatinp
Things must be set aside, and in their.
place. must come less stimulating food.
10 the impartial mind it is an inter-
estlng query whether Lent was originals
ly the occasion OF "a reduction OF the Or.
binary diet, or whether the physical con.
se 4 which prevail sat this season Of
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