The representative., 1900-12-06
dation of sufficient magnitude may be
secured 10 A. PARKER,
Chairman Populist National Com.
Louisville, KY, Nov. 22, 1900.


New Holiday Entertain M ents.
New games and amusements are sought
or new evOlutions of old forms of enter
tainment. The question returns to the
bright minds in the home, the club, the
benevolent society, the school, the in
stitutions for children, and the Sunday
school. Entertainments teach and influ-
ence; they should be either amusing or
instructive or both. The writer some
times lectures in schools and at social
clubs, and, year by year, has taken an
interest in new popular amusements,
and especially, to such new forms OF en-
tertainment as add to the happiness of
the home circle and young peoples So
cieties. Out of this experience has come
new suggestions to offer for the merry
making season.
In holiday entertainments there is first
needed an Introductory exercise" and
one is called Divided Quotations" It
is very simple. Cards are overwritten
with quotations and cut in two. Such
quotations as these, for example:
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood"
God rest you merry gentlemen,
Let nothing you dismay"
These cut cards, or divided quotations,
are given to the guests as they arrive,
| each of whom is to find the possessor Of
the corresponding half of the quotations,
when all, or nearly all, are supposed to
be self-introduced. When one finds the
corresponding half of the quotation. he
or she will say:
"And your name?" and be asked:
"And yours?"
No form of introduction can be more
pleasing, and it is one of happy influ-
ence.
This is to have library and librar-
ian. The quests arrive.
lis the Woman in White in?'
Il do not know; you may go and see >
The book seeker goes into an adioin-
ing room, the library, and finds the "Wo-
man in White" and returns with her
and introduces her to the company. The
woman may act the part of the book.
So also with Under Two Flags" 'The
Scarlet Letter." ''Ivanhoe" GIVE on hoe,
ETC., already familiar), A guest asks
for When Knighthood Was in Flower"
and finds nightcap (nighthood) in a
pan of flour. Take any list of classical
and modern books and form your IL
brary, appoint your librarian, and the
guests will find the books as they ar
rive in the library, and bring them out
and Introduce them. A further extern
sion of this old game may be 'Heroines
of Fiction The guest asks the librar-
ian If Zenobia, Hypatia Pricilla, Rose of
Devon, Evangeline, or any of Shakes
peare's of Tennyson's heroines ARE in
The librarian says:
Il will go and see''
He has many costumes in the book
room,' and quickly arrays and produces
the heroine, whom he brings out to act
the character and talk with the guests
as the character. The heroines must
be very bright literary women. This
entertainment needs careful and intelli-
gent preparation. and is we'll adapted to
literary circles where young and elderly
people mingle. 1t stimulates the Gre
ative and dramatic faculty.
The charm of riddles fingers long in
elderly peoples memories. The evolll-
ton of those rhymes and Saws is liv-
ing riddles. The children act what the
older people are to guess A boy pre-
sents himself ito be guessed with a
tall letter A in his cap. "In-no-sense-a-
broad Innocence Abroad" Or three
boys present themselves with the word
"Bennie' on each of their coats, "All-
bennie"-Albany." Or a boy presents
himself as distorted, "All-of-a-twist'-
'Oliver Twist" The guests are to guess
such living riddles by asking the players
questions, which become very amusing.
and happily train inventive faculties.
Such easy charades develop all faculties
that tend to amusement, especially that
of wit. We once knew a party that
outdid their competitors in acted char
AIDES by making" loose heel' stand for
Lucille