The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-10

lar award to the gentleman whose
handful was largest among those of
the men. The prizes, little silver arti-
cles for the desk, were presented in
yellow paper bags, marked Peanuts.
Five Cents"
To test the calculating powers of
the players all nuts were then put back
in the bowl Pencils and paper were
distributed and we were asked to
guess how many COOLERS the dish con-
tanned. When all had guessed the nuts
were counted by the floor manager.
The player who came nearest to the
correct number received a box of pea
nut brittle.
Next on the programme came peanut
dropping, a game which required a
deal of calculation and steady hands.
A tall vase having the neck just large
enough to admit a peanut was placed
in the center of the parlor carpet.
Each one present received three nuts.
These he endeavored to drop into the
vase. The rules of the game required
that the arm in dropping be held out
straight from the shoulder, the player
regulating his position accordingly. The
player who was successful in landing
most drops was given the vase into
which he had dropped them.
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For this FIVE peanuts were bestowed
upon each of us, and, at the word ego"
we commenced to shell them. The OBJ
ject was to shell the entire five before
any other player accomplished the feat.
The prize in this case was a. pretty
silk bag suitable for carrying either
tobacco or fancy work according as
fate awarded it to a man or woman.
1t came to the prize winner filled with
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several rules. One of these regulations
decreed that every person Smelling a
peanut must remove the inner as well
as the outer husk. Also, that any nut
broken in Smelling into more pieces
than nature arranged for it, did not
disqualify the shelter for the prize. He
was obliged, however, to ask for an
other sound nut to be shelled in place
of the broken one.
Another good trick was played in
this way A member of the enter
tainment committee arranged a chair
at each end of the room and placed
upon it five peanuts. Each member
of the company in turn was then re-
quired to take the peanuts one by one
and lay them upon the chair at the
opposite end of the apartment, bring
ing them back in the same way. The
player who accomplished this in the
shortest time won a prize. We were
allowed to throw the peanuts instead of
carrying them. But IS any peanut
thrown to a chair and rolling off it
robbed the player of mis- chance few
cared to try this more rapid but VEN
turesome method. The carrier who
proved best in this contest received a
paper cutter surmounted by the fig
ure of a hare in silver, in aDprecia-
ton of his celebrity.
Peanut pin was another good game,
whose acquaintance we made :or the
first time that evening big pin was
placed, for this, upright in the parlCr
carpet, and each of us received I've
peanuts. The nuts were pitched one
by one, the particular nut which lodg-
ed nearest to the pin carried off the
trophy, which proved to be a pretty
silver brooch.
For peanut tread, another Jolly idea,
the little nuts were strewn over the
carpet and each player in turn crossed
the carpet, endeavorng to avoid step
ping upon any of the shells. A prize
was awarded to the person who ac-
complished the crossing in shortest
time. This took the form of a we'll
written book giving the history of var
ious remarkable feats.'
In the last game, and a very laugh
able one it was, we drew lots and the
player to whom the blank iell touk up
his position at one end of the room.
Here he was obliged to stand with oEen
mouth while each of US tried to thNow
into the facial aperture a shelled rea-
nut. The player who failed to ledge
his nut continued. recruited in this
way, for ten or fifteen minutes.