The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-15
HAD AN INSPIRATION
RAN WHO INVENTS FREAK PAR
TIES FOUND LONG SOUGHT
FOR IDEA
CAME TO HIM IN RESTAURANT
Vocation of Inventing Some New
Form of Amusement for BIase
Humanity Is II Profit
able One.

i've got it exclaimed the Youngster,
bringing his hand down with u cautious
bang upon the table.
The man opposite stared. 1t was one
of the warmest evenings of the late I'M
PlcaSantness in the weather line. The
man mad dragged himself into and
through the sitting rooms of a French
res. aurant not far from Madison square.
The back yard was fun of small tables
grouped around a miniature fountain.
says the New York Sun, where red and
blue incandescent lights peered hotIy
through the spray. He had dropped down
at one of the tables, the last empty one.
Then the youngster had come in. lie
man was nearer forty-four and felt like
the thermometer, which was leo. Years
or degrees il seemed pretty much the
same thing to the man. 1t irritated him
to have the youngster take the seat OPP
posite him. The seats were scarce. but
that made no difference. He didn't want
anybody eXhaling additional heat in his
neighborhood.
So they sat there in silence. The man
glove ed. and when the waiter brought
h0t soup relieved his feelings by damn
ms the soup for being hot and the wait
er for bringing it. The Youngster alb
&, p. mindedlv took his portion of soup
and as absent minGedly mopped the per-
sr'r tion which it sent yelling from every
po~e. Then he slapped the table softly
and exclaimed:
i've got it,
The man stared across because that
was Easy. He didn't have tc move to do it.
Ee wouldn't have turned around 10 look
al = king. Net in that weather, But
If PEOPLE would come opposite his
eye ana exclaim to themselves and slap
on the tahle-his table-he would allow
those eyes TO rest on them. So he stared
and the youngster saw it.
Il beg your pardon, he said, but L
had an inspiration"
How does it make you feel?" drawled
the man. ANY hotter?"
"On the contrary laughed the young
ster.
The fires of genius don't give out heat,
them"
Not much genius in this. Still 1 think
q Three Rs Party may net me as much
as a poem would. More, in fact, than one
Of my poems.
A Three Rs party?" repeated the man
as be motioned the waiter to carry the
fish far, far away. 1t had seen better
Gays.
YES" said the youngster. absently
picking a. nest of fish bones out of his
mouth. You see, I'm an inventor OF
PARTIES"
DO you-do you patent them?
Alas no, Il wish l could 1 think I'd
have made u pretty good thing out Of my
left handed party. 1 padded it all L
could. but I had hard work to make 2,0c0
words out of it. A paltry $50 you see.
No said the man with a patience
which surprised him; 4 can't say that L
do see"
DO YOU mean that you would like to
have me explain?"
well, with a feeble laugh u
wouldn't pat it SO strongly as that. But
If you can stand it. L can
Since you urge me- said the young
ster, IN explain to you. You may have
some suggestions to offer
Not Ir' groaned the man. "A cold
storage party is the only one which L
wouldn't regard as the invention of the
Eyu One. Begging your pardon as an
inventor yourself"
The yoUngster paused with suspended
fork. Then he slapped the table again.
Capital" he exclaimed. III elaborate
that idea. Just now I'll show you what
it is 20 be an inventor Of parties. Per
hGps you don't know that there are
thousands and thousands of women all
over this country who are getting cross
eyed trying to look both ways for what
they call a new idea in entertaining. In
small towns it is mania. Especially in
the West do they hunger and thirst for
these freak parties Did you ever go to
a left-handed party"
Il am happy to say. never did"
There You are! That's the scornful
New Yorker all over. Let me tell you
that you don't know what childhke glee
is Until you go to a left-handed party
Talk about Inspirations l had one sure
enough when l invented that particular
form of foolishness.
The man grunted an assent to the
''foClishness.'
''Ill just give you brief synopsis OF
the feature of a left-handed party con-
tlnCes the youngster. The moment a
guest enters the door his right hand and
arm are put in a sling, and from that in
slant are regarded as hors du combat
SO 10 speak. He hangs Up his hat if he
must remember, by the way, that these
parties are not planned for city folk,
with maids and Wallets galore but for
what are called in towns a small COM
pany.
The men. ard the women, too, must
co their cloak room prmping with their
left hands. The hostess shakes her CUES S
b. TIE left hand Thsre are prizes of
course What is a PARTY without q pTize?
has superseded the question, What is
home without a mother? Everybody has
10 write copy of a verse of poetry W tn
the left hand. The ladies sew seam
left-handed The gentlemen have to make
left-handed compliments about the ladies.
Everybody must eat with the left hand.
There is a brief programme of left-hand-
ed music. Everybody draws a left-hand-
ed picture of an animal And so on. They
tell me it is a youth renewer. You ought
to try il.
was innocently feeding crumbs to the
gOdGSheS in the fountain.
That was q noble idea he said, and
sold it off, snap, to magazine which
O. h
er hOt-calle idea in the party line was
my Trip around the World. l forgot
to tell you that the invitations to the
left-handed party were written with the
left hand. The invitation to the tourist
party announced that So-and-So was in
vited TO join a party of friends for a
trip around the world. and was aske d
to meet the other travellers at ---- ,
mining the residence of the hostess.
THE host and hostess wore travelling
costumes. Each guest received a small
rec book, marked 'Baedeker, and con-
tanning a list of about sixty numbers.
with blanks after them. Scattered
through the rooms were sixty numbered
objects, representing cities and countries
products for which the different places
Were famous. For instance, you would
nave no difficulty in guessing that eli
gar represented Havana"
at would depend on the cigar" said
the man, drily, with a passing shudder-
as he got Whit from the youngst err S
literal weed
Naturally said the youngster. with
tmperturbed complacence. Cutlery would
also mean Sheffield to a man of your in
telhgence; a bottle of Johann Farina
would mean Cologne; a bogwood pipe
would convey the idea of Ireland: a bale
of cotton would mean New Orleans: if
you did not guess Lyons to be the ante
cedent of a piece of silk brocade, your
WIFE or daughter" the man freWned
again-"would give you the hint. 'rea
T would be for Ceylon, a pot of baked
beans for Boston, a piece of iron for
Pittsburg. You see there are great pos