New-York tribune., 1902-12-16
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES TO
Hozo To Make Parties and CeLebra-
ti0ns .J0uOals for Little FOihs-

Entertaining children? Why, yes, that's my
profession said Miss Kathleen Shipper, and l We
been training myself for a long time to folio" IL
What gave me my first suggestion OF the need
for such person as an entertainer or ehloren-
that's what I call mySelf-Was going TO parry
when 7 a child and seeing two little boys
fighting under a sofa Then went abroad to De
educated and while there took in the round OF
great European shows-the carnivals at Florence
and Rome, the ni-carerne at Paris. the flower car
nivaI at Nice. the Christmas festivities in Ger
many and England. I played with Italian Ghan-
ninos and Ffamettas, with Partisan bebes with
blonde fraueinkns in the Of stout berib-
boned nurses, and with rosy checked Engllsh boys
and girls. And I caught their joyous spirit
1t their message of how to have a good
time with all ones heart that l brought back TO
this country. When I reached here I noticed that
little people, when they together for a birth
day Christmas celebration. often didn't know
what 10 do with themselves. The mothers and
grown up sisters didn't know what to do. and the
consequence the children didn't always have
good a time they supposed to have, 1t
seemed 20 what the childrens parties lacked
were just the color and life and abandon that the
people of Europe instnctivey put into their games
when they're young and in their public celebrations
when they grow up.
so set TO work to crystailize my impressions
and ideas, and the result I evolved some
original ideas the entertainment of children.
THAT REMOVES sHYNEss.''
What do do? Well. first of all, talk things
been invited their ages. what sort of affair
the supper VIII be, what the favors going to
be and Then I go early the party
10 be on hand when the first guest arrives. Some
times I meet the children in the dressing room-I
find that removes shyness- When two three have
assembled we begin to play something As the
others arrive, they Join n little
caught up in the eddies of the game and before
they know IL they in the holiday spirit. The
ice is broken or. rather. there isn't any ice to
break. because haven't let any form
one game grows out OF another-I have II all
arTanged-and after standing game have
sitting game. and then. perhaps. a running game.
the children don't grow weary or bored When
the party is in full swing and everybody ready for
frohc, Introduce tissue paper play. such as
Queen of the North Choosing a National
Flower or tableaus from The Sleeping Beauty
I already equipped with a OF accessories
in the way OF paper crowns. wings, badges. boas
aprons, and that every child has
thing. How do manage always to have enough7
I ask the hostess how many guests expects.
then give the order for the tissue paper articles
my corps Of workers.
We'll. 1 start the play by telling the story and
distributing the tissue paper things Generally It
is the children already know and they fail into
the spirit Immediately. and it out with great
spontaneity. Four and Twenty Blackbirds is a
piecrust the blackbirds wings and tails the cos
d 9f SHe pa aps a1f o rom @ ff to one hundred
G f TToaufe 1G dc g dd rap6G~ &
Inspired by the Jovial spirit Of their leader the
en- oT acton tG h sto 5Tt Fl ike ss stage aHs Coach
6f eGh & Shf M F @ b PaT a6 OF whG Tey
to keep doing. Active participation-that is the
keynote of success
OLD TIME GAMES STILL LIKED.
''Old games like London Bridge Drop the Hand
kerohief. Fish Ponds and Hunt the Slipper are
always popular. What children is some one
to suggest and lead and make the thing go
Supper is usually the easiest part of childs
party. for by that time the children all toyed
] nd hat is he nTat hour or twO
makes mars party By supper time it is a sue
cess II Is gqag to be- W6a Rnd the b %ork brf4 ID s
home stand by the side of the hostess and help
''AI this holds good for children between eight
and twelve. For very young children ! have set
seeds iowers. birds. etc From Twelve up chfl
new new German Germ n iguTss 1.l founded on fairy tales
nursery rhymes. do not allow kissing games.
the way of special celebrations for May Day;
Easter etc. while summer offers up delightfui
possibilities in the way Of lawn fetes
I've tried my ideas on children Of many ma
tlonalites and classes. and they always give salts
fac9n IN LONDON entertained the children ,fb I5
the Shoredtch Board Sch2o IN conhecIQh MN +ion
designed TO provide entertainment for poor school
ty re my to her roVal higRness the Duchess of YORK
| went as American. with such games as
American children Ike TO play and found on1t the
a little slower to act on my suggestions. Never yer
that struck nay attention was the way they wanted
never seemed to tire OF repeating it, German chill
dren are fond games. but French and Italian
children don't seem TO know how 10 join in large
companies. they play In little groups of three or
four hut there is union of children as In TINS
country, where it forms part and parcel Of the
making OF the race. In Paris during the exposl-
ton | entertained the children of the American
commission at General POrters.
Nc 7 can't explain why foreign life should fur
nish ideas for this sort of thing when American
life doesn't Perhaps ii comes from the fact that
there are so many customs and usages lngralheu
in the life there. Then, abroad they nave a
Joyous spirit of good times, and they aren't so
All his may not give ideas for but 1t feeds
the holiday spirit. out of which games grow 10
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