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"otHe SilShC advantage over his com
petitors is made to carry weight. so the
player in handicap party who shows
a dispos ton to set ahead is held back
ny added burden. Herein lies the fur
Of the affair.
The games are played from table to
cable. They are described III the
Woman's Home Companier as follows:
At each table there is certain amount
OF work to be done by each player. 4
player does successfully the work OF
The first table to which he is assigned.
and is ready to pass to the next IN or-
der, he must accept a hsneleap or a
certain amount OF work to bt done q!
the second table i'll addition to tie
work which belongs there.
For the first table provide a large
box of anagrsm letters. Each PLAYER
IN turn draws one from the Dox, ana
ten minutes are allowed in v hich to
form with them twenty good English
words. The words are arranged on
the table In front of the player, ana
when the bell rings as a signal for the
anlsh they are examined by the host
ess, and pronounced correct or incor.
rect.
At the second table the players ars
asked to write the names of one hun
Gred famous men and women.
Gutton-sewing renders a third table
a lively one. Ten must be sewed to
strips OF cloth. Buttons with four
holes are chosen. The thread must
ps SIS three times through each hole
A "cutt1ng-out" contest next taxes
the eyes and fingers. Each person is
given four pasteboard models, by each
or Which he must make four copies
separately. Folding the paper is IL
legal
At fifth table the players receive
skeins OF embroidery-sil badly tan
Sled. The two longest pieces of this
six disentangled promotes the two
skilful people.
In the sixth heat ask each player to
write the letters OF the alphabet. and
opposite each of them a geographical
name Of prominence beginning with
shat particular letter. Thus: A, Asia:
S, Baltic; c, China; d, Dahomey.
This completes the series of six t..
bles. Seats are drawn for as in pro-
gressiye euchre. The two persons who
are first to complete the circuit wiA
the prize. In order to progress 1t is not
necessary to have done the exact
amount Of work prescribed by table
at which one Is placed, but to have
done more than other people at the
same table. 1t is always the two per-
sons VINO have been most successful at
any stage who progress to the next
Now for the handicapping! The two
players who are entitled to pass from
any table on account Of superior work
each receive handicap which they
will be obliged to assume. At the first
table, for example, the two who pro-
gress each receive a slip, which re-
guests that the first ten presidents OF
the United States be written down In
Nhe order in which they came. 1t must
be made at the second table in addi-
ton to the work of naming famous
men and women
The two players who are most sue
cesstul in naming the one hundred ia
nous people while at the second table
are sent forward to the third But IL
either or both of these two were han
dicapped from the first table they must.
IN addition. have completed their listz
of presidents. All papers are taken
away by the hostess at the end OF
each round, so that any two players
who have failed in a former attempts
must begin again on the same ground
nGW-cOmnrS of
are exempt from handicaps
The handicap taken from the second
table requires the players to drive ten
nails apiece IN straight line into
Small pieces of pine board.
From the third table players progress
handicapped with an order to string
twenty-five beads il addition 70 the
other work,
The burden attached } the fourth
stage takes the form OF IN after-din-
ner eofGee-eup filled With three kinda
of grain. The work here consists in
separating the grain into three little
heaps, each formed Of one kind of CO.
real.
The fifth handicap consists in adding
correctly good column of figures.
The sixth hindrance lies in correct
ing the photography OF ten English
words misspelled.
Each person progressing has a star
pasted upon his tally-card. Two stars
are always pasted at each table. AZ
soon as there are two persons whose
tallies show six stars the game is at
an end. Thus, tc win the game players
must overcome six legitimate tasks
and five handicaps. In every case the
player who progresses must have con-.
pleted his handicap work before be-
ginning On the legitimate work of any
table.