Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-31
IN A PAPER OF PINS
Merry Games With This
B Foundation.
INEXPENSIVE, SIMPLE
TRYING MINIATURE CONTESTS IN
BOWLING.
How to Guide Unruly Potatoes Across
the Floor With These
Tiny Helps.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening STAR
A number Of jolly evening games can b
played with ordinary pins, one Scent paper
of which will supply the foundation for an
evenings amusement.
A PaperSpearing Contest-Tear or cut
c.ean scrap paper into inch squares and
pile them on a pasteboard box lid. There
should be several handouts enough to make
good-sized heap. -
Place the box lid in the center Of the
table at which the game Is to be played
and give each player q pin. The fun con-
sists in seeing who, In the fifteen minutes
allotted to the game, can spear the most
pieces with his pin
BY the rules Of the game only one piece
Of paper may be taken on the pin at ono
time. If two are captured by mistake both
must be returned to the pile
A small prize may be given to the boy or
girl having the most squares when the
game is at an end.
Pins and Marbles-Each boy or girl re-
ceives three pins, which are stuck upright
in the carpet. Marbles are then used to
bowl over the pins. Naturally. there must
be a prearranged place for the pins to b
stuck, and for the bowler to stand, in order
that everybody shall have an equal chance.
II more than one boy or girl should succeed
in downing all three pins in the three bowls
allowed by the rules, the successful players
can have rubber games together until one
or the other becomes champion.
Pin Run.-Young folk fond Of lively
romp will like pin run. It Is easily ar
ranged.
Fiji an ordinary square box with soft
wood ashes or sawdust: Give each player
half dozen pins and let him run around
the room six times. endeavoring each time
he reaches the sawdust box to drop a pin
in such way that 1t will stand upright in
the sawdust.
A quick run Is not necessary. and might
prove exhausting. A gentle trot is best. but
the player must neither stop nor hesitate in
passing the box to let fall his pin. He who
succeeds In making most pins stand up
right is victor in the game.
at once. Let all players line up against the
wall at one end Of the room and give each
a potato and pin. AT a given signal each
player begins rolling his potato across the
room, using the pin as propeller. , The DO.
tato. of course, rolls this way and that. Re
must be followed and guided with the pin.
The player first to reach the other end Of
the course Is victor.
Stick Pin.-Place pincushion on a table
or a chair at the far end Of the room and
give each player q pin.
Each player Is blindfolded in turn, and
told to stick his pin in the cushion. AS he
is bandaged at the end Of the room most
distant from the pin cushion, and is not
guided in any way toward the goal this will
prove to be no easy matter.
Pin Point.-For this game use basket OF
apples, bananas, peanuts or bonbons. The
starting point Is marked by the basket, and
the goal by book OF anything that hap
pens to be handy See that each person
present has clean. new pin. Every player
has three minutes in which to get apples or
other trophies out of. the basket and run
around the room with them. The fruit Is,
of course, speared and held on the pin. The
young person who. in three minutes times
lands most apples at the goal is winner in
the contest.