Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-01-05
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Exactly as the racer who possesses
some slight advantage over his COM
petitors is made u AIRY weight, so the
player In handicap party who shows
disposition to get ahead Is held back
oy added burden Herein lies the fun
Il the affair
The games are played from table to
table. They are described in the
Woman's Home Companion as follows:
At each table there is a certain amount
Of work 20 be done by each player. Il
player does successfully the work Of
the first table to which he IS assigned
and is ready TO pass to tne next IN or
Ter, he must accept handicap or q
eertain amount OF work q b done at
he second table in addiuoI TO tie
work which belongs there.
For the frst t@ble provide larg.
oox Of anagran letters. Zach PLAYER
n turn draws one from the BOX. an
en- minutes are allowed IL hieh 10
'arm with them twenty good English
Words. The words are arranged on
he table II front Of the player, ant
5.hen the bel RIM Is q s5aal fo- the
ta.sfI thy are examined BY the host-
$. and Peoao@n"aA corract or iacor-
~a.t.
AT the second table the players ara
asked to write the La.aes o1 one nun
red famous r2en and women.
BHtton-sewing renders a third table
lively one. Ten must be seweG to
trips of cloth. Buttons with four
5oles are chosen. TIE thread mus,
2s IS three times through each hole.
\ "cutting-out" contest next taxes
the eyes aad fingers. Each person is
given four pasteboord models, by each
of which he mus make four copies
separately. Folding the paper is il
legal.
At fifth table the players receive
eSeins of embroidery-silk badly tan
gled. The two longest pieces of this
silk disentangled promotes the two
shilful people.
In the sixth heat ask each player to
write the letters Of the alpha bet, and
opposite each Of them a geographical
name Of prominence beginning with
that particular letter. Thus A, Asia:
B, Baltic; c. China; D, Dahomey.
This completes the series Of six u.
o,As. Seats are drawn for as In pro
gressive euchre. The two persons W.,
are first to complete the circuit via
the prize. In order to progress it 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-
sress each receive slip, which re-
quests that the first ten presidents Of
he United States be written down in
me order In which they came It must
De made at the second table in addi-
ton TO the work OF naming famous
men and women.
The two players who are most Sue
cessful in naming the one hundred ia
nous people while at the second table
are sent forward to the third But II
either or both Of these TWO were ham
licapped from the first table they must,
IN addition, have completed their lisa
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 attempt
must begin again on the same ground
as the newcomers, except that they
are exempt from handicaps
The handicap taken from the second
table requires the players to drive ten
nails apiece IN a straight line into
Small pieces of pine board
From the third table players progress
handicapped with an order to string
twenty-five beads in addition to the
other work.
The burden attached - the fourth
stage takes the form OF IN after-d
ner coffee-cup 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 tisures.
The s.Nth hindrance lies in correct
ing the orthography Of ten English
words missDplled