Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-07-08
ENTERTAINING SUNDAY SCHOOL BOYS

N lost women have at one time
MI or another been confronted
with the problem of how to
entertain for an evening a
Sunday school class OF 1e-year-old
boys.
Girls are a comparatively easy prob
lem, but boys must be kept stirring
and constantly amused II they are not
to vote the evening "a bore"
Even the refreshments cannot be the
simple ice cream and cake that girls
love, for, though boys-most or them,
at least-have an enormous capacity
for this staple entertainment refresh
ment, II by no means satisfies their
hearty appetites, and they crave such
little substantials as peanuts, tany'
pickles, popcorn, doughnuts ana Oa-
Since, as a rule, women are hope
lessly at sea to amuse their boy schol-
ars when 1t is up to them Tor an
evening, the methods of one man VINO
has had wonderful success in his deal
inRs with boys, both in clubs and In
dividually, should prove an inspira-
ton.
an evenings pleasure, this man re-
There were never two stars OF two
flowers exactly alike. So there were y6S
have a lot of 16-year-old boys come
round to spend an evening VITA you,
IL would be absurd to imagine that
and that they would all like the same
things. The best you can 40 Is 70
try to get the thing that VIII most
please the majority OF them. Anu IN
order to do this you have 70 UNDER
stand a little about their natures
IN they are all high schoo, boys you
can do something that wiz appeal 10
the fellows who are more or less given
10 books II they are boys OF little
Schooling, you must take pains 70
avoid anything that will put their
lack of education on parade II tney
and little educated, you will have to
take very particular pains not TO
cater to the more intelligent, leaVlng
the less intelligent out IN tne Soiu:
amusements to the more illiterate ana
let the others step down from tnelr
high chair to mingle with the rest
For Instance, you may have some
game OF hidden words or quotations.
Some rebus or puzzle, which Will IN
terest boys from the grammar or high
school very bs much SSRs f SSf II no school
that is the kind of amusement you
had better steer clear of or lay II
BY on the shelf for another day When
all your guests will be OF literary
You might divide your guests into
groups. But this in my view is not
wise We are supPosins that these
come together for an evening OF So
ciability. Better keep them all to-
gether at one round game, or SER
les OF round games, and let those
games be adapted to the Intelligence
OF the less Intelligent Then they
are most apt to strike the fancy and
arouse the enthusiasm OF all.
Try some memory game and you
viii and that the boys who don't know
books are as likely to be successful
as those who are all books-"Going
10 market" for instance. Start on
with Il went TO market and bought a
pTetzel." Let the boy next you go
10 market and buy a pretztl and an
ample. And the next one a pretzel,
an apple and a chicken. Each in sue
cession repeats what has gone before
and adds one new article. When you
have gone round the circle, you begin
an over again. Whenever one falls
10 remember. he drops out The con-
test becomes exciting presently. Some
thing of a bore perhaps for those who
have dropped out II kept ny too long.
But you must know enough TO stop
a game whenever Il threatens to bore
anybody. Those who have good men,
ories viii keep things going at a
lively pace, and II you stop buying