The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-06-24

WosT women have at one time N1 or another been confronted
 with the problem of how to
 entertain for an evening a Sunday school class of 16-year-old boys.
 Girls are comparatively easy prob lem, but boys must be kept stirring and constantly amused if 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 capaclLy for this staple entertainment refresh- ment, 1t by no means satistes their hearty appetites, and they crave such little substantials as peanuts. taily' pickles, popcorn, doughnuts ana oa- nanas.
 Since. as a rule. women are hope 1essIv at sea to amuse their boy schoI- ars when it is up to them TOT an evening. the methods or one man Wno has had wonderful success in his deal ings with boys, both in clubs ana in- diTidually, should prove an inspira- tion.
 an evenings pleasure. this man re-
 There were never two stars or two flowers exactly alike. So there were never two boys. So, when you have a lot of l6-year-old boys come round to spend an evening with you: if would be absurd to imagine that tbev were all made in the same mould and that they would all like the same things. The best you can do IS .4 trv to get the thing that will most please the majority of them. Ana M nrder to do this you have to under stand a little about their natures.
 If they are all high school poys, you can do something that will appeal to tbe fellows who are more or less given to hooks If they are boys or llttle schooling, you must take pains 10 avoid anything that will put tnelr lack of education on parade. IT they sra mixture of boys well educated and little educated, you will nave to take very particular pains not to cater to the more intelligent, leaving the less intelligent out In the cold. It will be far better to adapt your anrsements to the more illiterate ana let the others step down rom tnelr high chair to mingle with the rest
 For instance, you may nave some yane of hidden words or quotations, Some rebus or puzzle, which Will in- terest boys from the grammar or high school very much Sons fron 61t 1T nd it school 1S that is the kind of amusement you had better steer clear of or lay 1t bv 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 supposing that these guests numDer sixteen. usy lAh S come together for an evening of so- ciability. Better keep them all to- eether at one round game, or ser ies 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 find that the boys who don't know hooks are as likely to be successful sS those who are all books-"Going Io market" for instance. Start off y,ith T went to market and bought a rretzel." Let the boy next you go to market and buy pretZel and an sDnle And the next one a pretzel, en n2ranple and u chicken. Each in suc- cess,on repeats what has gone before and adds one new article. When you bntta gone round the circle, you begin sn1 over again. Whenever one fails 4o remember, he drops out The con test becomes exciting presently. Some tbine of a bore perhaps for those who bays dropped out if kept up too long. Rut vou must know enough to stop a game whenever t threatens to bore epYbodv Those who have good mem cries will keep things going at a lively pace. and if you stop buying