Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-06
HOW BE WISE? so EASY;
TRY THE PEANUT STAB
NO NEED OF MUCH STUDY TO
MASTER 1T
New York Club Women Find a New
Means of Developing Their Intel
Iects With Aid of Lowly Goober
and Hatpin in Bowl
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Hail the lowly
peanut! Exc the dagger hatpin! Sound
the hewgag and the cymbal, for woman
club woman-has unearthed new
field for the practice of her intellect.
She calls it peanut stab.
"Ah, sisters" she says, and she holds
long, sharp hatpin poised over a
wooden bowl of peanuts, what is art?
Art is the apotheosis Of all things beau
full. true, good. When Venus sprang
full armed from the sea"
A little bell tinkles and down goes the
hatpin into the bowl. The deVotee of
art becomes an assassin of peanuts. She
stabs as fast as she can, and three
others at the same table do the same.
The bell tinkles again and the umpire
does the rest, awarding the guerdon to
the woman whose hatpin carries the
greatest number of peanuts.
Quarter to "Slt In"
It came about yesterday at the Gin
dustrial meeting" and "open day" of
the Chrysolite club at Little Resale
hall in Fifty-seventh street. Fifty
members of the club and their women
friends gathered for the fray and the
winners got prizes for their skill. 1t
costs a quarter to "st in" and the
quarters go to charity. Enough UNI
hulled peanuts were placed in each
bowl-large wooden bowls like those
they use on the farm to mix butter in
to cover the bottom. There are four
players at a table in each of the intel
lectual spasm6.
Murmurings of whatever classic or
otherwise attractive subject happens to
be on the days program, the women
polse their hatpins, having been careful
to select the longest, sharpest and
t.. H.
pire, who in this case might be called
the moderator, gives the signal. Then
comes an uproar of jabs, EXPLANATIONS
and laughter. The hapless peanuts do
their mightiest to escape the rain of
vicious thrusts, some jumping over the
edge Of the bowl and not few reaching
comparative safety on the floor.
Results at Variance
The stabbing goes on for a given time
usually three minutes-again the bell
sounds. and the count Is made. some
have transfxed peanuts enough to
cover the pin clear to the hilt. so to
speak, while others make sorry show
ing Through 1t all--and the players
make this a point OF honor-the pins
must be grasped only at the extreme
upper end. Each participant is al
lowed but one pin.
Mrs. Mahlon Updike chairman of the
clubs work committee, won first prize,
which was a cut glass dish. Second
went to Mrs. Marc Reynolds and third
to Mrs. Cassius M. Lewis. Several
other prizes % brc-a-brac were award
ed, besides BOBBY prize.
II do not believe much can be said
for the game as an intellectual exer-
cise." said Mrs. j. Raymond Perry of
the club, "but 1t raises money. you
know"
1T was a great success" declared
Mrs. William j. Morgan, president of
the club. 81 understand that Mrs.
Mark A. Ross originated the idea"
Although the club has a social COM
mittee and a program committee, yes
terdays entertainment was under the
auspices of the ways and means COM
mittee, OF which Mrs Ross is chairman.
"oh. l did not invent the game" said
Mrs; Ross. Ii has been played before
" the saatS