Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-11-23
THANKSGIVING FOR YOUNG
AND OLD.

When we all get together at grand
mothers We like to play games in the
afternoon. Every one plays. Grandma
and Grandpa and all the great-uncles
md straight uncles and cousins and
aunts. Every year different family has
charge of the games. and tells what We
shall play.
Last year Aunt Ruth had charge. And
after dinner. when we were all sitting
around in the big living room, almost too
comfortable to stir. Aunt Ruth an
nounced the first game.
Helpful Thanksgiving hints is the
name of the first game she said. Now
don't look scared. children. it won't be
stupid. To play it those l call on must
do Just as / tell them. and the others
must guess by their actions what the hint
is. Just as you would guess u charade,
only YOU have the whole hint acted out
at once instead of in syllables. Father
and mother. YOU must give the first hint.
Come into the hall with me, please"
Grandpa and grandma obediently trotted
out arm in arm. turning at the hall door
to curtsey to us all. We heard them
whispering together outside, and grandpa
spoke up quite sharply, oh Ruthie,
that's too foolish" Then the folding doors
between the hall and the living room were
pulled open and there sat grandma in
rocking chair. smiling from ear to ear,
while grandpa flew around the room sniff
fling OF d big chrysanthemum and going
buzz-uzz- uzz, buzz-uzZ-z-z-z till | thought
we should all go into Commissions with
laughing at him. We laughed so hard that
nobody tried to guess the hint till grandpa
stopped his buzzing and said: Why don't
you take the hint you ninnies? Do you
think I can keep up this foohshness al,
day? Don't you know what l be?'
Then grandma smiled louder than ever
and Aunt Ruth said, ''Oh, father" and
we all gave one big shout:
BE cheerful" that was the hint. OF
course, grandpa should not have sad
anything till we guessed it, but he got
tired of buZzing.
Then Aunt Ruth made us act out other
hints. Cousin Don, vino is a little too
proud of his looks, had to sit in front OF
mirror and examine every part of his
face. till we guessed that the hint was
Know myself" Aunt Belle darned at
great big hole in the knee of Mark s
stocking till we guessed, Never too late
to mend" Little Cousin Rex had toy
bride with bit in his mouth In each
hand he held a piece of pie, little Mary
held the reins. and whenever Rex would
try to bite a piece of pie she pulled his
head in the opposite direction. OF course,
that was Curb the appetite" Then Aunt
Ruth told us, every one of us, to put our
tongues between our teeth and keep them
there, then she told us to give her the
hint. OF course, not one Of lis could
speak d word, holding to our tongues as
we We're. and finally grandpa mumbled
out what sounded like Hold your tongue"
and then we all saw the joke and the
game ended in gale of merriment.
While Aunt Ruth and Uncle Arthur
getting the ready .
all played.
GOSSIP: Grandpa whispered a long
story in grandma'S ear about the games
they used to play when they were sma +;
grandma whispered what she could re-
member of it to mother: mother whisper
ed what she could remember TO father
and so they kept on whispering from one
TO the other until it reached little Doro-
thy. All Dorothy heard was one sentence:
The kittie wore a founced nightgown.'
which was not at all like the story grand
pa tod grandma in the beginning. Grand
pa had to tell the original story out loud
and then Aunt Ruth announced the next
game.
MOTHER GOOSE PANTOMIMES:
Grandpa and grandma were appointed
the two captains, and each chose sides
When every one was chosen grandpa's
side stayed in the living room. which
was darkened, and grandma's side
Went into the hall, which was very
doors between a sheet was stretched
Then On grandma'S side Dorothy
marched along close up to the sheet
dragging a toy lamb behind her. Over
her head was thrown a little shawl
and she carried a dinner basket in the
hand next to the sheet Her figure
threw pantomime on the sheet. which
was visible in the dark living room
Grandpa's side was allowed one chance
to guess who the little figure was and
what Mother Goose rhyme it stood for
II they guessed Dorothy in Mary Had
a Little Lamb, they were given one
point. but if they guessed the wrong
person or the wrong rhyme grandma's
side received one mark. After Dorothy
had passed by the sheet others on
grandma's side appeared in pantomime,
one at time. There was Peter Piper"
industriously picking peppers; Simple
Simon with his pie; the old woman
who flew up in basket; old Mother
Hubbard and others, till all of the
players on grandma s side had appeared
and been guessed at. Then grandpa's
side went into the hall and grandma S
side went into the living room, and
grandpa's party appeared as other
Mother Goose characters. When they
had all appeared and been guessed at.
the correct guesses were counted up