Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1908-11-11
PLEASANT TIMES.

- AASAS AlSsteWO CASCllcuU s. Woy0 sAuT
girls to have good times, as told
by two readers Of the Circle, in that
Magazine. The first is a Backward
ballet. and the second is a grabbing
party. ~:
Y Twelve OF us have q club that meets
at different houses each week. This
week 1t met at Aiillicent's, and she
has q big attic In her house. She
asked each one of us to bring q.
false face When we got there We
all went up In the attic and found
she had q lot OF old clothes ready.
And what do you think we did? We
each had to put on our clothes back.
ward. Then we combed our hair in
front OF our face, and putsthe masks
on the back Of our heads, When We
were all dressed We went down to
the parlor, and one of the girls play
ed on the piano, while We danced a
quadrille. You can't think how fun.
nySit looked: It seemed as II every
one was dancing backward, and walk.
ing upside down! We Just laughed
till we cried and couldn't dance any
more, and we never had so much fun
In our lives.
This same club gave an advertise
ment show. also There were Just
our girls there, and this is what We
did: There was q curtain stretched
between two doors, and as each girls
N m a mo - no yledt SIC So T., -. t.nrv,
OF the curtain and get ready as an
Advertisement" You know how.
many Of them there are, The toilet
creams. the tooth powders, so
many hair restorers, washing powders,
underwear, hosiery, etc. One with
her hair down and towel on her
shoulders represented hair tonic.
You see, each girl tried to pose as
she remembered the girl in an ad.
vertisement looked and then the rest
of us tried to guess what adyertise-
ment 1t was. The poses some girls
took were funny. and we all enjoyed
this stunt. very much Laura Nellie
Brady, New York: s.
Grabbing Party.
We were invited to come prepared
to 30 Grabbing. We started about
10 O'clock In the morning, in large.
leaky old tboat; for oars we! had two
or three pine poles. 1t was very hard
to manage and took us some time to
cross the creek to get good boat.
It was flood tide, 30 there were
good many crabs In the creek. Such
fun as we had catching those crabs!i
We had forgotten to get net, 80 we
had to try to draw the crabs up over
the sides OF the boat before they
dropped on the lines. 1T Is not easy
to catch crabs, even II you have a
net, but 1t Is exceedingly hard. as
well as exciting, to catch them with
out one. The crabs crawled out Of
the buckets into the bottom OF the
boat, and number Of the girls were
pinched.
AS soon as we filled the buckets
1--WE went home to- cook the crabs. We
built Are out In the yard and plac.
ed over It an iron kettle hled with
water. When the water boiled we
put the crabs in and went OF to
play croquet while waiting for the
crabs to cook. BY the time we had
finished the game we were called
to eat lunch. Under a large apple
tree table had been set. The
crab meat had been picked out and
baked brown In the top shells. Thin
slices Of buttered bread We're served
with the crabs.
Beside each plate was q pretty
square white card with a red crab
painted on it, and bearing the name
and date OF the party.
We all enjoyed It very much. and
decided that It was good way to
brighten dull summer. Gladstone
Payne, Virginia.