Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-12
SAL LAKE WOMAN
WINS XMAS PRIZE Z
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Mrs. Frank Eastman Tells How
To Enjoy Christmas
Eve.
A JOLLY GUESSING GAME
Guests Puzzled Tor al Hour TRYING to
Make Book and Play Titles
From Suggestions.

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~ Bonnie flanagan Eastman has w
held the famed hospitality of Salt Lax
city, by carrying off Il prize IN Ia
current issue of the National Foo
Magazine, published In Chicago, in III
Entertainment Suggestion contest, |
Mrs. T:astman's knowledge OF enteE
E taininents is representative OF her eit!
and we believe it is, it is no Wonde
X that this city is famous for it's new
,nent, the diversitilityS fits hosts ant
"A hostessess and the novelty and lttrac
tlveness of is entertainments Mrs
Eastman's$ prize was&won with q con
tribution entitled, A santa Claus
8 Book Party. That others of Salt Lake
City may profit by her knowledge o.
entertainments her prize winning en-
tertainment Is reprinted by special per-
mission OF the National Food Magazine.
1T is as follows: ii,
"a Christmas eve affair. arranged BY
my sister and myself last year, proved
the most hilariously successful affair
we had ever given and amused thor
cnshly II group of Keen s;witted news
paper and literary folks Pondering
NSist
hackncyed note in entertaining, We
evolved some ideas that proved even
better than we thought 1.-THE time.
IN OLD FASHIONED sPARLoR.
"christmas eve. as the guests ar
8 rived. they found our large old fash
Toned parlor lighted simply by the
glow of u roaring CRATE fire that
sparIled over the fir that banked the
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4 gathered arnfuls OF greens and sprln-
kled with salt and diamond dust, the
room looked .Christmasy' indeed. Each
guest was handed a forked stick and
" invited to toast marshmallows. Dur
S ing 3ths hours frolic there We're only
K a fow mouths badly burnt with the
melting cubes Of sweetness. Then the
lights We're turned on and it was ex-
planned that little surprise was in
store Santa Claus, they We're in-s
formed. being too busy with the chill
dren to run about much, had left
collection Of gifts ut our flreside for.
tile assembled company, and sure
T enough, sin one corner by the fire a.
& huge red stocking was discovered
s 'lnade of5cheese cloth and about three
feet high. simply bullying with mys-4
sure enough like Old Nick, and for a ]
moment the eager. chatting of the party.
ceased for sheer wondermert. In the 4
distribution OF the packages each 4
guest was handed a faultlessly wrap
ped tissue paper, and red baby ribbon
3pedeclled parcel with a Merry Christ
mas message. Hubub regned while
the parcels We're opened by eager fin
gers. and then for q few moments it
was one shout after another as the
motley and weird collection of things
was brought In view. In a few sec
sonds the room looked more like a
Junk shop than u parlor. The guests
were then instructed to lay each box
carefully In line before the fire and
after numbering them in order, paper
and pencils We're passed around and
the crowd admonished5 to get busy
Each gift represented the name of a
book or play, and during the hour al
lowed for puZzling out the answers.
there was certainly not#a dull moment. |
The ordinary guessing contest rarely
makes n hit with the tagged brain
worker, but this proved different and
each moment interest grew more tense
AS the hard ones We're vainly guessed |
at.'Tme' found tile prize winner
with all but one puzzled out, while
the bright little newspaper woman
who proved second, confessed TO two |
onshcr list She couldn't ssavee!'
SUITABLE PRIZES.
IA soft leather bound edition Of The
Rubaiyat' and an exquistely bound /
copy of The Christmas Carol re-
waIded the sharp witted ones who /
We're quickest.
a An appetialng chatting dish supper
of creatned oysters, LETTUCE sandwiches,
apple and celery salad and coffee and
waters served informally in the dining
room rounded ont t he evenings fun
and il was far into Christmas morning
before the Jolly guessers We're willing
10 depart, eacheone carefully claiming
mis- gift as "A souvenir.
I'll might prove interesting and sug
gestive of other 'gifts'to describe some
Of the packages we handed our friends
of them, but we thought of dozens
more "a
each gift had different sized box,
some very large and some absurdly
small.
a broken curling iron aud n street
car ticket (..Nanity Fair"-rhaclerayj
IA piece OF ripe cheese cut heart
shaped Il Stronghealt"--the play). L
] "a small bottle with q NJ ana S cut
from a newspaper C'The MS. iii a BOT
tlc''--Poeo
"A copy OF sensational New York
paper folded about n king of diamonds
from card deck CThe King of Yellow
--ApanIDcrS).
An old broken shoe in an oatmeal
package (sThe GastawaS " Riyes).
Two small licorice candy babies tied
with ribbon GIVE Twos-IJy-
slid.
"a small ring box containing an oil,
brass ring With the setting of red glass
loose in the box cThe Rubaiyut'-
lShayyan) This proved the puzzlar,
though Very simple--'Euby Out All
Of the rest We're equally absurd
In the Entertainment Suggestions
contest conducted by the National
Food Magazine thousands of oonuihu
tons from all parts of The United
States and Canada are submitted each
month"; and out OF these only five prizes
are 3awarded-Thence the Importance of
the honor that has been bestowed upon
the salt Lake City girl through her
victory in this strenuous competition.
EXCAVATIONS IN ROME.