The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-28
PAIRING OFF PARTNERS PROPERLY
MEANS SUCCESS OF A PARTY
This May Be Done at the Very Outset of Contest, Dance
or Supper and If Done Will Prevent Possibility OF
F~ailure-Various Schemes by Which 1t May BE Ac-
complished.

| his own in point of letters. That Is.
those whose names duplicate most let
ters are partners. This requires quite
a little search to find, and makes a
most entertaining puzzle. Usually il
will be found best to conhne oneselI
TO the surname.
or try this jolly plan. Write the
names OF the men on slips Of paper
and put them in the leaves of a large
book. The girl who is in search OF a
partner takes the book, opens 1T where
she likes and then, reversing the
leaves always in n direction, but al
ways either back or forward, never at
random, turns until she finds a slip.
THE man whose name is written on
the slip is her partner. Another maid
then takes the book and proceeds as
before.
I. YOU can obrain a mechanical toy,
as, for example, an automobile or
train, which will run the length OF the
room without fail, lcad the slips on
| Which you have written the names Of
the. girls Of the party on the vehi lie
and send it int the parlor at the mo-
ne nj when tie Qucs.JCn of partners is
on the carp y. TA', nan in turn =. Kos
a Sip fro II Ii Vide and iirts
! thel con the am Il the maid he is
to claim.
ictures can lie ,ssd in ways 50
| OkN ISL th4S CHI AZ XIV hCSN Nc CAS-
gested as inspiration. fer others #
economy is rot I'll ~Cl,iect each 81.
may be 81 ,rif Il CUNT waite" 'Gior
Si.ftch, Wht'e II e sV;I. who is - e
he supper rs:rtle" receives a te-Se
describing the scea. ard must nuTt
W. the girl h . ias &c view his vei:se-
e. describes.
Advertising pictures cut from maya
zines are good and cost nothing at all
when the question of expense must be
considered. Give each girl an adver
tisement picture mounted IN a card
and each man the reading matter
which a been clipped from one Of
the advertisements selected. When
reading and pictures nave been match
ed partners are found. Or give each
girl the picture as before and each
man some triffing detail cut from a
picture also pasted on cardboard.
When this part has been matched with
the picture from which it vas original
ly clipped the new couple is found.
The Fishing Plan.
On one occasion for which nothing
specially new seemed to offer I hi,
Upon a fishing plan which involved 6
kind Of game and which interested the
young people Tery Eluch, considering
how extremely SIMPLE 1t was. A walk.
ing stick was the fshIcd, to which wa!
fl,ted out a long line Of Irvine and
BRASS nOOk. c4tlCN girl cast III
line u Of the parIor window. Som:
one concealed for the purpose in tn
dark below attached quickly to eac'
line cast a slip o. paper on whic,
the name of a young mar was writ
ten. This had to be done at random
: but we found hat 1T worked extreme FL
| we'll that way.
Once, too, when the occasion wa
. highly impromLtu and time was lack
| ing to devise anv thing not of the sim
pieSt we tried this plan. From a ba,
. of Irvine we cut & rumber of length:
J two lengths in each case matchin,
! Some of them were long, others shor
: some positively rnwieldly in their eN
, tent n other bit the lengths of one
thumb. But each length had a dup
II cate somewhere among the numbe,
z and one~f each pair of matchin
q lengths was in the possession Of tn
:, young men, while the girls held til
L.her. Then calnc the fun OF matin