The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1913-10-28

the very outset as a good, amusing
way To find partners or to pair off the
young folks for a contest, a dance, or
for supper. Frequently this pairing
off will serve as III ice-breaker 10
those i'll at ease, or as an ~introduc-
ton where the gathering is large or
includes many strangers, and will fur-
nish a general good time as we'll.
one way to accomplish this which is
always worth while is riglna JlngietS
divided in half to be matched by the
If there IS time for 1t try
to have the verses Original as TINS
makes the matching up more exciting.
Where time is lacking to prepare the
original verse use quotations divided
in half. Or use the extracts complete
save for one word on one card and
have the missing word on the other.
When you plan to ave the jinglets
let these be light and bright and In no
way obstruse; for instance they
might be couplets like the following:
Scare and seek the room around
Till the missing half is found-
Matching half INT mating line
Till l am yours and you are mine"
ny repeating the words OF the first
half in the second couplet the clue Is
given. or the entire verse may be
written out and then cut completely in
half from top to bottom.
Having written out the couplets
there are many ways OF presenting
them which add to the frolic. For in
stance, you may paste or write them
on penny flags, tying those intended
for the gentlemen with pink, and
those for the girls with blue ribbon,
and then let each select a flag. Or you
can pass around tiny envelopes con-
tanning the bisected rhymes, tying the
envelopes for the sexes with different
colors. Or there might be a lively
search in which the young men
scramble for hidden jingles written on
pink paper and the girls for others
written OF blue. Or roll up the divid-
ed verses in tiny balls covered with
blue and pink tissue paper and let the
hostess toss them out at random Ga
few at a time) with a palm leaf fan.
The young folks scramble for the lit
tie balls. catching only those Of the
appropriate color, of course. and when
the balls are removed partners stand
revealed.
Riddles Are Good.
Riddles are also good, especially
original one with funny local touches
but copundrums of any kind will
serve. 1t would be attractive to have
the c~onundrums written on fans To-
the girls while the nswer appear OF
flags or paper caps for the young men
Tie the fans and flags which are t,
match with ribbon of the same colo
If you wish to avoid the trouble o
finding the cOnundrumS, or have tn
ribbon on the a match the color o
the paper cap, or have pipes for tn
men and fans for the girls and deco
rate each gift with ribbon so tina
mates are found.
The merry plan of a%uctioning off tn
girls may be used for partners at an
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for a feast like Halloween, which w
are soon to celebrate. Have the CIR
stand in one room Cor behind a Gu
ain while the men are stationed
another. Let the hostess a%nnounI
the sale of partners in a formul
something like this: Il have hel
Partner No. 1. Who claims her
wins the girl and she is immediate
led out to him.
Again, a sheet can be hung up b.
tween h folding doors and the cir
pass behind it one at a time. The
object is to disguise their shadows
that the masculine contingent will n
be able to recognize them, while tn
of the men themselves is to recogni
the girls hat each may pick the par
ner he desires for the dance, the CO
test, or for supper, as the case may
The girls are furnished by the ente
tainer with odds and endS-pap,
millinery. Shawls. etc., with which
disguise their silhouettes for I
promenade behind the curtain. It
an extrmely funny method of pairi
off when there is time to get it L
and one which is always successful.
Chance Selection.
hen there are the many. ways
volving n merry chance which can
arranged without trouble. often il
prompt. For instance. let the you
men stand at one end of the 70,
and the girls at the other. The g
who is to draw a partner closes l
eyes and is given a ball WHICH s
rolls in the direction OF the men. 7
person of the opposite sex nearest
whom the ball stops is her partn
Each girl in the company throws
ball In the same way. Another me
Cd which some prefer, is to have
girl With eyes closed toss the ball
the air and 10 have the men try
catch 1t. The one who catches
ball thrown by her is the supper m