River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1925-01-22
GAMES IVEN UP
SOCIAL MEETINGS

Lets Play" is a good slogan for
'Givening up" the community club
meeting this month.
A short program may follow the
regular business meeting as it fur
nishes the necessary time for the re-
freshment committee to prepare the
lunch. Program numbers, games,
contests, and refreshments for fifty
people have been planned by the
home economics extension depart
ment of the University of Wiscon-
sin.
"a Yankee Doodle Kitchen"
quickly brings the group into the
spirit of play without very much eff
fort on the part of the entertainers.
Five or ten people dressed in old
fashioned costumes may take part
in this number of the program.
When the curtain is raised, the
group is seen busily engaged in var
ious kinds of homework. One may
be kneading dough, another washing
clothes, another ironing, another
scrubbing the floor, etc. AS the tune
of yankee DOODLE" is played on the
piano and violin, the group falls into
the familiar rhyn as they do their
housework. The faster the melody
is played, the faster the work is ac-
complished.
The Community Sneeze" as well
as the singing of well-known songs
gives the whole group an opportunity
to take part in the program. The
leader may divide the group into
three sections and train the first Sec
ton to say "hish," the second,
''hash," and the third section, "hosh."
Then each section may learn to say
"hishee," "hashee," and "hoshee, y
respectively. The real Community
Sneeze" is given when all the groups
say their words in unision at the
signal of the leader.
An evening lunch may consist of
sandwiches, coffee, cake, and ice
cream. For a group of fifty persons.
the following amounts will be re-
quired: or 6 loaves of sandwich
bread, 2 pounds of butter, and 4
pounds of boiled ham (if all ham
sandwiches are served), / pound OF
coffee, / pound of loaf sugar, and 2
quarts of coffee cream. For the des-
sert, layer cakes and 10 quarts OF
ice cream are sufficient.
Games and contests may occupy
the remainder of the evening. 1t is
well to introduce two or three new
stunts along with the familiar game;
and contests.
Merriment is easily aroused by {
travelling contest. To carry on The
contest, it is necessary to determine
goal at the end of the long room
where the contestants are to line up
About 100 feet from the goal, place
as ma1T suitcases of travelling
equipment at regular intervals a!
there are contestants. Each suitcase
(may contain 2 pairs of rubbers (twC
different sizes), a hat, coat, pail
of gloves together with an umbrella
When the signal is given, the con
| testants may be required TO wall
from the goal to the bundle, .unpac'
the suitcase and "dress up" open tn
umbrella, and walk back to the goa
After each one has reached the goa
he must close up the umbrella, tax
off the hat, coat, gloves and rubber
and repack the suitcase as he foun
it.
parcel Post" may be played b.
large group in the following way
Ask all the guests to be seated an
to give themselves the name of
city. Each one then tells his nam
to the leader who must remember
many names as possible. The leade'
may say, "A parcel is going fror
Chicago to New Orleans Cor betwce,
any other two cities). The person
representing Chicago and the on
representing New Orleans then try
to change places before the leader
gets one of the seats. Whoever j.
left without seat becomes the mex
leader, and the game proceeds as be-
fore.
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