The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-08-10
In New York
BY PAUL HARRISON

New York - The trlck O. DelE5 the ife-of-the-party lies in know ing a few tricks. Around Manilat- tan, at least. There's al cpl demic of parlor games here2bout, "parlor" games which are played around night-club tables, at bar~. in sidewalk cafes, on penthouse terraces, and every other pla' z where people may gather ana where conversation is likely 10 languish.
 There are intellectual" Sam.s. and number stunts and puZzleS. The other evening an as-ute feiloW even .trotted out list of ten com mon words which. he N:as willing to bet. nobody could spell. There were two newspaperman and scholarly doctor present, but none of us scored more than seven of the following ten: supersede. naphtha, tranquility. liquefy. sac rilcgious, kimono, paraffin. rarely picnicking. and battalion.
 Word games. most of them adapted from "eategories" and "Guggenheim,'' are still going strong. You know, probably, about selecting at random five categories - say vegetables, diseases. flowers. animals and sports - and then choosing five letters which must begin the five words coming under each of the principal headings. Everybody takes pencil and paper and tries to fill in the 25 spaces m a predetermined number of min utes. It's pretty strenuous pastime if you go in for it seri- ously.
 Know Your Geography? Lately there has been fad for hooking up first and last letters. thus: We decide to name cities, so I say Atlanta. That ends with "a." so you say Albany. l search for "" city, and finally remem- her Yuma and SO on. Ths can be done with animals, authors, movie stars and such.
 While the writing materials are out, here's a stunt with some nov city. Everybody secretly writes his favorite sight, sound. odor, touch and taste. The slips ar" shaken up in hat. then taken out one at time and read. Ihe object is to guess which person wrote each one: and it can be done with surprising accuracy. s:ll.' r game is to take long sheet of paper on which each lire of writ- ing can be folded out of sight its it is passed from hand to hard The first person writes the name of a man, any man. The next writes: q. met name Of - ,em"; the third person
 the place where they met.
 ~xt four persons write whil
 I. what she said. what he 'e-
 and what she retorted. .ThPn yuu unfold the paper and have connected little story about Ma hatma Gandhi meeting Peggy Joyce on Fifth avenue and 50 on. This is definitely stunt Tor the dizzier end of long evening"
 Figure It Out!
 Here's simple number trick' Ask person to wrlte uoWn his house number, multiply it by 2, add 5, multiply theSresult by 50, add his age, add 365, subtract 615. The last two digits will be the persons age; the others hls addresss.
 Now comes a number trick to baffle friends who rather fancy themselves as algebra sharks. The funny part is that it's really easier to calculate it by trial and error and common sense. A man iS giving party, and has 100 to spend for refreshments Ga purely hypothetical situation, obviousiy). He can get beer at cents the bot tie, wine at $1 and champagne at s5. He wants to buy exactly l00 bottles, and to spend exactly $10O. How many bottle each Of beet, wine and champagne must he order to fill these requirements?
 The answer is nineteen bottles of champagne, eighty of beer and one of wine.