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as men, "All Sorts and Conditions of Men." There
are many other interesting and ingenious designs.
A Book Title Tea. 2.
This is an original entertainment for a few friends.
Have amusing pen and ink sketches handed around to-
gether with a small note book and pencil for each
guest. Explain that each sketch is supposed to repre-
sent some well-known book and each guest is given an
opportunity to put on his or her thinking cap and name
the volume in his note book and pass the sketch on.
This novel game affords no end of mirth and enjoyment
and at a given time the hostess looks over the books and
corrects them.
The House of Seven Gables is very simple and easy
to guess, it being simply a rough sketch of a house with
seven gables.
An Old-Fashioned Girl is represented by a girl of ye
olden time in simple and quaint costume with a school
bag on her arm.
A small snow covered house is enough to suggest
"Snow Bound" to many of the guests.
The Lady and the Tiger ought not to puzzle any-
one, it is a simple sketch of a lady-s head in one corner
and a tiger in the other.
On one card appears 15th of March, which seems
more baffling than all the others. It proves to be
"Middlemarch."
A large letter A in vivid red of course represents
"A Scarlet Letter."
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"Helen's Babies" is a sketch of two chubby boys in
night robes.
"Heavenly Twins" is represented by twin stars in
the heavens.
"Darkest Africa" needs nothing but the face of a
darkey boy with mouth stretched from ear to ear.
One of the sketches is a moonlight scene with ships
going in opposite directions and is easily guessed to rep-
resent "Ships that Pass in the Night."
Anyone with originality can devise many other
amusing and more difficult sketches. Prizes might be
given to the one who guesses the largest number cor-
rectly.
Patriotic Tea.
"While other constellations sink and fade,
And Orient planets cool with dying fires,
Columbia's brilliant star can not be stayed,
And, heaven-drawn, towards higher arcs aspires;
A Star of Destiny whose searching rays
Light all the firmament's remotest ways."
"That force which is largely responsible for the greatness
and grandeur of the Republic is the woman behind the man
behind the gun."
Booklets with small silk flags mounted on the covers
and bearing these quotations with tiny red, white and
blue pencils attached make suitable favors for the guests
at a high tea. For one contest give twenty minutes
in which to write a list of words ending in "nation"
as, carnation, condemnation, etc. For this prize give
a red, white and blue streamer on which tiny flags of
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all nations are fastened. For a second contest allow a
given length of time in which to write correctly the
words of the American national anthem. A book con-
taining a description of national music would make a
suitable prize for this contest. Decorate the dining
room with silk flags and red, white and blue bunting
and in the center of the table have a blue vase filled
with red and white hyacinths or carnations or roses.
Have the ice cream frozen in form of a bust of Wash-
ington on a shield in three colors.
Debut Tea.
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AI-modernized reading of the original text
Breakfasts and Teas 8 1
as men, "All Sorts and Conditions of Men." There are many other interesting and ingenious designs.
A Book Title Tea. 2.
This is an original entertainment for a few friends. Have amusing pen and ink sketches handed around together with a small note book and pencil for each guest. Explain that each sketch is supposed to represent some well-known book and each guest is given an opportunity to put on his or her thinking cap and name the volume in his note book and pass the sketch on. This novel game affords no end of mirth and enjoyment and at a given time the hostess looks over the books and corrects them.
The House of Seven Gables is very simple and easy to guess, it being simply a rough sketch of a house with seven gables.
An Old-Fashioned Girl is represented by a girl of ye olden time in simple and quaint costume with a school bag on her arm.
A small snow covered house is enough to suggest "Snow Bound" to many of the guests.
The Lady and the Tiger ought not to puzzle anyone, it is a simple sketch of a lady's head in one corner and a tiger in the other.
On one card appears 15th of March, which seems more baffling than all the others. It proves to be "Middlemarch."
A large letter A in vivid red of course represents "A Scarlet Letter."
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"Helen's Babies" is a sketch of two chubby boys in night robes.
"Heavenly Twins" is represented by twin stars in the heavens.
"Darkest Africa" needs nothing but the face of a darkey boy with mouth stretched from ear to ear.
One of the sketches is a moonlight scene with ships going in opposite directions and is easily guessed to represent "Ships that Pass in the Night."
Anyone with originality can devise many other amusing and more difficult sketches. Prizes might be given to the one who guesses the largest number correctly.
Patriotic Tea.
"While other constellations sink and fade, And Orient planets cool with dying fires, Columbia's brilliant star can not be stayed, And, heaven-drawn, towards higher arcs aspires; A Star of Destiny whose searching rays Light all the firmament's remotest ways."
"That force which is largely responsible for the greatness and grandeur of the Republic is the woman behind the man behind the gun."
Booklets with small silk flags mounted on the covers and bearing these quotations with tiny red, white and blue pencils attached make suitable favors for the guests at a high tea. For one contest give twenty minutes in which to write a list of words ending in "nation" as, carnation, condemnation, etc. For this prize give a red, white and blue streamer on which tiny flags of
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all nations are fastened. For a second contest allow a given length of time in which to write correctly the words of the American national anthem. A book containing a description of national music would make a suitable prize for this contest. Decorate the dining room with silk flags and red, white and blue bunting and in the center of the table have a blue vase filled with red and white hyacinths or carnations or roses. Have the ice cream frozen in form of a bust of Washington on a shield in three colors.
Debut Tea.