Walk downstairs backward, holding lighted candle over
your head. Upon reaching bottom, turn suddenly
and before you will stand your wished-for one.
For this game, half the players go outside the door,
whilst those who stay in the room choose a word of
one syllable, which should not be too difficult.
For instance, suppose the word chosen be “Flat,”
those who are out of the room are informed that a
word has been thought of that rhymes with “Cat,”
and they then have to act, without speaking, all the
words they can think of that rhyme with “Cat.”
Supposing their first idea be “Bat,” they
come into the room and play an imaginary game of cricket.
This not being correct, they would be hissed for their
pains, and they must then hurry outside again.
They might next try “Rat,” most of them
going into the room on their hands and feet, whilst
the others might pretend to be frightened. Again
they would be hissed. At last the boys go in
and fall flat on their faces, while the girls pretend
to use flat-irons upon their backs. The loud clapping
that follows tells them that they are right at last.
They then change places with the audience, who, in
turn, become the actors.
Cut alphabet from newspaper and sprinkle on surface
of water; letters floating may spell or suggest name
of future husband or wife.
A splendid game, and one specially suitable for a
large party. A sheet or white tablecloth is first
of all stretched right across the room, and on a table
behind it is placed a bright lamp. All the other
lights in the room are then extinguished, and one
of the players takes a seat upon a low stool midway
between the lamp and the sheet. The other players
endeavor to disguise themselves as much as possible,
by distorting their features, rumpling their hair,
wearing wigs, false noses, etc., and pass one
by one behind the player seated on the stool.
Their shadows are thus thrown upon the sheet.
The aim of the seated player is to guess the identity
of the shadows as they pass before him; and the aim
of the others is to endeavor by every means in their
power to keep him from recognizing them. As may
be imagined, the task of the single player is not
an easy one, the distorted shadows being vastly different
from the originals as seen before the lights were
extinguished.
Name two wet apple seeds and stick them on forehead.
First seed to fall indicates that the person for whom
seed is named is not a true lover.
