Each guest is stationed at the end of a string and
at a signal they begin to wind up the string until
they meet their fate at the other end of it.
The lady and gentleman winding the same string will
marry each other, conditions being favorable; otherwise
they will marry someone else. Those who meet
one of their own sex at the other end of the string
will be old maids or bachelors.
The couple finishing first will be wedded first.
A prize may be given the lucky couple, also to the
pair of old maids and the pair of bachelors finishing
first.
Partners for different games or for the midnight spread
may be decided by the fates. Write a number on
one side of a small slip of paper, on the reverse
side write a bit of “fortune.” Place
the folded papers in empty peanut or English walnut
shells; the shells may be slightly glued together
or tied with colored ribbons or string, or a narrow
band of paper pasted at the ends will hold the two
halves together. If the paper band is used, the
numbers may be written on them and partners drawn
before the nuts are cracked and fortunes read.
There should be two portions of nuts and two sets
of numbers, one for the ladies and one for the gentlemen.
The lady and gentleman drawing corresponding numbers
are partners.
You will meet your future husband (or wife) to-night.
Prosperity and love await you.
A lap full of money and a lap full of children.
Change your mind before it is too late.
You have made the right choice.
Your love is not returned.
She is tired of Taffy, try chocolates.
Thee does not love him as much the(e)auto.
You have too many beaux to your string.
Your face is your fortune, but poverty is no crime.
Fate has deceived you; you will be left in the lurch,
waiting at the
Church.
Your mate is true blue; what color are you?
Press your suit again; it needs it.
A kiss in time may save nine others taking a chance.
Dame Fortune says, “A good wife, Happy days,
a long life.”
You are well bred, but doomed to travel in single
harness.
Your better half will be a silver one.
Your heart is like a street car—carries
many passengers and always room for one more.
The fates decree
You shall married be
In the year of 1923.
Ask her—two can live as cheap as one, in
fact cheaper, on the same salary.
Let several guests be blindfolded. Then hide
nuts or apples in various parts of room or house.
One finding most nuts or apples wins prize.
In a dish of mashed potatoes place a ring, a dime,
and a thimble. Each guest is provided with a
spoon with which to eat the potatoes; whoever gets
the ring is to be married within a year; the thimble
signifies single blessedness, while the dime prophesies
riches or a legacy.
