Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1884 — An Evening’s Entertainment. [ARTICLE]

An Evening’s Entertainment.

A correspondent, who is determined that her visitors shall have a good time, says: “What cau we do if we are tired of reading and music?” The natural inference is that she or her guests do not dance, or play whist, or “games of chance,” so called, but in which in reality the battle is to the swift and the race to the strong. This being the case, I know of no more delightful way to insure a pleasant evening than to play games with pencils and paper. You may need a little courage to introduce these games, but, believe me, you will be surprised at the happy results which will crown your efforts. First, try making poetry. Have a sufficient number of pencils provided, distribute them, and give four slips of paper to each person. Each must write one word on each slip. Collect them, mix thoroughly, and then afiow each person to draw out four slips, but do not let him see what the word is upon it until he has had it in his hand. It is then the duty of each one tb make a verse of poetry and include in it the four words thus drawn. Then each must read when all are done the verse that he has written. Do not excuse any one from it, for the most unpromising people often make the best rhymes. Then after this try writing poems on subjects, all writing on the same subject; or write epitaphs. Another funny exercise is to make conundrums, or when all are seated let one person whisper the name of an object to each one while qome one else goes around the room and whispers the name of some person, either a historical character, or an acquaintance; then each must tell why the person and the object are alike, or why they are unlike. Resemblances or differences may either be taken as an answer. Try these, or sonf6 of them, and you will be surprised to find out how quickwitted and bright some “young people of all ages” are. —New York livening Post.