Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — YOUNG FOLKS’ CORNER [ARTICLE]

YOUNG FOLKS’ CORNER

Jolly Book Title Game. Assemble tlie players au«l announce solemnly that it has been decided by certain authorities that the books in some libraries are misnamed and also ascribed to the wrong authors and that this assemblage is requested to, at once and in unison, rechristen the volumes and restore them to their proper, if somewhat unknown, authors. Then, standiug In front of the guests, with a tablet and pencil, on which are inscribed the title of some well known book and its author’s name, proceed as follows: ■

Suppose you have selected the book “Tale of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens. Ask some player at random if he will assist you by giving you the name of some familiar object or animal. He may choose something in the room or from memory, but it must be a common nonn, the name of some object or animal He selects possibly the article “stove,” and you proceed to write it under the word “tale” on the tablet

Youleavfi Intact the word “of” and ask some other mystified participant for a number, any number except “2.” You are given “14” and use it in place of the “two” in the title. Then request a plural noun of some one, and possibly you receive “kittens,” which is placed in lieu of the word “cities.” Now say that the book being corrected as to title the right author must- be found and will Mr. So and So give you a man’s Christian name. He offers “Ichabod” an a girl guest presents “Poindexter” as a suitable surname. With much ceremony you then announce that this company has decided In solemn conclave that the book, “Tale of Two Cities,” by Charles Dickens, shall, hereafter, be known to the world as the “Stove of Fourteen Kittens,” by Ichabod Poindexter. Let each one in the party select a liook and have it and its author renamed, and the combinations of make the greatest and most irrepressible merriment possible.