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Identifier: howtobehavehowto00sand (find matches)
Title: How to behave and how to amuse. A handy manual of etiquette and parlor games
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Sandison, George Henry, 1850- comp
Subjects: Games Amusements Etiquette
Publisher: New York, The Christian Herald
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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either side of the pin, and this latter, displacinga proportionate body of water, will float on thesurface, just as a lucifer match would do. Thesame experiment may be performed with a needle,and it must not be supposed that a very fineneedle or pin alone is suitable.
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Shadows -^n the wall. (125) 126 HOW TO AMUSE. Hit or Miss. Great amusement is excited by this game whenplayed in the presence of a company of guests.Spread a sheet upon the floor and place two chairsupf>n it. Seat two of the party in the chairswithin reach of each other and blindfold them.Give each a saucer of cracker or bread crumbs anda spoon, then request them to feed each other.The frantic efforts of each victim to reach his fel-low sufferers mouth is truly absurd—the crumbsfinding lodgment in the hair, ears and neck muchoftener than the mouth. Sometimes bibs arefastened around the necks of the victims for pro-tection. Going Shopping. A lively game of talk and touch. The com-pany is seated in a circle, and one who understandsthe game commences by saying to his neighbor atthe right: *I have been shopping.* *What did you buy? is the required response. A dress, a book, some flowers, apencil—whatever the first speaker wishes, pro-vided always that he can, in pronouncing theword

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