men, such as
Napoleon, Lord Roberts, etc.
A lady may wear around her neck fragments of china tied by a ribbon.
This represents "The Break-Up of China," Lord Charles Beresford's book.
Another lady, whose name is Alice, may wear a necklace of little
mirrors, and this represents "Alice Through A Looking Glass." An
ingenious design consists of a nickel coin, a photo of a donkey, another
nickel coin, and a little bee, meaning "Nickolas Nickleby." A daisy
stuck into a tiny miller's hat stands for "Daisy Miller," and the
letters of the word olive twisted on a wire for "Oliver Twist."
Two little gates, made of paste board and a jar, represents "Gates
Ajar," and a string of little dolls dressed as men, "All Sorts and
Conditions of Men." There are many other interesting and ingenious
designs.
A BOOK TITLE TEA. 2.
This is an original entertainment for a few friends. Have amusing pen
and ink sketches handed around together with a small note book and
pencil for each guest. Explain that each sketch is supposed to represent
some well-known book and each guest is given an opportunity to put on
his or her thinking cap and name the volume in his note book and pass
the sketch on. This novel game affords no end of mirth and enjoyment and
at a given time the hostess looks over the books and corrects them.
The House of Seven Gables is very simple and easy to guess, it being
simply a rough sketch of a house with seven gables.
An Old-Fashioned Girl is represented by a girl of ye olden time in
simple and quaint costume with a school bag on her arm.
A small snow covered house is enough to suggest "Snow Bound" to many of
the guests.
The Lady and the Tiger ought not to puzzle anyone, it is a simple sketch
of a lady's head in one corner and a tiger in the other.
On one card appears 15th of March, which seems more baffling than all
the others. It proves to be "Middlemarch."
A large letter A in vivid red of course represents "A Scarlet Letter."
"Helen's Babies" is a sketch of two chubby boys in night robes.
"Heavenly Twins" is represented by twin stars in the heavens.
"Darkest Africa" needs nothing but the face of a darkey boy with mouth
stretched from ear to ear.
One of the sketches is a moonlight scene with ships going in opposite
directions and is easily guessed to represent "Ships that Pass in the
Night."
Anyone with originality can devise many other amusing and more difficult
sketches. Prizes might be given t
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