Entertainments for Home, Church and School

Entertainments for Home,
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ENTERTAINMENTS FOR HOME, CHURCH AND SCHOOL
BY FREDERICA SEEGER
EDITED BY THEODORE WATERS

ENTERTAINMENTS FOR HOME, CHURCH AND SCHOOL

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS Going Shopping, Hit
or Miss, Game of Rhymes, Most Improbable Story, Animated Art,
Guessing Character, Tongue Twisters.

CHAPTER II
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS French Rhymes, Ant
and Cricket, A Spoonful of Fun, How, When and Where, Grandfather's
Trunk, Predicaments, Auction, Beast, Bird or Fish, Rotating Globe, etc.

CHAPTER III
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS Flags of All Nations,
Game of Words, Prince of India, Exchange, Shadow Buff, Old Family
Coach, The Tailless Donkey.

CHAPTER IV
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS Magic Music,
Cushion Dance, Animal Blind Man's Buff, Musical Instruments, My
Lady's Toilet, Going to Jerusalem.

CHAPTER V
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS Tortoise, Lemon Pig,
Seasick Passengers, Enchanted Raisins, Family Giant, Animated
Telescope, etc.

CHAPTER VI
--HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS The What Do You
Think, Knight of the Whistle, "Can Do Little," Throwing Light.

CHAPTER VII
--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS Charades, "Cicero,"
"Attenuate," Suggested Words, "Metaphysician," Charades on the
Grecian Islands.

CHAPTER VIII
--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS Living Pictures, Tableaux,
Dignity and Impudence, Sailor's Farewell, Home Again, Various
Tableaux.

CHAPTER IX
--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS Wax Works Gallery, Mrs.
Jarley's Collection, Chinese Giant, Two-Headed Girl, Captain Kidd,
Celebrated Dwarf, Yankee Cannibal, etc.

CHAPTER X
--CHURCH AND SCHOOL SOCIALS Art Exhibitions, List of
Exhibitors, "Artists," Curiosities, Explanations, Suggestions.

CHAPTER XI
--OPTICAL ILLUSIONS Raising the Ghost, Magic Lantern Pictures,
Phantasmagoria, Chinese Shadows, Wonderful Mirror, Multiplied
Money.

CHAPTER XII
--TABLE GAMES FOR ADULTS Dominoes, Backgammon, Checkers,
Jenkins, Zoo, Stray Syllables, Chess.

CHAPTER XIII
--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR ADULTS Lawn Tennis, Polo, Hockey,
Golf, Archery, Ring Toss, Lawn Bowls.

CHAPTER XIV
--HOLIDAY GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS New Years, Lincoln's
Day, Valentine Party, Easter Egg Party, Hallowe'en Games, Flag Day,

Thanksgiving, Christmas.
CHAPTER XV
--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS Basket Ball, Box Ball, Guess Ball,
Target Ball, String Ball.

CHAPTER XVI
--PASTIMES FOR CHILDREN Sun Dial, Mother, May I Play? Blind
Man's Buff, Tug of War, Various Ball Games.

CHAPTER XVII
--INDOOR GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Patch Work, Peanut
Game, Soap Bubbles, Candy Pulls, Cook and Peas, Magic Music,
Zoology.

CHAPTER XVIII
--OUTDOOR GAMES FOR YOUNG CHILDREN Bean Bag Games,
Skipping the Rope, Various Tag Games, Crossing the Brook.

CHAPTER XIX
--SINGING GAMES FOR CHILDREN Moon and Stars, Bologna Man,
Orchestra, Jack Be Nimble, Oats, Peas, Beans, Farmer in the Dell,
London Bridge, etc.

CHAPTER XX
--GAMES OF ARITHMETIC Thought Numbers, Mystical Nine,
Magic Hundred, King and Counselor, Horse Shoe Nails, Dinner Party
Puzzle, Baskets and Stones, etc.

CHAPTER XXI
--ONE HUNDRED CONUNDRUMS Witty Questions, Facetious
Puzzles, Ready Answers, Entertaining Play Upon Words.

INTRODUCTION.
Games are meant to amuse, but in addition to amusing, a good game,
played in the right spirit, may have great educational value.
Now, this is distinctly a book of games and amusements.
There are games for indoors, scores of them, while there are other
scores that can be enjoyed only in the open.
When young folks, and older folks, too, for that matter, meet for a
pleasant evening, it is rather depressing to have them sit solemnly on
stiff chairs in the company room and stare helplessly at one another,
like folks awaiting a funeral service.

Now, if there is present, and there usually is, a bright girl, who knows
the games in this book, and she starts in to "get the ball a-rolling," all
will