Bright Ideas for Entertaining

Bright Ideas for Entertaining offers two hundred forms of amusement or entertainment for social gatherings of all kinds, by Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott. A note says thirty articles appearing in the book have been taken from “The Ladies' Home Journal,” to which the author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint them. Acting Proverbs is a game in which the company may be divided into actors and spectators, and the actors are each given a proverb, which they are to act alone.

A Baseball Party is described as a novel party recently given by a mother to celebrate the sixteenth birthday of her only son. Eight of her son's friends were invited, who, with the boy himself, made the required “nine.” The text describes a long, narrow strip of pasteboard, bearing a portion of some familiar song, both words and music, and says the eight whose cards are numbered alike are instructed to get together and practice to sing a verse formed by the union of their eight cards.