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Show A New Parlor Game. A "descrlptlvo party" Is a now diversion. It serves to nmuso almost any qumbor of persons and to call forth originality and clovernecs. Tho game consists In the hostess distributing dis-tributing pads of paper and pencils, and Instructing the players to wrlto a short character Bkctch of any person per-son In tho room, mentioning no names. The articles aro then read aloud, and endless fun is caused by tho attempts to identify tho 'subject of tho sketch'. ' Tho amusement affords a field for verse as well as prose, and it is varied var-ied by having those who can't draw at 'all tinako alleged sketches of the victim tijoy'-havo in, mind. It might be thought theso pictures would 'throw no Jlgbt.on the identity of tho subject but it'will be found that tho artist 'often -will put In somo striking adjunct' to the picture that will make it effectlvo for the discovery of tho victim. |