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Show IJL Parlor Auction of Scaled Packages. jH Parlor auction Is a festivity that all ' .young folks will enjoy. Each guest Is given fifty beans or buttons In a pretty little box .or liag that run bo retained ns a souvenir of tho occasion. occa-sion. Then ono of tho "grown tips" "who Is appointed "auctioneer," brings in n clothes basket filled with a variety vari-ety of odd parcels, largo and sninll, icach one so wrapped up as to absolutely abso-lutely conceal Its Identity. Tho auctioneer auc-tioneer proceeds to describe In most taking 'fashion each parcel he olfcra for sale, though In reality bo does not know In tint least what tht! contents are. ' Tho guests bid engeily, somo ox-liaustlng ox-liaustlng their entire capital without getting a single purchase, others bidding bid-ding more wisely securing many an |