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Show f UN For Your Family By MISS ABBIE CONDIT National Recreation Association. A party can mean real fun and relaxation if you don't work too hard getting ready for it! Choose a simple sim-ple theme to carry out so that you can enjoy yourself while providing fun for your guests. When your guests are arriving, supply them with some amusing stunts and games. Begin by giving each newcomer a simple or difficult diffi-cult task; for example, winding yarn, reading the last paragraph in a specific book, coloring a picture in a child's drawing book, dropping several clothespins into a bottle from shoulder height, talking to another guest for three minutes on any desired de-sired subject, and blowing up a toy balloon. You will be surprised at what such a starter activity will do to create the hilarious spirit in which other games may be introduced. By now your guests will welcome relaxation so try an old favorite. One guest commences by saying: "I'm going to New York and I'm going to take a trunk and in it I am going to put," and names her article. The next one in turn repeats re-peats these lines, each guest repeating re-peating all the articles named by other players in their right order and naming an article of their own choice. Any guest who fails to name the articles correctly or names them out of order is eliminated. The guest who after a certain time length can name all articles in logical order or-der without a mistake is declared winner. Some informal singing might be introduced at this point. A Glove Relay will attract those guests who tire of mental activity and prefer more action. Guests line up in equal teams. The first player in each team is provided with a canvas can-vas working glove and four nickels. The object of the relay is for each player to race a certain distance. put the nickels on the floor, pick them up with the gloved hand and return to his place, handing everything every-thing to the next player who follows suit. Capital Guess is another simple quiet game. From a list of all the states and their capitals jot down on papers (to be handed to each guest) opposite numbers 1 to 22 just the names of states with a blank left for the answer. Opposite the numbers num-bers from 22 through 42 list just the capital. When the guests are given their papers allow them ten minutes to list the missing capitals and the missing states. Now give your guests paper and pencil and ask them to write a word like "vacation" vertically down the left side of their papers, one letter on each line. (They will be thinking about the vacation if y have had, or will have, so that should be easy!) They are to write a telegram tele-gram using only the letters contained contain-ed in the word "vacation" and only as many times as letters appear in the word telling why they were delayed de-layed on their trip. Each letter in the word "vacation" starts a new word uthe telegram. Have guests read their telegrams aloud and other guests vote for the best. Refreshment time will hold no horror hor-ror for you if you use the help-your-self method. Decide on your menu and buy your goceries. Then divide di-vide up the duties involved in preparing pre-paring refreshments and prepare duplicate slips naming these duties. One set is placed in a box for the girls, another for the boys. Guests choose a slip at random and partners part-ners perform their tasks together and are also supper partners. The guests will enjoy this novelty although al-though the surprises will be many and varied, but this will finish off the party theme as nothing else could. Duties may include: setting table, clearing table, making coffee, fixing salad, heating rolls, buttering rolls, whipping cream, filling nut-cups, nut-cups, and serving food. Released by Western Newspaper Union. |