Show BLINDFOLD GAMES They Supply th Jolliest Sort of Romp A screamingl funny game can be played with tha aid of several old newspapers and a little lampblack or I I soot The papers are laid carefully over the carpet SO as to eomnletelY cover It and the lampblack spread out a lIttle on a thicker paper at the corner I I from which those who are to leae the footprints start Something li i put at the opposite side of the room as a goal Then some one has his or her eyes bandaged and js told tomake a I I beeline for the goal Before bandaging roT thc eyes however the player Is to step I into the lampl1iack that each step shltlI leave its marl There ic I a prize fur the one vho makes the straightest line of ste19 The fun lies in the wavering wav-ering line ot lrlnts The sO 1ejlt matron ma-tron or the keenestvltted young mall leaves a dlsrelutably uncertain trace behind so that under other circumstances circum-stances it might lead people to th1nk they had looked upon the winO when it was red etc Another amusing blindfold game Is of French origin and is a pretty oni suitable for an Easter party Across tile room at one end are strung two tine wIres and each of these has II lot of pretty little gifts of small value hung to it by narrow ribbons which are about ten Inches long The lines I are about a foot from the wall Theplaers arcdrawn into two lines I At the opposite end of the room end blindfolded two by two the two first on the lines are given a Iialr of sharp scissors each and at the word GO they start towards the lines The two Jlrst once reach out with the scissors and try to cut a ribbon Not once In a hun dIed times do they reach one Each has three trials If he or she misses the frst When these have tried and failed 01 won they remove the bandages from their eyes and retire holding their gift If they have them They alve the scissors to the next two and Ihey try and so on Each one Is blindfolded as his or her turn In the Uric comes and makes the trial When thc whole company com-pany has tried the hostess will see that anyone who missed getting a gift receives one of those not secured for there are or should be one for everybody body It Is surrlslng how little real ida we have of distances without sIght A large face made of pasteboard and painted has a mouth large eough for anybody to pass the hand through This can be fastened to the JJacl of two chairs Behind the mouth a bag is hung and this too has a lot or tIllllug gifts some pretty and some comical In It The company resent ollC Uy one are blindfolded and bidden to I reach down the ogres mouth for his or her ood fortune It is worse than a donkey Darty as far as accuracy is concerned but eventually everyone sets his or her gift even if they PteD under the bandage a little The opening open-ing and comparing of them is 11 fund I of amusement OLIVE HARPER |