Show SNOWDRIFT PARTY I f An ingenious hostess hostess provided no little amusement for her guests f ff f by what she called her snowdrift party This is how how Is Is arranged f First First of arf sel select t from a a good book of quotations or proverbs f twenty sentences sentences applicable to snow Write these these twenty twenty verses verses verses' o on f t twenty enty cards one verre verse to each Card and number number th them m with the numbers numbers' num- num f ff f bers bers' bers fr from m one oile to twenty wel I ow pe get together r a h half dozen i ido do en pasteboard or orf f 4 wooden boxes and fill these With flakes of cotton wool or or white paper torn into small pl pieces ces I f Hide the quotation cards in th the snow thus formed Each guest re- re ref f a teaspoon tied with ribbon a notebook and pencil The f boxes are distinguished by letters or numbers painted upon them and lots are drawn to determine In which sn snowdrift each guest shall dig f The digging is of course done with the spoons Each player digs f ff f in the snow turning It up spoonful by spoonful until he discovers a f ff f card When a card Is found the quotation upon It must be read and f the name of the author if recognized written down f ff o f a authors author's thors thor's name should be placed in the notebook opposite the f ff t f number of or orthe the card In order to facilitate the w work rk of the person who f ff f reads the lists to decide the prize f ff f The cards whether the aut or be known tor or not are always returned f to the box and hidden away in the At the end of fifteen minutes f ff f work ceases and the diggers begin on new drifts f ff f This changing is is done every fifteen minutes a player always in a af f new snowbank until the number of boxes is exhausted exhaust d. d When the game f reaches this stage all notebooks or tablets are collected by the mistress f of ceremonies f Sh She compares the answers in the notebooks with her own lists previouslY pre pre- f ff f prepared Incorrect guesses are pruned away a with a blue pen pen- f ff f cil and the correct correct ones counted It is of course the player who has most of these last who carries off the trophy The prize should be in in f some ome way commemorative of or the occasion f y |