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Show O O O r rPi fl f? fl H A'Jolhs Did you ovor nttond a soap-bubble party? Thoro Is amusement for Indoors In-doors or outdoors In holding one. Thoro nro many ways of competing with bubbles to show the skill of tho blower. A bubblo raco Is ono of tho most exciting. Tho contestants' In a bubblo raco blow tholr racers up, then starting start-ing nt a mark, puff thom to a goal BOt at tho end of a long tabic To mako tho nttompt to puff n bubblo from tho mark to tho goal moro ox-citing ox-citing obstucleB aro placed llko hurdles at Intorvals, and each contestant in tho raco must blow his bubbles by tho obstacles nnd to tho goal without bursting thom In ordor to got a placo. To mako bubblos thnt will bo strong enough to raco ono must havo a flno brand of suds which may bo prepared In tho following manner: Get sorao whlto caHtllo soap to bo-gin bo-gin with. Thon comblno ono pnrt, by weight, of soap to eight parta, by wolght, of wator and lot thom Btand until the soap dissolves, tho soap being be-ing cut Into Btnall particles, shaved, to help It soap up quickly. To make r.n "oxtra good solution from which big, strong bubbles can bo blown It la necessary to put glycerlno Into the solution so-lution of aoap suds. The glycerine gives tho bubblos stlck-to-lt-lvcnoss. Tho proportion for soap suds made In olght parts of wator to ono part of 'J castllo soap Is one-half glycerlno to ono of soap suds. Tho nlpos from which bubbles aro to bo blown Improvo with uso, nnd t thoy do not mnko good bubbles at first it Is becnuso thoy nro not well broken In. Tho longer tho plpo-stom tho larger tho bubblo that can bo blown without danger of breaking It. This is bo-causo bo-causo tho current of air Is lighter through n long stom. Each guost at a bubblo party may havo a sepnrato dish of suds or all may dip from tho samo bowl. Whon all havo bubblo dishes or bubblo bowls, n gamo of progressive bubblos may bo playod, tho scoro cards bo-Ing bo-Ing marked with tho record of thoso who blow, tho biggest bubblos In each round. Another gamo that makos groat sport Is to have a regular bubblo fight, tho two sides ranging at olthor end of a long tablo and blowing their bubbles bub-bles toward ench other. When tho opposing bubbles meet there Is an explosion and one or both of the soap balloons disappear In thin air. Evry bubblo from tho opposing side thnt crosses to tho opposlto end of the table ta-ble counts a scoro for tho side blowing blow-ing It at first. Tho rules of the game allow tho playora to blow back the bubbles of tho onomy when thoy can. Try, a, buhblo fight. V |