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Show QUITE AMUSING GAME "Detective's Noto Book" Is Not Hard to Arrange. Pastime Is Intended to Test One'i Skill In Identification of Profiles of Villains for Whom 'Reward 'Re-ward Is Offered. Now that tho fall and wlntor It coming on, tho boys and girls will bo looking for something in tho way of Indoor games to nmuBo their guests at their evening parties, and tho boy or girl that can got up something now Is nlways in demand. A very good gnmo which can bo arranged ar-ranged without much troublo is called tho dctoctivo'fl noto book, and 1b supposed sup-posed to test tho skill in recognizing villains for whom a big roward 1b offered, of-fered, If you havo nothing to go by but n picture Tho apparatus required T 1 f bv fnrrm lT Making the Profile. Is a smooth board, somo shecta of which papor, a sheet and n candlo. Tho board is hung upon tho wall with a chair in front of it, but not too closo. About ton feet away havo a lighted candlo, tho othor lights being put out. Ask n boy to sit In the chair, which should have n back high enough to hold his head steady, so that tho shadow of his profile falls upon a sheet of paper tacked to the board. Hun nround tho outline of this pro-fllo pro-fllo quickly with n soft poncll. Put a numbor on it, nnd tho boy's name. Ask another boy to tnko tho chair whilo your assistant cuts out tho pro-fllo pro-fllo you havo Just made. In a fow mlntitos you will havo half a dozon and you may stick In ono or two fake proflloB to add to tho fun. Now hang your sheet whoro the folding doors go, betweon two roomB If possible, nnd set your candlo on a tablo In ono room, whilo your guests tako their places in tho other. Each person should havo a slip of papor to write down opposite tho number you call out tho name of tho boy they think tho profllo belongs to, tho numbers num-bers you havo put on thorn being npt In ordor of course, but any number! one-third of tho way from tho candle to tho sheet, you can hold up a profllo pro-fllo so that It throws a shadow, but tho outllno will bo so big nnd look bo curious that you will bo astonished how hard It Is for a person to guess it, oven if it Is that person's own profllo. i Yho winner at this gamo is tho ono who gotB tho greatest number of cor rect guesses. If you havo slipped In ono or two fake profiles you will find that somo ono or othor will bo sure r Profile Finished. they know tho boy and will write his nnioo opposlto tho number you call out, It Is better to conflno tho profiles to boys, because girls aro too easily recognized by tho way they do up their .Hair, and besides girls do not mako (food villains for dotectlvcs to hunt. Mark Twain's Walk. Upon a certain occasion Charles Dudloy Warnor, who was frlond and nolghlOr to Mark Twain, asked him to go walking, and Mark, as usual, refused. re-fused. Dudley summoned all his powers ol persuasion to no purpose. "You really ought to do it, yoo know," ho said finally. "It's according to scripture." 'No 'mark-tho-porfect-man chest' nilts on mo If you ploaso," warned the humorist. "Qlvo mo your authority." "Fifty chaptor of Mattliow, verso the forty-first." said Mr. Warner, readily It rends like this: 'And whoovor shall compel thee to go a mllo, go with him. Twain.' " Noedless to say, Twain wont with Dudloy for that walk, , |