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Show SOCIETY. I u J. Goodrich entertained Inform- M ally Wednesday evening at the present M stopping pl?ce of Mr. and Mrs. N R, M Moore, the West home on Center M street. There were present besides' , thoso mentioned above, Prof, and Mrs. jl Bcxcll, Mrs. Wing, Mrs. Ostlcn, Mis. jH A. J. Flack, Miss Wyant, Miss Fisher ! and Jacob West. The feature of the evening was a gamu known as "Auto- jH moblllng," this being original with j Dr. Goodrich. The doors and win- ! dows aic closed, and guests arc seated H on chairs arranged one behind tho lH other, each person bejiig supplied ,H with a cap and blue goggles. When H all Is ready, the "Chiffonier" crawls beneath tho tlrst chair, tinkers with tfl the machinery for forty-three minutes, H and then arises to look angry and ex- H press himself In dialects calculated to dlsguiso his real thoughts. He then H j rushes to the rear of the row of chairs IB grasps the crank supposed to bo thcro B and turns It viciously and rapidly un- H III blue In thu face and his lung power H and muscular strength U exhausted. IH Those engaged In tho game aro sup- H posed to be convulsed with laughter H all tho time. Finally the vehicle Is H ready to start, a smoky old gasoline H stovo is lighted, tho "show-fur" this M lj the correct pronunciation) presses IH the trigger with his left foot, puts his M right foot on a button, gives a lever a H big yank and then he gets out, looks M like a chump, putters around a few M minutes and goc? after an expert. U This extra delay Is supposed to tlcklo H tho party nearly to death no one Is , H supposed to be In a hurry Klo get start- H oil, anyway. After the gasoline stovo M has had time to till the room with a H splendid odor, the expert comes, gives H a round of the tlrst chair a twist and H the automobile moves oil nicely. Ono H of the guests Is detailed to race up H and down tho keyboard of a convent- H cut piano, to produce sulllclent nolso to make tho ride seem truly realistic. H As a Una) touch, an electric fan Is H turned on and dust thrown Into the H air Is blown Into the faces of H tho riders. Another member of H Die party detailed for tho M purpose occasionally tips tho M chairs at a great angle and tho ladles H scream. The autjftnobcel is supposed H to be going around a corner then. M Finally tho chairs are kicked out from M under the players and tho automobile H Is supposed to be In a slough nlno M miles from nowhere. The players aro M then walked around tho room 470 M times, this being the trip back home. M The game was carried out very suo- M ccssfully by Dr. Goodrich and ho Is glv- M en credit for being strikingly original. M Another feature of particular noto M was the singing of the familiar hymns M or the "Nordland" by tho Swedish H nlghtengalcs the llcxells and Mrs. M Ostlen. Tho affair was ono of ex- M eructating pleasure at which not a M small quanlty of dcssccratcd marsh- M mallows, Inoculated caramel and M asphyxiated ale was consumed. M |