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Show GAM 118 FOR WINTER EVENINGS Suggestions, for Some Simple and Amusing Diversions. As it appears that all tho world la not export enough to play either brldgo or ping-pong, certain philanthropists philan-thropists aro casting about for less laborious la-borious diversions sutlablo for winter evenings. Among tho suggestions made in various quarters, we And our selves most tin sympathy with a correspondent's corre-spondent's plea for a revival of onbmancy or divination by names. It is a humble, a quiet and a restful past-timo, past-timo, suitable for tho ordinary man and the normal homo. All that Is required re-quired in .tho way of paraphernalia is a box of Ivory or cardboard letters. One person takes a name such as Kltch-enor Kltch-enor or Livingstone, and gives It to tho others, who seo what appropriate sentences may be constructed from, tho letters. We are reminded of those old but excellent specimens of onomans: "Gladstone "O leads not," and Disraeli "I lead, Sir." Tho same correspondent quotes as an examplo of his own ingenuity, Charles H. Spur-geon Spur-geon "Oh, preacher's lungs." Others will occur to tho reader. Among tho various games of a similar nature, we may mention the game of Consonants, In which one person glvos the consonants conson-ants of a word In their rightful order, omitting alllHe-vowels.- For lnstanco, 'from "8, c, r," tho gucssers have to construct 'saucer"; or, worso, still, "from "r, p" Europe. This ' game .among ,amateur lexicographers may 'become almost ' profound, but It Is merely Intended for tho averago person. |