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Show Did you over attend a soap-bubble party? There Is amusement for indoors in-doors or outdoors In holding ono. Thcro nro many ways of competing with bubbles to show tho skill of tho blower. A bubblo raco is ono ot tho most oxcitlrg. Tho contestants In a bubblo raco blow their racers up, then starting start-ing at n mark, puff thorn to a goal t't at tho end of a long tablo. To mako tho attempt to puff a bubblo from tho mark to tho goal moro exciting ex-citing obstacles aro placed llko hurdles at lntorvals, nnd each contestant In tho raco mttBt blow his bubblos by tho obstacles and to tho goal without bursting them in order to got a placo. To mako bubbles that will bo strong onough to raco ono must havo a flno brand of suds which may be proparod In tho following manner: Get somo whlto cnstllo soap to begin be-gin with. Thon comblno ono part, by weight, of soap to eight parts, by wolght, of water and lot them stand until the soap dissolves, tho soap bo-lng bo-lng cut Into smnll particles, shavod, to help It soap up quickly, to mako an extra good solution from which big, strong bubbles can bo blown It Is necessary to put glycorino into ths solution so-lution of soap suds. Tho glycerlno glvo3 tho bubblos stlck-tolt-lvenoss. Tho proportion for soap suds mado In eight parts ot wntcr to ono part of castllo soap is one-half glycerlno to ono of sonp suds, ThP nlpes from which bubblos aro to bo blown improvo with uso, and if they do' not mako good bubbles nt first it is becauso they aro not woll broken In. Tho longer tho pipe-stem tho larger tho bubblo that cin bo blown without danger of breaking It. This is bo-causo bo-causo tho current ot air Is llghtor through a long stem. Each guest nt a bubblo party may havo a separato dish of suds or nil may dip from tho snmo bowl. When all havo bubblo dishes or bubblo bowls, a gamo of progressive bubbles may bo played, tho scoro cards bo-lng bo-lng markod with tho record of thoso who blow the biggest bubbles In each round. Another gamo that makes great sport Is to havo a regular bubblo fight, tho two sides ranging nt cither ond of a long tablo nnd blowing tholr bubbles bub-bles toward each other. When tho opposing bubbles meet thoro is an oxploslon a .d ono or both of tho soap balloons dlsappoar In thin air. Every bubblo from tho opposing sldo that crosses to tho opposlto ond of tho tablo ta-blo counts a scoro for tho sldo blow-Irrr blow-Irrr It at first. Tho rulos ot tho gamo allow tho players to blow back the bubbles of tho onomy whon they can. Try a bubblo light. |