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Show Picture Hunt An -Amusing Game jnnd not to have wearied of the pastime, then the wise hostess will be lenient and uot ring (hi- lvll until it i absolutely necessary, while, on the other hand, if the game seem to flag it should Im; 6topppJ even earlier thac wna intruded miles. something can be done to enliven it. After the game i linished the pictures are -Tn mined, and If by chance a picture has been completed with the wrong pleers or with one wrong piece the person ranking rank-ing the mi-take i fined. A pri.e is given to the per-oii who has completed the most pictures, nnd there should nlso be another prize for the plnyer who ha had the worst lurk. A fine may also t-o imposed upon the girl who takes a piece from the tilde to put it into a picture where it d-3 not b?long. The rules of the game, which should be autioniiied in the players by the hostess, host-ess, prohibit !i player from working on more than one picture at n time, bnt a player may select first one picture am! then abandon it for another if the second one hns nut been seletlc-1 by any one else. Kvory player who takes from the table by mistake a pn-ee which does not belong in the picture on which sin.' i working must state the fact to the person who is presiding over the table. All players must stop work the minute the closing bell ring. The more heavily mounted pictures which are given away with nuigii'iius sometime? nre excellent for this game. If flimsy pictures arc used it is a good plan to mount them on another sheet of paper before' cutting them. The pictures need not bo cut in jigsaw fashion. Instead In-stead certain figures, houses, animals, Arc, may be cut completely out r' ,OU a school girl' p rty where tome other amusement than dancing i desired de-sired completing pictures i decidedly successful and not ilitllci " to arrange. A large room without much furniture i the best for the picture piecing gnnie, or picture pic-ture hunt, as it may be called. Large pictures cut from the magazines or cheap reproductions of any sort nre proper to use for thi purpose, a it would be both extravueant .nnd useless to employ expensive ex-pensive reprocluct ions. The game is a modification of the jigsaw puzzle idea, ami is much more intrrrstinc for a number of people than the jigsaw pnzzh-.s because there is a more general competition, ns well as a great deal of moving around. To prepare for the pirlnre hunt it is necessary to have :i number of fairly good sized pictures, but it is dillieult to say how many unless one were to know ex-nrlly ex-nrlly how many gin-sis are to be present. It is customary to have from five to eight picture provided for each person, and the game is much more amusing when there are a dozen players than when there are fewer. It is possible lo use post cards for the pictures, but t lie v are not so goul as larger pit lures, as the small size makes the game somewhat trying to the eyes. Sheets of plain pajs-r are put up around the walls of the room, to which the pictures may be pinned, l'laiu brown wrapping paper will do, but n prettier effect is obtained if dark green plain Ipapor is used. This is tacked up with I thumb tacks, and on it the pictures nre placed at a . height which will make them jcome on a lev I with the eyes of the quests. From these pictures pieces have been cut out as in the jigsaw- puzzle, only liiistcnd of all the picture being tut up enough of It is allowed to remain to tell to some extent what the subject is. This does riot b any means make the task of Suishing the pictures an easy one, because be-cause the missing pieces are not all placed in one spot, as niv those of a jigsaw puzzle, but are mixed up together so that it is necessary for the hunter to hate-some hate-some clew to the subject. Or his task Would be utterly hopeless. More than one piece must be cut from the picture, but it depends de-pends on personal taste whether there (shall be much of the original b it or only siillicient to tell what the pic tu re is in a 'general way. I If the girls who are t,, - entertained ,nre expert jics.iw- puzzlers lln-y usually jenjoy a rather stiff picture hunt whi. h puts them on their mettle and does not permit the pri.e tj be won tnj easily. If however, the uesLs a i e riot ery experienced experi-enced iu jigsaw puzzles if is better to! leave enough of die original picture I standing to make the game comparatively easy, or they will weary of it before it is! time to stop, The pictures are pinned to the sheets' of paper after they have been cut. aud the; pieces that have been cut out are placed j tin o table in the centre of the room. This table should be large aud without a cover. A long, narrow uble is Letter than a large, round one. The pieces from the diffeteut picture arc mixed up. so that it is nut easy to sort1 them. Fach guest selects a puture to com-' pletc and then hurries to the table to look for the mising pieces. .V bell is' rung to tell wIh-u the same is to begin, There must be plenty of pins conveniently' placed, so that the players may erl them' to fasten the uiis-siug piece. in their places. I ihe hostess pr.-sides oter the table or which the pieces of the- pictures ar placed, and as soon as a picture is fin ished she gives the player a card on whit 1) the number of the completed picture ii marked. The card has the player's uamc written across the top. The pie-1 ure numbers num-bers ore mad..- in large letters and pinned V the sheet of pup.-r above each picture. The p layers make b.isie nt tln-ir own swe-et will, no one Ireing required to keep pace with auy ether player. After a sufficient suf-ficient time has elapsed to alh.w must of the pictures to be completed the hostess rings a bell, declaring the contest ended. It may be thai this will not be dune until ill the pictures have been completed, and it other times the bell may be rung when nly half of them are finished. This h-;.e-uds on the skill of the players and on their apparent enjoyment of the game. If iverybodj- seems to bo Laving a good time |