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Newspaper
Leavenworth Echo
Location
Leavenworth, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1912
Page
8
A festive game called it in which players sit in a circle and a questioner must guess the target by yes no questions. Each answer refers to the left hand neighbor, creating confusion. Players propose Yuletide related words, definitions are collected, read aloud, and the best reader wins a prize.
A historic party guide details a festive snowball game setup with green garlands from chandeliers to corners, silver bells, crystal glasses, and cotton batting snowballs. Guests use wool covered rubber balls to topple a snowy figure, then open stockings for comical prizes and a final carnation prize for the fullest stocking box.
A brief notes a party game where players of all ages take part as the leader hands out slips of paper to participants in a social gathering. The description emphasizes accessibility for both elders and youths and hints at participation levels.
The piece proposes a holiday charades game with a Christmas dinner theme. It lists foods and punning syllable plays such as Tomato Tow-ma-tow and Currant for jelly, guiding players to act syllables or whole words in scenes.
An old fashioned Quaker Meeting game becomes a party favorite as players sit in a circle then silently perform pantomimed tasks. Each guest is handed a whispered instruction while others remain quiet to avoid forfeit and laughter.
A party game instructs a small group to play Hunt the Whistle by blindfolding one player and hiding a whistle on their dress. The circle of players then tries to grab the whistle and blow it, while the blindfolded person guesses who holds it. Once discovered, the trick can be passed to another participant.
A vintage tip describes making colorful Christmas bubbles using ordinary kitchen ingredients. Dissolve a square inch of laundry soap in a pint of warm water, add gum arabic, glycerin, and then cold water. Use hot water to dissolve and add juice for pink or yellow bubbles.
The wild mare was a youth given a start while others chased. If caught, the foot was held aloft and pretended shoeing with thumps. Herrick mentions this Christmas sport among others in a verse about holiday games and youth behavior.
A simple audience pleasing parlor trick uses six or more candles with holes near the wick tops. Light all candles and recount a story as each candle goes out at its hole, timing phrases like out to match the extinguishings. Vary hole depths to control the sequence for a pretty, mystifying effect.
The article describes candle blowing games for Christmas day. Children hold or blow out candles while blindfolded, with misdirected steps and laughter as they try to extinguish flames. Variations include tiny unburnable trees and wreaths with candles, plus a prize for the best blower.
A Christmas Eve game titled the woodseller provides holiday amusement with multiple variations and forfeits. Players sit while one writes a wood name secretly, then asks what kind. The teller says Find out and each guesses until the correct wood is named, with wrong guesses incurring forfeits.
A compact romp through a penny’s head side lists items seen there from person and place names to objects and symbols. It catalogs many motifs such as liberty, America, ears, lips, tulips, a shield, wreath, and sea, tying a playful string of clues to the coin.
A home craft activity suggests making many small stockings from net for each child and filling them with puzzle pieces from magazine pictures. Cut pictures into irregular pieces to form picture puzzles, place in envelopes, and award a prize to the first to assemble all puzzles. An older children version uses word anagrams.
A playful party activity invites guests to prepare a numbered animal list and matching slips placed in a bowl. Participants draw a slip, color a drawing, and submit it for judging. The most popular animal yields a prize, with emphasis on creative and unusual creatures.
Children sit in a circle to play The Christmas ship. A starter says the ship has come in and names a toy the next child must imitate. Jumping jacks roar like lions as the ship passes, trains move around, and dolls call mamma and papa, ending in a grand frolic.
Famous stage beauties envy flawless complexions as Bucklen's Arnica Salve is claimed to vanish eczema, blotches and sores. It allegedly cures chapped lips burns and cuts, relieves piles, and sells for 25 cents at all druggists.
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