Games are meant to amuse, but in addition to amusing, a good game, played in the right spirit, may have great educational value. Now, this is distinctly a book of games and amusements. There are games for indoors, scores of them, while there are other scores that can be enjoyed only in the open. When young folks, and older folks, too, for that matter, meet for a pleasant evening, it is rather depressing to have them sit solemnly on stiff chairs in the company room and stare helplessly at one another, like folks awaiting a funeral service.
Now, if there is present, and there usually is, a bright girl, who knows the games in this book, and she starts in to "get the ball arolling," all will soon be enjoying themselves better than if they were watching a three-ring circus. And then the volleys of wholesome laughter that will roll out--why, they will be better for the digestion than all the medicines of all the doctors. It will be noticed that some of the outdoor games, and others devised for indoors, require some apparatus, like tennis and croquet, or back-gammon boards and magic lanterns, but the majority need only the company, and--let it be added--the disposition to have a good time.
CONTENTS
HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS
GOING SHOPPING
LIGHTING THE CANDLE
HIT OR MISS
CROSS QUESTIONS
THE GAME OF RHYMES
THE MOST IMPROBABLE STORY
ANIMATED ART
GUESSING CHARACTERS
WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR?
TONGUE-TWISTERS--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS
BUTTON, BUTTON
FRENCH RHYMES
CONSEQUENCES
ANT AND CRICKET
A SPOONFUL OF FUN
WHAT IS MY THOUGHT LIKE?
BIOGRAPHY
NICKNAMES OF CITIES
HOW, WHEN AND WHERE
MY GRANDFATHER'S TRUNK--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS
LOCATION
PREDICAMENTS
PROGRESSIVE PUZZLES
MIRTH
CRAMBO
AUCTION
BEAST, BIRD OR FISH
THE ROTATION OF THE GLOBE
ADVICE
WORDS
FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS
ANOTHER GAME OF WORDS
GRAMMATICAL GAME
MENAGERIE
PRINCE OF INDIA
EXCHANGE
HUNT THE RING
SHADOW BLUFF
GUESSING EYES AND NOSES
THE TAILLESS DONKEY
THROWING THE HANDKERCHIEF
MAGIC MUSIC
CUSHION DANCE
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS
ANIMAL BLINDMAN'S BLUFF
A lot more....
