Example:

1. The picture of a whip or switch.

2. A buxom negress.

3. A photograph of a Venus-slightly coloured. 4. A woman washing clothes.

5. People at work, or Millet's "Angelus."

6. A map of Africa cut out of black paper—a chalk line across it.

7. The words, "New York and Philadelphia."

First table:

1. Thomas Hood.

2. Eliza Cook.

3. Mother Goose.

Second table:

1. Washington Irving.

2. Chas. Reade.

3. Mme. de Staël.

4. George Sand.

5. Frances Burney.

6. Rostand.

7. Fénelon.

Third table:

ANSWERS

4. Goldsmith.

5. Clement C. Moore.

6. Abraham Lincoln.

8. Goethe.

9. Thackeray.

10. Thomas Hughes.

II. Dr. Johnson.

12. Cervantes.

13. Defoe.

14. Tolstoi.

I. "The Parents' Assistant"-Maria Edgeworth.

2. "Black Beauty"-Anna M. Sewell.

3. "The Tinted Venus"-Anstey.

4. "The Madonna of the Tubs"-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

5. "The Workers"-Walter Wyckoff.

6. "Across the Dark Continent"-Stanley.

7. "The Quick and the Dead"--Amelie Rives.

PROGRESSIVE CONVERSATION

An equal number of young men and maidens take part. The girls are seated, and the men, butterfly-like, flit from flower to flower,

Each person is given a card containing a list of subjects which should be discussed in the order in which they are given. Small coloured pencils are attached to the cards by ribbons of the same shade, and the man and maiden holding matching colours are partners for the first conversation.

At the touch of a bell by the hostess, the men seat themselves, and each pair in the room discusses the first subject mentioned on their cards. At the end of fifteen or twenty minutes the bell rings again, whereupon all the men rise and, passing to the left, each one seats himself at the left side of the next young woman in the line and takes up the second subject on the list for their mutual consideration.

When each couple have met and discussed every topic, a secret ballot is cast as to which is the most interesting conversationalist-the ladies voting for the gentlemen and the gentlemen for the ladies. The names are printed or the hand-writing is disguised; the papers are folded and thrown into a hat or basket. There should be a lady's prize and one for the men.

If it be desired, additional honours may be voted for the wittiest, the most profound thinker, the most convincing in argument, etc. The subjects most likely to interest and provoke discussion are chosen, of course. The following topics have been found suggestive: "Which does a man love best, his mother, his wife, or his sweetheart?"

"Which is the way to a man's heart-through his eyes or his ears?"

"Should women vote?"

"Favourite books and why they are favoured?" "Madam Grundy."

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Which loves better, a man or a woman?"

"What is your ambition?"

"What are woman's rights?"

After the prizes have been awarded, some of the clever or amusing things said during the evening are repeated for the benefit of the rest. One man was reported to have answered to the first question: "A man loves his sweetheart most, his wife best, and his mother longest." A young woman's reply to the second question on the list was quoted as-"Love knows all the roads-but they do say that the highway to a man's affections is down his throat."

MILITARY EUCHRE

This game is a variation of "Progressive Euchre," and is especially appropriate to be played when some such diversion may be wanted upon national holidays.

It is played at small tables-four persons at each one, as are all progressive games-but every table is called after some fort that has been conspicuous in our country's annals, and is decorated with a pennon bearing its name and a small national flag. These may be easily arranged to stand proudly aloft, if an ordinary brick be covered with Turkey red, or with scarlet cottonvelvet tied round about with a red, white and blue ribbon. A small flag-staff is inserted at each end of the brick, held in place by the ribbon. The national colours should overtop the other flag. Tiny toy cannon, mounted on the bricks-between the flags-give a military suggestion.

The score-cards are small flags, of which the blue fields are without stars. A bit of blue silk, neatly stitched over the starry corner, will offer the opportunity to the players to restore the accustomed glories to the flag

when the winners mark a victory with the usual gilt stars, made to use on score-cards.

On Washington's Birthday or the Fourth of July the names of forts belonging to Revolutionary fame should be chosen-Fort Ticonderoga, Fort William Henry, or Fort Duquesne of Colonial days. On Lincoln's Birthday or for Decoration Day, Fort Sumter, Fort Moultrie, Fort Donelson, and Fort Fisher will be appropriate.

The game of Euchre is played as usual until the signal of a bugle, blown at the head-table, calls a halt at the end of each game. The losers then progress to the next table, the winners keep their places, and the reward of victory, when afar from the fort of their first allegiance, is that they bring all their honours back to it. Each player at the end of the game, before the prizes are awarded, returns to his or her original place and the stars are counted for honours on the flags of the four players. It is then announced which fort has won, and the prizes are given to the four players who began the game at the table named for that fort.

It is sometimes played in another manner. The partners who have lost the first game progress at the close of each one from table to table, until they find themselves back to their starting-places, whereupon the next pair progress until they, too, have made the rounds of the tables.

This brings all the players back to the forts of their original allegiance before the prizes are given. During their progress, the hostess gives to the winning pairs a tiny flag to chronicle each victory, and these they attach to the staves of those on the fort to which they owe fealty. This, instead of using the gilt stars on the flag score-card. The table that flaunts the most flags represents, therefore, the victorious fort.

The prizes should be suitable as gifts to a conqueror. A laurel wreath of artificial leaves makes a "coiffure" that almost any woman would find becoming, and a vivandière's barrel filled with bonbons would fitly reward the lady combatants. There are swords and other weapons that would please a hero who has artistic leanings on the subject of household embellishment, a toy sword, bugle, cymbals, military accoutrements, even a band of gold braid for his coat-sleeve, a tinsel gilt star, a decoration or "order" (many varieties of which are made for cotillion favours) would appropriately recompense the heroes of such a bloodless field.

The caterers in all the large towns have individual moulds for ices in the form of cannon-balls, drums, cocked hats, etc., and a large one that may almost always be counted upon is in the form of Bunker Hill Monument. These may appropriately form part of the refreshments.

PROGRESSIVE PROPOSALS

Among persons who are fairly well acquainted, or upon occasions where playing at love is the openly avowed entertainment-as on St. Valentine's evening or after an engagement dinner-this game will be productive of much fun.

An equal number of young men and women take part. The ladies are seated, and at the left hand of each a vacant chair is placed, or the chairs may be arranged in pairs, tête-à-tête fashion-facing opposite ways.

The men stand, pending the signal to take their places-and, if the hostess please, partners for the first conversation may be determined by drawing slips of paper from two receptacles, upon which the names