TRUSSED FOWLS

Two boys having seated themselves on the floor, their hands are tied together with handkerchiefs, their ankles secured in the same manner, their arms made to embrace their bent knees, and a broomstick passed over one arm, under the knees, and over the other arm of each of them. They are placed so that their toes just touch each other, and in that position must try to overturn each other by pushing with their toes only. Sometimes both are upset, and lie helpless on their backs until some one comes to their rescue. The game continues until one succeeds in oversetting his adversary while retaining his own seat.

It usually provokes much laughter and makes a merry conclusion.

A NUT PARTY

FOR BOYS AND GIRLS FROM FOURTEEN TO

SEVENTEEN

The rooms were decorated to look as "woodsy" as possible, with branches of foliage in all available places, and chestnut-burs and twigs with nuts still adhering were much in evidence.

The hostess wore a green gown, her brown hair wreathed about with oak leaves and many acorns.

As the guests were assembling, some one at the piano played "Sweet Marie," "Annie Rooney," "Johnny Get Your Gun," and other selections supposed to represent "musical chestnuts."

Each guest was given a booklet consisting of one leaf, whereon was a type-written list of questions, with spaces below them for the answers to be written in. This was enclosed in covers made of drawing-paper, coloured to resemble an acorn, a chestnut, almond, or

peanut. The narrow green ribbon that tied the covers together to form a hinge at their place of contact had one long end, to which a small pencil was attached.

Every question was to be answered by the name of a nut. They were:

1. Its first syllable is a spring vegetable.

2. The penalty of tight shoes.

3. A souvenir of South America.

4. A native of a Portugese island, now a naturalised Britisher.

5. Its first part is a barrier of brick or stone.

6. Two-thirds of it makes acceptable our daily bread. 7. Its first half is a beverage.

8. Two boys' nick-names.

9. Part of the human frame forms the initial syllable. 10. A letter of the alphabet and a utensil of tin or copper.

II. The abbreviation of a man's name constitutes the first syllable.

12. Its first syllable is a colour exclusively applied

After the award of some pretty bonbonnières in the shape of papier-mâché peanuts and chestnuts to the winners in the former contest, while the judges were examining the little books in order to determine the winner of the prize, the company was invited to join in

a squirrel hunt for nuts, which were concealed in every available place in the room.

It was explained that a peanut counted one point in the game, a gilded peanut ten, a pecan nut two, a filbert three, an almond four, a hickory nut five, a walnut ten, a gilded walnut twenty, a walnut containing a bit of paper foretelling one's fortune, twenty-five, a chestnut bur fifty, and a cocoanut a hundred.

Ingenuity had been taxed to the utmost to find unsuspected hiding-places for the nuts, and the chase became exciting when the discoverers of the gilded nuts, for instance, were obliged to remove many wrappings of tissue-paper before the "find" could be appraised-then the walnuts to be examined lest a glued specimen might be overlooked-thereby losing time. A huge cocoanut was discovered in a hat hanging on the rack in the entrance hall, and the folds of the curtains, when shaken, yielded a shower of the smaller nuts that called forth exclamations of delight.

Paper bags, made of Japanese napkins glued together, were given to the "squirrels" in which to collect their

treasure-trove.

The "squirrels" were invited to display their harvest. The boy and girl whose count was the highest received pen-wipers made of cornucopia-shaped pieces of cloth, alternately scarlet and gray, the points meeting in the centre, whereupon were set heads of little gray squirrels. They were prepared at a furrier's and cost a dollar and a half apiece.

was then proposed.

A NUT RACE

Two large Russian bowls, of the gay red-and-gold ware, containing exactly the same number of hickory

nuts, were placed at one end of the room, and two empty bowls at the other. Captains were chosen, who divided the company into equal sides. The game consisted in dipping into the bowl of nuts with the hand, held flat, fingers extended close together, in order to get as many nuts as possible on the back of the hand. These were then carried across the room and dropped into one of the other bowls by two contestants at a time. Whichever of the pair carried the more nuts to the goal won. Two more contestants followed, and so on until all had had a trial. The winners were then pitted against each other until a single one remained, to whom was given the prize, a copy of Hawthorne's "Twice Told Tales "-explained as another name for 'chestnuts."

The supper consisted of nut sandwiches, nut salad, the marron-filled ice-cream known as Nesselrode pudding, nut cakes, salt nuts, and marrons glacés bonbons.

THE CHILDREN'S THANKSGIVING

As Thanksgiving Day is essentially the occasion for family reunion, the time would be ill-chosen for a children's party apart from the elders.

They, however, should have their part in the festivaland they will enjoy it none the less if their efforts to give pleasure teach them that "giving is getting."

The Thanksgiving dinner may be represented in charades by the children, the elders playing audience, to whom it is announced that a feast will be served and be seen but not tasted, the menu having to be guessed. An older head should take the direction.

The first couple suggest the soup by one stepping, apparently by accident, upon the toe of the other, who

hops about as though in pain. As the mistress of ceremonies enters as though to dismiss them in favour of the next actor, the sufferer exclaims, "Ma, he stepped on my toe!" They return to their places and "Tomato" is probably guessed.

The next couple appear, dragging a large clothesbasket, in which they seat themselves and sway as though tossed by the waves. They cast overboard a tennis net or hammock and draw it in, exclaiming with glee, "The finest shad of the season!" They then go through the motion of rowing, with canes and umbrellas, and "Shad Roe" is guessed.

A table is next rolled before the company, upon which are a plate of bread and a pitcher of molasses. Two children seat themselves. As they are about to eat, the lady in charge approaches, dressed as an old nurse, and mumbles crossly, "No, no; too much sweet is bad for children." She then removes the molasses, leaving only bread, which they munch in wrathful silence. "Sweetbread" is, of course, the entrée.

A fierce-looking Turk, with heavily corked eyebrows and mustache, next appears, arrayed in rainbow-coloured garments and turban, holding a key, to which he fiercely directs the attention of his wife, who kneels at his feet, with hair dishevelled, suing for mercy. He sternly answers: "There is blood upon this key. You have entered the forbidden chamber. Prepare to die!" Seizing her hair, he drags her from the room. The horrors supposed to ensue are cut short by the entrance of Bluebeard-and "Turkey" is guessed.

A girl enters next, dressed as a beggar, with a patch over one eye. A boy, with gilt paper buttons and star on his jacket and holding a baton, represents a policeHe passes the beggar, and when his back is turned

man.