OBSERVATION PARTY
Reading edition
Place these objects tastefully on the dining-room table, each guest on entering the room being furnished with a catalogue of the subjects, supposed to be different paintings, made out so that blank spaces will be left to the right for the answers. From fifteen to twenty minutes are allowed to guess and write down the answers as fast as they are discovered. Comparing notes is hardly fair. At the end of the stated time the guests leave the room. Some one then calls out the correct answers, and the persons whose lists are the nearest correct, receive the first, second, third, and fourth prizes, the number of prizes varying according to the number of guests present. A booby prize for the one who was the least successful adds to the fun.
Below is given the list of forty subjects, and also the answers. From the latter you will know what objects to collect and place upon the table. It is better not to arrange them in exact order.
Subjects Answers
Out for the Night Candle in Candlestick
Departed Days Last Year's Calendar
Scene in Bermuda Onions
We Part to Meet Again Scissors
The Reigning Favorite Umbrella
Home of Burns Flatiron
The Greatest Bet Ever Made Alphabet
A Line from Home Clothes Line
The House the Colonel Lived in Corn Cob without the Corn
Cause of the American Revolution Tacks on a Letter T
A Heavenly Body Dipper
The Little Peacemaker Chopping-knife
Spring Offering Glass of Water
Bound to Rise Yeast Cake
Family Jars Two Glass Jars
Things that End in Smoke Cigars
A Place for Reflection Hand Mirror
Deer in Winter Eggs
Scene in a Base Ball Game Pitcher
A Drive Through the Wood Block of Wood with Nail Driven Through
A Mute Choir Quire of Paper
A Trophy of the Chase Brush
A Rejected Beau Old Ribbon Bow
A Skylight A Star
Our Colored Waiter Black Tray
Sweet Sixteen Sixteen Lumps of Sugar
Consolation Pipe
Common Sense Pennies
The Black Friar Black Frying Pan
Cole's Memorials of the Great Cinders
The Four Seasons Mustard, Vinegar, Salt and Pepper
A Morning Caller A Bell
Assorted Liquors Whip, Switch and Slipper
The Skipper's Home Cheese
An Absorbing Subject Blotting Pad
A Dancing Entertainment A Ball
Bound to Shine Bottle of Shoe Blacking
The Spoony Couple Two Spoons
Old Fashioned Flowers Lady's Slippers
Nothing But Leaves Block of Blank Writing Paper