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Potato Contest

Have in readiness two dinner plates, two heavy teaspoons, and as many medium-sized potatoes as can be conveniently piled upon the two plates. Place a plate and spoon at each end of a room, half the potatoes at regular intervals on the right side of the room and the other half in the same position on the left side. Let two contestants be chosen; and when each has taken his place beside a plate, let him take the spoon in his hand and begin "gathering his crop." He must balance a potato on his spoon, carry it with one hand to the opposite end of the room and deposit it on the plate. The player who succeeds in "gathering his crop" first should have for a prize a large potato upon which has been cut a face wearing a most exaggerated smile. The defeated contestant should be presented with a smaller potato, displaying a correspondingly woeful face.

A GAME OF "PAIRS."

This is rather an amusing game. One of the players personates a lawyer. The rest choose partners and sit down in pairs in two rows, facing each other. The lawyer now walks down the row and asks a question of anyone he chooses. This question must always be answered by the partner of the one addressed. If he or she inadvertently replies herself she has to pay a forfeit. The partners cause a great deal of fun if they answer for their mates in the most absurd manner possible, and if they are good mimics in adopting the same tone of voice. It is difficult, as the game progresses, to keep from answering a question directly addressed to oneself.