Bright Ideas for Entertaining

Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
Two hundred forms of amusement or entertainment for social gatherings of all kinds: large or small parties, clubs, sociables, church entertainments, etc.; with special suggestions for birthdays, wedding anniversaries, Hallowe'en, All Fools' Day, Christmas Day, New Year's Eve, and other holidays.
By MRS. HERBERT B. LINSCOTT
PHILADELPHIA GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO. PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1905, by Mrs. Herbert B. Linscott Published July, 1905
Thirty articles appearing in this book have been taken from The Ladies' Home Journal, to which the author gratefully acknowledges permission to reprint them.
Bright Ideas for Entertaining
In this game the company may be divided into actors and spectators. The actors are each given a proverb, which they are to act alone in pantomime.
The first player may come into the room where the spectators are waiting, with a sprinkler in one hand and a cup in the other. He begins sprinkling the flowers, then he pours water over them, acting the proverb, It never rains but it pours.
The second actor also brings a cup of water. He repeatedly attempts to drink from the cup, which keeps slipping from his fingers as he brings it near his mouth. There's many a slip between the cup and the lip.
The third brings in a purse containing brass buttons, which he takes out and counts over deliberately. Then he looks at them closely, and with seeming distrust, finally flinging them from him in a rage. All is not gold that glitters.