Home Entertaining: Amusements for Every One

HOME ENTERTAINING What To Do and How To Do It

HOME ENTERTAINING
AMUSEMENTS FOR EVERY ONE EDITED BY WILLIAM E. CHENERY
BOSTON LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD CO.

Published, August, 1912 Copyright, 1912, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. All Rights Reserved Home Entertaining Norwood Press Berwick & Smith Co. Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

This collection of games, tricks, and pastimes is the result of many years’ effort to find the most clever and practical diversions and entertainments suitable for the home. Each trick has been tested by the editor, and each sport introduced has received most careful consideration in regard to ease of production, as well as the enjoyment to be gained from it.
As no refined person of any age can find amusement in coarseness, great care has been exercised in presenting only such diversions as are to be welcomed in a refined home circle. The necessity for elaborate apparatus has also been avoided, so that with dullness, difficulty, expense, and ill-taste eliminated, it is felt that this collection will supply a lack which has always existed, as the many who have sought in vain for a bright, safe, and up-to-date book of really feasible entertainments will appreciate.
While this book contains much that is original, especially in descriptive matter and ways of presentation, it has of course been necessary to draw freely from the accumulated mass of tricks and “sells” that have in some form or other come down from unknown times, and are recognized as being the common property of any who take pains to learn them. As a matter of courtesy, due acknowledgement is hereby made to all who have preceded me in this line of work.