It is to laugh

by Edna Geister

Hippity-Hop Potato Race.

There are four couples in this effort, for effort it is. They form two teams, two couples in each team, one couple standing behind the other. Both the man and the lady of the first couple in each team are given a teaspoon with a large potato in it. At a signal from the leader these two first couples hurry down the room to the goal line, and return to give the spoons and the potatoes to the second couples of their teams.

There are two regulations, however, which make it not so easy as it might appear. Every lady takes her partner’s arm and keeps it through the entire race. Under no condition is she to let go. If a contestant should drop his potato, his partner must still keep his arm while he stoops to pick it up. The other regulation is that instead of running or walking to the goal they are to hop on one foot all the way.