there must be a dish of apples and a box of wooden toothpicks.
With the apples and toothpicks you can ascertain for your guests the nationality of their future mates.
| Fig. 53.—You will marry an American. | Fig. 54.—Your future partner will be English. | Fig. 55.—Your future mate will come from France. |
Give every one an apple and a wooden toothpick. Each player may push the toothpick in any part of the apple; the spot occupied by the toothpick tells the fortune, but the apple must be kept in one position, and on no account turned after the toothpick is once in. When all have inserted the toothpicks each boy and girl in turn must hold up his or her apple that all may see while you read the fortune.
When the toothpick stands straight and erect in the top of the apple, the life partner will be an American ([Fig. 53]); if in the left side of the apple, the mate will be English ([Fig. 54]); in the right side, French ([Fig. 55]), in the back, German; in the front, Italian; sideways at the top of the apple, the mate will be a West Indian; sideways in the right side, the mate will be a Japanese; in the left side, a Russian; in the front, Spanish. When the toothpick breaks the player will not marry.
Fig. 56.—You must prepare a card like this for the Wedding Race.
Now comes the fun of forecasting to learn where the wedding will take place, so prepare for
The Wedding Race