Prepare a table full of different colored tissue paper, bottles of mucilage and white cards, one for each guest.
The players sit around the table, the hostess gives each a card and announces that each one is to make a flower out of the tissue paper, but as there are no scissors each one must tear his paper and every one knows how hard it is to tear tissue paper. Each one keeps the name of his flower a secret. As they are made they are pasted on the cards. Each card is numbered and when all are done "tearing," the cards are collected and placed on a table for exhibition.
The player guessing the greatest number of flowers correctly receives a prize. The game may be varied, as either animals or vegetables could be torn.
SPEARING PEANUTS.
Fill a cup with peanuts, two of which are blackened with ink on one end.
The guests play one at a time. No. 1 sits down by a table, empties the cup of peanuts in a pile on it and is given a hatpin with which she spears the peanuts one at a time without disturbing the pile, and places them back in the cup. A few minutes is allowed each player; when the time is up, the peanuts in the cup are counted, the blackened ones count ten apiece and the plain ones, one.
Tally is kept for each player and a suitable prize is given to the one who succeeded in securing the largest score.