HOME ENTERTAINING
What To Do and How To Do It
HOME ENTERTAINING
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ENTERTAINING
ENTERTAINING
AMUSEMENTS FOR EVERY ONE
EDITED BY
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.
Copyright, 1912, by Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
All Rights Reserved
Home Entertaining
Norwood Press
Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
PREFACE
This collection of games, tricks, and pastimesis the result of many years’ effort to findthe most clever and practical diversions andentertainments suitable for the home. Eachtrick has been tested by the editor, and eachsport introduced has received most carefulconsideration in regard to ease of production,as well as the enjoyment to be gained from it.
As no refined person of any age can findamusement in coarseness, great care has beenexercised in presenting only such diversionsas are to be welcomed in a refined home circle.The necessity for elaborate apparatus has alsobeen avoided, so that with dullness, difficulty,expense, and ill-taste eliminated, it is felt thatthis collection will supply a lack which hasalways existed, as the many who have soughtin vain for a bright, safe, and up-to-date book[vi]of really feasible entertainments will appreciate.
While this book contains much that is original,especially in descriptive matter and waysof presentation, it has of course been necessaryto draw freely from the accumulated mass oftricks and “sells” that have in some form orother come down from unknown times, and arerecognized as being the common property ofany who take pains to learn them. As a matterof courtesy, due acknowledgement is herebymade to all who have preceded me in this lineof work.
A word of general advice to the amateurentertainer may be in order. Never tell thecompany what you are about to do, unless thevery nature of a trick demands that its outcomebe stated in advance. In this case, do it asguardedly as possible. If you state that youare to perform a certain trick, you therebygreatly increase the chance of detection, asthe spectators will know what to look for, andin that way will more readily arrive at the true[vii]method of bringing about the results. Do notallow yourself to be persuaded into performinga trick twice in an evening. With the eleme
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