What The Stars Foretell
By MARY BLAKE
Witty Kitty
and
THE CHINA MAIL, MAY 5, 1939
Parlour Games Turn
Mental, No More Mad Acrobatics
The whole trend in
games more mental, less acrobatic.
OF
is
You may discover there is insuf- suggestions go unchallenged. The
Fashions in games change £8 ficient time this day to accomplish | desire to dictate what shall a number of things that ought to shall not be done, will make many quickly and as drastically as they be done. Leisurely movements will people unpopular this day, so dodo in hats, Last year, when The greatly impede progress, 80 it not be domineering. Married and Game was the fad of the moment. might. be
well not to indulge in engaged couples, as well as those them. Hasty answers may convey who are hoping soon to see their a man grew quite accustomed to An erroneous impression to the way to become formally betrothed, seeing his chic dinner-partner, with listener. The presentation of prac-will discover, if they behave in an her hair tumbling over her eyes, tical ideas is apt to be greatly undignified manner, that it is a crawling around on the floor, trying appreciated, in view of the fact grievous mistake.
desperately to convey to her team- that the ordinary suggestion ap-
If a woman and May 3 is your mates the idea of a Russian bear: parently will be theoretical. Good and bad influences, in all proba- birthday, your eagerness to please bility, will make it difficult for others is likely to be well rewarded. This year, one sits serenely, every persons to have their business judg-Ambition is apt to make you forget hair in place, thinking deeply ́ment above reproach or their social how to relax and play, and this, in writing poetic impressions of one's
time, will be bad judgment. To get friends. the most out of life it is important that you devote some time to social
Be- activities. You must guard against
your going to extremes, remembering fore you go in to dinner,
you the nome that there is a happy medium that host whispers to
person, whose tends to make a normal manner of of some living a happy one. Never be back-identity you must disclose to your or hints. ward in demanding your rights, for table-mates by acting If you are you might find yourself Just so that you won't be caught imposed upon. Your chief fault, unawares-here are some of in all likelihood, is a love for plan favourites of the moment. ning things a long way in advance; thereby distracting your attention from important daily routine. Through art, acting, singing, sell-
· BATTLE OF THE SEXES. This ing, authorship, social welfare work, or the concert platform, your achieve-game is pretty tense, but not as bel- ments are likely to make you an ligerent as it sounds. The guests are If Love is divided into teams, the men on one important personage.
captain; the the foundation upon which your side, with a woman
it women on the other, with a matrimonial structure is built,
Separating the embattled should withstand the wear of time, captain. as well as any other destructive contestants, the host and hostess sit in the middle of the room, handing force.
out slips of paper on which the questions have been written before- hand, The host and hostess are scorekeepers, too.
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The child born on May 3, is fre- quently inclined to be restless and desires frequent changes of sports and companions. This youngster, when it grows older, is apt to do a great deal of travelling. Children born on this date seem to thrive on excitement.
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The teams alternate in drawing a slip. If no one on your can
the question on the alip, the captain of your opponents asks his team if any one knows the answer, If one of your op- ponents can answer correctly, his team may choose any member of your team (there goes your best man) except the captain captains being sacred cow. If you already have one of their men, they must take him back, before taking one of yours.
IMPRESSIONS,
This can be very revealing. If may disclose a secret passion that some one has felt for you for years, or you may find that, to one whom you have always considered a friend, you are exactly like Suchow Creek in The name of each per-
summer.
son in the room is written on
slip of paper, the slips folded and passed around in a hat. Each
tion of a Swiss watch, meticulously preçise, never in need of repair; œ
tho rather baffling one described subject as a "mixture of Mickey · Mouse and Plato."
At the end, all the compositions: are, collected and read out. The problem is to guess not only the subject of the impression, but also. the author, You are given one. point for each correct guess, and then you go home and brood about you make on your the impression fellow men.
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WHO ARE WE? This is a comfortable game, some strain on your general and historical know- ledge, but, unlike some of the others, no strain on your self-control. You and one of the men leave the room, and the rest of the people think up personalities for you. They usually pick incongruous pairs, like Mahat-- ma Gandhi and Mary Martin or Sigrid Undset and Billy Rose. Then they decide on an equally incongru- · ous locale, and you are called in.
guest draws a name and, on a You discover your identity separate piece of paper, writes an impression, in about fifty words, of the person whose name he has drawn. If you draw your own name, you must put the slip back and
take another.
These impressions must be en tirely indirect; they must give no clue as to sex and should give picture of the personality by draw ing comparisons in art, music, anf- mals, or objects. For example: "This person in food would be a
asking of each guest, in turn: What do you think about this pair- of people being together? What would you say about their being to- gether? What would the newspa- per headlines" "bo? The answer should give plenty of hints, and by combining all the information, in an amazingly short time you know exactly who and where you are meant to be. Then it's a new couple's turn to be in the box.
There is another way play or "In furniture, his | ing this quite the reverse. Yout would «besa. Louis Quinze both know exactly who and where ·
id it's up to the others to