FOR AN EVENING PARTY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7434, 21 June 1902, Page 3

FOR AN EVENING PARTY.

Progressive Games. A society woman z writing in a Home magazine, says: — At this time of the year most of us are , in the very thick of our "parties" and "evenings," "and happy indeed is the hostess who is able to invent some original form of amusement for the friends she desires to entertain. The " Whist Drive " is not quite the favourite it was, and dancing has not yet returned to the height of popularity whicii. is promised for it in the near future, but at present most people are more than willing to spend an evening where progressive games is the fare offered. As might be gathered from the name, various games are _ere provided for the guests' amusement, and as in the whist evenings, " progress " is the order of the day-^-or night. The last "evening" I went to I found all^khuLvof tables set out in the hall, where mine hostess was welcoming her guests, and al-' most immediately on our arrival we settled down to the serious business of the gathering. The first table it was my fate to go to was, I found, reserved for " tiddlewinks," and I immediately set to persuade as many counters as possible to enter the cup. I noted my number by means of coloured pins stuck elegantly into the' long strip of ribbon provided for the purpose, and passed to the corner reserved for whist. Here I played my game, once more marked the points gained, and progressed to the pingpong table, where I did my best to win as many as possible of the prescribed twenty points. Ping-pong finished, I found *' knitting needles and pins" the n^xt game to claim my attention. After that there were; several other card-tables, each with a different game, to be visited; one' had also to fish in bran-tub and fish-pond, and altogetW there was a round of some twenty games to be gone through. The marking by means of the pins proved great fun, because as the various players moved about one was able at a glance to see how they were getting on. Ther usual prizes were given at the .close of the evening's play, and we came away with the comforting knowledge that we had spent a most pleasant time.