Games are meant to amuse, but in addition to amusing, a good game, played in the right spirit, may have great educational value. Now, this is distinctly a book of games and amusements. There are games for indoors, scores of them, while there are other scores that can be enjoyed only in the open. When young folks, and older folks, too, for that matter, meet for a pleasant evening, it is rather depressing to have them sit solemnly on stiff chairs in the company room and stare helplessly at one another, like folks awaiting a funeral service. Now, if there is present, and there usually is, a bright girl, who knows the games in this book, and she starts in to "get the ball arolling," all will soon be enjoying themselves better than if they were watching a three-ring circus. And then the volleys of wholesome laughter that will roll out--why, they will be better for the digestion than all the medicines of all the doctors. It will be noticed that some of the outdoor games, and others devised for indoors, require some apparatus, like tennis and croquet, or back-gammon boards and magic lanterns, but the majority need only the company, and--let it be added--the disposition to have a good time. CONTENTS HOUSEHOLD GAMES AND AMUSEMENTS GOING SHOPPING LIGHTING THE CANDLE HIT OR MISS CROSS QUESTIONS THE GAME OF RHYMES THE MOST IMPROBABLE STORY ANIMATED ART GUESSING CHARACTERS WHO IS MY NEIGHBOR? TONGUE-TWISTERS--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS BUTTON, BUTTON FRENCH RHYMES CONSEQUENCES ANT AND CRICKET A SPOONFUL OF FUN WHAT IS MY THOUGHT LIKE? BIOGRAPHY NICKNAMES OF CITIES HOW, WHEN AND WHERE MY GRANDFATHER'S TRUNK--ANY NUMBER OF PLAYERS LOCATION PREDICAMENTS PROGRESSIVE PUZZLES MIRTH CRAMBO AUCTION BEAST, BIRD OR FISH THE ROTATION OF THE GLOBE ADVICE WORDS FLAGS OF ALL NATIONS ANOTHER GAME OF WORDS GRAMMATICAL GAME MENAGERIE PRINCE OF INDIA EXCHANGE HUNT THE RING SHADOW BLUFF GUESSING EYES AND NOSES THE TAILLESS DONKEY THROWING THE HANDKERCHIEF MAGIC MUSIC CUSHION DANCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS ANIMAL BLINDMAN'S BLUFFA lot more....