American Agriculturist, December 20 , 1924 
A Middle Aged Party Can Be Lots of Fun 
Mrs. E. M. Anderson Tells Some Amusing Games for a Crowd 
O UR Sunday School class had a de¬ 
lightful little party last night, and this 
is the way we did it. The class meets each 
month, and several of the plans apply to 
each meeting, but the special entertain¬ 
ment features do not. The members do 
not entertain in routine, or necessarily at 
all for the class meets by special invita¬ 
tion only, but it is so nicely organized 
and runs itself so perfectly that someone 
is always ready to entertain. A commit¬ 
tee for the purpose furnishes and serves 
the refreshments, and another committee 
prepares the evening's entertainment. 
On this occasion we met about 7:30- 
part of us—and those that arrived in 
time listened to the market Reports, and 
for some time after the company assem¬ 
bled it was entertained by other radio 
features. The class president called the 
meeting to order for a short devotional 
period, after -which the social committee 
took charge. A debate on the question 
"Which is more dangerous, fire or 
water?” was announced, and three men 
Were appointed on each side. Three 
Women were appointed judges, and all 
were supplied with paper and pencils 
with which to tabulate the points made 
in the debate. Among other interesting 
items we learned that water is bad be¬ 
cause in lukewarm state it forms an eme¬ 
tic, and when ice cold is indigestible; 
soda water wastes money and injures the 
stomach; "fire water” is notoriously bad; 
water caused the Johnstown flood; in 
case of fire the water used as an extin¬ 
guisher is very harmful, and water once 
drowned the world. Fire is bad because 
when swallowed it, too, is injurious to 
the stomach; close contact with it is also 
bad for any part of the body; the Chi¬ 
cago fire was worse than the Johnstown 
flood; and the whole world is eventually 
to be destroyed by fire. I believe it was 
decided that what is already accomplish¬ 
ed is more certain than any promise, so 
supposedly water is more dangerous; it 
has destroyed the world once. 
An Alphabet Game. 
By that time we had laughed till we 
were tired, so pencils and paper were 
again distributed, this time with a list 
of articles to be named from one, or 
sometimes two, letters of the alphabet. 
Something to drink (T). Name of a 
On Christmas Day 
WOULDN’T be a minister 
Or lawyer grave and .sinister. 
I wouldn’t be a soldier or 
A sailor or a tailor, for 
I’d rather be a merchant man, on Christ¬ 
mas Day. 
Not wealth for me increasingly 
Or even play unceasingly, 
I’d buy just dolls and toys to give away; 
To every boy that sighed for them 
To every girl that cried for them, 
And so I’d have a perfect Christmas 
Day. 
—L. M. Thornton. 
common bird (J). One of the human or¬ 
gans (I). Name of a creeping plant 
(IV). What is jealousy? (N. V.) Name 
of a kind of a pepper (K.N.) What is it to 
surpass (X. L.) A high school composi¬ 
tion (S. A.) Condition of winter pave¬ 
ment (I.C.) 
After guessing these things, we were 
given a list of Bible questions covering 
the work of the Sunday School quarter 
up to date. The entertainment closed 
with a “spelling bee,” consisting of com¬ 
mon words, none very long, but spelled 
and pronounced backwards. 
"Seeing Nellie Home.” 
Lunch consisted of warm sugar served 
with a dish of snow for wax, pickles and 
saltines. I’m not sure, but the most en¬ 
joyable part of tlie evening was the ride 
home, it was so unique and unusual in 
these modern times—a real old-fashion¬ 
ed sleighride with bobs packed full and 
we all went to the end of the trip with 
those who lived farthest away, and rode 
back to our own homes, and were dis¬ 
tributed a few at a time, as we used to do 
twenty years ago. Everyone was hilar¬ 
iously happy and we went to bed tired, 
but satisfied about 12 : 15 . 
Our plans are so simple and easily car¬ 
ried out that no one is at all overburden¬ 
ed, and anyone can organize a similar 
crowd with perfect success. The mem¬ 
bers are supposedly married people be¬ 
tween the ages of 25 and 40 , but some 
are older, some are younger and not all 
are married.—Mrs. E. M. Anderson. 
American Agriculturist Cross Word Puzzle Number. 4 
F IVE *even letter words in No. 4I 
Not so easy, but, then, not so hard I 
Read the lists of definitions before you 
•tart to write in your words. You can 
pick out the certainties that way and 
they will help you with the harder ones. 
Almost all the words are used in con¬ 
nection with the farm or the farm home. 
Remember that each word must com¬ 
pletely fill a bar of white spaces, as black 
©nes mark the beginning and the end of 
yrords. Remember, too, that words must 
*make sense” both ways. Every num¬ 
bered block starts a word; the defini¬ 
tions are in the list under the same num¬ 
ber. Some go across, some down; a few 
blocks start a w r ord in each direction. 
The list is your key to the answers. 
We know that every small boy will 
guess at once. That is No, 32 , across; 
an Indian Tent. As for No. 16 , down— 
The frost is on it! 
There are quite a few two-letter spaces 
to fill, which often means the use of ab¬ 
breviations or initials. In each case, the 
definition states this. 
Do not send your solutions in to us. 
These puzzles are published for your 
amusement, and no prizes are offered for 
answering them. We would like to 
know, though whether you like them or 
not, so if you have a postcard handy, 
drop us a line. 
A new cross-word puzzle, with the so¬ 
lution to No. 4 , next week. The small 
diagram is the answer to No. 3 , printed 
last week. 
Definitions of Words for Puzzle 4 . 
DOWN ACROSS 
1 A sheepfold 
2 Abbr. for pound 
3 Elongated fish 
(PD 
4 Low female voice 
5 Close 
6 A tomb 
7 Suffix used to de¬ 
note more 
8 In that place 
10 Allows 
12 Famous aviators 
14 A vegetable root 
16 A large vegetable 
used for pies 
18 A vegetable green 
20 Entrance through 
a fence 
21 Related to 
23 Before 
24 Female deer 
26 Relating to air 
craft 
27 Abbr. for a liquid 
unit of measure 
28 Note of the scale 
30 Part of the leg 
35 Fruit of the oak 
36 Underneath 
40 Part of the verb 
“to be" 
41 Exist 
42 Near or by 
43 Idle chatter 
45 Autombile 
47 Untruth 
48 Before Christ 
49 Behold 
50 Accomplish 
52 Left end (abbr.) 
53 Abbr. for the 
name of a West¬ 
ern State 
1 A cabbage with 
open curled leaves 
4 A beast of burden 
6 A red vegetable 
9 Every school has 
one 
11 A growth on one’s 
head 
13 A garden green 
used for salads 
15 A prefix meaning 
“to” 
17 More fleshy 
18 Senior (abbr.) 
19 Carry 
21 Monkey 
22 Small rug 
23 Limit 
25 A kind of snow 
shoe 
26 Appropriate 
27 Before 
29 Fluid used In 
writing 
31 To extend or 
lengthen 
32 An Indian tent 
33 A girl’s nickname 
34 Abbr. for name of 
a New England 
State 
37 Abbr. for Civil 
Engineer 
38 Upon 
39 A vegetable which 
forms heads 
44 A pronoun (mas¬ 
culine) 
45 Inside of an apple 
46 High 
48 Loud sound from 
a trumpet 
51 What the water 
in the kettle does 
54 A vegetable grow¬ 
ing on stalks 
55 A farm animal 
56 What the farmers 
pull out of the 
garden 
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