måndag 12 mars 2012

Another Book Title Tea

Afternoon Dresses for Tea, 
Fashion Plate from 'Art Gout 
Beaute' Magazine, 1924

Maybe you’ll find this book title tea less tricky than the previous — and more fun. 

A Book Title Tea. 2.

This is an original entertainment for a few friends. Have amusing pen and ink sketches handed around together with a small note book and pencil for each guest. Explain that each sketch is supposed to represent some well-known book and each guest is given an opportunity to put on his or her thinking cap and name the volume in his note book and pass the sketch on. This novel game affords no end of mirth and enjoyment and at a given time the hostess looks over the books and corrects them.

The House of Seven Gables is very simple and easy to guess, it being simply a rough sketch of a house with seven gables.

An Old-Fashioned Girl is represented by a girl of ye olden time in simple and quaint costume with a school bag on her arm.

A small snow covered house is enough to suggest "Snow Bound" to many of the guests. (A favorite of mine)

The Lady and the Tiger ought not to puzzle anyone, it is a simple sketch of a lady's head in one corner and a tiger in the other. (“The Lady, or theTiger”, most probably)

On one card appears 15th of March, which seems more baffling than all the others. It proves to be "Middlemarch."

A large letter A in vivid red of course represents "A Scarlet Letter." (I think it should be “The Scarlet Letter”)

"Helen's Babies" is a sketch of two chubby boys in night robes.

"Heavenly Twins" is represented by twin stars in the heavens.

"Darkest Africa" needs nothing but the face of a darkey boy with mouth stretched from ear to ear.

One of the sketches is a moonlight scene with ships going in opposite directions and is easily guessed to represent "Ships that Pass in the Night."

Anyone with originality can devise many other amusing and more difficult sketches. Prizes might be given to the one who guesses the largest number correctly.

4 kommentarer:

  1. I'm just imagining how one would do this with more recent books, perhaps The Elegance of the Hedgehog.I'm imagining the red dress and hat in the picture above on a rather tall hedgehog.....The mind boggles.

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    1. Kristi,
      I'd fail this one too if you did it with recent books - I'm about a hundred years behind with my reading, and I'm afraid I never catch up!
      But I like the idea.
      Margaretha

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  2. But how nice that one never need fear running out of new good books to read!

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    1. Kristi,
      It's such a comforting thought that there always will be more books to read and more things to learn.
      Margaretha

      Radera