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When Mother Lets Us Give a Party / A book that tells little folk how best to entertain and amuse their little friends

Chapter 60: FEATHERS
By Elsie Duncan Yale
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A practical, illustrated handbook for children that explains how to plan and host simple parties with little or no help from adults. It covers invitations, assembling supplies and dress-up items, tableware and decorations, and recipes for easy refreshments, then provides dozens of themed programs—sandwich and candy pulls, sewing bees, doll entertainments, holiday and seasonal teas, indoor picnics, and culturally inspired gatherings—plus games, songs, and small take-home favors. Emphasis is on orderly preparation, tidy cleanup, and cheerful, creative presentation so young hosts can entertain and amuse their friends independently.

FEATHERS

This is a game in which you have to “pay attention,” and perhaps you have played it at school. You must all sit in a circle and let your hands hang down from the wrists. The leader of this game begins, “Cats have feathers, dogs have feathers, rabbits have feathers, geese have feathers.” The minute he names something that really has feathers, you must all raise your hands and wave them. Whoever doesn’t do this must pay a forfeit. As the leader must speak very, very quickly, it is easy to be “caught napping.”

Transcriber’s Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired. About a third of the way through the book, the printer started using small-capitals on the first word of each chapter. (Page 30—AN AFTERNOON IN HOLLAND) To make the layout consistent, small-capitals have been added to the initial chapters as well. As usual, small-capitals will appear as ALL-CAPITALS in the plain text version.

Page 7, “you” changed to “your” (Now when your friends)

Pages 32-34, text uses “kimono” in the poem, but “kimona” twice in the chapter text. Both were retained as printed.

Page 57, “inviations” changed to “invitations” (invitations right away)