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ul. As OME on over, I'm having a party!” What magic words they are! At the sound of them the deb's eyes sparkle, the accountant's shoulders straighten, the housewife begins to bustle and the Let's Play Department scurties around for new games and en- tertainment. Here are a few to put on your list as possible cure-alls for dull moments. Scrambles Prepare a list of ten or twenty words relating to any subject particularly ap- propriate, Then scramble the letters in each word something like this: hatchet, tchahte; arrow, rarwo; Valentine, Letneiavn; cherry, rchrey; Colonial, Loaoinlc. Distribute these lists with pen- cils and let your guests unscramble “em. It will be more fun if you set a time limit, perhaps ten minutes for ten words. Forty-Eights This sounds easy, and it should be easy—to geography teachers. Lay a wa- ger that your guests cannot individually write down the names of the forty-eight States in the United States in fifteen minutes. They'll think it's easy and then stew when they only get forty- two or forty-four. You set the wager. Clairvoyant Time and trial has proved that people as a whole like only one thing better than fooling others. That is, be- ing fooled themselves. It's easy to do, and here's one way of doing it. Pass out pa- per and pencils and ask each guest to think of a name which he writes on his slip of paper. The papers are then folded carefully and collected. If you are acting as clairvoyant you must tell what has been written on each slip of paper, sup- posedly without looking, of course. This is done with the help of a confederate who writes on his slip of paper a word you have decided up- on. Make sure that you have put this slip of paper on the bottom of the pile. 40 LET’S PLAY By Dorothy Hoffman Announce this word first, however, and when your confederate verifies it, open the top slip which you pretend has had that word written on it and slip it into your pocket. This slip of paper will have given you another word, which you an- nounce next, and so on down through the pile. With a little practice you'll be able to pull the wool over their eyes with the greatest of ease. Latin Leaders This is an absolutely fool-proof card trick which will enable you to pick out any two cards which another person has in mind if it is followed out to the letter. Take twenty cards and lay them out face up in piles, any two cards to a pile. Give your victim a chance to get one of these piles in mind and then pick up the piles, one on top of the other in any order you wish. Essential to the game are the four Latin words, mutus, dedit, nomen and cocis. You must next lay out the cards as follows: first the two m’s which appear in these four words, next the two u's, next the two t's, etc., so that you will have four rows, . yes, spaghetti! ee each representing a word, as: MUTUS DEDIT NOMEN cocis Your m's will be placed first in the first row and third in the third row, the u's second and fourth in the first row, fete. When you have laid out the cards in this order, ask which horizontal row or two rows contain the two cards which the other person is keeping in mind. The cards representing the same letter in the row or two rows he indicates, will be the cards which he has chosen. If you make a mistake the first time, just re- member the old motto and try, try again. Hints to Hostesses For February parties, when the snow flies outside and appetites are sharp, there's no more satisfying dish than that gift from the sunny shores of Italy— But don’t think that you can get away with a hastily pre- pared, casually thrown-together concoc- tion. First and foremost, the secret of good spaghetti lies in the sauce and here's a really authentic rec- ipe straight from an old Italian chef: 1 small onion 1 small clove garlic 4 tablespoons olive oil 1 small can tomatoes 1 can tomato paste 1 pinch pepper ¥5 teaspoon salt Fry the sliced onion and garlic in the oil over a low flame until brown. Add the strained tomatoes and the tomato paste slowly, keep- ing the flame low and stir- ring until the mixture be- gins to thicken. If necessary add a little more oil. When the mixture starts to thicken, add two paste cans of water. Cook over a low flame for an hour to an hour and a ouarter. When two-thirds done, add salt and pepper. And important, don't cook your spaghetti too long. It should not be soft. Place it in boiling water to which salt has been added and cook for fifteen minutes. Strain well before serving. Incidentally, your guests will have more fun if you don’t comicbooks.com