Identifier: thingsworthdoing00bear (find matches)
Title: Things worth doing and how to do them
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Beard, Lina Beard, Adelia B. (Adelia Belle), 1857-1920, joint author
Subjects: Amusements Games
Publisher: New York, Scribner's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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, start off on the race, shuffling alongas fast as possible. The boys have no advantage over the girlsin this game, for it is no easier for one to cover the distance quickly,shuffling along in the large shoes, than for the other, and bothlook equally ridiculous in their absurdly frantic efforts to winthe race. After resting from the shuffle race allow your guests to try theirskill at Hurling the Lance. From the limb of a tree have suspended five or six feet from theground a small wooden hoop, about eighteen inches in diameter,covered like a drumhead with white tissue paper. Provide each player with a round, green, tapering stake, whitetipped and five feet long—the kind used for propping up plants.On the blunt end of each stake, or lance, should be tied streamersof red, white, and blue, which will make streaks of color as theyare sent hurtling through the air. Clear the space on the far side of the hoop that no one maybe hurt by the falling lances, then have each player in turn throw
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A Fourth of July Lawn Frolic 11 his or her lance with the object of piercing the paper and sendingthe lance entirely through the ring. Each player may have threetrials in succession, and unless her lance passes through the hoopat least once she is counted out. There are three rounds and theplayer wins who, at the end, has succeeded most frequently in send-ing her lance through the hoop.Let the farewell be a Burst of Daylight Fireworks. Strings of firecrackers stretched from tree to tree, bunches hiddenunder barrels, harmless torpedoes for your guests to explode, andany other fireworks that do not need darkness for a backgroundmay be used. It is a good idea to make The Balloon Ascension an especial feature of the display. In the early days of our countryIndependence Day was not to be thought of without a balloonascension, and the time-honored custom may be observed, but in anew way. This part of the programme should come as a completesurprise, and all the preparation for it be kept sec

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