Popular pastimes for amusement and instruction : being a standard work on games, plays, magic, and natural phenomena suitable for all occasions : containing parlor games, charming tableaux, tricks of magic, charades and conundrums, curious puzzles, phrenology and mind reading, palmistry or how to read the hand, humorous and pathetic recitations, dialogues, etc., etc. : including the delightful art of entertaining, the whole forming a charming treasury of pastimes for the home, public schools and academies, lodges, social gatherings, Sunday schools, etc., etc. (1901)
Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909, Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC · Philadelphia : National Publishing Co. · leaf 37
t his cheeks,imitating the acting of a horn blower;another the piano, and strums with liishands upon his knees ; another the harp,taking a chair or any other suitable p^eceof furniture to play on ; and so on throuj^lias many instruments as there are per-formers. Each player must imitate the… … PARLOR be performing. The spectacle which isthen presented by this orchestra of imagin-ary musicians, all playing with vim, isirresistibly ludicrous, and renders thegravity which is prescribed on pain of for-feit a sheer impossibility. In the middleof the circle the conductor takes his…
Amusements · Recitations
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