It is now snowy and cold outside, and a good time to go through things and get rid of them. Of course, when you go through things there is no telling what the result will be.
Over the years I've collected vintage cookbooks, and other books on entertaining. Yesterday I came across this book:
The book was published in 1898 by the United Society of Christian Endeavor and the eighty ideas for entertaining include everything from a "Temperance Talking Party" to an "Evening With the Fairies" to a "Bean Social."
In our current political scene much is being made of the concept of "Nation," and one of the "pleasant evenings" in the book is for "An International Social." A contest was suggested called "A Tour of Nations" whereby each player gets a clue as to the meaning of the correct word to which the word "nation" is the end of the word. Here are the clues and the answers. Perhaps you'll have an election night party for our next election and will be able to use these to keep your guests entertained during the long watch for voter results.
1. Nation from which we start: GERMINATION
2. Actors' nation: IMPERSONATION
3. Nation for criminals: CONDEMNATION
4. Murderers' nation: ASSASSINATION
5. Nation for astonished people: CONSTERNATION
6. Nation for rulers: DOMINATION
7. Nation for pests: EXTERMINATION
8. Nation for their subjects: SUBORDINATION
9. Nation provoking disapproval: ABOMINATION
10. Teachers' nation: EXPLANATION
11. Their pupils nation: EXAMINATION
12. The rebels nation: ALIENATION
13. Nation for labor unions: COMBINATION
14. Nation for unwilling people: DECLINATION
15. Nation for Covid-19 patients: VACCINATION
16. Soothsayers' nation: DIVINATION
17. A floral nation: CARNATION
18. A politicians' nation: NOMINATION
19. Nation for contagious disease: CONTAMINATION
20. Nation for seed-sowers: DISSEMINATION
21. Nation for deer: STAGNATION
22. Nation for the resolute: DETERMINATION
23. Nation for choir boys: INTONATION
24. Nation for a new king: CORONATION
25. Nation for the deluded: HALLUCINATION
26. The poets nation: IMAGINATION
27. Nation for travelers: DESTINATION
28. Nation for those whose official usefulness is ended: RESIGNATION
29. Nation for benevolent people: DONATION
30. A Charming nation: FASCINATION
31. A nation of sects: DENOMINATION
32. The critics' nation: DISCRIMINATION
33. The nation at the climax: CULMINATION
34. The nation we have now reached: TERMINATION
Are you glad of that last one? hehe!!
Enjoy your day, Everyone!
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