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Rh HOME TESTS. Hostess usually prepares a set of Home Tests for each guest, and after the evening's games are over gives each guest a set and tells him (or her)to try it at home that night before retirinr.

1. TWO ROSES. Take two roses with long stems. Name one for yourself and one for your lover. Go to your room without speaking to anyone; kneel beside bed; twine stems of roses together, and repeat following lines, gazing intently on lover's rose:

If your swain is faithful, color of rose will grow darker.

2. TO TEST FRIENDS. To know how any friend feels toward you, do this: Supposing your name to be Katherine Smith, or Frank Carter Parker, write it out in full as shown in Figs, 1 and 2. Under your name write your friend's name, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4. Cancel in both names all similar letters, as shown in Figs. 5 and 6. For the sake of clearness, let us go through the test with the first two names.

K, the first letter in the first name, is not found in "Mary Hallon," so it is left in; A is found in both names, so A is crossed out; T, the next letter, is not found in second name, so it is left in; H is in both names, so it is crossed out; E is left in; R is crossed out; I is left in; N is crossed out; second E is left in; S is left in; second M is crossed out; second I is left in; second T is left in; final H is crossed out. All this canceling gives us Figs. 5 and 6.

Speak aloud one of the following potent words for each cancelled letter: