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As it is nutty party, do not forget to include a walnut with a nut basket, a nutty costume with a nutty name. How exciting will the party be with all these nutty stuff?

Friday afternoon arrived and so did the guests, one dressed in Mother's long dress, one wearing a big hat and long earrings, and others in whatever strange apparel appealed to them as a Nutty Costume.

Sally met the girls at the door with a nut basket containing green and white badges about the size and shape of a big walnut shell. Each shell bore the name of a nut such as Wal, Hickory, Beech, Pecan, Hazel, Butter, Brazil, Cashew, Filbert, and Chest. The girl drawing the first green shell became the Head Nut for the Greens'the first girl taking a white shell became Head Nut for the Whites. The girls then pinned the nutty names on themselves and answered to those names for the evening. Of course Chest and Butter came in for quite a ribbing.

Even girls like to use their muscles now and then and show their strength, so for a Relay scaled to her living room Sally had a contest to discover the nuttiest team. She stretched a piece of tape outab eight feet long on the floor. First the Head Nuts from each team stood on the line facing each other. Each girl stood with both feet on the line, with heel and toe touching the line. Each contestant clasped the right hand of her opponent. Then by pulling, each tried to make the other player lose her balance without losing her own. The one who stepped off the line first lost a point. The one who stayed on the line won a point for her team. If both stepped off at the same time they started over again. They continued this relay until each girl had a turn. Then the Head Nuts added up the points and announced the winning team.

Next Sally had a "Living Room Balloon Race." The girls of each team sat in a row on the floor, one directly back of the other, so that the two teams made two parallel rows. The Greens were handed a green balloon and the Whites a white one. At a signal the Head Nut in each row passed the balloon from the palm of her right hand to the palm of the right hand of the person behind her, who in turn followed suit and so on down the line. The last girl transferred the balloon to her left hand and passed it up the line again, this time by the left hand. At no time could the player touch the balloon with her free hand. If it fell off, the player behind picked it up with both hands and passed it on with one hand. The first team to return the balloon to the Head Nut won and was awarded twenty-five points.

Top of this game comes when each player tried to make the other player lose her balance without losing her own in the attempt of trying losing balance of others and maintaining own balance, this situation makes all the girls burst out with loud laugh.