Choose all your players if you can beforehand, so as to have each one
select his and her color. As far as possible, wear as much of that
color, _putting away all other colors_, on dress, in button-hole of
coat, or scarf around in Highland fashion on the boys' coats, and be
sure to tie a bright bow of ribbon of same color on stem of pipe. A
player can decorate himself or herself in any way he or she chooses.
Variety makes the game all the more brilliant. A cap trimmed with one's
color is always pretty for the girls, and toques or soldier caps for
the boys.
Dissolve a quarter of an ounce of Castile or oil soap cut up in small
pieces, in three quarters of a pint of water, and boil for two or three
minutes; then add five ounces of glycerine. When cold, this fluid will
produce the best and most lasting bubbles that can be blown.
Now make your soap-bubbles in a big bowl, and choose your sides, an
equal number on each, and range them opposite each other, and begin.
The side that can make and keep unbroken the largest number of bubbles,
is the winner. To keep tally, one of the party must be chosen as judge.
You will have plenty of sport. I wish some of you would write me all
about your fun.