and the gold
fish globe.
Sides are chosen--usually with the husbands on one "team" and the
wives on the other. The purpose of the game is for the
"husbands', team" to try to drink up all the "It's" liquor before
the "wives' team" can get them to go home.
When the "It" returns with the liquor he pours out a portion for
each player and at a given signal all drink steadily for several
minutes. The "It's" wife then says, "Now--how about a few rubbers
of bridge?" She is immediately elected "team captain" for the
rest of the evening. It is the duty of the "team captain" to
provide cracked ice and water, to get ready the two spare
bedrooms, to hold Wallie Spencer's hand, to keep Eddie Armstrong
from putting his lighted cigaret ends on the piano, and to break
up the party as soon as possible. The game generally ends when
(1) the liquor is all gone, (2) the "It" (or three guests) have
passed "out," (3) Wallie Spencer starts telling about his war
experiences. "Informal" drinking needs, of course, no such
elaborate preparations and can be played anywhere and any time
there is anything to drink. The person who is caught with the
liquor is "It," and the object of the game is to take all the
liquor away from the "It" as soon as possible. In order to avoid
being "It," many players sometimes resort to various low
subterfuges, such as sneaking down alone to the club locker-room
during a dance, but this practise is generally looked upon with
great disfavor--especially by that increasingly large group of
citizens who are unselfishly devoting their lives to the cause of
a "dry America" by consuming all of the present rapidly
diminishing visible supply.
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