are made to represent a play upon a word or words by portraying some
feature which vividly brings such word or words to the mind.

Here is a popular one: Send one-half the company out of the room, into
another which may be separated by double doors; portieres are best for
the purpose. The party in the inner room think of some word which can
be represented entire, in pantomime or tableau, and proceed to enact
it. After they have made up, the door opens, and discloses half a dozen
girls standing in a line, while one of the acting party announces that
this striking tableau represents the name of a famous orator. The
others failing to guess are told that Cicero (Sissy-row) is the orator
represented.

Again, just as the clock strikes ten, the doors opening reveal a lady
eating an apple or any convenient edible, while a gentleman who stands
near points to the clock and then at her. This being correctly guessed
to represent "attenuate" (at ten you ate), the other side goes from
the room and the previous performers become the audience.

There are a host of words which with a little ingenuity may be turned
to account. For example:

Ingratiate. (In gray she ate.) Catering. (Kate. Her ring.) Hero. (He
row.) Tennessee. (Ten, I see.) The following are also good charade
words: Knighthood, penitent, looking-glass, hornpipe, necklace,
indolent, lighthouse, Hamlet, pantry, phantom, windfall, sweepstake,
sackcloth, antidote, antimony, pearl powder, kingfisher, football,
housekeeping, infancy, snowball, definite, bowstring, carpet, Sunday,
Shylock, earwig, matrimony, cowhiding, welcome, friendship,
horsemanship, coltsfoot, bridegroom, housemaid, curl-papers, crumpet.