Cake Walks

Claudine, you undoubtedly went to one of those progressive schools; you know, they didn't allow you to keep score after tagging up for kickball because some poor loser would feel bad. It must ust have followed the same philosophy for cake giveaways.

Frances Williard had a real cold war attitude about such stuff. If you lost at kickball, the next game you could no longer asked how the ball was rolled to you: 'fast and smooth or slow and bouncy'? It was the pitcher's choice.

And how could you control the cake walk so everyone won? As I recall, you walked around a circle of numbered spots to the accompaniment of music and when it stopped, you won if you were on the magic number, which, only then was pulled from a bag.

And we had 500 or so people at these carnivals, but only 50 cakes.

But I agree about the economics: it was a heck of a lot of trouble to make a few hundred bucks, but lots of fun for the kids.