Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 February 1910 — For The Children [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For The Children

String Names. It was a rainy, gray day, and the children had tried and given up all their usual games. Finally Mary, who had been playing with a piece of fishline that Dick had dropped from his pocket, exclaimed, “Oh, see what I’ve discovered all by myself!” The children, Tommy, Sarah and Dick, gathered round her quickly. She sat at the dining-room table with the twine in her hand. “O dear, I’m afraid I haven’t enough!” she said, as the others pressed near: “Tommy, do run and get the ball of string.” When that was brought, she cut several lengths of it, each about a yard long. Then she made some short pieces, an inch Or so long. The children kept begging her to tell them what she was going to do, but she smiled and said nothing. At last the string was prepared. “Dick,” she said, “you are the littlest, how do you spell your name?” “D-i-c-k,” he said, slowly and wonderingly. She took one of the pieces of string and very deftly, on the surface of the table, made it into the shape of his name in handwriting. For the dot of the letter “I” she took one of the short pieces, doubled it up into a ball and put it over the letter. The children were delighted, and spent the rest of the afternoon, till the table had to be cleared for supper, in forming their names, and even making whole sentences. The last thing they wrote was “Mary,” in honor of the inventor of this new game. Youth’s Companion. Personation*. * To play this game the company seat themselves in a circle, whilst one o! the players begins to describe some person with whom most of the other players are familiar, and continues until one or' other of the company is able to guess from the description who the person may be. The one guessing correctly then proceeds to describe seme one. If, however, the company is unable to make a correct guess the player goes on until some one is successful. *‘\