Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 117, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1910 — The Thread Game. [ARTICLE]

The Thread Game.

Some rainy day when you are shut up in the house try what is called the thread game. The thread used is a piece of red worsted or cotton, twelve or fourteen inches long, the ends fastened together with as small a knot as possible. Then saturate it'’with water, place it on a damp slate, and with a pencil you can push the moist thread into all sorts of forms, and make pictures of leaves, fruits, flowers, stars, furniture, and bo forth. For instance, place the wet thread on the slate so that it forms a circle; then if you push the top of the circle in toward the middle, you have a heart-shaped cooky. If you push the top down a little farther toward the middle, you will have a bean, and by pushing the lower half of the circle upward to the middle, papa’s' eye-glasses will appear. Then by pushing in the right and left sides similarly, you get a pretty four-petaled flower. There is no end to the figures thus made, for the slightest push of the pencil changes the shape, and we have a soldier cap, a Christmas stocking, a knife.-fork or -spoon. —As you grow more skilful and observe more closely the outline of objects about you, you may be able to make a thread picture of your dog, or the kitty as she sits on the rug.—Youth's Companion.