Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Gam* of SapL A popular game which taxes one’s memory is that one known as General Sapt. Whoever plays this game successfully deserves a prize. Suppose you plan to play it at your next party. Act as leader yourself. Tell all the other players to watch you carefully, as they will be expected to do as you have done. You raise your glass (of water), bolding it between your thumb and forefinger, and say, "Here’s to the health of General Sapt” Take a sip and set the glass upon the table with quite a resounding tap on the wood: stroke one side of your upper lip with the forefinger of your >ight hand, then the other side with the forefinger of the left hand; rap on the table with each forefinger (first the right one, then the left one); stamp on the floor with each foot (right one first); bow once, rise, then sit down again. Everybody must tbed try to Imitate the movements you have made. The least error puts a player out of the game. Next, go through your original performance again, but do every item of it twice. After that thrice, then four times; five times and until only one player is left to capture the prize. The game grows very exciting toward the end when narrowed down to two or three lynx eyed players watching each other for the least error. How, When and Where. One of the company goes out of the room while the others choose a word to be guessed, one with two or three different meanings being the best We will suppose that the word “spring” has been thought of. When the person who is outside the room is recalled he or she asks each one in succession, “How do you like it?” The answers may be “Dry” (meaning the season), “Cold and clear” (a spring of water), “Strong” (a watch spring) and “High” (a jump). The next question is, “When do you like it?’ The answers may be: “When I am In the country.” “'When I am thirsty.” “When my watch Is broken.” The next question Is, “Where do you like it?” and the answers may be: “Anywhere and everywhere.” “In hot weather.” “In the clock.” The game is to try and guess the word after any of the answers, and If right the player last questioned takes the place of the one who Is guessing; if wrong the questioner must try again.

He Still Believed It.

An old railroad man was'watching the men at work repairing a bridge on a Connecticut railway and ventured to remark that It was too weak to bear a train. The foreman told him sharply to mind his own business and sent him away with a threat to report him. The man went away, but he was so nneasy in his mind that he hurried ‘along the track to flag a train which he knew was shortly due. It had grown quite -dark by this time, and be had no lantern, but as the train came along he stood perilously near the track and with lighted matches made the signals to stop. The engineer and conductor were rather inclined to be angry when they heard his story, but they took him in the cab, went on slowly and when they came to the .bridge found that It had collapsed a few minutes before, injuring several men, including the wise foreinan. An Interesting Game. One of the company leaves the room. Those remaining determine upon some word to be guessed by the absent member. For example, take the word “gray.” Upon being recalled he Is told that the word rhymes with “play,” whereupon be puts his question in the form of a definition of the word he has In mind. The one questioned must In turn guess this word. For Instance, he will ask, “Is It a fairy?” And the answer is, “It Is not fay." Or Is It "To dash water in fine drops?” “It is not spray,” etc., until the word is found. This method of guessing keeps the whole company constantly Interested instead of merely the one questioned and addressed, as each question is really put to all. Words of two syllables may be used, and forfeits may be taken as fines. Why Bhe Was Indignant. A little girl came home flushed with indignation because she had been “kept In” to correct her examples. “Mamma, ril never speak to Jeanie Smith again as long as I live,” she exclaimed. “Why, what has Jeanie done to deserve that?” “Because—well, because I copied all per arithmetic, and every sum of hers was wrong.”

Wall Educated. We were trying ,to teach our little lad, aged five years, to speak well of the absent. At dinner he began to relate a personal encounter between himself and another little boy, and, seeing reproof on our faces, he halted for a minute and then resumed, with a deep sigh, “Well, mamma, Roy Is a real strong boy"—another sigh—“and—he’s got a good education!” Why Tommy Was Good. “Tommy,” said the teacher, “you are a very good boy. You haven’t missed a day at school this term. You never play sick on school days, I know.” “No, ma’am,” returned Tommy. never did that hot once, and I’ll never do It again, because, while I ain’t very fond of school, I like It a great sight better’n I do castor oil.”—Philadelphia Record. , A Riddle. It opens like a barn door And closes Uke a trap. Guess all day. But you can’t guess that . . - * (A corset)