Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1908 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Gama es Stock Exchange. This game requires a whole pack of cards and can be played by any number of persons, who sit in a circle. The leader, taking the cards in hie hand, gives them out one by one to hie left hand neighbor, calling out the name of each card as he does so three times in quick succession. His neighbor as he receives them bands them to the next player, calling out their names in like manner. And each one as he receives the card calls out the name three times as he passes it on. The noise and confusion increase with each card handed out and are supposed to resemble the sounds beard In the Stock Exchange when the brokers are calling the names of the stocks they wish to sell or buy. If the circle is not large enough for the whole pack to go around, the player at the right of the dealer holds the cards as they reach him instead of passing them. Thus the noise grows gradually less and finally subsides when all the cards have gone around. Sometimes when a knave appears, Instead of naming it, the holder says, “H’m. h’m, h’m,” thus imitating the undertone of conversation, and when an ace is passed the one who passes it cries, “Oh, oh, oh!”

A Queer Dolly. Dot came running in from the garden one day, crying: “Oh, mother, Letty has a clothespin dolly! Will you make me one?” Mamma was always ready to please her pet, so this is how she fashioned the clothespin dolly. First she selected a short clothespin and a quantity of crape paper. For the doll’s skirt she took a strip of paper and plaited it around the neck of the pin, tying it with thread to hold it in place. Then she cut a three cornered piece of some contrasting color of paper for her shawl, and finally she made the bonnet of a folded strip of white tissue paper, bringing the two ends of the paper together, forming a loop. Then she pinned the top beck edges of the loop together and tied it over the head of Miss Clothespin Dolly with a piece of baby ribbon.—Philadelphia Ledger. A City Game. What is the city of learning? University. What is the city of enmity? Animosity. J - What is the city of shrewdness! Sagacity. What is the city of truth? Veracity. What is the city of doubt? Perplexity. What is the city of greed? Voracity. . What is the city of ostentation? Pomposity. What is the city of spring? Elasticity. What is the obstinate city? Pertinacity. What is the city of inclination? Propensity. What is the animated city? Vivacity. What is the plain city? Simplicity.

Queerest of Creature*. The duckbill, or mulligong, of Australia is one of earth’s queerest creatures. It is essentially an aquatic and burrowing animkl. The beak is well supplied with nerves and appears to be a sensitive organ of touch by which the animal is enabled to feel aa well as smell the insects and*other creatures on which it feeds. The duckbill can run on land and swim in water with equal ease. It is covered with fur, which is thick, soft and readily dried while the animal enjoys good health. The food of the duckbill consists of worms, water insects and little mollusks, which it gathers in its cheek pouches as long as it is engaged in search for food and then quietly eats them when it rests from its labors. Pointer* For Boy*. In a mother’s old scrapbook we recently came across the following choice counsel for To Throw Stones.—Fold each one carefully in a feather bed and give notice to all the neighborhood when and where you are going to pitch it To Carry-Gunpowder In the Pocket —Soak it well in cold water and then writp it up in a cover of oiled silk. To Slide Down the Banister.—Let a surgeon sit upon the lower stair; also carry a pailful of poultice in each of your bands, as you may need it To Cure Creaky Boots orShoes.— Wear them always in going into the pantry to get some of mother’s cakes and pies. Riddle*. If a man bumped bls head on the ceiling, what article of statlonsc/, would be be supplied, with? Celling whacks (sealing wax). What is the difference between a silly woman and a mirror? One speaks without reflection; the other reflects without speaking. What Is the difference between a lady and a postage stamp? One is a female, the other mail fee. Why are two “t’s” like hops? Bo> cause they make beer better. , If a bear went into a linen shaft what would be want? He would want muzzlin’. ■The Word Port. Many persons wonder how we got the word “post” as applied to the malls. It comes from' the Latin poeitus, which means placed. Therefore it is a fixed station. From this it came to mean an established conveyance of letters from one station to another, and the place from which the letters were sent out came to be called the pbstofflce. “Posthaste,” a word used by Shakespeare, means speed in traveling, like that of post or a courier.—Chicago News.