Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1911 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

Warning—A Jolly Game. ■ This is a fine game. Any number of boys can play it, one of whom is called the “cock,” while the others are called “chickens.” “Loose bounds'* are made near a wall or fence, about four feet wide and twelve feet long. The cock takes his place within the bounds; the chickens stand about In various parts of the playground. The cock claps his hands together and cries: ■ ” ,• Warning once! Warning twice! A bushel of wheat, a bushel of rye.

When t|ie cock crows out Jump I! ne then crows and, keeping his bands still clasped before him, runs after the other players. When he touches one he and the player so touched immediately make for the bounds. The other players try to capture them before they get back, and if they succeed they are privileged to get on the backs of the cock and the chick and ride home. The cock and his chick then come forth again, hand in hand, and try to touch some other of the players. As soon as they do this they loose hands, and they and the player now touched run to the bounds as before, while the others try to catch them and secure a ride. T!je three now come out in the same man ner If while trying to touch the other boys the cock and his chicks loose bends before they have touched any one they may be ridden immediately if they are caught before reaching bounds.

Hunting the Thimble. Last spring Mrs. Albert Tomlin of Atlantic City, X. J., went to visit her father and mother, who. live on a farm near Tuekerton. and one day the chickens got into the kitchen garden. She was sewing, but she ran to chase them out. and when she had got the last chicken where it should be she found that her silver thimble was lost. She hunted all through the garden, but she could not find it.

That is chapter 1. Chapter 2 opens in the winter time, and Mrs. Tomlin is seen making pumpkin pies. The pumpkin that she used in this chapter of the story had been sent to her from her father’s, farm. She cut one of them open, and as the (pieces fell apart out dropped a silver thimble. It was the one she had lost She thought that the fairies must have been at work, but after awbile she came to the conclusion that the thimble had fallen from her finger into a pumpkin blossom as she chased the chickens and that the pumpkin had grown around it. —Chicago News.

An Amusing Trick. [. You l>egin by declaring that if any one will write something on paper you will undertake to say what there is upon it. Should any one take you. tell him, when he has written something on a piece of paper, to roll it up small and hold the paper straight up in his hand and after making him hold it up a number of different ways say, “Now place the paper on the floor in the middle of the room and, in order that I may not have the chance of lifting it up in the ieast, place both your feet upon it: I will then proceed to take up a candle, a stick or anything else you please and inform you at once what is on the paper.” After going through all sorts of maneuvers to mislead the spectators and keep alive their curiosity you finally turn to the gentleman who is standing with both feet on the paper, remarking: “I have undertaken to state what was upon that piece of paper. You are upon it!” With many a hearty laugh you will be declared the winner of the bet

The Self Balanced Pail. You lay a stick across the table, letting one third of it project over the edge, and you undertake to hang a pail of water on it without either fastening the stick on the table or letting the pail rest on any support, and this feat the laws of gravitation will enable you literally to accomplish. You take a pail of water and hang it by the handle upon the projecting end of the stick in such a manner that the handle may rest on it in an inclined position, with the middle of the pail within the edge of the table. That it may be fixed in this situation place another stick with one of its ends resting against the side at the bottom of the pail and its other end against the first stick, where there should be a nptch tb retain it. By these means the pail will remain fixed in that situation without being able to incline to either side, nor can the stick slide along the table or move along its edge without raising the center of gravity of the pail and the water it contains. Duck Stone. This game may be played by any number. A large stone is selected and placed on a particular spot, and the players first “pink for duck,” which they do by throwing their stones up to the mark. The one whose stone is farthest from it becomes “duck.” The duck places his stone on the large one, while the rest of the players return to the “bounds.” Each one pitches his stone at that of the duck, endeavoring to knock it off. If any one succeeds in doing this duck must replace it, while the throwers pidk up their stones and run to bounds., When duck has replied his stone he runs after any of the other players, and if he manages toll touch one of them that one becomes duck. Wake Up! The baby is waking, , 1 The muQns are baking. The kettle's beginning to steam. The birdies are singing. The school bell Is ringing. " r • And pussle cat’s drinking some cream.