Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 May 1911 — For the Children [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For the Children

Father Penguin, Who Li vos In London** Zoo.

Not long ago,, a pair of penguins at the London zoo became the parents of a baby penguin. Penguins are seldom seen in captivity, so the advent of the baby was a matter of great interest to naturalists and the public generally. The penguin’s home is in be southern hemisphere, ami they lire amid the ice. The wings have mfly rudimentary quills and are used as paddles. The young are bom covered with down, but are very helpless and require to be teuded for a long period in the nest. The food of pragfuus consists exclusively of fish, which the birds capture beneath the surface by their agility in swimming and diving, when their paddle-like wings serve them to good purpose. So thoroughly at home are they in the water that they at first glance are often mistakes for dolphins or porpoises. Sequels to "Mother Goose." A rhyming game with plenty of chances for fun in it is here described. Before your guests arrive take as many sheets of paper as there are to be guests. At the top of each sheet write the last stanza of a nursery rhyme, a different one on each paper—for example: When she got there The cupboard was bare. And so the poor dog had none. You will probably need a copy of "Mother Goose” to refer to. When the guests have arrived a pencil and one of the papers with a verse at the top are given to each, and they are told that the point of the game is to write a sequel to the notary thyme each will find on his paper, the time allotted being half an hour. When time is up the papers are collected and the

verses read aloud. A prize for the hast rhyme may be given by a committee on awards, choeen from among the players. Here is an example: The dog was distressed. Had a pain In hla cheat Because of his hunger and thirst He howled out his woes. Then turned up hi* toe*. Disappointment his poor heart had buret. Remarkable Fish. , The curiously named trigger fish are plentiful in Japanese waters. They are of the balistes genus, and their popular name is derived from the trig-ger-like peculiarity of the second spine of the dorsal fin. When the fin is erected the first ray. ©r spine, which is very thick and strong, maintains its elevated position so firmly that it cannot be pressed down by any degree of force; but if the second spine Is pressed the first immediately falls down with a spring, like the hammer of a gunlock when the trigger is pulled. These fish are marked in a striking manner, some of them being very richly colored—ashen gray, blue and gold. A Boy's Queer Tumble. Lloyd Skinner climbed up the stone fhce of the dam at Electric lake, in New Jersey, and when he had reached the top he fell down to the bottom. This la a bad habit that some boys can never break themselves of. Lloyd did more than fall. As he passed a Jugged rock his coat caught, and it was taken off his back as neatly as if somebody had tried to hold him op by the ends of the sleeves. By the time he reached the end of his fall he had lost a shoe as well. In return for these losses he received a large black and bine bruise on bis back, but otherwise his thirty foot tumble did not do him much harm. A Water Trick. Fold your napkin into the form of a cravat and request some one of the company to fill up your glass with water and place it on your napkin; cover your glass with a hollow plate; cover the plate with the two ends of the napkin In such a fashion that the glass will be tightly pressed against the plate, and turn the whole upside down. Tt is now easy to drink the liquid, which comes down gently into the plate, and brace you can readily wager to drink a glass of water without touching your glass with your bands or mouth. - •+■ 7 Versatile. T aee you've got a new mule, Mose.” said the colonel. “JJow does he “"Daed, suh,” replied Uncle Mose, "dis mule he done wuck bofe ways." “Both wayar Tea, suh He kin kick des es well wtf Us front laiga as his back ones."