Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

How to Give a Birthday Party. Every one has a birthday, so here is a good plan to follow when you give a party on your birthday. First write the invitation neatly and send them oub about two weeks before the party. On the morning of the occasion you should decorate the house with holly* mistletoe, house plants, such as ferns, palms, etc., if your party be in winter; in fall, autumn leaves and chrysanthemums, house plants; In spring and summer, wild flowers. When your friends arrive welcome them and make them acquainted with one another, then lead them Into a sitting room or parlor and give each a chair. You could then play some games. If you have many guests at your party have ice cream, cake, candy, bananas and fruit in summer; in winter have hot chocolate, cake, candy, bonbons and fruit. Give each person a fancy paper napkin as a souvenir of the occasion. Have a large room ready for dancing. Before departing songs and instrumental selections could ba given by your guests.

A Paper Washing. On warm summer mornings when It is too hot to enjoy violent plays and you are looking for something new to do try putting out a lot of paper clothes to dry. The clothes are cut from stiff white, brown or striped paper or any sort of paper which would look like clothes that are being washed. You may cut out any sort of garment that you like, but remember that it must be cut out so that it looks as if the arms were hung up to the line. The clothesline is made of a cord and hung from one small upright post to another. Anything which will stand up will do for the posts which are to hold the lines. When the clothes are pinned up on the line they look very funny, and it is interesting to see how many different sorts of garments you can cut from the paper in this fashion. A Queer Kind of Bank. Old Jacob Zeis, who lived a hermit’s life on a farm in Monroe county. 111., was not seen by his neighbors for a long time, and an investigating farmer feund him in his bed dead and on a table a note saying that he had been taken ill and could not go for a doctor. In the note there was mention of a hoard of money in the cellar of the shanty where he lived. The coroner and several neighbors made a search for the money and found it cunningly hidden. There was an old oak log in a dark corner of the cellar, and in the log were holes so well plugged with original wood that the log looked whole. Under the plugs were found gold coins, and S3OO in ail was taken from the queer bank and turned over to the county authorities.

A Playful Wolf.

Wolves carry off children out on the frontiers of civilization sometimes, but in New York some children turned the thing around and came near carrying off the wolf. He was a big gray wolf, and he had been kept in a private menagerie in the suburb where the children live. Mr. Wolf got out of his cage and ran away and then came upon a group of children playing in the dust Wolves like to play in the dust too. and so this wolf was not at all offended when the children dragged him into their play. They thought that he was a street dog, and he did not tell them what he really was. He let the children pull bis tail and push him about and feed him candy, and be was having a royal good time when his owner came elong and captured him. The Game of Wink. Wink is an amusing game and is generally played as follows: Chairs art placed in a circle; a girl occupies one. and a boy stands behind her chair. Suppose there were sixteen boys pres ent and only fifteen girls, the sixteenth boy would stand behind an empty chair. All the girls must look at the sixteenth boy. The one he winks at must jump up (if she can get away from the person behind her chain and sit In the empty one. Then the boy behind her former chair must wink at some other girl. Old Nursery Rhymes. “Pussy cat, pussy cat. where have you been?’ dates from the reign oi Queen Elizabeth and was a popular rustic song in the old Devon county, where Drake and Raleigh lived. “Boys and Girls. Come Out to Play,” and “Lucy Locket Lost Her Pocket* date from the time of Charles 11., the “merry monarch.” It is not knowx that the rhymes refer to any particular thing or event

Sewing Hindus. Hindu boys have to learn to sew. When they are grown men they must -do all the sewing for the family if it is a poor family, and poor men are hired to do the sewing for the rich families. The Swiftest Flowing River. The fastest flowing river in the world, is the Sutlej, in India. It rises 15,200 feet above the sea and falls 12,000 feet in 180 miles. Letter Enigma. My first ts in pen, but not in write; My second is in blue, but not in white; My third is in zero, but not tn cold; My fourth is the same as my third, you are told; 1 -I , My fifth is in lake, but not in pond; My Sixth ts in love, but not in fond. My whole spells a word That with me you’ll agree When yor have guessed it. Will mean mystery. Answer.—Puzzle. - - r-THmran