Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1905 — Stubborn Paper Wad. [ARTICLE]

Stubborn Paper Wad.

Did you ever see a paper wad that is bo stubborn that it will fly in the face of one who tries to compel it to go into the neck of a bottle? The more you try to blow it in the more it leaves the bottle. You can try this with any large bottle and a paper wad or cork small enough to nt very loosely in its neck. Holding the bottle so that it points directly at your mouth and placing the cork in the neck, the harder you blow on the cork for the purpose of driving it into the bottle the more forcibly will the cork rush from its place in the neck. Try thia stunt and see if you can discover what causes the peculiar action of the paper wad. Th* Dutch Wadding. First the ones who are selected to be bride and groom sit down on the floor together, and then the groom chooses some girl to sit in front of him, and the bride chooses some boy to sit in front of her, and so on, the girl choosing a boy to sit in front of her and the boy choosing a girl until all the couples In the room are seated on the floor. j Then every couple has to do whatever the bride and groom do—for instance, if the groom makes faces at the bride or says anything to her, so must every couple do. It is bushels of fun, if the.bride and groom nlay their part well.