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  2. AROUSED THE HIKED GIRL.

    "Maria," said Simpkins, as he looked up at the sunlight streaming through the window, "do you suppose the hired g[?]d has got up yet?" Mrs. Simpkins [?]Stened for a moment, and not hearing ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 909 words
  3. GAMES

    There is nothing new under the sun, and truly this applies to games and children's amusements as much as to anything, for do we not hear the same stories told in the ...

    Article : 204 words
  4. SETTLED.

    Advertising man.—"What is that tight in the next room about?" City editor.—"The managing editor and literary editor are having a fight over de word advertisement. One [?] ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 556 words
  5. FAIRY CONFIDENCES.

    One person goes out of the room, and a gentleman of the remaining company must request a lady to say something to him which has to be guessed by the absent player ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. CHRISTMAS HINTS.

    Christmas and cakes and other dainties are synonymous terms in the mind of many, especially the young folk, the majority of whem have an alarming capacity for their ...

    Article : 1,269 words
  7. THE GUESSING BLINDMAN.

    The company sit on chairs in a circle, one person stands in the middle and is blind-folded the seated company must change places, and then stretch out their hands. ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. THE FARMYARD.

    A row of chairs is placed as if for musical chairs—that is, one faces one way, the next the other, and so on; there must be one chair less than the number playing. A leader is ...

    Article : 181 words
  9. NEW VERSION OF BLINDMAN'S BUFF.

    All the players but one are blindfolded, then the one who can see, runs about and torches first one, then the other; the blind-folded ones cause much fun by catching each ...

    Article : 75 words
  10. A TERRIBLE SITUATION.

    As the train emerged from a deep and rocky cut It gilded out upon a long and high trestle work which carried the tracks over two ravines and a swamp. The man who a we all took to be a drum[?]er for a sarsaparilla factory looked ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 716 words
  11. THE PIN RACE.

    Put two rows of pins on the floor, one each side the room, the pins not to be more than six inches apr[?], Two players start together, one to each row. The object is to pick up ...

    Article : 85 words
  12. TWENTY QUESTION GAME.

    This is a game something after the style of Clumps, but two persons go out of the room; the company in the room think of some thing of place connected with some subject agreed ...

    Article : 115 words
  13. THE FAN RACE.

    Each player is furnished with a penny palm-leaf not more than six persons should play at once, and they should arrange themselves in a row at one end of the room. ...

    Article : 84 words
  14. THE POTATO RACE.

    is also amusing. A rather large potato has which is held out in the left hand at arm's length. The [?]acers run from one end of the room to the ...

    Article : 50 words
  15. Noteworthy Sayings.

    All powerful money gives both birth and beauty.—Horace. In this world truth can wait; she's used to it.—Douglas Jerrold. ...

    Article : 299 words
  16. THE ONE SYLLABLE GAME.

    This is a game that is more amusing when tried than one would imagine from hearing of it. Those taking part in it should be seated round a table or in a circle, and a ...

    Article : 236 words
  17. In the Wrong Shop.

    A Parliamentary candidate for one of the Southern Division after most affectionately kissing and praising an assortment of 11 children and much at the ...

    Article : 114 words
  18. Right-Handedness.

    The reason that we use our right hand more dexterously and more naturally than we do our left, is not quite so easy to explain as might be thought. ...

    Article : 276 words
  19. A Brave and Humans Sailor.

    After the battle of Santiago, the officers and men of the Am rican Navy, forcing there boats alongside the blazing Spanish ships, risked their lives freely ...

    Article : 225 words
  20. Bad Temper—a Disease.

    I have been reading recently an article in which the writer gives it as his opinion that a violent or a sulky temper can be cured-like many bodily ...

    Article : 384 words
  21. THE WATCH TRICK.

    For this trick a confederate is required. One of the company undertakes, by some mysterious influence he will oblige one of the persons present to go into a dark room ...

    Article : 292 words
  22. Surgical Operations Needed.

    A British sciential recently in America asked one of the curators at the Smithsonian Institution to initiate him into the American joke, of which he hail heard so much. ...

    Article : 173 words
  23. The Reasons for Right-Handedness.

    People over and over again have advanced reasons why we should use our right hand over out left. The late Sir J. Struthers, Professor of Anatomy in ...

    Article : 310 words
  24. RHYMING ANSWERS.

    A number of slips of paper, of two colours, must be provided, one of each colour being given to each player. A noun is to be written on one and a question on the other; ...

    Article : 132 words
  25. Good-Natured Woman in a Train.

    Directly she got into the train it was obvious that she was methodical, but not fuzzy; for she disposed of her luggage calmly, some in the carriage with her, while ...

    Article : 226 words
  26. THE CHRISTMAS DINNER.

    Roast Sirloin of Beef.—Ingredients: Beef, a little salt. Mode: As a joint cannot be well roasted without a Rood fire, see that it is well made up about three-qurters of an ...

    Article : 1,195 words
  27. THE JEWELLER.

    The gentleman who acts the part of Jeweller whispers into the car of each player the name of the gem he or she has to be known by. Thus wispers ...

    Article : 221 words
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