THE ELEMENTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 418, 1 September 1928, Page 31

THE ELEMENTS

AN EXCITING GAME The players sit in a circle, and the game is begun by one of them throwing a rolled-up handkerchief to another and at the same time calling out the name of one of the four elements—air, water, earth, or fire. If “Air” is called, the player to whom the handkerchief is thrown must at once mention some creature that flies. Having done so, she throws the handkerchief to someone else, calling perhaps “Earth,” whereupon that player must mention an animal that inhabits the earth. And so on. The same animal must not be mentioned twice, and when “Fire” is called, the. player to whom the handkerchief is thrown must keep silence until she throws it on again. Sometimes each player, after throwing the handkerchief and calling the element, 3 0 as the limit of time in which the answer must be given. If it is longer in coming, or if something is mentioned which has been mentioned before, then a forfeit follows.

FROM A LETTER The rain has stopped now, the sky lias lightened, and somewhere a blackbird is whistling gaily. The world that I look out on now is wet and fresh, and I can imagine that just outside my window, the tiny blue violets are peeping out from beneath their wet, broad leaves. Don’t you think that rainy days are worth living through, if only to discover how sweet the world is afterwards? —Jean Mclndoe (Hamilton).