FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 20 December 1906, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

How can you sit where another cannot ?— ln that other's lap. , , • Ask a question to which ' No ' cannot be" answered. —What does ' Y-c-sr' spelP? How can a circle be " drawn round a person, which he cannot jump out of ?— Around his body with a bit of chalk, ■ etc! How to empty a corked bottle of wine without drawing the coik, breaking" the glass, or making a hole in it or the stopper. — Drive the cork in. To push _a friend's head through a ring. — Run 7our finger through ihe ring, and touch the person's -bsswd with the tip. How can a candle be placed so that all can see , ' it but^the holder of it, though- he sha.ll not be-blind-folded or otherwise debarred from looking ?— Put it on" , his head, liice. the miners carry theirs. ■ ' To put something' in .a person's right hand, which , he cannot hold in left. — Let H be his left elbow. To crawl into- a quart bottle.— Set the bottle in the middle of the room , go out, and returning on all fours; . say, ' Ladies and gentlemen, this is crawling ia to the quart bottle.' < ' —

1 - _____ t ~. To Guess Several JC aids -Chosen at Random. — Show as ' many cards .to each person as there are persons to choose': .'that-, is to say, three to each if fch'are are three > persons. When- the first has thought of one, lay as&de^'the three cards among which "he set his choice.- So wifkT ; the next .two persons, and then spread out the three • _ first cards, lace up, and above them" the" next three, and above these the., last three, so that all t<he cardai: may be in three heapstofi three each. Then ask eaoh - person .in which, lot isY tlie card he thoupht-^f, anjdthis much known, you can tell the cards, for Wi-e first person's card will be the first in the heap towlAchitbelongs; the second's will be the second of tha.t~-n«_rt ,heap, and the last person the third of the last " hmtf.