FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 1, 3 January 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Here is a funny little feature called ' TEe Game of Nations.' It will serve' - to get the thinking bap on, and to furnish' a half-hour's entertainment. On slips of paper to he given;" each guest writes N the questions, and when returned to the hostess' with the correct answers they should be : ■ - The nation from which we start ? Germination. The nation for teachers ? Explanation. The nation for pupils ? Subordination. The nation for. actors ? Impersonation. The nation for theological students ? Ordination. The nation for a political candidate ?, Nomination. The nation for an unpopular official ? - Resignation. The nation for pests ? Extermination. The nation for evildoers ?, 'Condemnation, The nation desired by monopolies ? Combination. Tho nation which indicates a -class ? Denomination.

If a man on the front of a fruit cart weighs 139 pounds, what docs, the man on the back weigh? The fruit.

What is N the difference between a mouse and a young lady ? One harms the cheese and the other charms the 1 hes '

• Why- is a young man engaged^to a young girl. l ike a person sailing for France ? Because he's going to Havre (have her). ' _ • If a monkey wished to announce that he was sick how could he -do it and at the same time mentionthe medicine he • wauled ? ' Ape ill ' (a pill). ' What, is jt- which -the men that make it don't need the man -that buys it doesn't use for himself; and the* person that uses it doesn't know it •? -A coffin. Why is a sheet^ of-, paper like a lazy- ilog ? A sheet of paper is an-ink-lined plaia (inclined plane), and* an inclined' plane is a slope up (slow pup), and a slow pup is a lazy dog.