FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 19, 9 May 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Take a river, a crook, and a tree of the east, Write down in rotation and trace A preposition and fluid congealed, Which shows you the dear trysting place. It is near the old ivied fort, Still favored a haunt of the swallows, In a beautiful little nook, Nigh the lovely lake of shadows. —Answer— Post office. Why is a prudent man like a pin ? His head prevents him from going too far. If a short man married a widow, what will his Men 's call him ? A widow's mite. When may a man be said to breakfast before he gets up ? When he takes a roll in bed. What is that which never asks any questions but requires so mjany answers ? The door-bell. Why does a Russian soldier wear brass buttons on his coat and a Japanese soldier wear steel ones? To beep his coat buttoned. Why is a young. . lady like a sheaf of wh«ajt ? First, she is cradled, then thrashed, and finally becomes the flower of the family. • All wind instruments are "made to give forth sounds by means of a ourr,ent of air- flawing through them, but in most of them our lun^s are the motive power. Here, however, is a self-sounding instrument which is so simple that nobody wouli suspect anything peculiar about it — a lamp chimney. One that is in use is best adapted for the trick. It is made ready for emitting sounds by placing inside, at the place where the glass bog* 118 to bulge out, a round piece of wire netting. Then the air in the chimney is warmed over a spirit lamp. After tf while the instrument is taken away and held perpendicularly, when it will begin to sound ; monotonously, it is true, but "it tinkles plainly. If the sound stops, the cylinder is placed in a horizontal position. Then the cooler air, which", flowing frombeneath, produced the sound by collision with the wire netting, can no longer act, and the music peases,