FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 25, 25 June 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

The Bean Bag Contest.— lnto a bag that will hold four or five quarts pour three quarts of dried beans or peas, and in their midst hide a ring, a thimble, and a brass button^ Have ready a new tin cup, and let each ■ player in turn dip inlo(the bag and take out a cupful of beans, which must be emptied into a plate. If either girl or boy finds the ring in her or his beans it is a sign of an early marriage. If a girl gets the thimble she will be an old maid, and when the thimble falls to the lot of a boy he will marry an old maid. The brass, button in a girl's cup of beans denotes that she will marry a widower, but in a boys cup it is a bachelor's button and shows that he will be a bachelor all his Hie and sew his buttons on himself. Each player can have only one trial, and if only beans falls to her share it signifies that her fate is still undecided.

A Rainy Day Game.— The following game is very popular with little French children, and may help you to > pass some pleasant moments. Choose a letter of the alphabet, say ' D, 1 for instance. Each player, with pencil and paper, is told to write the name of a country, river, mountain, city, soldier, artist, writer, musician, and statesman, all beginning with the letter 'D.' At the end of five minutes the lists are closed. One reads the names from his list, and those having the same names in their lists scratch them off. The,winner of the contest is the one having the most names not on the lists of the others. The fact of his names being more , uncommon shows him to have enjoyed the greater- knowledge and memory. This game is well worth trying, and will be enjoyed by every member of the family. . , i