FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 20 August 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Singing Flame. — Fire can be made to sing. A writer says : Take a lighted candle and blow gently against the flame. You will hear a peculiar fluttering sound. The fluttering sound is fire's first attempt at music. Instead of the unsteady breath ol our lips let us employ the steady blast of a blowpipe. Instead of the pale and flickering light of a candle let us use the bright and ardent glare of a chemist's lamp. When you have a lamp and blowpipe you can make fire sing in earnest. An Indoor Game. — The players-r-one or more on a side — sit in a front window looking out on the sidewalk at a time when quite a few people should be passing by." The passing people are sort of animated playing cards.' All persons going in one direction count*' for one side; those going in the opposite direction count' for the opponents.' The winning score is 50 points. A boy or girl counts two points. A man or woman counts one. each. A lame person adds five to the score, a fat man counts fifteen, and a red-haired girl is good for twenty points. A short man with- a taller woman going, by together "is game. Every dog passing by takes one from the s,core, so that a man or woman with a dog counts nothing. A passing policeman gives you minus five. A man. wearing a silk hat counts three. A nursemaid with child counts five. ' Three men or three women passing by together count- minus three..