FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 19 November 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

An Interesting Experiment. — A very interesting experiment is made with a piece of thread, a sixpence, and an empty tumbler. Tie a slip-knot in the end of the thread, loop it over the sixpence, and draw it tignt, so that the money will not fall out. Take the end of the thread between the thumb and finger, letting the thread pass over the ball of the thumb. Rest the elbowon the table, and suspend the sixpence over the empty tumbler, ,so that it will hang about the middle of the glass. Af^er a minute or two the sixpence will become, stationary ; then it will begin to swing slowly to and fro until it hits the side of the : glass. It will strike the side of the glass the number of the hour ' the nearest to the time of day ' in which the experiment is tried. When it has struck the hour : the swinging grows slower and . slower until the sixpence is at rest. Of course, the hand must be perfectly still duiing the trial. This is a very curious experiment and one which~~has no satisfactory explanation. • .

Farmyard Snap. — This is a good card game for a. lot of people. Each member of the party chooses 'to represent an inhabitant of a farmyard, and instead of calling out ' snap ' when he sees a card like .his own turned up, he will- make tfie noise of the beast or bird which his opponent represents. Should he, however, make -a mistake and utter a wrong sound, his own cards will be placed in " pool ' until he . can win them back.