THE ADJECTIVE GAME.

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 21 May 1913, Page 3

THE ADJECTIVE GAME.

Did you ever play the adjective game? Firs^tmi must provide yourself with of small pasteboard cards on^UKch to paste adjectives cut at random from magazines or newspapers. Old visiting-cards will do for these if you can get enough of them, and one card may be cut into strips of uniform size, for it is not necessary to have the cards nearly as large as visiting cards. If you cannot obtain the old visiting cards, any sort of thin cardboard wi^jjßkfor the mounts, or if you haj^|^^^R Wrdboard and do not wantj^^^^Hrthen use heavy paper, the get, on which to niour/OT^^^^^HPives. Aftemji^^^^B^made the card s the next feMl|^^BJa.rrange all those who are to P?^|H" game "*n .a semi-circle and Bfrnkbatx leader. Then distribute the ady^ive cardsjequally among the children taking part. The leader is not given any cards. After this is done a good story is selected, and the leader* begins to read aloud. 'The story should be of the sort which will hare interest for all the players, and the leader should be very careful not to consult his own taste alone in selecting what is to be read. 'Then the fun begins. The leader reads the story aloud and stops whenever she comes to an adjective. 'The pause is filled in by one of the players, who reads aloud one of the adjectives on his or >her slips. Each player's pile of adjectives is turned upside down so that the words may not be seen,, and the choice is made hit or miss. Sometimes the adjectives thus used fit in with unexpected appropriateness and at otner times . they are ridiculously out of place. . The player whose turn it is to read an adjective aloud should do so the minute that the pause is made by the reader, for if the wait is long, or indeed if there is any perceptible wait at all, there is no fun at all in the game, because one forgets what has been read, and all sense of contrast is lo*t.