AMUSING RECORDS
FAMOUS BODLEIAN LIBRARY. The famous Bodleian Library at Oxford has an interesting and amusing exhibition of children’s games down the ages, showing how children in recorded times have ever trundled hoops, used skipping ropes, whipped tops, and played leap-frog. The Bodleian Library Record conveys the little-known information that standing on one’s head was an ancient game calling for much skill. Here is what it tells us: Among the solitary games, standingon the head is perhaps one of the most skilled, but seems latterly to have gone out of fashion. It is an amusement of great antiquity, and has been immortalised by Herodotus in his story of Hippocleides, who, having -won a king’s daughter in mar-; riage, lost her at the wedding breakfast by standing on his head and waving his legs aloft. His remark, “ It’s all one to Hippocleides,” proclaimed the proud independence of a consummate comedian. After that, no doubt, the sport lost caste. According to Smith Minor, it is not as easy as it looks when done
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Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4428, 21 May 1941, Page 7
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171AMUSING RECORDS Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 62, Issue 4428, 21 May 1941, Page 7
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