A GAME TO PLAY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIV, Issue 18849, 11 April 1931, Page 20

A GAME TO PLAY

I NEWSPAPERS. Have you ever tried to “run” a j ewspaper? This is very great fun. j >ne player is the editor, and has a hat | nil of slips of paper on which are j written “The Leading Article,” “The j Roman’s Page," "The Children’s | ‘age,” "The Weather Forecast,” and j o on. Each player is seated at the able, with pencil and paper before ! hem. They each draw’ a slip from the lat. and when all have them they look : it w’hat is written thereon, and that j >art of the newspaper they have to j :ompile. It is great fun when the 1 lewspaper is read out. and you hear ; vhat everyone has written. A time imit should, of course, be given. j A WOMAN'S SURPRISE PACKET Fairies of make-believe have alw r ays had a trick of disappearing after some wonderful deed of kindness. It is the same with fairies of real life. The other day the cashier of the Royal Northern Hospital was busy in his office when an elderly women appeared and handed him a small packet wrapped round with paper. It was a gift for the hospital, she said. Before he could undo the wrappings she had quietly slipped away. It was an ordinary enough packet, , and it contained an ordinary-looking tea-bag, but when the cashier opened this bag he had such a big surprise that he has hardly got over it yet. Inside the tea-bag were five £IOO Bank of England notes. THE TAME SNAKES. Try this on your friend: Once upon a time a boy called Harry had two tame snakes given to him. He could not bear to be parted from them for any length of time, and at night would carry them upstairs to his bedroom in a box. Unfortunately, one evening they escaped while he was undressing, and although he searched carefully he could not find them anywhere. At last his father made him give up the search, and sent him off to have his bath. Absent-mindedly, Harry turned on both the hot and cold water taps at the same time. And what do you think | came out of them? ! Answer: Why, hot and cold water, of course. GLOW-WORMS AT THE ZOO. It often happens that a very common animal is one of the hardest to keep, or show, in captivity. The London Zoo I has only just hit on a way to show j glow-worms in the daytime, for, of course, the gardens usually close at dusk. Now one will be able to see the glow-worm through a peephole in the Insect-house. The “worm” is really a beetle, and, though it shines brightest when grown up, or a "perfect insect,” it also glows in the chrystalis. grub, and egg stages of its life. Mrs Glow-worm is the one that shines, and both are very greedy, eating small snails and slugs all night long. As the eating is done while in the “grub” stage, and the glow-worm takes two years to grow up, you will j see he is a good friend to the gardener. LITTLE LAUGHS. . I A Sure Thing-. Old Sam the carter was often to be seen hitting his horse. “Why is it,” he was asked, “that you always hit your poor old horse on the one side?” "Well,” said Sam, “I reckon that if I get one side going the other is sure to follow.” The Truth. Billie had been found out telling an untruth. “What would your mother say, Billie, if she heard you say that?” demanded his teacher. [> “She would be ever so pleased.” was I the unexpected reply. ! i "How dare you say such a thing!” I ; fumed the teacher. *| “But she would,” insisted Billie. “You i see, my mother is stone deaf.’’