DETECTIVES!

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20541, 16 February 1935, Page 22 (Supplement)

DETECTIVES!

This is a jolly game to play indoors. The players are each provided with a pencil and paper. Then the host ol the party enters and for a few seconds holds up some article which is the " clue ” to a nursery rhyme. For instance, he may hold up a shoe. This, of course, is the clue to the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe. A bone would be the clue to Old Mother Hubbard. When a dozen or so clues have been exhibited, players’ lists are checked, and the most nearly correct list wins a small prize for the player. A NOVEL GAME. Often after some romping games one of a quieter nature is welcome. Here is a game which has a lot of tun in it, and yet does not involve running about. All the players must sit in a circle on the Hoor, and the first one fits the cover of a match-box just over Ins nose. He must then bend towards the next person to him and push the matchbox on to his nose. So the game goes on all round the circle. At no time must the match-box be touched by the hands. Any player who happens to drop the match-box has to go out of the game. Meanwhile those who are left continue passing the box from nose to nose. The winner of this novel game is the one who has the match-box on his nose when everyone else has had to go. WORK IT OUT. Ask you chum: “If a man had 17 sheep, and he wanted to give one-ninth of them to his brother, one-third to his sister, and half to his son, how would he do it without having any sheep himself, or cutting sheep in halves? ” He will think for a minute and then tell you that it is impossible. Then you tell him the answer: lie would borrow one sheep, making IS. Then a half, equals nine; one-third equals six; one-ninth equals two. Total 17. The borrowed sheep would remain.

CZBCX.B ARTISTS. 16-2-35.

Alice Bunt, Jack Payne, Hazel Jones, Nola West, Verna Bright, Daphne Manhart, Lucy Lusty, Brenda Payne, Lydia Laraman, Doreen Welsh, Lila Hoatten, Lily Stirling, lna Hoatten, Barbara Turner, Nancy Chetwynd, Madeline Stldworthy, Florence M'Loughlin, Dawn Chetwynd. GOOD SCRIBES. 16-2-35. Shirley Dobbs, Hazel Andrews, Eileen M’Quillau, Esther Berry, E. Coleman, Keith Savage, Phyllis Finlay, Nancy James, Nesta Ealam, Paulene Matthews, Moira M’Dermott, Brenda Payne, Enid Robinson, Thelma Whale, Lydia Laraman, Lucy Lusty, Daphne Manhart, Donnie Pearson, Verna Bright, Jack Payne, Mae Bushell, Nola West, Christina Russell, Hazel Jones, Dorothy Dobson, Ellen Goodman, Patsy Phillips, Billy Pearson, Lila Hoatten, Madeline Stidworthy, Betty Sharp, Joan Kingston, Mary Russell. Myrtle Glenn. Ina Hoatten, Alan Welsh, Doreen Welsh, Melva Humm, Vera Wood, Betty Hughes, Kathleen Douglas, Anne Maclean, Phyllis Coward, Alex Robb, Betty Smith, Florence M’Loughlin, Joan Comer, Miriam Smith, Co»*al Robinson, Elva M’Dougall, Gwyn Gilmer, June Flske, Marie Shanahan.

THINGS TO MAKE. A DOLL’S ARMCHAIR. The picture shows a dear little doll’s armchair, which can be quite easily made if you can get an empty cream or honey carton. Wash and dry the carton carefully, and be sure to keep the lid when the carton is first opened. Now, with a sharp pair of scissors cut out a piece from one side of the carton

where the dotted line on the small diagram shows. Cut to about halfway down the carton, and then press the lid down so that it forms the seat. Paint the chair any colour you choose, and then make a tiny round silk cushion to match and fit it into the seat. Gum or sew a wee frill round the top of the chair and sew a deeper frill round the bottom part below the cushion. You will love this pretty little model when it is finished. LIFELIKE PICTURES. Here is such a good idea to use when you have some particularly nice pictures to look at. Take a sheet of very stiff paper about 12 inches long, as in A, and with your paints paint the whole of one side of it black, as in B. Roll your paper into a tube, as in D, with the black side of it inside, and the white outwards. Gum the tube together to a size about one and a half inches across, as in C. Now take a photograph or picture in one hand

and hold the tube with the other hand, moving your picture until you have it in the right position. You will find a place in the picture when everything stands out as if it were real, and you will be surprised how life-like quite an ordinary picture will seem if viewed in this way.

A PRANCING HORSE. • All you need to make this jolly little toy is a small piece of thin white cardboard, four pins, a cork, a piece of wire,and a little weight, such as a nail or screw.

Cut out a horse’s head and tail from the card, and then fit them into slits at either end of the cork, as you see

in the little picture. Press the four pins into the other side of the cork for the legs, and then your horse will be complete. Now make a hole through the centre of the cork and press the wire through. Fix the little weight at the other end of the wire, and bend it into a curve. Now you will find that your little toy will balance very’ well on its hind legs on the edge of the table, or on your finger-tip. You can make it prance up and down very gracefully by gently rocking it to and fro.