A New Game with Soap Bubbles.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXVII, Issue VII, 17 August 1901, Page 334

A New Game with Soap Bubbles.

Here is a new game you can play with soap bubbles. It is really capital fun. Mind you try it one of these long evenings. All you want are soap bubbles and a small hoop. To make soap bubbles which will be sufficiently tough to be blown about through the air without exploding at once you should add a few drops of glycerine to the soap and water. Ordinary clay pipes, of course, will answer the purpose. Hang a small hoop, such as your mother uses in embroidering, in a doorway. Now, placing a table, on which stands the bowl of soapy water, about three feet in front of the hoop, blow a bubble, and, jerking it free from the pipe, gently blow it toward the hoop, always keeping a distance of three feet between you and the hoop. The object is to make the bubble pass through the hoop. You and your friends take turns. It would be nice to offer a prize for the one who sends the greatest number of bubbles through the hoop. Sometimes they explode just as they are in the centre of the hoop. An umpire must determine whether it has gone through or not before it disappeared. You might vary the contest by leaving half the company stand three feet on the further side of the hoop, who will try to prezent. your bubble from going through by blowing it back. Fans could be used to create the necessary breeze.