FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, 20 September 1906, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

In what color should our friendship be kept ? In violet (inviolate). Why is India ink like a cunning Hottentot ? Because it is a deep black. There is a well known word in the English language, the first two letters of which signify a male, the three first a female, the four first a great man, and the whole a great woman.— He, her, hero, heroine. How do bees dispose of their honey ? They cell it. What game do the waves play at ? Pitch and toss. What sort of merr are always above board ? Chessmen. What letter is it that is never used more than three times in Australia ? — Answer— A.

Bend a match in the centre so that it forms an acute angle and place it over the neck of a large battle ; on top of the match place a piece of money —a penny, for instance. .The trick is to put the money into the bottle without touching the match or the bottle. Dip your finder in water, holding it over the place where the match is bent, and allow one or two drops of water to fall on that point. The two sides of the angle will open slowly, allowing the money to drop into the bottle.

'We can't always remember which are the short months of the year, or some of us can't, anyway, and then,' said a man who is not very strong in memory, *we take to repeating the old jingle, " Thirty days hath September, April, June and November," and so on, to bring (he short months to us. But I have just learned another way that pleases me. llf you double up your fist and hold it with the back of the hand upward, you will see the four knuckles of the hand standing up in little prominences, with little depressions between the bases of the fingers. ' Now, if you will start ticking off the months on these prominences and depressions, one for each prominence and one for each" -depression, in regular order, you will find the long months all come on the high places, and the short months all in the low ones. # • c First knuckle,"- high place, January ; first depression, low place, February ; next knuckle, March ; next depression,- April ; next knuckle, May ; next low place, June ; and then the fourth and last -knuckle July. Then you come back to the first knuckle and start over again : _ High place, August, and first depression, September ; next knuckle, October ; next depression, November, and the next knuckle, December. „ ," ME you should forget even the "thirty days" jin-^ gle, count the months off on the back of your doubled-up hand in this way and you can't go astray. Jfou will find the short months all coming in the little valleys between the knuckles. " Mountain and Valley " the youns folks call this.'