FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 9, 5 March 1908, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

A Penny for Your Thoughts.— -The players arc pro\ided with pencils and sheets of paper, and the leader, after telling the limit of tim|e allowed?— usually ten minutes— amnoances a word which each proceeds to inscribe ait the top of his or her paper as a starting point. Then, in perfect silence, each writes down in a column under his word a series of others suggested by it ; that is, the second is to be suggested by the first, and the third -by the secondj and so on, thus following out a definite train of thought. At the end of the allotted time the papers are handed to the leader, who reads them aloud, and. much merriment is the result, narticularly if guesses as to ths authorship be requested.

The Magic Fish.— Cut a large 1 fish out pi very stout" writing' paper. In the centre cX it cut a small 'round ''■ ' hole, and from)' this hole cut a. narrow slit extending straight out to the tail. Put a few drops of oil "in the round hole and .then (fuicMy but carefully lay the fish : flat on the water, making sure that no water i caches the upper surface of thefish. The fish will then be' seen to move slowly along through the water, although, it has not received the slightest push. The" explanation. -is that the oil which you have dropped into the little round' hole tr'es to expand. As the paper does not ab- ' sorb it qiuickly it ' starts to spread the narrow stot th-.t you have cut in the fish from the, hqle_.t,p fl the. .tstfl. , - And in doing this it pushes- the fish forward. '; ' * . v