Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-02-11

| - cried Dick. very bluiT.
| That's easy enough -
! Said TEN with a twinkle, "Just try ="
But. once on the ice.
Dick perceived in a trice,
! When he tried % strike 6ut
| They would wahble about.
4 IS II they had had too mu, b beer-
One moment he svraved:
Then a bold DASH De made.
! With both his arms wildly outsPread;
! But out fiew hi- heels.
] knd-you know how II feels
Down he went on the back of his head
/ He got M with a iump,
Caring n cught for the bump;
And it gave him a lesson that paid;
| For he learnt,-whst Is true
| OF most other arts too
That skaters not BoES. bat MADE
| HOLIDAY GASTEs.-StaClO1C B1LG-One
OF the most amusing games we know offs
called "Shadow Buff" 1t is played by
| fastening a sheet over a doorway or the
recess formed by a bay-window. One
of the players is stationed behind this
sheet as Buffy, and all the lights in the
room extinguished but one, and that
placed so that the shadow of any one
| passing in front of the sheet will fall
directly upoa it. Then the rest of the
players take turns in passing before the
sheet. Each one passes slowly three
times, and if Buffy succeeds in guessing
| who he is, then he must take his place
as Buffy behind the sheet, and the first
one is released. Those who pass before
the curtain may disguise themselves in
any manner they please, and may limp,
Jump, grimace, or IN any way contrive
to distort their shadows on the curtain.
The more fantastic the disguises, the
more amusing the game will be.
LAWYER.
All who are to take part in the game
assemble and choose a lawyer. The
chairs in the room are arranged in two
rows facing one another. Then the
ladies and gentlemen, having each
chosen partners, sit down in these
chairs, the partners opposite one an
other. The lawyer proceeds to ask
such questions as he chooses, which
must be answered, not by the person
addressed, but by his or her partner. |
If any one makes q mistake, he or she
must change places with the lawyer and I
ask the questions.
THE LUCKY BAG.
Let a bag be filed with toys and
bonbons, and hung by string from the /.
ceiling or in a doorway. Bandage the |
eyes of one of the players, and give him /.
a stick. Let him turn three times I
rouud, and then try to hit the bag with
the stick. If in three trials he sue ;
ceeds in hitting the bag, he is entitled
to take something from it, after the .
game is done. Ii he fails, he must pay
forfeit. which viii be disposed of in /
the usual manner. Each player takes
his turn in trying to hit the bag.
CONSEQUENCES.
This is quiet game, and at the same .
time one of the most amusing ones
which can be played. All the players
assemble around a table, each with a /
half sheet of writing-paper and pencil.
Each writes an adjective expressing a
good or bad quality in mans charac-
ter or person. Each one then turns
over and creases down the place written
upon, and all change papers. Each one
writes gentleman's name, and turns it
down, and change papers again. Then
another word of quality, applicable to
lady, is written, and all the papers are
turned down and changed as before.
Then lays name is written then
place where they met then what he
wore tho. what she wore what he
gave her; what she gave him; what he
said to her; what she said to him the
Consequences ;" and, finally, what
Mrs. Grundy said The papers must
be turned down and changed, and no
one must read what the others have
written. When all the papers are fin
ished, some person collects and reads
them. Some are absurd, of course,
while others will fit together most
comicalIy.
As an illustration, We give the follow
ing:
The highly erudite
Mr.. Smith
and the romantic
Miss Jones
met by the side of frog pond.
He wore a rosebud in his buttOnhole,
and she had on sky-blue redingote
with scarlet trimmings.
He asked her if she admired the land
scape.
She blushed and hung her head, and
said,
There's nothing half 50 svee; IN life
As loves young dream"
The consequences were that they both
caught cold
and Mrs. Grundy said she had fore
seen the whole affair from the beginning.
SoMETHr;G ABOUT THE ALTAR OF RosEs.
in this tiny locket is a bit of sponge
the size of a small pea. Years ago there
was carefully put upon it a single drop
of wonderful perfume-dttar of roses,
they call it-at half a dollar drop.
Dear enough, you will say, but call it
cheap, for the exquisite odor is there
yet, and it took, oh so many roses to
yield it Among the rose gardens of
the dusky Indians went up
and down among the long rows of bloom
and stripped off the fresh roses every
morning before the sun had drank up
a breath of their sweetness. They dis
titled them in queer little clay stills
with twice their weight of water, and
then set out the distilled water in shall
low dishes, Just as we set milk for
cream. In the morning the thinnest
film of oil was carefully swept from the
top with feather, and sealed up in
vial. This went on night after night,
until all the precious oil was separated,
and then it was very, very little. Twenty
thousand roses only made a rupees
weight of oil, but it sold for fifty dol
lars. You may guess we see very little
of the pure altar. Even in India, most
that is sold is diluted with sandal-wood
oil !; and that which comes to US is
further mixed with less costly things.
But there is no such exquisite odor as
this breath of the roses.
A new flooring cloth has been inven-
to1 II, EnnrIonI ,rhich ir not rrrnlilro Soma 1