Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-09-22
Kitchen-Garden Game s.

1--WE make the following extract from lit tie
girls letter to her aunt, In the October est Mich
olas," about "The Ktchen-Garden School," at
which. in the same manner as the lessons are
sugar-coated with fun. it Will be seen that games
are but a cloak for Instruction.
My dear Aunt Katie, I've saved the best part
to the very last. It's about games We Just
have an elegant time when we do games We
have one after every lesson in Kitchen Garden.
We have a skipping game, when we skip all
round the room with a rope that has pretty rib
bons tied to it. and we keep time when we skip
to nice tune that the teacher plays on the
piano. And we have broom game that is just
splendid! We all have nice brOoms, with pretty
ribbons on them, and we do ever so many things
with them, and sing songs all the time we're
doing it. And then some Of US make an arch
with our brooms and the rest Of us skip under
the brooms all the way through the arch. And
we hang up clothes-lines. You'd laugh if you
saw all the funny little dolls clothes hanging on
the lines. But it looks real pretty, too. think.
And we play waiting on the door. We have
big round circle of girls, and we skip around and
we sing:
Here ,,La comes crowd of m cry little girls
VINO we lately come to school,"
Then we ring little bell. and we ask ISIS
Mrs. Brown at home?" and we say, eyes; will
you please to low metO show you to the parlor,
and will speak to her. Then we go across
the ring Eve play that IS the halD and the girls
lift up their hands and we go under Eve PLAY
that s the door,, and then are in the paror,
you know. Then we play we have card with
our name on it, and we put it on tray and the
girl that opens the door, she brings it to the
lady, or else we tell our name.
Sometimes, Mrs Brown is not at home" or
else ''She s engaged" Then we say, "Wil you
please to leave a message?'
Then the other girl.-the lady, you know
she could leave quite long message if she could
think of one, but she does MT, very often.
"Little waiting girls" We all stand in q ring
with trays, and we march and sing:
I'VE are little waitlng-gir
just little waiting-girls. p
We walt on the table .-.-.-.. Il
As Well as we are able
For little waiting -girls''
we pass Pass the tray like this we pass the tray ike
Try to hold it, always hold it, very, very fat"
It's a real funny game. You lust ought to
see it, Aunt Katie. And slack and JILL" we
play that, too, and it g
ssJack and jill went up the hill
To ct pail OF water,
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And jill came tumbliDg after"
And the chorus is:
One should net go faster,
Else they'll surely, surely meet
With Jack and JillS disaster"
Well. Aunt Katie. you ought to see just
everything we do! / know you'd think it was
lovely, and you'd be just as glad as we are that
Miss Huntington thought about it. 1t don't
seem like going to school at all. 1t seems like
play. But we all learn ever 80 much there
Mamma says I've learned a good deal about
housekeeping already
Dear Aunt Katie: Mamma says I need not
write any more. because your eyes are so bad.
give my love to you, Aunt Katie; and give my
love to Cousin Baby Grace, and to Uncle How
ard. too.
This letter is from your dear little niece,
MAY STRONG.