Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-11-08
Kitchen-Garden Games.

We make the following extract from
a little girls letter to her aunt, In the
| ST. Nicholas, i about the "kitchen-
| Garden School, - at which, in the same
manner as the lessons are sugar-coated
with fun it will be seen that games are
but cloak for instruction: .,s s.r
NY 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 id Kitchen-Garden. we
have a skipping game, when wei skip,
all round the ROOM with q rope that has
pretty ribbons tied to it, and we keep
time when we skip to nice tune that
the teacher plays on the piano. And
we have a broom game that ls 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 ms make an archtwith
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,
I think. And we play waiting on the
door. We have big round circle OF
girls, and we skip around and we sing:
Here comes a crowd of merry little girls
Who've lately come to school. iesBc.
Then we ring little bell and we ask:
els Mrs. Brown at homeP'' and we say:
Eyes, will you please low me to show
you to the, parlor, and l will speak to
her" Then we 90 across the ring 1--WE
play that's the hall), and the girls lift
up their hands and we go under Owe
play that's the door),, and then we are
in the parlor, you know. Then we
play we have card with our name on
it, and we put it on a 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: ''Wiu you please to leave
a meSsaGe?"
Then the other girl-the lady, you
know-she could leave quite a long
message if she could think of one, but
she doesn't, very often. ..r
It's splendid game. Aunt Katie, and
SO is ''Little waiting-girls We all
stand in a ring with trays, and we
march and sing:
1--WE are little waiting.girls,
Just little waiting-girlS.
We wait on the table
AS we'll as We are able
For little waiting-girls.
1--WE pass the tray like this. we pass the tray
Try to hold it, always hold IT, very. very fat
It's real funny game. You just
ought to see it, Aunt Katie. And slack
and Jill" we play that, too. and it's
Jack and Jill went up the hill
To get pail of water;
Jack fell down and broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after"
And the chorus is:
1.-TWO should step at the same time
One should not go faster,
Else they'll surely. surely meet
With Jack and Jills disaster"
Well, Aunt Katie, you ought to see
just everything we do! 1 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. It seems like
play. But we all learn ever so much
there. Mamma says I've learned good
deal about housekeeping already.
Dear Aunt Katie: Mamma says need
not write any more, because your eyes
are so bad. give my love to you,
Aunt Katie; and I give my love to
Cousin Baby Grace, and to Uncle How
ard, too.
This letter is from your dear little
niece, MAY STRONG.