Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-11-17
Kitchen. Garden Games.

We make the following extract
q little girls letter to her aunt = ron
81. Nicholas, about the .ki ~ the
Garden School" at which. in tha snen-
manner as the lessons are sucarSos same
with fun, it will be seen that gamasted
but a cloak for instruction: s are
My Dear Aunt Katie: I've saved a.
best part to the very last. It's ahe ane
games. We just have an elegant A ,;sut
when we do games. We have one a zine
every lesson in kitchen-G Garden w" W.
have a skipping game, when we st WE
all round the room with a rope that n mp
pretty ribbons tied to it, and we La aas
time when we skip to a nice tune 1lbvp
the teacher plays on the piano. ANU Anu
we have a broom game that il ; inv.
splendid! W. all have nice broosm "s'
with pretty ribbons on them, and We d.
ever S o many things with them .aS
sing songs all the time we're doing II
And then some of us make an arch With
our brooms and the rest of us skin
under the brooms all the way THROUGH
the arch. And we hang up clothes.
lines. You'd laugh if you saw all tho
funny little dolls clothes hanging ON
the lines. But it looks real pretty. ton
l think. And we play waiting on thu
door. We have a big round circle ot
girls, and we skip around and we sinn.
Who've lately come to school" sns
Then we ring a little bell and we ask.
els Mrs. Brown at homey' and we saw.
eyes, will you please low me to show
Won In tho Oar1or op6 will ...
her" Then we 60 across the r spea1 ew 10
play that's the hall), and the girls lit
up their hands and we go under I'VE
play that's the door,, and then we ara
in the parlor, you know. Then we
play we have a card with our name on
it. and we put it on a tray, and ths
girl that opens the door, she brings i
to the lady, or else we tell our name.
Sometimes: sMrs. Brown is not at
home" or else: "She's engaged
Then we say: ''Will 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.
It's a splendid game. Aunt Katie, and
SO is .'Little waiting-girls." We all
stand in a ring with trays, and we
march and sing:
W are little waiting-girls,
Just little w~aiting-girls.
we wait on the table
As well as We are able
For little waitingrgirls. .'-,
we pass the tray like this, we pass the tray
Try to holdit, always hold it, very. very fat"
It's a real funny game. You lust
ought to see it, Aunt Katie. And "Jack
and JILL" we play that, too. and it's
Jack and Jill vent up the hill
To get q pail of water; "'
Jack feIl down and broke his crown
And the chorus is: r
Two should step at the SAM time
E, one eh should j net go faster, u. !.
MILD Jack Inc JiH's disaster"
Well, Aunt Katie, you ought to SEQ
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 agood
deal about housekeeping already.
Dear Aunt Katie: Mamma saysInee
not write any more, because your eyes
are so bad. Igive my love to you,
Aunt Katie; and I give nv love to
Cousin Baby Grace, and to Uncle How
ard, too. I,
This letter is from your dear little
niece, MAY STRONG.