Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-03-12
everybody Driving Pigs.
SOMETHING ABOUT THE LATEST TOY AND ITS GE
ERAL EFFECT.


ERAL EFFECT.
From the New York Tribune
Have you driven the pigs in vet? OF course
you've seen the new puzzle, Pigs in Clover"
1t is astonishing how quickly that toy has capt
ured the city. Only two things could have
done it in less time-a confagration and the
cholera. A wooden disc inches in diameter,
with four concentric circles sawed in one side:
four rings of pasteboard stuck in the circles
and firmly glued there; the outer ring solid;
In each of the inner ones q gap three-quarters
of an inch in width; the gaps on opposite sides;
four small marbles called pigs-thats all.
The center ring is about 2 inches In diameter
and has a wooden cover on which the word
PEN is stamped. Into this the pigs are to
be driven. The second ring-call it fence if
You hke-is about three-quarters of an inch
from the pen and the third is the same dis
lance from the second. The spaces between
the rings are called Enclosures, and the pigs
are to be driven from one to the other until all
are in the pen. The directions read: ''Place
the marbles (pigs) in the outer Enclosure, and
then so manipulate the table, without touching
the marbles, as to get them all in the pen at
once. Any one who has ever attempted to
drive pigs will appreciate this toy" In sup
port of this last statement a chrome is pre-
sented. which shows a boy in the act of driving
pigs.
A month ago the missing link agitated the
phFeH0i0gfcdf pump or 'StICkatIVeneSS With
which New Workers are gifted, but that toy had
its day and departed. Now comes this pig
driving business to engage the attention of the
town. bank president absorbed in it is
sight to moralize over and laugh at. client
called at his lawyers Office yesterday and found
two members of the firm amusing themselves
with it. A popular preacher was caught in the
act Of trying it, but he pleaded amusing the
children" as an excuse. In pursuit of it old
age and youth meet on the same plane. Those
who get the pigs penned once are not satisfied
with the achievement. After the first success
the time question comes in. One man says he
can do the penning in fifteen seconds, another
In twenty, third in twelve, and so on. One
droyer contends that it is easier to drive little
pigs than big ones; his companion has less
trouble with hogs and wants the largest mar
bles that will roll in the Enclosure and through
the gaps.
No person has seemed more interested in the
toy than a member of the Ohio society, who
once drove real live pigs to market His
friends jokingly assert that one OF his tricks to
increase the weight of his porkers was to drive
them through all the mud holes on the road
An amusing toy is a blessing. 1t keeps chill
dren out of mischief and causes men to forget
their cares. What vast amount of fun was
got out of the fifteen puzzle! Yet how sud-
denly such things seem to disappear. The re-
turn ball still holds it's own because it is excIu-
sively for young folks and fresh crop of
young folks comes on every year to play with
1t. Out of these simple inventions which the
public buy for a few cents comfortable for
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