New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-29
New Pencil and
Pad Game
By Mary Gardner.

Find your pencils and blocks OF ns,
boys and girls. Here are some jcgy
quiet games and puzzles for Won a.,
will be just exactly as much fun e..
rainy Saturday afternoon or long, sio,,,v
evening as some more noisy and bl.,.
Gus entertainment. The best mar, =,
them Is that they sharpen your nit.
and help YOU 10 think better than Won
could before you solved them.
Indoors Hide and Seek.-Hde a,d
seek may be played quietly indoors and
lots of fun derived from IT, ANY n,,,
Der or little folks may play The cb,Id
who is to hide writes the name Of ,ho
place she would choose. If out of doors an
q slip of paper and lays il in the centre Of
the table. Perhaps she writes on il behind
the big rock" lin the barn" or 'by III.
wall" She gives the first letter OF the
place TO the other children to help them
guess. and then she must not open her
lips until the right answer is guessed
If she does speak. even to say NO" sM
will have to pay forfeit The children
guess in turn The child who names the
hiding place written on the slip Of "a.
per becomes the hider. This game is
lots of fun on cold and stormy DAYS
when one cannot play out OF doors.
Sentences.-One of the drollest games
you can play in the house is this funny
one. Old and young, except little ones
too small to write, may Join in the jol.
lily. Even the children may have a
share in passing the papers and collect
ing the finished answers.
Give each player a piece of paper and
pencil. At the head of the sheet Of
paper is an initial letter. You should
leave out the very hard ones, such as
Q. X and 4.
Then each player makes sentence OF
five words or more, as agreed upon, elch
word beginning with the letter at IN.
head Of the paper.
II adds TO the excitement If YOU FRO
vide a number of small, inexpensiys
prizes. One will be FOR the first finished
reply. Another may be for the best an
swer. STILL another may be awarded for
the halfway one, and one for consola'
ton prize to the player who finishes last
DO not have any prize for the poorest
paper, as this might hurt the feelings
of some player who has done his best
You car have forfeits if any one
laughs aloud while the answers ar. be-
ing read aloud.
Here are two answers given OUT az
party attended lately:
Tventv Tai TinNers Telling Truths
Seven Sapny Sailors Sweetiy sing
The longer the sentence the harder u
is TO make IL sensible
Characteristic Initials:
/ GuilelcsS Warrior.
>. Merry Talker.
3. Amusing Writer
/ Wrote Splcndidly.
; Talented Electr!cldn. =
You sec the point OF this puzzle doni
you? 49,. .,.,ouo -o-so,.
age is told in the vo- which rear hs
initials. In this puzzle the t.rst
George Washington and the last !
Tbon9as Edison. Names ~ authors
poets. soldiers. inventors, actors SUI
ers-iu fact any o. the Noi!l 10y.
names-can be uSed ~ iHis Nt.s 49, 80
nious and instructive bit oi Woid play;
witch is a tcsuer Of ones kno"ledGe %
satnou. people and traits ~ acts whica
individualiZe them.
Here is the key 10 the pNh@''
:. George Washington
.. Mark Twain
g. Artemus Ward
:. William ShaNespeare
>. Thomas Edison.
Aggravating Arithmetic:
Ndd 20. an article. 500 ana the Gu
Of dav. and make title of respect
> Add ono. the end Of the year ngu.'
ing and the Union. and make oppressiiSS's.
:. Add one hundred, and ana one-'''''
az forty. and get a sweetme2i .
add 500 and one and make ilnlshev .
: Subtract % from KIND Oh s'Vn'
ard make TO rail-. ,.. l.. ao,. ,r
another kind of addition IS done IN
Add a receptacle TO the process rS :.
coloring and make sweetmea, l"
answer obviously is can-dy-candy'
he Key:
/ I-a-d-y-Lady.
> One-r-o-U. S.--Onerous.
8. { and l-Candy.
| 4 D-one-noue.
;. Slate-L--Sate.