What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Electeic Dancers A rubber comb rubbed with a silk handkerchief will at-tract small bits of paper, feathers or wool. Various games andtricks can be devised by this means, such as bringing thedead to life, i. e., raising paper figures to an upright positionfrom a grave made of books, or a box. OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS. Outdoor Games for Gtrls (^Facing page 128) o OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS UTDOOR games for girls and outdoor games forboys are very often the same, although they are sep-arated here for the sake of convenience. Battledore and Shut
What shall we do now? Five hundred games and pastimes: . Electeic Dancers A rubber comb rubbed with a silk handkerchief will at-tract small bits of paper, feathers or wool. Various games andtricks can be devised by this means, such as bringing thedead to life, i. e., raising paper figures to an upright positionfrom a grave made of books, or a box. OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS. Outdoor Games for Gtrls (^Facing page 128) o OUTDOOR GAMES FOR GIRLS UTDOOR games for girls and outdoor games forboys are very often the same, although they are sep-arated here for the sake of convenience. Battledore and Shuttlecock Battledore and Shuttlecock is equally good for oneplayer or for two. The only game to be played is to see howlong the shuttlecock can be kept in the air. If you are alonethe best way is to set yourself a number, say a hundred, andpersevere until you reach it. This can be varied by strivingto reach, say, thirty, by first hitting the ball each time as hardas possible, and then hitting it very gently so that it hardlyrises at all. Jumping RopeOrdinary skipping is good enough fun for most of us, butfor those who are not satisfied with it there is skipping ex-traordinary, one feat of which is now and then to send therope round twice before you touch the ground again. To dothis, as it cannot be done with a mere rope, you must make anew rope of whipcord, in the m
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