How to behave and how to amuse A handy manual of etiquette and parlor games . intersection of the two diagonals. Thk Forck o-^ the Breath. When you blow into a paper bag in order toswell it out, afterward bursting it with a blow toproduce the familiar * bang, have you everstopped to ask yourself what was the precise forceof your breath? You know that such force can bemeasured by the instrument known as the spiro-meter, which you occasionally see at a railwaystation or a country fair. But a simple paper bagmay be made to answer the purpose of the spiro-meter, as I propose to explain. ^ The bag
How to behave and how to amuse A handy manual of etiquette and parlor games . intersection of the two diagonals. Thk Forck o-^ the Breath. When you blow into a paper bag in order toswell it out, afterward bursting it with a blow toproduce the familiar * bang, have you everstopped to ask yourself what was the precise forceof your breath? You know that such force can bemeasured by the instrument known as the spiro-meter, which you occasionally see at a railwaystation or a country fair. But a simple paper bagmay be made to answer the purpose of the spiro-meter, as I propose to explain. ^ The bag must be rather long and narrow, air-tight, and of thin, tough paper. A bullocks 112 HOW TO AMUSE). bladder will answer the purpose still better. Atube should be inserted in the neck, throughwhich to blow. Lay it flat, near the edge of atable, with the mouth turned toward yourself;place various weights upon it, increasing by de-grees, and you will be surprised at the weight thatyour breath will thus lift. To upset a couple ofbig dictionaries, placed one upon the other, will. be mere childs play, as you will find on puttingthe matter to the test. Hunt the Ring. All the players stand in a circle holding a longcord, which forms an endless band upon which aring has been slipped before it was joined at theends. This ring is passed rapidly from one playerto another—always on the cord and concealed bythe hand—while somebody in the centre endeavorsto seize the hands of the person who holds it, whowhen actually caught takes his place within the•circle. MAGIC MUSIC. 113 If tlie circle is very large two rings may beslipped,upon the cord, and two players placed inthe centre together. A small key may be used instead of a ring, whilestill another variation is to have the concealedobject a small whistle with a ring attached. Whenthis is adopted an amusing phase of the game isto secretly attach a string to the whistle and fastenthis to the back of the player in the centre bymeans of a ben
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