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Tag, You're It
THE game of Tag, in all
T
It forms, is so wide-! spread that a person casily believe every country, and every race, has played it.
can
Even baseball, the | national sport of the United States, can dig back to its! roots and discover that it, too, is a form of tag. The base runner must be "tag- ged" or the base must be "tagged" before the runner is out.
Tog is a
that Koes Rame back to times when men had to. Ro hunting to get a meal. would play The youngsters "hunter." One youngster would be the game, the others would Hunt him, or perhaps would hunt all the others. "lag" would mean the was captured.
one
кате
could
A list of tag games become an interesting hobby. Here are a few for a starter:
TAG BALL: One ball is used, the players running and pass- ing the ball from onc to another. The player who Is It tries to touch the ball, and he continues to be It until he suc coeds in touching the ball. No kleking is permitted.
"It"
ONE-LEGGED TAG: hops on one foot trying to colch the other players also hopping un one fool. Anyone who puts both feet on the ground becomes It.
BACK TAG: Two players stand back to back, arms locked. "It" runs on all fours and butts the lucked couples, the butt being a tag.
1951.
GIRLS PAGE
By 1. R. Hegel
*TAG, AS WE KNOW IT, HAS BEEN
PLAYED FOR MANY YEARS IN MANY COUNTRIES-HOWEVER, *THERE ARE MANY ›
•NEW KINDS OF_TAG-
BACK TABS PLAYED BY HAVING THOSƏ TAKING PART, LOCK ARMS AND THUS 85 BACK TO BACK —"17" RUNNING ON KIL FOURS,TRIEG TO BUTT. ONE OF THE PRICE -
Outside Should Be Inside
BALLOON
TAG
-Flowers and Trees Would be Nice in the House
By MAX TRELL
SN'T it too bad." Hanid, the
Shadow-girl with the turn- ed-about name, was saying half to herself as she stood by the window and looked out, "isn't it too bad that flowers and trees and bushes and grass and hedges don't grow inside of houses in- sicad of outside in gardens. It would be so nice to have them all In In t lags
mom. Then, if it rained, CHAIN TAG: "R" player by clasping his hands and you wouldn't care about not being go outside, You could the two of them, hands remain-able to ing clasped, try to tog a third take a walk, or sit on the grass, player. If they succeed, they link a third to their chain and a fourth and a fih. The longer the chaln grows hilarious the fun becomes.
the
more
or climb a tree and be inside the house the whole time."
SPOT TAG: "it" tags one who must stand in a chalked circle until he can slap at a passing player. Then he can step from his circle. The chalked circles un can be used as rest spots for:
get those players who want to their breath.
for
comes It.
all
was
room.
FUN
WITH WORDS
SEEING, BELIEVING TERE are nine groups of
HR
words and definitions. define The words they don't look alike, but when you say them, they sound alike. So you have to see these words in order to tell them apart.
Your task is to match the de- Anition with she word. The de- finitions are lettered, n. b and c. and you are to write the proper Retter beskle the word defined.
the answer The solution is in column
1. To... Two:.. Too... - Also. Toward. c-Number....
2. Eye... 1... Ayo... a-My- self, b-Yer, c-Orb.
a. Sens...
a-Odour.
patched.
Cent... bCoin
Scent
C-
4. Sa... Sow... Saw... 3- This way. -Use a needle and thread. -Scatter seeds.
5. Write... Wright... Right.. Rite... a-A ritual. b-Set down. c-Worker. d-Correct.
8. Pare... Pear... Pair... a-Couple. b-Fruit. e-Peel..
7. Eler... Ere... Heir... Atr... a-Gos. b-Ever. c-B- fore. d--One who inherits.
8. Rein... Relgn... Rain... a-Rule, b-Harness. c-Falling drops of water,
D: Cito... Sito... Sight... a Vision. bQuote. Place.
FLORAL UN.
HE columbine, the goldenrod THE
and the wild rose have ali been suggested for the official United States flower, but none has been accepted as yet. But many other countries do have Inational flowers.
Below is a numbered list of national flowers from countries the world. Opposite, all over but in different order, is a of countries which have "But didn't the maple tree in list your bedroom keep growing big-these flowers.
Match each flower with ger?" Honid said.
The smile faded from Mr proper country by writing the that Punch's face for a moment. "I'll number before said. "Let me finish telling you tell you about that later," he country. about the other things arst, I told
Maple Trac
She sighed to herself as she said this, because she was quite Punch had maple tree in his sure that even though it was suck a pleasant idea and so convenient-still it could never branches of
my maple-right She be done.
me as I lay in my bed! really sur over pri prised, therefore, to hear Mr never needed any alarm clock to Punch saying do her the next wake me up. Oh, no!"
od it in moment: "Hod
my own se, my dear...just the ver
Looked lovely. People around to sit. came from miles under the maple tree that grew in my bedroom. Beautiful rose vines climbing up the walls of the dining-room, Wonderful to have them all growing inside the house"
Turned Around
+
over
you about the rose vines in the dining-room. Ah, they were the sweetest vines in the world. They climbed
the walls,
While and around Hanid turned looked at Mr Punch. He was sit- you were
dinner (or enting breakfast or supper) also ting in his chair on the other had to lean back and plek a rose you only
at the ira
a
1. Conflower
2. Vie
3. Tulip 4. Thistic 5. Wattic
6. Edelwoles
7. Shamrock 8. Lotus
or
after
China France Scotland
Canada
Хараль Greece Australia Italy
Mexico
9. Pomegranate two. Then bees came in 10. Chrysanthemum Holland through the open window and 11. Rose sucked out the sweetness from the roses. I loved the sound of their buzzing."
12. Prickly pear 13. Flour de lis
14. While Mły 15. Narcissus 16. Maple leaf
the
Ireland Spain England Gonny
Switzerland Egypt.
• SMILES.
MIMIC TAG: This is the where all the players game must do what It does. If It falls on all fours, the players must follow his example. If it squats, Anyone who everyone squats. does not follow is promptly It. This is the most difficult of the watching because tak games what the leader is doing makes meny taggings but
aide of the room with his specta- many laughs.
STATUE TAG: It chases a les pushed up on his forehead. or
smiting and nodding. He was group of players, then clasps his you really did have all those hands, and
players must freeze in whatever position they things growing in your house, might be. The first to move be-Mr Punch?" Hanid said, looking
as If she didn't believe it.
"Didn't theyer, sling?" "Not at all. If you let a bee be. "Certainly, my dear certainly. BALLOON TAG: This is the
long time a bee will let you be," Mr Punch It happened' quite a game where players have in-
their was much younger then replied. "It's a good rule to re- flated balloons lied on
than 1
am now. In fact, I was member. Instead of stinging me, would leave me a jar of they backs. It has a folded newspaper Just a boy. But I brought the fresh-made honey each week. with which he swats
garden that we had outside, in- They were very kind and con-
"What kind of rice does your he balloons. I
succeeds
side."
ziderate bees. All in all, my in-
Aunt Katle want?" the groCETY breaking one, the person is given
especial- side-garden was a "Oh! How did you do it?" the newspaper and becomes It.
ly-as I think I heard you man- clerk asked. Little Mildred.
"Between ourselves," Mildred BEAN BAG TAG: Players
"I think solcmaly, "Well, I dug up the bushes and lon-on rainy days. I never balance a bean bag on their hedges and flower beds and minded staying, indoors at all. answered heads. The player who Is It brought them in. They weren't And Instead of having to sweep Aunt Katie would like the kind
that gets thrown at weddings," balancing a bean bag too. Who- much trouble. It made the floors the house, I used to help my it with a lawn- ever drops his bag must drop a bit dirty, with dirt. The flowers mother mow out of the game.
and bushes and hedges, you see, mower. But to get back to that had to have dirt to grow in."
maple tree."
"Oh yes, said Hanid. "it kept "Couldn't you have put them growing bigger, didn't it?" in pots--?" Hanid started to Mr Punch nodded sadly. "At first I didn't mind. But little by little a very strange thing began But Mr Punch was continuing happening, Mr Punch
as the maple tree "The live maple tree in my bed- grew
nodded "Hadn't you better go and Many tag games have "safe
room gave me some trouble. It al
This house, my tell
sald your boss?" sanctuaries."
in Wood Thad to have a lot of room, even dear, grew up with it-up in the motorist to the farmer's boy player who touches
wood can though it was a young tree, Some air. By and by the maple tree who stood looking at the load not be togged. Pum-pum-pull-the away has goal lines behind of the roots went travelling down wasn't Inside the house any more of hay upset in the road by a i
..the whole house was out-collision. players are safe. In the hallway and out through the Water Tag, played while swim-mchica door. Now and then my side, right in the middle of the
a player must be in the mother or father used to trip maple treet So," said Mr Punch boy. ming, water to be tagged. There are over them. I had to go out every "we all climbed down and moved morning and pull the roots away." And this time Me Punch hundreda of
back." they're all fun.
All DIZZY TAG:
players whirl around six times and start running at a given signal. The player who is it tags whichever one of the dizzles he can reach first.
which
varieties, and
ANSWERS
BERING, BELIEVING: 1-D.GA. 2.2.3, b, ., b. c. 5. c. d, & 6-c. b. a, 7-0. C. d. 4..
LOHAL U. N.: 1-Gemany Greece, 3-Holland, Scotland. Australia, Switzerland Ireland.
Egypt, 9-Spain, 10--Japan. England, 13-Mexico. 13France. 16-- Italy, 15China. 16-Canada.
say.
"My goodness," said Hanid, "that's a very odd thing all right"
"And the birdal" exclaimed Mr Punch. I'd wake up bright and early and there were the robins and wrens and swallows and sparrows, all singing and chirping as merrily as a bolling tea-ketel They were right in my own room-right in the
Rupert and the Castaway — 12
sadly agatr
mlled-and so did Hanid.
•
"I don't see any chickens in this soup," young Tommy sald to his sister.
"Of course not," his sister replied. "Ever see any horses in horseradish?"
•
•
the
"He knows," replied the
"Knows? How can he know?" "He's under
the hay," the boy advised,
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