Show SWINGING RING GAME IS NEW Requires Very Nice Sense of DIstance Dis DIs- tance Careful Eye and Light Touch to Do it Right On days when It Is too stormy or too slushy to be comfortable out of doors there is generally a strongly expressed wish voiced by the younger members of the family that there was something to do The old games So o not always suit and most of ot them require too many players Let us solve the problem says Ladies' Ladies Home Journal Here Is a pastime that is real fun for It depends on skill It is fun even when played alone for you can always always always al al- al- al ways try to beat your own best previous ous score and every time you try It you become just so much more expert It is for girls as well as boys so a brother and sister can spend a jolly afternoon at it without either wanting to see any friends who are pretty sure not to come com In on a very bad day You need two nails a string tring and a aring aring aring ring of some kind about six inches in diameter If It you have no old curtain ring or something else o of that sort you can make a ring that will serve your purpose perfectly well by getting getting get get- ting a thin piece of board marking a circle seven inches in diameter on Its surface and inside of that another circle six inches In diameter Now drive a nail In the ceiling if there is no hook for a lamp or chandelier already already al al- al ready there and another nail in the wall with Its head pointing upward at atan atan atan an angle of about 45 degrees Suspend Suspend Suspend Sus Sus- pend your ring from the nail in the ceiling by a string just long enough to allow the ring to swing its center over the nail in the side wall and hang there Now you are ready to be gin Stand by the nail In the side of the wan with your right hand holding the ring rink close to the nail Now push the ring away from you trying to make it swing back and hook over the nail There Of Ot course you didn't do it The ring came back and struck the nail but did not catch on it In order to catch on the projecting nail the ring must swing in a circle If you do it once out of your first ten trials you are lucky It requires a very ery nice sense of distance a careful eye and a light touch to do It just right Not so easy as it seems is It It It takes a lot of practise to score three out of five Get your brother broth er to try it with you and he will be astonished to find he Is la no better at this than you are In fact girls are best at this game and strange as it may seem their judgment of distance more accurate Try a game of fifty points with innings of ten points each Of course the winner Is the one who rings the nail the most times out of fifty trials |