Inter-Mountain Farmer | 1902-06-24 | Page 9 | A New National Game

A NEW NATIONAL GAME. In a crtalri compins of grown-up and well nlmnted people lot long ago a prize of J10 wes offered to nnyuno who could lve a brief dcscilptlon or even nin.c tne colors of llftcn different differ-ent nntlnnal (lugs l.vers inemter of the company trlei to do It nnd every one failed ;vov there Is io pnitlculer nih.iu-lege nih.iu-lege In a prnctlial was It being fa-nllln fa-nllln Willi the nigs of nil nations but thite Is satlafactinii In knowing things, espcclills It they ate tningi thut the average person does not know Is there i bos or girl among oui readers for example, that would not be glad to hj uhlo to Identlfs every national flag on blghf Th s pretty leccss or home g'imo will help sou to acquit e this knowledge knowl-edge I.lkc most of the Instructive pcms. it lequlrefl some iircparatlon. In all the largo dlclljnailes and In many en-tscloKdl3s en-tscloKdl3s nnd gazetteers may bo found all the Hags of the nations printed print-ed In colors ami taey iro uauells printed print-ed on a page nil together. Let some ono who has a box ot water colors paint tho flags on a sheet of while tardbontd putting a number under each flis Instead of the name of Its countrs. rh-n ninns sheets of paper should be prersnd is there ue Pfr-tons Pfr-tons to take pirt In th gime, with numbers down tho left hand margin of each shtat. W hen sou are reidy to play the gumfl rive a sheet of piper to each player, lack tho caidboard up In plain view nnd allow, say half an hour's tlnje for the pl.isrrs to write opposite, to Ihe numbers the names of the rations thit belong there No 1 for example will be tho Untied Hiates No :. Client 1rlt aln, ho 3, r-nncc ho 4, Itnssu, ho. 5, "vh'en tho tine limit has expired let the leider of th guns collect the papers pa-pers ai tl che-k them off hs a key which Ie or sho hna for that purrose, nnd the plaser that has the most ennee nunj-beis nunj-beis wins tha game It the game Is nlosvcl at home a prize may h offerel -Sli-a "'"a" Unit"1 States flag made Otlt".s'not ne-essnry thit tho flags rboiild be diawn on tho cardlswd In a really aitlstle way, though tho moia neatly it be done, the better,