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Show FATHER TIME IS PASSING This entertainment for school, homo, or literary society may br worked up without much labor or o Tho throno room Is dlm'y lighted by gas or candles. Tho throno Itself Is a great chair elovatcd and covered cover-ed with a fur rug and Is approached approach-ed by two or threo rug covoroj stepi Old Father TImo drosses In a sheoi of whlto, wears a snowy wig nas long whiskers nnd carries an hourglass hour-glass and sc tho. Ho should bo qulto bent nnd full of tremb lug. Tho llttlo Now Year a boy of "four or live- years, In white, boars a Inn-ner Inn-ner showing the dato of tho new year. Each month Is lopro.wntod. January wears two falso facos, ono over the face and .one over tho biik of tho bend, llko Janus of olJ, (he god ot tho Now Year, who lookal both forward and backward. Upon his breast ho bears an ImmeriS'i bank cnlendar lonf with the dato Janun-y 1. February, draped In a flag or bunting, bunt-ing, carries an Immense hatchet and largo bunch of artlfUlal cL'rrlos. March Is a klto llylnr ' April Is a king's Jester (April fool). May shows Miss Columhlt hearing a flag at half mast nnd victor's wreath. Juno In snowy gauzo, wh'to Is laden la-den with roses, wreath crowned. July Is patriotic Uno'o Sa' i with firecrackers to burn. August In filmy white tan n an Immenso fan, using It continuously. Soptember shows n school boy. October suggests Halloween. November's Pilgrim maid displays her basket of fruits and vegetables, December chcor brings o 1 Santa dear. Fathor TImo appears and beho'ds a vacant throno. Ho then passes on toward open door, frequently looking back at throno. Ho stands at tho door and bockons. Tho months op-pear op-pear singly, and In silence seat themselves them-selves upon tho stops of tho throno. Ho trios to recall them, beckoning. At ono mlnuto before twclvo o'clock ho staggers out, while- rushing In Joyously tho llttlo Now Year comes to tho throne. Tho' months rise and wavo grcotlng when all Join In singing sing-ing Tho Doxology. , |
