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����Members of this party are studying French by means of a special American- invented card game. The cards are shown held in the hand at right

��Parlez-vous Francais ?— If Not, Learn How with Playing-Cards

AN ingenious Amer- l\ ican inventor has recently put on the mar- ket a card game inven- ted by him, which is designed to teach French, or at least the rudiments of the language, by means of a game played with a special pack of sixty- one cards.

The cards are num- bered from 1 to 60 and in addition there is a "joker." Each card has printed upon its face a top line giving some French word or phrase, with its phonetic e(]uiv- alent and an English translation. Under that, in a frame is, in French, the answer to a ques- tion printed on the card with the next lower ^ future story:

number. Under that is hung me out on

��a picture, bearing upon the answer in the frame. Still lower is a question in French, with the phonetic equivalent and English translation, together with the French answer and its phonetic equivalent, but without translation. That answer is repeated within the frame near the top of the card with the next higher number. At the bot- tom of the card there is some ■ grammar comment and vocab-

■ ' ~^, ulary and so forth.

' Number One reads

jW \^v,*'^) the question on hia ' card; Number Two

reads the answer as given on his card, with its English translation, and in turn, follows with the question to be answered by the next player, and so on until the cards are exhausted. The holder of the joker can ask any player one of the ques- tions upon his card.

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���They Hung Little Jessie on the Clothesline to Dry

THE little girl on the clothesline is not a victim of Boche- atrocity, as some might imagine. She is a little American girl, and the condition of suspense in which she finds herself is merely the result of a happy inspiration. It was wash-day and the. mother was extremely busy. The little girl also had been busy around the tubs and being a trifle unsteady upon her tiny feet, she fell into one of th6 tubs which, luckily, was filled with cold water.

The mother was too busy to change the child's clothing and so she fastened the little toddler to the clothes- "When Mama linoby meansof herdress

the line to dry" and some clothespins.

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