its age?

Elderberry. 9. What berry is is melancholy? Blueberry. 10. What berry is named for a month? Juneberry. 11. What berry is used in sewing? Thimbleberry. 12. What berry is named for a bird? Pigeonberry.

BIBLE CONTEST

The game of Bible Contest cards can be played very profitably and is very instructive. It can be found in any book store in large cities or can be had of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, Boston, Mass. The cost is very little. Or the cards may be written out as follows:

1. Give the first and last words of the Bible.
2. Whose three daughters were the fairest in all the land?
3. How old was Methuselah when he died?
4. Who was called "a ready scribe in the law of Moses"?
5. Give the names of the three persons who were put in the fiery furnace.
6. Who was the author of the expression, "What hath God wrought?"
7. With how many men did Gideon conquer the Midianites?
8. Who was Moses' brother?
9. Who went down into a pit on a snowy day and slew a lion?
10. Who said "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved"?
11. Who was the mother of Samuel?
12. Who commanded the gates of Jerusalem to be closed on the Sabbath?
13. Whose flock was Moses tending when he saw the burning bush?
14. What city was saved from famine by lepers?
15. Who waxed fat and kicked?

Name.No.No.

Have the cards distributed; then on a given signal have the answers written out; as fast as finished have them handed in to be examined by the committee who afterward returns them. The first blank for number is for the order in which the cards are handed in, and the second for the order of correctness of the answers.

BIBLE EVENING

Here is a well-known alphabet of Scripture proper names, which may be utilized at a social by ranking the members on two sides, and reading these lines one at a time, in the same way that a spelling-bee is carried on:

• A was a monarch who reigned in the East (Esth. 1: 1).
• B was a Chaldee who made a great feast (Dan. 5: 1-4).
• C was veracious, when others told lies (Num. 13: 30-33).
• D was a woman, heroic and wise (Judg. 4: 4-14).
• E was a refuge, where David spared Saul (1 Sam. 24: 1-7).
• F was a Roman, accuser of Paul (Acts 26: 24).
• G was a garden, a favorite resort (John 18: 1, 2; Matt. 26: 36).
• H was a city where David held court (2 Sam. 2: 11).
• I was a mocker, a very bad boy (Gen. 16: 16).
• J was a city, preferred as a joy (Ps. 137: 6).
• K was a father, whose son was quite tall (1 Sam. 9: 1, 2).
• L was a proud one, who had a great fall (Isa. 14: 12).
• M was a nephew, whose uncle was good (Col. 4: 10; Acts 11: 24).
• N was a city, long hid where it stood (Zeph. 2: 13).
• O was a servant, acknowledged a brother (Philem. 16).
• P was a Christian greeting another (2 Tim. 1: 1, 2).
• R was a damsel who knew a man's voice (Acts 12: 13, 14).
• S was a sovereign who made a bad choice (1 Kings 11: 4-11).
• T was a seaport, where preaching was long (Acts 20: 6, 7).
• U was a teamster, struck dead for his wrong (2 Sam. 6: 7).
• V was a cast-off, and never restored (Esth. 1: 19).
• Z was a ruin with sorrow deplored (Ps. 137: 1).

BIBLE NAMES

Choose sides as in a spelling match, and let the leader of the first side give the first syllable of the name of some Bible character. The leader of the opposite side will then complete the name, if he can. Failing this, his side loses a member, selected by the leader of the opposite side. And so the contest goes on down the line, first one side and then the other proposing the first syllable of some name.

BIBLE READINGS

A good way to promote study of the Bible is a "Bible oratorical contest," in which four or five contestants recite, or give as readings, selections from the Bible. If well done, it will prove most entertaining, and many people will go home surprised that the Bible is such an interesting book.

BIRD CARNIVAL

The invitations to the carnival had various kinds of birds painted upon them, and each guest was requested to come representing the kind of bird designated on his or her invitation. There were two invitations of each kind, one sent to a lady and one to a gentleman, that there might be a "pair" of each variety of bird. As the guests arrived, each was labeled with the name of the bird he or she represented, and in this way it was easy for them to find their "mates" for refreshments. The house was profusely trimmed with flowers, vines, and leaves (many of them artificial, borrowed from a near-by store); every available space was covered, the banisters, the mantel posts, the door- and window-frames, the archways, etc., and even the walls of the dining-room were hung with the trailing vines, so that the place looked like a veritable woodland dell. All the stuffed birds that could be secured were perched here and there among the vines and branches, some on nests with their mates beside them; a large owl was placed high in one corner, and in a cozy nook in another corner was the nest of a meadow lark, with father and mother birds teaching their young ones to fly. Besides this canaries in cages were distributed throughout the house, lending their music to the general effect. Bird eggs of every description were also used to help decorate. In the centre of the dining table a nest was arranged, containing a mother bird and her little ones, while suspended from the gas jet by gayly colored ribbons and reaching almost to the nest, were many prettily decorated egg shells, the contents having been "blown" from them by means of small holes made in each end. Twenty-five rhymes about birds were pinned about the rooms, the guests being required to answer them. Following are given the rhymes and their answers. The hostess kept the "key" and read the correct list at the close of the contest, when a canary bird in a cage was given as first prize and a stuffed bird as second to the most successful contestants. At the close of the contest, the roll was called and each "bird" present responded by an appropriate quotation, these having been previously distributed by the hostess.

Bird Pie

After refreshments were served, an enormous "bird pie" was placed upon the table and each guest was given a slice. This pie was made of pie crust, and was filled with tiny trifles wrapped in tissue paper, most of them representing birds, eggs, nests, etc. On the top of the pie twenty-four little birds cut out of black paper were perched by means of pins stuck through their feet. Also pinned to the pie was this verse:

BIRD GUESSING CONTEST