The Bottle Race.
Six empty bottles are necessary for this race, milk bottles, Coca-Cola bottles, almost any kind will do, but it is preferable to have bottles that tip easily. Contestants are divided into two lines. A rope has been laid on the ground about twenty feet in front of these lines and six bottles have been placed there, three for each line. At a signal, the first one of each team runs up to the rope, picks up his three bottles which are lying on the ground, places them upright and runs back to touch the hands of the next runner, who starts at once for the goal, knocks the three bottles down, and hurries back to touch off the next runner. He in turn stands the bottles up again, while the next runner knocks them down, and so on. If a bottle falls down the runner must go back to stand it up again before he can touch the the next runner. Each runner, when he has finished and has touched off the next runner, goes to the end of the line. The side whose last runner first touches the first runner’s hand wins the race.
Masculine Vanity Race.
Contestants run the length of the course, about fifty feet, take off their caps, shoes, coats, and ties, put them on the ground, run to the starting point, back to their clothes, put them on, and then race back to the starting line. The one who arrives first, fully clothed, gets a little vanity mirror as a reward!
Cradle Roll.
It is always possible to get certain wholesome hard candies wrapped in bright colored papers, preferably red. All Cradle Rollers are gathered into a small open space and it is left to their mothers to tell them that real, honest-to-goodness candy will be tossed up in the air and that they are to scramble for it, and that the one who gets the most will get a big red balloon! It is perfectly all right for mothers to accompany the scramblers as long as the children themselves pick up the candy.
Kindergartners.
At a signal each youthful contestant is to run over to the balloon man to get a balloon. As each one is given his balloon he begins blowing it up and the one who blows the biggest balloon in the shortest time gets a bag of peanuts.
You know what happens to fat Jimmy Pond! He blows like a north wind, determined that his balloon shall be the largest. It is—for one second, and then it pops!