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Popular Science Monthly 



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. 



