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Show unwind.- - and so, of course, spin even If you throw Tuen, If the string is too wind? too soon, and then of lb Blrdfc JMn there you are, little 1h Heigh-ho- ! hen. In under the sweet apple tree; If you wanted to hide with your eggs, why then. Pray why did you cackle to me? And what are you doing out there In the shade While each of the birds Is at work at a trad Sir Swallow, the mason, is plastering well The house that is under the eaves, And up in the maple that stands in the dell A basket the Oriole weaves. And Woodpecker, Jolly old carpenter he, Hae hammered his home in the trunk of a tree. King Fisher, the fisherman out on the rocks, Is snaring the minnows, tis said; And Bluebird, the housewife, is cleaning her box And putting fresh down in her bed; A queer little architect carrying sticks Is Chimney Swift, gluing his house to the bricks. Brown Creeper, who rented the Red Squirrel's hole, Is making repairs of her own. And the little Sand Martin just OTer the knoll Has spaded her cellar alone; The feather-dresse- d orchestra carols a chime. And Partridge, the drummer, is beating the time. Then helgh-ho- ! hide away, little red hen, la under the sweet-apptree; There are eggs in your nest and I counted ten; Did you think you could krep it from me? I see you were busy out here In the le shada While each of the birds was at work at a trade. Florence Josephine Boyce. At Ellis Island. Among the Immigrants awaiting examination at Bills Island recently was a tall young fellow with a little black bag under his arm. He was a Pole, about twenty years old, 'and his admission was a pleasing and dramatic Incident, witnessed by Mr. Arthur Henry, and described in Scribner's Magazine. When the young mans turn came to answer the inevitable question, How much money hare you? he smiled and answered frankly, None. "But dont you know you cant come in here if you have no money and no friend to speak for you? Where are you going? To Fall River first. I have a friend there. Then I shall see the whole country. I shall make money. You will hear of me. "How will you get to Fall River? Where will you eat and sleep to- - yw'kll -i- right. black bag lKppIng-tWe rep led the "I ' can go anywhere. "What is it? The Pole laughed, and, opening the bag, took out a cornet. It was a fine Instrument, and gave evidence of loving care. Can you play It well? asked the officer, more kindly. In answer, the young Pole stepped out Into an open space, and lifting the horn to his lips, began the beautiful Rustl-can- a. Cavalleria intermezzo from one in note every At the first lisand stood still the great building tened. The long lines of immigrants became motionless. The forlorn waiters in the pit looked up, and their faces became tender. Even the meanest among them seemed to feel the charm of the pleading notes. When the music ceased there was a burst of Good applause. Shouts of Bravo! came more! some us Give boy! from every side. The physicians that i.oi a few moments before made their hurried examination joined in the applause. The officer that had questioned him so sharply slapped him on the back. The commissioner himself had come np from his office at the sound of the horn, and asked for the particulars. When he had heard them he turned to the agent or the Fall River boats, and said, Give this fellow a passage, including meals, and charge I will charge it to myself," It to me. said the agent, and he took the young Pole by the arm and led him away. The incident was a sermon on competence; a lesson on what it means to be a master. The trade may be music or farming or bricklaying it does not matter. The man who has conquered It. who knows it root and branch, can as ths young point to it as toconfidently his cornet and say, as Pole pointed he did. With this I can go anywhere. Philadelphia Times. Ikat Tops. kinds of tops this are three There at a penny; the wooden top. the year or three, or at two. rubber peg top, five cents, and the boxwood top, at 10 is cents. The boxwood top is the The most desirable. A top having a large wooden peg in the top of it Is not a good top to spin, said the boy around the corIf you want it to spin properly ner. it is necessary to cut the peg right off The peg makes with your jack-knifit top heavy, and it is as likely to spin on the peg as on the point. Here the boy gave an illustration cf the behavior of a top with a big wooden peg on it. and sure enough, away it went whizzing on its head in a manner that soon made it feel dizzy, and so tumble over on its side, where it lay very still, as though quite exhausted. There is a great trick in having the string exactly the right length, conYou have to gauge tinued the boy. of the string by placing the length your toe on one end of it, and then reaching up as high as you ran. The highest you can reach with the string In your' hand Is the longest you can have the string. If you have the string longer, when you throw ths top. after winding it. the string will not e. properly. short, it unalso the top ng WA&. R SITTLy. ceniiAt spin. Yes, girls can spin tops a?ter a fashion, admitted the boy with a contempt for That is. If a feminine limitations. girl has a brother she may in time spin a top. My sister sometimes spins my top, but she is never sure when she winds and throws it that it will spin. A boy always knows that if ths top doesnt spin properly, it Is the fault of the top, and not his own fault It was only after an expert that the boy was induced to confess that the first time he ever succeeded in making a top spin he was surprised. He had tried all one day, and although he had repeatedly failed, still he persevered. He knew that It was a mere question of time, that sooner or later that top would have to give in, and do what was expected of It. But it was a very stubborn top. Every time he threw it all it did was to go wabbling off on its side and try to hide somewhere. Finally, after an endless amount of attempts. It at last behaved handsomely, and rewarded his perseverance by humming a Jolly little tune, and at last It sang so softly that it seemed to be asleep. That night he dreamed of tops, and the next morning he was up bright and early at his new accomplishment. He has never had any trouble with that top, or with any other since that time. By the end of the next day he was able to take it up In his hand while It was spinning without any manifest objections on the part of the top. Then there is the game of peg said the boy, and it Is very top, popular this year. Every boy places a top in a ring marked on the ground. Then they take turns pegging at the bunch of tops. Whenever you hit a FILTRATION EXPERIMENT STATION AT LAWRENCE ON THE MERRIMAC RIVER. top and knock it out of the ring, then Massachusetts State Board of Health Carried On the First Investigations Looking to the Purification of the top is yours. Sometimes, when you the Where Water by Sand Filtration. Showing the Filtration Tanks and Working Laboratories. hit a top hard, it splits it right in two. You are always glad to do this, even epidemic of a few years ago typhoid cago is well knrwn, where 830,000,000 (Boston Correspondence.) though it ruins the top for your own has practically been eradicated in that has been spent on a drainage canal, cities and of towns, water The havsupply use. That is the advantage of or lake, city, although, of course, it might still' which, by carrying the Bewage into the ing a rubber peg top; if the point of whether drawn from a river or not and whether supplemented by be introduced by other means bad Mississippi River, has revolutionized a top strikes It, instead of splitting it within fif- oysters as wellMrbad water being an the citys water supply. In St. Louis, become has artesian Tribune. wells, New York only bounds. where the question of an adequate teen years a universal problem of the easy vehicle for the disease. Lawrence-has water The lesson which time supply is being considered pargreatest importance. Before that The Calif or a la Woodworkers so not has with reference to the great illustrated cononly were ticularly graphically The California woodpecker dom not municipal governments methods of in Louisiana worked a Purchase Exhibition, the the revolution sufa cerned about woodsecuring mainly differ much in appearance from cities bears Massachusetts water river in the drainage of Chicago', supply drinkable water, peckers found in other parts of the ficient quantity of and scores of effect all St. its and is Paul. but. towns, Minneapolis having draw to were able United States. Like them all, it feeds and cities that Professor over is notable SedgA instance and the other world. cities, yet and from rivers their running supply on beetles and worms; but judging which states wick a hesitation that the of without by system by Albany; city were streams considered conacorns of particularly it from the quantity obmeans of filtration St. Louis can obsumes it likes them better than any fortunate, until in Massachusetts an of filtration has been enabled to alarm was raised by disastrous epi- tain a supply of pure water from the tain its water supply from the Missisother food. Hudson River, previously a constant sippi with absolute safety. It believes in laying up for the demics of typhoid fever which fol- source of disease. The gravity of the Merrlmac course soon of the lowed as and the proverbial rainy day, in the case of large cities has The rhinoceros is the- thickest problem as the acorns begin to ripen It begins River. The disease was carried by the enorin of resulted skinned the conquadruped, with a hide so expenditure was for to gather and store them away sewage with which the river as' to resist the claws of a lion a mous sums maintenance of for the tough winter use. However, before It gath- taminated from town to town, wherdisword or the balls of an water either the wholesome or by supply tiger, ers the acorns, it provides storage-place- s ever the stream was used as a water musket. The skin of the or rect the disposal by purification holes in for them by digging supply, down to the city of Lawrence, the soft bark of trees. Each hole Is which suffered worst of all. In 1887 an of sewage so as to prevent contamina- whale is from two inches to two feet made just large enough to hold one experiment station, the first of its kind tion of the source. The case of Chi thick. acorn, but it seems to know that In the world, for the purification of acorns vary in size, and accordingly sewage and water by filtration it varies the size of the holes. When through sand, was established in Lawit finds a fat, ripe acorn it takes It at rence by the Massachusetts State once to a tree in which it has dug Board of Health, and the . Lawrence holes, selects a hole of the proper filtration beds became an object lessize. Inserts the acorn, point first, and son for the instruction not only of the d with a few steady, blows, State, but of the world at large. drives it in' to stay until somefuture half-conceal- red it ed cross-examinati- her own- age would' not be- safMent. to chaperon her. It is an established is a rare exrule that novel-readiception, She is entirely subject to her parents win in the matter of reading. And if she asks to see anything at the theater except a classical masterpiece- or an- opera,, they will tell her that such a thing is not considered proper, feeling sure of her silent submission. After she is fifteen years old she is generally allowed to be in the draw lng room on her mother's- reception days, but must keep to the modest and. secondary place assigned her; pouring the tea, and presenting it, courtesylng to her elders, answering when, spoken to in short, undergoing her apprenand ticeship. She has but few Jewels, Cusunder no pretext any diamonds. tom does not permit her to wear costly things; nor does It give her the right, in general, to have a money al'.owance worth speaking of for her personal use. She receives a trifling sum for A charity, her books and gloves. con lead in never the takes young girl versatlon. but always allows the married lady the precedence, and she finds it quite natural to occupy the - the top can't BX.YI.1MV - are now at their best, sines they are to be seen on women, and surely the stylish dress parades bear out well the early promise of the show windows and rooms. The of elaborateness sleeves and skirts, together with the license for complexity that usually prevails in summery fabrics,, aids much in effecting a on , LINEN IVR, . UMMER gowns most attractive va- riety. A new feature of linen dresses is the very stylish use of and green sage both gray, greenish shades that make with FINK. MLSLIX np handsomely when trimmed, of the goods. bands or stitched lace These dresses usually are made with a. stitched Spanish flounce banded with a on. the fftld of the goods. The waist, shirt-wai- st order,, has a front plastron of white mull or tucked lawn outlined with lace or embroidery run with black velvet Suits of the mercerized linen in these new green shades are made wear in skirt and bolero for dress-u- p trimmed lace, a fancy white shirtwaist One of coming beneath the Jacket accompanythese suits appears in the ing initial picture. Ivory white lace trimmed it and the white silk revers of its bolero were embroidered in black silk. Gowns of this material commonexly are made so elaborately that thisone.as a counted be to simple is ample WITH. WHITE. SPOT. FRENCH GIRL LIFE. The program of what a French girl may or may not do is drawn up very precisely, declares Th. Bentxon (Mme. Blanc), in the Ladles Home Journal. Unless she is poor and has to earn and insertion.. her own living she never goes out With fine laco ruffles Black tulle rosettes and belt. alone. The company of a friend of ATTRACTIVE SHIRT WAISTS, old-fashion- ed James J. Van Aleris Daughter well-aime- Good and Sad Microfxii. operation of therfate and tnc Ma8sl?Lue&8 InstftOtifbf Technolrees become so dry that they shrivel ogy In the early years of the conduct at Lawrence at up somewhat, and get loose In their of these experiments success of the Investhe assured once an But the woodpecker keeps holes. T. SedgWilliam eye on them, and when it discovers a tigations. Professor as new a bacteriologist of wick the institute, loose one, pulls it out, digs hole and again stores It away. When of the State Board of Health, for eight in need of food, it draws one out and years directing the bacteriological exhulls and eats It. This bird works periments on which- the work of purification depended. For, after all, it is hard for what It gets, and has no noat the Institute of Techtion of allowing squirrels or other held y Should at as its expense. animals to feast everywhere else, that the nology, a squirrel start to climb a tree in purification of water and sewage water being considered by the which acorns are stored the bird is sure to see it and sound a warning bacteriologist merely as very dilute note. In a twinkling scores of woodsewage is almost solely a .matter of peckers come flying at the squirrel, controlling the microbes, the good and they worry it until it is gad to microbes and the bad ones, so that run away. Exchange. the pathogenic or disease-breedin- g germs shall be prevented from reachFanctnatloa Important. ing the human system, while the good ones are encouraged to do their Properly punctuated the following natural work of purification. nonsense becomes sensible rhyme, and The dramatic story of the microbe it is doubtless as true as it la curious, has frequently been told since Pasteur though, as it stands, it is very established the germ theory of ferrlous if true: mentation, but there is something I saw a pigeon making bread unique in the accomplishment of such I saw a girl composed of thread one mile a towel saw square I bacteriologists as Professor Sedgwick, I saw a meadow in the air by which millions of I saw a rocket walk a mile lire herded together Intelligently, with the character of their work and their I mw a pony make a file hours of labor and rest definitely esI saw a backsmlth in a box tablished. I mw an orange kill an ox I saw a butcher made of steel Water Joif, To fifdtc I mw a penknife dance a reel In Lawrence and From experiments I saw a sailor twelve feet high n the biological laboratories of the I saw a ladder in a pie of Technology it has been Institute I saw an apple fly away Remonstrated that any river water I saw a sparrow making hay filter turifled by means of a five-foI saw a farmer like a dog s safe and wholesome, and, further, I saw a puppy mixing grog affluent water from proper filtraI saw three men who saw these, too that of tion sewage would not be dangerous And will confirm what I tell you. domestic use. The records also for Exchange. have shown that since Lawrence, enPan Tath with Finger. couraged by the example of the State A novel account of the manner in experiment station, has installed a muwhich Chinese dentists operate on nicipal filter, though it is still using their patients is contributed by a the water of the Merrlmac River, alGerman naval surgeon who was with ways more or less contaminated by the the naval contingent of his country at drainage of Lowell the very circumPeking during the Boxer uprising. stance. that is; which caused the great They use, he say neither pincers nor any other surgical instruments such as are used in Europe, employing instead their fingers for the purpose of extracting teeth. This difficult operation they perform with a dexterity and skill that might well excite the envy of their American and European colleagues. The tooth which is to be extracted is grasped by the thumb and Index finger and is then pulled out. the force necessary for such work being equivalent to 100, 150 and someThe Chinatimes 190 kilogrammes. man who decides to become a dentist practices this feat from his 16th year by pulling out from an ebony plank ivory pegs of various sizes, which have been firmly fixed in it. In this way he acquiree a surprising knack, so that it becomes easy for him to draw out a molar or a wisdom tooth without ever being obliged to make a second attempt. That his patients sufTer during the operation is admitA good variation of the American ted, but it is claimed that their pain is game of basebaM. and one which needs of very brief duration. no particular preparation, is known as ball. This game may be played by club Great Britain supplies many Brusof boys, from two to twensels carpets and small foot rugs to any number outfit needed Is a rubber ty. All the Turkey. can be picked up which club a ball, - White lawn, with white lace insertions, closed at the back. d batiste, with tuck s. Ecru and white dotted batiste, closed at the back and trimmed with ecrue lace and insertions. to-da- Cream-colore- un-purif- led embroidery. White, with Valenciennes lace an d batiste, with yellow Valenciennes lace. Yellow and white-figure- d all-ov- er YOl'NG GIRLS FROCK. ADVICE TO GIRLS WHO TRAVEL. micro-organis- Rrer ot fixed between the teeth in a most uncomfortable and annoying way. It depends altogether upon a soman's figure as to the syle of corset she should wear. If she is very, very slight, the girdle corset would suit her, otherwise the straight front corset, which supports the abdomen and leaves th body free and entirely unrestrained above the waist line, is the best. SARA VAN ALEN, WHO MAY SOON BECOME MRS. ROBERT COURIER. little weight, as his chilCupid is said to have caused a slight will carry of him in forare dren James Independent of disagreement in the family tune. comis it stated In fact that wher been has who Van J. Alen, manded by King Edward VII. to at- his three children are all married he tend at court for the purpose of being will be far from as well off as he is Miss Sara Van Alen Of white serge, made with bolero, Invested with the insigna of a Knight now clever a and attractive is John. girl, is .edged with three fine tucks pretty, which St. of Order of Grace of the Mr. Collier is a very quiet, inwhile Miss back with stitched strap and that said caught is It friends her By and with tellectual United gentleyoung of pleasant serge, large pearl button; Sara Van Alen sailed fr the an and collar. man. He is is lace at white polo of adept marrying heavy States with the intention aris of Colliers editor It the on Weekly. her immediate y Collier Robert HART TEAS. rival. Mr. Van Alen is said to op- said Mr. Van Alen will oppose the teas have now taken the Unfoitunately Mr. match and for this reason has de- pose the match. Baby Van Alans commands in the matter layed his departure for England. glace of the book parties of last The guests are asked to bring and the stick is hit on the raised end, year. of themselves taken when photographs the ball will travel a considerable diswere babies, or, at any rate, bethey tance before alighting. The further fore they were six years old. The hostthe ball travels the better for the man ess receives all the portraits, numbers who strikes it, because he must run them and aranges them all together. to a base and return before the guards Each guest is provided with a numcan capture the ball and throw it to bered list. They are allowed some litthe head, who stands just by the tle time to study the photographs, and his they write down on their list the clubman. The head never leaves ' post unless the opportunity presents names of the people they believe the Itself of catching the ball on the fly. pictures to represent. The most corOccasionally when the clubman makes rect list wins the prize. an especially good stroke, he can run HEALTH AND HKACTY. twice to the base before the ball can For a graceful carriage be careful to be captured. If the ball is returned to the head stand with the weight on the balls of before the clubman has had time to the feet, the chest thrown out and the run to his base and return, the clubhips kept well back. man becomes last guard, the head beChildren under five should be ignocomes clubman and the first guard berant of the flavors of anything but simcomes head. The boy who, at the end ple cereals, wit milk and a few vegetof the game, has run to base and back ables. Ice water should never be given the greatest number of times is ac- to a child until the extreme chill has candy is objectionsomewhere about the. playgroup- - ant counted as the winner. A ball caught disappeared, and and in all places. times all at able causes 'clubman to the on the fly a small stick, perhaps ten inch? 'on ideal toothbrush en is not hard The with who the boy change places With a penknife hollow out t.e cause to to the gums not bleed, and It. enough of the stick so that the ball wj caught 8 its bristles are firmly fixed. In cheap roll off when placed on it. 'Nov A six months cruise will decrease toothbrushes the bristles usually seem obvious that if the ball and sti 15 cent. a of made to come out. and they do. getting per ship the speed arranged as shown in the illust?tim The young girl who is traveling by herself should seek information from the train people rather than from her companions on the train. No girl in traveling should make confidants of strangers of either sex, disclose her name, her destination or her family affairs, or make acquaintances on the road. She may, however, show kind attention to a mother traveling with little children, amuse a wearied little one and politely thank anyone who does her an unobtrusive kindness. Ladies' Home Journal. well-to-d- o. Jeief Game of Dali and Hoto to "Play - I' I OCR COOKING SCHOOL Fleklad String BNtH. String the beans and cut them Into inch lengths. Let them stand in strong brine eight days, changing it three times. Drain and lay in clear, cold water for a day, then dry between the folds of a towl. Pack in glass Jars and fill the jars with scalding vinegar, which has been brought to the boll with a minced onion, a dozen whole cloves, a heaping tablespoonful of mustard seed and four blades of mace. Screw on the tops and do not use for a month or six weeks. Cherry Hon nee Beat to a pulp two pounds each of sweet and tart cherries and mix together. The beating should be done with a heavy mallet that the stones may be crushed. Stir into the mashed fruit a .pound and a quarter of granulated sugar; turn all Into a stone crock and stir in two quarts of white whisky. Stand for an hour, then stir and pour into a demijohn. Cork and stand for a month, shaking hard each day, then let stand for six weeks without shaking. Rack off. strain and bottle. Magistrate Now, my boy, you are on your oath. Do you know what that means? Witness Er no, sir; not exactly. Magistrate Do you know what youre expected to tell? Witness (promptly) Oh, yes, sir; the lawyer that brought me here wrote it all down bo's I could learn It off by heart. |