Show 1 IBM FOR THe = = YO a Igld 6t The Methodical Fish The sunnltit Mali that ever could bo Lived down In the depths of a very deep lie knitted sea his brows and ho scratched hl < < old head And after reflection he soberly silo si-lo given tho subject much serious tllolllht day tendances I shall some And tn ehance to one be caught that row If that comes to pass I trust caughTln way fie Cllllght In nn orderly businesslike No one In his senses can ever deny A hook Is Intended to go In an c > e he will lUh Is so careless Vet many n In rake n hook In his mouth or perhaps his gill methodical so I shall try Hut Im more the and the hook To Join In true union e1e orderly Vmi fish went his Well this orderly ways with wide lie kept his eyes open thoughtful gaze hook And whenever he saw n w011111 ilftmo Ho rolled up his eye with contemplative ionic satisfied then away with a And swam wlllk Saying mats not the hook to fit my eye I think as every one So he Kept his eyes open olllht And somehow the wise old fish never was caught Youths Companion Game of Rival Armies Boys and girls do not use slates In school nowadays writing pads scorn R + to have taken their place Here Is such a nice game for a slato that every one of you will want to buy one right oft though for that matter you can also play It on paper i Divide a slate Into three equal parts by drawing lines up and down It with a pencil Then across the lower end draw another line In each lower low-er corner place a cannon filling tho space above It with os for tho soldiers sol-diers of the army This picture will show you how to do it Now tho battle begins Each player has a sharp poinled pencil No1 placing tho point of his pencil on the mouth of his cannon draws It very quickly across tho slato toward No 2s army It the mark made by this pencil passes through any of the men of the opposing army they are killed and out of action Then No2 takes his turn at pencil killing and so the game goes on until all tho men on one side are dead This diagram shows the plan of battle bat-tle No 1 having won Tho pencil track must bo straight or curved any shot In which there is an angle docs not count If either gunner Is unlucky enough to hit his own men It counts for the other ode The faster tho pencil shoots tho more exciting the game As many dots as the players wish may bo drawn for tho armies Home TackleMaking There is no more Interesting and absorbing occupation during tho spare hours for the young angler than the homo manufacture of his tackle says J Harrington Keene In Recreation Of course few boys can hopo to become be-come expert rod reel or fly makers nor with the beautiful and comparatively compar-atively cheap products of skilled labor in the tackle stores Is It necessary that they should But the mending of a broken or weakened rod joint tho replacement of a missing guide ring the whipping of a hook on tho smell and thp joining of tho gut by the right knots in a leader ought to be an accomplishment within the reach of every young fisherman In course of his apprenticeship In theso simple processes the aspirant for high hookshlp should proceed to tho making of a passably good artificial arti-ficial fly which properly considered Is an Imitation as close as possible of tho fly or Insect on which the trout end other fish feed with readiness during tho spring anti summer months mon-ths especially and even to the middle of autumn In some localities Two Pencils a Year for All Tho number of pencils used In the United States annually If divided evenly would bo a small allowance for thoso requiring them every day Yet at this rate when tho total of about 100000000 for tho whole country coun-try Is calculated one cannot help wondering how it Is possible to con sumo such a vast number of pencils Some of tho pencils wo buy arc made in Germany but of tho entire number num-ber that Americans use ninetenths are of homo manufacture A considerable consid-erable quantity of this article is also exported as well as imported The pencil factories of the United States employ upward of 2000 people paying them about 700000 in wages every year Americas annual output of pencils pen-cils is worth 2000000 Tho wood most commonly sought for making pencils is Virginia or red cedar which grows abundantly In tho South especially in Alabama and Florida Europe having nothing as good among Its own trees for pencil covering as Virginia cedar obtains Its supply of this material from tho United States But the American manufacturer Is compelled to go abroad for the graphite contained In pencils Mexico Bohemia Ceylon and Siberia yield the best qualities of graphite The preparation of graphite of which with clay pencil lead consists con-sists Is an Important Industry In Itself and It has its home In Germany I Beg Your Pardon The other day at a railroad station a Japanese young man was noticed among several Americans who wero eating that is bolting food by Jerks Ho knew but few words of English but managed to call for some oysters or coffee Ho ate and drank with most exquisite manners nnd attracted much attention by his frequent use of I beg your pardon When he wanted tho pepper upon reaching for it he said In a sweet voice to tho man before whom he had to pass his arm 1 beg your pardon One coarse fellow who sat with his hat tilted over one eye surprised even himself by pushIng push-Ing the plato of crackers toward the polite Japanese without being asked Ho did not look up as If ashamed of being caught in the act Conversing afterward with tho young man from Japan he admitted that ho knew less than 100 words of our language I beg your pardon thank you If you please and you are very kind were phrases ho could speak very distinctly and by means of them made his way wherever ho went Politeness costs nothing and is tho passport to every good In life It never falls to bring returns This Jap was unlike a little American girl aged 5 Recently her father brought home a humorous book teaching politeness by showing the shockingly bad manners of a family of children Edna he said I hopo theso funny pictures and stories will help you to be more polite Its of no use papa It will take more than a book to teach mo manners man-ners You cant teach an old dog new tricks The Carrier Bee You often have heard of carrier pigeons pig-eons and the part they play In war but how many boys and girls ever heard of a carrier bee These little honey gatherers have such a sense of direction that they can always fly straightto their hives oven from places they have never visited before Wo are told that a few years ago a beekeeper trained some of his Insects In-sects as message carriers Knowing they will always fly home from any point In a range of four of five miles ho tied tiny notes for his little daugh tors on the bees and set them loose In a totally unfamiliar place In a very short time they wore back at their own hives messages and all Somo people think bees might be made very useful in war times and even now experiments are being made to see just how far and how directly they will fly Magic Second Sight To do the trick of second sight all that Is necessary In the way of equipment Is a large slato a piece of chalk and a sheet of paper First ask some one in the company to write any number or words on the paper and tell him that you without seeing tho paper will then write upon the slato thoso very words Everyone will smile and at once call upon you to make good your claim When the paper Is ready dl rcct It to bo hidden J while you tu IW a your back IWetb Place tho slate so that the au diet i tie c cannot sec tho front of it and then e bt sumo an attitude of deep tboug Is 1ed Then say Now If some one r j a cl kindly read aloud what Is on pellet paper 1 will prove that I have writ r actl thoso very words o p The paper is then read and til time has arrived to turn the gs around When itho spectators r what is on it tho laugh will be i > them for you have done what J boasted you would dothat Is to 13 i you have written Those very usords Mexican Bread Fruit In tho public gardens at New Yo there is u Mexican bread fruit epiphyte that clings to a dead tIts in tIts t-Its leaves grow to be like big fu I wri with deeply scalloped edges and I fruit resembles a long ear of co wrapped in n single sheath T t I Jif f 1 l tj Yl rug toy dt ads a me e tl bin dy ptln I It K a i a r th eeh r am rah fruit when ripe has the taste ai ° d od t of pineapple and we can just Iraagl sl that the little Mexican children fet Ht upon It as the boys and girls of o < ttin country feast upon peaches at r p cream b 0 Single Rope Swings t g Sometimes a rope will be founding found-Ing about the barn or back ot I ru house which could be used to tic a swing but it Is not quite I enough for tho purpose That Is th 1 w time a single ropo swing may bet I ee which will furnish enough fun 11 d tb all summer The end of a soap box makes s d seat explains the Rochester Post ° oil e press Bore a hole in the middle board pass the rope through and til a knot In tho bottom Tie the the end around Iho branch of a tree far away from the trunk as possible Let tho board be not more than i or seven Inches wide A good athletic boy can have grct i fun with such n swing There Is i knack in handling it but when cnc mastered ho can swing back or fotttl perfectly straight In any direction Grasp the ropo as high as you oil reach stand far back and with a quick jerk lift yourself off the ground land l-and straddle the swing The board I should be far enough from the ground to let the toes touch then by touching touch-ing tho ground occasionally It Is po not straight and slblo to keep going Is near by to revolve If some one push you can bo pushed In a circle There Is I like a merrygoround enough variety in this style of SwlDI l to make it vorth while to make one When Koreans I Go Calling Korean visiting cards sometimes l 1 measure a foot square Tho sasgel l of Dahomey announce an Intended I visit by sending In advance a woodeD I i artlsue I board or tho branch of a tree ally carved When the visit Is paid tho card is returned to the posse r slop of Its owner who will doubtles With the M use It for many years card II lives of Sumatra the visiting about afoot of piece of wood composed a of foot long decorated with a bunch j straw and a knife |