Show UNCLE SAMS PLAYHOUSE alp avian Patches anti Toll Us How to 2 Grow Thorn Them L S I n u u One thing that fiery cry fow Is that ratted vials play Nay what would be to boys enter taming g games every day liS as a 11 part tf t their s serious work of oC tiro tho naton there Is ono one manan old all and grave V and wise and lna famous Jn many Y hI be often In hi his alike In I I ington standing on ch and desks launching little paper birds nud funny tunny contrivances through the all air and Watch lag Ing them soar and settle with just the same Interest lInt and delight with which boys bos and girls watch them If folks did not know who he by were to behold hint him they might well be u excUser excused for Cor that the old genn tuna growing h nut Jut probably ably there are few Cew persons In the coun country Ir try today who kno know better h what they are than hn he does For Fot ho hi Is one ana of oC the Iho foremost scientists ot of the tho Smith institution and some day It Is T ELEGANT CLOTH COAt 1 h o r t r r I Ic A c r rv v 1 M p I II a I Y rA t f r 1 J A Ar c r i l s A t tr tf ty y r f y ti t t t L rt 1 e 1 t e i tt 1 j I y I f b r ri t Loose coat of at tAn broadcloth with applicatIon a of at wIde Clun Cluny lace enriched 1 11 11 silk Collar and anel elbon cuffs CUITA or of green velvet barred with heavy silk cords coros matching g the cloth White While satin salin brocade lining While fur tur felt hat trimmed sable and while plumes plum es 4 expected that ho he will teach leach the world lion ho to bull build n a flying machine that really will fly Often Ottell after atter ho he has Played good gooel and hard with the little paper toys toS lie he dill appears Then the other scientists scientist I know that ho is 18 down In a lonely part of the tho Potomac river experimenting with hug big flying that have been built according to ideas gained b by him tram from time the toys tos And 1111 while the professor Is III flying his timings the chances are arc that not tar far faraway away other wise men are oro playing with little to toy 8 gardens There are patches just hug lh enough for tor children to weed anI and hoe hoeI I These Thello patches are watered with smell 11 graduated d n and with scales little or of fertilizer an and other Coo foods s ore are measured out tor Cor ouch elich 1111 men sit elt Over er them and watch them and veer peer Into Ih them m end fondle Candle the th little heaves lenell one onu b by one just JURt liS as would do But Dut every few weeks one of oC the tho IlIa play players ers sits down nt at his hiM desk and writes writeR I Innel and soon afterward time the Is Ip suet n a pamphlet that tells farmers nil I over oer the world just ho how they can handle their to make them yield more and onel better crops All o r the country are other othAr men employed by b the government nt whom who go 10 out eer every day with butterfly nets to I t catch butterflies and grasshoppers aryl countless other Insects Some ge out at night with lanterns and honey hone pots and lIt alt down tn 10 the Ule shelter ot of shrub h hery r waiting till th the great reat blundering night moths moth shall b be attracted by the kl keen n scent cent ot of the b h ry n th thio they io lot the moths drink honc honey un an tit they are drun run when they ran cn IJo be picked 1111 lW by the bore bare band without even needing a l ne net That Is spit not bad play either Vet thou thai kind ot of fila has saved MCd the people of oC tho th united States millions or of dollars for the insect ct hunters find out so mooch about AboUl detro that vegetation fruit and tress that we know now just when to look for their arrival and Ind jut how to o destroy them themo m before the gowing JIg big bigo enough enough to o eat Iut L mat year men In the agricultural dl de department In Washington played II at t a most absorbing game that tha surely ure would have pleased ever boy and girl In the theland land They planted seeds eds ot of maar kinds In tin tiny pots poll ont one seed ICed In each eich pot pol u u U U rUU I anI and then day day m 1 graphed ll the pots J Thus they rondo mommy t r pictures tUres that when they ere Vere all 1111 put log Just JURt hoW the plants grew 1111 tad 1111 these thelle ven put lit III litto to one aile or of tho those e j rent chines that throw large moving N 11 Nm nn m n No o now everybody cnn can Re Rea a plant grow from ton a rood Aced to a mighty shrub Only instead of oC having to watch It for Cor months amid years We can nil see It within II a tow for fot the tho throws time tIlt screen just Re ns first BS as one 1110 may wish This ThiN already III IM I hn taught f farmers and florists many things about plants that er hind hall b bean n suspected before al although thouGh so mn many persons hue have watched pints grow row for Cor So many centuries A few tew years ago ngo the United Staten government Imported the and aM valuable date hoping to make It grow In the sandy and dr dry parts or of Arizona and Now New Mexico and other the United States where other domestic plants do not thrive The rho vv VV VIII dale pains dill did Calr fairly well Lilt but not well elJ enough to please the tho department bC at ru EO It sent one of oC Its men away awny out to Africa and across the Des Ves Desert t crt ert of Sahara to find the oases and see sec how palms gro grow there He found II a gorgeous evergreen morn mornIn 0 In glory glor twIning all over tile the houses oCt of the tha Arabs And when he found the beautiful oases and ond when he returned i It a us lIS with many camels all au laden with 1 lint date And these are growing finely noW In our country That n a teal telI Arabian Nights play trl that has hns seen worth lots and lots iota of oC money to time the country Some charming toys nr are that thal 0 everybody nay may f sec e In the marry weather observing stations of oC tile the government There lire are bUs busty little ta lace anything and funny rattle round i disks on that dance oil all the time f i iI I mid and queer spiral gloss tubes tubas that t 4 lead pencils over oer charts s A 1 weather observatory Would be lc the thc wry very of oC nil that any 1111 child would it it II could have hao Its war Wl for n play tram There arc 1111 so mall many CUnn funny In i j and scores score I on scores of queer colored flags and ant little gaudy colored I lanterns that ones heart quite fills nus with Will witha 4 tI a desire to play pIa with them theme t t Yet even eHn while on e t U looking at them turn and Ihs toys i rummy lie be of at n a stud m 01 that thaI Is Killing KillingI i 1 I folk tolk and nn blowing houses houst dawn far Car away 1 The j he little and Interns hoist hoisted Y I e ed J ma may Seoul but toys to 10 thu sailor fallor some seine of them spell sTeil burnt cone and others talk ot of hall and rain and nd others ot ers warn all human humn 1 kind to Ila stay p t snug h In i shelter There was a learned man In Woos hole In Massachusetts Jt the other da day t who hind had great Ireat fun tun wIth little starfish In saucers and bright flashing glass Iau tanks tanke Hole IS the piece where t the government studies fish flAh This man went out and caught II a lot or of the beau benu thIngs called starfish because they t look so much like stars stare J have hao them and who seen scell i played with lIh them and a admired them will fled find It haul hard to 11 that they ate are j really first cousins to th the devilfish and octopus IU as the they are The man played lots of at with the stars He put some of theta them Into t shallow hallo vessels and found that they the v 1 l had queer habits for Instance tl a starfish star fish would try to crawl over the aide ot of 1 the dl h but as soon as liS he found he hmo have to life lite hl his arms out ot of the t water to do so he would silo sll o right back Hut But It if Ito ho could get t just enough water Mer to keep his arms covered hO would l nn away rapidly quite et at lure tho fact that all time tha rest lit of his body bod was sticking out and dry Thu man also Hot got many eggs ot of time thO star and t put them Into tiny 1 fop tull of r salt Water and hatched h thell out Gloriously beautiful little s they wore fore and crimson and scarlet yellow ollo each one OM as tiny Uny 1111 n a head yet ouch ch ammo II a perfect thu tar And liS as soon as each ench wat It would hustle right to th the b and fils ton on s II bit of green weed It shone like a tem gent Now Noll this truly trul pleasant 11 lInt Idy nu But d t was too For th the starfish I l is n a terrIble ellem enemy or of the oyster rind I th clam Thu fh starfish tensed to eat ent so 10 many man oysters timid clans that the ho fiah I Im ermen m n of alone lout ban The ot of the man at Woods Hole has hos taught iha govern new ways ot of fighting th the stars and It I Is now sending the tho to 10 all the tho tin and shah fish plant planters ers er So nil all th the playing moans vat vast of oC money mOlley 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