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Show Turn the Edge In. Oear llttlr girl. If you would sew. Have near each needful thing Your needle, thlmhle. scissors, thread. Your buttons on a string. Irepare your work wilh greatest care, TU best ere you begin, And if you find the seams are rough, Just turn the edges In Dear little girl, If you would grow Like Dowers In the spring, lfavo near the tiny thoughtful deeds, That early sunshines Icing; Sweet temper, patience, love and trust. The race will surely win; And if good resolutions fray, Just turn the edges In. Bird. The You have probably seen some ol birds in the toy these Life-Lik- ploint of the walnut on the cork of an upright bottle; the system will balance Itself. Now pour gently into the walnut a stream of water, which will run down the two straws Into the nuts, from which it will escape through the small pieces of straw, causing the rotation of the entire apparatus on account of the reaction of the descending water on the inner surfaces of the small nuts. This is a rustic Imitation of the principle of the hydraulic turntable given in the treatises on physics. A few precautions must be taken, when you bore the holes In the nuts, not to chip the shells or break your penknife. The best way is to take a hit of wire heated red hot, and with this gradually enlarge the opening. well-know- The Baby Turtle. Turtles, you know, lay their eggs In the sand and let the sun hatch them out. They do not lay them all in one place, probably because thoy think it safer to scatter them. Then, even though one be stolen or broken, the others may escape. The mother turtle covers them all carefully tip, one after another, with a thin sprinkling of sand, and then apparently never gives them another thought, considering her maternal duty done. Certain it is that she has never been discovered going near these egg babies again, and when they hatch at last the tiny, soft backed creatures at once begin crawling around in search of files and other food as Independently as If there were no such thing as a mother In the world. A little girl who found one of these odd, oblong turtle eggs on a sandy river bank In Louisiana took it home and put It in a teacup on the table for safekeeping. A few hours later a Blight noise was noticed In that direction, and on looking in the cup again she found a baby turtle, Tull fledged, but tiny, scrambling about among the bits of its broken eggshell cradle. You can make one easily shops. if you follow these directions. The drum is made of two circular pieces of cardboard (as large as the palm of a mans hand), which are Joined by a narrow strip of paper pasted around the rims. But before the strip is pasted, a piece of wire is run through both the circular pieces of cardboard and a small ball of lead is swung from the wire between the two sections. Then the strip of paper is pasted around the rim of both circular pieces and the ends of the wire extending over the paper are bent over Any Port In Time of Storm, the rim of each circular piece of Let the players sit in two lines oppaper and joined (see cut). A small posite each other at some little disbird cut from cardboard, which may tance apart. Then two members stand be colored to make it more lifelike, between, one of whom is blindfolded; Is fastened to the top of the wire (the the other, In a whisper, gives the bird, of course, must be lighter than players on one side of the line the the ball of lead inside of the drum). name of vessels, for Instance, S. S. When the drum is rolling over the Kentucky, the Maine, etc. The other table, the little bird will bob and hop side he names as different ports, such as If alive. as Liverpool, Boston, New York, etc. After doing this he stands beside the ' A Magical Experiment blindfolded player, who is termed "a Here is a little feat that any boy can wreck, and cries aloud, S. S. Kenperform and yet it looks like a trick tucky Is ordered to the port of Liverof a magician. If you wish to enter- pool. Whereupon the ship of that tain a company with It tell them that name and the port change place's. you have a bottle and a goblet, both Then the player who calls out the full to 'the brim of water, and that changes may give the wreck a bet.you are going to empty the goblet by ter opportunity by saying; London, means of the bottle without taking a Boston and New York call for aid from drop of water from the latter. S. S. Kentucky, the Maine, the St This is the way to prepare it: With Louis. In the general scramble "the t a wire bore two holes through wreck actually finds a port and the a cork and into them Insert two one without a seat becomes the straws, one of them extending above wreck. the cork as high as the goblet is deep, Two Proverbs. the other about twice as high. Now, with a little kneaded bread or wax close the upper end of the shorter straw and then force the cork Into the mouth of the bottle until the water spurts out through the longer of their wits. Driven away, they come back to precisely the same nose or bald head. This habit of theirs had caught the notice of the Egyptians, who thought that in this respect a fly was like a good general, who, no matter how badly or how often beaten, So always returned to the attack. they decorated their great generals with this order a golden chain, from which at various points were suspended flies of gold, four inches wide across the closed wings. In London, seemingly, the only order of the fly that is known is the order to which the Artful Dodger and his mates Heres An Old Friend. Cut out these numbered squares, arrange them as they are, and In six moves so place them that the sum of Corn Starch Meringue. Scald one pint of milk, add two scant tablespoonfuls of corn starch mixed to a smooth paste with cold milk, stir until smooth and thick, cover and cook for half an hour. Beat together the yolks of three eggs, two of sugar, and tablespoonfuls of a teaspoonful of salt; add to the corn starch and stir for five minutes, then flavor and turn into a pudding dish. Cover with a meringue made by whipping the whites of the eggs to a stiff, glossy froth, with three tablespoonfuls of powdered sugar; dust with a little more sugar and put into a moderate oven until pale Drown. Serve cold. one-quart- A Good Dentifrice. Camphorated chalk is one of the simple dentifrices that never go out. One can prepare it at home just as well as to pay a druggist to do it. All that is necessary is an ounce of powdered camphor and fifteen ounces of prepared chalk. If it is desired to have the dentitrice foam, add a little powdered castile soap. Mix thoroughly by sifting through coarse cambric a cumber of times. Hitting the Cork. The game of hitting the cork Is one In which the players try to knock a cork from the top of a bottle. The bottle is placed on a table and the cork set loosely on the neck, so that It can easily be knocked off. Each player In turn standing on the opposite side of the room, holds his arm directly before him, with forefinger extended. He must then walk slowly toward the bottle and with a single movement of the arm knock off the cork without disturbing the bottle. The player wins who succeeds In doing this the greatest number of times In a number of turns previously agreed upon. The task, though seemingly easy, is really difficult. Most players will strike above the cork, the reason being that he has a fear of hitting the bottle. Things You Never Hear, A boy who swims may say hes swum; but milk Is skimmed and seldom skum, and nails you trim, they are not trum. When words you speak, those words are spoken; but a nose Is tweaked, and cant be twoken, and what you seek is never soken. If we fprget, then weve forgotten; but things we wet are never wotten, and houses let cannot be lotten. The goods one sells are always sold; but fears dispelled are not nor what you smell is ever smoled. When young, a top you oft saw Bpun, but did you see a grin eer grun, or a potato neatly skun? Well-Know- n ed strap of embroidery, over which a loose collar may be added for occasional dressy effect dls-pol- , Gray clouds invade the silver, the green they overrun; There Is no stain of scarlet where lately died the sun. Time's finger that was lifted falls; and a point has shifted Upon the dial of the earth. Another day Is done. , Nora Cliesson, In Westminster Gazette. For wear at the breakfast table the newest design for a morning coat that complies with the prevailing desire for long lines. Made of any of the delicate silky cave at Bemifal, France. The frequent appearance of triangles on the animal figures suggests that they may be brand marks and that the mammoth was a domestic animal. Revival of the Pinafore. New models for pinafores are as chic as can be. The revival of the style Is welcomed by all but those who fuss over laundry bills. For children tve full gathered pinafore hung from a shallow yoke Is a The yoke Is cut favorite model. either square or round, but In either case Is well hidden under revers of the material trimmed with lace or embroidery. Berthas are sometimes substituted for the revers, but wherever the yoke is exposed It Is elaborately trimmed with needlework or Is r contrived of embroidery or lace Inserts. Few of the new aprons have sleeves. Older girls wear bretelle aprons with shoulder straps and a tiny bib In front intersecting the straps. One of these aprons has bretelles of embroidered bandings, joined by a beading to a ruffle of embroidery to match. The little bib Is made of alternate rows of banding and beading, and the waistband is of the banding. line, horizontal, vertical, or diagonal, will equal 34. A whitethroat sings his vespers, while far-o- ff pigeons drawl, Moths quit the shadowy shelter of Ivy on a wall; The spider stops her spinning, for her leisure times beginning. And filmed across with dewdrops are the hangings of her hall. Pretty Breakfast Gown. New style turban in tan and helioThe plumage is in shaded trope. lavenders and heliotrope. the numbers added up in any straight Summer Sunset. Spaces there are of silver, spaces of beryl green. Fading blue and deepening rose the linden boughs between; Jubilant thrushes calling while twilight veils are falling Across the western roses their fervent fires to screen. Laces Match the Gown. Chantilly, Russian and many other laces are now colored to match the When Art Was Young. gowns. In the heavy laces, Cluny, This outline of a mammoth and a Flemish and Renaissance color well. They match in color the gown they dozen other animal figures is etched trim and are most effective. On some on the walls of a recently discovered of the imported gowns the entire waist is of colored lace. Pretty parasols of colored lace are also seen, also dainty little toques and turbans. For the Little Girl. Outdoor costume of serge for little girl, the skirt forming box plaits boat the hem, and with lero to correspond. The bolero has no collar, but is finished with a shad A Toilet Hint. Oatmeal for the face and hands wet with water soon sours, but prepared in the following way it will keep any length of time: Take three cupfuls of oatmeal and five of water or less quantity in the same proportion; stir well and let it stand over night In a cool place; in the morning stir again; after awhile sur thoroughly and strain; let it stand until it settles, then carefully pour off the water and add enough bay rum to make the sediment as thick as cream, or thinner If preferred. Apply to the face with a soft cloth; let it remain until nearly dry, then rub briskly Observation Game. straw. time of the with a soft flannel. Shake the mixDuring this Meanwhile you have the goblet of year, children and grown people also ture well before using. water on the table before you, and What proverbs do these can derive pleasure and profit from or a a bowl and basin , also pair of rebuses make? . this old game. a When starting out for scissors. Hold the goblet over the a drive. Bail or walk, provide pencil basin with your left band and with Order of the Fly. and paper or if you have a good memOne of the usual methods In which ory, rely on that and observe all your right turn the bottle upside down, putting the shorter straw Inside a king nowadays signifies approval of that takes place; bright things that the goblet. As you do this have some- good work or distinguished service Is are said, etc. Then during the evenone take the scissors and cut off the to confer upon the doer of it some ing hours have prepared either a closed end of the shorter straw. Wat- order or other. This Is not a modern written or verbal account of the hapThe stamped brass er will at once begin to run out of custom. It prevailed among the penings. Let a committee of three-pers- ons for windows have been rethe longer straw Into the basin and ancient Egyptians so true Is It that who were not present on the cornices vived. These are now considered will continue to run until the goblet there is nothing new under the sun. trip be Judges; and a prize for the more desirable than the universally Is empty. You must, of course, hold The old Egyptians had a military or- winner adds to the fun. used pole. the bottle so that the short straw der called the Order of the Fly. Flies Careful housewives always have will reach down to the bottom of the in Africa are like files elsewhere, only Answers to Last Weeks Rebuses. extra covers of heavy muslin over goblet. 1 All Is not gold that glitters. very much more so. They tease and the ticking of their pillows and matThis Is simply the operation of a worry poor human beings almost out 2 Beggars cannot be choosers. tresses, which are taken off at stated siphon. intervals and laundered. To make shrimp salad take equal THE LIFE-LIKCinnamon. PAPER BOX. Cinnamon Is the bark of a little tree quantities of chopped canned shrimp and celery cut In small pieces; add a belonging to the laurel tribe, which a little chopped parsley and chives grows profusely In the forests of Ceyand mix with salad dressing. lon, where it doubtless originated. After scaling fish and picking Sugarcane Is cultivated at the present ducks, geese, etc., did you ever try day in all the warm regions of the rubbing them well with a damp cloth globe, but it was first grown In southern Asia, whence It spread into Africa dipped in cornmeal? Try it; yon will be surprised to see how nicely it and later into America. The clove came originally from the Moluccas. cleans them. A good layer of newspapers underThe hop plant seems to be a native of neath a carpet will prevent all danEurope and western Asia, and at the present time it grows wild In Europe ger from moths, which have a strong from England to the Mediterranean. objection to printers Ink and will not come anywhere near It to lay their eggs. Hydraulic Turntable of Nuts. A bit of rye straw, a walnut and two hazel or acorn nuts such Is the apparatus required for our turntable. Cut the surface of the walnut opposite the pointed end, as in the illustration, take out the kernel and then, way from the pointed end, bore two sloping holes with diameters There Is a little plaything that size, and divide the two shorter sides exactly equal to your straw. Next take two nuts end make two round might be called a perpetuum mobile. into halves, as shown in the picture. Gold tissue, veiled in white chiffon, holes In each of Many people have tried to conTake a compass and measure the forms exquisite ball gowns. them, the first in struct a machine that would run distance from any point of this dividWomen as well as girls wear the the top parts, op- through eternity without assistance ing line to the lower edge of the coil of hair so low on the back of from any power. But nobody has paper. posite the pointthe neck that It rests on the shouled ends, and the succeeded in Inventing any such Then place your compass point at ders. could work without that In mechanism, other, smaller. Colored veils are conspicuous by the end of the dividing line and mark the side, and losing any of its energy. off the distance which you have Just their absence. Milady seems to care Our mobile consists of found. empty the nut of perpetuum but a black or white veil for nothig its meat with a a small oblong paper box about two This point Is the center of the cir- or a combination of the two.r r inch high piece of wire or inches long, colThe matched sets of which you will have to draw to cle, pin. Now unite and one Inch wide. This paper box cuffs will be as popular the and lar of make ends the the Do round. paper the small nuts is round on its two ends. season among tailored neckwith the walnut Cut figure a twice out of strong the same on the other end of the di- coming wear as they have been this summer. by a couple of cardboard (one for the top and the viding line. Chiffon veils ornamented with chestraws about five other for the bottom of the box). Before you glue the top on, place a nille velvet, hand embroidery and or six inches Is ball This will lead it. b cause in the of cardthe Figure strip drawn work are on view, long. The engraving will best explain board forming the sides of the box peculiar motion of the paper box, as- Mexican are not nearly so popular as but they the relative position. Inches long and sisted by the peculiar round shape (five and the plainer sorts. In the lateral holes, or those on the of the ends. Inch wide). A sash of mousseline chiffon or side of the smaller nuts, place two Two strips of paper (figure Place the little box on one end of a liberty silk Is a charming finishing small straws about an Inch long. This are used to glue the box together. fiat board, lift the end a trifle and the touch. It sholuld be gracefully done, close up all the little crevices To make the top and bottom of the box will roll and roll until it finally draped around the waist and is best between the straws . and nuts with box take the of cardboard, piece on the flat table, trembling and with either no loops or only one. staling wax or soap and place the which must be two by one inches in stops shaking In some peculiar position. red-ho- The Secret of Good Coffee. Blue Shaded Muslin. Most Americans boil coffee in a Shaded muslins are the moments not the pot over a hot fire, but that is fad. A dainty gown of this descripmake it Nobody makes tion is of blue muslin in striped effect, right way to coffee than the old negroes of fhading from dark blue to alnost better Indies. They are famous West the plain made perfectly white. The skirt if so a you want good coffee try for with it, made is and full. The bodice their lace way. chemisette of white Irish point Put the coffee In an enameled pot, and deep collar of same. Plain, full water on It, cover sleeves. The high waist girdle of the pour the boiling come to the darkebt shade blue. The hat Is of it up, and then let it justit stand, but not let blue lace straw, adorned with white boil again. Do a clean bag once at it through strain violets. of made of flannel. The quantity one tablespoonbe should used coffee New Style Turban. ful to each breakfast cup. Never use condensed milk with coffee unless you want to spoil it Always serve and drink it hot. wool materials no(w to he had, or of Liberty satin or louisine silk, it Is a pretty addition to a womans wardrobe. Sashes of China Ribbons. Very pretty are the sashes of old china silk ribbons, with their swathed Stained flower vases can be clean- waistbands, and bows ed by adding to a lather made of pinned up a'ninst the bodice in true soap powder some vinegar. Shake style. till all stain is removed. If you allow house plants, or rather To destroy crickets place a little the pots containing them, to stand In ginger cordial in a saucer on the saucers containing water that has hearth at night This will attract the drained through the pot rotting of the crickets, which will die after having roots will result. partaken of it. d AUTUMN GOWNS well-know- n . FROM PARIS. Woman Struck Dumb. During the last thunder storm two women on the west side of Colorado Springs were quite severely Injured by lightning. Mrs. Edward Lapan received a shock that came near being fatal. The family was moving and were starting with the last load at about 4:30 oclock in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Lapan and two children were, sitting in the wagon, Mrs. Lapan holding her small child In her arms, and yet . she was the only one Injured. Mr. Lapan felt a slight shock, the current feeling hot to his hands. Mrs. Lapan was rendered unconscious, In which state she remained for about twelve hours. For two days she couldnt hear a sound, and for four days she couldn't utter a word. She was deprived of the use of her right ' side, which was the part struck by the lightning, for about five days. The other woman who was struck by lightning is Mrs. M. T. Pierce, who lives in the Rock Island addition, about half a mile north of the scene of the first accident. It was about the same time of the afternoon. She was building a fire In the kitchen stove, and was just putting the coal in the stove when the bolt struck her. She screamed and ran across the street to a neighbors house. She was In a conscious state, but In about fifteen minutes became unconscious, remaining so for several hours. New York Journal. Much Trouble Over Road. The longest road case on record came to an end In the superior court before Judge Wallace at Newport, Vt, recently. Thirty years ago C. M. Brown presented to the selectmen of Newport a petition for a highway to his premises from Main street. The request was denied. Later Mr. Brown purchased a piece of land which carried a crossing title with It. This changed the situation, yet the selectmen refused to lay out the highway. In all fourteen petitions have been presented and acted upon in respect to this piece of road, only 23 rods In length. Kitten Is a Freak. Mrs. R. P. Benjamin of Montpelier, Vt., Is the possessor of a freak In the form of a kitten six weeks old. The kitten is bobtailed, of tiger color, but of most peculiar shape, half of its body the forelegs and head like a cat, and the hind legs and hips like those of a rabbit, so its gait Is most are peculiar; while the forefeet planted softly, one after another, after the manner of cats, the hind legs follow in an awkward sort of hop. The kittens appearance Is ludicrous, but It appears likely to live and grow. New Letter Scale. one-quart- i three-quarte- turn-ove- one-eight- h self-edge- d three-fourth- s e) If you put a letter on the kanga-rootail his tongue points to th s weight The first gown Is of brown cloth. The skirt Is plain, but covered half its length with the full basque of the jacket The upper part of the latter is in the form of a blouse with plain yoke extending in rounded tabs over the shoulders, forming epaulets. The yoke Is ornamented with passementerie buttons and rimmed around the neck and down the front with bias bands of white silk bordered with dark brown galloon or braid, the ends finished with tassels. These white silk bands and galloon trim the girdle, which Is of dark brown velvet, tnd from the cuffs, all the ends being finished with tassels, and the cuffs also finished with frills of lace. The full upper part of the Poster of 1855. Calvin D. Paige, president of the Worcester south agricultural society, sleeves falls like a ruffle over a puff hus put on exhibition a poster which of the material. The standing collar advertised the first Sturbridge, Mass., Is of lace. fair, Oct. 3, 1855. The old relic was The other gown Is of presented to Mr. Paige by Henry Carsage green cloth. The skirt Is made with ter of Millbury, executor of the Gleasgroups of plaits on each side of which at the on estate of Warren, which Is in trimme(i with Sold buttons of a large number of curios in and the I, black galloon, the ends of line the of advertising matter pertainthe latter finished with tassels. ing to the early exhibitions of the WorThe bolero is bordered with the gal- cester Bouth society. loon with tassels at the corners. The revers-colla- r is trimmed with Whittier's Kitten Still Aliv white guipure in which the galloon is run It seems as though Whittier d The waistcoat is of white good many years ago. Yet his cloth orn mented with gold buttons. The full ite kitten Is still, 11 years afte sleeves, bordered with the death, a lively though somewhi trimming date and amiable yellow cat aboi ?re. over Plffs of the material cuffs trimmed with Whittier homestead at Ames the galloon and gold buttons. Mass. Some of the rooms are is of black velvet-Wie- ner Chfc just as they were during the 66 of Whittiers occupation. |