Show folk su nelse magic along the silent billly street tile houmes gray and old bloom into castles rully ruby peaked pen rod their pared afta gold anil and rose lleita lits flicker here bold but ut now were sha eh adona dons deep and cold tile alie shafts of ashen smoke that swept from evora chimneys tall and grim now mind in colla coils of veolet and purple soft and di dim then roll rol duay in broken with iti amber spoke anti and ani rim tho the suns red vand mand bag mado made a court of every barn and ll 11 hire re A and n d with a single fl amiling rum gem I 1 las tipped tho the milage spire A and nd turned the he snowballs on tho iho lawn to balls balla of carmine lie file youths companion neat cover for books thero there comes a time hen eiery aery boy or girl has some cherished book he ar she mould like to preserve but cannot do so very well because tho the cover Is of paper it if the he book had a good cloth binding it could bo be elly easily sav saved edbur but alth ith only a paper cover it Is a hard matter to keep it from coming to pieces if much handled it Is very easy to make a good stiff cloth binding by the means ot of glue cardboard cheesecloth or ran muslin lin and 1 lidz aro sro SIDE u I 1 iz Z COVER COVER P J 1 ms PAPER 11 coy basit 1 ak a little ingenuity first get the exact size of 0 tho the book then procuro procure a pasteboard box and cut from it two covers one quarter inch larger all around than the edges of the book except at the back they should be even now cut one eighth strip or off each of 0 the backs and then lay them on the piece of cloth each one eighth inch farther apart than tho the thickness of 0 the volume which Is shown by dotted ines ties figure 1 cut the cloth around the covers leaving one and one halt inch margin paste the cloth to the covers coverson jn in this them ocr er the the margin which Is also pasted down smoothly cu cut a third piece of 0 cardboard the same size as the back ot of the volume paste this to the cloth and when all parts are thoroughly dry glue the back of the volume firmly to the pasteboard back bach as shown in a figure g 2 it if the paper cover of 0 the book still remains you con can cut it out neatly aind and pasie paste it on the front side ot of the binding as shown and the some same can be done with the paper title back both parts being removed of course before the pasting Is done thus if 1 lou pick out a color of cloth that Is harmonious with the color and design of 0 the paper cover ou on m ill have quite as attractive looking a volume as you would find at the book store for double the money yours cost acting proverbs in this his each player may take a part cr if thought preferable the company may divide themselves into actors and spectators the actors then each fix upon a proverb which ellich Is to be represented by baca one of them individually there Is to be no connection between them in any way each one in turn has simply to act before the rest of the company the proverb he has selected the first player might tor for instance come into the room holding a cup in his hand band then by the way of acting his proverb he might repeat adly make an appearance of 0 attempt ag to drink out of the cup but being ite i even vented ted each time by the cup slipping out ot of tsa his hand band thus in dumb show illustrating the proverb theres many a slip the cup anil and the up lip it if really good acting be thrown into the game it may be made exceedingly interesting this man has tamed lamed fish dr rudolph fastenrath of 0 arpen appen zell ell I 1 SwItz switzerland eiland has what are probably the most unusual tame feta in the norad they are flah fish and they are not merely tamo tame in the sense that they will come to the surface and take too food from his hands bands that would be nothing new dr Fasten fish come to him when aben he be Is in the water and they sulm anim around him allowing him to touch them and stroke strode them ills his queer achievement had its be ginning one day when be noticed that there was a great swarm of fish near a cliff claf lust just in front of his house every day these fish were seen in the same place by him and he be decided to try iry to tame them so he be selected a sunny day when the water was warm and sat aaa down in it holding a big piece of broad bread in each hand under water the fish would not approach however he repeated the process that evening and again next day sitting perfectly motionless as long as he could after about a week a few of the smallest ash ventured to dart at him and snatch bits of the water soaked bread gradually Gradual iv others did the same and at last all the fish had become so confident that big and little ones would mould swim up to his bis hands and take the bread by the end of the past summer the ash had become so 80 tame that they would sim up to the doctor the moment ho he ente entered red the water they glided around bet between Neen his hand and did not even wriggle when he touched them so 0 o that finally he managed to j stroke them hem without frightening tb anem em in the least every day through the u warm arm weather the doctor could be seen been in the water ater with mith from to of lila ills queer pets all around him and darting at his bis hands and face in play pay A trick try this trick when you have bate some soma friends to allne with ion A boy tom by name tried it anil and lila his fr leids thought blia very clever just when dinner was nearly over bridget quietly announced that tho the grocer must have forgotten to bring the nuts cuts and ral raisins the company were mere all more or less disappointed but tom the host seemed very angry at this cull omission 5 pion impatiently he salt said to bridget I 1 fetch me the dish in which the nuts and raisins should have b been c e 13 13 served pretending to be very much annoyed he flourished its his napkin vigorously over the empty dish then carefully lifting the ri napkin aphin much mitch to the surprise of all the dish was revealed full ot of nuts and raisins this Is how tom managed the trick he had gotten bridget to sew two napkins together all 11 around tho the edges and to slit silt one across the middle tho the space betheen the napkins made a bag into which tom had slip ped the nuts buts and raisins ile he held bell the bag between his knees with another napkin over his lap while he was wai gesticulating in apparent disappointment he had quickly changed nap kins the trick was as a clever hit of homemade home made sleight of hand and all shouted at toms cleverness arithmetic in days of old those of you who bate to study arithmetic might abt growl it you had been a little roman boy back in the days of caesar or earlier when our arabic numbers were not used imagine for instance writing 88 and then adding long columns ol of such numbers no Now wonder boys counted on their lingers fingers and grownup grown up men had bad to go to a teacher tei icher of f arithmetic or public calculator to have their accounts made out counting no the fingers was mas a regular system for the young romans they would mould make eighteen movements with tho the loft left hand tor for the numbers below one hundred and eighteen with the right hand tor for those above two kinds ot of counting machines called an abacus were also used one was a board strewn with nith sand on j which geometrical figures were drawn 1 hother ans wasa a frame with moved lit in grooves to represent sent figures with a special contrivance for doing fractions actions tr As teachers were not very patient in those days arithmetic might be said to have been learned less by rule than by ferrule the great horace whose works all 0 f you who study latin will read wrote that his fellow teacher was a man of many blows after all it Is pretty fine to bo be a twentieth century american Is it not eskimo folklore tho the most sti lhing feature of eskimo folklore Is its thoroughly human char acler in a strict sense ot of the term the bulk of eskimo tradition on is n not of mythology but hero tales which reflect with mith ie lemar liable faithfulness the social condition and religious beliefs ot of the people they treat of visits to fabulous tribes ot of murder and revenge of mercy and recompense of 0 feats ot of shamanism and of witchcraft the supernatural per natural enters into them but only as it ft enters into the everyday life of the people to whom witches guardian spirits ot of sh seamans shamans sha maos amans giants and dwarfs are existing realities in this sense most of the eskimo tales are true tales taken from life and show a great lack of imaginative power setting aside this group of hero tales there remain only a few entirely disconnected myths one of them tells how a woman was mutilated by her father who cut olt off her finger joints one after the other from these joints originated the sei sea mammals and the woman moman became their mistress another in myth tells of the origin of the sun and moon who in III the beginning were human beings a brother and a sister bister and who ho were taken up to the sky something every day every day a little bno knowledge uledge one tact fact in a day how small Is one fact only one ton ten years pass by three thousand six hundred and fifty facts are not a small thing every day a little self denial the thing that Is difficult to do today will A ill he be an easy thing to do three hundred and sixty days hence it if each day it shall have been repeated what power of sell self mastery shall he be enjoy who kho seeks ei ciery cry day to practice the be grace he grayek tor for eiery el cry day a little happiness we live lor for the good ot of others if 1 our living bo be in any sense a true living it Is not in great deeds of kindness only that the blessing la is found in little deeds of kindness repeated every day we find true happiness at home at school on the street at the neighbors house in the playground wo we shall find an opportunity lay day for or usefulness heroic and timely lucy ernest and ralph but children who are at porters lake pa went out to get bark to make sou lenars and while the hoy boy was pulling bark from a tree a rattlesnake struck him in the right arm below the shoulder the two tuo hurried home and when I 1 they ey readied reached there the gird ripped the boys shirt open and saw that his arm was getting dark she took his penknife cut it a gash in his arm and sucked the poison from the wound i two were called and tho the boy Is doing well something for christmas to mako make a pretty slice shoe bag take one yard of wide red and cream bed tick ing cut from one side aldo enough to leave the piece 22 inches in width face this on the back v mith ath turkey red calico A pocket 1 tor hose bose Is mane maae of turkey red box pleated to the bottom of the larger piece stitch this to the foundation gathering gatherl ns the extra fullness at the top of the pocket take the ticking which was cut from the side aud and bind it with black velvet that from an old hat answers nicely then told fold it into four our parts box plait the bottom and stitch to the foundation this makes four 2 pockets for shoes turn over each ol of the 2 2 ah it I 1 it top corners and fasten with a bow ol of red ribbon A brass ring Is secured at the iop fop to hang the bag by fasten it to tho the inside of clothespress clothes press door the illustration will make the abo idea clear exchange A queer animal the laughing jackass Is not a quadruped but a bird that belongs to the iha kingfishers king fishers it lives in australia and has gained this ridiculous name because of its absurd way of going into peals of laughter without any particular cause the australian bushmen area are always delighted to hear it as they believe it to be a prediction of fine weather to in damp weather the laughing jackass Is a different appearing bird from what it Is at other times its feathers are rubbed its wings droop and it has a most untidy and aind be draggled dragg led appearance it sits on a branch of a tree and becomes miserably sick and wretched it mopes all day long not having enough energy to go and look for something to eat cat this ln in bad weather neather but when the weather clears oh ob that Is a different proposition to the laughing jackass it bursts into peal after peal of jok jo tal lal rollicking laughter and its plumage Is 13 into all the he glimmer ing colors of the rainbow the match came this Is one of those comfortable games which you are bound to win in it if lou know the trick and the V hole trick Is that you must play dist there are two players twenty matches are set down the game Is for each in turn to take one two or three matches and the winner Is he who leaves exactly ono one match for his bis to take this Is the way to do it play first and leave your opponent seventeen matches next time leave him gilr xen icon then nine then live five whether IS 6 now takes one two or three you ire are able to leave him one and so win wn |