| Show 1111 IVA the K ng s dust thou die the priest said to the kins king thou vanish ike 1 ke the leaves of like Lik esthe spring pring the dust of any common thing one day thou upon the winds shall biow blow nay not so the king said I 1 shall stay tay while the great sun in the sky makes day i heaven ani earth when I 1 do pass away in my tomb I 1 wait till all things go then the king d ed and with myrrh and nard washed with palm wine swathed in linen hard ro led in naphtha gum and under guard of his steadfast tomb they laid the king century fled to century still he lay whole as when they hid him first away sooth the priest had noth ng more to sa say y he it seemed the king knew every th ahng ng one day armies with the trump of doom overthrew the huge blocks ot of the tomb swarm swarm ng sunbeams searched its chain cham bared ered gloom bedouins camped about the sand blown spot little arabs answering to their name with a broken mummy my fed the flame then the a wind among the ashes came blew them I 1 lightly and the king was not harriet prescott spofford tr ck with a slate an ordinary slate such as children write on la Is shown to the au audience cLience to prove that nothing is written upon it both sides are rubbed with a wet sponge A char cha r Is brought to the foreground the se seat seit it of which is cover ed with a blace c oth then the per former asks any girl in the audience be kind enough to give her first name and offers to let the slate guess the date of her birth after the name is given the performer places the slate on the chair and lays a piece of chalk upon it after making a few motions over the slate LO indicate that tiie writing Is going on the performer lifts up the slate and behold one side of the slate shows the correct name and date of birth this seems to be a trick hard to ex plain but nevertheless it is a very sim slin pie one take a plain slate on one bide side of which the name and the date Is previously written A friend of the performer is instructed to call the name so quickly that no one else can get ahead of him all that Is left to do Is to secrete the name and date on the slate until it is time tor for it to appear to do this you will have to get a piece of cardboard fitting exactly ove the black part of the slate both side of which are covered smoothly with black slate paper sheet b la is la Is d over the side of tae slate with the writing on it a place he slate with the sheet over it face down on the chair when you are going to show the secret writing to the audience lift the slate in such a way that the sheet I 1 I 1 Q of paper stays upon the black cloth inere it being black too cannot be discerned A game of flowers and trees A game full of fun although it Is old la Is called flowers and trees As maui as are present can play the first one says for instance my first is a public house my second is a state to which all must come my third Is a comma command id to depart my all Is a flower answer in indigo ill go only a minute Is given for guessing and the one who guesses has a turn A list of flowery flower and trees can bo be I 1 looked 0 ked up before playing unless one 1 is s familiar with a good many this deceives the eye you would hardly think so but the top lines in each of these figures are all of the same length length that is ia he tie lines lines A B C and D get a good f v foot rule with fine divisions marked 1 j on it and measure p them carefully and f you will see that th s is true A magicians magic Magi cans an s rick light a short bit of candle and put it in a tumbler cover the tumbler with a piece of thick wet paper and on this place another tumbler invert ed taking care to bring the edges to gether all around the candle will soon go out and in a minute or two afterward you will 11 find ad that you can lift both tumblers by taking hold of the upper one this Is because the heat produced by the candle has expanded the air in the lower glass and driven part of it allt aba something to make for christmas c 4 0 J 4 9 A paper of pins made and put up in the style shown does not cost much and a simple and pretty as well as useful christmas gift can easily bo be made from one of them cut off the flap of paper that laps over and bind all the edges with cheap blue or pinh pink ribbon allowing strings and a bow to hang up mal alai e bows at the cor nera as shown and it if desired paste a piece of tinted paper across the front and paint a spray of flowers in the center the youngest outlook could out before you put on the paper now though this heated air was ra rifled or made if alss ss dense by heating its pres sure so long as it remained hot was equal to that of the outside air but but after it cooled its pressure was less so that the outside air pressed the glasses tightly together the paper is very likely to burst during the experiment but that makes no difference as even when the air in the two glasses Is mixed together it Is on the whole lighter and rarer than the external air and therefore exerts less pressure perhaps you may wonder why this experiment Is called the magdeburg hemispheres as the tumblers are cylindrical or conical not hemispheric cal and the trick may be done in as well as magdeburg this Is why in magdeburg germany some years ago there 1 lived ved I 1 a bur comaster go master masor named otto aop guericke who was also a man of science so tar far as there was any eel ence in those days he made the first electrical machine and also the first air pump or apparatus for rarify ing and exhausting the air from a globe jar or other vessel to show the pressure of the air he made two hollow hemispheres ot at brass fated fitted their edges together pumped out the a r from the space within attached eight horses to each hemisphere and then tried to drive the two eight elgh horse teams in opposite directions but the horses could not pull the hemispheres apart though when the air was let in again they could be separated easily to moat float corks vertically awash A wash basin or a bath tub and seven corks are all the apparatus need ed for this experiment and it will I 1 hope be none ohp less interesting ill n account ot of its simplicity the problem is then how to cause these corks coris to float vertically everybody knows that an ordinary cork being considerably longer than it Is broad is forced to float when put in water upon its long side how can we make it float upon its head place one of the corl s on end on the table surround t with the other six all upon end take these seven corks compactly in one hand and plunge them completely remove your hand and let them take their own position in the water the water that has penetrated the corks will cause them to cling together because their united width is greater than their 1 nath this effect of carbary car jary 1 cohesion amusingly demonstrates that in union there is strength home made tether sail ball this is a good time of year to play tether ball and it is not hard to make all the things needed to play it with in case you have not got the money to buy them ready made even it if you have its it s a good thing to learn to make things once and a while just to know how k w 1 atla at la fr easily make one of these with very little help from some one older purchase one of these cheap baskets as shown and place within it a ball of colored string be sure to start the end of the string so it will continue to come from the middle of the hall ball so long as there Is any left now run a piece of ribbon n through the w wide I 1 d a weave in the center of the basket and continue it on above to ban bang it up by and finish with a bow A more useful present to hang beside the bureau could not be found first of all get a straight stick or pole about seven or eight feet long and stick it firmly in the ground at the top end tie a stout string about the same length as the pole or a little shorter and to the other end of the string tie an old cotton glove it you have one it if not any glove will answer inside ot of this put a tennis ball or one of rubber if you have not got the tennis rackets that are gener ally used in this game make paddles like ping pong bats only a little larger out of thin smooth board such as la is to be found in soap boxes A good place for the pole Is in the back yard even though the yard be quite small tor for the game does not require much space to play it two persons stand on opposite sides ot of the pole facing each other with a bat the game is to wind the string around the pole by batting the ball one person sending it in one direction and the other in the other whoever succeeds in winding it all the way round in his own direction wins the game A counting puzzle here Is a new kind of puzzle cut out the three squares shown at the bottom of the above diagram and place them on the nine squares corn com posing the big square in such a way that each row counting the squares in the large figure and the one you place there will have just fou four squares the number ol 01 squares must amount to four counting in every dl up and down crossways and diagonally riddles why Is 1 the letter F like paris parts because it Is the capital of france why should a horse seldom feel hungry li because it nearly always has a bit in its mouth why Is 1 the letter A like 12 0 clock because it Is in the middle of day |
