Show 10 nil DF A little face A little face to look at A little face ace to kiss Is there an thing I 1 wonder that s halt half so sweet as this A little cheek to dimple TV hen miles begin to grow A little mouth betraying wh ch way the kisses go A slender little ringlet A rosy little ear A I 1 atle chin to quiver wl wien an falls the little tear A little hand so fragile all through the night to bold hold two little feet so tender to tuck in from the cold two eyes to watch the sunbeam that with the shadow plays A darling little baby to 0 o kiss and love alway fettered and unfettered the performer allows himself to be tied with a tetter fetter consisting of a band as Is shown in of our illus one hand is tied to the end of the band first then the other the band must be so long that the bands hands I 1 can move pretty freely the perform er after being tied speaks a few nords of introduction excuses him wu belf for being obi ged to take off his coat takes off his coat and appears fettered as before finally he slips 61 16 his coat on again and asks somebody some bedy to cut the fetters which appear to be intact and in the same condition as when they were tied at the beginning of the performance to perform this trick effectively a coat should be worn having in its back pockets the principal site a second fetter besides this fetter a small pair of scissors are se creeed in the same pocket this pair of scissors serves to cut the band tied by the audience tor for this fetter must come off to make room for the other after the hands of the per former are tied he goes into the pock et with one hand takes the pair of and cuts the fetters As bla his hands are tied br behind hind his back baa nobody can see this manipulation the old fetters are put iway in the pod poel et and the new fetters made ready for use this second fetter Is made in the fol lowing way the band used is just as long as the one used to tie the hands on each end a simple knot Is made a then a loose knot in the shape of a loop b allowing the band to slip for tightening around the wrist and loosening as the performer de sires ab a B after the original fetters are cut and the coat Is taken off the performer slips with both hands into the loops and pulls them tight this tetter fetter cannot be distinguished from the original one by repeating this experiment all sorts of variations in tying and untying can be shown until finally this pseudo band Is cut off by one of the audience best book for lawyers when macklin the famous actor came to think of what he sh should OU ild do with his son he decided that he would make a lawyer of him so the young man vas entered at the temple in london chambers were rented and a working library was vas bought and the first book I 1 made him start with was the bible said the old actor years afterward as he recalled the matter the bible the bible tor for a law yer exclaimed his friends I 1 es and the most proper and most scientific book for an honest lawyer for it contains the foundations of all law as well as all morality BE NOT AFRAID work work my boy be not afraid look labor boldly in the face take up the hammer or the spade and blush not for your hum ble place cats that are deaf it was once supposed that white cats eats are deaf but this Is not the case at all Ilo however wever it does seem to be a tact fact that almost every white cat that has blue eyes Is deaf the curious thing Is that if there Is any touch of color on the coat or if one X ol 01 the eyes Is not blue the hearing will not be affected what Is the relation between a pair of blue eyes and deafness is not certainly known but that there must be some strange con lection between the sense ot of hearing in such cats and the color ot of their eyes la is not now doubted THERES A NICHE if for you in the world my girl girt A corner for you to f 11 for a girl gu 1 that Is kind with a pure sweet mind A place that is wa ting still so 0 o lass be true the world wants you in the cornel cornei that you may find A few more conundrums an old woman in a red coat was passing in a field in which a goat was feeding what transform transformation tion sud denly deuly tool place the goa goat turned to butter butt her and the woman into a scarlet runnel what lives upon its own substance and d es when it has devoured itself A candle what is it that Is lowest with a head than without one onea A pillow which is the left side of a plum pudding 7 that which is not eaten what is the I 1 bynote to good man nersa B natural why is a xa 5 note much more profit able than five sovereigns because when aou put it in your pocket you double it and when you take it out you will find it increases what is that which everybody has seen but will never see yes berday A leaf these look so pretty when they are made and are ever so easy to do get a leaf to use as a pattern not too small a one pin it on to a piece ot of green cloth and cut two pieces ot of the material exactly the same size and shape as the leaf leaving just a tiny piece of stem an ivy leaf Is pretty trace veins as much like those on the leaf as possible and outline them with gold color silk cut three pieces of chamois the same shape as the cloth but lust just slightly smaller all round put all the pieces together first a piece of green clott th then en three pieces of chamois leather and lastly the other piece ot of green cloth and sew them all firmly together where the stem of the leaf comes tie a bow of baby ribbon where the joint comes sew it on so that it can t slip and its done moat and fort puzzle el FORT MOAT MOAT after the soldiers had tried a long time to bridge the distance across the moat which is six feet alth ath two planks each he fhe feet eleven inches long they hit upon the idea shown in the diagram do you know what a regular gan isa is 9 dont don t be alarmed for it Is merely a six sided figure with all its sides of the same length and all its six angles equal now it if you are hop ing that this is to be a lesson in geom etry you will have to bear your disappointment as well as you can tor for it Is only going to be an easy but rather surprising trick you show your friends a long nar row strip of paper and ask them to change it into a regular hexagon wrongly accused our forefathers held some quaint notions about the hedgehog they seemed to think that be he lived in thorny hedges because his coat being so full of prickles he was sate safe from being pricked by the thorns another notion was that he could forecast the wind and was able to tell the north from the south gouth wind country folk and dairy maids especially loved him not because he was believed to sucic suck the milk from the cows this notion it as s said Is still found in some parts of england it was also considered that his spines were used tor for other purposes than defense it was sup posed that he was as not only fond of insects but also of apples pears and other fruit the which he carried on his prickles his ills back thus became a kind of larder from which he drew stores when he felt an hungered A dozen little imps what imp is most vehement impetuosity e what imp Is reckless 9 imp imprudent what imp Is least to be desired imp allence what imp Is shiftless imp provident what imp Is dictatorial imperious what imp Is progressive improvement what imp does injury impair what imp Is just impartial what imp has faults imp imperfect erf act what imp Is saucy imp what imp acts on the spur of the moment imp what imp is 1 untruthful imp rob able can you do it can you draw this figure without lifting your pencil from the paper without going over the same line twice and without letting any linw cross another big water baby hippopotamus 12 s a greek word and means river horse it Is a good name tor for the great ugly monster that haunts the nile and other rivers in africa it lives in water all day long its nostrils and the top of its head bead alone be ing visible when it goes under to escape the hunter bunter it can remain below the surface for a quarter of an hour at a time at sundown it leaves the stream to teed feed usually it crops the fields close by spending most of the night in this pleasant occupation but when the hour of dawn draws near again it returns to its home in the river As a rule it la Is not an angry brute but when chased its temper makes it terrible it will crunch a boat to bits in its vast laws jaws or upset it into the river by coming up beneath it A MOST surprising FEAT WITH MERELY A LITTLE STRIP OF PAPER so that the front Is on top at ona on end and the bach back at the other paste the ends together forming the twisted ring shown in the illustration throw this carelessly on the table and aud smash it with your clenched fist list to the surprise of everybody he hs paper ring will be changed by tha the blow into a six sided figure or gon it may not be perfectly regular ana and there may be a little hole in the middle the regularity depends upon the CL which you can explain as I 1 have done above or you can show a drawing of one without using knife scissors or pencil or cutting or tearing the paper in any way it Is reasonably certain that nobody who Is not acquainted with the secret will guess it so that to use the lan ian guage of the day it will be up to you to make good then you perform the trick as fol lows lay the strip of paper on the table and give it a half halt twist that Is to say calling the two sides of the paper the front and the back twist it way the ring happens to lie on the table and the way you hit it and the snape may te be improved by practice illo a hole indicates that the strip of paper was not exactly of the right shape the circumference of the rina ring should be very nearly five and a quarter times its width the simplest way of getting these proportions and at the same time making a figure of convenient size la Is to cut the strip two inches wide and eleven inches long and lap the ends just halt an inch |