Show V th s Is what the mothers do playing with the little sweet old games forever new coaxing adi ng coo ng kissing baby s every gr ef dis ni sing laughing sighing soothing s wh ie the happy days are winging this Is what the mothers planning for the 1 atle peoli that they may grow bra e and true active brain and busy fingers wl lie the precious ne lingers guiding guarding hoping fear ng waiting for the 1 arvest nearing chis is what the mothers do praying for the little people closed are eyes of brown and blue by the qu et bedside knee ing with a 1 su e aphea ing all the sp rit a gu dance needing seeking it with earnest p ealing this is what the mo hers do parting from the little people heart of mine how last they grow fashio ing the wedding dresses treas ring the last ca es es W king then as years fly faster the summons of the master rh s Is what the mothers lo 10 mary L robinson in sunday school times tj the head of the sphinx in egypt you know there are great stone figures in the deserf called sphinxes and the fjord has known a half dozen meanings in bistor but the most popular use of the word is to indicate a perfectly per on who will not answer a question of any framework and boy inside kind here is a sphinx which can tall a decided novelty and more over one you can introduce at a party of your friends with great sue cess first you must build our sphinx the dotted lines in the accompanying picture show how to construct a work which should be of the lightest boards you can procure lath is the best tor it Is strong and light too and the pieces will be just long enough for the longer pieces of your framework this may be held to gether by ordinary carpet tacks of large size and can be put together in no time by a boy at all expert with hammer and nails get eight pieces of wrapping paper paste the edges of four pieces to gether making a square about six feet each way now draw on this square a face and head as large as the edges of our paper will permit this done form a similar sheet by pasting together the remaining four pieces of wrapping paper and lay the piece with the head drawn en it upon the other sheet then with a heavy pair of scissors cut through both sheets along the outlines of J the face you have drawn now you sides of a face which over your framework edges of the paper tog where but at the botto 1 necessary to paste the paper to the framework as the peculiar shape ot the and the paper will keep the paper from slipping cut a little hole where the eyes of the sphinx should come and over the hole paste a sheet of isinglass which you can get at any hardware store for a pen ny now slip the paper over a chair so that the framework will rest upon the seat and let it dry for several hours when the paper has become thoroughly dry paint the face a soft pink and the rest the part en closed by the heavy black line in the accompanying picture a solid black when this paint has dried tho sphinx is ready to talk the head always creates a sensa tion when introduced at a party nothing is visible but the gigantic head above two feet the boy hold ing it makes a bow gravely to the party by tipping it gently forward A few jig steps will make the head bob around in a most surprising man ner and cause roars of laughter among i our guests it Is rather a startling thing to see thia huge head come rolling into the room and even more so to hear it of course this Is done by the bov inside when the head has made the cir cult of the room it should pause in the center and announce that al though a sphinx Is usually the most silent of beings this one will make an exception on this occasion and will answer any question about some one in the room that may be asked of course the boy inside knows everyone present and he may make some sort of reply to any question concerning his friends which may be asked the questions themselves will ere ate a great deal of fun for as every one knows every one else some very ridiculous things may be asked and the sphinx may double the fun by witty and unexpected answers in a ch nese school each chinese schoolboy must fur nish his own stool and table for school work and the tour precious articles wr ich are the ink slab a cake of india ink a brush for writing and paper with these he begins his weary task of learning to write and read the thou sands of chinese characters these are to open the way to the chinese classics and a knowledge of this an dent literature and wisdom means etu catlon to the chinese at the opening of a chinese school a paper on which is written the name of con aucius is pasted on the wall before this honored name the pupils and teachers burn paper money and joss sticks and bow their headd three times to the floor the teacher then tells confucius the day the month and the year when the school is opened and begs for his faar every morning when the pupils arrive they must bow twice once for ane teacher and once for some conundrums why are washerwomen great trav because they are continually crossing the lice and running from pole to pole why is summer like the letter na it mal es ice nice what dress should a lady have to keep the re t of her wardrobe cleana A lawn dress la undress what is the gaast letter in the al V because it Is always in fun what dance to bakers most A bun dance what Is that which when thrown out iou may always catch without handsy ia hint t what is that which remains the same even though you take away all of its letterst 9 nothing champ on jumper champeon Champ fon high jumper of the west Is joker a small fox terrier cog be longing to truck no 2 ot portland Port laud ore the favorite pastime of this re calire consists in leaping from the roof of the fire house to the street a distance of thirty five feet of u joker does not land on the hard asphalt pavement for a blanket is held out by his admiring friends to catch him as he makes the jump As soon as the little dog sees the firemen make for the street blanket in hand he beg ns to bark and grow so excited that it Is hard to keep him from bounding to the roof and leaping off before the men are prepared for the circus feat he runs back and forth across the top of the building until the signal is given below when up in the air he goes and down straight into the outstretched blanket A trick with lup and dice take from the backgammon board the two dice and the dice cup or shaker hold the cup in your right hand by putting your thumb and see ond finger around the bottom of it at the same time holding one of the dice with the tips of the same fin ger and thumb next put the other dice on top of the one you are hold ing you will of course need the how to hold the dice aid of your left hand in arranging the dice and cup in your right hand now by a quick upward movement of your right band send the top die flying into the air and as it comes down catch it in the cup now comes the real trick to get the other die in the cup also I 1 you try to do this by throwing the die upward as you threw the first one you may catch it in the nip all right but at the same time you will b pretty sure to throw the first one it ot the cup As for catching both to getner as they come down a frill find that almost impossible the proper way to get the second die into the cup without losing the one that Is already there Is to let our hand drop s at the sinio time lettin fc go the die which ou have been holding the die will arr to but not as drapl lly as your aid that you will have no difficulty in getting the cup under it and catching it drawing a bizzle do you know what a bizzle isa this Is one its lots 0 tun trying to draw you must try to make an outline which can be filled in e the one in the picture A peculiar will I 1 uca della bobbia the florentine sculptor living in italy during the alf century left a will which at first sight peculiar and unjust but afterward appeared quite the con arary when explained in a note left by the testator himself messer luca was a bachelor but he had two nephews of whom he was very fond one of them andrea hl took into his workshop and taught him all the secrets of his wonderful craft the boy proved an apt pupil though lacking the power and breadth ot his uncle a genius his name has come down the centuries with the names of other great masters but when the uncle died not a penny did he leave to this beloved pupil who had indeed been as a son to him for many years all of the great fortune amassed by the famous sculptor was willed to sl mone the other nephew but there was a note to the following effect and the florentines who knew the in and real value of art applaud ed the old man s justice to simone I 1 give the money bei cause to andrea I 1 have already given something that la ot more value than ary sum of money could be he icher its my art home history every place no matter how small has a history and in this history you will find much of interest your school histories are for the most part too general to find room for all the little details that make past times real go to your librarian and find out what he can advise about reading up the story of your town if you live in a city select some building or special part of the city and in the same way try to find the interesting happenings connected with it in the past per haps the leading cl n nay be found by learning the stor or some aromi nent man and bis ancestors the earliest settler or most celebrated na alve in own city after you hav thus made acquaintance with some ot the real stories connected with his tory you will find general histories helpful the bees market basket every bee carries its market basket round its hind legs anyone elamin ing the body of a bee through a micro scope will observe that on the hind legs of the creature there Is a fringe of stiff hairs on the surface the hairs approaching each other at the tips so as to form a sort this is the bee s basket and into it after a sue journey it will cram enough pollen to last it tor two or three days HARD TO FIT TOGETHER these are puzzles in which ou have to alt together a number ol 01 little squares triangles and other figures that make a single large square or lome other figure here are two such puzzles which you can make very easily and puzzle your friends and perhaps even yourself with them of course when you have made such a puzzle by cutting out the little figures yourself you cannot help knowing just how to put the pieces together but you also cannot help forgetting this so that the puzzle will making a square and a triangle inside of it cut out the square and cut along the other lines and you will have four triangles of different sizes and shapes mix them up turn somer of them over and ask some one who has not seen the drawing and cutting to make a square of them you will be surprised to see bow difficult ha finds it to do a thing that seems easy to you just now the other puzzle Is still harder to put together though it Is even easier to make draw a square as before and from any part of the left halt construction and sol ution of puzzle soon be a real puzzle to even you especially it you make it of something exactly alike on both sides so that ou cannot tell whether the pieces are right side up or not on a stiff card draw a square of any convenient size then draw a straight line from the lower right hand corner C to the middle of the upper side E draw a second line from the corner to the middle of the left side H and draw a third line from one of these middle points E to the other H now you have seven straight lines of the top draw a straight line to any part of the right halt of to the bottom now draw another line at right angles to this one and meeting it at any point you choose when you have cut along all the lines you will have four pieces of different sizes and shapes but alike in this respect that each one Is four sided and haa two right angles it is the two right angles that make the fitting so puzzling as the puzzler Is as likely not to choose for the corners of the square the angles that belong in the middle |