| Show tale of the little collectors JO little s g in a line ore got a jolly then the e were nine 9 kt e collectors looking for bait one caught a story then there were echt 8 1 atle lectors looking for heaven one sot t red then there were seven 7 little lectors watching out for tricks got a bad check ahn there were six f collector s TV m ch il ve one got a touchdown tl en here were five 8 little collectors grouped about the door one got a ft kick then there were four 4 little col actors lo 10 ing for a tee one got a promise then tl ere were three 3 little lectors threatening to sue one got a note and then there were wo 2 ittle col actors kept on the run one fell and broke his crown then there was ore 1 little col ector too polite to dun he got PAID and then there was none new york sun writ ng a name W th eyes shut here Is an amusing little deception thai you pay play upon unsuspecting A trick tn writ ng friends perhaps it would be more correct to say that they play the trick on themselves which makes it all the funnier you simply tell them what to do and it is not your fault that they dont know how to do it give your victim a slip of stout writing paper and the stub of a soft black lead pencil not very sharp ask him to shut his eyes and lay the paper on his forehead holding it there with the thumb and forefinger of his bett hand one pressed to each temple while the palm of the hand covers his eyes the next thing he has to do is to write his name on the paper with the pencil held in his right hand writing la not easy under such condi alons so no one will expect the signa ture to be very pretty or very edible but everybody including the writer will be surprised to find it written backwards that Is the victim has succeeded in writing anything that can be made out araji nine persons out of the ten begin to write at the left eyebrow and write toward the right eyebrow but this Is not really writing from left to right as writing should be done but from right to left because when the paper is taken from the forehead and laid on the table it is turned end tor end does the writer make the mistake because he says to himself let me see cow I 1 must begin at the leit and therefore begins at the left eyed probably not tor if he stops to think he Is apt to write correctly the trick is most likely to succeed when the writing is attempted impulsively without think ing so sou should not say anything about writing or even show the pen ell until the paper Is held on the fore head and the eyes closed then slip the pencil into the person s hand and tell him to write the mistake Is just one of those queer things in human nature that nobody has yet explained easy enough if you know how A sure way to raise a laugh among a party of friends is to claim that you can do an apparently impossible thing and ahen get some of your friends to try it then when they have tried and failed do the very thing they failed on in a simple way which has never occurred to them here is a decap tion which seldom falls to worl and which always provides a lot of fun even to those who are fooled by it begin by saying something about ant eaters which have such long tongues that they can touch the ground with them without lowering their heads then ask one of our friends it he can put out his tongue and touch his ear he will try gently at first then harder and at length make the funniest faces you can im agine by trying to do that which is of course impossible then others will try until half your guests are poking their tongues out of the cor ners of their mouths and trying to curl them around their cheeks until their ears are reached then when they are all looking like comic masks you calmly put out your tongue and touch your ear with your finger the effect of this on those who have vain ly tried the trick will be well worth the trouble of talking about the ant eater may as eaby as you athinis just try it manual t on A game played nith the handa 1 called manual recognition it was evolved by a number of young people and played as follows one of the party was blindfolded and the others came to him one by one and clasped his hand it was required that he recognize each one simply by the feel ing of his hand each took his turn in beag blindfolded until every one had tried his hand in the game A prize was given to the one who lecog nihed the most and a booby prize to the one who succeeded in recognizing the fewest much amusement was afforded by the ludicrous mistakes that were made chere was a seeing bride and groom pre ent and v able to recognize the other 01 course it as fun to the rest of the company and then everybody laugh ert when a brother failed to recognize his sister or a komg lady her best friend boy champion at S S attendance thomas blakely has j completed the remarkable record of 1300 sive in attendance at the upland baptist S inday school up land pa for jiust a quarter of a cen tury he has attended every session of the school the record dating from his very young boyhood days the actual length of time he has spent in the school on the sabbath davs of the twenty five years would amount to days of twelve hours each superintendent samuel A crozer says he does not believe this record has ever been equaled in the union the loving cup there are a gibat many stories told of the origin of the loving cup and perhaps the following is the most in te resting in the eleventh century margaret the wife of malcolm ken more became disgusted with the way in which the scotch nobles left the dining feiore her chaplain had time to say grace so she promised all those who could be induced to wait for this ceremony a draught of the choicest wine from a large gold cup which was passed from man to man around the table after grace had been pronounced the bribe offered by the beautiful young queen was too inviting for the nobles to refuse and they all stayed in consequence the custom of passing around the grace cup as it was called at first became so popular that it was observed all over the country and every person of importance in the middle ages could boast of being the owner of one bottling a cent by sudden hit here is a good little trick which any one with a steady hand and a cor eye can do take a strip of very stiff paper about an inch wide and a toot long and paste the end together so that it forms a round hoop set this hoop upright on the neck of a bottle and lay a cent on the very top of the hoop ow insert a small stick into the hoci and suddenly move it to one side so that it strikes the hoop and carries it away with it the cent will not be carried off too but will fall into the bottle the blow Is so sudden that the hoop is flying through the air before it has time to ready for the blow affect the coin which simply falls straight down when its support is car ried away the neck of the bottle must be larger than the coin ot course but the smaller it is the more striking and difficult the trick the only difficulty is in placing the coin exactly over the neck of the bottle and there is where the correct eye comes in this la like the trick of la lancing s card on your finger laying a coin on t and flicking ane card away leaving the coin on our finger here Is another of the samp sort lay a strip of stiff paper on the table so that it projects several inches be yond the edge holding it in place by laving a halt dollar on the part that is on the table the paper must be i tiff enough to stand out nearly straight but must not be too stiff cardboard tor example will not do at all now strike ane rejecting paper a good hard blow downward it will slip off the table and flutter to the floor leaving the coin on the table even it it has been placed very near the edge pictorial proverb here la a proverb which instead of being printed in ordinary type has been formed into a series 0 pictures by our artist can you read these objects aright to make a well known proverb that every boy and girl should bear in minda voyagers from sea the gray rat of which you are i frightened that you will not go down into the cellar after dark Is a native of asia and was unknown in ancient europe only in the year 1775 did it make its appearance in that part of the world coming from india by way of russia some people believe that it originally came from norway but that Is a mistake the common house rat by the way used to be black and made its way from asia to europe in the sixteenth century arriving not long afterward in america peanut plants five cents worth of roasted peanuts can be made to last a long time if you are not too hungry but did you ever think how much longer they mojid last it ou planted fresh ones try planting a few kernels in a pot or box of loose mellow earth kepp in a rather warm place and water moderately the kernels will soon sprout and the plant grows quickly As the foliage spreads gracefully over the pot you will be surprised to find how beautiful abe plants are indeed florists grow them for sale they are well worth the slight care they require and the plant has some interest ing habits that sharp eyed boys and girls will enjoy watching conundrums why Is a lawyer like a wine clerk he Is a bartender what head lines prove the most sensational to women wrinkles what are the last teeth called fake teeth why should a doctor never be sea because he Is accustomed to see sea sickness what soap Is the hardest cast steel caselle cas what is the superlative of temper tempest BLOWPIPE AND A BALL here Is a very simple little toy that you can make and have lots of tun with take an ordinary tobacco pipe and stop the bowl with a tightly fitting cork the pipe may be either a wooden or a clay one but it should be new and clean and it the stem Is clay the end of it that goes into your mouth should be waxed by heat ing it and rubbing it on a lump of small marble a and pierce it through the center with a long hair pin from which you have broken off the greater part of one leg the straight end should stick farther out of the ball than the other so that the hooked end will be higher and will stay on top now in the other side of the large cork nearest the stem of the pipe stick a long wire bent over show ng construction and use of pe beeswax or as a new clay stem sticks to the lips and sometimes fears off the tender skin when it Is taken from the mouth bore a small hole through the cork near one side just big enough to bold a straw the straw should be a lit tie longer tl an the cork and at the top it should be slit down an inch or so and the pieces spread out in the form of a funnel or you may use a small glass auoe with a little paper pasted to the top of it if the straw or tube does not fit the hole exactly a little wax at the top will make the joint airtight isow take another cut it down to a round ball as big as a I 1 and above and ending in a hook ex act ly over the little funnel and three or tour inches above it then drop the cork ball into the funnel put the pipe to our lips and blow your breath rushing up the little tube will lift the light ball and keep it dancing in the air for a second or two when it falls the funnel catches it and your breath sends it up again the trick Is to o 0 the hook at cached to the ball catch on the hook above u that the ball remains sus that is all it takes patience and perseverance but it can be done and as I 1 said before it Is lots of fun trying it |
