Show the lady of sleep the lul aby lady she s comet mes ballel evl en we with a achl d sh tons e manhood s tatu es a tore stal ed na 1 e 1 a sons unsung out tr nd e bed wee ben 1 and ants S T rest f om play 1 lu aba lidy 1 h to ch of love atho carr es our cares attai to the princess we change 1 er nan e hen der we e gro and iff midst the n ad n ng cha e after ie tame for the peace of the ion gone bv and tl e pan of bac day heart ret de n s 11 we I 1 e in her ing keep and the pr e s into our tl ed ee 1 eted the binds of leep roy I 1 ar ell greere in january inoue keeper tale of two badgers vo aci nci peasants ac compin ed by a dog happened one lay to a badger to which the dog gave chase the admal hid abenath a tree bu t was got out rand 1 billed As the corn or par sh gave a reward for la n badgers the peasants proposed to convey it to the nearest village a te v miles off ng a rope 0 tough twigs they dragged it beh nd tl em by and by the squeal of an an mal was hearl and they then saw anothy badger following them althous they attempted to drive it away it took no not ce of them but came up to the dead badger and began to lick it the men now gave up trying to frighten it off and again fp to drag mcg their burden wherein where un the live bidger lay down beside ake killed one se zed it gently by tb ear and th is allowed itself to be bawn to the vil lage here ne ther dogs nor men nor boys could tore the faithful crea ture to leave its mate so the fool sh cruel people ing it was possessed by a ft itch slew and burned it the M ss ng numerals here Is an addition sum complete with the total but by an accident some of the numerals are missing can you supply thema they are all of the same value and when placed in their proper positions will give the total shown game of hands bjong time ago when we were all very little most of us found it great fun to play the game cf hands we piled our hands up you remember one above another until the heap was as tall as we could make it then sud denly some one cried ready and we all drew our hands out as fast as we could here as a rew way to play hands a way that seems all right for us big ger children and sometimes it may serve to amuse the very little onea too lou name all the hands in this new n ay of playing the g ris hands have boys names john henry and on the boys tahe helen and sarah and other girls names for theirs then when ill the players are quite sure 01 remembering each the t vo names belonging to h m or her some one calls out the names one after another and the hands must come out if any one forgets the name of his or her hands and fails to withdraw them that boy or girl must pay a forfeit and it the boy or girl calling forgets the names a list may be made if liked to help out with this part of the fun he or she m pay a forfeit too the players may call out the names in turn if this way is ed better or each player may have certain names to call out in the order fane ed but the game must always be played quickly and no player may call out his or her own name sometimes the hands are named after the days of the week the months of the year or in such manner some tides they are given the bamps of the children playing only no player must use the name that really belongs to him or her try this new old game some time when you want quiet yet merry amusement and you re pretty sure to be glad you did tender mothers A wild beast tamer of long eapen ence tells some interesting things of the affection of animals tor their young he 1 ad an elephant once he says who did all in her power to spoil her young one she f assed over it and cuddled it up so that when the time came for it to leave the cae it was simply unmanageable nhsn one of the men made a bold nw toward the baba he was promptly butted in the stomach and bowled over in a lecul ar wa which the youngster had of express ng his feel ings toward those whom he disliked at last by a ruse the mother and son were separated but there was no such thing as keeping them apart the baby rubbed the sl in off its forehead and trying to get through the birs and both walled so long and piteously that the keeper was obliged to put them together again A shy baby camel that passed through the hands of this same trainer refused to look upon the world ex apt from its favorite station between its mother s legs the mother too would show her displeasure at any effort toward intimacy by sp eting vio bently at every one in sight the kang oo also is very tos of rei inn and will patently carry it abo t ion after it is ready to hop on its own accoti t but for a dillay of affection jbf bothel mothel mon e beats her amaiel and wl en there is an add tion to the family acle tl ere is general re cing A baby noni ey sticks fast by its mother and asleep or awal e t seems alv ays in her thoughts what snakes L ke to eat A manag e menu is really a much more con pi bated affa r than it may seem to the outs der it is not just a mitter of so many pounds of meat so n iny loaves of bread 0 o many bales of hay e tor instance are very basu eaters hats mice birds gui ea p gs toads frogs fish and have to be provided for the various none of these can oe 1 ept in quant t es ready for use but must be fed to the crawling wig gl ng epicures either alive or still warm many snakes will starve them selves rather than touch food that has dead any length ot time bears need a good deal of dieting and espee all in the matter of meat they are also fond of eating between meals and thrive best when supplies of bicad and vegetables are strewn around their dens so that they may eat when the fancy seizes them moles and cattle farmers used to that moles were bad for the fields where their herds grazed but this opinion seems to be no longer held it the creatures sometimes ate grass roots they also gobbled up insects and grubs which did great mischief to all green stuff so the moles did some craod A coun to laborer told that they were able animals because they ate up the worms when chev have cleared off the grubs and worms in one they depart to another it was this mans belief that grass grew better in local ties which had been thus worked over by moles and was in deed best fated for the feeding of cows moreover the moles charge nothing for their services and seldom if ever go on a strike in spite of their powerful d aging claws but they all haie health appetites P how case party here Is an amusing idea for a ahll diens party an idea too which may be carried out with a very trifling out lay invite the boung people to a heet and pillow case ball to convert these into wearing apparel suited to the occasion presents some difficulty for they are not to be cut in any way two girls of acquaintance pretty ch idren of about 15 attending such a party showed a good deal of ingene ity in arranging their costumes one going as a japanese with chrysan at either side of her head the other appearing as an arab the ball was a great success and a won darful amount of variety was shown in the costumes fa of a dog some days ago two favorite dogs strayed from castle burneis land scotland a collie and a small terrier and dil gent search proved in effectual two days later the collie returned and bore marks of rough thia is a pretty though fragile toy and the mal ing of it will be both in tel esling and easy unless you have clumsy fingers if ou have it will be a good exercise for the purpose of making them less clumsy the wl ole machine is made entirely of straw there isn t even a drop of glue or wax to hold it together you must have good sound ne straw un threshed thre sred or at least unbroken the wheel is n a ie of two three inch p aces of coarse straw slit each piece tor rather more than halt its length into either three or tour strips and bend tr ese strips out until they usage there were however no traces of the terrier and the loss was reported to the police and advertised in the ne vs papers during th week which followed the vagaries of the col lie attracted notice and he was again absent and returned though closely watched he once more escaped and was away 0 er sunday till monday morn ng when he was observed ober ved by the lodge keeper leading or dragging t me thing up tl e castle approach this proved to be his 1 atle friend but in a condition so empt and exhausted that he was scarcely recognizable tt is surmised zed that both dogs had wan dered into a plantation two miles away and that the terrier had been unable to ret irn he had however been tended by the collie whose at faction saied the life of his compan ion by eventually assisting him home silhouettes hang a large section of cardboard at one end of the room then give each of the boy and girl players a bit of silhouette paper black and white you know several inches square a pencil and a pair of scissors on the white side write a imber nimber n and the name of some animal for in stance no 1 giraffe each player must then draw a sketch of his animal and cut it out with his scissors give fifteen or twenty minutes tor the work to be finished in then gather up all the silhouettes and paste them on cardboard black side out number each correctly then distribute cards and have everybody set down the number of each silhouette and his guess as to what animal is represented by each silhouette written after the proper number m sofa pil aws have you tried sofa made of writes a correspondent W ii si i a as i a i ii a E i i threads drawn to form 1 inch ares each to be worked with salka leen I 1 have effectively used black and yellow ruffle of scrim one row each of black and yellow baby ribbon ye for the do all young readers know that the word so often printed ye as in ye olde fashioned sing inge Is to be pronounced simply the 7 the Is only a substitute for an anglo saxon character that was used for the softer sound of th you may read how the came to be used by turning to the word the fn the century dictionary where the matter Is clearly explained and wl lie looking in that same vol ume turn over to the end and glance it the long list of authorities quoted n making up a dictionary from books and read ng in st nicholas WINDMILL OF STRAWS by two short and smaller straws in seated near their ends in the same way chis makes an oblong frame or the frame may be made ot a tingle ery long straw bent into a narrow triangle with the small end stuck into a slit near the big end in either case another crosspiece must be put in near the windmill and a long straw parsed through slits in the crosspiece and the end of the frame this long straw is to blow through it must be in lire with the windmill and Us top must be bent upward slightly and very carefully biow it you hold the 1111 alln construct on and work ng of straw W adm 11 are nearby perpendicular to the rest of the straw thus mal mg a three or four apol ed wheel attached to a short tube it these tubes are then slipped 01 er a smaller straw with the spokes fac ing each other and interlocking they will hold together well enough to form a windmill with six or e vanes turning aas ly on its straw axle the ends of this axle are in seated into sl ts made very carefully in the of two long coarse straws which are fastened together apparatus by the blowing tube and tha opposite end of the frame and blow through the tube the windmill will turn merrily to the great deight of the youngsters and to your own satisfaction at having been dexterous enoi gh to mal e a real moving and fairly strong machine entirely out of s ich kely material as a tow straws ot course ou may fasten the straws together with wax instein of slitting them but anybody cin do anat |