Show go ng bye bye and it s ho for the land of bye bye astraddle of papa s knee with two big hands tor the and two 1 atle 1 ps for tl e tee and now we are off at a gallop through meadow and valley and wood for a vis t to peter piper and little red riding hood and maybe we 11 call on the fairies down there in the hazel de 1 for where papa horsey will take us the horsey h m elf can t tell and maybe we 11 call on M ss muffet and maybe and maybe we 11 come to where one 1 tt e pig went to market and one little e stayed home but this I 1 know that so surely As the littlest e could ta k so surely we 1 nod in tl e e and tl e gallop will come to a walk and then we wl I 1 be at the stab e and tenderly horsey wl 1 stand wh ie mamma lovingly leads us to the dream decked lullaby land collier s weekly the mag eggs ago when people who were supposed to be witches and wizards burned to death this little trick would have been looked upon as a direct proof that the one performing it possessed all the powers of black art and the trickster would have stood an excellent chance of being killed now although all magic Is known to be nothing but some trick so cleverly done that the spec gators cannot understand it this 1 atle deception will cause a gleat deal of masti among your little friends and ou can have lots of fun out of the wild guesses as to how ou per form it in the first place you must prepare for the trick some time before ou in tend to perform it suppose yo i are to entertain a party of friends at our home on saturday evening on friday get thre eggs and bore a small hole in the small end of each allowing all of the in side to run out of the shell the empty shells with warm water and rinse them carefully cae fully out being sure that none of the olk or white re mains allow them to dry all the rest of the day jut before you ex hect your g i ats to arrive on satur day evening fill the eggshells to the very brim with water so that they will not hold another drop then plug up the hole in the shell with wax putting in a good stout layer and rubbing your thumb over the wax plug and the end of the hell the was is so near the color of the shell that it will be almost impossible to the empty shell after the trek detect the little hole unless you know just where to look for it the eggs will even feel lie ordinary eggs tor it vou hav them full of water it will not shake about in the shells and they will be so nearly the weight of the average egg that no one would no tice the difference set them carefully on the large ends and you are leady for your guests some time in the evening you an bounce to your friends that you can take the meat from an eggshell right before their eyes without them see ing how it is done then when they cast doubts apon your boast the time tor your trick has come go out and get a kettle of hot water a large spoon and the three eggs take them into the room where your guests are awaiting you and hand the eggs around tor inspection when they have been passed from hand to hand place them one by one in the kettle the hot water will loosen the wax that fills the holes and by stirring the eggs well with the spoon it will soon be shaken out of the holes now by the aid of your spoon fish the egg out of the kettle and allow the water to run out of them when you pass the empty shells around among your audience they will all rush to the kettle expecting to find the con tents of abe eggs mixed with the water when they find that the water Is absolutely clear they will be perfectly astonished if you are care tul in filling the eggs with water and plugging the hole with wax there Is a way in which they can detect your trick which will seem to them like magic indeed A young telegrapher hobert baird aged 11 years the son of robert L baird of grovania ga holds a unique place among the bright youths of georgia fie is a fast and accurate telegraph operator and has already done regu lar work in western union offices at one time he was in charge of the of flee at vienna as day operator young baird seems to have taken to the key by instinct when only he could sit at the instrument and send before his father knew he was ac with the alphabet at 9 he could receive and now he is consid ered a competent operator A laugh ng game this is one of the jolliest tu games that we know of we mean by impromptu that it requires no prep aratoon whatever but may be played by a roomful of boys and girls the mo ment it is suggested and it Is brim tul of tun from start to finish any number of players may take part in it they first select a leader who should be a bright alert quick witted boy who is capable of preserve ing his self possession while fun and I 1 ahter are going on all around him the themselves in a circle and the leader takes his place in the center he holds in his hand a white handkerchief which he has knotted so as to make if partly solid when everything is ready the leader tosses the handkerchief up in the air and then every player must begin laughing but they mist all stop laughing by the time the reaches the floor abid if any one does not stop and the leader catches him either laughing or smiling he imposes a forfeit or a fine or instead of making the detected laughter pay a forfeit he may be re quiren to drop out of the acle it played in this way be players drap out one after another until only oe o e j 13 left and that one wins tas prize can you tel there Is no tree so familiar to us as an evergreen Is therea and yet can you tell the names of tp different kinds of for instance here are three corn mori varieties one of which we see every christmas now can ou name these threet the M ch avous monkeys when I 1 was at the zoo one day I 1 heard a great screaming and chatter ing going on in the monkey house and I 1 went in to see what it was all about in the big central cage were twenty five or thirty monkeys of all sorts and sizes rushing and darting around in every direction over the floor on the cross bars in the swings and up the sides of the cage and after them was a t g gray headed ape so mad that he looked as if he waned to tear the w hole lot to p aces on one of the cross bars sat another ape looking down at the scene as if he were enjoying the fun presently the ape that was chas in the monkeys being unable to catch any of them climbed back to the cross bar and sat there chattering and snarl ng while the excitement among the monkeys gradually sub sided As I 1 turned to go a vay I 1 saw the keeper and ed him what they had been doing he smiled and said that if I 1 would wait a little wl ile I 1 would see so I 1 waited and presently noticed that the two big apes on the bar had become quiet and were sitting close together as it getting ready to take a nap their long tails were hanging down nearly to the floor of the cage and several of the 1 atle monkeys were creeping around watching them as if they were intent on mischief suddenly two of them darted forward and each of them seized a tail and began swinging on it from side to side just as a boy swings on a dan gling rope the two old apes furious at this impudent interference with their corn fort chattered and screamed and made faces at their tormentors and tried to pull their ta Is away but the 1 atle swingers held fast and the rest of he monkeys danced about the cage and fairly screamed with del presently one of the apes got bis tail loose and rushed down from his perch blazing with anger to punish the monkey that had dared to take such a liberty with him then the other ape got his tall loose too and for five minutes there was a scene in the cage that beggars description new york herald keep a scrap book you may male for yourself an in te resting book by constructing a scrap book devoted to one subject one young girl with a strong interest in the life of mary queen of scots has collected from magazines and other sources articles illustrated or not a it happens verses pictures of build ggs and localities and portraits relating to this hero ne and has put them into a cingle scrapbook scrap book making a volume in wh ch she takes much pride when she cannot obtain a printed copy of an extract she wishes to add she does not hesitate to copy it out neatly upon the pages of her bool which 11 merely a large corn position book the educational to ue of such work is by no meana slight since to know one thing well one must needs learn much of many ctet a indeed it has been said more than once that to know one thing completely we should have to know all things there is a good suggestion here you will be surprised if you begin to gather mater al upon some topic to see how much is printed about your favorite subject one word of cau tion do not choose too wide a sub eject make our limits narro v enough to be within your scope your scrapbook scrap book need not bo upon history or literature but it should be con berned with something worth the time you mean to spend upon it st nich olas do you L ke to do these th here are a number of things we ased to e to do when we were little folks we used to take dandelions dande lons cut off the heads and string them together to make long garlands or chain flow er some of the little girls used to take the dandelions when in seed and blow three times it by the third time all the seeds were blown off it was a sign that their mothers wanted them we used to t the stalks of the dandelions and dip them in cold water so that they would curl we wore them for decorations we used to pluck long fresh blades of grass hold them tight between our hands and trumpet with them we could make a very loud noise with them we did something that the boys taught us too made whistles out of willow twigs by loosening the bark and mal ing a few cuts with our 1 nives then pass the large loop over his head and draw it tight across the lacks of his hands place a pencil in the smaller loop and turn it rather qu akly around and around while you bold the string tight the effect on your friend s ears will be like the firing of numerous guns anen pluck the string with ue fin gers of your free hand just a little flick will sound like the booming of a heavy gun keeping the 1 held in one hand and pulling the string tight now fold small p ece of paper over the string ind move it not roughly up and down the length of the string this will sound to your friend like the waves on the beach if next you scrape the string w th anything hard like a knife or paper cutter it will g ve your friend the im of heavy thunder M ss ng words W the pieces of paper bearing these sentences have been unfortunately torn you see do you think you can find the missing PAPER CUTTING what pretty figures can be made by folding and cutting paper squares illustration explains better than a long description with the assist ance of a small pair of scissors or a sharp knife an endless number of pret ty things can be made we will show you a few patterns that will give you an idea how the thing Is done the paper must be folded in the middle after the lines are cut the paper is unfolded and it Is not diffly lit to find out which parts have to be bent down ward legs on a table chairs etc and which parts to be beni adward back ot chal sofa etc figures A and are pattern for table figures D and E are deco dative pieces figure F Is part ol 01 the artificial flower G figure H Is the pattern of a tree ot a sleigh L of a sofa M of a chair figures D and E are folded twice figure even four times |