Show A rush is good steady in its place lad but not at the start I 1 say for altes a very long race lad and never was won that way its the stay that tells the stay boy and the heart that never says die A spurt may do with the goal in view but steady s the word say I 1 steady s the word that wins lad grit and sturdy grain it s sticking to it will carry you through it roll up your sleeves again oh snap is a very good cur lad to frighten the tramps I 1 trow but holdfast sticks 1 ke a burr lad brave holdfast never lets go and clever a a prett nag boy but stumbles and shies they say so steady I 1 count the safer mount to carry ou all the way the iron bar will smile lad at straining mu cle and thew but the pat ent teeth of tl e file lad 1 warrant wl 1 gnaw it through A snap may come at the end boy and a bout of might and main but steady and stick must do the trick roll up sour slee es again the pla rs of many lands just as a rose by any other name would smell as sweet so plains remain pla ns no matter by what name they may be called the geographer however divides the surface of the earth into the two great sections of high lands and low lands he draws the line roughly between the two at 1200 feet it would therefore seem that a plain need not mean a large tract of level ground but even in elude hills of respectable height vast plains are alike in this that they are either bare of plants or possess plants of very similar character in the northwest and center of europe the plains are called heaths in hungary in the south of russia and west of asia steppes in the north of russia and siberia in aari ca deserts in north america pral ries in south america sava or pampas or llanos these areas are supposed to have been once under the sea and in most cases a slight depression of the earth s surface would place them under the sea again A photograph rack the single parts of this rack are three inches wide and two and one fourth inches high take strong all able copper wire and cut oft pieces about twelve inches long which you form into the shapes shown in our illustration with the help of a pair of tweezers or strong scissors they are joined together by hooks the holder can be made of two three or more parts but each part must be bent carefully and accurately worth remembering be prompt at meals and don t find fault let wit provide both spice and salt smile at mistakes and overlook some of the blunders of the cook nor spoil the appetites of those at table with a list of woes of dire diseases aches and ills of patent medicines and pills dont use your knife instead ot fork when mouth is full don t try to talk dont try to eat As much as able nor lean your elbows on the table with grateful heart enjoy your food to those around be kind and good and ne er so selfish and piggish be As to want the biggest and best you see good old fashioned games truckling the trencher this Is an old english game the children sit on the floor or kneel in a ring a per son in the center holds the trencher or wooden plate and when all are ready he truckles or spins it at the time calling the name of some ore in the ring the one named must spring quickly and try to catch the plate between both hands before it stops spinning it he succeeds he takes the place in the center and the first truckler goes in the ring it he does not catch the plate beewen both hands before it stops spinning he pays a forfeit and Is counted out then there Is the play of twos and threes the company is grouped in twos and threes usually only one odd one and the fun consisted in not being caught as the third this keeps each child looking over her shoulder when two were behind the foremost must slip away and find another place or be trapped after a stand up game a rather tunny game where all the company sit is to have one person chosen to call and the rest to repeat one good tat hen two ducks three plump partridges four squawking wild geese five felicitous oysters six pairs of roman striped hose seven thousand spanish soldiers eight cages of paro nine sympathetic apathetic didactic propositions eleven superstitious astronomers viewing venus in venice twelve european dancing masters teaching egyptian mummies to dance at her catie wedding if any one laughs during this exercise he must pay a forfeit the one who repeats most smoothly and scle aly must be the caller out and begin the gibberish over again ceasur ng a tree aas ty the woodcutter of new england has a very ingenious way of meas ureng the height of a tree he cuts a stick that when placed upright before him will reach exactly to the measuring of a tree centre of his eyes then he lies down on the ground at such a distance from the tree that the top of the stick when placed upright against the soles of his feet will be in line with his eyes and the top of the tree in other words he forms a right angled triangle of which his extended body from his eyes to the soles of his feet is the base the upright stick the altitude and the distance from his eyes to the top of the stick the there must be therefore a similar right angled triangle formed of the d stance arm his eyes to the base of the tree from his eyes to the top of the tree and from the height of the tree itself As the base and the aati aiti tude of this triangle are equal it follows that the height of the tree Is the same as the distance from the eyes to its base this homely but perfectly satis factory method is sometimes used to determine the height of a factory smokestack when for instance it becomes necessary to make certain alterations to secure greater or less draught the dimensions of the stack being an important factor in such a case of course the architects plan would give the information but they are not always accessible what a boy can do little platt spencer lived in the woods of the catskills with very lit tie encouragement for learning from his earliest years his great wish seem ed to be to write up to his eighth year he had never owned a sheet of paper but had marked on any smooth surface he found at this time he got hold of a big copper cent almost the first money he had seen says success he entrusted his coin to a lumberman and asked him to buy a sheet of paper at the lumber camp twenty miles away late that night the messenger returned the boy wearied with waiting had gone to bed at the sound of the ar rival he awoke his first thought being of the promised paper he arose and with feverish eagerness tried to make characters on the smooth white surface paper he could not afford every day especially as he soon moved with his father to the frontier in ohio there birch bark sand banks snow drifts and ice were his most frequent writing surfaces his schooling was very meagre a few months when he was twelve years old so he had t dig out his own learning by flickering candlelight books were scarce and worth any hardship to procure to continue the study of arithmetic he had to have a book and heard he could get one twenty miles away it was winter and he had no shoes but lie walked barefoot on the frozen ground and secured his treasure darkness came on and found him miles from home his only food had been frozen turnips found in a field at length he found a settlers cabin where he was sheltered for the night under such conditions he acquired a fair education and developed a tern of penmanship that for was almost in american Spen cenan bulmes colleges were es in forty cities my wheel and I 1 go vis ting this game may be played by any number though onla four at a time can take part the others acting aa spectators until their turns come the tour occupy four corners of a room or space marked out on a lawn As large a space as possible should be chosen each is provided with a wheel or hoople at a given signal all the players start at onea 0 tr in die wheels no wheel must be dropped or if it is that player ceases to be a contestant the trundling beg ns at tl e right and each corner must be visited and so on to the barting tar ting point of each player he jhc reaches home first Is the prize wonc or after all have tried he who gets home in the shortest time wins the prize the hurry and excitement excite men of the four wheels visiting at the same time causes much merriment bats a foot deep in the phil paines a very strange sight is often presented toward even ing to the traveler sometimes he will see a steady torrent of black specks shooting out from under a single tile of dorile b g convent roof As he approaches he will hear a strange twittering murmur where the stream melts into the darkness of the coming night these are the bats no larger than beetles that spend their days in the garrets and beltres of the churches so thick that they cover the walls a foot deep hanging to each other at night they go out always by the one hole even if there be hundreds of others money for the asking this Is not a very easy feat but it can be done in the first place you lay a dime on the table and offer it as a prize to any one who can lift it and take it away without touching either the coin position for the trick or the table with his fingers or with pincers tongs a knife fork or spoon when everybody has considered the problem and given it up put your mouth within a couple of inches of the coin and blow suddenly and as hard as you can on the table just in front of it the air will pen under the dime lift it up and carry it a litle distance and you must hold your hand or a cup ready to catch it hardly anybody who does not already know the trick is likely to think of this simple solution though simple in theory it Is not so easy in practice it takes a very sharp strong puff of air to lift the coin so high that you can catch it without touching the table the puff must be directed exactly to the right spot and the hand must be ready to catch the coin at the proper instant you had better practice the trick until you can be sure of doing it every time before you show it in public AUTOGRAPH OF PULSE physicians have always devoted a great deal of attention to the study of the pulse because of its force rapidity and regularity or irregularity tell a great deal about the patients condition this Is very delicate complicated and expensive and it Is called by the ugly name of mcgraph you can make pulse tracings at the cost of a very little labor and mater bals not warth two cents which you can find in the house these mate of the stick with glue or sealing wax cut a broader strip ol 01 quill something longer etian the cork pin one end of it to the bottom of the cork and bend it so that you can insert the other end into the groove under the button blacken a card in the candle flame now you are ready to take your friend s pulse autograph the pa tient rests his or her wrist on the cork so that the button presses the spot where the pulse Is felt hold the card upright on its edge and the pulse writing the autograph rials are nothing but a good sized cork a little stick like a match stick a shoe button a card a quill toothpick or quill pen and two pins in the top of the cork cut out a square groove or furrow a little wider and deeper than the shoe button whittle down one end of the stick and fit the eye of the shoe button on it place this end of the stick in the groove and thrust a pin through the stick and the cork on both sides so that the stick can turn on the pins like a pump handle cut a long thin silver of quill sharpen one end to a fine point and the other end to a free end a fe tak draw along slowly and steadily keeping it in contact with the point of the quill the point will trace on the blackened card a white wavy line which Is the record of the pulse beats greatly magnified because the pulse acts on the short arm of the match and guell lever and the record Is written by the long arm the bent quill under the button acts as a spring and raises the button each time it is pushed down by the throb of the pulse these pulse tracings vary with the age and health of the person making them and are therefore as I 1 have said a sort of autograph k 1 AU aa ai |