Show how to treat a book in an old english bo k the author pub lashed the to lowing lines of adice to his readers all you small ch idren who look into this book big deop e too I 1 write for ou spoil not soil not blot not grease not rub not scrub not spot not crease not tear not ear i ot tl un not 1 alner not twiddling and fiddling and above a 1 0 people great and small don t point with our forefinger joint for know that the eyes ot folks ft ho are wl e don t grow under their nails though the notion prevails of butter treacle hone jam of sandwiches of beef or ham of tea coffee mine beer of porridge soup and milk keep clear of all sorts of and all n anner of grog also of paint pitch tallow cheese of wax of cobbler and of bees of candles and oil and all tl ings that spoil wl ie iou look into this book don t abuse it t neatly D streetly ly and carefully use it and then you may see it again Blin kens the dog you never say a word to me though I 1 tell you heaps of things there the pa nt s all off my soldiers and my new boat cannot sail never have guessed it the gold fish jumped out of the jar and the cat nearly caught a new sparrow but why don t you say something 7 why dont you Blin kens deara you seem to understand me some times you look so sad and when I 1 tell you about the cat you can hardly keep still how is it you always frighten her soa and do you have much fun with the chickens 7 or would you rather chase the why there cure laughing Blin kens if I 1 was jonii sure at what are iou thinking of brother bob and the sticks he throws in the creeke are you just glad to be with me here by the fired it you could peep over the fence as I 1 do now dear fc low you d the merriest party all the children of tabby have their coats brushed till they shine and each one wears A bow at her ear for this is the old cat s birthday and a alir e for the kittens to be gay but you re such a lively dog Blin kens you d be sure to make connison con fison so im glad you cant even imagine the part for tabby s b but its awfully lonely for a little boy to have a dog who never speaks even though I 1 love him so for mothers birthday this simple worl basket Is made of rope coiled and shaped into the pat tern shown after it Is shaped a few coats of shellac are given it A knot of bright ribbon on one of the handles adds a touch of color it the basket Is to be fitted up with needle book pin cushion etc the same color should be used as appears in the ban die bow it makes a pretty gift for mother s birthday Esqui mau fun we may not think greenland such a nice country to live in but the little Esqui mau children have lots of tun and a great many jolly games one of these games is not unlike our shin ny only it is played with a stick made of bone and a ball of sealskin another which demands not a little skill Is played with two pieces of bone one flattened with holes in it and the other sharpened to a pin point they are tied together by a string about a foot long and the flat piece after being thrown in the air must be caught by one of its holes on the point of the sharp piece As the Greenlar 3 winters are very long and snow covers the ground all fhe time every toy and girl possesses a bled some are made of ice and the way they skim over the hard smooth snow would surprise you others have runners of bone and tops of sealskin with baci s to lean against dogs pull them and so lazy bos and girls need have no hauling 1 up hill sometimes the little folks et up reindeer horns on a hillside and getting on their sleds they try to pass between them without touching them there are also some funny house games to pass winter evenings in one they get on their knees in a circle and hold their toes in their hands the one nho goes the fastest wins the game besides these games they have some beautiful toys these their fathers carve from the tusks of wal rus they are of every conceivable chape and design often entire all lages are made the huts or canoes and dogs sledges being in perfect miniature the carving Is often sl willfully ill fully done and is the more remarkable when one considers the primitive tools used in their manu facture the fe used is seldom more than a bit of steel barrel hoop ground down to an edge and lashed with thongs of walrus hide to a handle of bone or driftwood A pretty flag game A very pretty and interesting game may be played with a sheet of paper or cardboard on which are painted the flags of all nations the sheet may be prepared by any one that has a little talent for drawing and though it may entail some trouble it will doubly fr yourself it Is not bard to find colored pic turea of the flags almost any good gazetteer or big dictionary contains such a sheet they should be copied in proper order on the paper or card board and colored in water colors when the copying is done put a number under each flag instead of the name ot the nation it belongs to and hang the sheet on the wall where the dialers may see it give a sheet of pap r to each player with the list of the numbers written down the left hand margin now allot a certain time say halt an hour within which the players are to write opposite each number the name of the nation to which that par t cular flag belongs when the time has expired each player signs his or her name to the list and hands it to the leader who examines them all and awards the prize to the one hav ing the most names right A miniature american flag made of silk would be a suitable prize to of fer the color of the sky why Is the shy blue it is a ques tion that probably has not arisen in many minds most people are content to accept the fact without enquiry the sky is blue and not yellow red or green said a science student simply because the countless mil lions of particles in the atmosphere reflect only the blue portion of the sun s light some of these particles are water but most of them are corn posed ot the oxygen or nitrogen of the air but someone may say the sky Is sometimes red at sunrise or sunset true and until quite recently the fact was a puzzling one it Is now known that the red tints come from the watery vapor in the lower layers of the atmosphere while the deep blue of the sky belongs to the higher lay ers the red hues in fact do not rise higher than five miles from the earth but whatever the color if is entirely derived from the air it it were pos sible for you to ascend above the atmosphere that surrounds the earth your blue sky would be suddenly autograph verses may every blessing god can give bring peace around you while you live your album is a golden spot in which write forget me not A long life gay with merry dance and song lk be thine always for joy doth life prolong when the golden sun Is sinking and er a thousand times you re thinking when your soul from care Is free will you sometimes think of mea when time that steals our years away will steal our pleasures too the memory of the past will stay and halt our joys renew schoolboy years ago here Is the account of a day of a german schoolboy of thirteen years forty years ago I 1 get up at or even earlier and work till 7 go to school play the violoncello at 11 the piano at 12 then dinner then school again then coffee and gymnastic exercises then work again till I 1 can get fresh air in the garden which s impossible in this heat during the day I 1 eat only a roll from 5 in the morning till 1 clock and drink no coffee early and I 1 often feel rather taint american bov more thoughts about th if folk would only ferret out the good and make much of it instead of continually being on the alert tor the bad what a beautiful world we would have we always get what we look tor or desire soa he who looks tor the bad gets it while he who searches for the good finds it and gives joy to others we are all what we make ourselves if you would have love sympathy and joy ou must scatter them wit is often aed to cloak a stinging rebuke let every one keep a sharp eye on himself corf must be your severest critic A good resolution Is a good thing a good deed a great thing be truthful with yourself and you 11 be truthful to others lie Is very extravagant who worries man often worries things into happen ing if your mind invests in fear tear will constitute its chief revenue the eagle and its prey this Is quite a startling exhibition on account of the lifelike qualities of the eagle which really soars into mid view behind the scenes air up the mountain crag after the defenseless sheep the eagle may reach his prey or hover about it in the air in an hunsuc attempt as long as the youth tul operator wishes A small toy theater stage presents the best setting for the arck although it can be done on an ordinary table you can easily fashion a set of mountain scenery by cutting out mountains from colored pictures in old magazines and setting them up either in the slits of the stage or on small wooden stand mounts it you have no toy theater two wings of mountain scenery will be enough that Is the front wing which is the mountain side in the foreground and the other wing made up of the hills in the background as shown in the picture now cut out a very small picture of a sheep and paste it on the wing in the foreground at point A then cut out a email eagle from fine tissue paper A small sewing needle should be procured thread it with a piece of fine thread about a foot in length and run it lengthwise through the body of the paper eagle the most important thing of all to secure Is a very strong magnet you place the theater or table in such a way as to enable you to stand directly behind the stage where you can use both hands at the same time take the magnet in your right hand and place it at the point marked A be hind the mountain and out of sight of the audience t tha needle eagle starts to fly toward the invisible magnet you in scantly check its flight by pulling backward on the thread the end of which you have grasped in your left hand now you gradually move the indis ible magnet upward in the direction indicated by the dotted lines the astonished audience sees the eagle slowly fly up the mountain side this seeming miracle Is easily view from spectators seats accomplished by holding the thread end so that the attracted needle eagle will be just far eno agh away to get the full strength of the hidden mag nets attraction without quite being able to touch it and as the magnet Is raised upward behind the mountain the eagle naturally rises with it the audience sees only the eagle and of course Is greatly mystified it your hand Is steady ou direct the eagle s flight at will being careful to always keep the magnet out of sight behind the scenes THE STARCH BOX BARN how your barn will look barn Is just the thing for a rainy day older readers can make it for the younger children of the house hold and get a great deal of pleasure out of it for themselves tal e a wooden box not longer than 13 inches and knock off the top and one end buy at the druggist s a five cent package of red dye dissolve a lit tie of it in warm water and rub the color all over the box on both sides with a dull lead pencil and a ruler draw lines on the inside to represent bricks for the root take four straw cover ings which are used to protect bottles from breakage cut the strings so that they will open flat and tack them in position oa top of the hot the three cornered hole which Is found at the back just under the root can be cover ed with the end of the box which was removed green tissue paper makes a good floor covering you may cut out domestic animals by the score from old boks maga or newspapers and stand them up about the barn using as props pieces of card bent and fast ened to their backs as and abed in the picture 1 1 t |