| Show do it now when you ve got a job to so do tt now J t s one you wish was tl ugh do it bowl it sure the jobs sour own don t hem and haw and groan do it now don t put off a bit of work do it now it doean doesn t pay to shirk do it now it ou want to all a place and be useful to t e race just get up and take a brace do it now don t linger by the way do it now boull lose t you delay do it now it the other fellows wa t or postpone until it s late you hit up a faster ga t do it now frank thought reading by a watch A most puzzi ng tr ck Is thought reading by a watch place a watch on a table ask some one to think of d certain hour and then to consider that he has counted up to that num her tell him you will point at vari ous hours on the watch and that he must add the number of times jou point to the number of the hour of which he thought instruct him that when he reaches no 20 he must tell ou to stop pointing and you will then be pointing at the hour he se lecter foi example say he thinks of 7 clock when you have pointed 13 times he must stop you because he has then counted to 20 now it does not matter of what hour he thought at the count you will have ar rived at the correct hour it you re member always to let your eighth pointing be to 12 clock and from there to follow the hours around backward 1 e from 12 to 11 and so on till you are told to stop home made sw get a piece of board in thick ness a piece of copper and some screws and wire now we are ready to start the switch E is made of a piece of copper inch wide it is pivoted at F with a screw to the end of E is fastened a cop per wire no 25 which leads to the upper binding post this switch has six contact points these consist of brass screws and copper or tin washers having F as a center draw the arc of circle that has a radius of 4 inches place the contact screws along this arc and about Vs inch apart center to center the last screw forms a part of b nimg post A this switch can be also used as a speed regulator tor small motors or dynamos mystifying card track A simple and mystifying card trick is the will power trick lou let any one shuffle the cards then take them into your own hand and ask another person to cut them now throw them on a table but as you do so get a glimpse of the bottom card which Is we will say the nine of hearts scat ter the cards a little but carefully note the position of the nine of hearts isow say that you have the power to will that a person shall unknown to himself select the card you want you can all for the nine of hearts some one hands you a card without looking at its face thank you you say quite right nine of hearts really however it is the jack of spades so you now ask tor the jack of spades and get let us say seven of diamonds you then say that you will a from the your self the seven of diamonds you take the card however which you know to be the nine of hearts you then show the three cards which are of course the three you named that it appears that you actually have made your spectators pick out the cards you wanted holland customs unchanged almost every fishing village in hoi land has its special dress and its own quaint customs one can see from old dutch pictures that these have not varied tor the last years one most interesting place is the island of marken a tongue of land on the margin of the zuyder zee which can well be inspected in a couple of hours it is so little above the sea level that the clusters of houses or tiny villages are built on mounds connected by bridges and nearly every little house has its own little moat and its own little boat everything except ane people is on a diminutive scale in holland moored near the door so as to be handy in case of flood the houses with the exception of the church and the clergyman gyman s house are built of wood on high piles they are none of them very old as the place has often been flooded and burnt in winter marken is often under water and the inhabitants use boats to pass from one village to another the cot which are painted blue green or black with pointed gables and roofed with red tiles are all exactly alike and possess only a ground door built on high pile fudge recipe A recipe tor fudge the ever bascin atlig 1 anu 1 girls love to make sapt in as follows two ic i c s of sugar three ta f ocoa mix well aw two cup of milk a piece of butter daout the size of a email egg cook until it gets stringy or else sugars around the edges just before taking off the stove add one na teaspoonful of flavoring when taken off the stove bea it for a min ute or ano or until it gets just hard enough to turn into buttered pans without hardening this is fine with nuts in TV hen almost cool cut n squares circle puzzle these are the three equal squares each containing biye of the small cir cles S mple experiments A very interesting branch of study Is vibration A vibration you know Is defined as an impulse but if a series or num her of impulses are produced singly and at irregular intervals very little effect upon anything can be produced it the reverse is true however results often astounding will be noticed and that by the way teaches an am lesson lou cannot do any thing of any account by means of a ingle effort you must keep at it regularly and constantly did you er ath a pla mate cross a stream walking over a plank keep ing step the while f what happened 1 why the plank be gan to jump and bounce until you both came near falling into the water tour regular footfalls set up bibra tion and the plank was obedient to its law probably you know that as a rule soldiers are obliged to break step when crossing a bridge if they con linued marching such vitiation would be set up that the bridge would ably fall in going over a great many railroad bridges the speed of locomotives co must be slackened because the regular swing of the pistons re suits in the same manner stubborn paper wad did you ever see a paper wad that Is so stubborn that it will fly in the face of one who tries to compel it to go into the neck of a bottled the more you try to blow it in the more it leaves the bottle you can try this with any large hot tie and a paper wad or cork small brough to fit very loosely in its neck holding the bottle so that it points directly at your mouth and placing the cork in the neck the harder jou blow on the cork for the purpose of driving it into the bottle the more forcibly will the cork rush its place in the neck try this stunt and see it you can tell what causes the peculiar action of the paper wad A tangle party A tangle party Is a jolly idea for parents lengths of ribbon or colored twine are twisted all over the house and the children are told that it they can find the end of the thread they can have whatever they will find at LIVING PICTURES to mal e living pictures provide yourself with a sheet of stiff white cardboard and a spool one end of which you cut off squarely stick the spool on a piece of strong wire and bend the wire in such a way that the longer end serves as a handle while the other end keeps the spool from sliding off see B now take your compass and draw a circle seven inched in diameter on the cardboard cut the circle out carefully draw fit over the end ot the spool which Is cut off squarely nov to make tire living pictures we cut out circles six inches in dl amatel and copy and D as they ap pear in the drawing fig E shows a circle with a design ot living pictures attached to the large circle with the little windows D Is a wheel with seven spokes we attach the circle to the large cir cle on the spool with the help ot a little wax and stand before a large a second circle three eighths of an inch from the edge of the first circle and divide it with a pen into eight parts which you connect with the center of the circle by lines A third circle which you draw Is seven eighths of an inch from the edge between the two inside circles at each of the divisions cut put square windows as shown in A cut out a square at the center of the circle to the end ot it the ribbons begin in one room and end in another they are passed through keyholes twisted around balusters and perhaps one end is in the garret or in the kitchen it presents cannot be bought for all the children two handsome prizes can be purchased instead one for a girl and one for a boy and secured to the end of a blue ribbon and red rib bon respectively but a little present each Is more pleasing on the whole aa children like to cairy home some little souvenir of a party it it is oaly a tiny toy or a pretty red notebook or a nice little box ot sweets paddles and answers describe the wise man s head col in five letters level something worn by baby in three letters bib A palindrome tor the neck in six letters 9 tipp t A man s name in abbreviated form three letters 9 bob A word meaning before in three letters 7 ere A sharp sudden noise three letterst 9 pop one who resuscitates in seven let tersa A feminine name occurring in the bible in four letters 9 anna form of the preceding in three letters 9 nan A form of address for a lady in five letters 9 madam the tramp s way of sa ing the mum part of a ship in four letters 9 poop the small boy s way of saying it in three letterst 9 mam how biddy just over would say it in three letterst 9 mim A powerful scent in tour letters otto float ng Tri angleA trick here is an interesting experiment boys and girls take wet lead pencil point and draw on thick paper a triangle which need not be mathematically perfect take a basin of water and lay this paper on the surface of the water with the drawing up very carefully fill the space inside the lines with water the water will not flow be ond the lines which you drew with bour wet lead pencil point next take a needle or pin dip the po nt ot it into the wet triangle near one of the angles but don t let it touch the paper now an odd thing will happen the paper will be sure to move on the water until the center of area conies directly under the point you should previously have found where the center ot area Is by draw ins lines from any two angles to centers cf the opposite sides see the picture the where the two lines cross will be the center of area try this interesting experiment mirror turning the front of the cir cle toward the glass biow we give the circle a quick turn with the hand looking through the little windows at the same time the wheel hlll appear to have all its eight spokes instead ot beien and will turn in the opposite direction from the circle we hold in our hand rig will show the pen bulum of a clock in motion fig E a ball flying through a ring |
