Show A bright world some say this wo d Is an old old world but it a always been new to me with its boundless iange of ceaseless change and hope of things to be A new friend tal es my hand when the old one away he old days d e but the 1 ant in the sky s the dawn of another day some dav thia world is a fo d cold world but it s always been bright to me W th its hearthstone farea and warm ae res I 1 f he things that are yet to be and if I 1 must labor I 1 wilt and trus tto the fields I 1 have sown por 1 know there Is truth in the promise of youth I 1 shall some time come to my own some ay tt Is world Is a bad bad world but it s al been good to V th its errors there live dear hearts that forgive and hope for the things to be this world Is not d nor cold this world Is not sad nor bad it you look to the forgetting the night and say to your soul be glad woman s life A prophet on a pivot hae you ever placed a game called prophet if not you find it very entertaining to make the prophet you first cut a piece of pasteboard the prophet perfectly round divide with pencil marks this circle into about twenty or more equal parts like the spokes of a wheel place this piece of paste board on a standard a few inches high then either make or buy a small wooden doll which must be dressed e a monk or prophet place this figure in the center of the circle on a wire or pivot so that it will turn freely the prophet must have a wand in his right hand which points to the figures on the disk now prepare a lot of cards upon each of which you must write some prophecy bearing the numbers on the disc such as no 15 you will be successful in business no lo 10 you will have a long life and a merry one the person whose fortune Is to be told must start the prophet revolving on the pivot and when he stops his fiand will point to one of the burn nurn bers then the card bearing that number must be given to the player on this he reads his future horace mann it isn t every boy or girl who knows that they are indebted to horace mann for freedom from the kind of punishment at school that was once termed licking horace mann did more to caprove the public school tern than any other man his own ay iy t the benefits 0 his efforts first but the system he organized soon became general throughout this country and even in england perhaps his work in this direction grew out of the difficulty he expert encee in obtaining his own education his parents were very poor people living on a small farm in Mass ichu and young horace was obliged to work very hard with the ret of the family he had to work so hard in tact that until bis fifteenth year he could not go to school more than two months in any ear in those days too there were very few subjects taught and the few books that needed were not provided tree as all are now this was very discourage leg to little horace for ne had to braid straw to earn the books his studies reoul red most of his early education was gained in a small library in the town where he found some books on history and theology books so dry that no scholar of to aay could take the slightest interest in them horace persevered finally passed through college and became a great lawyer long before middle age he devoted his life to the improvement of educational methods and our wonder ful system of schools stands to day as the greatest monument a man could have home made lanterns the materials needed for a home made lantern are a baking powder can a nail a hammer a candle two yards of wire a piece of cardboard and a piece of rounded wood to fit into the can insert the round wooden wedge into the can and with hammer and nail make as many holes as you wish say perhaps tree holes in a group all over the can which makes a very pretty pattern with the wedge in side the can will not bend the stand tor the candle Is made from the pasteboard which should be thick cut this into a circular piece a shade smaller than the can first making a hole in the center large enough for the candle push this with the candle in it into the bottom of the can and the lantern itself Is finished hammer three holes at equal dis in the cover of the can and then put more holes in the lan tern idolf close to the top of the can also at equal distances apart if you have some old chains use these to hang the lantern as in the picture if not use wire some summer conundrums what does sweet william carry when he goes out walking 7 A sugar cane what does black eyed susan use to keep her hair in ordera cockscomb what form of entertainment Is corn mon among the flowers 9 hops what disease is common to young flowers 7 nettle rash on what does the wandering jew rest when tired toadstools which parent made johnny jump upa his poppy what tree always uses the second personal pronoun 9 yew what tree Is formed by two letters ot the alphabet 7 L M elm what tree Is the most dapper spruce what tree Is the sweetest 7 maple what tree Is the most melancholy weeping willow what tree is proud of being a par enta pawpaw what tree Is a sorry invalid byca more what tree Is used in building materials lime the star take a sheet of cardboard a calein dar for instance and bend it in tha median line in one ot the wings thu obtained cut a four pointed star ao 10 wl ich two points are vertical and horizontal now bend back this wins upon the other and take a tracing of it with a pencil strike the center ot the star by the intersection of tact diagonals this will be the center ol 01 a new star of the same size but chos diagonal makes an angle ut 45 de grees with the first one traced this new star cut it out caret tily and place your cardboard as tho illustration directs on a table bearing a couple of lighted candles of ehg same height opposite a screen ot white paper affixed to the wall regu late the angine formed bya the wings in such a way that the images which the stars cast may tal on the center of the screen directly me over the other you will now bave a bright star of eight corners jow it you cover bno of the two aper ures with a bit of colored glass say reen you will have a star chose rays or points are alternately ed and green while a whito octagonal tar will appear in the center rho colored glass may bo replaced s in the by a drink lne lass containing colored liquid cities and towns cities and towns la an interesting game it requires no preparation further than a large shet of paper and a pencil for each person first choose choo se a letter then agree to write tor three minutes each person must write the names ot all tho cities or towns ho or she can think of in that time beginning with the given letter t for instance the letter chosen la B the list may apok like this boston brookline brooklyn and so on A rapid writer with a ready memory can write jamea under some letters of course Y s and Z s are not so plentiful when the three minutes have expired one person reads his list while the others cross off their own lists the duplicates leaving in the end tha names which they alone wrote the one having the largest list un duplicated by the rest keeps that score and at the end of the alphabet or the game adds his partial scores together the one having the best total wins this Is a jolly way to spend a hour at home or with company for a prize a little globe filled with bon bons Is appropriate this boy had right idea william a new york newsboy Is 13 years old he heard a kitten crying for help and discovered the animal perched on the ledge of a third story window the building was locked and it was after business hours somebody had carelessly shut th window and left the kitten outside willy climbed up the awning post to a signboard which runs up the side of the building then he carefully shinned his way up till he was abreast of the kitten he was just able to reach it the animal jumped on his arm and from there to his shoulder willy slid down the signboard to the awning and then jumped into the arms of a policeman who scolded him for risking his life and anen told him he was a fine fellow tor rescuing a dumb brute now don t get the idea that it Is necessary to climb flagpoles or jump in front of street cars in order to be humane but you can be kind to dumb brutes you can see that they are fed and watered and that they are not tortured you can realize that it Is no more tun for a dog to have a can alea to its tall than it would be for you to wear a ball and chain cane trick measure the length 0 your forearm along a cane by placing your elbow even with its head and marking tha point to which the tip of your finger reaches take hold of your cane with your middle finger covering the mark and your little fanger nearest to the head the cane must be at right angles to the hand and be grasped firmly that the tips of all the fingers ahei pressed tightly against the palm of the hand it Is not fair to hold the can obliquely now try to put the head of the cane to your lips if you succeed OB ahei an exception to the general rule andl even you will probably fall it you the cane in the same manner at ai point a little farther from the head rut any one can do the trick easily by holding the cane at a less distance from its head than the length of forearm i ka i i |