| Show end of the week it happens every saturday when all the chores Is don an the day Is re tin some eres an tl e stars is havin f n A twinkling twin klin an a danci in the cler and d stant iky the music of the gh bel s a they so a j nglen by we have tended to our lal ors all tie week weve done our best an we feel that were e t tied to a night of honest rest an maw has washed the 1 abes an lie h red man s fed the stock but the week s work a n t q te ed until gran paw w adb the clock there s no one else da t touch it causo it takes a master hand an you very 1 ely break it ll 11 0 dian didn t understand an when the go w th a whirring an a wh az I 1 allus hope that grow up as smart as gran paw is an then the house gits quiet cause the folks all go to bed an there ant no no se except the branches sarapin overhead we ve finished up another week an tim has learned the lock that shuts it out an starts us fresh when gl an paw winds the clock washington star odd way to lift a glass you can surprise people very much by laving your hand with apparent carelessness on a tumbler or wine glass nearly full of water and then lifting the glass water and all by raising your hand with the fingers outstretched in order to prove that you do not take hold of the glass in any way probably there will be some people whom you will not sur prise these will say oh easy try to do the trick themselves and fail the secret of success Is this though your fingers are straight when you lift the glass they must be bent downward sharply when you place your palm upon it you must press your hand down rather firmly in or der to make an air tight joint between it and the rim of the glass which should be wet to make the joint tight er now suddenly stra ahten your fingers and lift your hand this mo tion of the fingers causes the flesh of the palm to move in such a way as to cause a partial vacuum a sue alon which you can feel distinctly the space between the water and your hand is made a little larger and therefore the air in that space is rare fled or made thinner and exerts less pressure therefore the greater air pressure outside acting on the hot torn and sides of the glass forces it upward against your hand strongly enough to lift both glass and water when you raise your hand this trick requires some practice before it can be done with certainty and had better not be attempted with a very thin or valuable glass or in a place where spilled water will do harm above all do not use a very thin lifting a glass of water glass tor even if it does not drop you may break it by mere pressure and cut your hand besides thin glasses are very apt to have little nicks in the edge which will both cut you and spoil the trick by letting in air the glass must be a small one as it has to be well cohered by the palm of your hand an egg cup or a wine glass with a stem is best it you use a tumbler which being small in i diameter will probably be not very tall you will have to hold it in the other hand or set it on an inverted tumbler or a block of wood in order to get room to bend lour fingers down properly the trick seems especially difficult because the hand is flat and the glass nearly full of water but these are the very things that make it possible you cannot lift the glass with your fingers bent unless of course you actually take hold of it as it is the straight ening of the fingers that causes the suction you cannot lift an empty glass un less it Is a very small one the longer the space under your hand Is the greater change in the air pressure you can make by the motion of your fingers A hen W th a collar one of our readers who lives in the city received a fluffy little yellow chick for an easter present he kept it about the house for some time and it grew so fast that one could almost see it get larger at last it quite lost all its daintiness and became a scrawny coarse vo ced stubby feath ered nuisance but its little owner thought as much of it as ever it was too big to have about the house and was finally sent to the country and its owner did not see it for a year months later the little fellow visit ed his grandparents at their country place and found esther his pet grown to a full fledged hen strange to say while she evidently remembered him she was shy tor some time and it was several days before the two were on their former friendly terms now came a complication As it was garden time and fresh tender green things were springing up on every side the chickens were all shut up in a great wire chicken yard roy did not care to go there every time t 4 ae wanted to see esther and it would fever do to give her liberty for she be s ire to destroy a lot of adi den th nes toys grandfather boived the problem he tool an old umbrella rib bent it ifil it formed a circle lashed ahr ends firmly together and covered the hoop so formed with some strong mus lin in the center of this a bole was cut just large enough to go over Es ther s head when esther s head was popped esther and her collar through this hote she was a very much surprised and indignant hen and she made an awful fuss about it still she bad to submit for she could not get out of her strange collar so after a time she became resigned to it it kept esther from going about picking the gardens and she would not scratch because she could not see what she was scratching and so her liberty did no harm royal prince or princess let all the children sit down in a ring for this game one child begins by saying to her right hand neighbor good evening royal princess or prince I 1 a royal princess erne from a royal princess to say that I 1 have a monkey with purple eyes the right hand neighbor then says to his right hand neighbor good evening royal princess or prince I 1 a royal prince come from a royal princess to say that I 1 have a monkey with purple eyes and three seven mile tails so each player must do repeating the exact words of his predecessor and adding some new bit of tion of his own but saying prin cess or prince according to cheth er he Is talking to a boy or girl it anyone makes a mistake he must be crowned with a dunce cap and dubbed the one horned prince or princess the boy or girl who gets through the game without a mistake captures the prize this game Is lively some years ago duck and a rock was one of the popular games among the younger boys but of late it seems to have been forgotten any number of boys can participate select a large stone for the rock and each bov must hae a cobblestone or half a brick for his duck the boy who last finds his duck or cobblestone Is it A line Is drawn twelve or fifteen feet away from the boulder upon which the boy who Is it places a tin can or bis duck he Is guardian of the rock the other boys pitching their ducks at the one on the rock try to knock it off when a duck Is pitched the player must try to recover it and get back to the pitching line without be ing tagged by the guardian of the duck on the rock generally the clavers hover around waiting tor a lucky pitch to knock the duck off when chev grab their own ducks and run to the line the guardian of the rock must replace his duck before he can tag anyone the boy who is tagged of course takes his place as guardian of the rock and the game proceeds catera liars coat the fur or hair on the caterpillar was given by nature as a protection from other living creatures barly birds who consider most small crawlers as food delicacies intended especially to gratify birdie s appetite but there are not many birds nho could swallow a crawler that wears a fur overcoat it would stick in his tin oat and it he did get it down probably it digest caterpillars are brown or arpen but some are dressed up in tie grandest kind of way in many alors and ornamental knobs or to se a bag word protuberances A strange method of protection la that given to the caterpillar that aft turns into a swallowtail butterfly this caterpillar has an opening in the skin back of the head that emits a powerful odor probably not powerful enough to knock a man down but certainly strong enough to 1 eel over a bird unless maybe it 01 id have such a bad coid that it coulden couldn t smell anything A favorite way caterpillars have to resist an attack Is to hurl their bodies from side to side and some try to i look fierce certain caterpillars es cape the enemy by their resemblance to the color of their surroundings one variety not only uses the color effect but is able to attach his hind end to a branch and stretch himself out so that he looks like a twig this fellow can stay that way for a long time point of a lightning rod everybody knows in a general way that a lightning rod gives protection to a house but many persons do not 1 now why the rod has a sharp point and why it Is usually made of metal that does not easily corrode the object of the rod is to empty a cloud of its electricity noiselessly and harmlessly and it must be pointed be cause a fine point offers no resistance to the discharge the degree of resist ance Is in proportion to the surface of the object and a point has the least possible surface it the rod were top ped by a ball or a knob the discharge would be violent the difference between a point and a ball Is shown in discharging a bat tery perhaps some of our and girls have seen their teacher ot phys acs ics make the experiment the full charge from a large battery may be received quietly on a metal point but a moderate charge from a small bat tery will explode with violence on a ball it Is said that a full charge may be passed harmlessly through a per son s body it received on the point of a sewing needle whereas the same charge received on a ball tipped dis charger would cause instant death non corrosive metal is used tor the point of the rod because makes resistance and must therefore be provided against many a lightning rod has received an electrical dis charge when the occupants of the house knew nothing about it boys make money small boys whose parents spend the summer in the country must have something to do and it Is encourage ing for them to find themselves cm aloyed in a money making enterprise A few years ago a family summer ing in the country took a house on the bank of a stream here the boys arranged a watercress patch they cleared away the weeds and rubbish bought plants because they were too eager for the seeds to germinate and raised the tender little cress there was in the nearby city market a ready sale for all that was cot needed on the home table so successful was the water cress experiment that the next summer the boys planted mint and salad herbs their summers are now both a delight and a means of support this spring they are going out to the farm early to plant horseradish for next year game of bouquet this is a jolly game tor a number of children to play sit down in a circle around your leader let the leader give each one a flower tor his name violet daisy sweet william black eyed susan etc then let her tell you a story made up out of her own head in which she brings in every one of the flower names when ever a child hears his flower name mentioned he must get up turn around and sit down whenever the leader uses the aard bouquet all the children must jump up and change places at which time the leader tries to capture a seat whoever gets left must then become leader THE CORK SPIDER perhaps you have read in books of natural history about spiders which do not make webs as most sensible spiders are supposed to do but lie in wait or their prey and do other un spider like things the spider which I 1 am going to tell about does un spider like things too and I 1 am quite sure that you can never induce one to make a web ot course it is not a real spider but you can have even more fun with it than you could with a real one pro vided you could persuade it to come oit ait of its web and play with you get an old cork of a small size and some toothpicks stick the toothpicks two into each end of the cork and f wt r 1 la 1 then bend them in the middle until they yack do not break them clear through but on one side only so that will bend and form your spider jointed legs as the picture shows place your spider on a table top and you will see that he looks quite life ake now get some water in a teaspoon and shake a drop of water on each ot his leg joints they will immediately begin to move and your spider will appear to have suddenly come to life of course it will not race madly across the table or dance but it the toothpicks be of tough woods and the top of the table smooth it will wiggle a good deal and astonish all your friends who see the trick |
