| Show afi sa 4 i x ff ss 2 as to day we attall do so much in the years to come but what have we done to daya we shall give out gold in a princely sum but what did we give to daya we shall lift the heart and dry the tear e shall plant a hope in the place 0 fear we shall sneah with words of love and er but what bae we done to daya we shall be so hind in the after while but what have we been to day we shall bring to each lonely life a smile but what 1 ave we brought to day we shall give tc tr th a grander birtal and to steadfast faith a deeper worth we shall teed the hungering souls ot earth but trotti have we fed to day nixon waterman has its troubles the most disconsolate fellow that walks the bach Is the hermit crab whose shell has become too snug tor it it wera own as the dam s tt would grow with his growth and always be s perfect fit but to the hermit there comes often a amov ing day when a new house must be sought discouraging work it is to most of the doors aa bancks slammed in his face A teak from a larger p acer than bis own will often satisfy him that abe shell he considers distinctly possible and hopefully ventures to explore 1 already occupied bv a near but coldly unsympathetic relative finding no empty shell ot suitable size the hermit may be driven to ash i brother hermit to vacate in his bavy the proposition is spurned in dign antly and a fight ensues the bat tie is the stronger often tue at tacking party has considerable trouble in cleaning out the shell baling to pick his adversary out n bits A periwinkle or a whelk may be attack ed tn a like manner by a hermier who hard pressed and has taken a fancy to that particular shell if the house I 1 older be feeble the conquest Is easy if lusty be holds the tort A water 1 I the men who work in the great bogging camps in abc aest and north west where miles and miles of great logs are floated down tny rivers to aw mills below have a peculiar port they grow 0 o at home on slip biery shifting logs rolling and tossing about in the swift current that they can leap from one to another and rid on them like circus performers while directing their course around a bend or bad place in the riven these loggers make a specialty 0 stand ing on a log and making it roll first forward then backward by leaning one way or the other and standing on the log nearest the direction they wish it to roll they can even mal e the log roll through the water 1 ke a wheel or hoop rolling over the ground 1 sometime when you are in swim ming or bathing find a good sized log put it in the water and try to stand on it you will be surprised to find how difficult it is to do this and the first time you try tt th log will probably roll over at once and dump you in the water but you will very con get the knack of and then vou will find that by standing with your feet on one of the sloping sides 0 the log you can make it turn in that direction and by moving your fet lust as fast aa the log moves you can not only keep your upright position but can make the log move through the water try it of names of dogs there are not many bois or girls or grown folks either for that mat ter who know how the breed names dogs first came into common use for instance abe spaniel is so called because abe first types ot this tul and intelligent animal arrived in england from spain and were called spanish dogs the beautiful blenheim spaniel Is rained after blenheim palace where this dog first was made fashionable iu the time ot the great marlborough ring charles as might be glees ed owes its came to the merry mon arch the skye terrier was originally bred to the isle of skye and the scotch terrier of course in scotland many other dogs show the original p ace of their breeding or development by their names such as the great dane the newfoundland siberian bloodhound and so on the mastiff means house dog no doubt because of his great strength and size and ability to guard the borne poodle means waddle although these pretty little pes of today to day don t to partake of any ancestral clumsiness A wingless bird far away on the other side ot the world in new zealand there Is a most curious species of bird which baa neither wings nor a tall what do you think of thata there are very few of these strange creatures left even on their native island but their cousins the kl wis are still numerous in australia the 11 ft 1 gets its name from its peculiar cry which sounds ira kiwi kiwi tie learned of this bird Is apteryx it has feather that lesem 1 ie coarse hairs and ha a long bill by which it secures inep food edaily it lives on insects and which it catches on the ground in its night ly rambles for this bird odily abroad at night and hides during the da in size it is about as large as a goose the feathers on its head betas short but those on the body increase ing in length altogether it is a dueer looking creature and as it has fa 1 atle means ot defending itself it falls an easy prey to larger aad stronger beasts Pinder toy scissors and a pin only needed this prattling parrot if cut out and fasten ed together with a pin will make a very attractive toy if you push the pla finnly into a cork or the end ot a tick and paste the pieces on an old visiting card batore the pieces are cut out tills will last longer A cats revenge A gentleman who was very fond of fishing and who usually caught a good lot of fish frequently promised his next door neighbor to give him part of bis bateh but never fulfilled the promise the cat of the next door neighbor evidently overheard the promise and thought the fisherman ought to be made to kep his word tor one day when the people of both bouses had gone out tor a little while he sneaked into the fisherman s 1 ouse took two fine large trout he had just caught and laid them on the etchen table of her own mistress a lady fetui bing and finding them there supposed that her neighbor had a last kept his promise so she pro ceedee to clean and cook the fish for tha next meal thanking him when sn next saw him tor his generosity the fisherman Is now trying to find seme secret method of killing the cat butterfly fl es of the sea it you visit any of the seaside towns of cape cod perhaps you will ie so fortunate as to see a flock of sea butterflies flitting through the bine water on some fair day you certa aly will pick up some of their empty bouses on the beach these shade from pure white broush buff lemon orange and coffee color to dark brown you can make many pretty souvenirs with them these butterflies are not butter flies at all however but are mollusks moll batog nothing more nor less than scallops the butterflies live among the eel grass and by rapidly opening and hutting the two halves of their shells and thus squirting out the water they can dart swiftly through the sea the shells are prettily fringed and each butterfly has thirty silvery blue eyes but a ith all of chese he can scarcely see as much as we can with our two ways of eating in china american boys and girls would find ome difficult in eating in china each guest Is supplied with a bowl and chopsticks and there are bowls placed in the middle of the table con kalning food every one helps with Us own chopsticks and it Is good manners to pick out the most attach ive looking morsels and plant them in ou neighbor s bowl it Is rather sus to a stranger to find his bowl filled in this way chopsticks are about as thick as a pencil and both are held in one hand the chinese contrive to pick up their meat hold it to their mouths and nib at it but the will asly have be or it into their laps or on to the floor the slow going clam OP all the absurd forms of lococo tion practiced by the creatures of the deep the most Drep la that of the mussel squids will startle you by darting backward crabs hustle off sideways at a lively gait but nothing ave the dull brain of some kind ot yam critter pondering over th transportation problem la those re mote when time wag no object could have evolved so slow and cum belsome a method toil often bee mussels climb up the piles 0 a wharf toward the hight water mark notice the black threads attached to the clam they do the business the shoots out a spray of gelatin ous stuff in toe direction te wants to 0 o and this balden sInto those black threads he lets go the old ones and climbs up by the shenew new you can trace Us progress up the pile by the bunches of old threads which be leaves behind at intervals has never been figured out whether he could go a mile iff less than a year but it would be safe to back the mus el in the animals slow race country life in how old li he how old Is a boy on his twelfth birthday twelve years old of o 0 will answer but put on our thinking cap and see if you don t find that answer wrong we know that it Is the usual way of ex pressing it as fur when we say that a man becomes of age on his twenty first birthday but it Is just is well to be right about these things and as a matter of tact a man tie comes of age on his twenty second b A boy therefore 1 not twelve but eleven years old on his twelfth birth day it Is simply a matter of count ng his first birthday Is the day he 1 born his second birthday is ahn day he Is one ye aroid and so on until on bis twelfth birthday he Is eleven ears old the age keeping one vear behind the number of the birth oay it would be different if we used the word anniversary instead of birthday for the first anniversary of he boy s birth comes one year after aha event the second anniversary years after and so forth guessing colors II 11 mother has asked you not to get dirty after you are dressed for a drive and you do not know just what to do to amuse yourself get some one to play the following little game with QU it la very simple but will help the time to pass pleasantly I 1 see a color you doa t see says one what color may it be asks theother it may be pink or some color in the room says the first inquirer then begins the questioning Is it the paper the ribbon on your hair the pink in the dolls dresse and so on until happily the guesses men tlona the exact article of pink that has been chosen the successful guesser then takes her turn at saying I 1 see ai color that you don t see timothy flower rut cork securely ola hole in the bottom of a common clay flower pot and oak well in water when the pot has absorbed all the moisture that it can take roll it thoroughly in timothy eed fill it with water and place among the other house plants in a few days the seeds will sprout and n two or three weeks the pot will be covered with verdure of the most delicate green the pot must be always full of water nils supplies the moisture necessary to the growth of the seed when jumbo gave a sneeze with mera men a sneeze Is an every day affair but not so with my lord the elephant tun it Is very rarely indeed that an elephant sneezes and when he does the oriental races consider it a very good omen and feel bure that some special good fortune Is about to happen the famous jumbos saedie Is said to have been like the bursting of a boiler and it created quite a panic among the crowds ot sightseers people running 1 many not Pa owing what had happeney happe nei but am alining some tremendous disaster had THIS BOAT IS A PUZZLE it Is very easy to see by looking at he picture just how this boat Is made lut it Is not so easy to tell what it will do we will assume that abe haft works easily without friction ana that a good strong wind blows steadily now what will the boat do will it go forward backward or stand it Is not answered as easily as you may at first think who can tell what it will do ot course the very easiest way to fand out is to make a boat and try it the only part that you any trouble Is the propeller or screw and iou can make one pretty easily get a p ece of tin and cut out a circle or a round piece about six inches in diameter Is draw a pencil line th nd another line fea across the tin at right angles to the first so that the circle will be divided into four equal parts get a heavy pair of scissors and cut along baca of these lines to within halt an inch of ahe center you may easily bend back the pieces of tin so formed until they have the position shown in the picture this screw can be nailed to the end of the shaft or by punching a hole lq the center of the tin you may run the shaft through it and fasten it by copper wire 1 matter what the boat will do when made it will be well worth the trouble for it it should stand still and refuse to go ahead even in a strong wind then you till re something which will fool of your breads and rn laugh t their empens |
