| Show I 1 A M lullaby in ahr noon of summer little girl little giri let me lead you to dreamland dune where the blossoms b ow and the ten 11 curl in the wake of the haunting june for june Is spirit now little g rl and her footprints are on the ground the primrose bold on the moonlit hill the marigolds on tte shadow rill and the dais es all around these are the spirits little girt little girl and they dance on the dreamland dune to the cr ket s song and the tendril curl in the of the wide white moon for the moon Is a spirit too 1 atle girl and has joined the spirit band the stars of go d in tl e milky sky and the dal les bold that peep ana spy little stars of the dooni t land in the noon of slumber little girl little girl let me lead you to dreamland dune where the dewdrops tremble like lobes of pearl on the lashes of the faery jui e and on her ankles too little girl As she dances er the ground and the daisies spring from beneath her feet and everything that is fair and sweet on the starlit moonlit land in the noon of your life little girl little girl will yo think of the dreamland dune and rp member then when your heart s awhirl the promise of the long lost june when your heart is lightsome too lit tie girl wl 1 you shed your light around will your smile unfold as you bear it by like a marigold in the sainted sky or a star on the flower lit land aloys us co 1 in housekeeper sketches every player draws at the top of his paper a little sketch to illustrate some historical event and then passes the paper on to his left hand neigh bor who after a careful examination proceeds to write at the bottom of the paper a brief account of what he imagines the scene to represent he then folds the writing over so that it tan t an not be seen by the next player and passes it on to the one on his left every player in turn examines the sketch and writes beneath it bis or her version when the papers have gone the round of the table they are collected and read aloud and much entertain meat is provided by means of some of the amusing mistakes which have arisen yet another way in which boys and girls may exercise their in gennity in sketching Is for the clev eret artist of the party to make a little original sketch this is then handed round to the different players who one by one attempt to copy 11 to the best of the ability it is roost amusing to observe how widely different from the original many of the copies are shadow pictures there Is fun in your fingers as well work study the diagram and teach them a trick or two snakes 1 snake s tail Is a game played by any n imber of persons one of whom is selected as catcher and the others form in single file to represent a snake the last player being called the snake s tall each player in the file places his hands on the shoulders of the one in front of him at the opening of the game the catcher stands about 20 feet from the head of the file facing him and at the signal tries to catch the tall without pushing any one in the row the anal e defends its tall by moving about in any way but it the row breaks itself it is a foul and the tall Is considered as caught when the tail 1 caught he becomes catcher in turn and the catcher takes this place at the head another n ay of playing the game ts to allow the catcher to name any one in the row as the one he intends to cater it he catches the one named chev change pos eions the player at the head of the line may stretch out his hands to impede the catchers progress but la not a lowed to push him some conundrums why is a little man ke a good book because he is often looked over why Is a p g in a parlor like a house on fired because the sooner he Is put out the better what is the difference between a and a bomb shell 7 one goes to wars and the other goes to pieces why are birds sad in the mornings 9 because their little bills are all over dew why Is love always represented as a child because he never reached the age of discretion why did eve never ear the measles because sarf d adam who hal th teatsy Tea appetite ever rf L heard ota the man who bolted a door threw up a window and then sat down and swallowed a whole story how whales get food to obtain food the whale swims through the water with its open the water pours in the aper turp and carries with it hundreds ol 01 small fish and marine animals the water escapes agh the sides of the mouth but the fish are caught and held by a row ot stiff boneske objects along the side of the jaws these are whalebones so useful in commerce these and the oil found in the glands of the throat make the whale very valuable there are several varieties of whales but the sperm whale though the smallest is the most valuable parlor trick with a cane balance a cane on the back ot a chair so that the slightest touch sets it to wavering then tell bour friends that you can make it fall from the chair without touching it in adv way or even blowing at it although no one will believe you it is a very simple thing to do get a postal card and rub it very briskly on a woolen cloth till it is thoroughly attracting the card magnetized then hold it near one end of the cane which will slowly turn toward it by holding the card below this end of the cane vou will attract it downward until it ances and falls to the floor the wandering albatross of all the strange creatures seen by travelers not the least interesting is the wandering albatross this great feathered wanderer sometimes meas aring 17 feet from tip to tip of his wings will follow a ship for days at a time some travelers and sailors declare that they have seen a bartic ular bird fly for weeks at a time with out avei being seen to alight upon the wavel it not only follows the ship but wheels in great circles around it and above it high in the air as it to show that it Is not tired sometimes the bird will be seen to hang in the air with its wings apparently motionless and the sailors say that then it Is asleep not only in pleasant weather will the albatross follow a ship for days and weeks but through the moat ter rifle storms it will continue its ing flight in fact to fand an alba tross otherwise than on the wing la like finding a weasel asleep once a year the female albatross flies away a few thousand miles to the great lonely island rock of tris tan dacunha which lifts its desolate head tar in the south atlantic or to some equally remote place and there lays one egg in the hollow of a rock the albatross has always been a bird of mystery and in ancient times the people believed that these un wearying were the compan ions of the greek warrior diomedes who were said to have been changed into birds at the death of their chief when america wa discovered and ships began to sail abroad to the pa ocean to double the cape of good hope and to explore the seven seas generall the old belief about the al batross had been forgotten by the sailors and explorers but in their long and lonesome voyages over waters which were cut by no keel but their own and upon whose vast expand they saw no other sail but theirs the present of the albatross following the ship day after day be came a great source of comfort and companionship so it came to be a belief that luck would follow any one who kald one of these birds and that bellef ls common among seafaring men to this very day coleridge s famous rhyme of the ancient mariner Is based upon thia belief though the superstition about the killing of an albatross bring bad luck Is only a foolish one it has berv ed a useful purpose for many years in preventing the slaughter of these beautiful and gallant birds the sail ors friends and the landsmen s won der up in dreary that out lying part of siberia which cuts into the north pacific the natives never having beard of the superstition about the albatross catch him and eat him but his flesh makes such poor food that after all the legend may be said to hold good for he Is indeed in bad luck ho has to make a meal of it prophecy of a gyps the etory of the three sisters of denmark sounds like a fairy story but all the sama it Is devoutly believed by the natives of the little northern kingdom the three sisters are now the queen of england the dowager czarina and the duchess of cumberland but they started in life as girls in a very plain house hold so poor this royal family that tor a daughter to have two dresses in the course of one year was considered great good luck still they were brought up as ladles and prin besses should be once upon a time and here one can feel the delicious fairy feeling creeping in the tareo princesses were taking their usual walk in their solemn danish woods when they tell in with a gypsy who insisted on telling them their for tunes you are to become queen over one of the largest kingdoms of the earth she told the first young girl and to day she is queen of england and you too she told the second you will become a queen but a queen without a kingdom was her nies sage to the third daughter who Is now duchess of cumberland but might have been a queen had her hus band not yielded his claim to the throne of hanover choosing it in china the chinese know no end of rid dies both spoken and written and they have all kinds of puzzles they have a funny way of choosing who shall be it in a game one of them holds her band out with the open palm downward then all tho others stand round with the tip of their first finger touching her palm then after repeating a few words sh suddenly closes her fingers and tries to catch theirs sometimes she falls to catch one and then it has to ba done again but if she does manage 0 o imprison one finger the owner of hat finger has to be it sound waves an experiment will prove to you how sound 1 carried by the air ask one of your small friends to go out of doors and softly to you if the window Is open you can hear him if it Is closed you cannot the glass panes in the window will pre vent the sound vibrations from reach ing you but suppose your friend grows tired of talking when she Is not heard and shouts to you to come out and play the louder she calls the stronger the vibrations and these set the glass vibrating also the glass in turn makes the air indoors vibrate and you hear three with one fit one match into a slot cut at the top of another and balance against a third to lift all three together with another match pass the latter under ana in front of A and B press gently against A and D when will slip down book under the joined matches and the trick ie ac candle trick how would you arrange with a room full of people to place a candle in such a position that all but one would see it and that person must not be place the candle upon the head of the person v ho Is not to see it should there be a mirror in the room and this one person should make use of it he does not ee tho candle but only its reflection the paper duel two boys are placed back to bacate with balls made of soft paper in their hands two other boys are their ands to pick up their alls they walk away from each other about eight feet turn round and throw their balls at each other until one Is hit the seconds pick up the balls when ever they fall and replace the duel ests THE FIVE MINUTE SAILBOAT here Is a to make in alve min aites a boat which will almost any 0 the crack fancy boats your little friends may boast with their three masts topsails balloon jibs centerboards and all that your home made boat will not be exactly tul but it certainly will be able to sail get a thin piece of board and sharpen one end to a point to represent the bow now bore a hola through a little forward of the center and fasten a screw eye in the bow just at the point and your deck la complete easy it now for the sail get a piece of heavy paper and through it thrust the three slender sticks in the poel alons shown in the diagram wedge the boatri bot tri f he stick or mat firmly into abo hole in the deck and your boat 1 roost complete now comes the novel feature of your boat get one of these toy bal loons which are so often sold by street venders you can ret cent one at any toy store fasten a light cord about four feet long to the bal loon and tie the other end of the cord to the in the bow of your boat and you are ready to launch her the balloon will fly at the end of the cord high above your boat which will skim over the water like a awal low As eoon as the wind changes the balloon will yank around the bow of the boat and she will head on a new tack then aba i are sail will alii and the win 1 v f a ine apted |
