Show y af AVI D IV little man oh ch bow how he filled our hearts and hwe home our merry little boy of four our whenever I 1 would come from work he ile used to hide behind the door and I 1 can see the dancing eyes the golden ha r the cheeks ot of tan and hear the laughing challenge ring papa come find your little man papa come find your little man and I 1 would search till in surprise behind the door I 1 id d find the arika and hear the sweet delighted cries ot papa s little man but now our hearts and homes are void his merry laugh we hear no more yet tet in the bestall hall of dreama dreams he calls me still yes 0 er and 0 er behind the door of things unseen i he hides so surety surely that I 1 can 1 not find him yet that voice still calls papa come find your little man papa come find your little man and though I 1 unsuccessfully grope I 1 am not wild or misanthrope 4 but sometime still I 1 fondly hope to find my little man charles lincoln phifer rainy day game tear a piece fit paper into as many pieces as there are players and on each piece write some number depre benting an hour in the day As there are only twelve hours there can be only twelve numbers but it if more than twelve are playing you can make some of the figures halt half hours until there are the required number on one piece mark a cross and then shake all the numbers in a hat each player drawing one out the one who gets the slip with the cross on it Is it or wolf while the other play era ers are called the sheep A ring is then formed by the sheep the wolf standing in the middle the sheep then call out what time will lyou you dine tonight to night old wolf and mr wolf calls out any hour he happens ito think of the sheep who hold i the islip corresponding to the number called by the wolf starts to run it if he can get around the ring three times before being caught by the wolf he Is safe if not he must be wolf the game keeps up until all have had their turn at being wolf and this does not take long for the wolf is not sup posed to call the same number twice exchange bewitched penny ten or twelve pennies are needed tor for this trick place them separately on the table and have one of the coins chosen and marked by several per sons get as many people to examine it as you can so they will all be sure to know it again have this coin dropped along with the other coins into a hat and the whole shaken up so that the coins will be well mixed placing lour our hand in the hat teel feel every coin and you will at once detect which is the marked coin by its warmth the coin has been warmed by the many hands through which m aich it has passed it Is best to have the coins originally placed on as cold a place as possible but you must not turn lack back the table cloth or give any other hint from which your audi ence can gather the s secret cret of the aling trick yo toi i can tan add to the won der it if you are blindfolded and allo allow w some one of your audience to attend to all the rest except the picking of the coin from the hat magnet zed filings it if you possess a magnet there are more ways of amusement and instruct tion open to you than you have any idea of for instance the following experiment with iron filings will prove most interesting and will impart a bit of useful knowledge iron filings are procurable for the asking in any machine shop or place where there is an ironworker s lathe they are the minute particles of iron that fall when the iron Is being cut or ground into shape and possess the same relation to iron as sawdust does to wood A bar magnet is necessary tor for what you are to show lay it on a table or any flat surface and then cover it over with apiece of stiff cardboard now sprinkle the iron filings over the surface of the cardboard and then a very curious thing will happen the filings arrange themselves as shown in the accompanying Il lustra tion each particle fo forming a part of 1 00 0 0 31 N r the various curves which radiate from the two magnetic centers which ludl cate where the ends of the bar mag net are these lines have a scientific appel tor for you have made a very learned demonstration with the iron filings and the magnet you have shown most clearly what Is generally called in science the lines ot of mag force i good forfeit game the players all seize a tablecloth or a similar sheet by the edges the one who Is chosen as leader says I 1 fish tor for all kinds of fish when I 1 say let lot go you must bold hold fast when I 1 say bold hold fast you must let go 90 then the leader begins to speak quickly saying anything that comes into his head until suddenly he says let go gov or hold fast at a time when he imagines that he can catch the others off their guard those who are caught must pay a norfelt one of the players takes a spoon avd ard taps on the table with it saying wio cant can t do this cant can t do a shingi spoon spoon aping then she passes the spoon on to the next one but she does it in a certain manner by using the left hand or by holding the spoon with a certain number of fingers or by doing something else unusual the one who receives the spoon must do it over again and again till she does it right and II 11 she cannot do it she must pay a for felt hidden names in the following verses are hidden the names of ten ashes and insects when men I 1 m a man own a ship no matter what my aunt may say III be the captain and many a trip we will take to far bombay III carpet the decks and paper the sides and paint all the perches and poles and when we re near port we 11 have some sport in running aground on shoals big nat will be my mate of course he was purser once on a scow and jim will come he was perfectly glum till I 1 asked him he s happy now well we it blow a bugle and fly a flag and if we come near cape cod ill flourish my sword and send home word that I 1 in ready to marry maud here Is a a good mirror trick seat a person at a table and place before them a mirror give him pencil and paper and ask him to draw the following design while looking in the glass and at the same time hold a piece of paper over his right hand so as to hide it entirely from his sight it Is wonderful how difficult a task this will prove to be simple though it seems another good stunt is for him to try to write his own name while looking in the glass hidden names in the following are to be found first the name of a continent second the name of a country in that conti nent and third the name of the cap caal tal of that country did you lose a bird sira katie asked As I 1 answered an no I 1 happened to catch a slight twinkle in her eye kate I 1 laughed throwing down my papers I 1 am afraid you are jok ing no I 1 found a bird she replied where never mind sir is it yours no then ill keep it it all right you may keep it only tell me what the tun fun is about kate her answer floated in through the win dow it its s a gold eagle I 1 found it in your pocket but ira I 1 m so glad I 1 may keep it the egg and card trick stick an egg the contents of which have been blown out onto the back of a card with a little wax now show the card to the audience in such a ay that they do not see the egg now holding up the card with the right hand show the audience that your left hand is empty then swing it around and take the card in the palm of the hand at the same time holding onto the egg with the right hand with a quick movement drop the left hand having the card in the palm at the same time disengaging it from the egg which remains in the right hand the audience see what has become of the card but sees in the place of the card an egg instead of an egg you may use a small bunch of flowers jack knives the word jack is applied to any contrivance which does the work of a boy or servant in french the name jacques Is a term used for a youth of menial mental condition the term coun try jake is of kindred sense jack lord jackanapes jack a napes jack tar jack Jacko lantern black jack jack rab bit the term jack applied to the knave in playing cards jack in the box and jack cfall trades show the derivative meaning hence jack knife means a aloy oy 4 knife in early days the jack knife headed the list of a boy s toys and with his skates gave him blin the greatest pleasure his skates were emde rade of what do you supposed suppose 9 beet beef bonts fastened to the soles of his feet the boys pushed themselves on the ice tee by means of poles shod with sharp iron points the elephant at as a worker anyone who thinks the elephant a slow clumsy beast would have cause to change his opinion on seeing him at work along the rivers of northern slam siam the rainy season which be gins in april Is tie the time when the teak logs cut during the dry season in the forests about the upper waters of the benain river ricer are floated down to dahang where they are caught and rafted to bangkok instead of red shifted spike shoed river drivers such as handle the logs in their down stream journey to the sav mills on the penobscot and kennebec Kenn ebee in maine the lumber driving of the siamese rivers is done by barefooted half naked men on elephants and the bone labor and much of the think ng involved in the operation are done by the elephants pictures drawn in fire dissolve saltpeter in cold water till the liquid is completed comple tev atu rated with it this can be seen by the fact that bits of the saltpeter will at last refuse to dissolve dip a MA brush or po anted stick into the solution and draw the outline of 0 an animal or any other desired figure on a piece of thin paper use paper that has no print ing on it let the paper dry thoroughly the picture will be invisible then or al at most so now hold it flat light a match blow it out and touch a part of the drawing with the glowing end the saltpeter will catch fire at once and the tiny flame will burn all along the lines of the drawing leaving the paper intact 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 bottle the more you try to blow it in the more it leaves the bottle you can try this with any large hot bot tie ile and a paper wad or cork small enough 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 you blow on the cork for the purpose of driving it into the bottle the more forcibly will the cork rush from its place in the neck try this stunt and see if you can discover what causes the peculiar ac ae tion of the paper wad the frig d zones I 1 am glad I 1 don t live at the pole said a little girl who had to get us up while it was quite dark one dreary cold morning it must be dreadful to have to go about in the dark tor for six months that Is the idea most chil dren have of the frigid zone but it is not correct in the first place there are not more than three months of actual darkness for the long twilight helps to shorten the night at both ends of the season then too during the time when the sun never comes above the horizon or close enough to it to make twilight or dawn there is bright moonlight part of each month and such brilliant displays ot of the aurora borealis that it Is tar far from pitch dark aa as one might suppose kindliness among birds I 1 have seen a little chirping spar row make a business of feeding some half fledged robins she watched for her opportunity and whenever both parent robins were away from the nest she rushed in with her morsels the robins resented her officious nes and hustled her out of the tree when ever they caught her there I 1 have heard of a wren that fed a brood of young robins in a similar way and of a male bluebird that fed some young birds that were in a nest near its own outing kindness in japan day by day something new in the training of the japanese child comen come to light to explain the exquisite gentle ness that marks the nation as a whole kindness to dumb creatures of all kinds is a national trait and it is hardly to be wondered mon dered at when it Is known own that children are not permitted to eat cakes or cookies cut in the shape of animals tor for fear they may learn to think of living beasts as hav ing as little feeling as the confection cry ones for the boy carpenter lots of boys have their own tool chests here is a simple contrive ance upon which to try your tools take a piece of wood about seven and one halt half inches by two and one fourth inches and about the thick ness of a cigar box in fact a cigar box Is just the thing then get an other little piece two and one fourth inches square and mark both of them out in the same way as is done in the accompanying diagrams figs I 1 and 2 cut out the two pieces then the groove marked A the width being ti 1 14 CU 1 I 1 1 24 4 fig 2 fig HOLDER FOR BRUSHES lust just the same as the thickness of the wood and the depth halt half of it now sandpaper the two pieces until they are perfectly smooth and fit the lit t t e 0 piece into the grooves driving TWO two or three small nails in through the back to keep it tight the rack Is then complete fig 3 farm and fireside pretty house ornaments here is something children can grow row in their own windows get some aw raw peanuts and plant in a pot ot of good earth they aill ill sprout and very soon a pretty leaved vine will be run ung ning over the top of the pot the saucer garden Is a dainty thing put in n the middle of a saucer a single sin gle pine ine cone and place moss about it sprinkle the cone with mustard seed tod and then keep the whole very mo moist the seed will sprout and soon the tiny plants lants will be covered with tiny yel low ow flowers canary seed and fine grass may also be planted |