| Show the way the truth the life amid life s wild commotion where nought the heart can cheer who points beyond its ocean to yonder brighter spheres our feeble footsteps gu ding when from the pati we stray who leads to bliss abiding christ Is our only WAY when doubts and fears distress us and all around Is gloom and shame and fear oppress us who can our souls illume heaven s rays are round us gleaming and making all things bright the sun of TRUTH Is beaming in glory on our sight who fills our heart with gladness that none can take awaya who shows uh midst our sadness the distant realms of daya mid fears of death assailing who stills the heart s w id strife christ our friend enfa ling the WAY the TRUTH the LIFE karl julius As proved by a candle A simple but interesting expert ment may be made with a lighted candle by one who holds it near the door connecting two rooms one warm and the other cold the windows in both rooms should be shut so that there will be no draught and the door between them should be kept closed until the mo ment of the experiment when the candle has been lighted open the door ever so little so that there may be only a narrow crack for the air to pass through now if you hold the candle at the upper part of the door the flame will be blown in the direction of the cooler room but move it down the crack to the hot torn of the door and the flame will be blown toward the warmer room move the candle slowly up from the bottom and a place will be found how the flame blows about midway between the top and the bottom of the door where the flames will be almost stationary this seems like a very simple thing but it illustrates the scientific prin ciple that warm air being light rises and flows through the top of the door into the cooler room while cold air being heavier stays near the floor and seeks its entrance into the warm room at the bottom of the door hence the blowing of the flame in different directions at the top and the bottom of the same door some games for the season A good game just suitable for this season is the game of the whalers of new bedford some particular spot of the playground Is selected to represent the harbor of new bedford all the players except to scatter and pretend to be whales the two who remain must join hands and put to sea from new bedford to go a whaling they must select a par nicular whale and go after him but under no circumstances must they let go of each other in doing it the whale must be carried sue cess fully into port and he may resist captors all he pleases with the ex caption 0 course of punching or otherwise making a rough fight nat aurally the whalers try to catch the smallest whale first arrived in port the whale be comes a whaler and takes his turn at going out hand in hand with one of the first whalers to catch another whale and so on till the sea Is fished out the master of the drawbridge Is another game that requires little prep aratoon with a sharp stick a strip of ground about nine feet wide and about twenty feet long Is marked off this represents the drawbridge of the castle of sir montgomery of skye one of the players Is the warder of the castle gate he stands on the bridge at the other end of it stand the players who represent foemen desiring to enter the castle they can only go on the bridge one by one the wheel their am steeds and gallop up and down making feints at charging to be wilder the warder till suddenly one of them spurts and races up the bridge once he Is there he must not run off the bridge again but he may dodge warder in aay way he pleases so long as he stays on the bridge he may run zig zag or retreat or duck or do anything else that may enable him to slip past the guardian of the castle the warder must touch the foeman three times before he can claim that he has made a capture it he does it the captured foe becomes warder and the old warder joins the besiegers A dog s ruse the other day I 1 witnessed an amus ing instance of canine sagacity worthy of commemoration in print it was staying with friends who have a varied collection of dogs a blenheim spaniel and her five puppies a fox ter rier and two fine deer hounds this happy family are allowed to spend part of the day in the drawing room provided they conform to certain rules as to boundary lines and an amicable agreement among themselves the hearthrug is the favorite bolg n of vantage with them all zuna the deerhound sauntered in one morning and found every approach to the alre blocked by the slumbering forms of her companions she tried gently to scratch a passage for herself but was repelled with growls so apparently suffering from extreme lowneta of spirits she retired to a distant corner of the room but not to sleep for ten minutes she crouched there pon biering silently then suddenly bound ing up flew to the window and barked as an invading army were in sight of course every one human and ca nine followed in mad haste the hearthrug was left unoccupied and zuna quietly trotted round stretched her huge form before the alre and in an instant was snoring heavily leaving us all staring out into vacancy emphatically sold land and wa ter vagaries of our language A frenchman came to america to learn english and came across the following sentence the rough cough and hiccough cough plough me through A briend told 1 im that the first word was pronounced ruff and he then read the sentence this way the ruff cuff and me no no the friend hastily cor erected that second word is pro bounced koff oh I 1 see said the frenchman the roff coff and hickoff ploll me that thud word is pronounced hie cup corrected the friend now beginning to enjoy the other s perplex ity the rup cup and hiccup ciup me tarup no that fourth word Is pronounced olow the row cow and hiccox plow me throw then f no that last word Is pronounced the roo coo and hiccox aloo me said the poor foreigner try ing once more and when he found he was still wrong he gae up in despair and went back to france hero ne of nine presence of mind Is a great but rather rare gift which one does not expect children to possess but ruth potter of farnworth although only of the tender age of nine years has it and was by means of it able to save a little child from almost certain death says an english paper the wee three ear old bairn was toddling across the street while an electric tram was running at the top of its speed the shouts of the driver caught the ear of ruth who at the risk of her own life sprang at the tiny tot and just dragged her clear of the lines as the car rolled past the brave lassie was presented with a gul nea and a framed certificate but valor is its own reward still it is pleasant to know that ruth s pluck and presence of mind were appreciated nature study nature study is not a study of leaves bugs and birds nests nature study is a study of nature a study of the faira worlds of astronomy geol agy ogy physics chemistry botany bool zool agy ogy and sociology including their his tory and to day with the magic key of evolution we are able to unlock secrets in these wonderful realms that were never dreamed of in the past if boys and girls all along through the primary and grammar grades could be stirred by occasional glimpses into the canelous ma miracles of nature going on everywhere around them there would be far fewer of them give out before arriving at the high school journal of education an amusing trick put three candies peanuts or any small article that Is eatable each un der a hat and then show your audi ence that you have nothing hidden in your hands or about your person next have one in the audience it he wishes mark the articles in order to identify them then lift the hat from each one and slowly eat the article that Is under each ani then tell the audience that you will bring the three articles under any hat they may select how Is it donea simply by placing the hat selected on our head ex change favors at a party A pleasant little to distribute the gifts or favors at children s parties ia to tie them to the chandelier by means of strings lead the children in turn to the end of the room blind fold them and turn them around then let them march to the chandelier to cut down the gift with scissors blunt pointed ones if possible another pretty and ever pleasing diversion is to have in an adjoining room as many red balloons as ahll dren let these float through the room v ath strings attached on open ing the door have the children rush in and try to catch the strings bial loons always delight little people and the excitement of catching and proud ly carrying them home as souvenirs forms a delightful ending tor an en puzzi ng figures and a joke put down the year you were bom add 4 then add your age at your next birthday provided it comes before january 1 otherwise our flast birth day multiply the result by 1 from thi subtract substitute for the resulting figures the corresponding letters of the alpha bet for 1 for 2 tor 3 etc this trick Is given to suit the year 1904 but for 1905 and tor every year after that add an additional 1000 to the amount to be subtracted viz for 1905 make it tor 1906 make it and so on try this trick and see how it works changes of nimble dice put two dice between the forefinger and thumb of your right hand holding your hand before you with the knuck les up now move the thumb sr that the dice will turn over bringing the spots first exposed under your finger and the spots that were against your thumb into view that Is movement no 1 now move the thumb back to its first position which will bring the dice into their original position this is movement no 2 now the the trick put the dice so that the two spot on each la exposed the first position and show them to the company by nging your hand and arm to the right keeping the knuckles upward then move your hand 0 o the left without moving your thumb and still keeping your knuckles up and the compan hlll see the two five spots again turn your hand to right and the two spots will be seen as before but turn our wrist so as to bring the palm of our hand upward at the same time making movement no 1 and instead of the five spots two doirs will be brought into view finally again reverse your wrist making movement no 2 and the two spots will be shown A little practice in this trick will you to perform it quickly and deftly so as to keep the spectators muzzled as to how you make the hanges useful finger nails did you ever stop to think how use ful your finger nails are to youa in the first place it it were not for the nails your nicely tapering fingers could not keep their pretty shape but would be flattened and mashed out ot shape until they looked like big decked marbles at the ends if you did not have them you could not pick up and hold small objects such as pins you could not open a penknife nor do any other thing where a firm grip of a small body Is needed just notice to day how many times our finger nails come in handy keep tool chest shipshape Ship shap nothing that a boy has comes ban dier than a tool chest it begins with his fun as a boy and keeps its useful ness when he is a man he should construct a cabinet to hang against the wall two doors are better than one cabinet hooks and pegs may be arranged against the back tor saws squares and other flat tools on one side of the floor of the cabinet make boxes for nails and screws always put away your tools and neither bor row nor lend TO MAKE FURNITURE FOR DOLLY every child loves a doll house and mothers should teach them how to make the things that furnish it really halt the pleasure ot this toy Is the planning or and making of I 1 just as good furniture can he made ot cardboard as ot anything else try this simple little dresser cut out this pattern and paste it on some thin piece ot cardboard or stout paper then trim off the card neatly where the dotted lines are scored or rather half cut bend backward it you do not do this it Is apt to bend in the wrong place figure 1 la the table when you have put that into shape then it Is easy to see where figure 2 belongs it la the lower shelt and should be glued in place figure 3 Is the back and a pretend looking glass can be made by pasting on the cardboard a piece of silver paper to make the whole table look very real it may be painted any color of whatever wood you wish to represent |
