Show 40 arx 1 g W 1 jia va vr yv f edw W V A 4 Q A 4 V 17 I 1 11 I 1 g 16 I 1 wa 1 I 11 1045 14 iba I 1 love the best G ft one man had bad riches tor for his g ft and kne the en e n ess thereof another where here fames topmost summits lift all pigmy peaks above felt the keen pangs of lofty loneliness and one had love down in the lowly val ey paths ot of ite ife his years were spent where far removed from moiling din and strife brook song and bird song blent babb ed of quiet th ns of rest ng peace and deep content yet tl ere was vas something in his cup of das ineffably more sweet than e er he knew who in the giddy maze if nf fortune set his feet or quaffed fame a goblet wreathed with rue and bays and found it incomplete national magazine pancake time it 4 i 1 4 aa As the days grow shorter and the mornings colder the toothsome pan I 1 cake appears at many a breakfast table in spite ot of all the doctors have it to 0 say about them and a whole army oi i small boys are delighted to swim a big pile of them in maple hyrup and atuck tuck them under their vests by way of their throats before they hurry off to school long long ago in old eng iland land pancakes were thought to be even worse than they are now looked upon pon some ancient writers went so tar far as to gravely claim that the eat jing ing of pancakes would drive people stark raving mad in III those days pancakes were greed lily eaten during lent when meat was forbidden great batches of them were trie in fat and served swim ming ining in grease when they were ready a bell was rung calling the hun gry laborers from the fields to the feast this bell came to be known as the pancake bell boys then went out pane aking and armed with sticks and stones and broken crock erv t a door repeated this chant from house to house I 1 am come a sh roving for a piece of pancake at f you 11 give me a little I 1 11 ask no more it if you don dont t give ary III rattle your door they usually got the pancakes n plate balanc ng do you know how to balance a china plate on the point of a needle e and even to cause it to spin steadily upon this delicate support 9 cut two corks down the middle and in the ends of the four halves thus obtained insert for s inclined to the smooth sides of the corks at a ittle little less than right angles place these four corks around the rim of the plate at equal distances distance s from one another and see that the teeth of the forks are in contact with the rim to pi prevent event them from sway ling with a little care this plate can now be balanced on the point of a needle whose eye has been burled buried in the cork ot of an upright bottle by giving it a gentle rotary motion the plate may be made to spin around which it will do for quite a I 1 along llong long time insects that draw P coures few people except lumbermen and scientists I 1 now that there are a lot of american insects that draw pic tures but lumbermen know it to their cost for the pictures are drawn in the timber of valuable trees and the drawing instruments used by the little artists aie ale their jaws and boring tools with which they carve their de signs so deeply into the trees that they die the most striking pictures are made by the columbian timber bee tie tle when this insect bores into oak it makes a perfect engraving of a steamboat the bull hull with its round ed keel and the black tunnel funnel are so well made that it does not require the least bit of imag nation or st idy to see it As soon as anyone lays bis his eyes on a piece of white oak in chich the unit er beetle has been he Is sure to exclaim why look at the picture of a steamboat weavers and weft there are two sides in the game of weavers and weft so that only an equal number can take part each player Is provided with a new here is a new game that requires almost no preparation which Is great tun fun and which demands a lot of skill to bring victory to a it Is a fine game for girls for there Is no jumping about and gri g ri can play it while wearing her vely prettiest party frock without the slightest dan ger of mussing it two players only are required they sit at opposite sides of a table and any sized table will do before each ench girl is a little plate or saucer each girl has a large bone button in the place of a ping pong bat and a low tin pan the parties then separate and stand in two ines 1 nes facing each other about eight or ten feet apart the starter at the head of one of the lines fastens one end of a ball of yarn barn to a dohrl nob or chair just be hind him and putting the ball on his pan tosses it to the player directly orp opposite osite who endeavors to cath it on bis his pan and toss it to the person on the other side who stands next to the starter the third player in turn sends it back to the ore standing second on the opposite side in this order going back and forth the ball travels down the ranks when it reaches the end of the line it Is barted back again and kept go ing until tl e i am arn Is all unwound in no case may the ball be touched with the hands when it falls to the floor it must be I 1 eted up with the pan by the player who drops it or falls fails to catch it and when the yarn fastens itself to the clothing or be cornea comes entangled around the body of the placer it must mutt not be touched no matter how much it may fience the movements great care should be taken not to break the thread any one doing so is counted out of the game he can not leave his place however tor for amov ing may disturb the yarn attached to others the ends of the broken yarn must be tied together before the game is resumed when the yarn is all unwound it is the object of each player to loosen himself from the tangle without br ealing the thread the time must be noted and five minutes only be allowed tor for the dis entanglement at the end of this time the side which has the greatest number of members free from the meshes of the yarn wins the game strap puzzle to make this puzzle get two pieces of leather about two inches square and one long narrow strip of very limber leather now cut a lash slash across two sides of each square near the edges and also a long slash in each ei d of the strip the problem is to loop the strap in the squares as shown at fig I 1 and then take it off again you will find it easy with the strap entirely free to inake make the loop shown at the top of fig I 1 having done so pass the tree free end of the strap down through the other slash and one end of the puzzle is finished then pass the tree free end of the strap up through the first slash of rf the it x 7 S k 1 N t r 7 I 1 I 1 i I 1 aliu iu C 1 tso I 1 figure T no 2 second square and down through the second lash fig 2 shows you how to make the second loop bring the free end of the strap around the low er slash slip it back through the ip per slash stick the upper square loop and all through the loop in the lower end of the strap pull the strap back until it forms the loop shown in the lower lover end of fig I 1 an there you are in taking the squares off the loop this process is simply reversed tough cardboard for the squares and a strip of firm cloth for the strap may be used it if you cannot get the leather A P a al pet A remarkable story is told of a lady living near In gestre hall staffs eng land who has made a pet of a trout A coi respondent writes that while walking round a pool in that neigh boyhood be he observed a lady throw a piece of bread on the water almost immediately the surface of the pool was ruffled there was a glimpse of bright color and the bread had digap feared other crumbs followed thrown nearer and nearer to the bank and gradually there samarn sw am into view a fine trout smaller button is used in the place of a ball one pla er starts the game by pressing with her large button on the edge of the small button causing it to snap across the table very much as in the old game of tiddle de winks she tries to make the button land in the other girl s saucer when the but ton has landed and has stopped roll ing the other player has a turn she snaps it back and tries to make it land on her opponent opponents s saucer if a player snaps the button off the table her opponent scores two points if the tile button does not go more than half without the slightest trace of shy ness the trout came to the edge of the bani baril to the very feet of the lady and waited tor for more bread to be in reply to a question put by the visitor the lady stated that the trout had been her pet for a long time and had become so tame that it would even take a worm or a piece of meat from her fingers the pool I 1 is stocked with hundreds of trout but this curiously enough is the only one among them all to act in this way it lives by itself in a part of the pool which no anglers are al loed lowed to invade and comes regularly at the appointed time for its it meas meals of 01 bread london news grasshopper P e I 1 during the hot summer days the filipinos Filip mos go out into the fields big nets to catch the r winter s supply of candy for it is alive when they first get it during the summer months great swarms of giant grass hoppers light down upon the fields in s I 1 ich C h clouds as to shut out the sun then there is a great stir tor for these grasshoppers must be k lied tied they not only destroy the crops but they are thought very good to eat and so there is a er double reason for a war on them boys watch in the church tow ers and when they see a swarm corn coin ing send out an alarm the natives rush to the spot with bags and nets and begin their work the grasshoppers are knocked down with paddles stunned with guntow der explosions any way to kill them in large numbers and are left to dry ani an 1 they are then shipped to the cities where they are worth 4 a bushel people eat them in the streets and at entertainments as we eat pea nuts and like them just as well as we e do the sweet goober nuts they are baked with sugar and eaten as candy housewives make pies 0 of them with 1 g ones around the top crust balers bake them in cakes as we do raisins and boys think a pocketful of them sprinkled with sugar a great treat an easy one put three candies peanuts or any small article that is eatable each under a hat and then show your au diance that you have nothing hidden in your hands or about your person next have one in the audience if he wishes mark the articles in order to identify them then lift the hat from eacel one and slowly eat the article that Is under each and 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 your head some dolls most dolls are born in thu Thun ngia a province of germany thuringia Is sometimes called puppet etland land on this account almost the entire population is employed making some parts of the dolls which are sent to every coun try in the world except india the little hindus are said to be the only doll less children in the world all countries having something which the little gills can rock to sleep and love that the amer can girls love dolls one has only to read that last year over 8 worth of dollies came into this country and nearly all of them from thuringia Thun ngia parlor bl BI nd man in parlor blind blindman man the leader is blindfolded while the other players stand or sit about the room the man ager of the game has told each child what animal he is to represent for the time being and when he is touched by the blinded child he must imitate the noises made by that particular animal repeating the noise three times if requested from the noise thus made the blind man must guess the performer s name it sue the child named takes take s the place of the blindfolded one and so the game goes on for instance one child mews like a cat eat another barks like a dog still another hisses like a goose etc SNAP SHOTS IS A LIVELY GAME I 1 cz 1 R F U r I 1 u I 1 t 0 9 I 1 1 7 1 I 11 i ir it h I 1 1 Z ZI 0 D ZE I 1 0 I 1 0 i it 0 2 C I 1 11 t ch I 1 1 p T i a ya 1 1 6 A clever shot in a game of snap shots way across the table her ov opponent scores score s two points it the button comes to a rest against the saucer the girl making the s shot h 0 t scores five live points if the button should land in the saucer and slip out again she scores seven points A lucky hot causing the button to remain in the saucer scores ten points for the player making it twenty five points Is a 4 9 ame abe players take turns snap ping the button grown people as N ell as youngsters find lots ot of fun I 1 in this game which is a model evea I 1 arg pastime |