Show cookin things when my mother s cookin things tou bet I 1 never wait to put away my ball er gun I 1 drop em where they are an run per tear be too late the most exciting hind game er toy er storybook I 1 let em go an never mind the very minute that I 1 find my mother s coln to cook when my mother s cookin things araps its pies to bake er doughnuts bobbin up an down in bo lin grease till they are brown er p r aps it s a johnny cake whatever kind of thing it is I 1 aiwas like to hook the biggest piece of dough I 1 can an bake it in a patty pan when me an mother cook burgess johnson in harper s monthly after dinner trick here Is a little trick that any of you can master the next time you have chicken for dinner save the wishbone and wind some strong thread several times about the ex ties of it passing it around both ends insert a match between the two passes of thread thus formed and the cleft wishbone turn it in a circle several times un til the thread Is very tight and the ends of the wishbone are drawn closely together then suddenly let the match go and it will describe a complete circle producing the most curious optical illusion the rotary motion of the match Is so quick that no eye can follow it and it seems as if the tree end ac dually cleft the wishbone in passing from one side to the other no matter how often the trick Is done nor how closely the audience are watching the illusion will remain try and see for yourselves early R sers A student of bird liap who has been investigating the question as to the hour in summer when the commonest small bird wakes up and begins to sing says that the green fanch Is the earliest riser as it sings about 1 30 clock in he morning the black cap begins at 2 30 and the quail half an hour later it Is nearly 4 clock and the sun is well up before the first real songster appears the merry blackbird then comes the thrush followed by the robin and the and last the house sparrow and the tomtit thus it will be seen that the larks reputation as an early riser is not de served in tact he is a very sluggard tor he does not rise until long after many of tile hedgerow birds have been about for some time to tie cork the most effective way in which to tie down the cork of a bottle so as to preserve its contents is that which Is adopted in wiring champagne corks take a piece of string about half a yard long double it and look at the diagram make a potted loop P at the doubled end of the string 1 a the two ends of the string round the neck of the bottle and knot again at E now take one of the ends pass it through loop as at A it now knotted with end D and Is strained back over the cork on the opposite side to loop the cork will be kept securely in position by the heat of your hands take an ordinary cork and place a needle in it point up take a piece ot common paper about 2 inches long and slightly over a third of an inch wide fold the paper length wise and crosswise so as to find the exact center of it now unfold the paper smooth it out well slightly bend two diagonal corners upward then rest the center of the paper on the needle point if you place it properly it will balance perfectly next stretch your open hands about the paper quite close but not touch ing it immediately the paper will be gin to revolve the heat from your hands causing it to turn fun with shadow verbs to play the game of shadow verbs a white sheet is fastened tightly across a doorway and a large lamp set behind it says the detroit free press the children separate into two parties one outside the sheet while the others remain seated facing the suspended sheet the out side party chooses a verb which the others are to guess and perform when their decision is made they call to the leader of the inside party and say the verb we have chosen rhymes with rake or whatever it may rhyme with the leader then joins her followers and consults with them what the first guess shall be bake would rhyme with rake and it it Is decided to act thus several of the party step before the lamp which casts their shadows on the sheet and without speaking go through the mo eions making and baking bread it the guess Is right that Is to bake was the verb chosen the spectators clap their hands if wrong they cry no no when they hear the no no the actors retire and arrange what to do next make quake take wake are all acted in turn until the clap of ap announces that they have been successful in guessing the verb then the actors take the steps vacated by the spectators who in their turn become shadow and act the verbs chos en by the other party conundrums why Is a whale like a water illy because it always comes to the sur face to blow where does a person always go on his into his year why is a sheet of stamps like dis tant relatives 7 because they are only slightly connected the fabre you take away the larger it grows what is it A hole why Is the letter 0 like the sun it is the center of light why is an alligator the most deceit ful of animals 9 because he takes you with an open countenance what Is that which walks with its head downward 9 A nail in the shoe why should a thirsty man always carry a because it has a spring inside under what conditions might hand kerchiefs be used in building a wall it they be cambric became trick what Is the cheapest feature of the facea ans nostrils two for a cent scent i what Is that that has neither flesh nor blood yet has four fingers and a thumb ans A glove what Is it that no one wishes to have and yet when he has it he does apt wish to lose ita ana A bald head why should a housekeeper never put the letter M into her refrigerator ans because it would change ice into mice how many soft boiled eggs could a giant eat on an empty 9 ans one for after that his stomach wouldn t be empty which would you rather that a lion ate you or a ans why you would rather that the lion ate the tiger of coarse mr bigger mrs bigger and baby ager which of this interesting tarn ily is the biggest and why the big esta ans baby bigger because he Is a little bigger indianapolis news A dog s faithfulness the bulldogs tenacity of grip 13 proverbial but he also possesses a grip of quite another sort one which enables him to stick to his orders in spite of untoward circumstances the atlanta gives an exam pie of a dog s faithfulness stub s master had gohe away for the night and had left the do to guard his apartments in the evening the house caught fire and before the fire engine ar rived the blaze had gained firm hold and little could be saved some ot the men discovered the dog and tried with a common bar or horseshoe magnet such as may be had at a toy store very interesting experiments may be made first test the poles of the magnet with a common pocket compass and mark them north and south it they are already marked test them anyhow as french magnets marked N and S mean just the re verse of what they mean to us to test the poles see which end ot the magnet attracts the north end ot the compass magnet that end Is the south pole ot your magnet and it should repel the south end ot the compass magnet mark it S and mark the other enc N testing it also tor our own satisfaction it will of course attract the south end of the pocket compass and repel the one like itself the north end magnetize a number of long eyed to coax or drive him from the room but held his post his would be rescuers did all they could to get him out but he would not budge warning growls showed that he would use his teeth if the men resort ed to force and finally in their et torts to save the dog the firemen turned two streams of water on him even this did not dislodge him the dogs master was found and notified of the fire when he reached his home the root had fallen in and the building was a mass 0 flames he gave one clear whistle and who had defied fire and water and all human inducements bounded out of the house and tha next instant was licking the hand which caressed him bargains in real estate in some parta of this continent land can be had for nothing by people who are willing to settle there and build houses and till the soil in other sec alons land can be bought for a few cents an acre in many parts of can ada for instance good forest land may be purchased for 60 cents an acre but even this small price seems ex trava gant beside thai paid in 1638 when the whole state of rhode island was bought from the indians tor a few strings of beads diamonds nobody would need to take lessons in drawing in order to be able to copy this little design but can you d aw it without taking your pencil off the paper or going along the same line twice it Is easy hunting blindfold this is a simple little game but it makes lots of fun one of the players Is to be blindfolded and the others stand about the room as they please the blindfolded one then walks or gropes around until he touches a play er and the player touched must stand still and make a noise in imitation of some animal say a cat a dog a cow a pig or a horse ft the blindfolded player chooses he can have the sound made three times and it he then guesses the name of the person the person takes his place it he does not guess cor erectly he releases the player and tries again can you do this take a dollar stand it upright on the table take a pin in each band and catching the dollar firmly be tween the two pin points lift it up in the air and keep it balanced there for half a minute at a time MAGNET AS PLAYTHING magnets used marked in each case and with a letter also showing those in which the same number makes more than one figure try to magnetize pieces of soft iron like nails for instance and they will magnetize instantly as soon as the magnet touches them you may thus have a long string of nails hanging one to another it the mag net be strong enough now pull the first nail from the magnet and all the others will fall as they all lose their magnetism the moment they leave the magnet heat one of the nails red hot and try to attract it by the magnet it will not be possible to do it but as it cools it will be gradually attracted until when it is cool it will be at traded as strongly as ever before it you heat your magnet in the same way it will also lose its power 3 5 6 u 13 Q needles of the same size so that their points will all be north poles by placing them one at a time on a ta ble and drawing the north pole of the magnet over each needle several times in the same direction begin ning each time at the point now float the needles in water vertically by sticking the eye of each into tha smallest piece of cork that will sup port it letting the upper part ot the eye just project above the cork hold the north pole of your magnet above the floating needles and they will arrange themselves into regular figures according to the number of needles used sometimes the same number will form more than one fig ure and by jarring the vessel con kalning the flater you may make one figure change to another in the illustration a number of these group ings are with the number of but it will not regain its magnetism on cooling so you bad better refrain from the experiment unless you de sire to lose the magnet now pass an inch or two of thread through the eye of one of your nee dies and magnetize the needle by rubbing it in the same direction sev eral times over the same pole of your magnet place the horseshoe on the table and holding the thread between 5 our thumb and your first finger let the point of the needle be directly above the pole that attracts it and about a quarter of an inch dis tant from it then make a circular sweep with our hand so that the point remains in its position and the eye is brought down toward the oth er pole if ou become skilful in doing this the needle will remain sus just above the magnet in a horizontal position J afa ij |