Show consider the lilies the 11 es of t a field whose b Is brief t we are they li e them we fade away As doth a leaf consider the sparrows of the air of small ac count our cod doth view vi hether they all or mounts he guards us too colis der f t t j the alues that do ne ther spin nor toll laetare most fair aut profit all this cate arld W W the that have no barn nor bar I 1 vest wl i god gives them food mi ch more our father seeks to do us good cors der I 1 chr st na 1 1 f A we gh ng contest here 4 a 31 k nc of entertainment for ou boys and girls to make ise of the next time you give a party it will please your 1 atle guests ever so much get two sets of scales one to weigh large articles and one tor the si things bior some of the tiny objects s ghosted be ow it will per aps be bet ter to buy a heap pair at a toy shop having arranged for the we ahing se elect lect a number of art cles to be weighed have these as ke and deceptive as possible so that there really will be great difficulty in decad ing for instance the following 1 st A man s hat and a book A pair of scissors and a bunch of keys A boot and a pasteboard box con kalning say a stone or something very heavy A large book and a pasteboard box this one empty A watch and a bottle of ink apen nib and a leather A pin and a 1 atle piece of paper an envelope and a postcard A one cent piece and a bow or rib bon A doll and a shoe A shaper and a package of tacks A rubber ball and a sponge arrange the articles beforehand and let each boy and g rl write down on a slip of paper which of the t vo arall art ll in each lot they think is the heavier atje competitor hands the 1 st s ened of course ato the judge etien corn bences the weighing A prize should be ghen to the one guessing the greatest number corre i ly A da nty Hand kerch ef apron have any of our readers ever seen the pretty aprons made of chandker chiefs it is a gift that will delight your friends to make th s pretty and useful gift two embroidered handl er chiefs or two gentleman s initial silk handkerchiefs one yard of hamburg insertion three ards of one inch rb bon four ards of baby ribbon and three ards of valenciennes lace are red it cne of the handkerchiefs into four parts diagonally and join to the other with the valenciennes insertion the edge is then shaped to elve tto rounded effect edged with valece ennes insertion run with baby ribbon and valenciennes valen cinnes lace the belt Is made of inch wide insertion laced with baby ribbon an inch wide and leaving enough of the ribbon at either end for ties the accompany ing illustration will be cf great bene fit to ou in making th s apron chr atmas day games for the children are as nece sairy as a aluir pudding and they are welcome to grownups maista PACK all form IP line and march to a lively strain on the alano to the next room where a table holds the contents of santa claus pad they look at every ob elect lect en the table and then march back the company now divides in I 1 alf one half leaving the room the table and its contents having been coveted those remaining choose some object which they remember seeing the piano begins to play again and the others return the leader gives to the returning party a word which rhymes with the object chosen thus it it was a ball he might men alon the word hall the returning party now proceed to guess what object has been chosen and chev express their guess by acting in pantomime they do not all sug gest the object in the same way but each according to his individual fancy but they must all agree upon the object they will guess it wrong they go out for another trial and so on until guessed when the other half of the company goes out and they re main and select the object for the others to guess HIDING THE MISTLETOE all form in line single file and march about the room or several rooms until the music stops they then proceed to bunt the mistletoe which the lead er carried in his hand and concealed somewhere during the the finder must effect a return to the starting point without being touched by the leader CLAUS SLEIGH six girls are harnessed to a little sleigh or sled and the white ribbon reins are held by a seventh the sled Is filled with small parcels in colored papers con kalning christmas crackers or any trifles as favors the party goes round the room several times dis bensing the favors to the young men who proceed to select partners and dance until a signal from the leader calls all to march around the room and bad to their places left and f hands a ov know that 5 our eye sees objects upside down the head being down ward as it were and the impress on be ng reversed in the brain this appears strange i it but it is not more so than what follows take a soft pencil in your right hand and bilte a word upon your forehead then look in a mirror to see what you have produced oi know that when wr ting s reflected in a mirror the characters read bad ward in the reflection if yo i condei why your playmates laugh when they see what you have written look at yourself in the mirror you will find the word reflected so that the letters are produced toward tl e right when they hould read to the left so it will be backward upon your forehead isow write upon a p ece of paper and place this on your forehead this time the writ ng when reflected will appear to be produced from right to left another amusing experiment con ts in a 1 in each hand nd in trying to write or draw a de sign with both at the same time the movements of the two hands must be simultaneous the left hand will make exactly the u movements as the right but in the opposite direct ons you will then have two words or designs but one will be just th reverse of the other laughter games the children of many nations have games that consist in saying or do ng something funny while each ch id tries not to smile giggle or laugh the eskimos the north american indians the italians and the germans all have a great variety of tl ese laughter games ond of them which is almost the same among the children of both the and uncivilized nations is is follow s one child stands in the middle of a ring formed by the others in turn they step up to the one and pluck her athe chin saying aunty thick and thin I 1 pluck you by the ch n it ou see me laugh or sm ie I 1 fluet take our place awhile biow it seems easy enough these words without laughing or grin ning when ou read about it but a bit easy when ou try it w candle tr ck how would ou 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 he place the candle upon the head of the person who Is not to see it should there be a in aror in the room and this one person should mal e use of it he does not see the candle but only its reflection fish and the S ath sense it Is stated that there are some indi that fi lies possess a sixth sense the organs of which are the pores of the head and of the catteral lat teral band this band is a row of little canals connected with the external world by hoes through the mcaleb in trese cavities under which runs a large nene arc found nerve heads or terminations 11 e these of other sense organs the use ot this apparatus is jolly bl game in parlor bl nd man the leader 1 blindfolded while the other p aers or sit about the room the man ager of the game has told each ch id whit animal he is to represent for ohp timo be ng and when he is touched by the blinded child he must imitate the noie made by that particular animal repeating the noise three times it re quested from the noise thus made the blind man must guess the for mer s name it successful the ch id named takes the place of the blind folded one and so the game goes on for instance one chad mews like a cat another barl s e a dog still an other hisses e a goose and so on how to lift oneself up no doubt you have often heard how impossible it is for a man to 1 ft him self from the ground by I 1 ng on the strap of his boots th ga are supposed to be equally impossible impo one of them being to 1 ft one s self by means of a rope and pulley while this is perfectly true in the ccase of a straight pull there Is a ver simple TV ay to do it which yo i amily brove fo dihe astonishment ol 01 your throw a rope over the limb of a tree and tn one end of the rope make a strong loop large enough to fold your toot now you are to pull your self up as the bo in the picture Is doing you stand on the gro ind ith our left foot in the of taa roie and pull our best on the other end 0 the rope bajt though ou feel a goo deal of strain on yo ir foot in the looi you do not stir now ou are doing exactly what is done by the man who tries to lift himself over the fence ny pulling on his bootstraps by abis time you are convinced that there is a trick to it indeed there lift ng ones self is but so simple a one that you will have no trouble in performing it bear our weight on the rope in our hands and 1 ft your legs swinging them up ward from your hips the result will be blat our feet will go up about three feet from the ground while the rope in your hands will sink till head is about on a level with bour feet now climb up the rope hand over hand till your head is above yo ir feet and lift your feet as before pull ing on the rope at the same time you do not easily pull yourself up this way but it looks so to the spec you climb up the rope hani hand and could do it just as well without having your foot in the aop at all providing the rope was fastened to the limb the laugh ng game the laughing game is one of the jolliest it requires no preparation whatever but may be played by a roomful of boys and girls the moment it is suggested any number of ers may take part in it they select a leader who should be a bright alert qu ck witted boy cap arle of preserving his self possession while fun and laughter are going on all around him the placers seat themselves in a sir cle and the leader takes his place in the center lie holds in his hand a white handkerchief which he has knotted so asao make it partly solid hen everything is ready the leader tosses the handkerchief up in the air nd then every player must begin laughing but they must all stop laughing by the time the handkerchief reaches the floor and it any one does not slop and the leader catches him either laughing or smiling he imposes a forfeit or a alne or instead of mak ing the detected laugher pay a forfeit he ma be required to drop out of th circle it played in this way the play ers cop out one after another until only one is left and that one wins the prize the paper duel two bois are paced back to back with balls made of soft paper in their hands two other bos are their sec ands to pick up the balls they wall away from each other about eight feet turn around and throw the balls at each other until one is hit the sec ands anck up the ball whenever they fall and replace the duelists toy boat if you will make a toy boat from a sheet of celluloid put in a deck of cork and above the cork an upper deck of blotting paper and then satu rate the edge of the blotter at the stern of the boat with ether or some other volatile chemical the boat will propel itself about in the water at a rapid rate the motion is due to the turning of the liquid into a gas which pushes the boat care must be taken not to bring this boat near a flame tor both celluloid and ether easily catch fire |