Show A promise oh I 1 und r ta d t now he cried As I 1 lepied the si 1 nto place aid the adi t 1 gl t of knowledge shone 0 er the dear 1 atle ta e some lesso a e easy to me but num I 1 think are ha 1 an a sigh crept out from the tremulous lips I 1 tho once I 1 1 just have to cry and now how glad I 1 an it is right dear teacher I 1 m going to bring some flowers to to morrow good night and anav 1 ke a bl 1 on the wing but pencils ai 1 ga the d meled nan Is found all too heay to hold yet life s she now under stands As she pe in the streets of gold and I 1 wo deai it tibie in the mo ning laid aboul I 1 I 1 each tl e reain of light shell greet me wi 1 oming wa e of hani and the done s she promised that night irene pomeroy sl beus in cl icaco inter A race on the heels by looking at the picture ou will see lust what Is needed to prepare for a heeling match A stout bigom stick for what ou might appropriate ly call your heel bit and two lengths of trong clothesline or light rope se aurely knotted to each end 0 the stick for the reins grasp the relas firmly in your clenched fists and draw the heel bit taut so that the balls of our apet are off the ground and lour weight resting entirely on your heels the course must be short as the race must be run entirely on the corn peti tors heels this would not seem at all hard but the heel bits must be kept in place and it Is this condl tion which makes the race much more difficult ahari II 11 ai pears the second at the start of the match you lift your heels from the ground there is a great chance of your heel bit slipping out of its position which instantly disqualifies you o 0 art also disqualified it you let the ball of your foot touch the ground a ruling that will compel you to pio aeed slowly and with care if you want to show your competitors a clean pair of heels aw animals byrn robbers animals some of tl cm have a furious way of joining together ar robbing other animals A traveler tells a good story of a highway robber committed on a heron by three black rog ies aided bv a couple at dishonest dis lonest followers in black and white the heron had gone a ashing and had caught and eaten an eel and some smaller try on his way home ie was accosted b a carrion crow ard atto hooded crows and requested to stand and deliver his hard earned supper the magpies waiting to see if ohp could get any profit out of the net ri ous business they were sleep a 1 arthers in the firm driving tl e heron to an open space between two woods the crows came to close ers with tl air victim one struck at his head from above while another pecked at his side the third seized him by the feet which are thrust out behind when flying and upset him so that he turned a complete sault at this the villains cawed allar bously unable to stand their treatment the heron disgorged a fish which the ma pies seized and made off with an other somersault was turned and a second fish tell to one of the crows see ng he could not get rid of the re maaring thieves the heron at last yielded up the eel and went home while the crows had a tug of war with the fish what a boy did jamie was the smartest boy in our class willie hunter was a real good fellow too and willie and jamie used to run neck and neck for the prizes either the one or the oth er was always at the top of the class examination day came round and a e were asked such a lot of p sizzling questions that one by one we all off till just as we expected the first prize lay between jamie and lalle I 1 shall never forget bow astonished we were when question after question was answered by wlllie while jamie was silent and willie tool the prize I 1 went home with jamie that after noon for our roads lay together but instead of be ng cast down at losing the prize he seemed rather to be mightily glad I 1 coulden couldn t understand it why jamie I 1 saad you could have answered some of those ques alons I 1 know you could of course I 1 could he said with a light laugh then why dian didn t you I 1 asked he wouldn t answer for a while I 1 kept pressing and pressing him till at last he turned round with such a strange kind look in his bonnie brown eyes look here said he how could I 1 help if there s poor willie his mother died last week and it been examination day he wouldn t have been at school do you think I 1 was going to be so mean as to take a prize from a fellow who had just lost his mother sunday school advocate an orange party plan have you ever given an orange it Is curious and amusing from tl e very start as each guest is bested to bung an orange wh ch request being accompanied b no ex is quite p sizzling and therefore gives an added interest rigl t at the beginning uster baci arrival into tie dinine room they are received by the orange aid committee hose fart duty is to aid ou in registering our orange and ting a ribbon market bf a letter around it so QU may identify it later then all the guests assemis ie in the dining loom e the ommittee con with its work wh ch Is to count tre seeds each orange 1 cut in at the seeds are extracted and after being counte 1 and d ily credited to tl fc oner as entered on the register bev ire put into a transparent plass bowl now th guests e of a composed of eer conceivable of orange yoi can think of sliced oranges orange ice orange flavored candy etc after which ou announce that a plize will be offered to the one who guesses nearest to the number of seeds in the bowl and a booby prize given to the poorest g ies er also two prizes will be awarded to the two guests having the most number of seeds and the least num her in the respective oranges ap prop prizes are an order for a dozen orange sodas at a good oda fountain tor the grand prize and a mall jar of orange marmalade will 1 revoke a good deal of mirth when it Is ghen to the winner of the booby prize and by the time the party wilds ip yoi will find the bowlful of orange seeds have sprung up into a splendid crop t fun et if ou prefer mothr fruit ou may call the party after al most any variety containing a erate amount of seeds although we would not advise a watermelon party as then the committee would nave to spend a week or so counting the seeds letter blanket in holland little cakes called by the name of letter blanket are made in the form of letters of the alphabet it these cannot be secured pin letters cut aiom paper spelling ing on a screen to be easily seen by the company n 1 stand around them in a semicircle let the hostess point with a wand to each letter in turn asking the children to name some thanksgiving goody that begins with that letter the first to respond wins some trifling favor these ta vors will cause a good deal of merri went if put in a sack of yellow tissue paper that is hung between two doors underneath it a white sheet la spread the youngest child is given a cane and told to hit the sack three times as hard as he can few strikes hit but at last the sack bursts and as bon bons and souvenirs run dow n on the sheet below the children merrily scramble to get their share co n trick besin this trick by remarking how very easily a bettel silver dime will adhere to the forehead and say you will wager anyone that after you have applied it to their forehead they can not M binl ie nor shake it oft with out touching it with their hands you may give a little illustration by amp camp c ng a coin with the tongue and sticking it to your own forehead then araking a great fuss of worl ing our face to dislodge di lodge it naturally it falls off after a sl ort time someone la sure to take up yoi r wager start by putting the dry coin to their to then taking it off to damp instead of doing so you un perceived wet the tip of the middle anger of your right hand and apply it to their forehead as it it were the coin you were sticking on now take anav our hand carefully concealing the coin the fin then commences your friend imagines the silver Is on hi forehead and tries to work it off h s friends meantime encouraging to persevere perse and so the fun goes on until it dawns upon him that he has been tooled isow is the time to get out of his road A scrapbook of hea value to demote a scrapbook to one sub eject makes it much more interesting ard valuable and when begin to gather material on an one theme yo i will be s at the amount which will come to hand suppose that you want to know all abo it some famous pers n either in the public eye at present or someone of past times from magazines and other sources can be collected articles portraits perhaps poems in relation to the subject etc when matter is clipped tie scrapbook scrap bool maker may copy it neatly with a pen into her book the educational value of such a book ia something worth while as ell as the satisfaction sati faction of having gathered one self so much information on a single subject held by a toothpick here is a tea table trick that will astonish everyone you will need two aorl s a pitcher and a toothpick in the tips of the liongs of the aorl s so that they hold firmly er in V shape then insert a tooth how forks are fastened pick through these interlaced prongs just tar enough to secure it firmly sometimes the pressure from one or at most two prongs is sufficient for this the toothpick should be insert ed from the inside of the V like a tongue between the fork handles the other end of the toothpick should then be lodged in the mouth of a pitcher which is high enough to allow the handles of the dependent deien dent forks to clear the table rhth nothing to hold it the single toothpick tooth will then support the two forks without tipping or breaking a feat most puzzling to the ordinary spectator and a most fruitful source of speculation and animated discus sion when boys play minstrels ahen you boys want to blacken up tour faces for a minstrel play or any other 1 ind of fun here Is a good way for you to blacken up tal e a few galls bruise them to a fine powder and strew the powder gieely upon a towel then put a little ground into a basin of water which will dissolve and leave the wat er perfectly transparent after any person has washed in this water and wiped with the towel on which the galls were strewed his hands aind face w 11 immediately become black how to make a flute A little flute from which a good deal of amusement may be derived can be made by wrapping a piece of paper aro ind a pencil to make a tube paste alie edge fast and to one end of the tube fasten a triangular piece of pa per somewhat larger than the open ing to play the flute draw in your breath agh the open en 1 of the tube the in pitch will depend noon how hard you breathe holiday magazine THE SIAMESE TWINS PUZZLE struggling to get apart here Is a lot ot tun which some of our lounger readers have perhaps never tried on their friends look at the picture and see it you can find out a way for the two boys 19 get apart to small girls who were tied er in this manner rode home in a street car together slept night over it and did not guess the riddle until after breakfast the next morning the antics which they cut up in trying to get apart furnished tun not only for themselves but for a whole room full of people to make it really exciting a num her of couples should be set going at once and a prize offered to the pair who first get apart such a wriggling and twisting into all sorts of absurd positions as this will result in could hardly be equaled by a nest of boa constrictors and the problem Is after all quite easy of solution the center of one of the handkerchiefs has only to be slipped under the loop made by the others handkerchief where it is tied about the wrist and the loop thus earned over the hand tie two of bour friends together in this way and follow the directions iven you will soon catch the idea of how to quid 1 separate them |