| Show the children s country pack up the books the pencils slates in orderly array for all the joyous childish mates are going far away the time s at hand when the board ship bound fo a distant strand and take that dear del hatful trip to old vacation land this land has flowers and trees of gold and golden Is each pool it lies a thousand leagues im told brom the dull land of school there Is no country half so bright no climate half so grand and every 1 eart 1 the and light in dear vacation land so here s godspeed to each wee friend from us who cannot go may pleasure at your s des attend and left behind be woe and may a strong and sun tanned pack A stanch and band in autumn days come trooping back irom old vacation land evening bulletin bottle trick you will hae to go at this expert ment very carefully but when you bave done it successfully you will get a lot of pleasure out of it and it will not be easy tor others to imitate get a good sized bottle with a wide mouth and a good cork stopper then get a nut say an english walnut divide carefully into halves clean it out then bore a tiny hole through each side and run the two ends of a wire frame through them then put the halves together again and seal evera possible crack or hole with wax before you do this however bore a email hole in the bottom of the nut C and leave it unsealed this Is to serve as an air hole now arrange the bottom of your wire frame so that it will support a coin having done this fill your bowl with water and debt the floating atles of your nut the coin is to serve as ballast so you must experiment with different coins until you discover just what coin penny nickel etc provides the exact weight needed you will have exactly the right result when the nut rests exactly bal alced in an upright position its point just touching the cork stopper and when at the same time it will respond instantly to a slight tap of your fin ger on the cork stopper and sink toward the bottom returning presently to its original position without losing its balance the wasp as a hunter when summer warmth has awaken ed the maternal instinct of the insect world the mud dauber wasp may be seen gathering mortar at the margin of stream pool or puddle filling her mandibles which serve as both spade and hod she bears the load of mud to some rough surface rock or wall or board or beam she spreads and shapes her mortar until after many visits to the mud bed she has 1 a tubular cell about an inch long and three eighths of an inch wide then her huntress instinct awakens and her raids upon tl e spider realm begins for within this cylinder the mother mason will put a single egg in course of time says a writer in harpers magazine this will hatch into a ravenous larva whose natural food is living spiders and these the mother proceeds to capture and en tomb within her mud daub nursery on this errand she may be seen hawk ing over and near cobwebs of various sorts venturing within the meshed and beaded snares that prove fatal to most and sometimes even to herself if the occupant expectant of prey sallies forth to seize the intrude er it finds itself a captive not a captor the wasp hakes the silken filament from wings and feet turns upon the spider seizes and stings it bears it to her cell and thrusts it therein A monster lightning bug did you ever hear the story about two xoung men from cork who had never seen lightning bugs until they came across the sea to america it happened that during their first night here the mosquitoes were very troublesome and loth mike and pat hid their heads under the bed covers finding thia rather warm pat ven aured to put his head outside just as a firefly floated in at the window 0 mike says he now they re comin after us vid lanterns now it may be possible for you to many a native american quite as much as a firefly surprised the two strangers from cork take a large kite that will fly well which means that you know just how much tall it will carry remove a good part of the tail and tie on a sk lan aern this must be made very elgh and arranged so that it ill not easily catch fire use a piece of light bin wood tour inches in diameter and near the center drive four slender nails one inch long so that a candle will stand firmly between them above the candle loop two light wires fastening their ends to the board paste led or yellow tissue paper around the wire frame and your kite is made flying such a kite on a dark night will cause much amusement our friend the robin it is very easy to begin the taming process with the robin tor the young birds when they first leave the nest are glad enough to pick up a few crumbs not having yet trained their eyes to the constant search for 1 sects they are then easily induced to come near the human who provides them and with a little quiet perseverance will soon take the food from the hand but the father bird has to be reck boned with and even the mother bird in autumn will drive her youngsters out of the garden it possible to in sure their finding a domain of their own before the winter her mate is apt to appear in his wrath when the oung robins are fully fledged having left the nest for a week and scatter them all include ing the mother with beak and claws he does not approve of any spoiling of the children and insists upon their spreading themselves separately over the country in order that they may learn at once to earn their own main cenance probably he is right for ev ery robin has its own yards or so of garden or wood in winter time and woe betide any newcomer which yen tures on another s ground this is a doubly wise provision of nature to insure food tor each robin and also the destruction of insects all oer the land college life in scotland american college boys and high school boys would have found student life at the old scottish universities very different from the free and easy good time they are used to at their own seats of learning in the early part of the eighteenth century the stu dents at some of the scottish ties could not shoulder or push each other could not stand at the gate on the stairs or in the corridors of the college buildings for tear they would dispute with each other could not play or loiter up and down in any of the courts while the classes were in progress nor play ball billiards or bowls A student no matter how old he wa seven after he had become a young man was whipped for getting into a fight or hitting another student he was fined for speaking coarsely or wickedly he could not walk out dur ing the evening he could not throw snowballs at anything or anybody and during hours in the college build ing he could not speak a word in any thing but latin at edinburgh the students wore scarlet gowns during classes they lived in the town there were no dormitories mi tories and they knew very little about each other in many cases there were and are to day at edin burgh no college sports as we know them and little general college life an old ball game in the days before baseball became so popular in fact when that game was almost unknown boys used to play one hole cat a game from which some say baseball was origin alev derived there was an old scottish game of much the same name as the popular game of the fifties but which is con sider ably different in the way it Is played the game Is called cat in the hole and old as it is it Is capable of affording some good sport yet in playing the game six shallow holes are dug rather nearer together than the bases in baseball and ar ranged so as to form a diamond in the center stands a boy with a ball in his hand at each hole Is a boy with a stick one end of which he rests in the hole he Is guarding when the boy with the bali sings cat in the hole all the other boys change holes As they do so the boy with the ball tries to throw it into one of the holes before adv boy gets his stick into it it he succeeds the boy who is slow in changing and finds the ball in the hole before his stick is out he then has to uke the ball him self paper band puzzle try this trick with paper bands take three strips of paper six inches long and about an inch wide and mark dotted lines lengthwise down the mid die of each paste the two ends of the first one straight and squarely as shown in figure 1 before pasting the second give the strip a twist as shown in figure 2 the third strip you twist twice before pasting now cut each band along the dotted the paper bands line and you will have as a result two separate rings from no 1 as in figure 4 from no 2 one ring half as wide asi the original but with twice the diameter as in figure 5 and from no 3 two rings linked together as in figure 6 queer in my geography I 1 find some things immensely queer such as the folks that lie in bed all day all night all year they run along now fast now slow but have no feet at all and do not seem to hurt themselves if something makes them tall perhaps they have an arm or two 01 three or even more and though they have no throats nor tongues they sometimes fairly roar their heads are very small indeed their mouths are very wide none of them owns a penny yet all have banks by their side such folks with neither fingers nor hands nor eyes nor ears nor legs nor backs you must agree are surely rather queer beg n now sometimes children think they can t do any good until they grow to be men and women it you should say to your little right hand I 1 am not going to use you now while you are small im going to wait and save all your strength till I 1 grow up and then I 1 will use you a great deal do you know what would happeny why the hand that hung at your side would not grow it would get weak and small that when you became a man you coulden couldn t use it at all something like that happens to our hearts when we think we can put off loving god and doing good until we grow up we must begin now to do what lit tie we can if we wish to be strong when we grow up sunbeam butterflies THAT FLY the success of this toy depends en upon the lightness of the ma used in its construction the breadth of the wings from the up to the body Is four inches the breadth of the body a little over one inch the other parts being in proportion the antennae or horns FF con of the very thinnest of tissue pa per stretched on arching splints of bamboo or broomcorn whisks as shown at FF these horns are in sorted in a piece of cork shaped as ed to represent the markings and col ors of a butterfly through the two upper corks AA passes a wire which Is in the form of a hook as shown at D these hooks are tor the purpose of holding the two elastic rubber bands that can be twisted or wound up by means of the movable head H which works or revolves on two washers consisting of two small glass beads G when the rubber bands are twisted up to their fullest capacity the but Is thrown up into the air and showing construction and butterfly in fl shown at A A second and third piece of cork A and A similarly shaped form the upper and lower parts of the body into which are fastened two straws BB these straws must con tain a joint to insure greater strength the framework of the body is now complete the large wing are composed of the same materials as the horns one splint being used for each wing as shown at the sides of the wings are glued to the straws BB after which the paper wings are paint the unwinding of the rubber bands acting on the upper hook causes the head cork H and the horns FF to revolve thereby sustaining the butterfly in the air and causing it to move about with a circular jerking motion the cork work and the frame of the butterfly are covered with tissue pa per and colored it is very amusing to watch the flight of this unique in sect and at a little way off it looks like one of the most splendid varieties of its kind |
