| Show mothers doughnuts if you think there s no use trying to do anything of worth it you think cju re but a cipher in the multitudes of earth just remember mother s doughnuts and press onward to the goal finest doughnuts in creation they were made around a hole it the patch Is on your garment where it never was before if your pocketbook Is empty of its hoarded 1 atle store just remember mother s doughnuts when the clouds of trouble roll sweetest doughnuts manufactured all were bu it around a hole if you think your next door neighbor had a better start tha you it perhaps you made a fal ure and success is hard to woo set your teeth the way ou used to lay the comfort to your soul recollect the grand perfection that was circled round a hole puck A novel twirler in some experiments you may need a twirler which Is an arrangement used for spinning objects rapidly and as you might like to add one to your home made laboratory a description of it follows it consists usually of two wheels fixed on a stand and so connected by means of a band that by turning a handle on the larger wheel the small er one may be made to revolve rap idly the object to be twirled is fixed to this second wheel this twirler can be bought of course from a dealer in scientific sup plies but the wheels of an ordinary toy cart can sometimes be utilized turn the cart upside down aad tack or pin the object to be dwir ed to one side of the wheel and spin it from the other side by the forefinger but if the object is to be twirled in a horizontal position as a pall tor instance the cart must be placed on two kinds of twirlers its side on a table with the wheel projecting over the edge rhe cart must be weighted to keep it in place and the string to support the pall must be tacked as near the center ot the hub as possible by twirling the wheel from above you may make the pail with water or whatever it may contain apin around and around an excellent twirler however can be made if you have no cart with merely a p ece of board a hook and a piece of twine get a piece of board about two feet long by twelve inches wide and place it over the op 0 a doer slightly ajar tilting it so that one end ot it may rest under the top of the door frame and so be held fn place over the other end slip a loop of cord that will hang down within two feet of the floor and to this end fasten a hook the board must be far enough under the top of the door frame to hold firm when the string is pulled on the loop of cord should now be twisted tightly and then the object to be twirled should be hung on the hook As the cord untwists the object will be twirled and it will twirl more rapidly if a stick be pressed down ward just above the twist flat pieces of cork may be strung on the cord being held in place b knots alphabet aripa tripa A game that requires no material and preparation but may be play ed offhand is sometimes just the thing to know particularly at a party here is one that the older boys and girls louia enjoy let us call it al chabet trip any bumbel t persons may take part in the game the first thing to do Is to choose a who stands in the middle of the with the players seated around him then he tells them that they are each to take a trip somewhere and must announce to him in turn where they are going and what they intend to do when they get there now the oddity of this game con fists in the fact that every word in each individual answer must begin with the same letter it a player for example says that he Is going to a place the name of which begins with G every additional word in his answer must begin with G the g ime is real ly a trial of wits for the better the answer and the more quid ly it Is div en the more credit a deserves A prize may or may not be offered to be awarded by the leader or by a vote of the placers to the one who makes the best and readiest answer the leader begins the game by the announcement just given and then asks the first player where he Is go ing for the sake of illustration we will give a few answers in alphabet leal order the player answers there fore that he is going to athens and when the leader asks him what he is going to do there the player says advertise athlea cs goes to boston to buy baked beans 0 to cincinnati to collect curl josities D to denver to defy dentists E to england to entertain edward F to france to fry frogs G to glas gow to gather guineas H to halifax to hold horses I 1 to india to introduce idols J to jericho to jostle jersey men to kentucky to keep kindling L to louisiana to lie low M to mon tana to make money N to new york to negotiate notes 0 to oklahoma to oaf oysters P to philadelphia to pil fer pennies Q to quebec to quote quinces R to rome to read ritual 9 to savannah to sell ancs to tur i 31 atuf key to tell tales U to utah to use umbrellas V to vermont to vend ver mallon W to washington to waste wages to yazoo to yell yokels Z to zanzibar to boutch zebras tricks of animals there are a surprising number ot quaker animals animals whose regu lar method ot self protection s to ot fer no resistance to their enemies the possum s trick of shamming dead Is an old story the hedgehog and some of the armadillos refuse to fight but aney are protected by sharp spines or armor among marine animals Is a starfish often called tha brittle star which Is the despair of collect ors it seems to make it a point that none of its family shall be shown in a bottle or on a museum shelf when tal en from the water this starfish throws off its legs and also its achs the story is told ot one col lector who thought he hay succeeded in coaxing a specimen into a pall only to see it dismember itself at he last moment W H hudson descar bes ane death feigning habits of a small south african fox common on the pampas it caught in a trap or overtaken it col lapses as if dead and to all appear ances is dead some kinds of beetles many of the woolly caterpillars which have poisonous hairs on their backs and numerous spiders haopt the same trick perhaps the commonest in stance of passive resistance is the land tortoise which draws up its front piece and pulls in its head and legs and defies ifs toes by locking them out A few don ts don t write on soiled or torn sheets of paper don t write letters with a lead pen oil it is very bad form not to say unpardonable breach of correct letter writing dont seal a letter ot introduction the person to whom it is given is supposed to inform himself of its con tents don t fall to a stamp to car ry an answering letter to a letter of business dont write carelessly spell cor erectly and be painstaking about your punctuation and the language in which ou express your thoughts don t send a letter bearing blots or scratches make a new copy if feces sary the game of sniff sniff la a game that is played with dominoes it may be played by three four five six or seven people but the most interesting game is where four or five play with four two may be partners all the dominoes are put face down on the table when three play or two the players draw seven dominoes when more all take five the dominoes are placed before each player with the faces hidden each one plays in turn the first dou bles played Is sniff and this may be built on from the ends and sides the object is to make nines or fives and multiples of that number any one who is unable to play must draw one from the pool of dominoes left on the table the first one out in each nand counts all the points on all the domi noes belonging to the other players and all remaining in the pool and adds the number the make to his score the game Is it is an excellent game requiring skill and judgment it may be placed progressively when there are a number of players with four at each table the two who make the most each time progressing and the game at the head table being only fifty to prevent too long games A left handed contest is on another or der and a very jolly hilarious game on entering the room every one has his or ier right arm tied in a sling so that it is practically useless for the evening he or she is then required to do all sorts of performances with the left hand each must draw a pic ture on the blackboard sev a hem write a verse of poetry tie and untie knots or any other kind of feat that seems interesting if any one is nat aurally left handed of course the left arm is confined I 1 am sure that you will find this contest amusing wath young people especially montreal herald peace problem the quarrel began simply enough nellie wanted to help dorothy cut out a doll s dress but they coulden couldn t agree how it was to be done finally they began tugging at the scissors and when dorothy saw she was going to lose them she promptly boxed nellie s ears nellie let go of the scissors buti retaliated by pulling dorothy s hair after that they quieted down some what but the instant the dolls dress was mentioned the dispute was renew ed as to how they should make it up stairs papa who heard the noise de aided to end the quarrel and appeared promptly on the scene the dress he said was of secondary consideration so be would take it and the scissors to bis study then he gave them some advice about the quarrel but ou must fand this out for yourselves it is concealed somewhere in the above paragraph game of bird sellers the game of bird sellers Is played as follows the children stand in a row leaving two outside these two represent the bird dealers each child represents a bird one being a crow another a crane another a can ary and so on one bird dealer says to the other I 1 wish to buy a bird ahat kind of a bird asks the sec ond dealer A bird that can fly fast says the first dealer very well answers the other deal er take what you wish then says the first dealer I 1 will take a robin As soon as the word Is out ot his mouth the robin must leap from the row and run around to escape it the dealer catches the bird he puts it into a cage where it must stay till all the other birds are caught ne men s morris this gaj was played by william shakespeare when he was at any rate he spoke of it in one of his dramas midsummer nights dream it can be played in the house by pre paring a board with holes as in the 6 V 5 0 ol 01 io I 1 diagram here pictured but Is more tun played out on the turf just as and so many other games are played two persons play the game it they 1 are inside the house using a board they use nine chec kermen or pegs apiece differently colored or shaped if out of doors marbles or pebbles may be used the players lay down their pieces whatever they are in the holes one at a time alternately and it Is each player s business to prevent the other one from placing three of his pieces so as to form a row of three without any of the opponent s pieces between them whenever either one succeeds in forming a row he may then take up and remove any one of the other play er s pieces he pleases except from a complete row already formed when all the pieces are laid down they are played backward and forward in what ever direction each line runs but a piece cap be moved only from one spot to another at a time it Is still the object of each player to keep the other from getting three men down in an unbroken row when ever one succeeds in forming a row he removes any one of his opponents men he pleases the player who finally takes off all his opponents pieces wins the game A problem in arithmetic jack had two apples fred had three alice and bertha between them had seven the girls being un selfish put their fruit in the lunch basket and told the boys to help them selves while they went to gather may lowers they walked a mile and eight furlongs to a field which the boys said was full ot flowers but there were none then bertha bit her lip and said something to alice and the two ran back as fast as they could ing at thirteen minutes past three opening the basket how many apples did they finda the answer Is conceal ed in the above paragraph novelties in skirts skirts of eyelet worked lawn or lin en somewhat tallor like in make and worn with long fitted coats of cloth are among the novelties the open work lingerie skirt may match the cloth in color or may be in white made over a foundation in the color of the coat |
