Show I 1 know the whole sunshine crowd of young fel lows who travel the run through our town and some are all laughin and while others are robed in a frown but the one that does business I 1 notice no matter what may be his 1 ne Is the man tl at pours out with each measure A bonus of bubbling sunshine I 1 m not much for nor kearnin nor copain wisdom from books I 1 ain t stuck on new tads nor fashions nor tight shoes tor the r looks just jamming io house full of money may seem to this age a good sign but I 1 b 1 eve in the old fashio ed doc trine of filling your heart with sunshine kenneth bruce in four track news ants cowsheds one of the most interesting studies of insect life is the relationship be tween ants and plant lice or aphids says st nicholas these plant lice supply honeydew from the juices which they take as food from plants the ants are acry fond of this sweet substance and care tor the aphids in a manner that seems to us surprising ly intelligent they sometimes carry them bodily to a better feeding ground and drive away certain of their enemies it Is claimed that they even build sheds of mud in the crotches of shrubs and small trees on account of this insect relationship one may truthfully call the ants tar mers the aphids cows and these protecting mud cases cowsheds geographical PLACES turkish G rl s debut until a turkish girl is 8 years old she Is free to run about and play the same as her brother after that time she Is regarded as a grown up she leaves school and puts on a veil she Is forbidden to run about no man except her father or husband is al lowed to look upon her face and she Is not permitted to go into her father s part of the house her parents begin to arrange for her marriage she has athing to say in the matter she be married by the time she is 11 and her husband will probably be about 17 in turkey an unmarried man or woman Is un known such a state is looked upon as disgraceful when the wedding arrives the ceremonies last a week the wedding dress is a most gorgeous affair often costing 1000 being embroidered in gold and pearls the prettiest part of the ceremonies takes place one evening when the girl friends of the youthful bride entertain her family each takes a lighted candle and form ing a procession with the bride as leader march about the grounds among the flower beds through the trees all are in bright colored dresses their hair hanging over their shoulders songs are sung sweet musical chants are heard and the scene suggests nothing so much as a bit out of fairyland itself the bakery tree frank s father being obliged to make a business trip to the west in dies took frank along too they took passage in steamer at boston and sailed away south into the regions where it is aldass summer amid islands where palms and orange trees and many strange sorts of plants flourished leaving the steamer at kingston jamaica they hired a carriage and drove several miles out into the coun try through a world strange and beau ticul and all new to frank until they came to a plantation house long lo 10 and rambling with wide verandas around it and beautiful gardens filled with tropical flowers and ferns it belonged to mr dixon and that night as they sat at dinner their host said I 1 will now give ou a taste of some thing which you frank have never eaten before and can eat only in the tropics tor it won t stand transports tran tion at this a servant placed on the ta ble a platter on which were thick go den brown wedges cut as a water melon is cut and looking as it they were pieces of some fruit a large as a small pumpkin or a large musk melon they were smoking hot from the oven and it was easy to see that their golden brown color had been gh en to them by their baking frank took one of the pieces on his plate broke it open buttered it and began to eat my how good it was it was like the finest wheat bread only that there was a slight flavor of artichokes about it frank thought he had seldom I 1 anything so good in all hid life and he asked for more said mr dixon what a ou think of if the best bread I 1 ever ate sail frank yes replied the host I 1 guess it is and the beauty of it is that the read you are eating grows on trees ill ready to be put into the oven NO beast cakes no kneading of dough V hen you want a loaf of bread here ou just go out of doors and pick it that beats going to the bakery or it said frank and besides no bal ery sells such good bread as this no replied mr dixon when lature takes a notion to do anything f this kind she generally does it up n style the next day prank was taken out see the trees big trees they were with thick shiny leaves and the loaves of bread hanging everywhere among the branches like small hairy footballs each loaf weighing about four pounds A jolly game A game that requires no material and no preparation but may be played offhand is sometimes just the thing to know particularly at a party here is one the older boys and girls would enjoy let us call it alphabet trips any number of persons may take part in the games the first thing to do is to choose a leader who stands in the middle of the room 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 gays that he is going to a place the name of which begins with G every additional word in his an must begin with G the game is really a trial of wits tor the better the answer and the more quickly it is given the more credit a player de series A prize may or may not be offered to be awarded by the leader or by a tote of the placers to the one who makes the best and readiest answer the leader begins the game by the announcement anro just given and then asks the first placer where he is going for the sake of illustration we will give a few answers in alphabets alpha betl cal order the player answers therefore that he Is going to athens and when the leader asks him what he Is going to do there the placer says advertise athletics goes to boston to buy baked beins to cincinnati to collect curios D to denver to defy dentists E to england to entertain edward F to france to fry frogs G to glasgow to gather guineas H to halifax to hold horses I 1 to india to introduce idols J to jericho to jostle Jer to kentucky to keep kindling L to louisiana to lie low M to montana to make money N to new york to negotiate notes 0 to oklahoma to open oysters P to philadelphia to all fer pennies Q to quebec to quote quinces R to home to read ritual S to savannah to sell sauces to tur key to tell tales U to utah to use umbrella V to vermont to vend ver millon W to washington to waste nages Y to yazoo to ell yokels Z to zanzibar Zin to boutch zebras A decorated dog A lieutenant of ahe coldstream Cold stream guards in british central africa lu was the possessor of probably the only dog that has ever been awarded a medal for gallant conduct on the field says golden days this was a sable collie named flora sent out from england as a companion for another collie named don these two dogs were known respectively as the fox and the lion by the natives who had never seen the species before and greatly feared them in the various engagements which took place both animals were very useful marching at the head of the column and on going into action invariably undertaking their share by barking and showing their teeth to the enemy don died of fever and was buried at but flora subsequently returned to lon don where she might frequently seen in the foreign office wearing the silver medal which was presented to her by private subscription card nal s hat game the children being seated in a cir cle a child who does not take par in the game whispers to each of the rest a name representing some color as red cap blue cap yellow cap etc two players are excepted one of whom Is called my man john and one represents the cardinal the lat ter now leaves the room first placing in the hands of john a little billel of wood bidding him take care or the cardinal s hat which at the same time he declares to be of u particular color as green john conceals this somewhere in the room the child who went out then enters armed with a cane and demands the cannal s hat john pretends to have forgotten all about it and asks what color was ft greena and so on until he guesses the color being thus reminded he declares that some one of the group as for ex ample red cap has stolen it red cap is now asked by the ques A writer in an paper tells us some interesting facts about grasshopper abis insect has a wing that Is very curious to look at aru have doubtless seen the grasshopper its color Is light green and just whery the wing joins the body there 1 thick ridge and another on tie wing on this ridge there is a thin but strong skin which makes a ort of drumhead it Is the rubbing of these two adges or drumheads which makes ane queer noise you have heard 1 s no music in it certainly the insects aloner red cap did you steel the cardinals hata he also must pass on the charge saying no it was white cap or any other color he omits to do so or names a color not included among the players he must pay forfeit meanwhile the questioner becomes indignant at the numerous denials and proceeds to extort confession by torture rapping with his cane the fin gers of those whom he addresses it he succeeds in obliging any thild to confess the latter must pay forfeit at last my man john owns the theft produces the hat and the gamp Is begun again until a sufficient num her of forfeits have been collected A game of sneeze here is a little game you might arv boys and girls when you feel like be ing noisy any number can play it A leader being chosen will tell each one to sneeze one after the other to see who makes the queerest sound then let him whisper words like hosh ka cha chee choo one to each child or group of children it the party is large tell each to say his word as loud as possible when you count tour keep t a surprise that all say their words at once and the result will be the funniest sneeze you eer heard the leader may vary the game by giving different words that sound like sneezing A sensible move there any use my dears old father lion said in staying on these des rt sands where we were born and bred for over all of africa the white man now holda sway and runs his railroads everywhere from to table bay we cannot get away from him and so it s just as we 1 to boldly make the best t things and go midst men to dwell they have a charming place ive heard for lions called the zoo come let us pack our things at once and buy our tickets through i so all the lion family dressed themselves out in style it was the best they had and u you really need not smile they took the train they took ue ship they reached the zoo and there they dwell to day in happiness far from their native lair sunbeam how bees embalm bees says borbis horbis can embalm as successfully as could the ancient egyptians it often happens in damp weather that a slug or snail will en ter a beehive this is of course to the unprotected slug a case of sudden death the bees fall upon him and sting him to death at once but what to do with the carcass becomes a vital question it left where it Is it will breed a regular pestilence now comes in the cleverness of the insects they set to work and cover it with wax and there you may see it lying embalmed just as the nations of old embalmed their dead ahen it is a snail that is the intruder he is of course impenetrable to their sting so they calmly cement his shell with wax to the bottom of th e hive imprison ment for life with no hope of pardon look about you it Is wonderful Bond erful how much one can learn by cultivating the habat of ob As ou wilk in the street or aloe in the car ou pick up a sur amount of information our fel ow beings are intensely and they are constantly teaching us something om ething or other do not let our knowledge stagnate put it to some practical use cats in church most of the churches in naples have three or four cats attached to them the cats are kept for the pur pose of catching the mice which in test all the ancient neapolitan build ings the animals may often be sees walking about among the con grega alon or stretched before the altars the music of insects could keep quiet if they wished b t i the must enjoy making the noise the grasshopper gras shoper sometimes makes two on his drumhead and some times three the moment it Is deiy dark it begins boon whole con pany is at work As they res a ler each rubbing it seems as it they an one another did you know that bees hum frair under their wings I 1 Is not the of those beautiful white wings we hear it is the air drawing in and out of the air tubes in the bee s quick flight the taster the bee flies the louder the humming Is did ou know that insects feela they have nerves all over them though their wings and out to the end of every feeler |