Show X you have hard now work to do do it now ie da the skies are clear and blue to morrow clouds may come in view yesterday Is not for ou do it now it ou have a song to sing sing it now let the notes of gladness ring as song of b rd in spring let every day some music bring sing it now if you have kind words to say say them now to morrow may not come your way do a kindness wh ie you may loved ones w 11 not always stay say them now it ou 1 ave a smi e to show show it now make hearts happi roses grow let the friends around iou know the love you have before they go show it now charles t R skinner in new york sun A kind crow you have often heard boys and girls of animals helping each other but perhaps you would like to know of a very 1 ind crow who appeared at a country huu e not long ago the family was much interested in batching a little black bird mal e fre quent visits to an old chicken coop which it entered by the door for six days in succession the crow kept up these regular visits to the great astonishment of the watchers at last it was discovered that good mr crow had been carrying corn all this time to a poor little hen who had been caught by the neck between the bars of the coop in such a way that it could not be seen from the outside when the hen was set tree mr crow sprang at her triumphantly and conducted her to a basin of water standing near by as it to say now quench your thirst A japanese house A japanese house causes a euro visiting the country for the first time unparalleled astonishment the interior Is spotlessly clean a dead set Is waged against dirt in every shape and when you enter you discard your boots to retain your boots on your feet is an indiscretion that Is not quickly forgiven on looking round you wonder where the rooms are situated for only one Is visible and that apparently takes up the whole of the house As a mat ter of tact tor the moment we will assume that you are calling during the day the residence cannot boast of more than one chamber but strangely enough this one compartment can be converted into several others the transformation trick Is effected by means of panels which when run into their places divide the house anio bev eral rooms if ou require a few feet of space to yourself you just slide along a few panels and behold our wants are satisfied with the utillia tion of panels ou actually make a room at night the bed rooms are constructed in the ame wa the floors consist of mats and it Is on these mats that you sleep there are no beds in the morning when the family is up and about the bed chard bers disappear the panels are put back an 1 you have one large apart ment the outside walls are as fragile as those inside they are composed of paper panes it ou are ably curious to ascertain what the peo pie are doing inside ou wet a finger and push it through the wall the result is a hole through which you can loot montreal herald bow and arrows firt a stick about three feet long Is needed trim this down till it is smooth then bend it into shape shown in illustration cut notches in the ends tor the string to be tied on take a drill or if you have not a drill a heated piece caf wire will do and three inches from each end of the stick bore a hole these are tor the string to pass through A strong string a little longer than the bow is needed one end of this Is tied to the notch on one end of the stick or bow and passed through the holes and tied on the other notch in such a man ner that it can easily bs untied again when the bow Is put away the bow is now finished A bamboo stick on one end and a nail on the other make a good arrow A dog of heart and courtesy I 1 saw a very pretty scene a day or two ago during one of the heavy after noon rains writes a correspondent of the jacksonville times union A lit tie kitten the pet of some children probably with a blue ribbon around its neck soft gray fur and dainty white feet had wandered out into the street and feared to cross the gutter where a swift stream whirled and dashed along it was mewing piteously but no one paid any attention to it in this busy world the moaning of a human being excites but little attention how much less then the crying of a tor lorn kitten then there came along a X great newfoundland dog with bright intelligent eyes and glossy coat at traded by the little kittens distress he gazed at it a moment then glanced quietly about him the nobler animal iran was golrig by unheeding so this dog walked out into the street picked up the kitten in his mouth and carried it gently to the sidewalk there he placed it on a dry spot licked it kindly once or wice wagged his bushy tall and went down the street it was a little thing but it struck me that that dog had something higher than intelli gence dogs usually reflect the manners and of their owners in some degree how many dogs are there who taught by brutal masters would not rather have killed the kittens X it mixed bots nots why Is it that every mans pants I 1 are too because his legs stick out two feet why Is it dangerous to go in the woods in spring because the bull rush Is out the cowslips around the grasses have blades the flowers have pistils and the little twigs are shooting when were walking sticks first men in the bible when eve presented adam with a cain what Is it that you can put up a stovepipe down but you can t put down a stovepipe upa an umbrella why Is a dogs tall like the heart of a treed because it Is farthest from the bark what kind of a cat do we usually find in a large library 7 A catalogue why does a goose come out of the water for sundry reasons amused the little folks at a family gathering where both young and old were present the tol lowing idea was successfully carried out A small old fashioned washtub was filled halt full of water the outside covered with evergreen and holly and made to represent a small pond this was placed on the floor in the center of the room there were twenty five persons present so twenty five wooden fish were made with a penknife out of pieces of an old cigar box each fish having a small screw eye in its back each guest brought an article that cost exactly 10 cents well wrapped and tied As they arrived their pack ages were received and numbered and a fish with a corresponding num her on the under side was placed in the pond seated around the pond armed with made of little sticks with strings for lines and bent hairpins tor hooks all fished in turn each person being allowed to catch one of the elu sive bits of wood the contestant ac the feat in the shortest space of time was awarded a special prize after the angling was over the packages were divided according to the numbers appearing on both tags and fish this proved to be a jolly part of the entertainment for many of the guests had brought jokes this feature over a novel little plan devised especially for the ahll dren was carried out with huge sue cess on a low stand a mirror was set to represent water with ever green arranged around the edge tor land in the center a noah s ark had been placed and on the land stood the ani mals each with a piece of red baby ribbon tied around its neck and ex tending across the water into the top of the ark each child selected an animal and when the lid of the ark was lifted a box of candy tor each child was found attached to the end of the ribbon easy games of magic take a coin in each hand and then hold both arms out straight to left and right now say that you will get both coins into one hand without changing the position of your arms in the least after everybody Is wildly curious to know how you are going to do it walk to a mantelpiece lay tha coin from one outstretched hand on it and turn around and take it up in the other then tell another person that you have hypnotized him so that he Is un able to take off his coat alone he will take it off immediately of course to prove that you are wrong but the moment he starts you take off your coat also and thus you prove to him that he coulden couldn t take off his coat alone then you announce that you will chow the guests something that no human being ever saw before and that no human eye will ever see again you crack a nut show the kernel and say no human being ever saw that before then you pop it into your mouth and say and no human being will ever see it again electric experiment thoroughly dry before the fire a quarter of a sheet of rather strong brown paper place it on your thigh holding it at the edge while with the cuff of your sleeve on the other hand ou rub it smartly backward and for ward for about a minute it knuckle be then placed near the paper it will emit a brilliant spark accod palled by a snapping noise the prongs of a fork similarly placed will produce three distinct streams ot light the experiment must of course be performed in the dark and tha trousers and coat be of woollen cloth |