Show asking mother mother sai now can t I 1 go hunting in the woods with joe wlllie s mother says he can take care I 1 m most a man do please mother let me go hunting in the woods with joea so fred begs and would you think at the very self same time in the house across the street wlllie rings the self same chime mother say now can t I 1 go hunting in the woods with joea freddie s mother said he might sure we 11 be home long fore night do please mother let me go the woods with joea joe stands waiting in the street tousled hair and rough shod beet tight he holds his battered gun hears the pleading of each one stands and 1 anxiously thinking thi aking soberly guess their mothers think im rough wild and reckless 1 ke enough hardly trust their boss to me wish they would and then they d see I 1 don t have to ask my mother for she a dead there s none to bother if I 1 stay or if I 1 go wouldn t I 1 be happy though to hear mother tel me no just how careful I 1 could be you can t go a hunting joe huth fletcher in washington star the first forks were really known to our an glo saxon tore fathers throughout the middle ages this we know because a workman who was digging a drain in england not so very many years ago came upon a box con kalning some old saxon coins ol 01 the time of ethel stan A D and also the first fork shown in our cut in an old saxon mound another fork with a bone handle vas found such as are sometimes used for common even yet the second fork is a german make of four hundred years ago the funny looking old knight on the end is joint ed like a little girl s doll and tumbles about when the fork is used while the saw slips up and down the handle I 1 am afraid it ou bos and girls had such amusing forks nowadays you might forget to eat polly evans doean doesn t it would be ve pleas ant to run the risk of having a jag ged saw fall domn and cut her mouth each time she took a bite don t you agree with hera chicago inter ocean majesty and mag cian jugglers sword swallow ers and ma givians travel all the way around the world stopping at the big cities and usually paying their respects to the rulers of the regions visited thus it was that a magician well known in london and new aorl found himself at one time in the presence of the king of the maoris turn to a map of the great south seas put a fanger on new zealand and you will have indi bated the country of the maoris ell after some parleying it was decided that his dusky highness himself should conceal an article which the magician should discover the mind reader left the room and after a while was brought back blindfolded he cogitated for a moment and then ex claimed that the hidden article was in the king s mouth the professor in aisted that the article was there and finally demanded that the royal mouth should be opened wide the king re fused the professor was firm great was the excitement among the maoris who crowded around by and by the king s mouth was slowly and reluctantly opened the lost article a button was not there the next instant however the king began to cough he tried to hold in but he coughed up the button which he had tried to swallow they dian didn t know which to admire the more the wisdom of the magician or the heroism of the king germany s dog pol cemen for they have been us ing dogs to act as policemen in many of the larger cities of germany of course the dogs were not supposed to act alone but were introduced in order to help the human policemen but they have dolp so well that many of them are practically allowed to pa arol on their own hook now one of the best of these dogs is a shepherd dog named harras recent ly a well known woman disappeared from her house and harra harras s was tak en to the room in which she had been last and left there till he scratched at the door As soon as he as released he hur ried to the back door with his nose close to the ground and so on through the town till he reached a tree by the river he leaped up at this trying to climb it and when the police ex the tree they found a piece of the old ladys skirt hanging to a lower limb when they brought this down and showed it to harras he was satis fied and immediately continued on to the river there he waded into the water and howled and soon the woman s body was found there it was plain that she had held to a lower limb of the tree in order to save herself from falling but that her hold had weakened and she had turn bled in and been drowned another dog named caesar is used to the parks and he has been taught to catch people who break the shrubbery or commit other disorderly acts he does not bite his prisoners but seizes them firmly by ane arm or leg and holds on till the human policeman comes to make the arrest in one week caesar thus caught sev enteen persons the police dog peter found a drunk en man who was lying asleep on the rails of the railroad and pulled him off just in time to escape a train the same night he found a burglar break ing into a store and leaped on him barking till help came caesar s most recent deed was to warn the prison keeper in the town of brunswick that a dangerous pris oner was breaking jail he barked and pulled the arden s clothes till the latter followed and reached the cell just in time to spoil the escape contrad ct ons in this game let the first player give a proverb the next player must try to contradict it with another pro erb for instance the first one quotes out of sight out of mind but the second one immediately re members to quote absence makes the heart grow fonder if you want to you can make a written game of this instead giving each player a piece of paper with a proverb written on it for him to an awer with a contradictory proverb here are examples A stitch in time saves nine A tear is the accident of a da but a darn is premeditated poverty A rolling stone gathers no moss if at first ou dont succeed try try acain beauty unadorned is adorned the most one might as well be out of the world as out of fashion marry in haste and repent at aels ure happy the wooing not long a doing discretion is the better part of valor nothing venture nothing have all s well that ends well A thing well begun Is halt done there is honor among thieves when thieves fall out honest men get their dues fine feathers make fine birds handsome is that handsome does A penny saved is a penny earned penny wise pound foolish A man of 40 is either a fool or a physician he who doctors himself has a tool for a physician philadel phia inquirer an esk mo da nty the greatest treat known to the eskimo boy or girl Is a lump of sugar perhaps you think there Is nothing very strange in that the strange part Is the very funny way they have of eat ing the sugar they roll the sweet morsel in a piece ot tobacco leaf this they place in their cheek and smacking their lips delightedly hold it there until it is dissolved this dainty is called and is the choicest morsel known to the little eskimo stomach A new and attractive form of the old autograph album may be called an animal book and may become the source of much amusement take any number of paper sheets say 20 about 7 by 12 inches told them evenly across the middle and tie there making a little booklet of 40 leaves 80 pages each page 7 by 6 inches in size common manila pa per will do on the outside cover or first page write or draw the following the donkey book specimens of art by my talented friends you may prefer any other animal or bird and call it accordingly your pig book or dog book or owl book the easier and simpler the animal Is to draw the more readily will every one attempt it your friends first write names at top or bottom of the page then with eyes absolutely blindfolded the donkey or other animal Is drawn here is the fun comes the proportion of the head body and legs is almost certain to be ridiculous while tail and ees are hardly ever in the right places the line where the drawing starts and that where it stops never meet as they should if such a book has a pretty cover put on it and is tied with a bit of rib bon it becomes a pretty souvenir for ewt chiefly the mold of a man s charac ter is in his own hands bacon sunshine like mercy is twice blessed it blessett bles seth him that gives and him that takes mightiest in the mightiest how much joy and comfort you can all bestow it ou scatter sunshine everywhere you go scatter sunshine all along your way cheer and bless and brighten every passing day lanta smith one day at a time a wholesome rhyme A good one to live by A day at a time 1 ot every flower can be a queenly rose not all of us can mighty deeds achieve but not in vain shall we have lived if we have proved a heartsease to the hearts that grieve the inner side of every cloud Is bright and shining then turn your clouds about and wear them inside out to show the lining A dog hero in our family once there was a black shepherd dog named the black prince he was very handsome and lively but the nicest thing about him was that he was a very kind dog whenever he heard a little child cry he would cry too and would lick the caile s hand when visitors came to the house who had been kind to him he would leap up with joy he would try to keep the cross dogs aft ay but welcomed the well behaved dogs he lived on the campus of central university in kentucky one day he saw some of the college boys laughing together and heard some distressed cries of one of his fellow creatures he ran to the res cue and found the boys tying a tin can to the stranger dog s tail prince attracted so much attention by his sympathy for the poor victim that the college boys captured him instead and tied the can on his tall while his fellow dog ran away without even saying thank you marian L kean an eskimo ball dress when an eskimo young lady goes to a ball she is a gorgeous sight to gaze upon did not know that they had dances m her country well they do and a traveller reports just how a belle was dressed on such an occa slon her dress was made of the intes atnes of a seal split and sev ed er this makes a transparent gar ment and the girl trimmed it with elaborate embroidery of colored wor seeds and fringed it with strings of leads her trousers were white and made of siberian reindeer skin brol dered with strips of wolf skin her hair was braided on each side with strips of a and strips of beads heavy necklaces and pendants of heads and teeth of animals hung around her neck and over her ders snow white gloves made of fawn skin were on her hands these fitted perfectly and were ornamented with strips of skin from some animal perhaps the seal to complete the elaborate outfit this eskimo belle carried in her hand not a bouquet but a long eagle feather in fact she carried two one in each hand which she waved as she danced no doubt this young lady made a charm ing picture at least the young gal lants of her set thought she did |