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Show A CANDLE-LIGHT MERRY-GO-ROUND By Meredith Nugent. Now, boys and girls,' here Is the prettiest pret-tiest merrs-go round 5011 ever saw, and you will nil think so ynuiselv s after you havo made one, unless I am very much mistaken Just Imagine It, toot This merry-go. round l made entirely of pupei, with the exception of the two upper disks, or floors, which nie of thin caidboard The lighted candlis make It go round, and you will all bo surprised how quickly It does fo lound To most of 5 It will be news thnt a fiat piece of p er will float upon inter in-ter for an almost indefinite peilod, and a surprise, too to learn thit It will car rs an astonishing amount of weight while afloat For the inn of It plum a piece of wilting paper In a dish of water and Just kco how much It will carry. Hy enreful distribution of the weight I have placed on a single shet of float lug wilting piper a table knife and fork, a small pair of sclasnrs, 11 lirge wooden spool besides a number nf 1 cent piecea! It hardly seems possible dots it? Hut try It for sourselves and aee. As for this merry-go-round, when it Is set In a pan of water, nnd In a darkened dark-ened room, a prettier sight you never saw, Why, thn picture does not begin be-gin to do Justice to It. Now all tty and ee what you can do Cut out a disk of writing paper, any size you please, and fasten to this, In an uprlcht position, four; narrow pol- umns of rolled wilt'iu piper with seal Ine wax These columns BlmuM bo 1 arefully rolled .uid fustene 1 i Ith cnl Ing wax Now nit out two light c ml boaid dlskt very sllff wruppl lg papei villi answei fm tho second and thin! floors Place one disk on lop of flm set of columns, fasten It with sealing wax, and on lop of this set font 11101 e paper rpluinpa exartly In position na shown In plctute. On top of this set another, disk, ind nn top of this ngnln a paper wheel, which should be mndo as folio 1 a Whittle out n delicate stick ubout six Inches In length, then cut out two small slleks about four Inches In length and fasten these crosswise on lop of the longer stick now Blip over these cross sticks sq aro pieces nf writing pap-r a' angles as shown In illustration, -Aiier. tola fasten the whole In nn uprlcht pojlllon In exact 'fill!. X '1ti oentei of tnp disk .ililirS H 'R -j-rti I lit out four more delicate sticks, nt- tf$.Br,!l UviHlH tub these In horizontal Positions to l'L' b FrKlUl disk on second story sea picture and iSTOf 1.7 lift 1i slip over ends of theso triangular pieces ft.lUrFK WhH of paper nt tingle as shown In picture. 5W?a UhJH Now placo candles In position under Ls..VJ3 'S Hi theso four pieces of projecting papera, Mtfi JlflrMJ Um and also two candles on top, under the liHTiSlinSJ ni wheel, but before placing candles in hwt'Sy m S-H position set sonr meiiy-gn-inund very tMll w iWeltf H carefully Into a pin nf water. 1i?itlVllJ Light tho rnndlts, turn out nil other .femIWJ H lights In tho loom, inr! ynu will have laKwJnD H a mens go-round to delight you. 'ltlnKfflH H Hy vaislng thn angle of the papers' mPHwlwl' projection besond the second story and (MalaT'3l i tl e papets on the wheel you will be n- ' ,-tW-BU. HI H abled to make tho meiry.EO.iounU ?3Hrra' I travel faster or slower, 8HHrll -1 . 1 . ik-.i-A-)aUin . iiB |