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Tho ends of BBBBB N the quill aro closed with wax and a HHH BBBL. Microbe In Bottle. BBBj holo Is mado with a pin in tho wax at BBBJ , tho lower end. Put tho wholo comblu- BBBJ ation In a basin of water. If it jtu.t BBB"" floats with tho top of tho quill pooping BBB above tho surface, it Is all right. If it BBB sinks, tho microbe Is too heavy for BBB tho quill and you must cither reduco BBB his proportions or use a larger quill. P ' On tho other hand, if tho quill stauds Bv SOMETHING FOR BOYS. B Any boy who Is clever with his B i Imlfo can mako many protty and use- B j fUl articles from dry branches of trees. B ' Ono shown hero is a koy holder, tho M other a photograph stand. Thoy are BV cut wlth a sharp pockotknlfo and tho Hi dlfteront parts gluod together; or nail- l ed with thin wlro nails. Tho -most B important pari about it Is tho Join- BB 9t i high out of water you must mako the mlcrobo heavier. Now, fill a bottlo with watcr'to tho mouth and drop In your microbe. Try to put In tho cork a straight ono is best. It won't go In very far, but when you have pushed it in a llttlo, Obeying Orders, you will see tho mlcrobo slowly sink. When ho reaches tho bottom loosen tho cork a llttlo. Tho mlcrobo will riso again, and by pressing .ho cork and loosening It you may mako him go up and down ns often as you pleaso, or stay at tho bottom or at tho top. Tho bottlo being qulto full, pressing tho cork down forces a llttlo water into tho quill through tho pinhole pin-hole at the bottom. Being now partly flllod with water, it is heavier than when It contained nothing but air, and so it sinks. When you loosen tho cork tho pressuro is rellovcd and tho air compressed In tho top of tho quill expands ex-pands and forces tho water out So tho quill, being as light as at first, floats up with Its burden. Tho spectators, spec-tators, if at a llttlo distance, will not notice tho transparent quill or tho thread, especially if tho bottlo is a colored ono, tfrough thoy wlllseo tho bright tinfoil plainly. Nor need you let them seo that you aro pressing the cork down or working It up, so that you can puzzlo them nicely with tho motions of your "trained microbe," which apparently rises nnd Blnks at tho word of command. Boston Herald, Her-ald, How the Birds Dress. As bird fashions do not chango, tho lady birds of to-day wear the samo kind of dresses their grandmothers wore and aro not troubled about styles. Two suits a year aro quite onough for most birds, but they need to take great caro of them. Each sopnrato feather must bo cleaned and looked over and tho useless use-less ones pulled out. You have seen a canary preening his feathers by lifting them and smoothing them out with his bill, and you may have thought him vain to do thin so often. But necessity nnd not vanity is tho cauBo of his frequent dressings. If you neglect to comb your hair lng of tho pieces. Notico how tho Joints aro cut to fit well together (see illustration). When tho koy-hold-or framo is, ready, hooks and rings should bo scrowed into it to hang tho framo up and to hold tho keys. Tho back support of tho photograph stand is fastoned with thin strips of leather nailed down over tho horizontal horizon-tal ends of tho support. f it will become tangled and look untidy, un-tidy, but more serious things happen to n bird who does not comb his feathers. feath-ers. Theso feathers are not packed closo together, you know, but Ho loose and havo places between filled with nlr. When a bird wants to get warmer ho lifts his feathers so that theso air spaces may bo larger, but if his feathers feath-ers aro tangled or wet and dirty ho Could not rnlso them and soon ho could not keep the heat in his llttlo body ami would dlo of course .Perhaps you have noticed sparrows or other birds In tho winter time. Thoy always look larger, but thoy havo only huffed out their feathers because tho weathor is cold. Mr. Canary does tho samo thing when ho gooSTtTirfrrstnfEht. A water bird has, to bo oven more particular about his clothes, for it ho should got them wot he would dlo of cold. It scorns odd, does it not, that ho can go In tho water and not got wot? It is a fact, thomdi, and It is only because ho oils "his feathers. All water birds havo an oil can, or an oil qland, as it is called, located down among his tail feathers, and after ho las smoothed himself carefully ho reaches his head down to tho oil ;lnnd and gets a nip of oil In his bill and with It ho oils his feathers with tho grcatost caro. If ho does It properly tho water will run ok and not soak in tho least bit. Just watch a duck when you got a chanco and seo how ho does it. Do You Know-That Know-That if you stroko a black cat In the dark, sparks will fly out of its fur? That tho sea is blue in tho deepest part, becauso of the reflection of the light which is bluo, but it Is a greenish yellow In tho shallow parts becauso of tho sand and seaweed which show through tho water? That horses have no eyebrows and fish havo no eyelids? That snakes can go for months'and months without food, and that a hugo snako which recently died in tho Zoo in Paris had not eaten anything for nearly two years and a half? That camels arecald to bo tho only i animals that cahiot swim? The.VS-lV'.'vverb. , Hero is a circle containing n number num-ber of letter jumbled together. Theso letters when sorted out' and put in their proper positions will form a well-known proverb. The Signal Master Game. Clear tho mlddlo of tho room and place In a row a number of chairs, thrco loss than tho number of players. Blindfold ono of tho players and soloct another for signal master. Tho blindfolded ono stands apart from tho chairs, holding a wand. Tho signal mastor takes his placo at ono ond of tho row of chairs nnd tho other players play-ers arrango themselves In a chain behind him, holding each other's coats or drosses. Thon tho chain of players walk slowly nround tho chairs, tho blindfolded blind-folded one waxJttehls or her wand, and singing; Tho signal mastor will give a call; Tako your chairs, thon, ono and all." After tho players havo thus marched gravely around tho chairs two or three tlmos, tho blindfolded ono sud-Jonly sud-Jonly givos a tap with tho wand and tho signal mastor Immediately calls out "Chairs!" All now run toward tho chairs, each trying to secure ono, but throo are left out, of course, two of whom will bo required in the next gamo for signal sig-nal mastor and blindfold, tho third bolng tho first blindfolded, who counts as out. Continue the gamo In this way, removing re-moving a chair for each repetition, until un-til all tho players nro out. A Dljh of Happiness. Tako ono large spoonful of usefulness, useful-ness, ono cup of lovo for mother, an-othor an-othor cup of lovo for your llttlo brothers broth-ers and slaters, a pound of wishes to mako othors happy, a saltspoonful of wishing to bo happy yourself; mix well togother, and seo if It doesn't mako tho nicest kind of an aftornoon for anybody |