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Show er pretty much as if some material of that kind were the means employed. The adhesive force is nothing more nor less than the pressure of the atmosphere; at-mosphere; precisely th9 same force that enables a boy to lift a brick or a stone by means of his leathery "sucker." Let us take the plate and the wineglass wine-glass first. Suspend the glass from Only a Boy. Only a boy with his noise and his fun, The veriest mystery under the sun, As brimful of mischief and wit and glee As ever a human frame can be. And as hard to manage as what? ah, me! 'Tis hard to tell, Yet we love him well. - Only a boy, with his fearful tread, Who cannot be driven, but must be led; Who troubles the neighbors' dogs and cats, And tears more clothes and spoils more hats. Loses more tops and kites and bats. Than would stock a store For a year or more. Only a boy, with his wild, strange ways, With his idle hours and his busy days; With his queer remarks and his odd replies, re-plies, Sometimes foolish and sometimes wise, Often brilliant for one his size As a meteor hurled From the planet world. Only a boy, who will be a man, If Nature goes on with his first great plan; If water or fire, or some fatal snare, Conspire not to rob us of this our heir Our blessing, our rest, our care, Our torment, our Joy, "Only a boy!" lowed out bottom all wine bottles are made in that way and having rubbed grease around the rim of the bottom hold the latter over the spout of a boiling tea kettle for a moment. The hot steam will take the place of the air in the hollow, and if you now press the bottle firmly against the under surface of the plate and hold it there for a moment or two you may take your hand away and the bottle will not fall off. This is merely another an-other illustration of atmospheric pressure. Pretty Dolls of Paper. The materials required are very few and simple. A few old fashion plates (these can, no doubt, be obtained ob-tained from mother), some thin cardboard, card-board, a little tissue and thick colored color-ed paper, a pair of sharp scissors and a bottle of gum or paste are all that are necessary before you start to work. First cut out the figures from the fashion plates as neatly as possible pos-sible and if there is an arm or hand that falls at the side, cut around it up to the armhole of the dress, as shown by the dottded lines in the illustration, so that it is separated from the body. It may also happen that the hair falls on the shoulders This should also e cut round neatly Suspended by Air Pressure. the ceiling or from a chandelier by means of a string tied around its stem. Have ready an ordinary china plate, over the inner surface of which you have rubbed a little butter or lard. Now light a piece of paper and let it burn under the mouth of the glass. The heat will dilate the air in the glass, and as the air cools a partial vacuum will be created. But before the air has had time to begin to cool, press the inner surface of the plate against the rim of the glass gently but firmly, and when you have held it there a moment it will hang unsupported. The reason is that the atmospheric pressure outside out-side is greater than it is inside the glass and that preside holds the greasing the surface 01 the plate is to make a tight joint between that and the glass, so that the outer air cannot get inside the latter. For the second experiment expend a plate as shown in the picture and adjust the strings so that it will hang level. Get a bottle with a hoi- Last Week's Puzzle. Below we give the solution to the "Twelve Rings Puzzle" which appeared appear-ed on this page last week. The prob- o o o jo q T o o o o o 0 o o i 1 o o o o o lo o oj o I o o F'g- . FiiTT lem was to divide the square (Fig. J?- into four equal parts of similar shape, so that each part may contain three of the rings. Fig. 2 clearly shows the way out of the difficulty. An Experiment In Air Pressure. . -This .nrtirJf . to ast,?g s&rerttee-ment s&rerttee-ment of a cement warranted to mend chinaware and glassware stronger than it was before, although the picture pic-ture looks like it. No cement or glue of any kind is used in the experiment, and yet the plate and the wineglass, in the one case, and the plate and the bottle in tie other, are stuck togeth- as shown by the dotted lines in tha diagram, leaving just the width of tha neck. When the whole figure has been cut out paste it on a piece of thin cardboard, and, when dry, cut around it with a pair of sharp scissors. If you desire the doll to stand alone, cut a narrow strip of the pasteboard, turn down one end, glue it on the back of the waist and cut off the same length as the doll. Thus you will have a prop for the figure. Why the Birds Are Happy. If the birds sing more merrily than usual these days it may be because their rights as citizens of the republic repub-lic are becoming better understood. The birds are finding friends every day. The government publishes bulletins bulle-tins testifying to their value to farmers. farm-ers. Crusades are undertaken against the wearing of song birds' feathers on hats. New York, all the New England states. New -Jersey, Delaware, Florida, Flori-da, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Arkansas and Wyoming have passed laws forbidding the killing kill-ing of non-game birds at any time. Sportsmen's clubs help the work. As a rule, they are hearty supporters of the game laws, and upon their rapidly rap-idly growing preserves no non-game birds are shot. Sea gulls are more numerous along the coast of New Jersey than they were ten years ago. The local movement move-ment for their protection has brought their beauty back to grace the native air. " Game of Slyphs. For active young folks the game of sylphs is the latest form of amusement.' amuse-ment.' It is in reality electric battledore battle-dore and shuttlecock The two players play-ers hold a wand each, these wands naving been electrified by friction. The shuttlecock is represented by a butterfly made of collodion. The butterfly but-terfly is thrown into the air, and one or other player approaches the tip of his wand to the so-called sylph; tne electrified wands repel the butterfly, which skims away as the wand draws near. In this way the outterfly is sent flying hither and thither without being touched. A very good game, with proper prop-er rules, is made from this idea. |