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Show of the youngest pilots on the great lakes. He is twelve years old, and during last summer stood at the wheel of the -Harvey Watson," which runs as a ferry from Masatawa Park to Ottawa Beach. He is hardly b:s enough to look over the wheel thai he turns. Although the boat during the summer carried more than 2(1(1.000 passengers, the boy never had an accident. He takes his boat alongside along-side the dock with the skill of a veteran. vet-eran. Clever Cats. By Sleight-of-Hand. To perform the trick of the vanishing vanish-ing handkerchief you will simply need a piece of elastic and a little practice. As you take up the handkerchief lay it on the palm of your hand, and talk at some length to the spectators Tell them that you will cause the handkerchief to disaopear without touching it. Then repeat some long magical-sounding words, and allow your handkerchief to gracefully vanish. van-ish. It is whisked away by the elastic to which it is fastened. Hoid the elastic taut while you are addressing the audience, and then quids lv release it, allowing it to fly back with the handkerchief. Conundrums. If there are five birds on a tree and a hunter kills two of them and they fall down, how many are left in the tree? A. None the rest flew away. Which was the largest island before Australia was discovered? A. Aus tralia. Why is spring a dangerous season? A. The trees are shooting, the flowers have pistils and the buti-ru.sh is out (the bull rushes out). What most resembles the half of a cheese? A. The other half. How can you ask a doctor of divinity divin-ity in one word to play a violin? A. Fiddle-dee-dee. Why are widows more dangerous than young girls? A. Because girls are looking out for number one, widows wid-ows are satisfied with number two. How do we know that Caesar was An English buy has trained his cats to do many amusing feats, among which is the one here illustrated. Eating Blindfolded. Here is a little party pastime that will make everybody roar with laughter. laugh-ter. Spread a sheet on the floor and seat ( GERMAN WAR FLAG)' ' ( GERMAN, COMMERCIAL.) v( DANISH WiHwUNO 1 DANISH. COtf-IERCIAL) The handsome flag in the upper left hand corner is the German war flag. The Prussian colors and the Prussian eagle are very prominent, as is natural nat-ural considering the large part that Prussia plays in the empire. The ground of the flag is white, the broad horizontal and vertical bands, black, outlined with lines of black. In the upper lefthand corner are the three strips of black, white and red. The cross is of black, outlined with ' black, and the eagle also is black, the crown on his head being the outline. The commercial flag of Germany is made up of three stripes, black, white and red. The white stripe in the middle, mid-dle, with black above and red below. The Danish flag is the oldest in existence. ex-istence. There is a legend that in the year 1219, at a critical time, King Waldmar of Denmark saw in the sky, which he took as a signal of celestial aid. He led his troops through a' successful battle and forthwith adopted adopt-ed the cross as the flag of his country. It was 6alled Dannebrog, the Strength of Denmark. As a definite fact, apart from the story, the Danish flag does date back to the thirteenth century. Both the man-of-war and commer- ' cial flags show white crosses on a red ground. The man-of-war shows also a square outlined in black. Paint the picture. acquainted with the Irish? A. When he crossed the Rhine he came back to bridg-it. I have more if you would like to have them. Roman Ball Game. The favorite ball game of the Romans Ro-mans was the follis, which was played two closely blindfolded boys on it. facing each other. Give each boy a saucer of cracker crumbs, to be held in his left hand, and a teaspoon or a dessert spoon, to be held in his right. Now give a signal and tell them to feed each other, and you will have fun enough to make all the chairs in the room laugh. Doll a Poppy Flower. In certain parts of Hungary many little girls spend much time taking care of large flocks of geese, and while thus engaged they frequently amuse themselves by making dolls out of flowers, sticks and other objects. ob-jects. A doll was made recently by a little Magyar girl out o( a poppy. The whole of the brilliant flower has been utilized for this purpose, and such clothing as is necessary has been ruthlessly ruth-lessly torn from the little girl's dress. The life of a doll like this is inevitably in-evitably brief, but this matters little, as a new doll can be made daily and in a few minutes, as long as the poppies pop-pies remain in bloom. The only drawback draw-back is that the mothers are apt to bcome wrathful when the little girls return home in the evening with tattered tat-tered dresses, for well they know that the dresses have been torn to provide clothing for the dolls. with a ball inflated with air. The ball wasn't blown tightly, like our football but was so soft it would hurt no one. Young Pilot. Harry Herrington, son of Captain Austin Herrington of Chicago, ta on |