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Show The Payers of Blackmail (Dedicated to thoo Amerlrnn-tiorn citizens citi-zens who compound vllh rascality tor tlio , lake of their business Interest) You paid them! You, whoso fntlicrs braved Tlio wintry ocean nnd tlio unknown shore To sero their Ood and snvo their souls fioin hell I Tray Ood they sleep unconscious of your shame' Hut yon can havo no blood from man llko I these Who wns tho slavo that stole Into hi bed Whoso l'llKrlm nnnio you bear, und save you life? Bo cried my shaino nnd scorn, but reason said: UnchanKcd In race, they havo but chanced their Ood , For Mammon Is their Rod; tho hell thoy drr.ul Is failure In full service nt Ills shrine. They fear not want, but only lesser wealth So, at their Rod's behest, they pay the Price So, Tor his sake, with humblo cheerfulness. cheerful-ness. They buy tho rlfiht to ply their trades In peace. Full service this! No moro can mastor ask; No more can servants In devotion pay. Their fathers' God wns seldom served so well. -IUchaid M. Bradley, In tho Century. Fun With Figures. This will bo found a capital trick with which to mystify a llttlo company com-pany of peoplo, and you may defy them to find out how It Is done. If tho number 73 be multiplied by each of the numbers In tho following arithmetical progression 3, C, 9, 12, 15, 18. 21, 24, 27 tho products will be 210, 438, GG7, 87C, 109G, 1311, 1G33, 1752,1071. Here, you see, taking tho Inst flguro of each product, you havo tho nlno digits, In order 9, 0, 7, C, G, 4, 3, 2, 1. Now, to perform your trick, propnro a llttlo bag of somo kind of cloth and In It mako two partitions. Into ono of the partitions put six or eight llttlo cards, each bearing tho number 73. Into tho other partition put nlno llttlo cards, each bearing one of tho numbers num-bers 3, C, 9, 12, 1G, IS, 21, 21, 27. Tho bag having been propnred in this way hold It so that n person will tako tho card out of tho partition containing con-taining tho 73s. Then dexterously turning tho bag so that the other partition presents Itself ask another member of tho company com-pany to tako out a card. Of courso ho takes ono of tho nlno numbers given above. Now ask tho two persons to multiply multi-ply their two numbers together and tell you the last figure in tho product. Thnt being done, you will glvo tho other figures of the product. This you will know from I ho scries of products prod-ucts given at tho beginning of this nr-tlclo. nr-tlclo. If, for example, tho two cards takon out of tho bag boar tho numbers num-bers 73 and 18, tho product will bo 1314; and when thoy tell you that tho Inst flguro is 4, you know nt onco that other figures aro 1314. Any boy can mako this trick a sort of stock In trado by having a nlco llttlo bag made and tho requlslto number num-ber of cards cut and numbered. Bead Chain Design. XXooXx" x x o 02121 ooo ox lxxlo 0 lx X Dark groon and gold beads malf i very pretty chain In this design. Tho crosses nro tho green bends. An attractive at-tractive chain Is mado by putting bo-tween bo-tween ench design 12 rows of ono gold bend, four green bends and one gold bead. Honey Pots. "Honey pots" Is another Interesting game. A number of children Btoop down in a row, clasping their hands under their logs. Ono child stands in front of thorn and nets ns owner or Boiler; nnotbor acts as purchaser. Tho purchnsor Inquires; In-quires; "Havo you any hon,cy pots for sale?" "Yes, plenty; will you walk round and tnsto thorn?" Tho purchaser goes around pretending pretend-ing to taste each ono In turn; Inquires tho prlco and weight; finds fault with soveral, ono being too sweet, and ono not fresh enough, nnd so on. When ono honey pot to tho purchaser's taste Is discovered, sho Is lifted by tho purchaser pur-chaser and owner, or by two children, who act as weights and scales, and then swung by her nrms backward and forward, to estlmuto hor wolght nnd price. As long as tho child can keep hor hands clasped, so long Is tho swinging kopt up, nnd ns many tlmos ns thoy count Is tho number of pounds sho weighs. Whon sold tho hqnoy pot is talton to tho other Bldo, or homo, of tho purchaser. pur-chaser. Tho gamo goes on until nil tin honey pots aro told. Royal Children's Sport. Llttlo Prince3s Mary of Wales Is a clover child, and both sho und her - aro verv frnd of animals. A favorlto amusement of tho royal chll- t dren Is to seek out Initio or otherwiso Injured birds and then to tnko them homo and nurso them back to henlth. To do this thoy form a miniature hospital, hos-pital, nnd, with tho lovo of make-be-llovo natural at tbolr years, thoy then act doctors and nurses, till their patients pa-tients nro well enough to bo discharged, dis-charged, says Homo Notes. Perhaps the next greatest Joy to a patient's rapid recovery Is IiIh demise, for, llko other little people, tho royal children find tho funeral of n bird 'or other small creature a most edifying function. func-tion. Spectacle Cleaners. f)j wou wnrA f" Quife rijlif. "H y,K p,uit 'p 1 yur For flguro 1, cut two pieces of chamois cham-ois In tho form of n helmet. Over-stitch Over-stitch together with brown ribbon. J you wilk To 5 lA ware it SUM td K?T Your yltsttt J V B"J,lf J I Flguro 2 Is dono in tho same way except with red Instcnd of brown. Verso In Ink. Napkin Ring Trick. Whllo watting for dessert nt dinner, It is fun for tho fnmily nt tablo to exchange ex-change tricks. Ono Is tho napkin ring trick. Holding your napkin ring In ono hand, look from your glass tumbler tum-bler to somo lnrgo object say, tho sugarbowl, pretending to bcsltnto bo-tween bo-tween tho two, then pick up tho glass tumbler nnd mutter: "Snfcr to tako tho smaller article" Then look around and say: "Will nny of you bellovo mo when I say thnt I can push this glnss full of water through this napkin ring?" Kvcrybody will laugh and say: "Ho, I'd Just llko to seo you do It" Then you should set tho glnss down solemnly, placo your napkin ring In front of It, nnd, with nn Impressive llourlsh of your band, thrust your finger fin-ger through the napkin ring and glvo tho glnss n shove. . "Thoro!" you may exclaim in triumph, tri-umph, "haven't I pushed tho glass through tho mi pi; I n ring?" Amusing Games, Clever Tricks. A very Interesting gamo Is called "A Battle on Paper." This Is meant for not moro than six players, four being oven better, so thai It Is hotter to dlvldo Into two lots nnd havo two games going nt tho samo time. Tho players aro divided Into two sides, tho Indians nnd tho Pilgrims. A largo sheet of paper nnd n couplo of pencils are all that Is needed to play tho gamo. On tho left hand side of tho paper, up townrd tho top, make CO dots, 10 in a row nnd six rows, and In tho lower comer of tho samo sldo drnw a cannon na well as you ran. Do the samo on tho right hand sldo of tho paper, and you nro now ready to start playing Ono person from, say, thf HHJ Indians' tddu stnrts with her pencil 01 HHJ her cannon, keeping her oyus tlghtl HB closed, nnd draws either a straight or Hfl crooked lino. Just ns sho pleases, over HHJ the Pilgrims' men or dots. When she HHJ linn taken up her pencil sho counts tho HHJ number of men sho bus passed over HHJ or "killed" nnd puts that number HHJ down on tho score cards In favor of H tho Indians. Then one from tho I'll- HHJ grlms' side takes her turn, nnd so on HjJ until ono sldo has scored GO points, Hh which ends the game You can mark -Hfl some pf tho dots with red or blue pen- HjB ell for chief of commanders, and If ono H of these Is touched by n pencil lino It HH ('(Hints three, so thnt It Is not ncccs- HHHJ sary to kill every slnglo mnn before ll the gnme can be won. A dot onco J HH gone over ennnot bo counted n second I H time, ns that mnn Is considered dend, HH nnd In drawing n line you must kcop HHJ on In the samo direction, nlthough tho Hfl lino may bo zigzagged thnt Is, If you H start out townrd tho right you cannot HHJ turn back toward tho left, and so on. I HJ A Few Conundrums. f$ HJ What wind would n hungry sailor 15 H prefer? Ono thnt blows owis and jHJ chops about jj H What two letters do boys delight In HHJ to the nntioynuca of their elders. Two j jHJ HHJ Why Is a good resolution llko n HHJ fainting lady at n ball? Ilccauso It HHJ ought to bo carried out K HJ What Is that which a coach can- jg -HHJ not inovo without, nnd yet Is not any jHH 11 so to It? Noise. I jHH Why Is n good mecrchnutn llko a J HH water color artist? Ilecauso It draws -HH nnd colors beautifully. j M When Is n chair treated spitefully? i HJ When you hnva It caned simply bo- ! HJ cause It cannot bear you. ' eH Who killed the greatest number ot 5 HH chickens? Hamlet's undo "did mur- wM der most foul." I jHH Why cannot a thief easily steal a I IjH watch? Ilccauso ho must tako It off IHH Its guard. i'l Water Causes Fires. j HJ That water can cause tiro may at HJ first seem a llttlo unlikely, but this is IH Just what happened on the western HH const ot Ireland only a fow yoars ago. MH Tho rocks which tho great Atlantic HH rollers had for centuries been slowly HH breaking down nnd piercing with 3 BH great caverns contained great masses HH of pyrltos nnd nlum In their depths. 5 JjH At lust tho persistent water penotrat- 19h1 cd to these, nnd combustion Immcd- 4H Intely took placo, producing heat fluHfl fierce enough to set tho wholo cliff 1 HJ on (Ire. For weeks tho rocks burned Jj H llko n volcano, nnd grcnt clouds of tl H smoko nnd vapor roso high In tho air. 13 HJ When at last tho flro died out, masses tl H of lava and clay burned to brick wero ft H found in every direction. w H Putties on the Map. U H Tho four linos abovo aro the foil. HJ sldos of ono of our states. Cut tho HJ lines out, leaving of courso enough I iHJ strips of paper to work with, or bet- n HJ tcr, pasto on thin cardboard beforo I HJ cutting them out. Then lit tho lines 1 HJ together till you get them In tho right , HJ positions to mnko tho outllno of a 2'fH stato. What ono Is It. W HJ |
