Show 4 at ra LITTI L a e 11 EPA 4 dithing time I 1 catnott fix min mini 1 to on what I 1 have hae to do A picture haunt haunts my inner eye ofa of water 11 tern swift an 1 blue my fingers itch to ca cant a fly rhe bells of memory chime an and I 1 call M to the wo wl wois Is and llwyd k tor tor this Is fishing lime time I 1 dream of mosey st aping in lazy 1 amber brooks of grasby bunk with br and ellent silent shady awk chero here I 1 forget hie the world of toll toil and vali vash away lt it gritsc in crystal depth depths of eunith R trutie streams that ring ot of fishing time I 1 long to see the sunfish stay r 4 the minnow minnows merry ech x the rhe trout beneath their sit ong 1 hank or in his favorite poul pool and all the filter finny tinny folk ahat throng the watery matery clime so hand me out the old brun brown cout I 1 keep t r fishing time minna irving in lesliea I 1 elle meekly wkly surprise with an infernal internal machine think of constructing a infernal In ferna macblane out of 0 five wooden tooth picks and when you get it all fw fixed and ready to be touched off it will AAR ready for the explosion make as mi ch tun fun as any little device ou ever heard of here Is the way to make it select five of tho the longest and smoothest toothpicks you can find and place two at 0 them oil oa the bottom of a goblet or wi negia iaz turned upside down on a table in the form of the letter X on those these two place a third one so that it will lie lengthwise aloag along the middle line of the letur now alace a at each end so that it will rest on top of the mid he lie one ani ant under the ends of the crossed ones thip III make a lettla bend in the middle pick causing enough pria pris sure to hold the device to aether gether the picks may be more easily eastly arranged it if you git gt some one to help you get a long cork and stick matches into it to represent arms and legs an extra piece of cork may be carved into a sort of head for the figure and tho effect will thereby be made more grotesque or you may make the bead head with all the features out of now bread which la Is mi leable enough for the purpose A little water color paint will make eyes nose ears enra and cheeks now place th i figure of at the middle toothpick at one end and you have everything ready for the going ott oft of the machine to bring about the catastrophe you hare have only to touch a lighted majc i to the end of at one of the crossed toothpicks and just as soon as enough of it has bum burn ed to reach the point of junction tho the whole device will fly to pieces and as tho bent middle toothpick will wil 11 spring up when thus re released leasel from pressure it will throw the figure into space dismembered ilie result is both startling and amusing knot in handkerchief the task la Is to fold a handkerchief lengthwise to take hold of both ends with two hands and to make a knot in the handkerchief withof t letting go the ends thia this Is doue done with ith tho the knowl edge of a trick place the handkerchief before you fold our arms a la napolon and take one end of the handkerchief with the left hand which Is a now to the right and the other end and with the right hand now to the left by unfolding unfold log the arms make a knot in the handkerchief and the trick Is done about your lessons boy boys the boy who used to boast of get ting ling the best of at bla his teacher te icher baa has been heard from the same traits rf char actor which tempted him to deceive his teacher into bellowing bel living loving that he had solved his problems and completed his tasks himself led hita to cheat his employer to idle whenever bis his back waa was turned and to his days work until he finally lost he hs position ills lack of education the result of cheating his teachers teacher has proved it perpetual handicap and has lost him many a good situation ills dishonesty which started in the schoolroom has grown until nobody will trust him blin and he has no credit or standing to ill his community As a boy he thought him telf verj verl clever in being able to doddo hta his lessons and impose upon hie his teacher but he now how that the cheated was himself 1 iti o 0 thoi those precious day days of at youth he robbed himself k f taji hm ol 01 pearls of great albie which ho be ufa will be able to recover the thief of time and opportunity oben think thinks he in Is enriching himself but he be awakes one day lay to the truth he lie la Is poorer and meaner for tho th atit tb rhe sun curve in the sky pet et a smooth pece of boar say tes inches square get a sheet of ruled now paper ard a piece of stiff card board about three mchee inches long and halt an anth wide I 1 asten this card to the adge of the board with a tack place the board in a sunny window jut before 1 12 0 dock and anti mark marc the pile 1 so that you can always place in the same position every day lay the tle sheet on tie lae board so that the first ruled line touches the carabo cardboard ard at exactly 12 clock place the board so the shadow of 0 the card will coer tho first ruled line just on the aino same maluto of 12 mark the top qt the shadow on the ruled line with ith i t dot in ink do this every day at eartly 12 clock using tie lae next rt lel line clou 1 da 1 a skip a line A ark ino the shadow on the line for twenty daya days or 1 longcr if there are more alree dr as men hen all are marked loin join all the dote lots together r with an inked lice and you III sw a ill stat at the line Is be i or c curved this curved lino line blows the curve in the sky the sun follows as the season change changes A punctual bird ahat tempts the little bird that we see in our gardens to travel eiery spring from near the equator Iu ator to as tar far north as the arctic circle behind mm tim as he be does tor for a season many tro tr plen delights he jig is the only one of at many humming birds that pluckily pluck lly leaves the land of gayly colored birds to go into inlo voluntary ex lie in the tho north east of the sippi how ilow it stirs the imagination to picture the solitary tiny migrant a mire mere atom of bird life moving above the range of human sight through the vast dome or of the sky says neltje blanchan anchan Di in country I 1 ife lie in america lie jl covers coers the thousands of miles between bis his winter home and his sum mer one by easy stares and arrives at his chosen destination at approximately the same date year after ear mar shadow pantomimes this amusement makes lots of fun for the evening etching k ix a white sheet a aroas ross the room or what ahat Is better over mer folding doors seat the company before the si s reen without lights the actors danco and act behind the sheet on which their magnified shadows are cast by the lamp occasionally they jump over the lamp and thus appear to the spectators in front as if they had jumped upward through the cell the St on the sheet ing some amusing scenes may bo be contrived oon with a little ingenuity chairs and tables may he be called down from above by passing them across the light a struggle between two seeming combatants may take place and one be seen to throw the other up in the air on the same prim print pie of course the actors must promote the delus delu loi by their gestures moving their hands and feet as it climbing upward care hould should be taken to keep the profile on the screen as distinct as possible and practice will soon suggest some high ly humorous situations fun in a clock clocks face some amusement ma be had in a compary of boys and girls by asking them to draw a picture of the face of s clock most alost of them theta would be likely to draw the letters IV instead of IIII 1111 for four and would forget perhaps that all the letters of the dial should stand with their base toward the cen ter it ta Is probable that most people read a clock dial by the position of the fig urea ures or letters and disregard the fig urea ures themselves bome ome of the larger clocks now mare maeo fr steeples have only a straight line at each hour place and they 3 th their r purpose aamir ably it hm been found however that while most perk ions have no accurate knowledge of 0 dials any marked departure from the usual method of at marking them Is at once detected A dial bearing IV instead of the four straight lines attracts everybody attention an egg experiment place a large boiled egg in an egg cup in such a manner that it will not touch the bottom and the th cir cumfer ence of the egg must be somewhat greater than thin the width of the cup at the top if it you cow now grasp the egg and the cup and turning both upside down strike the top of the egg against the table the china cup wilt will break and probably go to piece pieces but the egg will remain intact especially if it has a thick shell only the point or tip of trio egg if Is to be brought into con can tact with the talle and the cup and egg must be firmly held while tall this Is ting being done lone |