Show I JACK FROSTS FROST'S CLEVER TRICKS Chief Among Them Is Ability to Make Water That Is Frozen an Exception Exception Exception tion to the Rule Jack Frost Is a aery very ery clever fellow for not only Is he an artist for artist for everone everyone everyone every ever one has seen the beautiful designs le he lie draws on the win window window but but ow but he be also does some wonderful conjuring tricks As YOU you know he hiG bursts pipes am and this thi Is Is how he does oes it the Montreal Herald states J First of all you should remember that Jack Frost is merel merely another name for the extreme winter col cold which Is below freezing point Nearly every ery substance in nature expands or stretches when heated and contracts or occupies a smaller space when the temperature falls but brit water is an exception to this rule For though it expands when heated it does not contract when frozen on the contrary contrary con con- it expands s once more You can prove this yourselves ourselves on a frosty frost day lay by hy this thi simple experiment Fill a bottle with water right up to the cork an and leave it out to freeze over night In the morning you ou will find that the cork Is right out of the neck of the time bottle on a piece of ice Now ow this shows that water watt l' l expands when frozen and und that is exactly what happens when the water freezes In a a. pipe It expands and bursts the pipe an and it Is not until the water thaws an and gushes out that we know about It |