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Show JJJJHi Tht Children's Country. Pack up Hip books, the pcnclla, slates In orderly army For rill the Jo 011.1 dilMI.-h mates Are koIhk fnr unay The time' nt I111111I when they board ship Hound for n ilUtnnt ntrnnit Anil tnko that ilenr ilellKlilful trip To old mention land This land has llnwern and trees of gold And golden Is rucli pool; It lien 11 thouxntul Ungues, I'm told, From the dull Innd of school. Thero Is no country linlf so bright. No climate hnlf so Brand And every benrt Is blithe und light In deur vucutlon land. So hern's goiUpced to each wee friend From us who rnnnot go. May plrnsure nt our sides ntUnd And left behind he woe. And mny it sttong nnd sun-tanned pnek, A stanch nnd sturdy bund. In nutumn dus come trooping back From old acntlon bind Evening Ilutletln. Bottle Trick. You will havo to go nt this experiment experi-ment very carefully. Hut when you havo dune It successfully )ou will get a lot of pleasure out of It. And It will not bo easy for others to Imitate. Got a good-sized bottle with a wide mouth and a good ccrk stopper. Then get n nut (say an English walnut), dtvldo carefully Into halves; clean It out, then bore n tiny hole through each side, and run tho two endB of a "wlro frame through thorn. Then put tho halves together again, nnd seal every possible crack or holo with wax. Deforo ou do this, however, boro a small bolo In tho bottom ot tho nut (C) and lcavo It unsealed. This Is to servo as an air-hole. Now arrango the bottom of your wiro framo so that it will support a coin. Having dono this, fill your bowl with water, and lest tho floating qualities qual-ities of your nut Tho coin Is to serve as bnllast; so you must experiment with different coins until you discover Just what coin penny, nickel, etc. provides tho exact weight needed. You will havo exactly tho right result re-sult when tho nut rests, exnetly balanced bal-anced In nn upright position, Its point Just touching tho cork stopper, and whon at tho snmo tlmo It will respond Instantly to a slight top ot your linger lin-ger on tho cork stopper and sink toward to-ward tho bottom, returning presently to its orlglnnl position without losing its balanco. The ' rs'i at a Hunter. When BtiniiiiLr warmth has awakened awaken-ed tho maternal Instinct of tho Insect world tho mud dauber wasp may bo seen gathering mortar at tho margin of stream, pool or puddle. Filling her mnndlbles, which servo ns both spado and hod, sho bears tho load of mud to some rough surface, rock or wall or board or beam. Sho spreads and shapes her mortar, until, after many visits to tho mud bed, sho lias built n tubular coll about an inch long and three-eighths three-eighths of an Inch wide. Then her huntress Instinct awakens and her raids upon tho spldur realm begins, for within this c. i'-ilor tho mother mason will put a bu.glo egg. In courso of tlmo, says a writer In Harper's Mngazlno, this will hatch into n ravenous larva, whoso natural food is living spiders; and theso tho mother proceeds to capturo and entomb en-tomb within her mud dnub nursery. On this errand sho mny be seen hawking hawk-ing over nnd nonr colmeba of various sorts, venturing within the meshed and bended srmres that provo fatal to most Incomers nnd samettmos even to herself. It tho occupant, expectant of prey, sallies forth to seize tho Intruder, Intrud-er, it finds itsolf a captive, not a captor. Tho wnsp shakes tho sllkou filament from wings nnd feet, turns upon the spider, seizes nnd stings It, b trs It to her cell nnd thrusts it therein. A Monster Lightning Bug. Did you ever bear tho story about two young meu from Cork who had never seen lightning bugs until they en mo ucross tho sea to AmerlrnT It happened that during their first night hero tho mosquitoes wero very troublesome, nntl both Mike and Pat hid their heads tinder the bed coven. Finding this rather warm, Pat ventured ven-tured to put his head outside Just as a firefly floated In at tho window "O, Mike!" snys ho, "Ucgorrn now the) 're comln' after us wld lanterns!" Now It may be posslblo for you to surprise many n untlvo American qulto ns much ns n firefly surprised tho two strangers from Cork. Take n Inrgo kite that will fly well, which means that j on know Just how much tall It will carry. Hemovo a good part of tho tall and tie on Instead a sky lantern. lan-tern. This must bo mado very light, nnd arranged so that it will not easily catch fire. Uso a piece ot light, thin wood, four Inches In dlnmctcr, nnd near tho center drlvo four slender nails, ono Inch long, so that a candlo will stand firmly between them. Abovo tho candlo loop two light wires, fastening their ends to tlio board. I'asto red or yellow tissue paper nround tho wlro frame and your kite Is mado. Flying such a klto on a dark night will cnuso much amusement. Our Friend the Rob, In. It Is very easy to begin tho tnmlng process with tho robin, for tho joung birds, when they first leave the nest, aro glad enough to pick up n few crumbs, not having yet trained their ejes to tho constant search for Insects. In-sects. They nrc then easily Induced to como nenr tho "human" who provides pro-vides them, and with a llttlo quiet pcrsevoranco will toon tnko tho food from tho hand. Hut tho father bird has to bo reckoned reck-oned with, and even tho mother bird In autumn will drlvo her youngsters out of tho garden, If possible, to In-suro In-suro their finding n domnln of their own boforo tho winter. Her mato Is apt to appear In his wrath when tho young robins nro fully fledgedhaving left the nest for a week nnd scatter them all. Including Includ-ing tho mother, with beak and claws. Ho does not approve of any spoiling of tho chlldron, and Insists upon their spreading themselves separately over tho country. In order that they may learn nt onco to earn their own maintenance. main-tenance. Probnbly ho Is right, for every ev-ery robin has Its own 100 yards or so of garden or wood In winter time, and woo bctldo any newcomer which ventures ven-tures on another's ground. a This Is a doubly wise pruffB of Nature to Insure food for jBiln. and also tho destruction oBall tho H College Life In SccP American college boysBiIgh school boys would have foumnsKlent llfo at tho old Scottish unlvXltles very different from tho frco nni( easy good time they aro used to at tholr own seats ot learning. In tho (early part of tho eighteenth century thoi students stu-dents nt somo of tho Scottish universities universi-ties could not "shoulder or push" each other, could not stand nt tho gnte, oi tho stairs or In tho corridors of thoN collego buildings for fenr they would disputo with each other, could not play or loiter up nnd down In any of tho courts whllo tho classes wero In progress, nor play ball, billiards or bowls. A student, no matter how old ho was oven after ho had becomo n young man- was whipped ror getting H Into a fight or hitting another student. H Ho was fined for speaking coarsely or wicked!) He could not walk out dur- lng the evening. He could not throw H snowballs at anything or anybody, B and during hours In tho collego build- I Ing ho could not speak a word In any- thing but I.ntln. At Edinburgh tho students woro I scarlet gowns during classes. Tlioy lived In the town. There wero no don B mltorlcs nnd they knew very little I about each other In many cases. There were, nnd are to day at Ivdln- burgh no collego sports as wo know I them and llttlo general collego life. I Paper Band Puzzle. I Try this trick with paper bands. I Tnko threo strips of paper six Inches long nnd nbout an Inch wide, and mark K dotted lines lengthwise down tho mid- I dlo of each. Pato tho two endB of the first one straight and squarely as shown in figure 1 Deforo pnstlng tho second, give the strip a twist, as shown In figure 2. The third strip you twist twice heforp pnstlng. Now cut each band along the dotted : 1 V.V P ) I 'J. 1 1 1 vvj VV it n The Paper Bands. ' -' line, and )ou will havo ns a result , "i two Fpnrnte rings from No. 1, as In f figure 4; fiom No. 2. ono ring half as i R wide as the orlglnnl. but with twice j w tho diameter, ns In figure G; and from 1 No. 3 two rings linked together, as in g Ruro c- J Queer. JSriK In ray geography I nnd some things rsitesF 14 Immensely queer, - 'mT tM Such ns the fnlkH that lie In bed nil 'i day, all night, all jenr. fj They run nlong, now fust, now slow, "1 but havo no feet nt nil, k 1 And do not seem to hurt themselves If something makes them fall. Perhaps they hnvo an arm, or two, or three, or even more. And though they havo no throats nor tongues they sometimes fairly roar. Their beads hip vor) Bmnll Indeed, i V their mouths ure very wide. Kono of them owns n penny, jet nil 1 have banks by their ldo. Suejt folks, with neither fingers, nor bauds, nor pyeti, nor cars. Nor legs, nor bucks, )ou must ngri-e aro surely rolher queer. ' |
