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Show I f 1$1XKGES tefe lDBEHf.f v-csvV uryjyf3f in I S--rWtZyi'. vd' fill teuMvft fcp wSW Mother'! Doughnuts, 11 you llilnk llicros no line trilne To do anything or orlh, If ou think jou're but n cipher In the multitude of earth; Jut rememlxT motlirr s doughnuts And prra onward to tho goal Finest doushnuta In crpntlon. They were made nround n hole. If the patch In on your garment J - Whore It never was before; If vour pocketliook In empty Of ltd hoarded little nture, Jul remember mother- doughnuts When the cloud of trouble roll Hweetent douglmuts manufactured, All were built nround n hole If ou think our next door neighbor Had n better iitart than you; If ierhnn Jou mads a failure And KiicceKH I hard to woo; Set jour teeth the way ou unci! to, Ijiv the comfort to your noul Itecollect the grand perfection That was circled round a hole. Puck. A Novel "Twlrler." In somo experiments you may need a "twlrler," which Is nn arrangomco. used for spinning objects rapidly. -Mid. as you might llko to add one to jour "homo mndo laboratory," a description of It follows: It consists usually of two wheels Hied on a stand, nnd so connected by means of a band that by turning a handle, on tho larger wheel tho smnll-cr smnll-cr one may bo mndo to revolvo rapidly. rap-idly. Tho object to bo twirled Is fixed to this second wheel. This twlrlor can bo bought, of course, from a dealer In scientific supplies, sup-plies, but tho wheels of an ordinary toy cart can sometimes bo utilized. Turn tho cart ttpsldo down, and tack or pin tho object to bo twirled to ono sldo of the wheel, and spin It from tho other sldo by tho forefinger. Dut It tho object Is to bo twirled In a horizontal position, as a pall, for Instance, tho cart must bo placed on Two Kinds of Twlrlers. Its sldo on a table, with tho whcol projecting over tho edge. The cart must bo weighted to keep it In placo and the string to support tho pall must bo tacked as near tho ccntor ot the hub as possible. Uy twirling tho wheel from abovo you may malto tho pal!, with water, or whatovcr It may contatn, spin around and around. An oxcollcnt twlrlor, howevor, can bo mado. If you have no cart, with merely a plcco of board, a hook, and a pleco ot twine. Got a pteco of board "Jut two feet long by twolvo Inchos la, and placo It over tho top of a cr slightly ajar, tilting It so that Tao end ot It may rest under tho top j of tho door framo and so bo bold In place. Over tho other end slip a loop ot cord that will hang down within two feet ot tho floor, and to this end faston a hook. Tho board must bo far enough under tho top of tho door frame to hold firm when tho string Is pulled on. Tho loop of cord should now be twisted tightly, and then the object to be twirled should be hung on tbo book. Ab tho cord untwists the object will bo twirled nnd It will twirl more rapidly If a stick bo pressed downward down-ward just abovo tho twist. Flat pieces of cork may bo Btrung on tho cord, bolng held In placo b; knots. Alphabet Trips. A gamo that requires no material and no preparation, but may bo played play-ed off-hand, Is sometimes just tho thing to know, particularly at a party. Hero Is ono that tho older boys and girls would enjoy. Let us call It "Alphabet "Al-phabet Trips." Any number of persons may tako part In tho gamo. Tho first thing to do Is to chooso a leador, who stands In tho middle of the room, with tho players seated around him. Then he tells thorn that they aro each to tako a trip somowhoro, and must announco to htm, In turn, where thoy are going nnd what thoy Intend tp do whcn,tboy got there. Now, tho odt'l of this gamo consists con-sists In tho fa that overy word in each Individual answer must begin with tho samo lottcn If a "player, for example, says that ho Is going to a placo, tho namo ot which begins with O, every additional word In his answer must begin with G. Tho game Is really real-ly a trial of wits, for tho better tho 'answer, and tho more quickly It Is given, giv-en, tho more credit a player dosorves. A prize may or may not bo offered, to ho awarded by tho leader, or by a vote ot tlio players, to tho ono who mokes tho best and readiest answer. Tho leador begins tho gamo by tho announcement just given, and then asks tho first player where ho Is going. go-ing. For tho sake ot Illustration, wo will glvo a tow nnswers In alphabetical alphabet-ical order. Tho player answers, therefore, there-fore, that he Is going to Athens, and whon the leader asks him what ho Is going to do there, tho player says, "Advertlso athletics." I ' " n goes to Iloston to buy baked henna; C to Cincinnati to collect curiosities; curi-osities; D to Denver to defy dentists; K to Knglnnd to entertain Kdward; F to Franco to fry frogs; O to Glasgow Glas-gow to gathor guineas; II to Halifax to hold horses; I to India to Introduce Idols; J to Jericho to Jostlo Jersey-men; Jersey-men; K to Kentucky to keep kindling; Ii to Louisiana to lie low; M to Montana Mon-tana to mako money; N to Now York to negotloto notes; O to Oklahoma to open oysters; P to Philadelphia to pilfer pil-fer pennies; Q to Quebec to quoto quinces; It to Homo to rend ritual; S to Savannah to sell sauces; T to Turkey Tur-key to tell tnles; U to Utah to uso umbrellas; V to Vermont to vend vermilion; ver-milion; W to Washington to waste wages; Y to Yazoo to yell "Yokels"; '. to Zanzibar to zoutch zebras. Tricks of Animals. There aro a surprising number of Quaker animals nnlmnls whoio regular regu-lar method of self-protection Is to of-for of-for no resistance to their enemies. Tho 'possum's trick of "shnmmlng dead" Is nn old story. Tho hedgehog and somo of tho nrmadlllos refuse to fight, but tney nro protected by sharp spines or nrmor. Among mnrlno animals Is a starflsii, often called tho "brittle star," which Is tho despair of collectors. collect-ors. It seems to mako It a point that nono ot Its family shall bo shown In a bottle or on a musotim shelf. When taken from tho water this starfish throws off Its legs nnd also Its stomachs. stom-achs. Tho story Is told ot ono collector col-lector who thought ho hnd succeeded In coaxing a specimen Into a pall, only to seo It dismember Itself at -ho last moment. W. H. Hudson describes tho death-feigning habits of a smnll South African fox common on tho pampas. It caught In a trap or overtaken It collapses col-lapses as If dead, and to all appearances appear-ances Is dead. Somo kinds of beetles, mnny of tho woolly catorplllars which havo poisonous hairs on their backs, and numerous spiders aaopt tho same trick. Perhaps tho commonest Instance In-stance ot passive resistance Is tho land tortoise, which draws up Its front pteco and pulls In Its head and legs and defies Its foes by locking them out. A Few Don'ts. Don't wrlto on soiled or torn sheets of papor. . Don't write letters with a lead pencil. pen-cil. It Is very bad form not to say unpardonable breach of correct letter-writing. letter-writing. Don't seal a lettor of Introduction. Tho person to whom It Is given Is supposed sup-posed to Inform himself ot its contents. con-tents. Don't fall to Incloso a stamp to carry car-ry an answering letter to a lettor ot business. Don't wrlto carelessly. Spell correctly cor-rectly and bo painstaking about your punctuation and tbo language In which you express your thoughts. Don't send a letter bearing blots or scratches. Mako a now copy It necessary. neces-sary. A Problem In Arithmetic. Jack had two apples; Fred had throo; Alice and Dertha, betweon them, had soven. Tho girls being unselfish un-selfish put their fruit In tho lunch baskot and told tho boys to help' themselves them-selves while thoy went to gather May flowers. They walked a mllo and eight furlongs to a field, which the boys said was full of flowers, but there wore nono. Then llortha bit hor Up nnd said something to Alice, nnd tho two ran back ns fast ns they could, arriving arriv-ing at thirteen mlnutos past thrro Opening tho basket, how many apples did thoy find? Tho answor Is concealed conceal-ed In tho abovo paragraph. Peace Problem. Tho quarrel began simply enough, Nolllo wnntcd to help Dorothy cut out n doll's dross, but they couldn't ngrco how It wns to ho done Finally thoy began tugging at tho scissors nnd when Dorothy saw sho was going to lose them sho promptly boxed Nelllo's ears Nellie let go of the scissors, but retaliated by pulling Dorothy's hnlr. After that they quieted down somewhat, some-what, but tho Instant the doll's dress wns mentioned the dispute was renewed renew-ed as to how they should mako It. Up stairs papa, who heard tho noise, decided de-cided to end the quarrel nnd appeared promptly on tho scene. Tho dress, he snltl, was ot secondary consideration, so ho would tnke It and tho scissors to his study. Then he gave them somo advice about tho quarrel, but you must find this out for yourselves. It Is concealed somewhere In tho above paragraph. Game of Bird Sellers. The game of bird sellers Is played as follows: Tho children stand In a row, lenvlng two outside. Theso two represent tho bird dealers. Each child represents n bird ono being a crow, another a crnne, another a canary, can-ary, and so on. Ono bird dealer says to tho other: "I wish to buy a bird." "What kind of n bird?" asks the second sec-ond dealer. "A bird that can fly fast," says tho . first dealer. "Very well," answere the other denier, deni-er, "take what you wish." "Then," says tlio first dealer, "I will tako a robin." As soon as the word Is out of his mouth tho "robin" must leap from tho row and run nround to escape. If tho dealer catches the bird ho puts It Into a cage, where It must stay till all tho other birds nro caught. Nine Men's Morris. This gamo was played by William Shakespeare when ho was a boy. At any rate, ho spoko of tt In one of his dramas, "Midsummer Night's Dream." It can be played in tho house by preparing pre-paring a board with holes, as In the p 5 C W 6 61 o po O. o o o o o r) . O b 2 Si i b 2 SJ diagram horo pictured, but Is more fun played out on the turf. Just as mumbletypeg and so many other games ore played. Two persons play tho gamo. If they aro Insldo the house, using a board, thoy uso nlno chcckcrmon, or pegs, apiece, differently colored or shaped. If out ot doors, marbles or pebbles may be usod. The players lay down their pieces, whatovcr they are, in tho holes, one at a tlmo, alternately, and It is each playor's business to provont tho other ono from placing three ot his pieces; so as to form a row of tbreo without any ot the opponent's pieces between them. Whonovor oltbcr ono succccda in forming a row, he may then take up and rcmovo any one ot tho othor player's play-er's pieces ho pleases, excop from a comploto row already formed. When all tho pieces nro laid down, thoy are played backward and forward In whatever what-ever direction each lino runs, but a piece can bo moved only from ono spot to another at a tlmo. It Is still tho object ot each player to keep tho other from gottlng threo men down In an unbroken row. Whenever When-ever ono succeeds In forming a row, ho removes any ono ot bis opponent's men ho pleases. Tho player who finally takes off nil his opponent's pieces wins tho gamo. Novelties In Skirts. 8klrts of oyolot-workcd lawn or linen, lin-en, somewhat tnllorllko In mako and worn with long-fitted coats of cloth, aro nmong tho novelties. Tho openwork open-work llngorlo skirt may match tho cloth In color or mny bo In whlto mado over a foundation in tho color ot tho coat. |