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Show oo CURIOS FOR THE CHILDREN One Room In Smlthconlan nctltutlon Filled With Objects of Interest to Young Folk. Among the dim old rooms of the Smithsonian Institution, In Washing ton. Is one very bright and cheery apartment, over tho archway of which aro tho wordB "Children's Room." Here there are arranged all sorts of natural objects In which boys and girls are in-tercsted, in-tercsted, such curious things as mineral min-eral wool, flexible sandBtono, landscape land-scape marbles, a model of the Great Mogul, the large3t diamond over cut, and another of the largest lump of gold ever found. In another caso aro the strange glove and finger sponges and the Venus Ve-nus flower basket, and over a case ot beautiful shells 1b one of Iridescent and brlghtiy huod buttorflles. How creatures hide is Illustrated by "walking leaves," the night hawk, crown creepers, "walking Btlck" and other queer creatnreB that are scarce to be detected because of their clover adherence to leaves, twigs and other objects of similar coloring. |