Show awl LITTLE FOLKS the tako nil ordinary tumbler and conr water into it unal it is arco foil carefully cipo tho blaw so that it may bo perfectly dry before yon begin your lettla asperi meat panco upon iho op of the glash as if you intended to protect the con tents from dust n playing card mado of good firm paper with the printed sg lire turned down toward the water tho card must bo large enough to extend just over the edge of the glasa all around let the card remain on tho glass for half au hour or so and yon will then bee that abo moist vapor rising from the liquid has caused the card to swell or arch in alio center then take the card carefully by one of its comers and replace it on the glass with the arched side reversed having cut out of paper the figure of a little man and inserted it in a silt in tho top of a vial cork place the cork carefully upon tho center of tho card and wait presently the moist vapor will make the card swell in the opposite direction and with a little clap up will fly your manikin and your cork into the air philadelphia timea A simple Gai riff A game which is both amusing and instructive and can bo played without pencil paper or paraphernalia of any sort has been enjoyed by a party of bright young people at a summer boarding bouse the game is simply this ono member of a company which may consist of any number of people from two up ward is oat in their proper order the first three letters of a word which be has in his mind and which tho company are to guess for instance he may have in his mind the word calamity in which caso ha announces 1 I think of a word which begins o a 1 As fast as one of the outliers thinks of a word beginning with those letters he presents it orally for approval there is no method in the group of as to the order iu which they speak so that whenever two people hit upon the right word simultaneously both receive credit for it iu case they announce their guesses at alie same moment the difficulty and of the game are much increased by placing 1 limit upon the number of letters which ho word shall contain the party of young people referred to above limited ho number to eight this of course makes it more difficult to find a word which will the guessels guessers gu essers two prizes are usually assigned one to the person who guesses the largest cumber of words correctly and the other 0 o ho one alio has given the greatest number of words which have puzzled he gu for five minutes or more bea B e a puzzled a bright people who beio much ealar at last appeared that bean had been in the mind 0 a n after much guessing elongated into banoo and pur p u r into purity iho shortest and most ordinary words often the most puzzling owing to some peculiarity of choir formation X outha companion about stationery every girl should practice writing on caper that is not ruled for the finest doto caper is without lines there is nothing about which a woman of refinement is more particular than her sta bonery in spite of the beautiful shades varying from pale cream to deep purple the usage of the best society remains he same year after year namely alain thick white paper for formal A delicately scented sachet should bo kept in the portfolio with the paper black ink is usually preferred though unlike gay colored paper colored inks are not rejected as being bad ta ite the choice of pens lies with the writer teachers will tell you however ahat you are more apt to blot with a largo pen the writers advice is to practice with a business pen for by hat means alone can freedom in penmanship be obtained A fine pen requires n thiu penholder and as every one who lias done much writing knows a short or thin penholder cramps the hand margaret compton in brooklyn Bio oklyn eagle tho glutton it tho earth waa all a pudding round ami the oceans ero sweet id kit on tho tin all sate and bound and just oat and cut aud eat |