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Show llm IJItle Maid's Kept. (A true InclJont ) ! The'llltTo mlden opened wldo tbo door. To IH I bo honor.! Washington de- pari; The great-emiM general, her mother'! friend The Oral In war. In peate. In every , heart. "A fUr oBlre to you, dear," td he. 1 And )ttcol hi hum! benignly on her llMllt. With curtsy quaint mid reverent, smll-r smll-r Inn glance! "Ye. lr; to let you In." she archly ald. Charles t,ei. In St. Nicholas. A HnnmlleM . l) Ilennr was a Utile boy who 1 1 red by j river that ran Into lh treat ocena.. and he liked to Mil ship ao well thai 1 'til rather made him all, all o( A alie, t with n boom and a (aft and two Mils apiece. They were not really skips. 'but he called Ihem no. Tbli waa Hen- ny'a fleet, and In n little eore. where i itho water waa net loo deep Ivor too rough, he look ureal dellKhl In Mlllnx . lit ahlpa They were named "I'earl." "Phoebe," "Dolphin." "flmr." "Hncer," i and"Kote" '" Now.thcr wna n great illrrlng about , In Denny's family, for grandpa, who ( lived away out weat. unci v. ho had a ranch there, had written lo them to (come and Join him, And help Mm ralie afaeep and horaea. Bo lliey begin to park up their things, but. oa they could not take all, Ihey aold Mint, and dome Ihey Rave away Papa told lieu- ny he had belter give hla ahlpa to hla ptaynmlnt. "Why, no," uld llenny. "I can't do without my ahlpa' I'll give the hoya my checker and my nlnoplna, but I can't give away my ahlpa I love raj ahlpa!" "And, with hla tnimmn'e help, he packed them the neil day carefully In a box, nlong with her 6 o'clock tea-cupa. tea-cupa. "There lan't even n brook on the ranch!" papa ald to mamma: "and nil i the, water haa to be pumped with wind mill." "fcever mind," ahe replied, "llenny hat 'to leave the eea ho lovea, but he Kali all not leave hla ahlpi. It n'y make '""""mm'htippy'tff'loolt'hrthem'anil'to're' member." In another month the little family 1 reached the far-off raneh.where grand- pa welcomed Ihem. llenny waa very . happy, lie had a pony to ride upon. and a dog In follow him, and aomo litmba were Riven to him for hla own, Tor three weeka llenny did not aay one word about hit ahlpa, but he did not forget them. Wherever ho went, he looked About lo are If there wua n pond of a brook, though ever ao little, but (hero waa not one. "0 you like It here, llenny?" ntked grandpa, at the end of three weeka, at they atood looking over tho billowy " plaint and pitluroa. "Yea, grandpn. I do." ald llenny, paltlniz hla dog'a head. ''All J want now la a brook And then he told hla grandpa that he had braifght elx ahlpa. named I'earl, Phoebe, Dolphin, Star, llacer and Kate. ' (Irundpa wblatled, and then he laughed, "We muat aall them!" he exclaimed. "Hut there la no water!" aald llenny. "Wator la not the only element, nor tho only fluid," aold grandpa. "Water doesn't ewell the ealle." "No, tho wind dooa that," llenny ad. mlltod. "Orandpi now went lo work and made a frame with alx nrma. and on each arm he fattened a ahlp. On tho top of hi barn he died a ttrong phot, iihJ on the pivot he put tho frjme.llke n wheel on lit axle. When he came i'- down from the ladder, n little brecte r', nat filling tho aall. nnd tho ahlpt a wero gently careering around. Ily and liy It blew harder, and the (hip In- ! created their sied. llenny ehuuted iV for Joy. und called everybody lo aeo. "They are going alxty knot nn fi, hour." aald hla father E, "So now the ahlp had a place where thty could tall east, weat, outh, north, '", nnd many a time they went ao faat that nobody could tell, sot even Henmy, which waa Pearl, or whloh waa Paoebe, or which waa Dolphin, or itar, or Its- Jar. or Kale. '.'( . fair i:.rl.i.is ''.' Ortndmn Altnian waa real worried jM ' tieotUM Topknot waa dead. Old Top. IHji knot waa a p-t hen and had Just conic H off her neat will, a brood uf 1.1 chick H--k "Yea," lliandnin told, "I noticed ehe mSi,; wb not will Una uiornltiK und 1 Juat found her lying dead, mid now tburi j la another dixk of ebliLcna to brum M up by band I suppose t shall have to B "''" bring them In And taking a baaket H - fiD'ti Ihu ullarwuy, (irandma went H .after t! nn j 1m i ua v n i on with her work, hut H not dhrl.xli ii a ry nulet aad thou I Til ! t 'tv al ukoil Uaril j "i i i ii ' i 1 1 llttlo aianf Ci i . i.d up 'i taiakiag Hj lidw t i. I' lh h mill, 'pour nlil HI Marla'a been hunting her klttena all day nnd U au lonesome and now here n ro all these Utile chlckena and no mamma " Mamma amlled nt Pari, but did not laugh, ind Juit then (Irandma rame In with the lunktt of chlckena. 8he eet the batket down by the fire and went lo find aometblng to rover the chlrkt While the waa gone Maria, the gray oat, came Into the roam. Maria bad had a cunning family of three little kltlena until that day. but Mamma bad given them away, an I poor Maria wat tery lonely without her bablea When Marin rame Into the room anJ aaw the batket In which her klltent hnd alept ahe ran quickly to It, put hei front paw on the edge, and wat about to aprlng In, when ah looked down and aaw that her klttena were not there. Carl had etarlrd up when Maria IgflJo lhc-kaiket, but MammtLPOt her hand on hit arm. 'Wall." ahe aald, "Maria won't hurt the chick," Maria drew back, looked aorry, mewed, and Ihen lo their aurprlie aha put one foot In carefully, Ihen another, ptithed the chlrkt gently aalde to mako room for hertelf, climbed In nnd curled around a many of tho chick oa tho could, and began to purr In a perfectly aallafled way The Inneaome llttlo chick neatlwl up to her nnd cuddled Into her toft fur, tucked their llttlo hendt iiudor her neck nnd leg, inado aoft little tleepy eoundt nud teemed quite happy. Mamma and Carl atom! watching, afraid to any n word for fear of apoll-Ing apoll-Ing tho pretty eight lilfnro (Irandtni came In Hut Maria UVeJ her new family fam-ily Hho alept with them all night, and In the morning after oallng bread and milk from the aeme dlh, took Ihem out In the yard, uhero they aerntrhed to their hearta'Sonlcnt or climbed nud played over Maria ax ah lay under tho buthea If one wandered wan-dered away aha went after It, catling at tho did her klttent; and the wnihcd them at alio did her klttena, with her tongue, and they didn't teem to mind. At noon Carl atiw her bringing Ihem In, They ran before her, nnd after, and nn both aldee, and oven betwcci. her leg, and all tho tlnn the kept making tho iuror aotind a c,it miuej for her kitten. "I declare," aald Qrandma, "I wouldn't he eurprlicd to hear her cluck." Tor over threo monlht Maria fcpi4ltJJart(iiJr'r7nfli IS grew and thrived and accrued happy. MmtliwrNli. Rtretrh a white cloth or a largt thcet fit whlto paper mi tho wall In a darkened room, nnd uppoillo to It place n email table, nn which there I n llclitul rundlo. Put a book, or aom tlmllar object, between tho candlu nnd tho cloth, to that It will cut off I ho Jlr.ht from tho latter, leaving It comparatively com-paratively dark. When sou nro ready to how jour picture hold a mirror ldavn)e before tho candlo at audi nn anglo that tho reflation will bo thrown on tho cloth. Tho picture that you show will bo really allhoucltea, aud you will need, tliotcMre, little llguro rut out of sllft paper. Hold one of them between tho candlo and the mirror, mir-ror, and Ha ahnrply defined ahadow will ho thrown on tho cloth. Ily moving mov-ing It forward you may mako It ap-I ap-I oar to walk ncross Iho clolh. Tho effect ef-fect will bo all the better It you make tho mirror fntt to that ou may me both handt In moving tho figure. Thua you may get n virlety of movement, even In two dlrccllont at tho lamo time A Nw llllr. (1. A. rrlaiuulh of Phllidelphla hat borrow (Hi an Idea fruni tho balloon fly, or "tell-tale." used on ahlpa to ahow tho direction of the wind, and ha conitrui'led n klto conalatlng of three cone, ono within tho other. Tho mouth of each rouo conaltla of a bamboo bam-boo circle, to which the allk bag It fattened. Tho clrcUa In the experimental experi-mental kilo nrc 1J, lt nnd :i Inchon In diameter, nnd tho cone are 21, 30 and IS Inrho In length oach, with a two-Inch two-Inch nutlet nt the end. A llttlo pro-tuberanc pro-tuberanc ut tho bottom of tho outer bamboo hoop allow whero a amnll lump of load ballaat U attached. The weight of the entire cunitructlon It teren ounce. Th kit nt a height ot 1.000 feel registered u pull of 16 pound. It BMtnt lo be an easy form of kit for boy and aniateure to oon-struct. oon-struct. Yc.mMut Ili-ctliLlimtlon. Alice and Doroth), aged four and three, had caught up certain tiudtalr-able tiudtalr-able worda from their little neighbors, and manimn hnd found It uectaeary to reprove them, nnd to forbid the wordl at he heard Ihem One day she beard tho children tiilMnk In the corner ot the room. Alice Kiting her llttlo eleUl a umnmrv of Hn arlou talk from In r tiiuimiiii Ion ace, Dottit, 10ln-ma 10ln-ma hwi and h knit aud tho ro-chelt ro-chelt and be darna: we can talk ghoul tow and orochet, but we miiaa't sty knit, 'mum It Ua't Bice, and we -ot ner ay darn, fur It' Tory naufhtjf. Now, 'member, Dottlt." |
