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Show I M sm .. Auntie "June," Spinster. fihe wan th. nrat t . rH it m u And start the kit. I., i, ft . -- fihr link. a ib.t, tha raal d m t.at harit Our apinater Jim, "here work a She cured the In measlea The aleepl, a While otliers marte Who went For them h yr Ah' M Thy 'Hi. 1 I as-- o d ,bb. e t s tie pO- - oroun: ll.u rtowrhU s htt.M rth ( lue pull uf Jim. Jum r ikuia d he mont h June -- I. ti lh s Ik waft - h. at! m d.iSM ttgone, are wul w K -- i w ukttl There children trend the sravtl path W h, n hr, , zee are aUunt And ntiisp, r s,,fi as zeptn s are 'Tlda is our Aunue June Horace Smour Keller Green Paper Frog. friend from Japan has taught us to make a frog of green paper in the following way: Cut a piece of paper in the shape of A a a perfect square (Fig. 1 of explanatory design). Fold the paper along the diagonals a a, turn it around and fold When this is done along the lines Fig. 1 can easily be. made..: Fold the ends b and a as shown In Fig. 3. Yon will now have got a series of eight small wings around o--a as axle. Fold ..the,, paper,, at point .naudJ?!,!, It ham -tuny in such a way ihat yoil get two new regular points as shown fn Fig. 4. After going through tue same tlon with all eight wings of the folded r paper, you wilt gat Fig. 6. Fold each b-- lines across It. Now It Is marked off into thirds Let the first player draw at the top of the slip, a head, using only the upper third of the paper This head may be that of any imaginable or If it's some unimaginable creature. thing mongrel and absurd, it s all the funnier. The first player then folds the paper down, so as to cover up what tie has drawn, but leaving the neck extending just below the fold. He then passes the slip on to the next player, who in turn draws a body on the middle third of toe paper, joining it to the neck, and then folding the paper, just sp as to leave enough of the body showing to Indicate where the legs sboujd join pa. A third player then nddS legs and feet to the strange being, to suit his fancy. It will add to the fun to have a fourth player name the portrait. Finally, the paper Is unfolded. To say the least, the company will be surprised at the queer composite. It may be that the head and legs will disagree over the direction the creature is supposed to be fronting. Oftentimes one of the members will be sp out of proportion, with the rest as to make the whole effect very ludicrous. The best way to see the possibilities of the game la to try It. You needn't be an artist to make a success of it, since (be most awkward hand will frequently produce the most laughable results. The combinations may not always be so comical, but out of half a dozen trials there are sure to be several roaring success es. When there Is quite a company assembled, each may be given a piece df paper And Aixshcll; veach; draw head, fold the paper, pass to the next; then each draw a body, fold, pass; then each draw legs, fold sad the next name (t, la (hie way all those present will be occupied In the sport, and the large variety of portraits will Increase the entertainment. pq, Riding Upon a Knits. Split a match at one end and Insert wing of the paper again, to point S toward the center axle (Fig. 6), and Into the split the flattened end of take care that you get the folds at second match, to form an acute angle. Place the two matches on the sharp point a as correct as possible. To finish the frog (Fig. 7), unfold two of the edge of a knife held horizontally la such a way that the heads of the upper points (s) and bend them to form the front legs, while you fold the matches touch the surface of the table. two lower points (a) to form the hind No matter how hard you try to hold the knife steady, to everybody's sur legs. The left side of Fig. 7 shows the walle the not yet folded, right prise the matches will begin to move points side gives the shape of the finished up and down. To render the experiment more ef legs. fectlve, crack the matches In the middle to form the legs of the rider, then Mr. Gladstones Catch. cut the upper bpdy out of paper and inot c tbts members house, flovy many asked Mr. Gladstone once In the course sert it into a split made in one of the matched. of a debate on electoral qualifications, fid. 17s. 13s. 2 1,830 can divide by Trick With Pair of 8cissbrs, td If Alexander the Great were asked shoutand "Six hundred to free this pair of scissors tied to the . n ed one member. "The thing cannot be. done! exclaimed another. A roar of laughter greeted this last lemark. But it was true, nevertheless. You cannot multiply or divide money by money. You may repeat a smaller sum of money as many times as It Is contained In a larger sum of money, but that Is a very differeat thing. If you .repeat five shillings,. as often as there are hairs In a horses tail, you do not multiply five shillings by a horses laH Perhaps you did not know tbfs before Never minayyotrneed not be ashamed of your Ignorance, for it was shared, as has been demonstrated, by the entire house of commons (bar one member). Including the then chancellor of the exchequer American Boy. -- fifty-eigh- t! Work of the Plodder. If we were to examine a list of the men who have left ttelr mark on the world, we should find Wat, as a rule. It is not composed of those who were brilliant In youth, or who gave great of tbelr careers, promise at the outset of the young men plodding but rather who. If they have not dazzled by their had the power of a brilliancy, have them, who could stay by days work in was done; who have had a task until it commoil Sense and grit persistence, honesty, says Success. or these orIt is the steady exercise united with virtues, homely dinary, a decepaverage ability, rather than more showy qualities in of tive display a man to achieve vouth, that enables ' So, if we were honorably. and greatly of the a forecast make to ,o attempt we should "succesful men of the future, the ranks of not look for them among who think those boys," tie smart ' ( so N.1W Title, nnd and d iim. I,. Ti ki-- s tl.c gra. of tin. Old fashioned snnsh r win. has f und More l,.e limn eatliil t.llss . marked, bis appearance la usually distinctly. against him, aad some qf to specie have an awkward habit oi annexing little unconstdered trifles which come In their way. Moreover, farmers suspect them of an unhappv "penchant' for sleeping In stacks and aocideutally setting them tm fire! Hence it is that poor Weary William Is as often as ihu. forcibly yjucted from the premises or else driven off by some ferocious watch dog Wheu this fate happens to tramp he la in duty booed to de bts bec to pfrerent his comrades from walking Into tho tame trap Therefore, if clreum nances peimii and no pm suit Is attempted. he album io the farm a sign sitting forth the facts. . At certain times of the )ear, how ever, partientarty at such tmsy tteus sams as ceilt ini,- and harvest, farmers c an often do with the temporary services of unskilled 'men. Stiff . wheq tramps offer Ihemw Iv-lHej ah' fro1 queutly taken on A tiamp who hat falli n upon a place of this sort sl.iii'ieson some convenient fence a vrhl h m jins, practic ally, "Food Rism and money heie if you rare to wotk-- ' As many tramps have a rooted objec-iii'i- i to manual labor, It is not all of them who haJl this sign with jov. Money, by the way. Is usually indicated in the by tiny circles, but as tiamps do not often reieive money the sigu Is not mut h n the str tin hto p. a. ctuiU of i. hiH l t Htl'e it sjdnater Aloin and until. ,t k . - - , jr i 1 aituio I ' S the brides the door. un ah,. til w,n le t th u ,1 foUllii f,r nd Sur T i m eet out it 7.1 ' u dr.,., r iTn hrM etu rntrni f fr.tKrant MJ W ,it I,, i ,,t t; und r, Children Amusement. a Ifead, Ixxty and same that will afford amusement Good games are plw ays.worth' knot, inf about, espe-cialithosp ldnoceut Raines that, U tth their funay consequences, offer such real relief from the day's cares N one a ants to mhkt a business of playing games, but the greatest minds are not above simple diversions ; hay, they must baVe ihem One of the best pastimes of the kind is the old English game ;of "Head, body and legs, the origin' of which Is lost in the past Take & slip of paper about two inches wide and four inches long Draw two k--- lwa fro-- a rn u t H t, bahleR of ttl thtir Of hr they knuhit all ' and are anxious to a in b a short route t .uj She'd eia.k a meal f,,r "hen J , M , orraadMdcommon or ina popular hot is tramp 11 ap teresting person. pearance Is usually unprepo t freheeding, bli honesty quently not above auspkdou, tut hh distaste for work has passed iato a proverb., . Police and public alike eye him with suspiejous. dislike,, as, h? slouches' along the highroad. . The tramps, thus cut off by a barrier of dislike from communion tnu HE e No Good their more to Call Hsre." . respectable - - used If anything couid dash a tramps hopes it is, the sign we have Juet , fellow-crel-ture- have been forced, in sheer For this sign teUs the to, aid and assist 'one other. There la no particular bond tramp, that his journey has been of sympathy- between tramp nnd jnore or less In vain; that he will meet with nothing but unkindness in tramp; but the necessity" for compels the metebers of the village, and that the beet thing tills straDge. fraternity of , wayfarers lie can do is to drag h( tired limbs and to to a onwards to some other find more hoscertals extent. One of the( most In- pitable hamlet. For the pionebr tramp teresting forms which this Copper; tUs us here "Get out of this Village tlon takes la the silent, .but Bone the as soon as you can ; there' la nothing less powerful, medium 6f n sign las-'1 toy good to he got herb, Wb&t could dls-cribe- -- foot-yor- e - - Necesaiay for Drainage. If there was ever k year when the advantage" qf good drainage were rr, Lakes, where -- elgs-lan-gua- aulletlu of the Geneva station in 1896 many asparagus plants bOdleVwhfett form one stags the life history-O- f bomb o'f tbs files, like the Hessian y. Adultd hairs now been raised from these 'flaxseeds" , .and fqund to be small, metallle-blac- h flies about og-glxtof ajx InqV.- - In length." They are found to he quits fc. s common, oh tie"' (lowers gtyiPbraiich-letof the asparagus, especially on plant that'hkve been eaten into $y the asp's ragOs "beetle. ' Tie' maggots, or larvae, of there files ard about one-4ft- h of an Inch in length, somewhat , tranepflrent-wblU'-- f f seed-llkt- ! during. the. past, wo months lu the vicinity pf Chicago many of (he aar ( garden! are thia year made unprofitable by reason of lack of drainage. MoStplants cannot grow with their roots lnnneriffd In water The plants that are cultivated for food are at a standstill "in growth while the watewptands at the level of the ground. Not JHU ttekwster hat nettled- - ln-t- h enll to- - sqtstMBstiince em below them is lUROtBUlqfQt copioua - jaSi'SSW In- - , "W . . , t, v 4 t 1 t -- -w-- t. v k. re.b " -growth. Around 0i. ' bssosth lands devoted to Ilfutk''' Kro?1ng..w - ?Pqaf " ' , the, ppes,uUBualty,i,hfflBnlBfi water has beep standfn"for' a mon and. t are of near . , surf the t(ie ground j deft vege-ablevast The fields of ga past. about downward. . i diagonally Ending seen on' them are to a large 3X too below ground for a distance' 4 tent spoiled. - An Immense amount f of stem, or rr . four inches. On seedling ' three btien work and manure Las expended bds and newly sdt beds, the mining ; i v oh '. le fields, bill no returns arejtos oil insofhe bita canned these maggots sibli. ,Yet proper drainage would but no jury, sapaclaily.daringt-lftOO- i' make the rains a ' blessing, vacd .rertous r been- observed dn hal trouble should be so wt 11 drained that water bediL though iber nrs . proh-- . ( cqtftng' will not stand at all, hut will ltave ably aumerouititnough to cause some i e the soil in s oeabls condition a fe - The seedhours after even toe ' heaviest ralna weakening qf ,toa planta and , died much When lands are not drained not only lings turned yellow Would naturally do. than earlier they' do tha plants stop, growing while the The maggots changed go puparla?ths soil Is water logged, bjlt the fields v and flaxseed tageiB r the fall small be afterward. cannot tilled for days show on the Infested stem " The soil remains soft and soggy so,. obIon -;. raised spots be-d(lTk.bro, be no that crop tan properly! long I oeator toqteildermhi of the stalk near tended. The land needs .rf.iinn th taM-( , Thoughts Insect, Is not especially after toe turfites has been 1 -- s , r U I . 4-- ' ' ..' I 7 ,v f 1 - if, .. , ..dT,,..,, can be cultivated in.-- dr.-,- . i in a comsurface early in June, so no small shoots' paratively abort ttme dfter the reins should bo allowed to grow on tbs cut-tinhave fallen. We have no doubt that h beds to rscilvs these eggs., i field near Chicago tbs ll1 and fH ,old.ktglks,U represent tho condition of thousands them when dry will destroy of planted fields la the states border burning of tot 'puparta.. many ' mg the lakes i.i It stems strangs. tiisi sifter so long PoUtoes. Hsrxcttlpg , . , campaign in, favor of draining there tot Oes. .The. tlmc'fog harvesting should exist, such large areas still uh- tqdleated . the Vlnea. of tho by. dytnj drained,, especially areas tha art do 1 xlM proceaa,- - In , ths tubers voted to the growlsg pf expensive and goes on .up tq tbl; time, and It la profitable props, Ths tgrlfey ho year therefore not wise to attempt to harafter year noticed the flpld' on 'one vest .before that time;' dug while farm where ator'r'iwk ; , not be w JotmAtura.-toe- . will quality, gomptlmes ,the fields ,qt thia (prm are good as Jt.wlll bs if .the tubers are planted in corn and sometimes Jn po- left Jn the- - ground, till mature, - On tatoes, but. during, every Tkr .there tbs Wthsr.hand, If left too leng In the art seasons when toe crops stand In ground docRy Is likely to set in. Ws the water for weeks at a time.' The have k uun potatos lett to the fluids natural inference Is that even when too ppg till the ground froze toe the water drains trom the surface It bagd ..to permit of diggings This is remains w pear .the 'surface that Mtfle not likely, 4to occur, but has occurred can be expected in the way of crops. some years when Vinter came very And, little (s realized in the way, of eariy. The man wth n small pitch man Is' wonder , that any. cropa Th. ot poUtoes will dig his by band but should contlnus, to ,,jpladt on such toe man tost hM A krs to . land". Drainage, helps . in both rainy be harvested cannot atord qaaaty to do it la and dry weather, but is especially nec- the way, Ha most de- -' essary la rainy weather, .4 s pend on soma of too. potato diggers that are 01 the market. HiH Culture. Laval or , , , Plowing out the tubers Upractlced by Under perfect conditions of soil as some farmers, but this tsiardly a derelates to drainage level cuture Is sirable method, aa by it a Feat many best But there la ab Uttis land where potatoes are Injured. It h better to ths condltloaa of drainage are perfect Invest in a tool made expesaly for tost some hilling is necessary. ; So tbs work, t ! p - n , our forefathers Vers "not far wrong when they hilled up everything, la American Packfng Bai. ' their day (lralnage of say kind was Tbs Stats Department has pCfshed as was given by the following report, from , Jkhard unusual except such ' surface ditches. When toe corn was Westacott, acting consul geneid at -billed up a natural drain was left by London? "T have Recently receM a . toe remorse of the dirt'" This condi- communication trom W. E. Boys, of tion hqlped matters every time there Leicester, cbainqan(,of ths content s has a of too National Federation of Fnit was a freshet . Ths- - man heavy soil .that has so artificial drain- erers, at Cardiff, May 12 and 13, 1&, age must hill or rtdgs top. to save his transmitting a copy of . a. resol otic, ' crop in ths case of a heavy fall of adopted by ths federation, whlx water. Even though the land bo high reads: This federation wishes to cat or rolling a heavy soil needs some your attention to too unsatisfactory treatment of this klrd. Clayey hill- way in . which . American apples are sides hold water to such an sxtent packed- - and asks lfrlt is mot possible that crops are often 'lost' from too tor you to adopt toe same system as much water." The usual inference is Canada, anff have all the apples graded that" too dralaige 1 good because-- , and stamped. With " the government' there Is a slope. This is a mistake, stamp. Byso doing, you will largely as heavy clay holds water for a very Increase the demand for best quality, long period, unless there be means for and, consequently, the price ot Ameridrstring it away from" beneath. In can truJLt. , Qanadlan applet are now case of heavy day oa a hillside being graded fad stamped with the governunderlaid with rwrd er eund we have ment stamp, and for all barrels sent a condition tbat may be counted Ss an out without the stamp the sender fs liafor each barret" exception. Where the land la sandy ble to a fins pf of .course JeveL.ulture may. b folA Government Data Orchard. lowed, unless there are obstructions A dispatch from Phoenlx, Ariona. to ths draining sway of ths water. to ths Chicago Packer says! Ths gov? Some Wheat Tests.? eminent to going into top business of. At the Pennsylvania station some date culture on a large' scale. At tost tests with wheat gm results that experimental station nesr her has. Just- - been-- plantsd toe largest data r--were summarized as follows l - - - t gbard In America, add perhaps In- too ; 1, The yield of gfaln from the different varieties of whdat varied great- world. Five acres hav been planted with various kin da of data trees Imly. 2. The bearded varieties gave toe ported from Africa, besides about 1,000 Tbs Department of Agrilargest yield of grain and of straw, seedlings' and the grain per measured bushel culture" seem to have no doubt that was heavier than that produced by ths data palm will ultimately solve ths problem' of what' to do with the the beardless or sroodth varieties. arid and alkali lands ot Arizona and 2. In general, the smooth, chaff vaother parts of ths West. Experiments . Hesrieties were injured more by, the have demonstrated the greet possibilisian fly than tb bearded chaff. varie- ties of , . industry t ... . , . ties, ' 4. Late sown wheat was Injured leu 1 Reports from the potato growers Intoy the Hessian fly than that sown dicate that ths yK'd ,of potatoes Is early, likely to be good,' as they are being ex- 6. The difference huthe yield of the tensively1 gfown (bis year ail over toe varieties may be accounted for is part country where potatoes are grown at atany, time.. The high prices- - of poUby the difference in the severity of toes during the past year has stimutack by the Hestan fly. lated the growing of this article of Water In Wood. food. Not only bas toe field acreage Green wood contains fully- - 45 per been Increased, as shown by governcent of water,- and thorough season- ment report, but the gardens have a ing usually expels but 26 pee cent of larger Crop of potatoes thah usuaL, There are millions of such1 gardens to. this fluid. the counter ad their output.' Vhilw usunot entering iato bommeree. Will', Anything you get for nothing a figure la dhe touia ally Is not worth, that much. g. Pull-lnwjt- water-covere- d - -- t, t fat-clas- v'-- 1. "Get Out of This Village as Quickly ' as Yoq Can." be mors depressing after a long days ' . " Journey? v , K There - ar several other , signs In toe tramp ' language, most of .them more intricate than the foregoing and Some iof them no well known, bnt w have contented ourselves with telling about the' signs most commonly used by the fraternity of the'road. - Wrecked by Magnetle dand. too district of Stavanger, In too southwestern part of Nor wsy. t here is g place called Jaederen, a' fiat strip of coast less than a'mlle long, which (s notorious for shipwrecks." says Gar--. Now a NorweJenlattboCAprll 2i). gian physicist has discovered that toe sand of Jaederen is strongly magnetic, owing. to an admixture, of ;magnet(e. iron ore. He found, also, that gt a distance of three miles from the shore a ships compass showed a deviation of a whole degree from Its true' position. The tause of the numerous shipwrecks, therefore, la obvious,"' V The writer suggests that this effect n the comphss may have originated tod old stories Of toe des true Uon or.T esse Is by magnetle mountains, although these stories seem to have bean, current before toe compass was in common use. " "In Couldnt Tell AIL "Harold," she' add, the letter you wrote me while you Were away was beautiful. f Was proud to receive It." "Were you?" he responded, his eyas glowing with pleasure.- - ,, . "Yea And yet I could not help feeling that It was not from yourself J "Didnt you recognize the handwrlt-tng?- " " f But I felt that you were not speaking to ms Just you felt that there were things lq your mind which you did not sty 7" -O er of course. It was certainly of you to discover that, You clever "People Hare Will Give You Food.J Tcolildnt tell jroti alt that wits In 1 an omen of evil to the tramp. In- See, mind.- -l wrote that letter with a dicating a atony-hearte- d refusal of my ' his gentle pleadings and the possible fountain pea." "firlng-out- " of himself (Tom the farm. Enough. yard by some Indignant owner. i If, back of a chair, without untying ths however, a large cross be inserted In Mr. Harry de Wlndt. in hls book. woulti cords, he perhaps draw his the Circle, then the sign tells a very "Finland As It da," tells of a mot of sword and cut toe cords wfth one blow. different story a atory which sends Andrea, the Arctic explorer.; Just beWe will show him how can Its tfstelatained reader' hurrying' up fore hfa last voyage he was'drlven to be done without as follows the path" to the back door. For now distraction at a dinnerparty' by a Take hold of the cord at A, pull it It reads:? The people here will give talkative neighbor. "But bow will you know, professor And your .genuine tramp through the handle B and carry it over you food. the, dotted, lines. - This will free ths never declines food that Is to be had when you have really crossed the a one of many scissors without breaking the cord. for f the asklng-unle- ss It be a pie North Pole?" silly t made by.th nealy-marrie' dlplomee question. - enough, The lazy man wants things leveled of toe cookery shool.v "Oh. that wtS h The tramp Is not always allowed msdame down, Ths ambitious , cue tries t replied Andree, with his . to approach and lesvi q house or welhknown dry humor. A north rind have them evened up. farm In peace.' "As I have befort re- - will become a one!" t Yes. - ti ,, Ey to uk 1 4 I I tbt -- t - F ( - cut-quit- A Clay soil to do Its best thoroughly pulverized. . must be - v ! VtiPt. - k- - V- Draining helps both In time drought and In time of freshet I 5 I ! , If by-wa- , - " I very, have--been a Peat.- tir y "id rates , An Asparagus says: rrsrs bordering werk-baler- s guage, whereby any 'member of the brotherhood, following In the' steps of a pioneer, may learn what fate has In store for him In the wayof good or had luck at the various places ha visits. The writer privileged to hsv this curious explained to hfm by a venerable and grizzled member of the tramp fraternity! an interesting old ruffian ' "confessed been that '.Ue and tramping the high-road- s tor the last forty years,' during which period bd had done about a fortnights honest work.- j t j The signs ave th's merit $f being easily fumade; a . piece, of, ghalk or whiting and a bandy . wall or fence are all, that is required, When made they are quite unintelligible to the layman, and look very like the mtw-legles- s gcrawla of cboot children, who have purloined a fragment of the teachers irhalk. That.the marks' are hot - meaningless, i ttoweveiV M abundantly proved by thtf ...following unIllustrations, which were prepared " der, the supervision of toy Damp irV-Vfriend. S . I i Si ? . The members of the fraternity not being, as n rule, nrtlstlcall gifted, the marks are distinguished by their absolute simplicity;,-- There js bo sign which cannot be drawn" in an instant by the most ' unskilled hand. Taka, for Instance, the first sign-w- e reproduce here. This showS ?mpfe circle, drawn on n wall, nnd yet t conveys to the eye of the Initiated tramp the unwelcome Information! No good to call here." Some other, tramp has happened along this way,; has 'called at this farm house .with a modest request for food or money, and has been repulsed. Therefore he has left behind him, a warning"-t- o wnyl fellow-tram- p who may be on the same road. And Weary Willie gives the Inhospita" ' ble dwelling a wida berth.'. ; Ws bate aeeu. fhat a plaltk clreie of' "'Z I ft - of :1 |
