Show FIRE PICTURES A pretty after dinner pastime can surprise and amuse your VOU arlenda very much by lighting a JL match blowing it out when halt buritt and with the till glowing matchstick match stick a sheet of blank paper A of alre will start from thi coln t you apply th match aldrun over ihfe paper in all borta ot ways leaving aca hand it a burned trace which when completed will form a name a picture of an animal or any other design you choose the paper ot course has been prepared beforehand and in a very simple manner AH you have to do c to trace the design with a pen brush or a stick dipped into strong solution 0 saltpetre salt petre the drawing need not bo made ot one continuous line but it all be connected together them must be no detached parts as the spark has to travel from point to point the solution 0 saltpetre salt petre la colo and leaves no mark on the capr which appears perfectly blank indeed it as pencil dot at borne ne ceary to make fl point of the lines of the drawing so that you will know where to apply the burning match saltpetre Salt petre which la also called alre and potassium nitrate contains a barbs amount ot oxygen which it gives up readily to euch as wood and paper burnlee or charrene charr lne them ordinary burning or char ring indeed Is due to tho action of the oxygen ot the air hence the parts ot the pap runder the saltpetre salt petre drawing very and a sink applied to one point run along the whole design i tho paper along the course of tho tal talner nir has been converted into a bort of by the addition ot the saltpetre salt petre tor gunpowder Is nothing but a mixture 0 aalt petre with charcoal and the more combustible sulphur A rin vicT Cui y |