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OLD GAMES FOR THE YOUNG
Blindfolded Player Mutt Recognize
Othert by Feeling With Large
8poon Instead of Hand.
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In the game called "A Spoonful of
run," Instead of feeling with hla
handi In order to discover who It la
that he has caught, the blind man la
given a Urge spoon which he uses as
wand. Aa in "Silence," the players
must all remain perfectly still. Direct
ly he succeeds In finding some one
the blindfolded player tries, by deftly
touching him here and there with the
spoon, to discover who it Is. As It Is
much easier than anybody who has
not tried can possibly imagine to dis
cover the identity of a person by
spoon touching, It is best for the un
blindfolded players to try and disguise
themselves as much as possible.
Some might stand on tiptoe to make
.themselves appear taller, others tie
handkerchiefs round their necks or
wrap themselves up In shawls; and
the boys might remove their telltale
collars or put on their overcoats.
CLEVER AFTER-DINNER TRICK
Plate May Be Lifted by Common Rad-
Ish by Butting In Half and
I Pressing Against 8urface.
1 Cut a radish in half, press the low
er surface firmly against a plate, as
Is shown in the diagram, and you can
Radish Lifts Plato.
lift the plate, to which it clings as
closely as a boy's wet leather disk to
the pavement.
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A Boy's
I One of the most serious troubles
that I had when a boy was'the scold
ings I received from farmers for dig
King up their pastures and meadows
in unearthing woodchucks. Rail
fences and post piles had to suffer
when old Shep chased a woodchuck
Into his bole or under them. One of
the boys would usually keep an eye
out (or the farmer, while the rest of
us would throw posts and rails and
did for Mr. Woodchuck.
One summer nearly every boy in
our neighborhood had a pet wood
chuck, that was kept in a cage, and
some of them became very tame and
would eat from our hands, clover,
grass, apples and sweet corn, which
are their favorite articles of food.
Woodchucks usually burrow near or.
chards or pastures and are easy to
MISS MUFFET AT FOOD SHOW
How Much Did She Weigh After Eat
ing 8even Kinds of Food and Gath
ering Many Packages. -
Tou remember that In Mother
Goose Miss Muffet was very found of
curds and whey. She liked other
things, too. Listen:
When Miss Mullet visited the food
show she ate seven different kinds of
breakfast food and gathered ten
pounds of sample packages. Then
she stepped on the free weighing ma
Miss Muffet at Food Show.
chine and found that her weight had
increased 10 per cent; whereas, if she
had eaten twice as much breakfast
food the gain would have been 11 per
cent
Can you tell how much Miss Muffet
weighed when she arrived at the food
showf
At the food show Miss Muffet
weighed 1111-8 pounds when she ar
rived. She ate one and one-ninth
pounds of breakfast food and gath
ered ten pounds of samples, which In
creased her weight 10 per cent
RIDDLE8.
What Is the difference between a
mother and a barber?
The latter has razors to shave, and
the former has shavers to raise.
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Why are the stars the best astrono
mers? Because they have studded (stud
ied) the heavens since the creation.
Why Is a schoolmistress like th
letter CT
Because she forms lasses Into
classes.
Why Is It Impossible for a person
who lisps to believe In the existence
of young ladles?
Because with him every miss Is a
myth.
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trap. A No. 1 or No. 2 trap is usually
used and Is set in their holes and cov
ered with leaves and dirt This 1 not
necessary, however, as they are nol
suspicious animals and are easily
caught In a trap.
They are very much disliked by
farmers on account of the danger ol
farm animals breaking a leg by stoo
ping in their holes. . .
A full grown woodchuck will put ub
a game tight against a dog. anf when
in thin flesh in the spring it takes
good dog to master one.
W. M. K.
To Remove Stains.
Grass stains may be removed from
washable fabrics by . rubbing with
fresh lard before washing.
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Markets of the World Art Open for
ii i oaay, and the Supply Seems
Undiminished.
If you ask any dealer what Ivory
cnieny used for at the present
day, he will renlv at nn. "Ti.nn
Jteys."
America Imports Ivory from the
fast cant of Africa exclusively for
billiard balls, cutlery handles, brush-
ware ana toilet articles. It also en
terS into the ninnfantnra nf nnmhsii
less little ornaments and articles of
general use, such as statuettes, cruci
fixes, paper cutters, workbox fittings,
toys and chessmen.
The most Valu&hla nf all la tha
"scrfvalloe," to which I have referred
as oeing used la the making of bil
liard balls, and on an tvnran threa
Dana or line quality are got out of a
ouiw: ma, ivory balls, however,
have now formidable rivals In ben
sollne and other comnonitlrm m-to-
rials. and In regard to quite a num-
Der or articles which used to be fash
toned out of ivory, celluloid and bone
take its place.
There Is little wasta product from
ivory. A use is found for cuttings,
shavings and scraps left over after
mam processes have been completed.
India takes large quantities of the
rings lert after the turning, of bil
liard balls, and uses them to make
women's bangles and small toys and
models, in which the cunning hand
of the native craftsman excels. The
dust Is used in pollshlnK and In the
preparation of Ivory black and India
ink, and I am told it may also be
utilized as food in the form of ivory
Jelly, a delicacy of which I have no
personal knowledge.
Elephants are carefully nreserved
in many districts. If . the ancient
quadruped is really destined to fol
low the mammoth and the cave bear,
and cease to walk the earth, he is in
no hurry to go. He would be a rash
man who would venture to predict
wnen the last tusker may be expect
ed to vanish from the scene and the
last parcel of animal ivory be deliver
ed at the 'London docks. London
Post
Too Many Prominent People.
We desire to call attention to the
alarming increase in prominent peo
ple. If this thine keens un we shall
all be hopelessly Involved. There
was a time wnen it was possible to
know practically all of the Drominent
people there were. For Instance, in
tne old Roman days you could keef
track ol Julius Caesar up in Gaul, and
Cicero, Lucullus, Horace, Vergil and
all the others that were worth know
ing could almost be counted on the
fingers of both hands.
But today everybody is more or less
prominent, and becoming more so.
The only solution that we can think
of Is to become acquainted with the
people who are not prominent. They
fill a small but select society and they
are better people to know, anyway.
They have modesty and are not push
ing themselves forward, and they wear
better in the long run. Life.
Smile Means Much. "
"The smile is one of the greatest
assets of the successful salesman or
saleswoman," says the manager of a
department store linen department
"It makes friends for the store as
readily as do moderate prices and
good goods.
"The ability to smile for eight hours
a day Is a trait hard to acquire and
possessed by few store help. Yet it
can be gained by constant practice
the watching of oneself and not pei
mltting at any time the slightest indi
cation of a frown.
"I recall my first purchase in a New
York department store. I was direct
ed to the counter where I could find
the special article of my choice. I
was met by a gruff 'What is It?' from
the salesman. I recall I said. 'Noth.
lng,' and I haven't been in that store
since."
Small Mercies.
The young English tourist who had
been staying for a week at a hotel
in the Scottish highlands, for the pur
pose of taking advantage of the fish
ing, was, at the end of that time,
rather Inclined to think that the fish
ing had taken advantage of him. He
had caught nothing, and his expenses,
of course, had been none the less
heavy.
On thn last day of his stay, how
ever, he landed a fine salmon.
"Well, Donald," he said to a canny
Scot at the hotel, as he proudly sur
veyed the fish; "it's a nice catch, and
so it ought to be. It has cost me 16
at least"
"Aweel," replied Donald calmly, "it's
a gr-great bleasln' ye dldna catch ony
malrr Cassell's Saturday Journal
In a 8trange Place.
Little Alice was visiting her grand
parents In an eastern city. One Bun
day grandpa took her to church with
him. When sermon time came Mary
looked around a little, and, seeing a
relative up in the gallery, whispered
shrilly: "Oh, grandpa, look up there!
See Cousin Mary sitting on a shelf 1"
A GREAT many Americans who
go to London never visit any
but the small area confined
in Fleet street, the Strand.
Regent street, Piccadilly Cir
cus and the district of the hotels.
shops and theaters. But it is safe to
ay that if one has a taste for tha
ancient and the picturesque, a month
or more could be spent to advantage
in exploring the dlnsv. foe huns lanaa
of the great English caDital In search
of the monuments of the past a writer
eays in the New York Evening Post
This does not means such well known
structures as Westminster Abbey, the
Tower. Or St. Paul's hut thn
houses and buildings which once knew
the tread l bygone eenlua diatinA.
tlon.
In a City where
cheaD the rata la lfi rnt
motor vehicles traveling about is too
easy to be regarded as a task. This
is all the more true when the general
excellence of London's m athnHa nr 11 r
ban and suburban transportation are
considered. The various underground
unes, me tramways and the motor
buses link UD the various ritatrVta nf
the great, rambling community on the
Thames, while the railroads' suburban
services apnroach and excelienca
known In the United States.
Only Drawback the Climate.
Of the amusement facilities of inn.
don it is scarcely necessary to speak.
u it were not for the climate and its
inevitable effect on the temperament
of the Londoners the city would nmh.
ably have as much of a reputation for
gayety as Paris. There are plenty of
means of diversion besides slrhtaoa.
lng. Theaters abound; the shops, es
pecially those for men's clothes, are
extremely good, and the hotels are the
best in the kingdom. Drinciuallv lu.
cause the Increasing number of Ameri
can tourists visiting London has com
pelled local Hotel proprietors to cater
to their wants.
For the rest even the most nnintcm.
estlng sections of the city have their
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crtAErrcRnousL
attractions for the traveler who Is
willing to pass a little time In seldom
trodden byways. Even so compara
tively prosalo and uninteresting a sec-
lion as Marylebone road can boast of
connecting links with great names of
the past At 1 Devonshire terrace
Charles Dickens lived from 1839 to
lf(l, and here he wrote "Barnaby
Rudge," "Dombey and Son," "The
Christmas Carol" and others of his
works. Sir John Herschel, the astro
nomer, spent more than a decade at
66 Devonshire street WImpole street,
one of the divergent highways of the
district Is that same "long, unlovely
street" of which Tennyson spoke in, his
"In Memoriam." Henry Hallam lived
at No. 67. At 7 Bentlnok street to
the east of Manchester square, Ed
ward Gibbon maintained his bachelor
quarters from 1772 to 1783 and wrote
the first half of the "Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire."
This single neighborhood is cited as
typical of the countless similar streets
and quarters which tourists seldom
visit where the memories of the past
are thick for those who can appreciate
them.
From the statistical point of view,
London's sire Is almost appalling. The
population of all England in the reign
of Edward III., when the victories at
Crecy and Poictlers raised England to
the position of paramount military
power In the modern world, was
scarcely 2,000,000. The population of
Greater London today Is 7,637,000, and
is spread out over an area of 700 '
square miles. London proper, or the
administrative county of London, has
an area of 18 square miles and a
population of about 6,000,000. It con
tains 8,000 streets, more than 8,000
miles long; 6,600 public houses, 1,700
coffee houses and 600 hotels and Inns.
London Is said to number among Its
citizens more Scotchmen than there
are in Aberdeen, more Irish than in
Dublin, more Jews than Palestine and
more Roman Catholics than In Rome.
There are 16,000 American residents
in the city, and more than 100,000 pass
through It every year.
Captlal's Commerlcal Quarter. -The
city, the old city of London, and
the east end, or that part of London
east of the temple, from the commer
cial quarter. The west end is the
quarter that snends money makes and
regulates the fashions. This Is the
part best known to tourists. Here
are situated the nalaces and man.
slons, the clubs, museums, picture gal
leries, theaters, hotels, barracks, gov
ernment offices and principal build
ings, joined together by broad, hand
some streets and wide parkB and open
spaces. Across the Thames, on Its
right bank, "the Surrey side " Ilea tha
ancient borough of Southwark, known
irom time immemorial as The Bor
ough." continued to tha went hv
Lambeth and Battersea, the three
forming tne principal Industrial and
factory district of the cltv. And he-
low Southwark, stretching toward the
mouth of the river, lie the several con
stituent muncipallties of Bermondsey,
Rotherhlthe, Deptford, Greenwich and
Woolwich, all crammed with trade.
It Is a very proud city, Is London,
set In its ways, and impatient of In
novation, for It traces Its being far
back through the misty records of
Anglo-Saxon times to the reign of the
Emperor Constantine in the fourth
century, when the massive Roman
wall, remains of which are still to be
seen, was built around the city by that
ruler's order. William the Conqueror
found London a city of more than
30,000 inhabitants, and though he built
the keep of the present tower to in
sure peace among the citizens he was
very chary of London's liberties.
One of the earliest English charters
of which there Is record Is that which
he granted the men of London in re
turn for their allegiance and which
says:
"William King greets William
bishop and Oosfrlth portreeve and all
the burghers within London, French
and English, friendly; and I do you .
to wit that I will that ye be all law
worthy that were in King Edward's
day. And I will that every child be
his father's heir after his fathar'a
and I will not endure that any man
ouer any wrong to you. God keen
you." . "
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