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A CONFESSION.
i remember, little wife,
T1MB8 ENTERPRISE, THOIfASVILLE.
r how we two
_ ettre into each other'* ejrec,
the earth grew heavenly biue, y
** waa lost in happy sightf *
Boron another thing rseall, ^
Jut wed to happen often then;
- / "a*-, amply pissing in the hail,
*. Wed atop to amileond hiss again?
'* Bo yon remember how I aat
And, reading, held your hand in mi
CnraMing it with gentle pat—
Bne pet for every bleaaed Jine?
Boron recall while at the play /
Tnrough hour* of agony we tarried?
The lovers grief brought us dismay;
, vh, we rejoiced when they were married.
■^h. me. 'twn year* and years ago y
. When a-1 *UiJs ha opened that I sing. '
And many a time the winter snow
* *“• slipped from olive slopes of spring.
‘And now—ob. nonsense; let us tell;
^.A Jg for laugh of maids or men;
yoolfbideyonrhliiAhrs? I’ll not. Well—
U«rn ten times worse than we were
Hemlcnon, in the Century.
So corlj la tbo morning Mlu Dury
mode Another trip to the poitofflce.
Her benevolent friend woe not there.
A young end baelueMlIke official lie-'
tened to what ahe had to aajt, then
went away and returned with the In
formation that the letter had been for
warded on Ita addreaa.
“I thought It waa atopppil," ah* cried.
“It'a been (topped," will the Joiing
man. erlapty; "alnpped, held twchfr-.
four honra, uncalled for, and forward
ed. Tliat'a the rule, You ahonld liavo
railed for It."
Till* time Ml*< Dnrjr went home with
dull deapeIr In her heart. She remained
In her room all day on Ike plea of a
headache. A hundred tlmea ahe aahl
to heraelf: "Oh, why did I tell him
that my dedalon waa unalterable!”
JTIAT the atuwer would
have been If Chnrlle Hldcot
had proponed In peraon la
dotibirnl. it la tolcrnhly
j] certain that lie would not
hare Im-cii ao eloiiucnt na lie
waa In Ilia letter. Ho would never have
had the face to aay what he did nbout
Aflat Drnry’a countenance and grace*
of peraon and tuind generally.
• Thn letter wna tender yet tllgnlOcd.
hopeful but not aelf-naanrrd, poetical
almost, but free of anything like maud
lin aertlmenlallty. Ilia conrae wna
dliallffyd to an extent by the letter that
Mlaa Drury wrote In reply. Hho did
not odopt a llfthtand frlrolotta tone at
lepni. Hero la what ahe wrote:
i "Sty Dear Mr. Hldcot-Yonr loiter
waa a aurttrlhe to me, for I Imd no Idea
that the feeling you entertained for me
waa of the nature which It expreaacr.
Will you forgive me If I aay that I am
•OrryT I am not Inaenalble to the honor
yon have done me, I prlao ynnr frlend-
atyp highly, and Irnat that I may retain
Ih In aplte of the faet Hint I cannot hc-
Vome yonr wife. Yon will thank tnc
for thla some day—when yon have
fonntl aonto nice girl morn worthy of
you, for I am by no menu, the perfect
I creature you eeeni to Imagine me. Re
aaaurrd, tpjr dear Mr. Hldcot. that I
havo nqfr made thla dcclalott without
roflect)6ii, and that having made II
nothfbg can alter It. Yonr true and
aiur-ere friend.
r "KRNKHTINK DUItY.
Having concluded thla opiatic. Mlaa
Dory read It over tivo or three tlmea.
penalvely chewing of Hie fate
ful l>en. Then ahe aaltlt “I'll go and
mall It and get It off my mind.”
She pul on her hnl and Jacket, walked
bclakly to the mall Itox at the corner
V>f the atrcct, dropped the letter therein
and cloaed the aldt with a reeoundhig
“There!" ahe anld.
j
Why ahe Mid It In that vindictive
\r«y la Just ns nitirli n mystery na her
bursting Into tear* when she regained
lier room, Her alster heard her sobbing
live minutes Inter, ntul tiirentened to
kick In n panel of the door nnd rouse
the household If she were not ndinitted.
“Well,” mkml the slater, when Er
nestine uulocked the door, “whnt's nil
(hit about r
• “Charlie»wrote me n proposal nnd
!’?• Just written refusing hlin-nml
mailed the letter/* the girl gurgled l»e.
tifccn oobs.
I “What are you boo-hooing nbout then.
If you didn't wnnt him?" Inquired tin*
nlater. “I thought you liked him,
though/
r'“I do-oo-oo.”
' “Then why did you refuse him?”
“I dou't kuow. Oh, what shall I do?”
The alster looked nt her with con
tempt.
“Stop tho letter, silly,”
Ernestine Jumped from the bed. her j
•yes shlnlug. “Cnu I?“ she cried.
• “Why, of course you can/ replied the i
alater. “Here, yon Just bn the your eyes
and I’ll aneak down to the telephone
and call up the postofflee. I.et me go.
I don't want rou weeping all over my
•took.”
She came back In a few miuuies.
•It'a all right," she said. “Only you'll
have to go down to the poMofflco your-
■elf and sigu au application, lt’sdn
Room 12.”
Jflsa Bury raailc her reconl lime
ffreaalng for r. ilownlnwn trip.
Room 12 of the iKMtoltlcc hiilhllng >li
At about 8 o'clock the maid rapped
at her door. “Mrt Hhlcot la downalaln,
tnlM,” ah* aaM.
MIm Dhry got down aomebotv. Some
how It happened that without anything
being aahl by cither person, abe found
heraelf unrealallngly In Mr. Hidcot's
einhynee.
A long lime after that ahe anld: “But,
f'lurllc, I don't underatand yet You
got that awful letter 1 wrote."
"Yea," anawered Hldcot “f got
nnd for four honra I waa the moat
mlaerable man on earth. If I lindn'
accidentally picked up Ibe envelope
and examined It, I should still be.'
lie took an envelope from bis breast
pocket The back of It was decorated
with large blue stamps. One read
“Htopped nt the' Request of Hender.
Tho other: “Uncalled for. Forwarded
November —, 1004."—Chicago News.
HOW PINS_ARE MADE.
EDWARD WILLISTON FRENTZ.
Dividing ths Tip.
Tipping lmi been reduced to n very
flue system in some English hotels and
restaurants. “I was sitting at meat
with the manager of one of the well
known Loudon restaurants,” soya
writer. “*I am short-sighted and un
observant/ I said, 'and as I never know
one waiter from another, I’m always
uneasy lest I’ve tipped the wrong one,
The manager laughed. 'Frits, bring
the book/ he said. The book was
opened upon tho table and disclosed
columns nnd rows of figures opposite
the names of waiters. Between them
the manager and Frits explained the
system.
“Every penny given In tips was cast
into a common fund. In charge of
waiter elected by Ills fellows. At tho
end of tho week the sum was distrib
uted. Three classes were arranged by
the manager, according to efficiency,
itnd the shares were iti corresponding
proportions, so that the junior who
hovers with the sauce is by no means
equally rewarded with the expert who
can advise In the matter of wine.
“Walters keep a jealous eye on their
fellows, and the man suspected of
pocketing n tip finds his position un
tenable. The system Is good for the-
public, sluce it diminishes the unpleas-
ing personality of a charitable action.
!t Is good, too, for the waiters, since
that record of the weekly gratuities
showed that the best wnlters made
about 12000 n year In tips.”—Newark
(X. J.) Sunday Call.
Poor Homan Natoro.
Human nature Is a ftinuy mix-up.
lie average man nnd woman seem to
mr.de tip, for n good part, of coin
plaints—“kicks"-and when they travel
they especially enjoy, turning them
loose.
The man who is accustomed to wood-
bottoinpd chairs nt home Is the man
ho complains most nl>out the hard
scats on the train.
The woman who finds the most fault
If she ever docs have to stand Is the
one who, when tho opportunity comes,
expects to m*pupy two or three seats
with parcels.
The man who loafs away thrce-r#uar
tors of Ills time Is the one who Is the
most unreasonably impatient if tho
train Is a few minutes late..
T|te woman who hates children Is the
one who thinks it brutal that she isn’t
permitted to take her dog into tlie chair
ear.
The man who “cats around!" at the
twenty-flve-cent restaurants Is the sur
est "kicker" In the dining car.
The man who is in a business that
considers 200 per cent, profit legitimate
is the one who walls loudest about
tort Innate fares.
The woman who lives In a four-room
flat Is the one who finds inowt fault
with the close quarters of the slrepiug
car.—Four Track News.
lls«l to tilv* tho r«B to tho Ifrlrio.
A young couple who desired to sur
round their nuptials with additional
glamour were married In thi* Mayor’s
* a few days ago. After ihe Mayor
had pronounced tlie benetk otlou the
» happy groom passed over a braud-ne
i llve-dollitr note as a fee. Ills Honor
gracefully transferred tho note to tho
found a nice, benevolent-looking oh! J bride with the suggestion that it bo
gentleman, who nsked her why she j applied to the start In hoiso-keeping.
wanted to atop the letter, nnd then.: The couple departed in such. n blissful
pitying her epufusiou. gave her u blank ! icood tlia» the Mayor was all smiles
to sign nnd told her to make her mind ' as he resumed his duties. Yesterday
•aay—that the letter would l>e stopped, the bride called, wearing .. gloomy nir.
She could call him up by telephone dur
ing the evening If ahe pleased and he
could teil her if it had been found.
Mias Dury departed, greatly
and on the way home began
to outline another letter ou a different
After dinner she called up the
f on the telephone and was in-
J that the letter was stopped.
The riext morning she awaited the
arrival of the postman with more thnu
ordinary eagerness, and her heart sank
wtien abe found tbqt her letter was not I
returned to her. still, it might come
at noon. It did not, tor did it come on
the 4 o'clock delivery, she was nat
urally worried, but after fUl the great
wag waa that the letter w^s stopped.
That waa what ahe aahl to lt\r sister.
“Why, they won't return »t\to you,
'goti big goose,” aahl the alater. “You
“What's the trouble?” asked, the Mayor,
who remembered her. “I wish you had
taken thut *5. Before wo were out
«>f the City Ilali my husluail wanted
it back. I wouldn't give it to bim, and
we fought over it until now we’re
separated. If anybody else.comes along
to be married nnd offers you money,
.Hke it. Maybe it will save trouble
afterward.’’—Philadelphia Record.
I'npUMuUjr NuscNtiT*.
When the editor of an English paper
received a tine chickcu he believed it to
be a token from some appreciative
leader. After the editor had enjoyed
dinner in which the supposed gift
played a part, he received e letter from
r mail who said: “I sent you n chicken
in order to settle a dispute which lias
. ari/tfu here. Can ydw tell.us what tl|«
HB to call (k it He told that/' , chicken dltd cCVVAlbany Journal* ^
( IO0U IIM Woman who sends to
the nearest small-wures
^1' O shop for a paper of pins
* K may think, If she thinks
fOW nbout It nt hi), thdt she is
getting a lulll't article which represents
tdUdtVrtt civilized life and domestic con
venience as few other simple things do.
In a sense she Is right; yet pins are
among the very oldest of human con
trivances—so old that they have been
found nmnng the debris of tlie prehis
toric European cave-dwellers, nml
found of n shape nnd size which seem
startlingly modern.
Brass wire plus were permanently
introduced into England In 1540 by
Catherine Howard, the Quccu of Henry
VIII., who brought them from France,
although they were not unknown there
In the previous century. As they were
first made, the manufacture of a single
pin Involved thirteen or fourteen dif
ferent operations, which were per
formed by hand, by ns many different
liersons. The points were tiled by
band, and the nends, made of *a sep
arate piece of fine wire, were twisted
on by hand. Holld-bead plus are a lit
tle more than one hundred years old.
They were first made in England by
Timothy Harris. In 1707.
The first pins to be produced ill the
United States were made la Rhode Is!
and. during the Revolution, by Jere
miah Wilkinson. A machine for pro
ducing Kolld-beaded pins was brought
out by a New Hampshire man in 1824;
but the first machine for making plus
such ns are in use to-day was perfected
in 1831 by I)r. John I. Howe, a phy
sician in Bellevue Hospital, New York.
From that time to the present. Im
provements in plr.-imTklng machinery
have been made, until now the most
modern pins complete the pin automat
ically In every way without the use of
human lia ids except for the coloring
and polishing.
The process begins with a spool or
reel of brass wire of tlie right size for
the sluiuk of the pin. When the ma
chine Is started, a pair of pincers seize
the end of the wire and draw out a
portion of It which runs between fixed
steel studs, nnd Is thereby straightened.
Two clamps, or “checks,” now grasp
the end of the wire, nnd « cutter de
scends and cuts off enough for one pin.
A small portion of tlie wire Is left pro
jecting from these cheeks, nnd from
this projection the head of the pin is
formed by three rapid blows of a form
ing die, which advance one-twentieth
of an Inch after each blow.
The pin, now released from the
clamps, drops to nn inclined steel plane
provided with grooves Just large
enough to admit the shank, but not
Inrgc enough to allow the bead to pass
through. Held In place by these
grooves, the pins slide slowly down
the iucllncd plane until the pins begin
to come In contact with a revolving
cylinder underneath.
This cylinder-revolves on nn nxls
parallel to the line of grooves down
lileli the pins are crawling. The sur
face of It is cut into corrugations like
those on the face of n tile. Indeed, the
cylinder Is iiclthcy more nor less than
great revolving tile. As It comes In
contact with the pins on one side only,
uml ns the pins ore steadily moving
down the groove, the two forces* to
gether give them a rotary motion,
that the revolving tile gradually tapers
the points evenly on all sides. By tho
time the pin reaches the end of the
groove It has become fully pointed.
The pins, which drop from
grooves Into receptacles placed for
them, are next 'Cleaned from grease.
In England this is accomplished by
boiling them In weak beer; In this
country by dipping them in an alkaline
solution. They are now ready for tin
wing.
In a copper pan ore placed alternate
layers of pins and finely ground tin.
Over this Is poured a solution of bitar
trate of potash. The application of
heat produces a solution of tin which
coats all the pins.
The polishing Is accomplished by
placing the/pins in barrels partially
filled with bran or sawdust. These
barrels are then made to spin on axles,
nnd the pins are polished by tho fric
tion.
Tlie machinery by whkh pins are
papered" Is almost as Interesting ns
that by which they are made. It is the
Invention of n Connecticut man. who
thereby accomplished n great saving of
labor. In np|»earnnce It Is a steel 1h»x
twelve inches long, six inches wide and
four inches deep, beneath which is a
sliding rack or frame which seizes the
papers and crimps them into divisions
wide as the pin is long. In opera
tion, two children manage the machine,
one feeding the pins to the box, the
other the papers to the rju'k. The bot
tom of the box is composed of square
steel bars, placed at such distance
apart as to allow the shanks of the
pins to drop through, but not the heads.
The width of the bars is the same as
the space which will separate \he pins
hen they have been placed in the
paper.
By a racking motion these bars shake
the plus down until n row is formed
across the bar. The pins qro now
clamped In place for an instant by the
bars, while a fold of the paper under
neath is thrust up against them' until
they are pressed home to place. The.
rack then pushes forward a second
fold of the paper, ami u second row of
pins Is Inserted; and so on until the
paper is filled.
cess la combined with that which in*
serfs them in the papers. Instead of
beiug first polished and then placed In
th& shallow steel boxes, they go at
once from the tinning bath to a barrel-
like box of bran, tlie bottom of which
is cut Into silts Just big enough to pass
the body of the pin, but not the head.
The bran cools nnd polishes the pins
at the same time; nnd constant oscil
Intlon of the barrel shakes the pins
down lu orderly rows, ready for the
folds of paper which n jerk of the nin
chine presses up against them.
France, (ierraany and England are
all large manufacturers of pins, and so
is the United Ktatss. In this countfy
forty-three factories, employing more
than two thousand operatives, are en
gaged in the business. The principal
sent of the industry is Connecticut.
Some Idea of the vast number of pins
used may lie gathered from the fact
that iu the year 1000-tbe Inst for
which figures are obtainable—the num-
her of pins made In the United States
was sixty-eight million eight hundred
and eighty mine thousand two hundred
and sixty gross.—Youth’s Companion.
CHILDRENS DEPARTMENT!
A GAME AND AN EXPERIMENT.
Hlata’ror th* Kye».
Shade the eyes from the full glare of
sunlight.
When the eyes are weak, sleep all
that is possible.
Keep soap and dust out of the eyes.
.Never rend or use the eyes for fine
work during twilight.
Whenever an eye is injured, call in
an experienced oculist at once.
.Never exiiose the eyes needlessly to
dust or flying particles of any kiud.
Have nu abundance of good, steady
light for any work you may have on
baud.
Let the light come to your eyes from
one side or from above, not from iu
front.
Do not work iu a poor light, ami
avoid a glaring light, as It may be as
bad as too little light.
Do not use a flickering light for read-
lug or sewing. Use a lamp with
large burner and use good oil.
When the eyes are hot, nnd heavy
bathe them in cold or tepid water, and
do not confine them too closely to any
sort of work.
Whenever the eyes ache or are easily
fatigued use them as little as possible,
and look up frequently from the work
to rest them.
When reading, hold the head erect
and nt a distance from the light, and
do not bend the head over the work
uny more thnn Is possible.
Avoid poorly printed books with poor
paper nnd poor type, and do not read
when riding lu cars or carriages, nor
when convalescent from a protracted
llness, nor when the whole body is lu
a weakened state.—Health.
Cold
.Many virtues have been aseffbed to
cob! waves; it is conceded that they
have some. Tlielr utility, however, is
largely inferential, while their disad
vantages are dlrec^ nnd effective. Se
vere freezes are beneficial to the extent
of disintegrating soils and making
available tbe materials that nre neces
sary to support plant life; the heavy
snow usually, an Incidental feature
over limited districts, gives warmth to»
the ground, thereby protecting some
cereal crops. Professor Moore. Chief
of the Weather Bureau, sustains thp
position thut the dry-cold nir tnten*ifie»
vitality, making buoyant the listless,
and recharging the nation, as it were,
with more energy nnd higher Incen
tives. To tho fruit and the vegetable
grower of the .South the cold wave Is
an erratic and unwelcome factor, cut
ting down profits and consuming divi
dends, though Itself inert and non-pro-
dnctlve. It negatives energy, push and
pluck. The fruit grower who, with a
surplus of energy and a minimum of
capital, works hard to deserve success,
becomes timid, irresolute and listless
If it is not attained, in a business vul
nerable at all times to attacks from
frosts and freezes.—Alexander J. Mitch
ell, of the United States Weather Bt»
reau, in Harper’s Weekly.
Aathorsht;* »f AnrUr.t Llt*ratnr«v.
In the earliest examples we possess
of nqeirnt literature we are not al
lowed even n glimpse of the individual
ities of their authors. The works
themselves, if they had been prized
because of tbe wit. ingenuity, fertile
fancy, brilliant conceit, or any other
individual peculiarity—mental or tem
pera mental—of the men who produced
them, would not have been preserved.
In some cases, as in that of the Iliad
and Odyssey, the reputed authorship
has been obstinately questioned. In the
earliest literature the individual
of tio account in the matter of
authorship; he was only the collector
or editor of spontaneous and unwritten
/oik-song and legend, or, if he gave
these their final shape, was only Joint
author with liis race.—H. M. Alden, in
Harper’s Mugnziue.
a Irst procure a small quantity of
sulphur, a bit of red scaling wax and
a thin piece of vulcanized India rubber
about two Inches square. As most nil
rubber Is vulcanized nowadays, you
should have no trouble getting It. Pow
der the wax and mix It with the sul
phur until tbe combination assumes a
yellowish pink tinge. Then pour the
substance into a small muslin bag or
any such receptacle that you may have
at hand.
Lay on n board a sheet of tinfoil the
same size as the piece of rubber nnd
then nail the rubber over It. You need
a bit of tin and of iron, oblong In
Chinese, but Japanese kites are now:
very different. They are always rec
tangular in shape and painted with
some terrible scene of war or grotesque-
warrior face. For, while the Chinese
boy wants his kite to be beautiful and
fantastic, tbe Japanese boy wants his
to fly straight and high. The kites
often have their strings partly covered
with powdered glass, so that they can
sever other kite strings. The men
and boys who lose their kites in this
way form into bands of kite catchers;
for a kite which has been cut belongs
to whoever captures It, provided he
was not the original owner. If sev-
MARKING THE INITIALS ON THE RUBBER.
length, each bit having a sharp point j eral catchers lay hands ou a descend-
that would enable n person to mark i ing kite at the same moment he whose
with It. For instance, a tin tack and hand i* nearest the cut end of the
an Iron nail. | string Is declared winner. If any dls-
Have some one blindfold you and I pute arises the kite must be torn to
then hand two of the spectators each
a different metal and instruct each to
mark his initials on the rubber with
the sharp point of his metal piece.
You turn your buck to leave the room
while they are so doing In order to
further prove that you nre unable to
observe them. The rubber surface
springs back almost as soor. as the
points cease pressing upon it. almost
entirely obliterating all marks whatso
ever.
As soon as they finish marking, re
move the cloth from your eyes and an
nounce that you will endow this
strange tablet of rubber with a magic
property that will enable you not only
to tell who were the two people hold
ing the metal pieces, but also the met
al each used.
Pour out some of the powdered wax
and sulphur upon the surface of the
rubber. A strange thing will hap
pen. * Tbe audience gathered nbout
tbe tablet will see the yellow sulphur
particles separated from tbe wax and
form clear and distinct the two letters
of the Initials—“(i. N.” for example-
while at the same time enough par
ticles of red wax are disintegrating
themselves from the brimstone to In
dicate the Initial “D. A.," for instance.
In exactly the spot where it was
traced!
You then announce that George Nel
son made the yellow Initials, and did
It with a piece of tin. while Dora
Ableii marked the red initials, and In
doing so used the bit of iron, nil of
which is absolutely true, much to the
turprlso the audience.
Tin will attract sulphur more strong
ly than It will wax. Iron Just the op
posite, and your experiment will al
ways be successful If the initials be
strongly marked nnd tbe sulphur nnd
wax well powdered and perfectly dry.
—New York Evening Mall.
pieces then and there. That is oue of
the rules of kite warfare. For several
weeks before tbe holiday, the “Doll
Festival," which occurs on the third
day of the third month, tbe shops nre
crowded with stiff little figures of tho
Mikado, court Indies, minstrels and
Jesters, for these are the kind of dolls
the little Japanese girls play with.
Two months Inter, on the fifth day of
the fifth month, the dolls have all dis
appeared from the toy shop windows
and in their stead are suits of armor,
battle-steeds, swords, flags and guns.
The Boys Festival has arrived/ and
Jhe streets nre noisy with the din of
mock battle.
On a high pole before many a house
floats in the wind a big. inflated paper
carp. This means that a baby boy
was born In the house during the last
year. The carp Is chosen because he Is
such n remarkable flsli that be can even
swim up waterfalls, and the Japanese
hope their little sons will pattern after
the carp and surmount all difficulties.
Little by little the fairyland beauty
is vanishing from Japan. There are
ugly telegraph poles among the cherry
and plum trees. There are trolley cara
to take the place of tlie Jiurikishas,
nnd the grownup people are learning to
dross like American men and women.
But the children still frolic nbout In
tlielr ralnbow-hued kimonos nnd big
sashes, and love better than any Amer
ican toys the magical candy mah and
tlielr dwn. truly Japanese holiday*.—
M. B Dutton, In the Indianapolis News.
Iu foot? factor!?! tbe iltaalug pro-; decrease.
1‘rusiian Use* tiuield*.
Prussia lias the race suicide question
more acutely than the United States.
The marriage rate is not lower, but
the birtb-rato has diminished almost
one-halt* in thirty years. In Berlin the
number of births per thousand of popu
lation has steadily fallen from forty-
five in 1875 to twenty-eight. In all
the Prussiau cities there has been a
deoreuse in the bhlh-rate—tho larger
the city the greater tbe |H*rceutage of
THE EASTERN FAIRYLAND.
No other eouutry is so much like
fairyland us is Japan. With its cherry
blossoms, its - sunshine, its quaint
buildings, the fantastic dress and its
of festivals, it seems a country
made especially for tbe delight of chil
dren. At the sound of the candy man’s
drum the little city girls forget their
gome of battledore and shuttlecock,
the boys tuck their tops up their
Meevo*. and. penny in hand, gather
liefore the candy peddler’s liooth. He
has no peppermint or cinnamon sticks.
Ini; much more tempting ware*. His
kettle Is boillug, bis bamboo pipe is in
bis hand and you have but to men
tion a fish. bird, butterfly or jinrikisha
(carrlagei nnd. like a gluss blower, in*
blows it for you with bis magical pipe.
A half a penny and tlie caudy fish is
yours.
Then there is the traveling theatre-
mnn. who lets the children peep Into
his wonderful l»ox and see the lively
scenes that he describes In liis songs.
And there is tbe “fire-eet!rg man.’*
who rolls flaming halls up and dov*u
his arms and then tumbles them, still
burning, into Ids mouth ami swallows
them while tbe children stand wide-
eyed before Uiui.
In this fairy-llke land there are sp*~
rial holidays for hoys and girls.
Especially for littb* girls there is the
exciting game of “evil spirit:” one
plays that she is the mother of several
children, who form a Hue behind her.
holding each other’s kimonos. In
front of the mother stands another lit
tle Jap—"the evfl spirit." She tries
to catch the end child, and the mother
tries to prevent without breaking the
line.
Tin* boys of Japan scorn girls’
games. If the wind*!* right on New
Year’s day all other sports are aban
doned for kite flying. They first
legrugd bo.w to make kites from tbe
A SINGLE ROPE SWING.
Sometimes a rope will be found lying
nbout the barn or back of the house
which ctfuld be used to make a swing,
but it is not ruJte long enough for tho
purpose. That is the time a single-
rope swing may be made which will
furnish enough fun to last all summer.
The end of a soap box makes a good
seat. Bore a bole In the middle of a
board, pass the rope through and tie a
knot in the bottom. Tie the other
end around a branch of a tree as far
THE REST THE SWING.
away from the trunk as possible. Let
the board be not more than six or seven
inches wide.
A good athletic boy can have great
fun with such a swing. There is a
knack in handling it, hut when once
mastered he con swing back and forth
perfectly straight in nny direction,
’rasp the rope as high us you can
reach, stand far back ur.d with a onick
Jerk lift yourself off the ground and
straddle the swing. Tue board should
be far enough from the ground to let
the toes touch, fhen. by touching tho
ground occasionally it is perfectly pos
sible to keep going straight and not
revolve. If some one is near by to
push you can bo pushed in a circle
like a “merry-go-round.” There is
enough variety In this style of swing
to make it worth while to make it—
New York Evening Mail.
A creed is like a plate, to hold food
but uot to be eaten
