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FORTUNES OF THE TOY STOVE
PATSEY'S PUZZLES.
HOW DRAWING IS MADE EASY FOR EVERYBODY
Patscy was rather ashamed of himself
tho next afternoon when Mr. I'antoor
handed him back his card with tho 1 1 hutch
on It, because it looked so ttlmplo when ho
sow how It wan done. Thooriglnal figures
SNAILV
were:
1 1 1
7 7 7
9 9 9
The trick was to cross out six of these
CHARLOTTE BAKED 867
r n . ...
"ncn iieynara I-ox nod run away
Rob and Charlotte began to cry. They
didn't know Just what to expect of Mother
Bear, because though nho had spoken
uinoiy eno looked very big and terrible.
When Bho buw them crying she said In a
soothing voice:
There! There! What's it all about?
TU Mother Bear."
The black hen. though her bill was still
chattering with fright, told Mother Bear
how the children were beeking their
fortune, and Rob and Charlotte told her
between sobs how tho black hen had come
along to help them, though she know that
Reynard fox was likely to kill and cat
her.
"lou're a good soul,' said Mother Bear
to the black hen. "and If Reynard For
gives you any more trouble I'll give him
such a spanking that ho won't forget it
very soon." S
The children then lemembered the
little feast that had been so rudely inter
rupted. There were the corn bread and
the boiled eggs and tho milk and the straw
berry jam and t he nuts and the buckwheat
cakes, and the children wanted very much
THE BLACK HEN INVITED MOTHER
BEAR TO EAT WITH THEM.
to eat them, but the black hen whispered
to Charlotte:
"It would bo very rude not to invite
Mother Bear to join us, though she is so
big and tho feast is so little."
So the black hen in her politest manner
said to Mother Bear: "Our supper Is just
ready to put on the table and we should
be very happy to have you oat with us.
Mother Bear's eyes twinkled. She
pretended not to notice how small were
the 'portions of everything and said:
."Thank you, I've just bad my supper,
If .Ml As ss
. THE TALE OF THE
MUST I CUT DOWN THE LITTLE
CHERRY TRUE?
Oh, mother!" said the little hatchet
on tho day before Washington birthday
"Must I cut down the little cherry trco?"
"Yes, my child," bald his mother.
"But I don't want to," whimpered tho
little hatchet, ".she's such a nice little
cherry tree "
"Never mind!" said the grownup hat
chet. No matter liow it may grieve you,
it Is your patrlotio duly to cut down the
Utile cherry tree,'
The little hatchet went out and looked
BUCKWHEAT CAKES.
but I would be pleased to sit with you
and eat just a very little."
So they Bat ilown and ate their supper
and Mother Bear ate very sparingly
of everything until they came to tho
buckwheat cakes with strawberry Jam,
and theso she liked so well that site
couldn't help asking If she might have
a few more.
"Ohl thero are lots more," said Char
lotto. "For aa fast as I use up tho flour
moro comm."
At this Mother Bear rose from the table
and went over to a hollow tree from which
she took a quantity of honeycomb and
brought It to tho tablo. saying:
"This is my addition to the feast and
it will tasto good on buckwheat cakes.
Always keep some of tho comb and you
can have honey whenever you want it."
When Charlotte had baked 807 buck
wheat cakes Mother Bear said sho guessed
she couldn't oat any more just then, but
she didn't know when sho had enjoyed
herself bo much. The children and the
black hen asked her what they had better
do next. If they went on or If they went
back the way they had come Reynard
Fox would be lying in wait for them
somewhere and would surely get the
black ben at last. Mother Bear thought
a while and then she said:
"I will go with you to the end of my
territory and then I'll put you In charge
of the Robber Kitten."
HORSE SHOES FOR LUCK.
There are many persons who think
It Is lucky to ilnd a horseshoe and they
will tako it home and nail it over thedoor
to bring good luck to the house or the
barn or wherever It may le, although
they aro not always careful to have the
points upward, which they should Imj
or the luck may spill uul
If you auk ono of these people why the
luck should attach to the horse's shoe
moro than to his bridle or bit you will
probably Ilnd that they do not know any
thing about it. They have always heard
it was lucky and that onds it.
This superstition goe away back of
the days of horseshoes ns wo know them
now and is really attached to the number
seven. From early times many persons
have thought it very lucky to find any
thing connected with tho number soven
becauso it seems to be a arred number
and is mentioned more than any other in
the Bible.
It ho happens tliat a horso shoo usually
has seven nail holes in it, and that is
tho only reason it was considered lucky.
It you found one with six or eight nail
holeH in it it would I no more lucky that
a three leaved clover.
Would Follow the Order.
Frnm Tit'liitr.
It the polite Fienchnian's (lot l.lt
to n paity in Kiiiflmid ami lie was very
anxious to do the riKht tlilrnj, ho when the
IioMpsi advanced to welcome him he sai
lantlv saluted the astonished lady with a
hearty kin. I'll tot t iinately her husband
had been a wltneii of tlio occurrence.
"How date yon, blr, take the liberty
of klilnir my wife.' And before me, too!"
snx his Indknant exclamation.
"One thousand pardon!" exclaimed the
nollto foreigner. "I do not know your
Knullsh customs Next time 1 keen ou
first!"
at the little cherry tree aa well as he could
through his tears.
"Oh, dear!" he sobbed, "how can I
cut down the littlo cherry tree when I've
played ring-around-a-rosy with her all
the year?"
Clump, clump, came along the buckled
shoe, a clumsy, downright fellow
I WOULDN'T DO IT," SAID THE
BUCKLED SHOE.
"Well," wild he. "ir I didn't want to cut
her down 1 wouldn't do it, I'd just Bay
to my mother 'I won't cut her down,
and that's all there is about it,"
Then up bkippod the littlo cocked licit .
He was a nly creature and he said
so that tho total should bo only twenty.
l'atey round that Mr. I'antoor had taken
the eraser and rubbed out all eovons, two
of the nine and ono of tho top row. Then
he solved the puzzle by drawing a line
under It and adding up this way:
. 1 1
9
2 0
He was very careful, howover. to turn it
off lightly the noxt time hornet the jokers
who had given it to him, telling them that
he didn't take a second look at It before he
saw tho solution. This was qulto truo
of course, because at tho second look he
took ,at the card Mr, Pantoor's answer
waaon.tlio back of it.
"You aro so smart, remarked ono of
the jokers with a smile, "that you seem
able to solve any kind of puzzlo, so we
are betting on you to get this ono out
for us. Wo can't do it, and Hill here has
bet a dollar that thero is something wrong
with It, for ho has boon working on it
all night, and is suro it can't bo done." '
Sure It s mcself will held you out overy
time," was Patsey's prompt response.
"Hand tho thing over, and if I don't get
It for you by to-morrow night mo name's
Dennis.",
lou may be sure they lost no time
in giving him one of the copies they had
made of tho puzzle, and the noxt morning
when Mr. Pantoor came to open his mall
he found one of his manikin lying flat
on tho blotter' of his desk with n card
propped up against tho inkstand in front
of It.
2 FATHERS & 2 SONS BOUGHT
A BUSINESS FOR $1515: EACH
FATHER & EACH SON PUTTING
IN EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT
IN EVEN DOLLARS .
WHAT WERE THE AMOUNTS ?
'I summon that means that thU n
knockout problem," he remarked to
himself oh he glanced at tho puzzle and
then at the attitude or the manikin. Ton
minutes later he was mill looking nt it.
but as the rotation did not come to him
he began to open his letters, Btill thinking
about it.
All at once he thnnpht he maw thn nnivnr
and began to mako some figured on his
writing pad. In another five minute
he had written tho solution on tho back
of the card.
What was it?
EARLY FLYING MACHINES.
When the flrht flying machino or balloon
was invented uo man could bo found
to venturo to go up in it, ho they placed
a sheep, a cock and a duck in tho basket
and let them try it.
Tliis was in Paris on June 5, KM. Tho
balloon was made by two young men,
sonB of a paper maker, and was filled
with hot air. It went up to a height
of nearly half, a mllo and then gradually
sank back to earth, and the animals woro
found contentedly reposing in tho basket
as If nothing had happened.
This experiment was thought so suc
cessful that on November 21 tho aamo
year a young naturalist named De Ho.ier
and an army officer, the Marquis d'Ar
loudes, went up In a balloon and stayed
aloft for about hnlf an hour. ThU mado
young Uo Itozler so bold that two yearn
afterward he tried to cross the English
Channel and was drowned,
LITTLE HATCHET
"Well, ir you don't want to cut the tree
down why do you do it? Just go and tell
your mother that you have done it and
she'll never know the difference."
Tho little hatchet did as thn cooked
hat told him, but his mother said:
"I'll go out andBoe how the little cherry
tree looks cut down."
The little hatchet ran out first and
told the cocked hat that his mother was
coming and asked him what he should
do, and tho cocked hat eald
THE VIRTUOUS LITTLE CHERRY
TREE.
. "Tell your mother that this Is a now
cherry tiee, that you chopiwd tho other
ono up and harried it away."
Mo tho littlo hutchot told this story to
his mother when bho cuino out. Then
up piped the little cherry Ire. Hh
HER
1.2!??'
1912 by E.(J.Lutz
It may seem hard to make a drawing
of a heron, but it is not if them directions
aro followed.
Tho first outline, Figuro A. like a long
narrow triangle with a Rticl: hanging
from it. should ho coplod curefully, ob
serving tho exact placo whore tho stick
is placed. This stick aftorwnrd becomes
tho log.
Do not bear down too hard with tho
MILKMAID HOUSEWIFE.
Get a doll about five inches tall, crochet
needle, thimble, two spools of thread,
needles and pins and a small piece of cam
brio for the dress (and white cloth for
apron.
Cut of heavy pasteboard two round
pieces, each 3 inches in diameter. Cover
with the oloth and sew together around
the edge.
Of the same oloth moke a skirt which
munt Meamire around the bottom the
samo as tho edge of the pasteboard. Sow
tho skirt all around the pastelioard and
gather at the top to fit the waist of the
doll, which is now put inside tho skirt.
The skirt must be just the right length
for the doll to stand on the hoard.
It would bo well to put some gluo on
the soles of tho doll's feet and let It dry
before finishing. A little stuffing of wool
around the doll's legs would make' it
firmer.
Make a waist albo of the cloth. Now
of the pasteboard cut a round piece one
and one-half or two inches in diameter
for her hat, Mako a holo in tho centro
through which put tho thimble for the
crown. 'l'i it ou her head.
Of white cloth or flannel mako on apron
for a needlo book, putting on a fow needles.
Tie the crochet needlo to her shoulders
for a yoko and hang tho spools from each
end witli a pleco of string. Those repro
sent paits of milk. Stick pins around the
edge of the skirt and hat.
A CORK DANCER.
Take ono of tho largest corks you can
find, tho kind used in the long nocked
green bottles, and in one end dig out a
holo. Into this put a leaden bullet, or
several large shot, and stop up tho holo
with putty. Round ofT thn edges of tho
cork at this end, and your dancer Is ready
to dance.
Around the top of the other end of the
cork pirxto on a littlo blun hood of tlssuo
paper; make a dress of the same and tie
on a s.ibh of ribbon.
On tho cork make with Ink tho prettiest
face you can, and then set the young lady
a -dancing,
waB a very proper troe and sho said:
"I must Inform you, Mrs. Hatchet,
that your child is tolling you a fib. I
am tho same little cherry tree."
"Oh, you ungrateful chorry troe!"
cried the little hatchet, " I just told tho
fib so Uiat I wouldn't have to cut you
down."
"Never mind," said tho cherry treo
"I prefer being cut down to having a
fib told about me."
1 "All right for you," bhouted tho littlo
I hatchet, and he chopped at her so fiercely
' that the chips flew all about and hit the
cockou nut mttio eye. s '
THE COCKED HAT WAS A SLY
FELLOW,
pencil ai you will have to erase tho sharp
corners of tho triangle to round tho forms
as in tho flntshod picture.
It is plain that u spiral, figure B, Is the
right thing to start with in picturing a
snuil. Mako it carefully, for when you
havo drawn it well you have practically
drawn n snail. Remember in drawing
a'snall that the right Hide only of tho croa
turo shows tho spiral distinctly. The left
NONSENSE RHYMES.
Tommy was d$.in2
Thatwotfd808
1 1
jnine
But the
Tho' he stayed
there.
Here Is the correct reading of tho non
boiiro rhyme that was given last week,
the words Indicated by a dovico of any
kind being placed in brackets:
Ab he carved) out some) toys for his
lark.l
On the) dogs ho was heard to) remark,)
Ilt's) real) lv a shame,
Hut lU'm not) Ito blame,
That buch wonl derful wood) has no
Ibark.l
Several solvers seem to have stuck on
the second line in this ono trying to make
the pictuto of the ark describe some kind
of dogs instead of noticing that thn ark
was "on tho dogs. In such cases the
meter is always tho clue. Tho repetition
of the word "it" made it plural, giving
the bound of it'."
EVELYN'S MESSAGE.
Two little girls were each about fivo
years old, Helen lived at No. 20 and
Evelyn lived noxt door. Evelyn liked to
, play with Helen, becauso thero waro so
! many nice toys in No. 2n, and cats and
I dogs and canary birds. Hut Helen did
' t III... 1 A . t ..1
hui lift-" vui'ii on wen an outer iiiue
girls she knew, because sho mussed things
up so.
The d iy before Helon's birthday party
Evelyn kept trying to stick a pieco of
applo in the bird cage and Helen kept
picking it out. Then tidno words, and a
push, u slap and a howl,
Evelyn stopped in the middle of a sob
to nee if the usual sympathetic mother
would not come to hor rescue, but no ono
seemed to mind, bo bIio turned upon little
Helen.
"I will nover come into your houso
again," she nobbed,
"I don't euro."
"I will never ring your door bell acain
as long ns I live."
"I don't.caro." '
"I'm going home right away,"
"I don't care."
Noxt morning Helen's doorbell nuiir ami
her mother wont to teo who It was. Kvolvn
stood I hero with hor finger in tier mouth.
Ulen hp, l want to eo Helen right away," 1
'You can't boo hot- now, she's Imsv."
answered tho mother, who did not want
any company, iib they wero getting the
houso iim'ci ror tho birthday party that
evening.
"Hut it 'b very important," persisted
Evolvti, Iho ton re coining into her eyes.
"Well, what is It, and I will give her tho
tnesbiigo?"
"Well, you bee," statnineiod Evelyn,
"Will you plnaho tell her that mother la
cleaning my niie white .sIuxjh fur tio
party to-night."
con jaiffrted
j ,Na in his W
side has a slightly different oppMftenc.
tor tho little chick you make, quite
naturally, an ogg, figure C. Add tho head
and tho two short lines for tho logs and
continue until you havo completed it
as In tho picture.
The group of parrakeets, figure D, will
keep you busy. You may draw them
separately or make the wholo group at
once. A long perch can bo filled with
TEDDY'S TRICKS WITH FIGURES
Teddy has a number of tricks of the
same kind as thoso described last week,
with which he used to amuso people who
did not care for anything very deep, but
he was always careful to do some part
of the trick in a different way so that no
ono could say he had seen it before.
Here is one that ho was fond of playing
on those in a company who had bank
accounts.
First of all he would secretly write some
thing on a slip of paper, fold It up securely
and then ask to lie allowed to' place it in
the proposed victim's pocket.
"On that piece of paper," he would say,
" I havo written the exact amount of monev
that you would have left If you collected
all that was owing to you, borrowed all
tho money you could, and then paid all
your deutb.
Of course this statement would excito
any perFon'H cutiosity. ami Teddy would
tauo immediate advantage of this by
offering to prove what he said.
"I don't want to expose your poverty
by telling tho exact truth before all these
people," lie would continue, "nor to have
you strain your imagination If you don't
know exactly how much you do owe, bo wp
will Just suppone you havo a curtain
amount in tho bank.
"Think of any amount you please, but
don't lot it bo more than you think you
could borrow from your friends if tho
bank told you your account was over
drawn. Of course If you can recollect
just what you have in bank that will bo
so much the better."
As soon as the person said lie had
thought of on amount Teddy would sav
that ho could tell from the look on his faco
that it was not enough to pay his debtB,
bo it would bo better to suppose that he
borrowed an oqual amount from his f rienil
and added it to what ho had in tho bank,
and for fear ho would b still be nhurl
Teddy would make him a present of llo,
or some such sum, which was to be put
wiin the rest.
This done tho next thing Teddy would
say was:
"Now 1 don't want you to tell every ono
in tno room now much you owe, but rui
poso it took just half of this money to
hettlo ui). All that you would havo lft
is tho sum that I have written on thejpl'oe
oi paper you have in your wais v t
pockot. Tell tho ladies and gentlemen
what tho sum is and then look at the paper
ana see 11 i am not right.
The best part of this trick comes in when
the victim Bays tho sum named on the slip
of paper is not right; but in order to under
stand tnat it is neoessary to explain how
the trick is done.
Like many tricks with llcures. sueoe
I In this one deponds upon tho operator's
ability to draw attention away from the
process by his patter about bank accounts
and debts and borrowing from friends,
because if Iho bare process woro followed
the trlok would be too transparent.
The amount that Teddy writes on tho
slip of paper which ho places in tho pnckt
of his victim is always exaotly half the
amount that ho intends making him a
present of later. Suppose he writes 3,
then lie must remember to givo $,0.
It does not matter what tho person's
bank aocount may be, or what he imagines
it to be. Suppose It is $500, and that ho
borrows $500 from his friends, and Teddy
givos him $50; then tho amount ho has
on hand b $1,050.
Now if it takes lialf or this amount to
pay his dobtn, as Teddy suggests, ho will
btill have JS25 left, and this Is the amount
that most persons would name, so that
whon tho slip of paper Is produced and It
saya only K5, the victim immediately
says it is wrong.
"Hut," Bays Teddy, "you are a nlco fel
low to borrow money from your friends!
You have forgotten to pay the $500 you
borrowed. After that you will have Just
$25 left, and If 1 liad not made you a pres
ent of $50 you would have been dniul
broke. 1 knew all you had In bank wits
$500 "
If ou try this trick you will probably
them like thoso you see in tho bird hcuts
at tho zoo.
To draw tho dog, flrBt construct two
squares f-ido by sido. Thoh draw th
quoer form indicated in figure E. Don t
hurry this important first step, nor thn
noxt ono in which you mark thn head,
tall and logs, for If you havo made your
start well you can go ahead more quickly
in finishing tho plcturo.
find that. rMtntil. n-miinl ii,,,ln-atfnrt It -.
you know the amount that they though' if
as in i no uanK, because they ovcrloo
the fact that they tokl you what it wiy.
when they said you were wrong in wh.t
you wrotp on the slip of paper.
Whon they ma'ie the mistake of fc
getting to repay the borrowed moner
they name the amount, because it is tr."
diflerenoe between what you havo written
and what they tell tho company is t'i
rliht answer. Of course, if thoy do nc!
forget lo repay the borrowed monrv
r.nd deduct it. they will find your slip i'
exactly coriect and will have to ad-ri'
it, W hen they did this Teddy would say
"I thought that was about as much i
you would be worth if you settled up.
Aro you net glad that I thought so much
of you that I was willing to make you n
prejent of $50?"
Somo littlo address is needed in t his
trick in suiting the patter to tho amount
named t in tho bank when the amount
borrowed is not deducted. If some younc
fellow lets his imagination run to half r.
million you can tell him you are glad !
ha such confidence in his friend' willint
ness to lend him so much money, and sr.y
you aro sorry you did not mako him a
moro suitable present than J50, or some
thins of that sort.
AUNT MARY'S ANAGRAMS.
Very few of tho young people succeeded
in getting all theco "to's" worked it.ln
placo In making an anagram of that last
sentence, but. Aunt Mary was glnd to
too that they all changed the rt f
sreech to which the word "cross helonRed
Hero is tho original:
A I DOG I WENT TO CROSS"
THE I ROAD 1 TO GET HIS
DINNER 1 DOWN BEFOhT
THEY CALLED HIM TO
jOME TO I HIS j MASTER
-Among tho anagrams Bent in Aunt Mary
thinks that tho rollowing is about tlm
beat In the original you will see that the
expression reads "before they called him"
and in the nnagram it is -before the
called to him," which works In that extM
"to" very nicely
A I CROSS MASTER WENT
DOWN I THE I ROAD TO GET
HIS I D03 -BEFORE THEY
CALLED j TO 1 HIM TO C0ME
TO I HIS I DINNER I
Here is anothor ono that Aunt Mcry
think? W not, quite ho hard, hecnte tie
words oun bo twisted ubout' a good c.il
after they aro arranged in groups, "u"
ixirt 01 the Rentenco bolng put soir.ew 'ere
else if noci'ssary, This always uiiihcs
anagrams eaaier, lteruuso a different"
moaning is easily found.
WHILE I AN I OLD MAN wTfT
WHISKERS j WAS TRYING TO
SHAVE I HIMSELF THE BARBER
SAT I DOWN I TO EAT A MUTTON '
CHOP I WITH j A RAZOR
" .,i-c-.i 11 ui tn UU Ull HI" inn r .
then nrrunge them so as to form a different
sentence from this one, but lie sure that
you use nil the wot da nnd do not add any
now ones. When It. is dorm slpi yni'r
mime, to it and semi it lo the Hoy. anil (ii' la
rage, and If Aunt Mary Miltiks it it a geml
nnagram you will Hud your inline in 'ln
Bun next biuiduy,
I