Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1891 — FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FOR OUR LITTLE FOLKS.

AOOCUMN OF PARTICULAR INTEREST TO THEM. What Ch ldren Have Dona. What They Are Doing, and What They Should Do to JVaas Their Childhood Days.

A Pretty Experiment. Bore through the cork of a widemouthed bottle a hole of such size as to allow the insertion of the neck of a. glass funnel, and make an air-tight-

joint with paraffin wax or a bit of common paraffin candle, melted down. There must be no air-holes between funnel and cork, or between cork and bottle. Half fill the bottle with water and drop into it two of the powders, a blue and a white one (bicarbonate of soda and tartaric acid), sold by chemists for the production of the familiar seidlitz draught. The liquid forthwith effervesces by reason of the liberation of the carbonic acid gas, and thus struggle to escape, as fast as it is generated, through the opening of the funneL But if you place in the funnel one or two balls of elder pith or cork the gas can escape only intermittently, one or other of the balls falling, by force of gravitation, into the lower part of the funnel and stopping the passage until the pressure of the carbonic acid gas in the bottle below becomes so strong as to lift it out of the way. Whenever this happens some of the gas escapes, the pressure diminishes and one of the balls again falls into the opening, The effect continues as long as the gas continues to be liberated, and if you have painted the balls in different colors their dance, as they rise and fall in the funnel, has a very pretty effect. By gumming one of your little balls to the center of a cigarette paper, cut out and colored to represent the wings of a butterfly, you may give the experiment cyjite an artistic character.

Boys Will I e Boys. Can any one explain why it is that every boy seems to have an inborn instinct that he belongs to the stronger sex, and indignantly resents being mistaken for a girl, long before his mamma thinks he is old enough for short hair and his first pantaloons ? When Roy was three years old, his uncle took him out for a walk, and the shrewd youngster chose a route toward a favorite candy shop a short distance from home, in which his uncle toon found himself awaiting Roy’s selection fcom the sweets temptingly displayed on the counters. A Itttle girl was also waiting to be served and, as Roy seemed slow in making his choice, the proprietor turned to the little miss, and asked her what she wanted. With a politeness which some of her elders might well imitate when shopping, she replied : “I’ll wait until the other little girl is waited upon.” Roy’s face flushed, and, climbing down from the<stool on which he was perched, he started on a run toward home Rushing into the house, he ran to his mother, and in tones of mingled grief and indignation, demanded: “Mamma, be I a boy or girl?” “Why, Roy! You’re a boy, of course. * “Well, then,” with a supreme expression of disgust, “what has I dot on petticoats for?” Roy was shortly after promoted to jackets and trousers; and the trial of being mistaken for a girl no longer troubled him.

Fabming by telephone is a new industry. The man who knows how oats, peas, beans and barley grow mav sit in his comfortable farm-house and read his weekly paper and do his farming by the “hello” arrangement. If the practice became general there would be no more candidates of the horny-handed order and the honest son of toil would be represented by the farmer’s hired man at the other end of the hello plan. It isn’t a bad idea by half. Out of 172,756 votes cast in Chicago, last year, 88,509, or more than one half, were given by naturalized Citizens-