Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Enchanted Handkerchief. This handkerchief is just the thing for young magicians to possess. It has the power to make things disappear. You use it to cover some borrowed article —a coin, say, or a cardpull the handkerchief quickly away, and, lo! the borrowed article has completely disappeared. The handkerchief is prepared as follows: Get two pretty good sized men’s handkerchiefs, both exactly alike. In the middle of one of these cut a slit about four inches long, which get your sister to hem round the edges to prevent its becoming larger. Now ask her to lay one handkerchief upon the other and sew together the edges. If the work is done neatly the whole will appear to be nothing more than a single handkerchief, especially as, when you draw it from your pocket, you shake it out, with the unprepared side toward those who are watching you. Next, taking the' card in the left hand, you cover it with the handkerchief, at the same time slipping it into the pocket-like arrangement between the two. So. you see, when you ask some one in the audience to ’’hold the card covered by the handkerchief, please,” and then jerk the whole from his hand, the effect will be that the card has disappeared. Bee Bread. Do you know that the bees get bread as well as honey from the flowers? Watch closely some time and you will see the whole performance. You must keep your eyes very wide open, though, or it will be over before you know it. 1 First, Miss Bee sucks up the precious drop Of honey which the flower has stored away for her. She always knows just where to fVid it, too, though each blossom has its own particular kind of pantry. Then she gathers her flour. This is generally packed in tiny boxes, with slits in the side, and Miss Bee has only to put in her funny little feet and scrape out the precious flour. We call it pollen, but the name does not matter. To Miss Bee it is flour, and she packs it away carefully in tho wee baskets on her hind legs, first moistening it with a drop of honey. When she has as much as she can carry she flies back to the hive and stores away her load for future use. The bread made from this flour requires neither raising nor baking. The pollen grains are crushed, soaked and kneaded with honey, and the bread is ready for the baby bees, who are the only ones that eat it. Game of Paas Alone. This is a first rate outdoor game: Arrange two Hues of lwy and girl players, each headed by a captain. At the right of each captain place ji clothes basket or hamper full of all sorts of odds and ends— books, balls, clothespins, pencils, tin cups’, tin pans, cushions, spools, brushes, thimbles, button hooks, etc. At the other end of each line place an empty clothes basket or hamper. Behind each line place a guard. At a signal from the hostess the two lines get furiously busy. Each captain snatches nnything at all from his full basket, passes it to the player standing next to him, and that one passes it along to the next, etc. The end player throws it into his empty basket. Meanwhile the guard watches closely, and if any player, through nervousness or carelessness, drops the. article that has been handed him to pass along the guard pounces down upon it and takes it back to the full basket to be passed over again. The side which first transfers everything from Its full basket to its empty basket wins. The more “rooters” there are to encourage the rival sides the Jollier the contest See Baughman & Williams for fire insurance