Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1906 — FOR THE CHILDREN [ARTICLE]

FOR THE CHILDREN

The Picture of st Pl*. This is a good game for boys and girls to amuse themselves with at an evening party. Use a blackboard if convenient or, failing that, a large sheet of cardboard attached to an easel or tacked on the wall where It will be In plain view. Then ask each member of the company, one at a time, to come to the board and, having blindfolded him, tell him to draw a picture of a pig. Use chalk If you have a blackboard or crayon If you have cardboard. In order to get as many pictures as possible on the board at the same time It will be necessary to guide the blind artist at the start so that his picture may not touch the others. If a blackboard Is used, each picture may be rubbed out when the company has examined It long enough to remember Its “points.” After each player has made a picture a vote should be taken and a prize awarded to the one most in favor. A suitable prize would be a pig made out of a lemon.

How Camphor Is Made In Japan. Camphor is made in Japan in this way: After a tree is felled it is cut up into chips, which are laid In a tub or a large iron pot partially filled with water and placed over a slow fire. Through holes In the bottom of the tub steam slowly rises and, heating the chips, generates oil and camphor. Of course the tub with the chips has a closely fitting cover. From this cover a bamboo pipe leads to a succession of other tubs with bamboo connections, and the last of these tubs is divided into two compartments, one above the other, the dividing floor being perforated with small boles to allow the water and the oil to pass to the lower compartment. The upper compartment is supplied with a straw layer, which catches and holds the camphor In crystal In deposits aB it passes to the cooling process. The camphor Is then separated from the straw and packed In wooden tubs. The oil is used by the natives for illuminating and medical purposes. The Vegetable Fly. One of the most curious natural productions of the West Indies is the vegetable fly, an insect about the size and color of a drone bee, but without wings. In the month of May it buries itself In the earth and begins to vegetate. By the beginning of June a sprout has Issued forth from the creature’s back and made Its appearance above the surface of tbe ground. By the end of July the tiny tree (known on the islands as the fly tree) has attained Its full size, being then about three inches high, but a perfect tree In every particular, much resembling a delicate coral branch. Pods appear on Its branches as soon as it arrives at Its full growth. These ripen and drop off In August Instead of containing seeds, as one would naturally suppose, these pods have from three to six Bmall hard worms inside.— Chicago Newa.