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DAY CALL. A Scissors TriCk The necessary materiale for the tricks in these columns ar: found/ in every fun-loving LA home, or may easily be pro- ()il 1 4 cured at the expense of a few cents. = ‘ were asked to s tied to the back inz the cords, he{ Close the top of a lamp chimney with 3 ¢ his sword and cut | & large cork, into which two holes are - esiboly hEbe the et el s with one blow. We will show |bored. The one with the diameter of the 2, = i ey 1;‘0 h w the trick, can }(‘;,J“:"w“‘fi'mflfl}‘j i \.‘ig‘lrcue runs straight through the cork, giide from S e e at A, pull it through the handls Biand | \ois the other narrower ome runsiin & slanting direction (see illustration). Cut two small round lids of glove leather and fasten them to the cork with pins close carry it over the points of the scissors, | following the dotted lines. This will free the scissors without breaking the cord. teble mun place to their rims; the one over the small opening outside of the chimney, the other over the larger hole inside the chimney, into which the cigarette is to be inserted. The first lid allows the smoke to come out, but prevents the air from getting in, while the second lid allows the smoke to enter the chimney, but prevents the air from-getting out the same way. Dip the chimney into the water to the height of the cork, insert the cigarette in the opening and light it. As often as chimney is raised the smoke will enter i by dipping the chimney the smoke will be forced out by the small opening, a very entertaining and amusing entertain- ment. A little girl was visiting her grandma who lived on a farm. One of the cows SAYINGS OF YOUNGSTERS. — worse than that for I'm whole starved.” > .. which had learned to jump fences had sent with the pleces of a treasured dish, brother said, “Yes, but Uncle Will e Mary rB'“gt' ':’d :l’, g °‘£ 2 little calf. One day the little calf was said, reproachfully, to him: smokes and he's good.” riding her auntle, when they pass ng cards in about the size of a ten-cent piece, in scen at_empting to r a fence. ~“Ch, Harvey, you break mamma’s ‘“Well,” said my little brother, “he just the farm of .Mr. Bean, where they saw side of the box and you are ready for|Tke child seeing it laimed: *“Oh, heart, being so careless.” smokes to keep his nose warm cows grazing. the trick. andma, see that little calf jumping the He looked up, wonderingly, and said: “‘Auntie,” said she, “whose cows are low a good mouthful of smokel!fence! 1t must have inhaled it from its *“Div me pieces, an’ 1 put ’em in ash- A little friend of mine named Raymond th gh the opening into the box and| mother berrel. wanted something to eat but t S nink they're Bean's,” replied her the side opposite the c with | g by his mother that he must finger. You can produce small and| Little Harvey. igis times Mamma was talking to my brothers one was nearly dinner time. At which he re- said Mary, in a tone of i according to the force em-|destructive. Hi: on his return day about smoking and said it wasn’t marked: “Mamma, vou tell about the hey’'ré not beans, they" d in fipping the box (Fig. C). Eo i the an bs he had been good for a man to smoke. The older Cubans being half-starved, and I am little "Chranicle. - = = = = — : + AN EASY he the queen is led, reduc- cad of the low made no difference tively carly in the hand, leads a queen, due the loss of several tricks. Partner : lead of low must heid the king o > lead of the t the lead of me, but if en, declaring the queen and jack, d eight, and second hand does With ace, and one or two e should not be played un- point to likelibood of los- Often this miay be de- value of the card piayed on _one's right or by een leads to one, cne knows that 1 leas LESSON IN WHIST B ghe ¥R oK ot »m one’s own han ly easy to decid > or defensive play is lock ¢ Whe of the erossi {oldin vinces 1l ; four trumps. includ- Players who believe ¥ two high or the card played by he lead of the ten, from the queen, rponent on st i or- ten holding, find little difficulty in miring the apting their play as to c tully by st players that the be im- v as taking tricks d, as when queen lead from the i the other suppose part- p as this eli ner leads a ch may mean 'There are many strong arguments in £ simply the ten and one favor of retaining the lead of the ten e lower in suit are Opponent on the from the king ten, and perhaps so few en e hand piays :ard. Holding the best sol he difficulty might go th her King no the possibility be not to n the suit at all. as there t n, that Loth of the: re with fourth is every reason to expect an extra trick from that comb: which case from it s led up to than led from. jon from the tex = lead and onc e NORTH. 1 be o or compara- which influer conservative pl South, 11 &t Yorth leads fourth best from he five fell to West's king. : *Taomer “ANDREW, TURN THE GRINDSTONE FOR ME.” FIND ANDREW. FIND THZ TIGER CUB. & WHERE IS THE HUNTER? MY DAUGHTER.” “TEERE COMES THE YOUNG MAN WHO WANTS TO MARRY WHERE IS HE?