The Indianapolis journal., 1903-08-16

of different color, that are higher, and
the hands will be of creeping vines. While
you stand and watch you will see the vine
cluster that represents the minute hand
slowly move as it sweeps around the large
dial and if patient enough you may see the
hour hand move also. What's the trick?
Those vines which form the hands grow
from long, shallow boxes which are sup
ported steel frames and these frames
with clock work-which is within that ivy
covered tower over there. Watch now! 1t
is IL o'clock See, the door in the tower
swings open and reveals shining wheels,
huge weights and swinging pendulum.
ListenI What sweet-voiced bell that is.
sounding the hour in musical notes that
can be heard all over the grounds.
The door closes again, the tower, SEEM
ingly a mass of ivy, is silent, the great,
green hands continue their journey-an the
machinery hidden by the leaves and petals.
But the second way in which the flowers
tell the time? You have doubtless watched
morning glories open soon after SUNRISE
and have noticed how regular they are,
coming out of their sleep at the same hour
every day. Naturalists have found in diff
ferent parts of the world flowers that open
at different hours, and specimens of these
have been gathered for the Worlds Fair
at st. Louis, where they are so arranged
i'm little beds. opposite the numerals, that
when the vine-covered hand points at a
certain hour the flowers nearby will open.
And thus they will continue to open. from
early morning until late at night, when a
wonderful lily of the Amazon, that has lain
dormant while the sun was shining, spreads
her long white petals in the shadows and
gives forth a delicious perfume.
A LILIPUTIAN NAME
Come now, children. Step this way. and
we can easily imagine ourselves on the
Island of Iilput, made famous in Gulli-
ver's Travels. But it is a Liliput up to
date, and there is a tiny railroad train
so small that one could almost pick up
the locomotive-running on wee rails that
look like narrow steel bands. But they
stretch away and away and curve i'm and
out Toot. toot, tcot! What baby whis-
tie. Let us take a seat. Yes, there's
plenty of room, even for the grown-ups, be-
cause the cars have been built wide, even
il they are very low. There, only in
a seat, ard away we so, the bell changing
aud the baby locomotive snorting and puff
ing just like a big locomotive does. Whew,
but we are moving fasti There is ~ good
deal of power in that little engine. Along
and along. around curve, then another;
there is grating sound. and we stop by
the side of "A station. Why. it's like a
dolls house. but it contains a ticket Office
and waiting rooms. and in front is a sema-
phore signal Were ON "a side track you
cxclaim. and then. rounding curve. per-
haps fifty feet away. you see another Lili-
putian train coming toward you.
It's too bad they didn't have these trains
i'm Gullivcr's day. Then they wouIdn't {
have had to- hitch up two thousand horses
In order TO drag him into the city. from
the place where ne WAS thrown the beach.
Many of you have, OF course, heard a
doll say mama. ma ma" and you have all
doubtless seen dolls that can open and shut
their eyes But they are making a doll
for the worlds fair that Will talk an entire
sentence TO YOU. Won't it seem strange to
have one of those waxen-faced, fluffy
haired creations open its red lips and say.
I'm pretty well. | thank you. How are
your?
But more than that, they are going to
show you how dolls are made. There is to
be a doll factory ON the grounds. and you
will learn just how. by system of bellows.
the dolls are made To initiate the human
voice. and how they open and close their
eyes, and move their arms and legs.
IL will be 30 with everything at this ex-