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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Noah's Ark Party.

n RAW upon sheets of rather stiff D paper-a mediums weight water
 color paper is best-as many psIS or animals as there are. children Mrs. Noah-absurd, churn-shaped figures like the little wooden toys. Color the figures with water-colors and when the colors have quite dried cut the animals out, about three inches high, and all of one size, from the rab- bit to the elephant. The effect is ludi- crous.
 When the animals are completed take an old cotton sheet and prepare your self with blue. red and yellow dyes. Mix small portion of each, separate Iy, in three glasses half full of water and set to work. With your yellow dye and some sort of brush paint conventional ark near the centre of the sheet, making it about twenty inches long.
 Now with green, which you can get by pouring a little each of your yellow and blue into another dish, paint at the left edge of the sheet a high mQuntain peak reaching considerably higher than the ton. of the ark. At the right edge of the sheet, extending toward the mid dIe naint some tree branches. Now dip tnto t yo,,r blue and with bold strokes make suggestions of water waves. Don't be afraid that you will not do it right. Let your imagination run riot Now mark a black cross very plainly fine nnint of safety. Pin the sheet to the wall in an accessible place and you are ready for the game. which is as follows:
 Put Noah, his wife and all the ami mais into a hat or basket and let each child draw one and write his ,St or her Ter name in a book. Taking turns, let each ora be blindfolded, and, standing sev- eraI feet away, turn around three times. then walk toward the sheet and pin his ar her animal upon the. spot hrst toucbed The sharp steel pins with siass heads are better for this than '',T rS,,o o ran me is won by the child whose animal comes nearest to the cross on the ark. Those who reach the highest io second and third respectively.
 pair of giant goiosnes taY NGab. or gingi- sTi- ham umbrella, or toy tbo hoan ,aIi arR while ItbH to the two whose animals are voted to be in the most hazardous po- sItions couple of the tiny Holsters to be found in Japanese shops might De a dellcately suggestive souvenir.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Game of Jolly Miller.

WHERE was a jolly miller. he lived
 by himself.
 As the mill went round he made
 his wealth. t, :tt One hand in the hopper. another in
 the bag,
 As the wheel went round he made
 his grab"
 There must be an uneven number of players. All of the children, ex- cept one, stand in couples, arm in arm, and singing this verse, march around in a circle, each couple closely following the other.
 The odd child stands in the centre. At the word grab" the children marching on the inside of the circle let go of their partners arms and try to catch hold of the one standing immediately in front of their previ- ous partners.
 Now the child in the eentre--the odd player-tries to secure one of the partners, and thus get place in the circle. If he succeeds the one who was left out must take the centre. and the game goes on as described.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Why Piggy's Tail Curls.

KT ANY years ago, so the legend
 WI says, when the world on which ava we live was first made, and only a few people lived there, the Good Spirit was out one day walking up and down the earth. By and by he met very ferocious beast, and, stopping said, ''Who made you?" My maker is the all powerful" answered the beast.
 What were you created for?"
 ''To eat man and his children, was
 Then the Good Spirit, knowing this must be the work of the bad man or evil spirit, told the beast that he was going to change 1t. At this 1t started to run away, but the Good Spirit caught it by the tail, and, wrapping it around his fin- ger in a curl, pulled the beast back Then he struck it on the snout, and, bending it's head to the ground, said; "Henceforth man sball eat you and not you man. You must dig in the earth with your nose for your living" This Is the reason that the pigs nose inclAnes t1 the ground and his tail Is curly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Ladies First.
TARVEY loved animals, and so hfA A grandfather gave him several beautiful pets.

TARvEY loved animals. and so h9e
 A grandfather gave him several
 beautiful pets.
 A There were q white puppy with two black patches over his ears and eyes, and two cunning maltese kittens, and a monkey and a live tur- tie, besides other pets. E
 The puppy was named ,Beggar, be- cause he begged so hard for every thing he wanted The two pussies' names were Bo-Peep and I-Spy, be- cause they were always playing hida- and-go-seek. Now, Beggar lost his Tnoth- CT when he was only three days old, and he was brought up on milk, of which he grew SD fond that he would fairly pounce upon the pan of milk before 1t had been quite placed on the floor.
 We'll, pussies also love milk, you know, and 1t made Bo-Peep and I-Spy most unhappy to see big Beggar gohbling up to see 1t. much less taste 1t.
 to perform his usual greedy trick. and the two pussies had begun to cry Me- ow-ow-ow-ow! Where do we come infs Harvey happened along
 'Why, Beggar. You selfish thingl" he shouted, and seizing him by one ear, dragged him away from the pan. Now, sir, stay right therel Gentlemen let ladies have things first, and I'll teach you your manners"
 Then the two pussies settled down to a delicious. uninterrupted treat while Beggar sat disconsolately on his hind legs and said as plainly with his eyea as you or I could with our lips, wish was a lady"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
The Bell Boys Story.

Y WENT upstairs this morning, when
 she rung--
 guess she must of just got out of bed It seemed to me her nose looked kind oi
 redi They was a little wad of hair that hung Down in pigtail on her back; she bruns A telegram out to the door, and said: Well. get move-good heavena. are
 you dead?" Somehow she didn't seem to look so young. can't help kind of wonderin' today What made her look so queer; 1t seems
 as though There's something that is gone. I'd like
 to know If all the ones that's beautiful when they Get on their riggin' and are fixed up gay Amt much but framework when
 they've gone at night And safely locked themselves in out And laid what ain't growed onto them away.
 ANOTHER STORY I wish somebody'd kick me through I must be gettin' dotty; I'm so dense l couldn't see half through an iron Why. any one could string me while
 you wait; No wonder Morton says I'm short of sense. A man arrived here yesterday fore
 noon
 Who seemed to be a fighter. and as As ever I had spotted him I flew And grabbed his satchel and got useful.
 Say, His clos were great. he had on dimuns. too picked him for a winner right away. It wasn't tips thought of, understand; l hoped that mebby I could touch his hand; brought him pens and ink and things
 and stood Around to be as useful as could And let him see thought that he was grand. I'd like to bump my head against a
 wall, Because he ain't a pugilist at all. I'll bet he never even seen a ring; He's just an author that Is wrltin'
 books; That shows that you can never tell a thing About how great a man is by his
 looks. Evening Sun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Girls, Remember.

n ONT snr> boy because he wears
 shabby clothes. When Edison,
 the inventor of the telephone, first entered Boston he wore a pair of yellow ltnene brooches, in the depth of winter.
 Don't snub a boy because of the ig- norance of his parents. Shakespeare. the worlds poet, was the son of a man who was hnable to write his own name. Don't snub a boy because his home is plain and unpretentious. Abraham Lincoln's early home was a log cabin. Don't snub a boy because he chooses a humble trade. The author of "Pil- grln's Progress" was a tinker
 Don't snub boy because of his phys ical disability. Milton was blind.
 Don't snub a boy because of dulness in his lessons. HogaTth, the celebrated painter and engraver. was a stupid boy at his books.
 Don't snub boy because he shutters, Demosthenes, the great orator of Greece, overeame a harsh and stammering voice.
 Don't snub any one. Not alone be- cause some day he may far outstrip you In the race of life, but because 1t Ia neither Kind nor right nor Christian.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Hydrogen in Balloons.

HYDROGEN is so very light and
 eiffuses so rapidly that it is al-
 most impossible 10 retain 1t in any glass vessel. If a bottle was filled with hydrogen gas, and an ordinary cork placed in the bottle and allowed to stand q few hours, there would be very little hydrogen gas left. It would have passed out through the pores of the cork and air would have entered.
 A glass stopper will sometimes allow the hydrogen to escape around it. A small crack in the bottle, which would be entirely too small to allow air or water to pass through, will allow hydro gen to escape with great rapidlty.
 Thus when balloon Is filled with hy- drogen gas it becomes very buoyant, as it Is several times lighter than the air which 1t displaces. In fact, air Is four teen and one-half times as heavy as hydrogen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

The bungs now leap on to the backs of the buckets, the first going as far up the row of backs as he can, and being closely followed by the other bungs.
 As soon as they are all on they sing twice the lines:
 ''Bung the bucket--one, two. three."
 If by that time they have not suc- ceeded in breaking down the row ot buckets, the latter slng, "On! on! oftF or Hal hal hal" and score one.
 The ''bungs" must try again and again until they are successful Then the two sides change places.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Game of Bung the Bucket.

HAVE an even number of. boys and
 divide them into two sides. Call one side the "bungs' and the other the "buckets.' ... l for Ieapfrog. The hindmost boy braces himself against the boy in front of him. while the foremost one supports himself aRainst a usnn tha sids of a huldinG.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Boys Hair.

BOYS hair grows one-half slower "A than a girls. In boys the average rate of growth is 3 feet inches in six wears, During his twenty-first and Iwenty-fourth years mans hair grows quicker than at any other period,
 The human hair forms a profitable crop. Five tons are annually imported by the merchants of London. The Pari- sian harvest Is upward of 100000 pounds equal in value to S4OO.000 a year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Riddles.

1. Why are bells the most obedient of inanimate things?
 g. What is the difference between watchmaker and a jailer?
 3. What is the difference between tight boot and an oak tree?
 4. What are the two largest ladies in the United States.
 5. Where was Humboldt going when he was 39 years old?
 G. What fur did Adam and Eve wear? z. Why is anger like potato? 8. Why is a healthy boy like England? tance in history?
 l0 How does boy look if you hurt him?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

Cinderella, and the homely sisters face to the left of the Prince.
 Charade. My whole's a merry art, forsooth, The sport of wit and sage; Some say it's never good in youth; And always BAD-IN-AGE.
 Enigma Foal, keel, hat, hay. death. Answer: THE LADY OF THE LAKE. Drop-Letter Quotations. Longfellow: "Joy and temperance and
 repoSei
 Slam the door on the doc
 tors nose" Emerson; Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.
 Central Acrostic.
 S l. F F P
 F R U I T
 B l. $
 M O V F.
 r L Q O D
 T F \ A s
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

By the time Tiddle- klns' mamma finishes with him he has seen all the stars in the firma- ment and felt ali the un- happy feelings of the animal kingdom.
 5. "WoW = wow = WOW, " walls Bobby, as he sadly climbs the stairs. I'm glad my mamma hasn't n a s t y, scratchy t-e- nails"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

2. Oh, she is so sleepy Mean Bobby to steal her bedi He deserves a good, hard poke between the ribs. so he does And that is what he gets.
 But Tiddlel<ins discovers that Bob- by asleep and Bobby awake are alto- gether different dogs. Bobby awake jumps at her like hyena and scares her into seven fits!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Wedding Superstitions.

HERE is what happens to orlqes when they marry in any color they may select: -, Married in white. you have chosen all
 right;
 Married in gray, you VIII go Tar away Married in black, you Will Wish youIseiI
 back q. Married in red. you, will wish yourseH
 dead:
 Married in green, ashamed to be seen; Married i'm blue, he will always be true 1: Married in pearl you will live in whirl {; Married in yellow, ashamed of your fel-
 low;
 Married in brown, you will live out of
 town;
 Married in pink. your spirits will sink.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Smallest Island.

~ The smallest inhabited island in the lighthouse stands. At low water the base Is only thirty feet in diameter. At high water the base of the lighthouse is completely submerged.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
snider-Weh Thread

Thread made from the spiders web is lighter and stronger than that which comes from the silkworTn. In France there is factory used only for the manufacture of spider's thread.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

3. Now, will you behave.' growls Bobby, and then he snuggles down and prepares to sleep, while Tiddle- kins puts her little paws in her eyes and walls aloud.
 While she weeps, Bobby snores.
 She doesn't hear her mother come softly down tlass basement stairs. Nor does Bobby
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

mustered at quarters and exercised at firing exercises. After lunch they were exercised in divisions, and then were stationed for manning the ships rail, and were put through their instructions by the older seamen.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

that King Neptune would appear to de- mand their homage.
 Sure enough. just as the deck exer- cises came to an end and eight bells rang, the notes of jolly jig began ring ing from the bugle, and the beginning
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Logic Puzzle.

1. How can you, by logic. transform an acrobat into ship?
 3. How can you show by logic that Thaddeus of Warsaw was giant?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Beheadings,

II am a great fish; behead me and am an adjective; oehead me again and I am an article of food; behead me and I am a verb; oehead me again and 4 am an adVerb.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

The two rats were hidden in the up- per part of the carriage. the two slip
 pers on either side of Cinderella, the Princes face in the bush @ the left of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Curtailings.

1. Curtail a boys name and leave a kind of conveyance.
 2. Curtail title and leave part of the body.
 3. Curtail an animal and leave a rep- tile. fly constructed protection used in war.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

Marry Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday, the best day of all; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday. no luck at all
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

All this time the boys were on tiptoe with excitement for the word had gone around that the moment the ship reach- ed the equator interesting things were to come to pass--just what no middy could guess; but this much they knew:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
TIDDLEKINS AND BOB

o AYs Bobby. s'This basket looks
 jolly comfortable. Stupid of Tiddlekins to leave it unprotect-
 ed: Guess I'll help myself to it and take a good nap.'
 Now Tiddlekins' mamma says she is to have nothing to do with Bobby.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Cork Will Sink.

Cork, though the most huoyant sub- stance, will not rise again if sunk 200 feet below the waters surface.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Enigma.

Take 1-5 of shame, 1-4 of Mary, 1-5 of early. 1-5 of right, 1-3 of ice, 1-6 of eel lar, 1-5 of Italy, and have a beloved country. What Is 1t?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
RounI snnnish Coanl,.

The state coach used by the King of Spain is drawn by eight pure white horses. with white plumes and white harness
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
No Rhymes.

About 5000 words in the English lan- guage have no rhyme to them. The9e Include gulf, month and echo.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

L-c'S S-A

Y TITLE L-C had 2 write An S-A on B, A most P-Q-liar subject, And she hadn't I'D. Twas not a very E-Z task,
 As any may c, And MT was her paper
 When twas almost time { q. <
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

The name of a State is to be found hidden in each of the following sem tences:
 l. The Indian and tEe white man trap ped beavers.
 2. The little miss is slipping her tea. 8. We would have overtaken him, but a horse stumbled.
 4. Yes Belmont an apple is fruit. 5. Did Ida hoist the flag?
 6. He wanted me to color door.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Answers to Last Weeks
 Puzzles

Beheading and Curtailing. March-arch-arc.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

because he is an ill-bred dog. with rude, rough ways.
 But gracious alivei What is she to do, when here she finds Bobby in her very own bed?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Arithmetic Puzzle.

((~HILDREN.'' said the school
 master "rohnny has made
 queer mistake in the arith-
 metic problem. He has the ANSWER correct, but has copied the figures of the problem wrong out of the book.
 ALL OF THE CHEERS and ONE figure in the MIDDLE column should be changed for a certain figure-the same figure in all five instances. What's that figure?" Can you boys and girls tell?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26

f. until 1t Is too late. And then. alas for Bobby! He finds 1t is a fearful thing to fall into the clutches of an indignant and averaging Tabby-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Cinderella Puzzle.

August Flowers. Aster, goldenrod.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-08-26
Who Can Read Thisp
Hidden Words.

Stand take to takings l that you turn all my
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18

put it in your coat pocket, and don't
run away before 1 get through. Well,
| don't expect you to answer
Il hope M'liudy's we'll, Jack, and
that she don't hate me cause I'd
rather he dead You just tell her l
don't allow to be anybodys master,
least of all hers-it's too lonesome
like.
Tell her I'm out here waiting for
her, hoping she'll forget all the fool
ish things l said the other day.
And, Jack. here's the ring she threw
away-give it to her, and ask her to
let me put it on her finger again-for
she's the only one i can ever care for.
Here, take it, quick"
The music of loves voice filled
M'hndy's heart with joy. and. entirely
forgetting her strange attire. she turned
with a glad cry and took the ring from
the hand of the astounded Seth.
With the ring came confusion and
1ismay. M'lindy started TO run. but a
pair of strong arms soon clasped her
to happy heart
There. M'lindy, you've got no call
TO be ashamed | know old Brindle's
failings, and any woman who eas
master her is able 10 be her own mas.
ter-and-M 'lindy, want you TO know
I'm In the same boat with old Brin.
dle."-Waverley Magazine.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18

DR.. George NJ. Gould, the Philadelphia
eye specialist writing TO the New York
Science of the recently improved Rouls-
sen device for the reproduction of speech,
known as the telegaphone, suggests that
this be employed to take the place of the
cumbersome, expensive, slow and weary
ing embossed letters and points through
which books are now made available to
the blind. In this way a book could be
read to the sightlesS or to the invalid
while the patient lies in bed, and lectures,
concerts, Rotations etc, may be had at
will. Letters may be dictated or spoken
upon the thin sheets of steel and these,
after being sent by mail to a distant
friend will reproduce the voice of the
sender exactly as to infection, pitch and
emphasis. The record may be used again
and again.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18
All a Lion Would Care For.

"Oh. that's mere bubble" said
Walter Camp. Yale's athletic adviser,
during a discussion of football rules.
1t reminds me of two boys of a friend
Of mine whom l visited last summer.
Here said their mother to the old
er OF them one day here is banana
Oxide it with your little brother, and
see that he gets the liens share.
',The younger child, few minutes
later set up q great bawling.
Mamma. he shrieked, John hasn't
given me any banana.
What's thisg said the mother. hur.
rying In.
ats all right explained the Older
boy. Lions don't eat bananas ''-Ey,so
mans Home Companion
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1906-09-18
State News in Brief.

f. r. Franklin. the first settler Of
lGland, is dead, at the age of so years
Mrs. Eunice Theresa Truesdell, one Of
the pioneers of La Crosse. is dead al
Tie age of 50 years.
The West Wisconsin Teachers Asso
citation will hold their annual meeting ii
La Crosse Oct. 1927.
William Mitchell. a brakeman on the
Foster atimer log road had both legs
cut off by a train at Mellen.
Joseph Brettschneider Of Appleton
stepped in front of moving train al
Oakfeld and was instantly killed. his
body being badly mangled. He was 81
Years old and furniture dealer and I'M
dertaker of Appleton. He leaves fam
ily
Rev Clarence Weed. pastor of st
Paurs Methodist church in Manitowoc
for three years past, has resigned and the
congregation has accepted his resignation
There has been disSension in the church
and many objected to the youth of the
pastor.
Contracts for building the dam and
power house of the La Crosse Water
Power Company. which win be erected at
Hatfield. on the Black river. will be let
in Milwaukee The entire cost of con-
s.ruction will be between S1,5Oo.000 and
S2.000.000.
The first accident on the Chicago and
Milwaukee electric railway occurred the
other day. when one of the large cars.
loaded TO the doors with passengers.
crashed into rail loader Only one was
injured. little girl having her face cut
with glass.
The DellS Improvement Company and
the bells Paper and Pulp Company have
brought suit TO enjoin the city of Eau
Claire from taking possession of the Dells
dam. which is held by the Dells Improve
ment Company under a ninety-nine- year
contract with the city, made in February,
1877.
While threshing at the home of Mrs.
Gilmore. three miles south of Randolph.
a fire started from the engine and the
barns and all the outbuildings were
bur red.
President Emerson Mcmillan of the
Alnerican Light and Traction Company,
in a letter 10 President Glass of the Mil
waukee Gas Company, expresses himself
as strongly in favor of State regulation
of gas companies.
An interurban car, speeding toward Mil
waukee, crashed into heavy farm wagon,
Killing the driver. Joseph Welch. pros
prous farmer Of Muskegon. fatally injur-
rig both the horses and smashing the
wagon aud the front Of the car.
Nhile diving in Holsefh's fake Sigverd
SimonSon was seized with cramps and
drowned in the presence % a number Of
companions
Fire damaged the Phoenix Interna-
tional Light Company-s plant in Mifwau-
see 70 the amount Of So. 90. Careless
ns-ss OF employees Is given a. the cause for
the blaze
Engineer John Cufley Of tie Wisconsin
Central has gone to Chippewa Fails 70
i,e treated tor broken collar bone sus-
tanned in ran. Mr.. Curley has the run
on the new branch between Owen ard
I.adysmifh There waS no one else to
axe his place. however. and he made he
rnfire run ~ usual