The Washington times., 1911-02-20

work which is to he described
are those of two inches long.
They come all ready for use,
either colored or plain, and of vari;
Gus lengths, but may be made easily
at home.
Full length match sticks are excel
lent. They should be the sort that
have squared sides, because they are
more easily handled and keep their
positions better 1t is hardly neces-
sary to say that the first step is to
remove the sulphur, or fire end of
the matches. The easiest way to do
this is with sharp knife.
A moments carelessness, allowing
a child to get hold of unburnt matches
has so often resulted in the death of
the child and lifelong regret on the
part of the adult who was RESPONSE
BILE, that il is unnecessary to say that
the matches must be carefully exam
ined before giving them to the baby.
and that the unburnt ends must be
gathered up and thrown into the fire
or where they can do no harm.
Pleasure From
The Little Sticks.
great deal of pleasure and profit
They are lines with which the child
may represent the object that is in
his mind. Perhaps it may be the same
object that he has made with the
blocks so often-the chair. With the
blocks he has represented. to his own
satisfaction, the object itself in min
iature form. With the embodied line
A..
pears to his eye, as plane.
When little Ned is ready to play
mother produces the little bundle of
sticks. She does not give many at
once, but counts out certain num-
ber ten, twelve. or even five, and with
these the first forms must be made.
Ned will examine them carefully for
himself. and find out a good deal
about them unassisted. Then mother
They are matches. aren't they,
mother"
"They were matches, before mother
cut off the heads. Now we will call
are made OFF,
Wood" answers Ned, and Bess asks,
What sort of wood, mother?''
Pine wood dear. % You remember 3tI, ,i"s
mas? That was one lind of pine tree.
and the sort these little sticks are made
of is very like it, 1t is larger, though.
and its leaves are a little different.
Just think how many matches one tree
would make"
But Christmas trees don't have
leaves; they have needless" objected
Bess.
Only Leaves
On Christmas Trees.
They are leaves, the only sort of
leaves the pine trees have. Do you
remember what 1 told you about the
maple trees that the cubes were made
Of? How the seed was held at the
end of a gauzy wing, which helped 1t
fly away when the time came? Now
the pine trees seeds, a great many to-
gether, are packed away in the cone,
thing like a small brown pineapple,
which grows along the sides of the
branches. At first the cones are green,
but when the seeds are ripe and ready
to be planted the cones grow brown
and dry and open out all their wrap
pings, and the seeds, which are inside,
drOp down to the bed of pine needles
below, or perhaps they are caught and
blow away as the maple seeds did, but
at last they reach the ground and take
root and grow, just as all the other
trees do.
But when the winter comes the
maple leaves grow red and yellow and
then brown, and drop to the ground,
leaving the trees bare all winter, while
the needles of the pine tree stay on the
branches and always green. And t.
is why we use them for Christmas
trees"
u want to plant a seed" announced
Ned. land have a pine tree.
Huh" jeered BeSS. "A pine tree
wouldn't grow in our dining room"
1T would have to be very little
seed" reflected Ned.