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Mhen Mollyss Wash" Ran Away.

"Oh, Grace, you do get your clothes so dirty" said Molly. addressing her far-away doll through the apron. .I'll give you good soaping." And she soaped and soaped the apron till the poor little garment wondered if 1t would ever come out whole
 Then the apron was wrung out and slapped into a pan of clear water to take out the soap. Then it was wrung through that and hung upon a little cord-stretched between two rose bushes in the back yard-to dry. The weather was very chilly, and the nip ping air made the wet garments very stiff, just as though they had been dipped in starch-water.
 As soon as the apron was hung upon the 1ine it came in close contact with EthePs bodice, which was now filled with cold wind till 1t seemed to be covering a real body The sleeves lifted themselves after the fashion of waving arms. Grace's apron shook it's long strings, came round quickly and gave the bodice a slap in the back that made two of the buttons crack together with a loud report. The bodice had the stiffness taken out of it for just second, but a sharp breeze filled it and gave 1t proportions again.
 How dare you?-impuden thing!" asked the bodice. And she struck out with stiff. strong sleeve. It took the apron just across the stomach, and for a moment 1t thought 1t was done for. It hung limp and waveless, the strings pnf,x ciV to <4 Nxo ioP t. .t- former nasty fashion. But after a minute, the apron regained strength and the battle of apron-strings and bodice-sleeves recommended. They were giving and taking blows as fast as they could when out came Molly with the soldiers coat. This she hung on the opposite side of the apron, put ting the naughty little thing between it's two enemies. But being the aggres- sor. and having first started all the domestic trouble in the play-room, Grace's apron turned from the bodice to the "Captain's'' coat. But. gentle man-like, the coat would not fight with lady's apron, and drew himself up in dignifed manne..
 Let's run away from all this," said the bodice, beginning to cry of vex- ation. She was speaking to the coat.
 Very well. little cousin" said the coat. Gan you get your shoulders from beneath those clothespins?"
 "I can try" treasured the bodice. wen go to that big farm house beyond the hill. and find new and a quieter home."
 "Ah. will your" and the apron laughed loudly. 'I'll be glad to sec you depart. The play-room will be so much happier without you"
 Let's have nothing more to say to Miss Impotence" sad the coat. shrug- ging a shoulder contemptuously and speaking across to the bodice. But the bodice did not reply, for It was too busy, unfastening tAe clothes-pins from it's shoulders. And after a few minutes 1t was free of the line. and went fiuttering on the wind towards the hills, mile distant from the vil- lage where Molly's home was. A
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ten dogs had dropped out of life. there remained just about sufficient for J Johnny. the stranger and Johnny's own dogs. But on the strangers sledge was food enough for his own dogs used sparingly but once a day.
 It was with great difficulty that Johnny prevailed upon the stranger to eat something. As they were not near to stream where, stray brush and timber could be found for a fire they had to do without coffee that evening. Johnny had taken the pre- caution to put a handful of wood on his sledge that morning on break ing camp. for while he could not carry enough to mako a sufficient fire to boil coffee he hau quite enough to melt some snow for drinking. A tin can half full of melted snow and half spoonful of powdered red pepper warmed one's insides. quite as well as coffee." as Johnny's Uncle Jim had often remarked on such oc- casions. And now Johnny realized that he must take the place of his father or Uncle Jim and that he was no longer a lad of sixteen but a full-grown man. suffering . mans Klondyke responsibilities.
 After some time. the stranger sat up on the sledge. and looked at Johnny
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~ITTLB MOLLY HADLEY was
 very busily engaged in washing
 out the soiled garments belonging
 0 to her family of dolls. Ethel. Grace, and Harry. Ethel was a tall, fair-haired doll who possessed rare dignity. Grace was a small, plump, naughty, mischievous dark-eyed little dolly, and often teased Ethel to the point of tears Harry was a fine sol dier lad, an inch taller than Ethel and Q great admirer of hers. Indeed, 1t was whispered in the nursery, that Captain Harry was smitten by the dignifed blonde, Miss Ethel" And Harry never denied it.
 But all this gossip has little to do with the first sentence of this story. which was to say that Molly Hadley was busily engaged in washing the soiled garments belonging to her fam fly of dolls. And she had put Harry in one corner of the big play room and Ethel and Grace in another, tell ing them to behave themselves till she could get her morning work done and return to them to dress them all anew for the afternoon.
 As Molly washed away, she sang a song very loudly; and the soap-suds flew. Singing so loudly, Molly did not overhear the little voices which came from the tub. But they were talking at their very loudest-which of course was not louder than baby-whisper. and saying harsh things to one another. There was little white apron of Grace's tossing it's wet strings into the sides of lace-trimm ed bodice belonging to Ethel. And the apron was saying tauntingly to the bodice:
 "Oh, you stuckup thingl You think you are superior to poor, plain little me, don't you?" GA flip of the wet strings).
 Say, you're a most impudent little Miss" replied the lace-trimmed bodice tossing up it's collar defiantly. and also doing a bit of suds- throwing.
 "What does all this nonsense mean,
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you mischievous Miss?" asked the sol dier's coat belonging to Captain" Harry. It was lying under the wash board, and was speaking to Grace. in defence of the high-born lady, Ethel.
 "Oh, my brave never-fighting sol dier," laughed the mischievous apron, turning to the coat. "So you think to enter this dispute, eh? Well, your voice frightens me about as much as the grunt of the china pig, that sticks his snout out of Noah's ark upstairs. He never budges. You are as slow and as useless as that pig. Bah, you never had fight in your life! Why you should be called Captain, I can't make out'
 Ethers waist rose right up at this point. and threw out a great spray of hot suds against Grace's apron. You are very ill-bred Miss, and I refuse longer to associate with you" So spoke the bodice. And at that instant Molly dragged 1t up and down over the board. getting the soiled spots clean. And that left only the apron and the coat to have 1t out" in the
 
 daunted the mischievous. naughty little apron. She bristled again. Why don't you speak for yourself. Captain Harry? I think you should be called Captain Jinksi There Is no danger of your meeting one of your own size and strength here. Come on, and hold your own against a poor. weak little apron"
 You are beneath my notice. sneered the coat. And he raised sleeve contemptuously. And his collar bristled. and became severe in out line. T never associate with bad hammered creatures. You belong with the Noahs ark crowd of four-leggers along with the china pig"
 What might have happened at this point will never be known, for just then Molly seized Grace's apron and began rubbing it clean on the board.
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leafiess bush or tuft of grass and wait the resting of their chariot. Then. the wind refreshed, they would go on and on again.
 The evening shadows were just set ting over the world when the bodice. closely followed by the coat, blew into the farmhouse yard. Jimmy, the farmers little son. was returning from the village. laden with a basket of things, when his eye caught the fiut- tering little garments. which were now entirely dry. He ran to them and gathered them up. Doll clothes," he said, looking them over. Whoever heard of boy doll? But here is the coat of one. And what pretty little doll waist, lace all over it! I'll carry them into the house and give them to sister Nellie. The waist will just fit her big town-doll what Santa brought her last Christmas. We'll have to make a boy doll to wear the coat. It's soldiers coat. too. Nellie can make rag soldier-doll to fit it."
 So into the house ran Jimmy. and after depositing his basket on his mothers table, went off to find his sister. She was helping to set the sup portable In the kitchen, and when Jimmy held up the dolls garments, she dropped a plate and came near to breaking it.
 "Oh, Jimmy, where did you get 'em?" she cried. taking them into her hands.
 Jimmy excitedly explained. And" he added, they must have been lost by that band of rowing Gypsies that passed here this afternoon. for they
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 "A Is the Knight of the Whistle, and \ is played in the following manner The boy who is chosen to play the Knight must be new to the game, hay ing never seen it played. After assur- ing those naming him as Knight that he has never before participated in the game, he is asked to kneel down to receive the knighthood. Some one must then sit down, and the Knight kneeling, rests his head in the lap Of the sitting person. The others in the game gather round him, each batting him on the shoulders and repeating these words in chant-like fashion: Here we unite with great delight. The Tulip. Lily, and the Thistle;
 And with due state, we now create. The one who kneels Knight of the
 Whistle.
 A whistle and piece of string, some fifteen inches long, should have been previously prepared. and while the person is kneeling down, the end of the string should be fastened to his back by means of a safety pin. This done, the chanting and tapping on his back discontinues and he is told to listen to the sound of the whistle. that he may know 1t again. Some one should then sound the whistle. and when the Knight has confessed that he would know the sound again should he hear 1t, he is told to stand up, and the company forms a circle about him. Then the fun begins by some one behind him catching the whistle
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nothing when compared with being deprived of your loved companions, especially when one of those comrades was a father.
 The first day of being alone was the hardest one of Johnny's life. Each minute seemed an hour. The con stant barking and bowling of the dogs in their misery touched his heart like a death knell. When time for camp ing and eating came, his stomach re- fused food. How could he eat on the day of his terrible loss? He fed and tied the dogs for the night and rolled himself in a fur robe and lay down in a trough of snow, such as the travellers dig for warmth against the winds.
 But no sleep came to rest him. His heart and his head ached. and long before the time for the start South he got up, tramped about awoke the dogs for company, and found bit of brush with which to build a lit- tie blaze.
 And then came another day of tramping over the snow. Towards night another dog fell in the traces anu TGluSeu tO IlSc. 1iV Wdo Sut Out of the ropes, left to die on the snow alone. There was nothing else to do. Once or twice John thought to climb on top the sledge load, and lie among ! the things. but he would recall that l the dogs were weaker and fewer in number than when they had set out several days ago, and that even then his father had said: None must ride unless he falls ill.,"
 The third day was the same as the first and the second. Johnny and the dogs alone with the snow by day and the stars by night. Oh, would they never reach Fifty Mile? But on the night of the third day Johnny dis cerned dark streak on the distant snow. It was another dog-team and | sledge. But when he strained his eyes he could see no driver, for none walk ed beside the dogs with whip to goad | them on and on.
 Johnny urged hiJ own dogs on to- wards the other team and soon came up with 1t. Both teams were travel l ling southward. and therefore came | abreast Johnny called out. and the dogs stopped. used to the command. Then Johnny began to look about on the sledge. There he found, muf- fled beyond belief. a man. When aroused. the man only Teeped out and said in a gutteral voice: Leave me lone. I'm all in"
 Johnny realized that the man was on the point of freezing. and hastily united the dogs. glad of the chance to stop their long days travel. there fore obeying strange voice. When the strangers dogs and Johnny's had been tied for the night Johnny turn ed his attention again to the man ! on top of the load. He was not feverish. He seemed just worn out worn to the bone and no longer
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A Story Of Brave Boys Dilemma

STK ILL day long Johnny had
 trudged behind the dog
 sledge, alone! His father I V and Uncle Jim had been his companions at the outset of the journey across the hundreds of miles of unbroken snow. But after the first week out. his Uncle Jim had fallen i'll of congestion of the lungs Then Johnny and his father trudged on and on together. Two of the best dogs had died, too, and they were fearful lest they lose others of the ten-dog team before reaching Fifty Mile, their destination.
 on the night preceding the begin ming of this story Johnny had been awakened by his fathers rawlings. The poor man had been taken with his last sickness, pneumonia, and before Johnny's watch told the hour of nine on the following morning. his father had passed away.
 And then it was. torn by grief, and filled with awe of the loneliness and the dangers which thronged about his path. Johnny realized his dilemma. On the great white, cold waste of the KlondylSe country. with barely enough provisions and dogs to last him till he could reach Fifty Mile-should there be no unusual delays!
 But there had been the problem oi the burial of his dearly beloved father His heart seemed to break at the thought of leaving all that remained of his fond parent out there in the snow. But there was no alternative So. wrapping the precious body in fur robe he laid 1t to rest in trough dug in the snow. The dogs, realizing that something terrible had happened set up bowling. and were hard to manage when at last Johnny could tear himself away from the new made grave.
 Children Who have never experi- enced being alone, in far-away land having lost one very dear to them can not imagine Johnny's grief. Tears froze on his cheeks as he went for ward-facing the South. He was a good traveller. and had made several trips with his father and uncle into the very heart of the gold regions of the Yukon. But he had yet to know what real hardship meant. One might go without food for days. using snow for water. and suffer all sorts of agony from the cold. but these meant
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couldn't have dropped from the sky, and there hasn't been a rainbow for ever and ever so long"
 "Oh, this will just fit my lovely big doll" cried Nellie. holding up the bodice. And I'll l.ave Mother make me soldier doll to wear the coat. I've wanted a soldier doll for evor and ever so long. And now I'll have one."
 And while the little girl was talking, the bodice, once belonging to the digini- fled Ethel, living in town. and the coat to the ernfaced young Captain" Harry. her admirer, felt very, very happy. For while they would in way lose their identity, they would become part and parcel of other dolls. and continue their sweet life in the same home.
 And now as to the ending of the apron of the naughty, mischievous Grace. It also became loosened from
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upon him some more bread and meat. This time the man ate with some show of relish, and began to look brighter. Then a slight conversation ensued. The man was bound for Fifty Miles. So was Johnny. They would travel together. Johnny told of his uncle's sudden illness and his fathers sudden death. The man looked at the lad with pity in his eyes. Then with verx cold hands he fumbled beneath his sledge load and found a little blank book containing a calendar, the days of which he marked off as they van ished. In this book he wrote some- thing with stump of pencil. fold ed the book up and placed 1t inside his breast pocket. But before having finished his writing he asked Johnny his name. After having been told it. he went on writing again.
 With the morning. the stranger seemed quite improved in health. but still too weak to walk beside his sledge. Johnny fixed the breakfast. hitched up the dogs to both sledges and set out over the trail. guiding both teams. But each sledge had fine dog as leader. and both leaders seemed to know the trail we'll. and travelled pretty conscienciously till late in the evepinR.
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And so the time passed away, slow ly. but surely. and Johnny was re- lieved to see his stranger friend cling ing to life and seeming to gain a bit in strength each hour. And each hour Johnny became more and more determined to reach Fifty Mile. Not so much for himself as for his com panion, who had told him in. bits of conversation at night in camp of q wife and "li'ie one" who awaited him in ''the states" And if they could reach Fifty Mile, they would get shell ter and food till the spring had really opened. And then the stranger could continue his journey southwards to those he loved.
 It was just falling night-after one of those terribly short gray days known in that part of the world, where God seems to forget to smile during nine months of the year When Fifty Mile was seen in the distance. Johnny knew the place well, for he had spent much of the last four years there in the company of his father and uncle. The poor half starved, over-worked dogs also knew that they were near a haven of rest, where food would be more plenti- full and things easier in general. and hastened their gait into quick trot. They drew into the main street of the wild, rude mining camp just as the darkness fell. Johnny hurried to the home of kind-hearted widow who kept lodgers, and where his father and uncle always stopped when in the camp. The good woman heard the news of sickness and death which Johnny had to tell with sympatne- tic tear in her eye and God bless you. child what terrible time you have had!'' Then she called to one of her lodgers. big strong ieiiow' to carry in the stranger whom tommy had brought into Fifty Mile.
 The stranger ordered that his ioao be safely stored inside the sroom he was to share with Johnny ana two other miners. "And. say. Kid" he remarked. turning to Johnny, there are two bags at the bottom of the
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Hou to Tint a Block and Nhite Print

n FTEN a boy or girl finds in some
 magazine pretty black and-white " print which, if only tinted. would look we'll framed and hung on the "den" wall. Now. if that boy or girl will take some water colors and brushes he or she may soon have the desired water-color effect on the print
 Wash over the foliags a soft yellowish- green, thin enough to show the lights and shadow through. Go over the sky with a delicate blue, unless the print indicates sunset. In that case,
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the clothes-line and went flying away. But the wind whipped around, and got it started in a different direction. It was carried. haphazard, to a little creek half a mile distant. It was about noon, and a band of Gypsies were camping there for their noon meal. A Gypsy child saw the futse: ing little apron and ran to get 1t. Another Gypsy child also saw it and ran to get it. A savage fight between them followed. each having hold of a part of the apron, and before their dispute could be settled the mischiev- ous thing had been torn to shreds.
 AnC so ended the little mischief makers existence, which might have been continued throughout a useful lifetime had it Leen of a peaceful turn. And this .g warning to mis- chievous little ones, showing them that one cannot be naughty without having to suffer for 1t. s.asl
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questioningly. Johnny told him in as few words as possible-for the Klon- dyke temperature even in early spring is not conducive of conversation how they had come together on the trail. The man nodded his head, looked troubled and lay down again. But Johnny kept shaking and rousing him. It would not do to let the man sleep in his present condition. The blood must be started more vigorously through his veins before allowing him to become unconscious in slumber.
 Again Johnny poured red-pepper tea down the mans throat. and forced
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able to weather the hard march south ward. Johnny found a very small supply of food on the strangers sledge, not enough to last man and dogs to Fifty Miles. which would not yet be reached for two days.
 But on Johnny's own sledge there was food enough for two men and eight dogs. His father had set out with plenty of provisions for the three men and ter dogs. but the trip was occupying about three days more than they had counted on. And while two of the three men were no longer to be fed. and three of the
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CHILDREN.

changes the position of the whistle continually, placing his back so as to give those in the circle a chance to blow the whistle while the Knight is looking for it on the opposite side. When at last the Knight does discover the whereabouts of the whistle, the game Is at an end. Sometimes the game may continue half an evening before the Knight discovers the where- abouts of the whistle and gets 1t into his own hands. e-
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NUMERICAL ENIGMA.

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 l. Change broken tree limb Into gentle domestic animals.
 2. Change to suffocate or stifle Into parents.
 8. Change to erect building sec ond time into a carpenter.
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 BEHEADiNGS
 l. Behead a golden fruit and get a kind of stove. 2. BeheaC chicken and get a bird of wisdom. 3. Behead . sweetmeat and get boys nick name, 4. Behead what we eat from and get rot early.
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and sounding 1t, immediately dropping if, taking rains not to stretch the string so as to let ihe knight know of its being there. As one drops the whistle another picks it up and sounds it, the circle of boys and girls nov ing round and round quickly. The Knight will turn this way and that, looking for the one with the whistle, for he has been told that he must secure the whistle before he is really a Knight. As he turns about he
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touch lightly with sunset colors, deep-1 ening at the horizon. Lay soft sepia over the rocks and the sky tint on the water. The foreground should be handled bit stronger than the middle distance and distance. If flow CTS and grasses are in the foreground they may be brought out" quite dis tinctly with the brush and colors. In this way many a very pretty picture may be made for the walls of the boys or girls room where sombre black and-white is not wanted.