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shut. Now, take the pieces of box that you cut off at first and make the inside walls of the house. with doors going from room to room. The lid of the box will make the roof of the house, with pretty. wide caves, Figure 3. If you have a box of water colors. you can paint the whole house any color you wish. Now, take tho old magazine, and look through the advertisements in the back and you will find all the things you need to furnish your house-tables. beds, chairs, rugs, stoves, etc. Cut these out and furnish your house just as you want it, using the paste to keep the things in place. Figure is how your house will look, when you get
 1t finished. It Is lots of fun--try it.
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A TITLE Elise was very tired and
 very sleepy. She had been play
 ing, oh, so hard all afternoon in - the front yard. And Mamma had made her come into the house orite arm- chair.
 So she balanced herself nicely on the edge and bounced her rubber ball up and down-up and down-on the f1oor and she missed catching it only twice out of goodness knows how many times.
 But presently this. too. became tire some; so she let the ball lie on the door where it had fallen and, resting her feet on her own little foot-stool, she settled down comfortably In the pig chair and opened her picture book For quite a while she looked at the pretty pictures and. letter by letter, spelled out the words. And then hen-she began to nod.
 Her curly head dropped lower-and --lower-and strengthened up with a Ierk-and then did it all over again! The book fell to the floor.
 Nod-nod-
 ooNNSAAAy tAiC AdODCI O<1il O1 tHe HOOr began to grow larger and larger. It swelled and swelled and-would you believe it!-presently it changed to a perfect pumpkin as you ever saw, all golden in color and with a little green stem sticking up on the top.
 My, what strange thing for a rub Der ball-a perfectly behaved rubber ball-to do! But that was not all. Indeed no. For, the next moment, one fat slice of the pumpkin opened and out stepped a beautiful Fairy Lady
 What cumming little person she was! Her hair sparkled like spun gold and right in the middle of her forehead was a star made of moon rays. Her gown was as thin and sheer as the mists that rise on a summer morn In her hand was her magic wand. of purest silver and with a dia- mond at one end that sparkled like the sun.
 Daintily the Fairy Lady tripped across the floor until she reached the wall and there. stopping, she waved her wand. Instantly the wall vanished and in its stead Elise saw a wonderful tdIy PdtoSC way OIl III tne ulStanCe It had countless columns of pure white marble and on each column glowed a cluster of tiny lights-much like the candelabra which Mamma used on her dining room table and which Elise thought so pretty.
 Birds began to sing-the strangest sweetest songs she had ever heard And cool, soft winds. laden with the perfume of myriads of flowers. blew gently through the room, ruffline Elise's golden hair. The Fairy Lady made deep bow in the direction ot he palace and then. lifting her skirt above her dainty ankles. she began to dance a minuet.
 In the midst of 1t there came a tiny icuffiing noise from right beside the rubber ball. Elise looked round, with start, and the Fairy Lady stopped her dance And there stood the Most ,orlorn little creature Elise had ever seen.
 She was by no means so tall as the Fairy Lady so you can well ina zine now tiny she must have been. Her lair was all rumpled and frcwsy and
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MERRIDALE

ten who belonged to a summer O outing party in remote Cana dian lake region, were once left alone at the camp during a whole day. The fishing was poor and the men of the party had portrayed to neighboring lake, hoping to find better sport and bring back a good catch.
 The-two boys begged to be allowed to go, but were told that they would be ''in the way" and that, anyhow. their only proper business was catch ing "shiners' for baat. This made Jack indignant and, when the young. men had padded off he said to Bert:
 ''Woa1ldnt t tt be fine. if we could beat them catching fish today?"
 'sRet's try" proposed Bert. 8
 So they worked hard with their baft-nnes from the shore until they had a do3en or two of 'shiners" sw1mming-fn a bucket of water. Then they went out in the one canoe that was left them and troIled for a couple of hosara The trolling was usually done with a metal Spoon" which looked gf1ke a little fish as 1t revolved. but they had heard guide say that 1t was better to employ a live minnow on a gang and therefore they tried that method.
 But two hours of padding and trai1ing the long baited line brought no results, not even a rise. and finally the boys returned discouraged to camp. It was only eleven o'clock. but they at once proceeded to fry ba- oon, mako tea and stun themselves with bread and butter. Their meal was hardly finished when, glancing to- ward the lake, Jack saw an empty drifting canoe some two hundred
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and angrily "Tom-Cat. that's what it stands for. Don't you dare say 1t stands for me. Tommy Jones. wont have it-so I won't" And she stamped her foot on the ground.
 Poor Tommy, He took one look al the angry Clarice. snapped his knife shut. turned on his heel and walked slowly away.
 Yes, the e is for Cat" he called back over his shoulder. just like It's for 'Clarice'-'cause you are one."
 And Clarice was more angry than ever,
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and 1t didn't look at all like a pumpkin.
 Well, we'll" said Elise to herself with a smile, "I must have been dreaming. But anyway, don't believe I shall ever again tear flowers to pieces"
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hanging down her back in a horrible snarl. Her dress was old and soiled and patched; and her shoes, which had made the scuffing noise as she walked. were ragged and badly in need of polish.
 "Oh, please, please, kind Fairy Lady," she walled in thin. sorrowful voice. "please let me come back to
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canoe finally found rest. they could not have told; they only knew that they seemed to be clinging to that floating log and struggling for long hours, their feet and legs meanwhile growing more and more numb.
 Having captured the canoe at last, landed, stamped the numbness out
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76e c7NAGIC RUBBER BALL

Lady's neck and began kissing her with joy.
 Just then Elise sat straight up in her chair. She rubbed her eyes and gazed about In surprise. Gone were the Fairy Lady and Dawnmist. and the fairy palace.
 But there on the floor lay the rub Der ball, just where she had left it--
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EKnozD?

 he Who said. Don't give the shp?" Lawrence to  he of  the machine? Elias tatesma was n a am said havem metth H.
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School Again

~ CHOOL again. Don't it bea N allp v Seems like yesterday That we left the study hall
 For vacation play. Somehow looks like school begins
 Just about the time Fruit is ripe and chinkypins
 Are a-getting prime.
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Our Puzzle Corner k

THINGS WE SHOULD "LIKE." 1. A resemblance.
 3. Military or martial.
 g.. Another word for probability. 1. Resembling that which is living. FIVE WORDS IN ONE.
 There are five words each having the same four letters arranged differ ently:
 The first is worn over the face.
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The second is very repulsive. The third is a boys name. The fourth is bad, wicked. The fifth is not dead.

Anstcer8. THINGS WE SHOULD LIKE: 1 Likeness. 2. Wdrlike. 3. Likelihood 4. Lifehke.
 Fiue scords in one: VEIL, VILE LEVI, EVIL, LIVE.
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When the fish are biting fine In the ponds and brooks You must lay aside your line
 And take up your books.

Fore your done one-half the things
 You had planned to do
 That old noisy school bell rings
 And your fun is through. Still l guess it's best to go
 If smart men we'd be. Then there's Saturday. you know. When we're always free.
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\ OOR Tommy! He was in an awful state! He was miserable.
 And all because of little Clarice.
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FOX HUNT PUZZLE.
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cages filled with rabbits and guinea
pigs and cages of monkeys and cages
of birds.
The monkeys are of all sizes. Some
are as big as collie; others are not
larger than a kitten just born. The
small ones are marmOsettes. They
have tufts of gray hair over their ears
and long tails. There are also scream
ing parrots and parrakeets and also
sweet-singing birds.
The market has plenty of chicken and
game. The chickens are sold by ped
dlers in basket-like crates. They poke
their heads out through the stats and
squawk or crow as the man trots
through the streets. One Of the por-
tiers asks us to take a snapshot. AS 1
open my camera four others come up
and stand by his side. They have great
baskets on the tops of their heads.
They grin from ear to ear as my cam
era clicks.
We stop at a meat stall. Fresh beef
brings cents pound. 1t Is a
queer thing that dried meat brings
more than fresh meat. Dried meat or
jerked beef is much liked by all
classes. 1t is made in Brazil. 1t is
also brought in by the shipload from
Buenos Aires and Montevideo. being
corded up as we cord up hides. The
meat is sold in fat sheets, one or two
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legged. The better classes wear shoes
and low socks, but the legs are always
bare from the ankle to the knees. This
is so of both the boys and the girls.
They think it more healthy that way.
We must take the shady side OF the
street as we go. We are now In the
tropics and the sun is hot overhead.
The Brazilians say that only dogs and
strangers walk in the sun.
The narrower streets have many small
stores and each store is a workshop
There is a great deal of house industry
and the wares used by the people are
often handmade.
But let us visit the market. 1t is on
the edge of the harbor so that fish,
vegetables and other things can come
in by boats. The market buildings
cover six or eight acres. They are a
little city of themselves surrounded by
walls of stores with a glass-covered
tower at each corner and a clock tower
of glass in the center. The interior of
the walled city is divided up into
streets which radiate from the tower
with cross streets running through
them. The streets divide the market
building into blocks in which the stalls
are. Each block has it's own kind Of
merchandise. Here is one devoted to
vegetables and fruits, there one which
has only butter and cheese. while far
Their on is a third, where meat only is
sold. Some of the blocks are filled with
live animals. Here, for instance, there
are cages of dogs. large and small, and
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inches thick. It has a strong smell and
is salty. Another high priced meat is
fat pork. This is put up in rolls about
q foot in diameter and two feet in
length. 1t is sold by the slice. The
fat is used for cooking with beans and
with the carne secca, or drief beef, it
forms part of almost every Brazilian
meal The meat seller is a negro wom-
an. She wears a turban and her low
necked dress shows her black arms
bare to the shoulder.
We leave the market and go to the
fashionable parts of the city. We are
walking down the Ouvidor. 1t is one
of the best business streets. The show
windows are of plate glass and on the
narrow roadway. paved with tiles, it
Is like going through the aisles of a
museum. Here is a jewelry establish
ment. See the diamonds, pearls and
other precious stones displayed in the
windows. Brazil is one of the best
diamond markets. The chief stones
come from South Africa, although many
are still found in Brazil There are
Jewelry establishments to be found on
every block of the Ouvidor and also
on the Avenida Central. There are win
dows filled with blazing stones beauti-
fully set. There are quite as many
rings for men as for women. The Bra
lillian men fond of jewelry and a
stone ring on the first finger was for
nerly the mark Of a professional man.
There are many perfumery shops. not
drug stores, but shops that deal in
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perfumery only. They are patronized
by both men and women. There are
also lottery shops. The government
here has daily state lottery and the
peddlers cry the tickets throughout the
streets. Every bootblack sells lot
terry tickets.
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Are you fond of fruit? There are
fruit stores on all Of the principal
streets and fruit is sold in front of the
hotels, railway stations and outside
the cafes. You may buy alligator pears
for cents apiece and take them in
to eat with your meals. and you can get
apples from Oregon which have crossed
the United States and come from New
York down to Brazil. The apples will
cost you from 10 to Is cents apiece
and they are sold everywhere. There
are also grapes and pears from the Ar
gentine, oranges from Bahia and
grapes from Portugal. There are ba-
nanas and pineapples and all the 9TH
er fruits of the tropics as well. There
are also watermelons and muskmelons
and the papaya. which is a fruit and di-
gestant as well. It looks like a melon
but its golden flesh is loaded with pep
sin and you can mix 1t with meal of
mince pie and fat pork and survive.
1t is interesting to sit down with
the crowd outside the cafes and watch
the people as they go back and forth.
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drink all the day through and they
show 1t. They are never still The
men sitting about us have their legs
bobbing up and down as though they
were running a sewing machine. If
one tries to rest his muscles by keep
ing his heels on the floor. he does it but
few moments before the leg begins
to twitch and resumes its almost per-
petual motion.
Another thing that conduces to ner-
vousness is smoking. Nearly every one
here has a pipe or cigarette in his
mouth. People smoke at almost every
hour of the day. They smoke between
the courses at meals ana many of the
children are saturated with nicotine.
Now look at the Brazilians as they
pass. How small the people are and
how lean the men. The average height
Of the latter is not more than five
feet two. and many of the women are
no taller than our twelve-year-old
boys. The women are inclined to fat
ness and some of them fairly waddle
as they walk. The men are light
weights. Many will not weigh more
than a hundred pounds. They are
sallow or dark-faced as rule and
not a few are mulattoes. ] despair
of being able to give you the Brazilian
female type that one sees on the
street. There are many beautiful
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collins have windows in the sides and
you can see the wares through the
glass.
Here comes a man peddling melons
He has two low baskets, each as big
around as a wash tub, filled with
papaya and watermelons. The baskets
are hung to a pole which rests on his
shoulders. They bob up and down as
he goes through the street. Behind
him is an onion peddler who has
strings of onions fastened to each end
of pole laid across his shoulders.
Onions are sold by the string. Their
tops are so braided that the onions
look like knots in long braids OF
white hair.
How many of the people are bare
footed! 1 am writing of the working
class and such as you see on the mar
rover streets. The most of the men
have no shoes, some of the women
wear sandals, but for others the cal
Ioused skin of their soles is the only
protection from the hard street. You
see bare{ooted carpenters and masons
going about in hat, shirt and trousers.
Their clothing is cotton for Rio is
warm.
There are some children going to
school. They carry great portfolios,
some have bags for their school books.
The girls are bareheaded and bare
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EVERY MAN HIS OWN
WEATHER FORECASTER

MO matter what the news of the
I'M day may be-battles in Flanders,
Galicia or Gallipoli, resignation
of an American premier. fresh Mex
lean crisis or a sensational victory for
the home team-the weather holds its
lead as a topic of conversation. 1t Is
the eternal and world wide question.
The weather may not be depended on
itself. but it may be depended on to
furnish the text for talk. No matter
how tickle and unreliable the weather
may be, it is to be relied on to intro
duce the conversation, to support the
conversation and to close the converse
ton. Daily salutations are based on the
weather. It is a subject which any
man may freely discuss without any
preliminary training. 1t will not be
questioned whether or not he is an eX-
pert; it will never be questioned
whether or not he is an authority on
the subject This is SO because it may
have been demonstrated that one man
may know as much about the weather
as any other man, and that a man,
though he does not own a thermometer.
cannot read a barometer and knows
not the difference between Fahrenheit
and centigrade, may be as successful in
foretelling rain or snow as a scientist
who has taken diploma or degree in
meteorology.
Weather is something which concerns
everybody. John Burroughs, the nat
uralist and author, in his book. Lo-
Gusts and Wild Honey" had this to
say of the weather:
II suspect that, like most countrymeu, was
born with a chronic anxiety about the weather
Is it going to rain or snow, be hot or cold WEI
l
that most men are fred with the same desire 70
get %S the Weather somehngto
a farmer especially. The farmer has sowed and
%eathsr ali his s the must lift
mortgage on his farm and Psy MS taxes :. ana m.
ear Unless Seconded BY the weather. Hence
there is speculation In bis eye whenever he looks
at the clouds or the moon, or the sunset or the
point the direction of the wind tomorrow. and.
hence. is closely related to the price Of butter.
moon and plants and sows BY its phases
Every picnic. ice cream festival;
game. JOY ride or military parade is de-
pendent on the weather in a greater
or less-and usually greater-degree.
Good weather can help along the ac-
tivities and amenities OF the human
race and bad weather may unroof
houses, uproot trees. knock down over
head wires. wash away bridges, upset
train schedules, make men late at OF
fee and cause the coal bills to run up
higher.
But as there are many kinds of men.
the weather has a hard time trying to
please all. Umbrellas. rubbers and
raincoats must be sold, and SO. too.
yet sunshades must be carried and
sheer socks and lawn waists must be
worn. TOO much rafn." says one man,
and Not enough to do any good" says
another. Entirely too hot for COM
fort" says one man, yet" says an
other 1.-The corn needs just such
weather as this" Even farmers dis
agree as to what weather is best. for
what may be good for one crop may
not be good for another.
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l. Carpenter Visits the New Rio de JaneirO

We select a cafe on the Avenida Rio
Branco and cali for the waiter. He
about as much as half an egg shell.
The coffee is fresh made, and the price
is cents. It is served without milk
and 1t will tone up the nerves like a
cocktail. 1t has the elements of what
the Brazilian calls good coffee. That
is, it is las strong as I've, as bitter as
death, as black as ink, as hot as hell
and as sweet as love-
1 have had little experience with
hell. but from what I have heard /
am inclined to think the Brazilian cof-
fee fits the bill. AS to its sweetness
this is produced by half filling the
cup with cane sugar, which is more
sweet than the beet sugar we buy in
the lump.
Drinking such coffee has a serious
effect upon the nerves The Brazilians
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porter with a tub full of meat. They
even carry pianos that way. l have
seen four men walking along with
grand piano resting on their crowns.
their boss in the rear telling them to
step lively.
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This is a city Of peddlers. All sorts
of goods are brought to the houses
The women prefer to buy at their front
doors to going out shopping. and there
are peddlers Of dry goods and notions
who go through the streets clapping
two sticks together as the sign of
their trade. There are fruit pedd1ers
and fish peddlers. There are men with
long brooms and brushes. and bakers
who carry bread and cake in blue tin
collins on the tops Of their heads. The
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REAR ADMIRAL JOHN LOWE, RETIRED.

ships to Montauk point, where they
would encounter the American. fleet,
which being destroyed by force of num-
bers, the remainder of the enemy's ships
could pass on and anchor in Long Is
land sound In perfect security. and very
shortly Long Island would become a
foreign possession.
DO not consider this scheme fanci-
full one; 1t is not original to my mind.
So many have spoken of 1t that l am
satisfied 1t has been considered and di-
geeted in foreign councils and is part
of their program.
Our last Spanish war convinced me
that our own people were at that time
awake to this fact, for we saw the
army diligently terrifying against
what-phantom ships.
In our next war 1t won't be phantom
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ships, for there are at least two ma
lions which can do this thing single
handed.
I'VE need right off and right now
fifty submarine torpedo vessels in Long
Island sound to preserve the peace and
to give potency to our diplomacy"
After describing the submarine sta
ton which the manufacturers OF the
Holland craft had established, and the
method of training in vogue. Admiral
Lowe went on:
II might observe that this is precise
" what the government would do did
it possess a station of the kind. 1t Is
also precisely the routine TO be OBJ
served by a torpedo boat at sea. lying
in wait for an enemy. That Is to say,
while motionless or In cruising trim
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John
Officer Availability the Submarine Following
His Predictions He
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