Girls' and Boys' Corner
Colour feathers
【DRE ↳ a very pretty experiment, which has been used. Tako up an
which not feather it steam
but puzzles them as well.
and it will change into a fresh tint,
For the purpose you will want three and so you can go on. or four white feathers and several
You can murko the trick seem most little lots of finely powdered aniline mysterious if you make a little pri- dyes in various colours. These dyes vate mark on each feather which will are often to be found about the heire, enable you to say in advance what but in any case small quantities ean colour it will assume after being in be purchased for a trifle.
Prepare the feathers for the experi
ment in this way: Sprinkle a little of the dye on n sheet of paper and then draw the feather lightly backwards
the team.
then try this
and forwards over . Then shake the LFERE is a smart little trick which fenther, so as to get rid of any of the always unuses people. Place a grhins of powder which are lightly enrd horizontally pu the point of the flager and then on the top of the attacheal.
card put a penny.
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Take care that the penny is just over the anger. The problem is to remove the end without touching the penny, leaving the coin on the top
These w fall away, leaving the feather quite white fa nll appearaner, As a matter of fact, there will actu- ally be quite a number of specks the dye on the feather, although these of the finger. are not visible. Each of the feathers i trented with a different dye, in the manner described.
To carry out what is really a very striking experiment, all you now need is a bowl of steaming hot water. Pick up a feather and, when the onlookers diave seen that it is white, hold it in the stean.
Ask a friend if he thinks he can do it, and he will probably try to slides the card from under the penny, the result being that, as a rule, the coin When he gives fails to the ground. up the Job as impossible, you show him how it can be done.
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All you have to do is to give the eard a good flick on its edge with the finger, of your other hand,
It will then fly away, leaving the coin safely perclid on the tip of your
In a few moments the warm dlamp- ness makes the grains of dye run, ses that the feather furns a bright colour, according to the shade of the dye finger.
How to Make a
Model THE water.
mr
Dakarong shown in Fig.
Pre
i can be easily made in a few minuten from an old tip enn, some string and a piece of wire.
Berin by malting the water-wheel
wint cars
THROUGH Hil
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AND THE WIRE INTO A
tach Sister
PATES THE LOOPS FAGETHER
SECTION * OF WATERS- WHEEL
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or turbine from the lid of the tin as described at A and B in Fig. 2.
Then from the spare tin make the two pieces C and D) (see Fig. 3) and Ax them to the tin with string as
lustrated in Fig. 1.
WATER: MOTOR
from an old
Tin-Can
through the hole in C (see Fig. 11.
Now make a bele in the bottom of the tin, so that when it is fla with water the water will flow out and strike the bladen of the water.
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MAKE IS SUITS DADIATING PRONG TALEDsong or pur
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AND BEND THE TARTA MARKED KAT MIGHT ANCEES. OR NOT QUENCYOND THE 05 rep rincet
wheel, thus driving it round in a most realistic way!
Remember that the hole in the bot- tom of the tin must not be too big. It should be small enough for Just nsteady trickle of water to come
A brief study of Fig. 4 will show through and set the wheel in motion. how to fix the water wheel to the Such a modelis, would make a wire axle,
Jolly little enfistulas present for n When this has been done fix the chum. When it finished, paint the water wheel attached, can gay, bright green and the axic, with
wheel a contrasting colour-red, for underneath the tin.
One end of the axle is inserted instance-and the model will boa through the hole in D and the other very attractive and amusing toy!
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GARDENING
Beginner's guide to
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Garden Jargon
VERY occupation has
it
a jargon of its own. The worst words gardening are those with which botanists disguise the beatly of the flowers which they
naume.
On the other hand, it has struck me that we horticultural hacka aro apt to fling other words about too carelessly and pass on to the next subject with out making ourselves plain to the in- experienced.
We say "stick this," or "mulch that," "thin out the other," or "hoe everything," and forget that the be- the gisner, while understanding language, may have only the vaguest Idra ns to all that these airy com maids Imply.
So this in where we explain our selves.
WHETHER there is really such a verb in the language as "to stick" for "to stako" I rather doubt, but, sines it is the phrase commonly used in gardening. it will do for us.
Only market gardeners (for economy's sake) are allowed to grow prax without some kind of support.
Even the very dwarf peas which are advertised as needing no sielos are nl the better if they have some- thing to which they can eling.
Pen sticks are usually ent from live hazel and sold in hanches of twenty-
five.
A line of peas is ripe for sticking when the plants nee three inches high. or even less.
THE first thing to do is to refreshi
your memory as to your pras? height as given by the seedsman.
Add a foot to this for safety's sake. It is a conservative estimate for the taller sorts.
With good cultivation, and in a favourable senson, a five-foot pen can casily leap up to seven feet.
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Sit while you weed
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hulder combined, made of astride the flat top, drop werda tio. You ait
green-painted
into opening in front.
Hocking
chair base weuna weeding-with- out back-breaking.
Consider your
verdict
THE SWALLOW
FOR
Pretty and useful, swift-winged British visitor-arrival sig of summer, performs great service to the garden, catches flies and niall beetles in cuormously wide opened mouth while on the wing. Viscid saliva assists in retain- ing prey.
Has special liking for crane-flies (parents of leather- jackets), continually feeds and curries its prey to its always hungry po,ng,
AGAINST
Briles mud and straw nests in roofs of houses, sometinies blocking ventilation holes.
However, allowing this foot, and of longer sticks, so that the whole another foot for insertion in the line is of uniform height. ground you will have_to_cul_your_ sticks five feet long for three fuot
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The verb "to mulch" is a real-one,
and means "to cover with manure or
Cut a good bundle of them before loose material." There are two main you start any sticking, and sharpen times for mulching. One is in autumn,
the ends to a point with a bill-hook. when the
Draw the earth up to your
peas with the hoe and stir the soil well between them
before any sticks are put
.
THIE sticks should be so
THE
spaced on each side of the line that they form a continuous support for the pens without becoming a thick hedge which shuta out light and air from the plants.
reason
For tho same they should stand upright come together and not dike a roof at the top.
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manure is spread round trees and plants and over
asparagus beds to plenish
with the soil nourishment and to pro- tect the roots from winter's cold.
Krass
The other is in summer, when path-like lines of strawy manure, mowing or other litter are laid along each side of peas, boans, and other plants in order to keep maisture in the ground.
If the material wed is suficiently rich it also provides sustenance. ..
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and stirred with the hoo before a They must be pushed firmly into THE soil must be thoroughly weeded the ground, for it is no use if they are broad and thick dressing of the mulch blown flat by the wind after the peas is applied. have climbed the rigging, so to speak. In very dry weather, when it be comes necessary to give the lines a Plenty of black cotton should be good soaking, the mulch is put on twined along and naross the lower afterwards to keep the moisture in part of the sticks, because sparrows
The simple word "hoe" my STIL and other birds are very fond of the self-explanatory. On the contrary, it young growth, and nothing frightens deserves the best part of an article to
thesa invisible itself. them so much as
It will get it next week. threads which pluck at their wings.
As a finishing touch, take the
G. H. B. B. secateurs and snip off the untidy ends
SALESMAN SAM
QUIET CORNER
Fallen
Giant
WHERE the upturned roots of W
the fallen clm face south- wards the chalk which flls them glistens in the sunlight, and that white mound in fringed with the vivid gold of dandelions and the blue of wild forget-me-nots which cluster at its base.
the twin On the other side trunks of the prone tree are deep in shadow, and a dark fungus swells in hard knots along the cracking bark.
Lichen and moss and nettle aro covering the wreckage, and all the space between the trunks in ed with, husks and rough straw from the rick.
This rubbish is trodden down into the semblance of a cave, and from its floor protrude small bits of skin and fur.
If one stirred the surface ona would find the burled, half-eaten remains of leveret and rabbit, which are the hoarded treasures of the grey cat's larder..
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20 Lament.
30 In cars, or round eyes?
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