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Girls' and Boys' Corner
Colour feathers
HERE
ERE is n very pretty experiment, which has been used. Take up a
which not only pleases people other feather and hold it in the steam, and it will change into a fresh tint,
but puzzles them as well.
For the purpose you will want three and so you can go on. or four while feathers and several
You can make the trick seem most little lots of finely powdered aniline mysterious if you make a little pri- dyes in various colours. These dyes vale mark on each feather which will are often to be found about the house, enable you to nay in advance what but in any case small quantities can colour it will assume after being in
the steam. he purchased for a trifle.
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ment in
Prepare the feathers for the experi
this
way: Sprinido a little of the dye on a sheet of paper and then, ・・・ draw the feather lightly backwards
then try this
and forwards over it. Then shes the HERE is a smart little trick which feather, so as to get rid of any of the always amuses poople. Place a grains of powder which are lightly card horizontally on the point of the deger and then on the top of tho attached.
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These will fall away, leaving the feather quite white to all appearance,
card put a penny.
Take care that the penny is just over the finger. The problem is to
As a matter of fact, there will actu- remove the card without touching the ally be quite a number of specks of penny, leaving the coin on the top the dye on the feather, although there of the Anger.
Ask a friend if he thinks he can do are not visible. Each of the feathers
different dye, in the it, and he will probably try to slide treated with A
the card from under the permy, the manner described,
carry out what is really a very result being that, as n rule, the coin striking experiment, all you now need falls to the ground. When he gives is a bowl of steaming hot water. Pick up the job as impossible, you up a fenther and, when the onlookers show him how It can be done. have seen that it is white, hold it in the steam.
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All you have to do in to give the cord a good flick on its edge with the Anger of your other hand.
It will then fly away, leaving the coin safely perched on the tip of your
In a few moments the warm danih ness maken the grains of dye run, so that the feather turns a bright colour, according to the shade of the dye finger.
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How to Make a
Model WATER-MOTOR
THE
MIE water-
mater
y shown in Fig.
1 can be exally made in a few minutes from an old tin can, some string and a plece of wire.
Begin by making the water-wheel
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WATCH WHEEL
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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
from an old
Tin-Can
through the hole in C (nee Fig. 1). Now make a hole in the bottom of the tin, en that when it is filled with water the water will flow out otul strike the blades of the water-
A
CUT OUT & CIRCULATE
PIECE OF IN FA
THE LIG AND HAIR A
HOLY HE THE CENTRE
FOR THE INSERTION
a
MAKE 12 CUTS MEDIATING
FROM THE FREINE DE VAC
.
THE TO THE P
ATED BY SUC
AND REND THE PARTS
OF THE WIRE ALLEMARKED AT MIGHT ANCLES.
DO NOT CUT BEYOND THE DOTTED CIRCLE
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wheel, thus driving it round In a most realistic way!..
Remember that the hole in the bot-
two plecus C and D (see Fig. 3) and tour of the lin must not be too big.
fix them to the tin with string ns illustrated in Fig. 1.
It should be small enough for just
a steady trickle of water to como A brief study of Fig. 4 will show through and set the wheel in motion.
Such a model as this would make Lo how fix the water wheel to the
Jolly little Christmas present for a wire axle.
When this has been dono fix the chum. When it la finished, paint the axle, with water-wheel attached, can u gay, bright green and the wheel a contrasting colour-red, for underneath the tin.
One end of the axle le inserted instance-and the model will be a through the hole in D and the other very attractive and amusing toy!
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GARDENING
Beginner's guide to Garden
E
Jargon
VERY occupation has
a jargon of its own. The worst words in gardening are those with which botanists disguise. the beauty of the flowers which they NASTIC.
On the other hand, it has struck me that we horticultural hacks are apt to fling other words about too carelesly and pass on to the next subject with put making ourselves plain to the in- experiencet.
We say "stick thin" or "mulch that," "thin out the other," or "hoe everything and forgot that the be ginner,
whlie understanding. the language, may have only the vaguest- idea as to all that there alry com- mandy imply.
So this is where we explain our selves.
WH
WHETHER thero really such o verb in the language as "to stick for "to tako" I rather doubt, but, wince it is the phrase commonly used in gardening, it will do for us.
(for Only market gardenern economy's sake) are allowed to grow pens without some kind of support.
Even the very dwarf peas which aro advertised as needing no sticks are all the better if they have some- thing to which they can cling.
Pea sticks are usually cut from live. hazel and sold in bunches of twenty- five.
A line of peas is ripe for sticking when the plants are three inches high, er even less.
THE first thing to do in to refresh your memory as to your pena' height as given by the reedsman.
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 pea can casily leap up to seven fost.
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Sit while you weed...
H
ERE is a seat quit weed- holder combined, made of
astrido the flat top, drop terrán
green-painted tion,
You
into opening in front. chair base mentia weeding with- ant back-breaking,
sit Rocking
Consider your
verdict
THE SWALLOW
FOR
Pretty and useful, swift-winged British visitor-arrival sign of summer, performs great service to the garden, catches flies and small beetles in enormously wide opened Viscid saliva assists in retain- mouth while on the wing.
ing preu.
Has special liking for crane-flies (parents of leather- jackets), continually feeds and carries ita prey to its always hrogry young.
AGAINST
Builds mud and straw nests in roofs of houacs, sometimes 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 cut your sticks five feet long for three foot pen
---- The verb "to mulch" fa-a-real.one..
and means "to cover with manure Gr 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 manure is spread round
Draw the earth up to your
peas with the hoe and stin the soil well between them
before any sticks are put
in.
THE sticks should be so
spaced on each side of the line that they form n continuous support for the peas without becoming a thick hedge which shuts out light and air from the plants.
For the Kamo reason they should stand upright come together and not
like a roof at the top.
trees and plants and over
beds to re- asparagus
with the soil plonish nourishment and to pro- toct tho roots from
winter's cold.
The other is in summer, of when path-like lines
manure, KTASS strawy mowings
or other litter aro laid along each side of pass, beans, and other plants in order to keep moisture in the ground.
If the material used is sufficiently rich it also provides sustenance.
and stirred with the hoe 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 bo comes necessary to give the lines a Plenty of black cotton should be good soaking, the mulch is put on
across the lower afterwards to keep the moisture in twined along and part of the sticks, becauso apurrows The simple word "hoo" may seem and other birds are very fond of the self-explanatory, On the contrary, it young growths, and nothing frightons deserves the best part of an article to them so much as these Invisible itself. It will get it next week. thrends which pluck at their wings.
the Ая a finishing touch, lako secateurs and snip off the untily ends
SALESMAN SAM
G. H. B. B.
QUIET CORNER L
Fallen
Giant
WHERE the upturned roots of
the fallen elm face south- wards the chalk which fills thom glistons in the sunlight, and the white mound is fringed with the vivid geld of dandelions and the blue of wild forgot-me-nots which cluster at its base.
On the other side the twin trunks of the prone tree are deep in shadow, and a dark fungus swells in hard knols along the cracking bark.
Lichen and moss and nettle are covering the wreckage, and all the space between the trunks is filled 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 ekin and für.
If one stirred the surface ond would and the buried, half-caten remains of leveret and rabbit, which are the hoarded treasures of the grey cat'a larder.
COUNTRYMAN.
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The bearded lady's?.
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22 Suggest it's no amateur attitude. 123 If they are pulled out, people
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27 Raro often broadcast.
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31 In the Inner Hebrides.
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Spanish, coins can
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frequently
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necessarily paying attention to small pointe
15 Broken hearted?
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headless.
28
Not
quite closed.
29 Lameirt.
30 In cars, or round oyea?
31 Told by the plous.
32 See 31 Acrons.
33 Direction.
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SAMMY TO TH RESCUE
WHY DIDN'TCHA HURRY, WHEN .YA SAW MY ROBE BURNIN,
AFTER I PASSED TH' FIREPLACE?
YEAH, AN! WHY TH' HECK SHOULD I?
YES! DON'TCHAS
THAT'S ALWAYS TRY TA ACT OUT/PART OF SOMETHIN'. MY ART!
IN YER.
WHAT ABOUT IT?
I DIDN'T WANT TA- SPOIL YER DANCE
OF TH' FIREFLY!
THENK
You!
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