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We WONDERFUL CHESTNUT TREE
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IT waa a draadfal ahook to ma yoB- tardajr, An«allaa-Roaa. whan Mlaa Lm uM riitht ost Ul scliool that tliara ara bo mora (alrlaa now. Toa SBBow bow oftea wa hava coma to tba ^•«da hoplBff to aaa ona." Angallna- Itoa* aat up vartaatly gtlll aad atrMVbt ter blua area atavtac in froat of bar. It waa A baautlfol aatvmit day. and tha traaa looked thetr rayeat wavins ffe tba foIOan aunablne. In their bright itAaggag ot rad and brown. Betty waa fAey toni at tba wooda. and apant esAny aa bour thara with her pat doll aUicaHna-Koaa draamlnc abont falrlaa ttAA fairyland and all tba wonderful thlaca tbat bappanad tbera. "Wouldn't tiiba lovalr." ahe eontinuad. "If a Salrr Vedmotbar ahould appear and sraat OM tbraa wlabaa, What ahould I WbAoma. flrat A blv fat fairy* tal* book tbat cbaAcad into naw ones M vcoa aa I read tbem. than a blue ll^rat coat trimmed with fur and a iaagy mult to match. Ilka Helen Wadfa. and—baat of all a big brown- gyoA atatar doll for you to piagr with. H must ba lonely for jron wben I am M aebool. and—wbat'a tbat I"
Bba heard aaound aa If someone was la pain.
' (Thara It waa acaln.
"Bare, aukay—llttla clrl! Uoa't be frightenad. Vbla way. I bave hurt ny foot"
rollowing tba aound of tha rolca, Mba peeped through a leafy curtain, and aaw an old genUeman alttlnv on a fallen . tfaa. looking very queer and
wblta.
"Why. It'a tba grumpy old ganUa- man from tba big bouaa ob. I didn't mean tbat." aba aald all In breath."
"Nevar mind, parbapa I'm not aa ^umpy aa I look. But will you run to my bouae, and tell them what baa happened? Don't trouble to coma back yourself, but coma and ae^ me tomorrow at four, and don't forget to bring Angelina-Rose with you. Hurry aa faat laa you can, dear," and ba closfd bla eyes aa If ha waa tired.
It did not take Betty long to run to the biy bouse and tell tbe frightened maid of the accident.
"Oh dear, ob dear, I muat tell Mlaa
Alice at once," and she hurried aw^y,
and Betty obeying orders scampered
homa.
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Next day, punctually at four, Betty atood, bugging Angelina-Rose very tight, at the door of the big house.
"Come right In, Mr. Wood Is expect¬ ing you." aald the amillng maid. Lead¬ ing her acroaa the hall, she ahowed ber Into an Immense room, lined on every side with hooka On a couch lay the old gentleman.
Smiling at her kindly he held out his hand, "I want to thank my kind little helper of yesterday," he said. "Wont you sit down on that low chair and have a chat?"
"Does It hurt?" asked Betty.
"It Is much better and will soon ba quite well right, thanks to you."
"But what are you thinking about,"
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aa ba noticed Betty's eyea wandering around the bookllned walla.
"I waa wondering If there were any -fairy talaa among all those booka."
"I'm afraid not. bnt I am vary fond of falrlaa."
"Mlaa Leo aaya there are none."
"Perhaps Miss liaa hasn't met them. They may not be quite the aame aa thoaa in tba fairy talea, but there cer¬ tainly ara fairies. Can you keep a aacret?"
"Oh yea," cried Betty eagerly," la It
ai.i.'.i I.iK-.es?"
"Partly! In my ; wonderful chestnut
;a-den tree.
One day
each year it ean grant wlabaa. ILrtickily
—today la the very day I Tou go down I
tha garden path, till you a«a a atafiie.
It Is right under th* wonderful tree "
Betty listened open-mouthed. , "There will be lots of chestnuts on 'tba ground this windy day, but don't touch them. Just hold up your akirt. j and eay thia versa over and over until I three cheatnuta drop In your lap: !
"Cheatnut traa. pleaae aend ma j Wishing cheatnuta 1-2-S."
"Take your threa cheatnuta home, and put them under your pillow to- ' night, fbr the three things you mos! , wished for during the last three day.' I win surely be granted." |
"Pleaae, sir. tha doctor," aald the j maid at the door. "Goodbye lltt!- girl, come and'tell me what hapti^r- don't forget."
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Next day when Betfv <• '•:'« 'i .1
from school, jho " .n^' • ).•••.>¦ . :. addressed to: Betty
from llm , Chestnut tree.
How her eyea danced as she s^'v the two fat fairy tale books, the bli: ¦ velvet fur-trimmed coat and mufF, an,, the beautiful new aister for Ange|in:i Rose.
"You see, dear," said Mother, "then- fire many people In the world who •' lovely, kind things, and they are ou rood fairies—and—she added with pmlle, sometimes they ara like o'l p-orOmeu In spectaclae." 1. mm ..
AN ACROSTIC When we gather 'round the fire In the early twilight hour. Near our loved ones and our dear one; Till the shades of night do lower Every heart with joy is beating Rich in love is every breast To be there, itself is gladness— In the shelter of the nest; Memories born of joy and singing Ever added joys are bringing.
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t?A I)W for Christmas! Getbusyand ' Ti^k make some presevta for your 0 g brother, .sister or friend. The ^ aa giraffe will bring pleasure In huge ¦ riantltles to some little person—and it i.j not difflcult to make.
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THE AUTHOR OF "GULLIVER'S TRAVELS'
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il.v.N SWlKi .1 In
Uui>'..n on November ;,ii. 1017. His father had died shortly before Jonathan was born and his poor mother had the responsibility of rais¬ in? the boy added to her other worries for she waa left in straightened clrcum- .stunces. She called to her aid a help¬ er or nurse, who took great pride In her young charge and formed for him a great attachment. This nurse was a wise woman, and she must have renl- Izod that the little fellow had In him the making.s of a great man. So groat was her love for the boy that when •he was called to her home, she woi:ld not leave the child, and finally bin mother nonsented that Johnnthnn rp-
turn with his nurse to her home In Whitehaven. There she kept him for three years and taught him tho earli¬ est rules of life and living. Can you imagine the surprise of his mother when, on his return, three years later, the little four-year-old Jonathan read for her any chapter of the Bible, to which she turned. We are told that he was a very clever little fellow, and that he applied fo studying the habits and manners of the people about him. Some rich relatives of his mother sent him to college, where he won fame as a bad student and a satlrlca^fellow. To be satirical means that one Is al¬ ways looking for the faults of others and overlooklncr the good polnt.i which are always to be found If <»farched for 1on<r onr."e-h Tfr' wns Pflin cnM'-i"?!
quality that made Swift ao unpopu'.ar and which marks all his writings. Even "Gulliver's Travels," which you will .'iome day read, which is so full of good fun Is not without Its Jibes and sneers at the mnnnors and customs of the world and people living In It. ^_
Swift Is littlo remembered for the clover things he did as a child. Ah the pleasing- phases of his life are for- trotten, and only the satirical harsh side of the man are remembered, nnd for this re.a.son ho Is looked upon la* a dlsagroenble. unpleasant follow. Hut for all this we must remember that he had a wonderful mind and a groat imaalnatlon—two qualities which will make his n.nme live In the pages of literary history forever because they mark him -xj n srenlus.
m working.
tAy out your patterns on cardboard If It Is desired to make several toya and remember you can carry on the operations of several with little more diffl.culty than for only one. lAy out the squares as suggested In the draw¬ ing, then trace through them so the lines pass through your squares in the samo relative position as they do In the drawing. Careful work will produce a !?ood 30b, hut remember you cannot expect to hurry through It carelessly !ind have somothlng that you will be proud of. Anything that is worth doing at all Isworth doing as well as you can.
Having made your patterns, get out the stock for the various ploccs. No edges need bo squartd when the pat¬ terns are made from cardboard, though two adjacent edges would have to bq square wllh each other It the patterns were to be laid out directly on the wood. Trace your patterns on the wood Just as carefully as you laid them out on the cardboard, then saw thom to shape, first horlnfr the various holes for the screws. The body will probably be too heavy for the ordi¬ nary coping saw, though you can use it If you do not want to work too fnst. The tnrnlmr S/Tw. helntr strnntrer. mnv
have to be used. If you should be fortunate enough to have the use of a power band saw, your work would be very easy, but as most boys will not have this tool at hand, they will have to content themselves with the other tools.
Saw the patterns with the «nm» de¬ gree of care as the other work has been performed, then sandpaper them.
Assembling Is to be done by means of screws, round head except for the tall, which should bo fastened with a fl.at head screw. Use washers between tho legs and the body and also be¬ tween the head of tho screw and the legs. This will give you a better op¬ erating toy and will also prevent tho legs from marring tho pnlnt.
After the toy Is assembled, meas¬ urements can bo made for putting the grooves In tho cart. It Is easy to un¬ dorsland <frhy dimensions have not boen made for them on the drawing. Be particular about the wheels. Tf thoy are not round, your toy will not operate easily. Round wheels can be mado if only caro Is oxorclsod. Place a screw eye on tho cart to drrjw It hy.
Paint according to the suggestion on tha drawing. These colors were used on the toy the drawing was made
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THE ARGUMENT
WEENTY'S ADVENTURE WITH HER BALLOON
t.^INT to cats eat canane». An' it'a mean for you to lay: Because you've got a bird, yo want My kilty sent away."
%kU do eat Jbirdi. you silly
Ask Pop if I ain't right: -Look how she watches every lime
The cage it brought in tight."
I'^'^&inpoM the does look, tmarly. That don't mean anjrthintr; She watohea it. I know, bccau' ^,; Sha likfla to hear it ting."
f^junfoi-cooK
UI.NOER MVFFIN^
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into greaaad muffin tiaa and aba ¦ to mtautaa In a modarata
H t|i» aarvf witfe baked app:ja.
¦JfBKE.NTir had gone lo the Fair. fl I and what a great place It waa ^^LH to be sure! There were pop- \r^r corn stands and ice-croam, Hy- ¦ -S horses and all sorts of things to a and try! My! but it was a flne lorning Wecnty spent at tho Fair! There was the Balloon Man. too, >;th his gay balloons tugging and tug¬ ging to be off and away. They tugged .,0 hard at their strings Wecnty won¬ dered that they didn't carry the Bal¬ loon Man right oft his feet ali to¬ gether. They might have. too. If he hadn't a strong leather bag tied to his side. Weenty saw It was full of shiny nickels and dimes when the Balloon Man opened it to put in her nickel that .Vursie handed to him la exchange for ] balloon.
What a time the little irlrl had tn
'ecldlng Just what color her balloon
hould be! There were so many gay
olors and they looked brighter with
;ie bits of sky that the balloons re-
Iccted on their round cheeks. It was
I delicious problem to choose and
tlnally she walked away with a great
plnkey balloon tugging away at the
.string she held in her chubby little
hand.
Once at home again. Weenty had great fun with her pretty balloon and i when nap-time came you may be sure 'she tied It to the foot of her little crib, where ahe could see It Just as long ;is she could keep awake. j There" It bobbed with two shlney ' ipots on its round plnkey cheeks that i were little plcturea of Weenty's qwn ' windows though they looked quite hke bright eyea, Weenty began to think ifter she had looked at them long nough. "Why, they are eyes!" Weenty said 'ddenly and then she noticed the bal¬ lon bad a small round nose and a :de smiling mouth! "Hal" the Balloon observed. "So • ou have. Tou were lying there so Muletly with your eyes shut I thought i you didn't have any. I thought I aaw I eyea In your head when you wero at Ithe Fair. How did you know what I was thinking about?"
"I didn't." Weenty answered. "I I 19 talking about you."
"Were yon?" The Balloon seemed
ba highly pleased. "1 am rather
oa . to think about, am I not? I
'>tlced how you looked at all tbe
'her balloona and then choaa me
lorause I was handaomMt."
"Tea, I liked you best." Weenty as¬ sured him.
Then I ahall take you for a nice fly. shall IT." the Balloon asked. "Tou do fly. don't you?"
"Dear, no." Weenty confesacd. "Bot you don't want to tty away from me. do you. dear Balloon? It's very big up there in the sky. you know, Tou might get loated."
"Tbat'a ao." tba Balloon agreed.
"But I shan't go off alone. You must come, too, then we can't get lost It we know t*?here each other are, can we?
"I will get my friends to take you up, I see them out there with the Balloon man In the road. Come, we can go down and ask them, now,"
Down they went and Into the gar¬ den. There Weenty climbed on a Ut-
denly, for they were floating towards I "How very nice." Weenty said, something that looked more solid than I course, I've heard of the cow clouda
"The moon, ot course," the Balloon answered.
"But It's not shiny," Weenty said.
"It never is during the day. The bright sun makes the Man in the Moon's house look quite dull, but Just w;ilt till It grows dark."
"Is , there really a Man In the .Moon?" asked Weenty eagerly.
"Why, yes. Shall we peek in to see :-.lm?" the Balloon replied.
They didn't have to do that, how¬ ever, for the Man ia the Moon peeked out.
"Good-day. Folk," he said quite cor¬ dially. "Won't you come in 7 It isn't often we have company up here. I am Just about to have tea. Come In and have some."
He opened his little gate and Weenty went into the most curious Uttle room all furnished with mother-of-pearl, crystal and Jewels. The balloons pre¬ ferred to frisk about outside as they didn't care for tea, so Weenty and the Uttle man sat down together at a lit¬ tle table.
"Will you have cream?" the Man in the Moon asked, "It Is nice new cream and far superior to the Milky Way milk, you know." Tou see. now that I have my cow. I am Independent of the Milky Way Dairy fairies."
"Your cow?" asked Weenty, "Have you a cow?"
"Yes, it Is rather a new Institution,"
"Of
that
Jumped over the Moon. I never knew
what happened to her. It doean't tell
In Mothir Goose."
"So you do know about her. I'll call her," the Man in tlie Moon said and stuck his head out of the window to call, ".Molly, Moll-ee!"
Presently a cow came to the window. She looked a bit cross but when she ijtard all about how she was made luto a verse she wa.s quite proud. "Say it to me," she demanded. So Wecnty repeated t. ,> 1111:' veivsc in hor best style. "Hey dlddle-diddle. The cat and the Fiddle—
The cow Jumped over the .M^.' . The littlo dog laughed to see buc:. sport And the dish ran away with the spoon!" Molly Cow's face waa wreathed In smiles.
"That's it." she said. "Historical facts. And pray have you see any of my old friends? Clever fellow, that Thomas Cat with hU fiddle! And Dog Bowser! What a Jolly pup he was, to bo sure! You must admit, though, I was cleverer than them all for aee how far I Jumped, and you Will have to travel far to flnd another cow who Ilves In a Moon. Kh, Master?"
Weenty was sorry she could not tell anything further about Fiddler Thomas and Dog Bowser, though she was glad to know their names.
on the Earth, you know—and if sho writes a history book, she can put in tho latest facts about your being up hero 60 all tJie other cows can hear about It
Tho balloons came to tho window to say that It was near Ave, and as there was so much uncertainty about the way to get back as balloon.'! very rarely are seen to float down Instead of up¬ ward, the Man In the Moon offered a shooting star to take them home again.
I Weenty was relieved to have It set¬ tled like that, and after the balloona had fastened themselves to all tho lit¬ lle points of the star and Weenty had seated herself on top ot the star, away they went at a great rate. Thoy went so fast it waa all Weenty could do to hold on tight and shut her eyes. When she opened them again. It wna to find herself In her own little crib.
There was her friend the Balloon at the foot of the crib Ju.st as he was before with no bright eyes or llttla noso nor big, smiling mouth and whon sho tried to ask him about the other balloons he simply nodded and swayed like nny balloon might.
Puzzle-Corner
unynEiNJLmMAi^
t'p Flow Weeiitj
:'.e otiich to look over the 'a tbe Lialloon hopped on tup. 'i::-i- i'tood the Balloon man with Aii h-.a gay balloons In the rOad and they esf- plained to him what thay wanted. ,
"I suppose an outing would do them good." Ho nodded. "But don't let them get too far away and they must be back by five."
"Oh, do let us stay .till alx." All the balloona cried, but the Balloon Man ahook bla head. 1
"Five," be aald. "Now, rlsmember!"
He held the balloona while Weenty got a Shaw! and mude herself a little hammock fastened to the enda of all the balloona and^rhea ahe waa quite Battled In he let go.
Up flew Weenty. It waa a splendid ride with the gny balloona above her and her own baloon floating beside bar holding her hand! It was fun tc see the town grow smaller and smaller and the bJtds flying about bus'ly pick¬ ing bits of fluffy clouds to line their naats with, ao Weenty's Balloon aald.
"What la that?" Waanty aakad aud-
see If you caa pick out the outline of a large Jnngic animal. •iiitik you bave tt, color evrrTthlig Intide the oatUne with inU.
When fCftt
..ifni> iiiij>cu:iU ll,-'
lile .Vl . .lie .Uoon agreed. "I've
onty h.^.i .»ior a few hundred ages. Tbe flrsi million yeara I lived, up here I didn't have her. But one day. a cow Jumped over tba Moon—have you ne^er '%eard of tbat t I perauaded bar to atay up bare, you aaat"
tvi-siu li: Utr Best bi)'>>.'.
"And wa are written uij..,l.. iu a book'" Molly Cow aald proudly.
"Wall, it waa a f<uit to be recorded," the Man In the Moon observed good- humoredly. "Perbapa tbia young lady win write a history aoma day^—tbay write naw onea oTary onca In a wbile
HIDDEN ijEm:n
!. llrst Is In Injured but no; 1:; Second's In aaucy but not In pert, ^y third la in pencil but not in pen. Fourth la In turkey but aot In ban. My fifth la )n Florence but not In
Kate, Sixth la pn early but not In late. My aeventb'a In flounder, but not in
«ol. Eighth is on beefsteak bot not In real. My nintb la in aster but not In roa«, Whole U a visitor everyone knowa. This la bis favorite aeaaon lie triea To hurry and thua taao ua all by aar-
prtse. HTDRA-BEADED VXTSOSHAXS 1. X am A number, cbanga my head I lun a bird, ebansa onoa mora g am
in anlmal'a borne. "
t. I am a number, chun^^ my bead I am acid, cbanffe once tdore I am aa exeuralon.
5. I am a number, change my bead I am length without braadtJi. onca mora and I am a traa,
4. 1 am a numtwr, change mgr hekd I am energetic^ onoa mora Z am to Split asunder.
6. I am a number, change my head I am to blend, change otira m- re I am an awkward aitnatlnn.
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