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THE PITTSBURG POST. JANUARY 23, 1898: RIGHT BOYS AND GIRLS-OF' PITTSBURG FOUR TRICKS OF MAGIC. PICKERING'S, THE SATISFACTORY STORE. SUNDAY MORNING, rS LIVELY CLUB Home! They Look Hard, and you Can Mystify (Jour Admiring Friends. roes of the boys.

Care was taken not to select those that could be too easily recognized. Each boy- and girt personated as far as possible in language and actions the character chosen, and familiar phrases were often heard. Cards bearing the name of every guest, with a blank space opposite for a guess at the character assumed, were passed around by the hostess. When these were collected and Investigated it was found that two of the company had correctly 'guessed the entire list. They were awarded the pretty new books that were given as prizes.

All sorts of games filled the rest of the afternoon, and the last thing before the home going was the packing of the books. daughter. Martha; Emily Ormsby Phillips, the only daughter in the family of Mr. and Mrs. Clifton W.

Phillips. The" remaining four are Christine and Clare Swearlngen. the little daughters of Mr. and Mrs. T.

Brent Swearingen; Helen Douglass Wltherow, of the family of Mr. and Mrs. William Witherow. and Mrs. Llewellyn P.

Warren's little daughter, Innes. Since Its very recent organization the club has been holding several meetings each week. The small hostess on Monday was Martha Chambers. On Tuesday the gathering place of the members was at the home of Euphemia Bakewell, on Western avenue. Emily Phillips entertained the club on Friday.

Hearts i the game played, and there Is always sharp competition for the pretty prizes given. HALF A HUNDRED QUESTS WERE PRESENT. We mean furnishing a home, can be done like building a home little by litde soon pays for a nicely furnished home. It is easy to do when you have time. You can't build a brick house in a day; you've got to lay one brick at a One brick looks like a small beginning, but the walls will rise if you keep at it.

$lo down on four rooms seems small and S12' per month for eleven months the twelfth Cook, James Scully, Charles Fitz-hugh, Charles Speer, Talbot Speer, Frances Nimick. Howe Nimtek, Frederick Atwood, Jack Stewart. Ravmond Hilliard, William Thaw. Mark W. Home.

John King, Joseph Home, Harton Singer and John Walton. Miss Many Laughlln. dressed as Mother Goose, entertained the gay crowd. A Mother Goose house was a great magnet of attraction, and when a white goose stuck its head out of the window, with a present for one of the children in its bill, there was delight beyond measure. The head was only drawn in again to reappear with some gift for each one.

Mother Goose stood by to see that her servant missed no one. Franklin ynilock was her son Jack, and rendered her valuable assistance in his work. The graphaphone took part by giving Mother Goose melodies. A bean picking especially delighted the little guests. Each one was provided with a tiny sack that was empty.

Then a big bag of beans was broken and the contents scattered over the floor. There was hustling to fill the little sacks. When the beans in each one were counted It was found fhat Henrietta Thaw had the greatest number among the girls, and James Scul'y among the boys. Prizes In the shape of books were given to these two. Then there were other games, and dancing.

The dining table was decked In pink roses and ferns, but the chief attraction was the big birthday cake In the center, with Its seven pink candles. However, it was discovered a little later that it was month $10.90 pays for Or 6 down and months the ninth month 6.90 pays for two rooms, bedroom and kitchen, G0.90. COULD THERE BE ANYTHING EASIER IN THE WAY OF FURNISHING A HOME FOR YOURSELF? The Special Chair Sale, 5 ThU higb-beck turned rung und spindle, can-red hack Chair, This' Rocker, oak finish, only elegant leatheinwat or 50c each. 2.75. 75c each.

derful manager. She accomplished marvels with the $5 a week. The days following were happy ones for the little household. Alas! Their Joy was not to continue. Roger was called to the manager's office one morning and told that his services were no longer needed.

"I'm sorry, my boy," said the manager, "but I must obey orders." Roger understood Mr. Duncan, the owner of the factory, did not want him in his employ because he was one of the "good-for-nothing Cranstons." "What would become of them?" thought the boy, desperately. "Was he never to have a chance because of his father's and grandfather's bad name?" Roger was going home one evening, tired, hungry and dispirited. Since his dlschariie from the factory, three weeks before, he had had but few odd Jobs. His way led past the factory.

The great building was all silent' and dark. The week before the employes had demanded an increase of wages. Mr. Duncan hud refused to give it and the whole force of aw men had quit work. Roger wondered vaguely if it were true that Mr.

Duncan was having a number of men coming on from New York to fill their places. He had heard It during the day. and also that that gentleman had said that none of the old workmen should be allowed to return. The boy had a little feeltng of resentment in his heart against the owner of the factory. He aimoul wished that he had not been able to till the men places.

It would serve him right to lose all those orders he was said to have. Mr. Duncan had been unjust to him. As he turned the corner of the fence surrounding the factory he saw that there was a light in the lower room of the right wing. He remembered that he had met the watchman some 3 minutes before, evidently on his way to the village, so that was not In that room, and.

anyway, his quarters were In the other wing. Who could It be at that hour of the evening? It was after o'clock. Well, It was no concern of his. But after going a little distance Roger turned back. There was something unusual in that light.

He felt impelled to sen what It was. The gate was ajar. He passed through and over to the window whence shone the light nd looked In. A man was stooping tn an opposite corner piling up paper and rgs. Near him was a heap of excelsior and aevf-ral pots of paint and oil.

As he turned his head to reach fcr some of the excelsior the light from the candle on a chair ner him shone on his face. It was Dunstin, the leader of the etrikirg workmen. Like a flash Roger understood the scene. Dunstin ran going to aet fire to the factory. The boy shrank awuy from the window, for the man had risen to his f'-et and was moving about the room in an uncertain manner, gesticulating and talking to himself.

"Thlsll settle him. Where 11 th Duncan factory to-morrow? He brings men from New York, does he? And we have no money no work." And be laughed wildly. Roger that he was under the influence of Ihiuor. The boy drew still further back Into shadow, almost too frightened to think. Something ought to be done.

The factory was in an unfrtquentid locality, on the outskirts of the village. By the time he could give the alarm Dunstin might have started the fire. While he was wondering what to do became aware that Dur.stln's muttering and laughing had ceased. He peeped in the window and saw that the man was stretched out on a bench, overcome, no doubt, by the liquor he had taken. A sudden idea came to Roger.

He crpt up noiselessly to the door and put his hand on the lock. He turned the handle, and the door moved easily. He put his head In at the opwnlng. Dunstin was breathing heavily. Roger waited a moment, then tiptoed across the floor, caught up the candle, closed and locked the door, the key being, fortunately, on the outside.

Then blowing out the candle, he threw it away, and started on a run down the 'road to the manager's home. "You have done a great thing. Roger. It was a clever Idea to snatch the light away and lock him In." said the manager, after he had listened to the boy's frightened recital. "Give roe the key.

I'll get Davis and Brown, who live nar here, and we'll go and take charge of Dunstin. Poor fellow, he good, honest workman, but liquor makes a madman of him. He will be overcome with shame and remorse when he sobers up and relixB what he was trying to do. That report about mn romlng from New York ts not true. Mr.

Duncan decided this afternoon to grant an 8 rr cent Increase. The men are to notified to-morrow, and work will be resumed at once. Now, you go home. You look tired out," and the manager wrung the boy's hand warmly, "You've saved the factory. You've shown that Jim Cranston's grandson Is going to redeem his name." Mr, Duncan sent for Roger next day.

and expressed his gratitude in words that were highly gratifying to the boy. But words were not all. Roger waft restored to his place in the factory, and with 5 a week this time. "And." satd Mr. Duncan, "I have a nice, littlo cottage down on the west side which Is vacant.

I think your sister I have heard about her I think she will like It better than wherw you are living. You'll live there rent free till you get a bit ahead." "Oh, Roger!" said Mattle. "We are really going to have a chance at last!" "Yes, It has comu to stay this time!" Kmily 8. Windsor, In Chicago inter-Ocean. 100 OTHER IN CHAIRS.

35c, 40c. 45c, 50a, 75c, 85c, $1.00, SI.25. This enrred back, brace Chairs at these prices will be and are at this time being sold very rapidly. If you want bargains in chairs come at once. kns, cane seat Onk Chair, 75c each.

MAILORDERS accompanied with cah or poulhoo order filled at AND WHAT THEY DO. By Ann Myaott Docking. HE great rallying place of the Jbei As Ridtre avenue, Allegheny, boys and their neighbors Is the Har- nny home. The special part of the 'a over which Harmar, and Archl- and their friends reign supreme is a room on the third floor that la given to their pastimes. Ever since their rn from Europe there has been a loess" organisation that has its The same enterprise i carried on last year at the Harry Islington residence.

The young business a of the organization are, besides the biny boys. Turner Moorhead, fcJias fillips, Harry Darlington, William the row, and Richard "Wood. bp In the room "on the third floor there re several desks, and the number of busi-kam transactions arranged at each one in i single hour would give anyone but a Joy nervous prostration. The currency jsed is paper money manufactured by be young business men themselves. Teces of blank paper are marked as bills ft different denominations, and $500 bills Are quite as plentiful as those of lower valuea.

AH must Dear the mark of dtf-ferent stamps upon them. These very necessary articles in the work of manure mnnnv are a brownie stamp. one bearing the likeness of Uncle Sam, Tble and chairs hold all sorts of articles of merchandise, and there Is a brisk trade carried on In the bartering of toys, books, pet animals and a countless num-s fee other things of which the boys are tb happy possessors. Everything is done In a most business-Ilia way, and the youngsters frequently surprise the older members of the different families to which they belong by dis-SAaydnr a. most remarkable knowledge of lb details in the profession of buying amd Belling.

Each young merchant has tils own telephone, and wheT; he is talking into the smoke stack of a toy locomotive or the axle of a wagon or some other makeshift, it Is quite understood that he la transacting business over the "phone" iwitlx some other fellow blocks or miles arcrayi The rules and regulations are very rigid aad as numerous as those of a female seminary. A fine of $20,000 is imposed for to counterfeiting of a single MIL Then bill npon which the wrong stamp has been used is considered counterfeit. Lying smd stealing each cost the offender $1,000, and the same amount of money has to he for swear word. Telling and loud talking- must repented of to the amount Everybody has a hand in making tiie taws and also in enforcing them. Busisess ts always brisk and reaches its highest mark when the weather is rainy, tor then it is the one interest of the boys.

At times their attention Is divided between that and outdoor enterprises and ports. Just now the crowning interest of all la a small building that is being erected on the top of the hill back of the Denny home. The boys are Its architects and contractors and workmen. For some time they have been working very hard, and It is nearing completion. Not much Ventlon was given to so small a matter foundation.

There was. however, a rreat jratherirur ol lumber, for the floor. walls and roof. A goodr-sized shutter with a lock on It was discovered and made to do duty as a door. It was not quite big enough, but that was fixed by nailing additional boards on the sides.

Everything is securely fastened, and buying nails has almost reduced the young builders to a condition of bankruptcy. The work is not quite completed. The boards forming- the roof have not yet been cut off to the proper length and some of them almost touch the ground. One of the carr volunteered the information titat they were damp, so they Just nailed them on and are waiting until they dry to reduce them by means of a aw to. the proper proportions.

Inside are a stove, two chairs and a few smaller things in the way of furnishings, but as some-midnight prowler invaded the place and carried away part of the stove the owners do not leave their valuables there. The purpose for which all this labor has been carried on is truly a boyish one. It Ss to be a place to play their favorite game, "Indians and cowboys," The cowboys always occupy the shanty and then the Indians lay siege to it. There are a Jot of rocks on the hill that serve as biding' places for the boys who do the bloodthirsty redskin act. -A most ferocious appearance is assumed in order to terrify the entrapped cowboys.

Cap pistols are the weapons used, and at every shot some one falls dead, for not one of the valiant heroes on either side is ever supposed to disgrace himself by failing to bit his mark. The only trouble that ver arises to interfere with the proper performance of the game is that of deciding who is dead and who is not. When fiendish Indian and a plucky cowboy axe aiming at each other, the one who fires first does the killing, but frequent disputes arise between the two as to which is the corpse. Sometimes a truce to be made long enough for all the rest to take a hand in settling the question. Not the least enthusiastic players in this pet game are the two dogs owned by the Denny boys.

Peter, Archibald's particular property, has developed a strange liking for climbing ladders and watching the conflict from the top. Mary Ellen, the monkey, used to gravely mark the progress of the battle from her cage in the nursery window, but she Is dead now. The loss of her was not so deeply lamented as the death of any other pet would have been, for she was very unsociable and received all friendly advances by biting the bands put out to caress her. NEW GAHE OF INTEREST TO BOYS AND GIRLS. It was started on Its rounds by a little literary club of boys and girls inChicago.

After a due amount of deliberation on the part of the entertainment committee that In the search for something new originated the game by taking a iittle bit from each of several old ones, it was christened the "character game." The club had a library, the books of which had all been read by every member. They were to be given away to start a library In the children's ward of one of the city hospitals, and it was decided that the club must give a party to celebrate the occasion. It must also be in some way connected wirh the books. So each of the members was directed to personate some one character in the familiar works and not tell anything about it to the rest. When they appeared at the home of the president it was in anything but ordinary party costume.

Robinson Crusoe was there and his man Friday. There were the boys and girls that live in Louise M. Alcott's "Little Women" and "Little Men." "Sentimental Tommy" was among them, "bogling" his way through everything. I.i order to identify himself he had made his costume as Scottish as possible. Then there were Willanm Wallace and Tiiaddeua, of Warsaw, those old-time he Carpet Reflection.

We arc doing all in oar power to make the Carpet situation clear in the minds of the people. As matters stand to-day any one caa speculate in Carpets and make money if they take our goods at the prevailing prices. A few months hence not one of the Carpets we sell at "oc, 1.00 or $1.25 made, laid and lined at this price will be found at present pricings. The advance will be 15 to 20 per cent two months hence. Buy now and save 15 to 20 per cent.

PAY A DEPOSIT AND WE MAKE CARPETS NOW FOR FUTURE DELIVERY. REALLy EASy TO LEARN. By Harry Germalne. T. HERE are four little tricks I which are said to have origt-nated with the late Herrmann, and which for a while baffled those who saw them performed by him.

Indeed, they continue to be baffling, for their secret is Plelght of hand as well as knowledge. The easiest of them is the putting The Empty Cage. of bird In lis cage by an optical delusion. Take a round piece of pasteboard and on one side of It draw a canary bird. If you cannot draw you can cut a small bird out of a picture and pafte It on the card.

On the other sidf of the pasteboard draw a cage-. When you show this card to the audience show them the side of the card only upon which the cage is drawn, yet do It In such a way that they imagine they have seen both sides of the pasteboard. Tie a piece of thread through opposite sides of the card and twirl rapidly before the eyes of your audience. The bird and the cage will move so rapidly that the audience will see a bird in its cas-e where to-fore they saw an empty The simple of putting a needle through a nickel can be done without rehearsal. Take a cork ar.il in a needle through it.

leaving the point flush with the cork. Now place a nickel oeiween two blocks of wood, put the cork upon It and irlve th ton blow with a hammer. When you have The Bird la Ita Case. pulled the cork oS the needle the point of the ueedle ill found to have pne-traled the nickel. This is most successfully accomplished by taking a marked nickel from anyone tn the company.

Disappear and return a minute later with tha needle driven through the nickel. The very attractive feat of causing a table to move can be done by means of a thread attached to the trousers leg of the skillful operator. Let the thread be caught also around the leg of the table. During the evening, as the conversation turns upon peculiar phenomena, the subject of table-tipping can be Introduced. The wily operator, sitting by a table, sug-geats that he can make the table move.

All are anxious to see him do so, He begins by rubbing the top smartly with a ilk handkerchief to generate electricity. Then makes peculiar passee over It. and finally, stepping backward, he commands It to follow him. tvTeedless to say It obeys him. walking faster or slower, according to his demand.

If this is practiced upon a dark floor with a slender black silk thread the deception Is perfect. The most Interesting trick Is the soap-bubble one. To perform this two cork figures roust be made. They can be Tnreadla a Xlckel. colored with bright paint.

Fasten them with wire to a small cork stand. The soap-bubble mixture is Important to prepare. For It you must shave a quantity of castlle soap, perhaps half a teacup, and to it add a fourth of the quantity of glycerine. Melt the soap in warm water before adding the glycerine. This should make perhaps a pint of heavy, soapy water.

Test the bubbles, and If you cannot blow them as large as the mon the mixture Is not properly mixed. Soap-bubble exhibitors often blow bubbles as large as three and four feet In diameter by the use of this mixture. Take a short strip of wood (a foot rule will do) and drive a small nail into each end. Then stretch a thin string, or better still, a piece of wire, from one nail to the other, and place a bridge under It so as to form a primitive musical instrument. Next nail to one end of the strip of wood the lid of a tin in such a manner that It touches the string or wire, and place the figures inside the lid after moistening it well with soap and water.

Now take a straw and blow a bubble in the lid and then touch the string gently. The vibration of the latter will then be communicated to the MaklDK the Table Move. lid and the figures will dance Inside the bubble. A beautiful optical effect Is thus obtained and the delight of the audience ts such that the bubble performer is kept busy all the evening with fresh creations. There are many variations of the soap-bubble trick possible and which will readily suggest themselves.

The bird cage delusion suggests another often practised. A young man in the audience tells a story about going to a photographer to get his picture taken. He shows the card, a circular piece of sir PATHETIC STORY OF AN ELEPHANT AND A KITTEN. The elephant in the Scheuley park loo entertain a good many small visitors, who never tire of watching the queer ways of the huge animal, but children have little knowledge of how almost human the elephant is. Great unwieldly creature that he is, he is capable of almost anything but speech, and has a sense of humor that oftttaes Is quite laughable.

He delights In a good bath and sometimes gives his keeper considerable trouble when taken to a stream to drink by sinking almost out of sight and then rising up suddenly lit a spirit of mischief and spouting a stream of water on everybodv within reach. But as he Is. he is a Jlmid beast. His line of vision seems limited, and he hates to have anything in his path that he 1 unagquamted with. An elpehant's mesaory is something remarkable, as was whown not long since by a large fellow on returning "after a year's absence" to former quarters, he went im- mediately to, a remote corner and reaching ud his great trunk he pulled down several bags of peanuts that he had hidden avray in the time of plenty the preceding year and proceeded to enjoy them.

Bolivar is a big, old elephant in one of the circuses, and his story la told entertainingly by a writer. Bottvar had an ugly temper, caused to some extent by the tricks men and boys delight in playing, such as concealing stumps of cigars in bags of peanuts and other tricks that are not funny, but mean. Still Bolivar had a tender spot In him, as was shown when a little kftten, chased by a dog. ran into the tent one morning, and as she was hotly pursued, skurried up Bolivar's leg (thinking, no doubt, it was a tree), and reaching his broad back, sat there out of reach of her enemy. Bolivar, wakened from a nap, took in the situation as far as the dog was concerned at a glance, and lifting him gave him a fling thai sent him howiing over by the door, through which he escaped.

Then Bolivar turned his attention to the kitten. The long trunk swayed around over his back and clasped the kitten. He held it out in front of him. Every hair on end. It hissed and spit and fought with all its might.

Bolivar gravely considered it apparently, much amused at its defiant air; then turned the trunk around and set the kitten safe on his back again, where kitty sat up and gravely made her toilet, washing her face and smoothing out her tangled fur. The next day Bolivar allowed the kitten to be brought down from its perch and be fed at his feet, when he fondled it with his trunk and showed the liveliest interest la its gambols. But In a little while he put it up again. To say the kitten wa9 perfectly at home Is to give but a faint description of its manners from that day on, for she ran races the length of his broad back, made a whirligig of herself, chasing her own tail on Bolivar's head, and seemed to feel that it never could have enough fun with his great ears. The way it clawed and bit the edges of these mighty flaps as though It thought they had been hung there for its amusement, must have been rather discomposing to Bolivar, but he bore it with unexpected patience and from one of the most dangerous.

Deeame one of the most docile of elephants. When the kitty was hungry and wanted to reach the ground it would go to the edge of Bolivar's back and mew, and the great trunk would come round at once and lift It down. Sometimes it stayed down and played hide and seek around Bolivar's big feet, but at the first approach of danger it would scurry up his leg to the safe perch above, whence It could peep over at the enemy. But one day something happened to it, and it lay stretched out on Bolivar's back for several hours and finally died. As time went on and there was no motion from it Bolivar began to show signs of great uneasiness.

At last he reached around and took the kitten in his trunk and put it down before him, evidently expecting it to eat, or at leapt to pUy around him as it had done so often before. Presently he took it up and placed it on his back then seemed waiting for the play to begin. For a long time Bolivar kept taking the kitten down and putting it upon his back apaln. It wa3 really pathetic to see the efforts the great beast made to awaken his little dead comrade, and it took all the ingenuity of his keeper to slip the dead kitten away from the elephant, and when he found it gone he was frantic. They got another kitten, but Bolivar would have none of it, and came near killing it before it could be removed.

After thi3 he grew sullen and ugly and had to have on heavy chains. THEY CELEBRATED WITH FUN AND FROLIC. Franklin Jones Willock, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. W.

W. Willock, was 7 years old on Thursday, and a host of his little friends were invited to help him celebrate his birthday. The party was held at the home of bis grandmother, Mrs. B. F.

Jones. The small folks who made the residence on Irwin avenue, Allegheny, ring with merriment all the afternoon, were Madeleine and Elsa Home, Adelaide Jones, Vouletti Proctor, Anne Rea, Anne Moorhead, Elizabeth Donnell, Margaret Benham, Georgianna McKee, Greta Hostetter, Mary Hilliard, Henrietta Thaw, Harriet Sprbul, HeUn Thompson, Dora Thompson, Elizabeth Holmes. Virginia McKee, Dorothy Dilworth, Frank Jones, Willis Dalzell, Clarke Painter, Ross Proctor, Alan Bakewell. Sellers McKee, Stewart Charlie Painter, Dawson Painter, William Jones, Tom i. i -1 'XV I i i I 1 I I.

Kllaa Phillips. four rooms, 157.90. 6 a month for eiorftt Commenced on Wednesday, will be continued this week. This high-back turned runs and epindica, brmce Arm Chair, Thia elegant hifrb-back quartered oak back cane seat, choice, $1.50 each. HE SMOKED THE BEST.

What Happened When Charlie Gmt Her Cigars Left to Imagination. Columbus Dispatch. Tha zephyrs were just snappy enough to make her cheeks bloom the color of a peachblow vase, and as she came sweeping into the steam heated tobacco shop her beauty was offset by a great bunch of glossy feathers that nodded and beckoned from her wind-inviting headgear. Stepping briskly up to the counter and closing the door with a bang, she inquired: "Are those C-per-box cigars "They certainly have been so pronounced by connoisseurs," replied the affable salesman, as he snipped the ashes off a healthy-colored maduro and laid it upon the cash register. "What color would you prefer?" "Well.

I don't smoke myself, but those right there look real cute. I think I'll take that box," said she. pointing to a seductive cluster of Henry Muds, half concealed In tin foil and bound with a bit of azure ribbon. "You know I want to make a friend of mine a present, and he always smokes the best." "Well, we have them in other brands," broke In the shopman, feeling he had a fish and wanted to land the finny creature high and dry, but ahe was wise and stood pat. "No, these will do? Charlie said he never would smoke anything less than a dollar cigar," and a shining slmoleon of the standard weight and fineness jingled merrily upon the showcase.

Then ehe smiled and left. The Kid-McCoy advocate who had been recounting that worthy's achievements paused long enough to observe, as he shifted his chair closer to the radiator: "Humph! Charlie smokes one-dollar cigars, does he? Well, if that girl loves Charlie and doesn't want to lose a good thing I'll advise her to send that prise package by mall. Ir I knew her I'd suggest that she send it under an assumed name at that." And some folks will speak of blighted hopee, unrequited love and all that. A Konnda'jout Invitation. Brooklyn Life.

He (on the piazza) It's so dark I can't see. us? lsn that another couple next to She Yea, and he Is trying to kiss her. He Can you see so well as that? She Oh, no. But I know who ah with. Miss Carrie Petsirxcer was hostess to a party tn honor of her ninth birthday on Thursday at the home of her parents.

Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Petstnger, on Fifth avenue.

Half a hundred of her friends were the guests. PUBLICATION MANAGED BY BRIGHT SCHOOLGIRLS. It's a very bright little publication, that "Thurston Miscellany," the second number of which has just made its appearance. It is the work of the young people in Miss Thurston's school. The board of editors includes Alice May Orcelia Clark.

Ida May Allerton, Constance McCuUnugh and Frances E. Hamilton. "Tis filled with bright little stories, scraps of poetry and newsy gossip by the pupils of the school. One of the amualng things about Its first appearance were the posters that heralded its coming. The drawing clars was asked by the editors to prepare something in that line that the infant Journal might be properly introduced to the public.

These artistic productions were put up in the halls and rooms of the school where they would be more noticeable. Very original and well done a number of them were, and not one escaped th flittering attention of teachers, pupils and visitors. They were done In pen and ink. One pretty production represented three little glrln looking over a fence at the new publication. Another was a small maiden making her way through a mow storm, with a copy of the paper tightly clasped in hT arms.

All were very clever, and showed ome marked talent In that line among th artists. BIOLOOY BEE IN THE EAST END AND WHAT IT IS. An unique entertainment, given tn one of the fashionable private schools of the East End recently, was a "Biology Bee." On the pretty invitations wer funny pn and ink sketch of little animals dressed up in quaint costumes. When the gutntts arrived they were each presented with a tiny bundle containing a toy animal. There were hix ot each kind, and each of the tables In the room seated six.

The guegts found their partners by comparing animals and asking out the table that bore the name of the quadruped that had been found In the package. Kach table had a number of riddles that were original with the entertainers, and the answers to esu. one was the name of some animal. The merry guessers progressed from one tabl to another and prize were awarded to those gueoHlng the greatest number. Miss Lydla.

Vincent dixtingujshed herself by carrying off the first prize. The second waa awarded to Mis Marjorle Maxwell, and the third wj wou by Miss Amelia Stenger. CHILDREN'S PARTY AT AN EAST END HOME. The little people at the home of Mr. and Mrs.

William Gormley. on Center avenue, had a very pretty children's party a few days ago. The small entertainers were an only daughter, Elizabeth, and three young tons. William. Robert and Carson.

It was a very merry crowd that spent the afternon-i in dancing and playing favorite Three gay little men who reveled in the Joys of the occasion were Pomerny J. and Andrew W. Herron. and Levi and the rest were hardly lesH happy. The rooms that were given over to the children were prettily decorated with ferns and pink carnations, and one of the most pleasing features of all to the Ruesrts were the choice refreshments served in the dining room.

i UNCA X'S J'A CTO It V. Mattie. I've got a place In the factory at $5 a week!" exclaimed Roger Cranston, breathlesnly, as he rushed into the poor-room, kitchen, and sitting-room In one, where his sister sat sewing. "Mr. Duncan's factory?" she exclaimed, letting th! old coat she had been mending fall to the tloor.

"Yes. I've junt seen the manager, and lie's engaged me. I can hardly believe it!" and the boy's gray eyes sparkled with excitement. "Why. it's Just too good to be true," eald Mattle, wonderlngly.

"It Is true, though. You're such a splendid manager, Mattle, that we'll be us comfortable as possible now," and the lad gave his sister a fond look. A little boy of 5 years, who was playing on the floor with some blocks, was listening eagerly. "Can we always have a fire now, Roger?" he asked, anxiously. "Yes, chicken, and enough to eat, too." The'child gave a sigh of content.

"It'll be so nice to always have a lire." "And I earned 50 cents this morning, helping to load up over at the station. Get something on you, chicken, and we'll go and buy something good for supper." said Roger, gayly. "Get some meat, Roger," said Mattle, as she picked up the interrupted sewing and folded it away. "There's some tea and potatoes left." The girl went about preparing things for the meal. She was In a flutter of excitement over Roger's great news.

They were going to have a change at last. Poor Roger! How hard he had tried to get steady work! Hul no one hud wanted to employ him. As If it were his fault that their grandfather had died in the penitentiary, and that their father had been idle und good for nothing! Their poor mother had tried so hard to make things better. What a dreadful time It had been since her death, three years before, when she was only 10 years old and Roger 12. They had sold everything of any value.

But things were changing at last for them. As Roger had said, Mattle was a won 5 ZA Th DfF Bojrs- jiot a cake at all, but a big pun fixed up to look like- one. The big make-believe cake was passed around, and out of it each little guest took a little cak. There were pink one9 for the boys and white ones for the girls. There was excitement then until the rinrs were discovered.

Henrietta Thaw's little white teeth found In her cake a pretty girl's ring, and B. Jones, 3d, discovered a boy's ring in his. OCCUPATIONS FOR A.nUSINQ THE LITTLE ONES. Among the favorite occupations of a great many of the younger children in the homes of the city since the new year began Is making calendars. An amount of labor is put upon iwme of them that would be appalling to many older people.

The popular way of fashioning them Is to take a big circle of cardboard at least two feet across. In the center of this Is put the prettiest plcturs that can be Obtained. Sometimes it Is a woman's face or an angel, but -usually it Is a child or a group of children. Then the months can be cut off an' ordinary calendar and pasted around it. leaving a great deal of space about each one.

Then all sorts of small pictures are gathered to complete it. which work covers the whole year. Pictures are being selected for January that are reminders of the pleasures and pasltimes that have been enjoyed during the month. There are little -snow and skating scenes on some of them, for these pictures are all pasted about the month they belong to. One little girt had a doll party that has made the month an especially memorable one to her.

The month of Jajiuary on her calendar has little kodak pictures about It of the little guests and their dolls. In homes that are without a kodak pictures taken from magazines and papers are often used, and colored ones are very much sought artt-r. Often pictures representing the different eaon are add-d, and the months belonging to each season are grouped about It. Sometimes a tiny gilt star is pasted over each date a it passes. The outer edge of the big circle is decorated to taste.

Paints are often used; also a margin of funny little pictures. Frequently the girls use brlt-ht ribbons for giving these finishing touches. Each month Is to be decorated as it ends, and at the year's close the completed task will be a reminder of a host of bright events. ONE LITTLE MISS BIRTHDAY PARTY. A birthday party given Thursday was the one that Mrs.

George Harton Singer gave at Park Hill, her Allegheny home, for her daughter, Hester Harton Singer. It was the little maiden's eleventh birthday and most of the afternoon waa danced away by the little frU-nds who came to wiah her many more buppy birthdays. A much enjoyed feature of the affair was drawing for a prize. After each guest was provided with paper and pencil all were blindfolded and told to draw a pig. Some of the queerest looking pigs ever created appeared on the papers, and it is doubtful if any swine that had any pride in Its personal appearance would sit for those young artists, if it could get a look at some of those drawinKS first.

But there was more fun in It than older artists rind in their work, and when the drawings were examined for the best, it was found that among the girls Euphe-mla Bakewell had won the first prize and Harah Marshall the second. Of the boys, Joseph Walton was declared to be the best blind artist, and Harmar Denny ranked second. Harry Darlington laughingly carried off the booby prize. The boys and girls who were among the guests were Bessie Hamilton, Kiln Shlras, Euphemia Bakewell, Martha Chambers, Innes Warren, Nannie Marshall. Marshall, Mary Painter, Harry Darlington, Harmar Denny, Archibald Dtnny, Iyewls Park.

Richard Wood. Turner Moorhead, Joseph Walton and Farley Walton. BOOKS THAT ARE READ BY THE YOUNQ. The little folks are no less loyal to favorite books than are the older people, but there have been wonderful changes in child literature in the last year or two. They say that in the days when grandparents were children a half-dozen different books were considered a great many.

These were read and re-read until they were almom committed to memory, and the slightest mlHtake on the part of a story reader was instantly corrected by the small listeners. Now almost every well-appointed nursery holds a library of Juvenile looks that can be compared to nothing less than a small literary Klondike. One 10-year-old loy proudly exhibited, the other day, is new books that were among the gifts of last Christmas. Childhood still clings affectionately to the old myths, to Andersen's fairy tales, "Alice in Wonderland," "itobinson Crusoe." "Arabian Nights," and other favorites of long standing. They have their place in almost every home where there are children.

With them there are to be found a host of new comers. Nature study is one of the keenest pleasures of little folks, and books that indulge it. either by means of stories or simple talks and pictures, are many. Other treasures found in a great many Pittsburg homes, are KingBley's "Water Babies" and his "Greek Heroes." Then there are Kipling's "Jungle Book," "The Child's World," by Emily Pulsson, Elizabeth Harrison's "In Story Land," and "Kindergarten Storiea and Morning Talks," by Sara Wiltse. JUVENILE CARD CLUB REVIVED IN ALLEGHENY.

A Juvenile card club that existed in Allegheny two years ago and was allowed to slowly die out has recently been resurrected, and is now a very lively organization. The members are the little daughters of several of the leading society families that have their homes on or near Ridge avenue. There are eight of them. They are Gladys Lonsdale Painter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Park Painter; Euphemia Bakewell, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas W. Bakewell; Mr. James A.

Chambers' little Our 80-Psg Catalogue or 1898 Calendar Seat Free by Mall en Receipt ef Year Address. Feat, Jan. S3, 1898. I board with his picture upon It. It is mounted a little to one side, but that makes no difference.

He now twirls the card by pieces of string and the delighted audience sees two photographs side by side, one of the young man and the other of a pretty young woman. Of course the young woman's picture was mounted on A Soap-Bubble Quadrille. the reverse side of the card, but when twirled rapidly they seemed to be side by side. These little tricks are enough to amuse a parlorful of people, and when you have done your share of the entertainment you can step aside for the next one to take your place. FEU, IJiuKK A TOW.

Presence of Mind Saved Ills Life While In the Water. A marvelous experience happened to Matthew Dolan, of Jeffersonville. iJolan was coming down the river on a tow-pushed by the steamer Sam Clark, and in the darkness fell off. He la a vigorous swimmer and diver, and knew his pafety depended on holding his breath. Before he could rise the tow, an eighth of a mile long, was over him, and he.

feeling the bottoms of the boats, knew he must dive. To come up a moment too soon meant death by the steamer's wheel. Feeling his way until the prow of the boat struck him he remained under water by a superhuman effort. Then he rose and swam to Six Mile Island, whence he was rescued by a skiff. He says that he had no idea of drowning, and thought of nothing but how to get out of hia When Baby sleeps.

He sleeps; No trace of petulance, no angry frown. That baby forehead keeps; Over his calm, untroubled brow hang down. Clustering tenderly, his locks of brown; The baby sleeps. He dreams: A smile of pleasure o'er the childish face With sudden brightness gleams; I wonder, when I see its tender grace. What fairy touch has left tluit gentle trace.

When baby dreams. One arm. With tiny fingers clinched, is outward thrown. is If to shield from harm; I pray that when the babe to man Is grown, That arm may as the Right's defense be known, A manly arm! He sleeps; Secure in innocence, without a fear, He neither frowns nor weeps; Oh may his life be never sad and drear. But always free from trouble or from tear.

As when he sleeps. Flora Warren Smith, lni Washington Poet. The Propoul. My Celia, whom a thousand gifts Conspire to make divine, A truce to your so ceaseless shifts Will you, or not, be mine? I love you, dear, with all my heart. And always shall, I trust; Still, If you won't perform your part-But, no! you shall, you must! You cannot cruelly endure To see me thus distressed; You're not averse to me.

I'm sure One kiss will do the rest. Simple enough, when once 'tis tried, And not unpleasant, eh? There, now since we're both satisfied. Suppose you name the day! Pall Mall Gazette..