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; x S tnakte-their-kites in the cglors of their own LTHOUGH most boys have take o-eathusiastically to aviation and the making of model his does not mean that kites have lost favor with the echoolbey of today nor that the pleasure of Dullding one s own kite and fying It in competitions or warring with It against th kites of the other boys is any less fan that It used to be before aeroplanes were ever beard of, There are lots of things which can be done with kites that cannot yet be done with aeroplanes, and among these are me kite wars which all boys who have ever engaged im declare to be : th ba: KITE DEVOTEES WAGE 1G Contests in Which Schoo affai with the object of puncturing the other Doys' kites. Others put a pointed stick in jerce the 1 prow of the kite, which will other kites if it comes in contact with lowed for everybody to haul down his) kite. understood that all kites remaining in the ir intend to fight. for equipping the fighters, and then the At the conclusion of that time it is A half hour is allowed ttle begins. It is usually a very warm as the boys go at it for dear life and about a: gomt tun-as-ensthing that could be thought of, There x one school in New York whose annual kite contests and kite battles are to larze and important an event that num- bers of persons journey out to Astoria Field. where they are held, to look on) lessons, because after the kite fyer has Feported the amrount-of string out and the inspector, by means of the protractor, has found the angle of the kite, it is still necessary for the teacher to be called upon to work out the amount by trigo- nometry. at the-eamiething. battcin-and-fying- is one of these sports. pare their kites to defeat the others is by at these foteresting battles in the alr. After the kites are up the various col- Tie Sootests and kite wars are aot ich adds tre- it-understood, for mendously to the gayety' of the occasivh. Kite contests are simply competitions tn Some boys hare as many as twenty or bo Nhich certain boys and certain elasses thirty banners to send up on their kites are awarded the honors for height. strength) The banners increase the pull on the pall, ile Kite wars are genuine ites. osey of pal, cy: whlle Rite. wey. sin ewelne 'LT. xe competition kite have bees for thefr lives and the victor brings down 0wn for about an hour and a half and in bis by Bave all been judged by the umpire the all possible captors, which remain his by r Tie tenrop tatee. bugle sounds for these kites to be pulled School Non 77 is the one whose expert/22 2. Then comes the event which the boys like best the war game. Ha baitding and flying of kites has attracted ? i So fiugh attention... Mr AL BL Ho th For some time after the competition is shsade jentractar cb the Sa lover there is busy preparation for w: . Every boy on the f ld is seriously to oreanize the Kite contests and to makel 08 is sed the rmes of battle under which the ite WOT, sib kind BiB Bite a fore kdabie. i 5 possible for the fierce contest that is to warriors go into action. Mr. Horn thinks Come, AH Oieeite BIW tate Gan we eae that boys ought to enjoy themselves in a tushing around with pots of glue. and Batural was with the Sine old games a0d qinylar sinewn of wat, whereby they hope pe t develop manual dexterity, Phys-/to make their kitea indomitable foemen. rance and a manly spirit. Kite) One of the ways im which the boys pre- to and in addition there is something to Belgipping two or three yards of the string of learn-d in connection with the study oflthe kite in glue and ground glass, This is the atmosphere, which joins the play time pyr on about twenty or-thirty yards from. and the school time together In a very the kite. This prepared portion of string inters fashion. will cut the other kites strings if it bap- The kite Bring contests of No. 77 are pens to croga them. Some boys equip their mo driied. directly after those of- Foochow. kites with knife blades or old razor blades, Chi where the greatest kite contests of the world are held. There annually three thousand men fly the kites, won-' derfu and grotesque creations which onld searcely be found outside of Chin: No. 77 hasn't quite so many kite flyers ax this, but it is making progress, and thik sear when the annual war game cam off there were more than one hup- dred and fifty war kites in the air: In preparing for the contests the boys , make two kites, usually, one a war kite and one for exhibition purposes, The war kites dre so frequently lost to their makers before the end of the battle ther the bors ar Hot willing to risk their ex- Aiibition kites in the battle. Ag.a:neces- sary preparation, alao, the boys Chaose a elass color for their kites. All the boys lass. although they may be of any sbape ahich the individual boy desires. Each cisss obtains-a tall-pole, which te to be the standard of their class. Lox, bright streamers, as many as they can ae- eure, are tied to the top of this pole.) These streamers are in the colors of the. Jeamp different classes. When the field on which) ing for their camping grounds some as the kite fying exhibition is to take place piece of w. ds reached the Loy select a color bearer homes. FISH HOOK HOLDER. It is elso good fun to set up a wi for each class. These color bearers linejcamp in the back yard if one s parents form-a handle for the lantern. A camp warmer and cook stove may. Up with their color poles and thd bugler do not wish to have one go away. Boys sounds the starting note. Then all the whovare interested in this sort of good be color bearers race for position on the time will find it good plan to start soon field and plant their colors as point of their own class. One boy haslof the camp equipment. the mending, material meeded for ee of articles which are useful be Kites. They carry pieces of cloth, give, for campers afid which may be made at hi -mending kit falls at all. short at a critical moment atid cavses his A simple, useful object for-holding tah class to fall back in the competition. hooks is made of a block six inches lon; At the secund call of the bugle the kites two and one-half inches wide and half an g are raised and every eye follows their inch thick. Nail on one end a cork and graceful curving into space. jon the other a hook or staple, The kites compete for height, thelin the dingram. furthest distance out, the strongest pull, cork on the en ood construction and unique design. No fies. Kite that does not fly is permitted in the staple and the gut through the cork competition, no matter how grotesque or Anteresting its design. The strongest pul and puncture it as shown, ig mensured by means of scales. There of wood may be hollowed ont to makel It ure umpires and inspectors appointed, but a holder for the caudle. The block of i When it becomes necessary to wessure the wood distance of the furthest out kite it is nec- shines through. emary to call in the assistanc au shown, and use his pail may also. be ) of the used for carrying small fish or bait Yencher, and then af last it becomes evyi- Another Jantern is made of a glass jar - deur why there shoukd be such things as which basa tin cover. fe ANY boys look forward to going into the cover and make a basket for the can- oon as school is closed, tak- dle of wire which is twisted around so) or small island near their pleture. The article to be cooked may be put in rallying to make some of the necessary articles a covered pail and then covered with hot A boy reader coals. To make an oven fill the pail with been appointed by each class to see has sent to the Boys and Girls Page some hot coals. The articles to be rosated may pieces of wood, cord, c., amd woe to the a very small cost or without any cost SOME HISTORICAL STAMPS, Mex intensely interesting historical manner how history was made. E as shown g period of French history which is par- You can put another ticularly interesting in this way because ut for the stampe Isaned at that time so plainly Then slip the hook through the show the changes in the ruling power ifrom monarchy To inate eae See nea A small block Barre s head of set inside the pail and the light LOUs, SM Napolevn's head battle only one kite remained in the air, and this was a British war kite. As trophies*of its prowess it had pulled down ten other kites;-some-of-them-iarger than itself. It was.a four foot kite of the reg- ular British war pattern. Strong hopes had been entertained of an American eagle came really to flying it was one of the first succumb. if extraordinary shape th In the competition and the war game, e Snhk CES WHICH to hold the candle, as shown in the There are two long strands of jre which come up through the lid and made of a pail. placed on top of these coals. events have been recorded in post- age stamps so that a large collection stamps often shows in a most striking There is to republic and back kite before the contest, but, alas when Told.me But them lately,, Thad picked outside our fends Lots of blue eyed grasses; It's im June that they commence And bloom till summer passes. Listen, little Milly, Both are grouped beneath ons head, The Family of the Lily sa my nicest garden beds, Sd 'T put the blue eyed grass ened. This is done by gluing both sticks Bobbing up serenely, And blue flag together together, and before the glue dries tying Great big blue flags lift their heafo With resh water in a glass, them with cord. In order to make them Grandma calls them queenly. In the nice spring weath ? more secure put a brass joint over this But they look too proud to tie, Well, next morning, ia their pride. to every three feet. A five foot bow is bent Growing there so stately, The biue flags paraded, nearly seven inches and tied very securely Count of what my Auat But the blue eyed grass hall died with cord, Tie a continuous cord from : All choked up and faded. one corner of each stick to the other, In M ISS GABRIELLE'S school was hay- ing its May party-on the edge of Frescom's'woods. They had come out in motor buses from the school, and, with the history governess and the French gov- erness, who had charge of them for the day, there were twency-two in the May party in all, and besides this there were several automobiles filled with other teach ers or some of the relatives of the children. who lived near the school and who bad come to watch the festivities Besides the gay May pole there were won- derful May Day costumes, Miss Gabrielle Was not warm enough to wear white frocks without coats, but over their warm little woollen frocks the girls had on the most adorable frocks of crinkled paper which had been especially made for them in town at the shop where all the favors and costumes for real grown up parties Were made. As they gathered around the May pole they looked like a flock of flowers and butterflies. Among the group were sev- feral girls dressed in butterfly costumes, and three of the y children wore Tose costumes of fed, yellow and white. Antoinette Reed, who had beautiful long black hair, appeared as a yellow tulip, and Millicent Ransome, who was a dainty lit- He blond girl, wore a pink tulip costume. Then there were other girls dressed in Maid Marion costumes, kreen cr pe paper kirtles and picturesque Robin Hood hats. Then there were quite a number of girls dvessed in the costume of English village maidens, with skirts of flowered material kites enormous in size and grotesque in ap- Dearance, not to- mention many strange fo the iilustration- During the contest the kites furnished their own music, and some of them even attempted to take thelr own photographs, Hir-whieh they-were not-partioulasly auc- cessful, but they are not discouraged anit Many of the boys of different nations chose re golng to try again next year, The to fly kites representing the country of photoxraphy. done by xending up a eamern thelr ancestors. There were French, Ger- in a kite, has often been described, but it Bitleb,-Roumaaian. most interesting axperiment,and Iriab kites, Then there were wonderful although it in not very often successful it of Chinese design and balloog is well worth trying. The camera is tied othe vord-of the kite and then its shutter flyer palis to take an instantaneous photo- graph. Many boys also hitve heard of th way in which the kites may be made to make their own music. A humming kite Is simply a kite which has a piece of tough paper doubled. over the cord which bows the jerossplece. This vibrates in the air, giv. Ing a low toned hum. When this piece of clipped the tone is made sharper. of bamboo or thin strip is subati- tuted for the paper it makes a buzzing sound. Additional stripx of the bamboo produce harmonious sounds. Here are some descriptions of how to anikin kites, come uf which you will see four feee long. one-half Inch square, three atrips elght fert long, one strip six feet long and one attip. Four screws five-cighths of an inch long. Nails, flat top, three-eightha Inch: Four aluminum braces. Ten yards of red muslin. A. British man-of-war Is fienlt kite to make but if xou fi these directions closely yon will not. find the difficulties greater than you cam cope with, and lay them upon a level surface, ns iD diagram 1, and square a line on all three two and one-half feet from the top and is attached to another cord, which the kite OOttom. These-wquared-tines show where ithe strips cross each other, Take one jot the strips away and lay It away for future use. Now take the six foot strip jand square two lines two feet apart. Then take the four foot strip and square two-lines one foot apart from each other, Now notch the ends of all the sticks, a I diagram 2. The next step is to make thres sdckets lon the braces and put them on the two eight foot strips crossing the squared fines, as in diagram 8 Now we are ready to finish the kite hont the covering. Follow diagram 4 jin laying out the strips and in putting lon the cord. ow for the TAM fteps cover the two Grat, then the top-and bottom aud then the triangle. Put on the bellyband and you will own a kite worth Sve or six dollars, AToB 35T ex F TOA 10iN. (0D 2FT. Tako the three strips engit tet tone jof No. 77: make kites which were given Bow Kite. EOF 101N TAIL PAPERS 41N APART by the boys GERMAN MAN OF WA KITE I threw the blue flags from the glass And 1 know Cause twas a poor relation AN UNEXPECTED MAY QUEEN Dingean 2 To make a bow kite secure a piece of DIAGRAMS OF white wood. five-eighths of an inch square and exactly five feet*long for the main OF WAR KITE support. For the cross bar or bow split a piece of bamboo in half, aying one thick and one.thin end together and pasting them. This makes each side weigh the same. Now comes the part in which great are must be taken, This is the fastening of the bow ten inches from the top of the main bow at an angle of forty-five de- gtees, When this has all been carefully Inid out it. must be very securely fast- point. In finishing bend the bow five inches doing this screw eyes are convenient. The kite must be complet ly covered with cloth, as paper will tear, A five by five kite requires three yards of paper mus- lin twenty-seven inches wide. British Man-of-War Kite. The materials needed for a British man- of-war kite are five strips of white wood lotty station. . choked the blue eyed grass, BY ALICE LATIMER ito place her flower on her bodice. Then flowers in the woods as we came through, everybody formed in line and the proces- and I'm going to get some. jsion passed around the May pole, and Everybody thought that this would be the girl whose flower was worn by the very delightful thing to do, and so Janet most other girls was made the Mey Joy and Minnle Thompeon, who was (Queen and immediately departed to get/one of the butterfly girls, and Tesi jon her May Queen clothes, after which Kruger, who wore a sweet pea. costume, the rest of the ceremonies followed. started down a broad path through the Everybody was pretty sure this year woods, carefully protecting thelr wings and May Queen. sweet white lily gown and her golden hair beauties underneath a large tree. looked like the lily eyed looked like a glimpse of spring sky./Janet Joy's fower would be ever so mich They pollen and ber blue Were 0 pretty that every one agreed Passed in front of her and chose a apring beauty from the basket which the butterfly HEN but on H precedes my first Old age and Winter it suggests: When from my last D ousts the E, Then age alone will stand confessed. My whole Tt sbars and sings on high, A vision of the epring s delight; Casts gleams of gold upon the blue And seeks the snowball bush-at night brown house which the girls had ty noticed I come from there, she answered. T saw you all. come, Are you rexily fairies? e yourse May party. Y like May parties The little stranger si don t know, she said. I don t know any other lintte doh t Zo to school yer and i have only the doe the birds and the fluwerk a pretty little hand around a Janet her friends of the field-aud firest. Come, said Janet impulsively, T have an inspiration, and grasping the new we're u come, too, haviviss a Don't son play witle ated She path to the assembled May party. The butterfly and the sweet pea caine along after, for they always knew that tion it was fay, we were wondering where you we are all ready to choose, chor- used the girls, and your flower is the lily, isn't it? , es, said Janet hastily, as if it dida't at all matter, but here is a real May Queen for us. I found her in the woods where real May queens ought to come from and her flower is the spring beauty, Then the strange little girl, who told them that her name was Margie Todd, that Janet Joy would be chosen for the petals from the encroaching branches.;became very shy and Janet had to hold Janet had on perfectly They soon came upon the little spring) her warmly by the hand and coax her uot to be bashful, and all the other girls And she was as agreeable as she was nicer than the grand paper blossoms which and crossed white surplices and picturesque rench stamp you see Mons. iberty and the words On the following is49 epublie France. of, stamps those issued the words on the stamp ublic France. After-tthit on which Louis . but. the replaced tds Republic Empire. F leon's head appears instead choosing a May Queen, baskets filled with flowers to toss at the Queen of the May. e P the school was given a flower to repre-/*ePt the different girls when Janet Joy had an inspiration. went her. Then quantities of the flow. era were placed in baskets, Kitl wax asked to choowe the Woull inost like to have for Qu nd every happy girl who should be chosen to be 80 like her. The girls iad their own special way of (0d hurrying about arranging the flowers, 2 Every git in nd selecting those which were to repre- she saw a queer little girl in a plain lite idenly frock who was looking at her with ad- bapy pretty, too, and so gay that almost every they had senttrom towa, They bent, oke bonnets. They had pletoreeque paper one forgot that her Srat name was Janet over engeriy to pick some of the flowers that ara whirling her madly around and 2 said her that she was to be Queen of the May Everybody was twittering and Inughing the little voice. 1 pAnd s0 after all it was Max Janet started and looked up and then Wore of honor at the and called ber Joy because it seemed when Janet Joy heard a tiny little v at her elbow, Are you fai I'm not;miring and going to bave paper flowers for mine. Mercy said Janet, * deciared sancily ; I'm xoing to have where du you come fron reai flowers, 1 saw some real littie wild ho are you and and the sweet pea bad filled with these charming blossoms, and the next quiring dark eyes. mother, Vue strange little girl pointed to a sinall nm thing Janet Joy was Ning Todd knew Tedd whi etn May feast a tlw eT aud te un st persian work who hal been suaimued frou cottage to ee bh or Janet Jos, daustiter enw ned, who wus mote Hee ber little girl by the hand she ran up the - We hav our Fall CELEBR and We be never had lot-of hats There is n on earth +1 Turpi The Mau's 8 Get the Big NO DECIS: Fort Nelson Both Have Winnipeg, Aug. of the Hudson's water were put at the Dominion works departmen iosity existed as claims of Fort. ( Huron for- the dealt with but. the line of both definitely stated tween them has will be until Ho return from his main object is to and come to a-.d BORDEN Refused to or Imperia (Ca London, Aug. called at Newca: to Galsgow today wich ordinance ian Premier the great naval and in gattlesh and foreign gov stages of constra He remarked clamored for an pressions that ap speeches he made cuss naval or im TODAY'S Winnipeg, Man were further advi markets, both in nipeg exchanges were probably. d shorts, rather thi change in the cro was, however, clo the greater part West. There wi ening at the close Receipts were inspected and 80 tion. Oats and stronger and adv: Chicago, Tl, A the force of small pects of raing w was from 1-8 to mission selling lt; ume eased off opened 1-8 to 3-9 and reacted at 93 ed at the outset 1-4 and fell awa close; Strong demand 1 met all requests slighty. December open at 33 3-8 to 1-2 ar ward at 33 1-8. Liverpool, Aug. spot steady; No. 2 0. 3 Manitoba, firm; October 7s 1-24. Liverpool, Aug. Company, Livery that the Birkent weaker owing to of Irish cattle an in price. The made from 14 1- pound
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