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JUVENILE GLEANINGS. 



July 



did not leave some tanpjible result afterward. 

 I want to see something built and finished 

 and accomplished — some " value received " 

 for every hour I expend my energies. 



ANOTHER DEVirK FOR FASTENING 



F»N. INTO ^VIRED FRAMES. 



FRIEND EASTERDAY S INVENTION. 



T seems, friends, there is going to be no 

 end to the implements devised for fasten- 

 ing fdn. into frames. A few days ago a 

 queer-looking implement came with the 

 mails, and with it the following card : 



When visiting neighbor Sanford he showed me the 

 machine you sent him for pressing the wires into 

 fdn. It made mc feel sorry for him, as well as your 

 other eustomers, so I concluded to send you a device 

 like the one I use for that purpose. It goes in the 

 same mail with this. E. S. Easterday. 



Nokomis, 111., July 9, 1883. 



The implement which we show you below, 

 or, rather, a little modilication of it, made by 

 Mr. Gray, was carried to the girls, and they 

 at once pronounced it ahead of the carpet- 

 stretcher. The latter requires fo much 

 power to imbed the points nil at once, tliey 

 find it quite tiresome on the arms, whereas 

 friend Easterday's macliine is used with a 

 rocking motion, so that only one or two 

 points are sunk at a time; it tlierefore re- 

 quires but very little power to work it, and 

 can be used even faster than a carpet- 

 stretcher. Mr. Gray's improvement was to 

 make the machine large enougli so tliat the 

 curved part would just reach from the top 

 to the bottom of an L. frame. 



EASTERDAY 'S FDN. SETTER. 



The machine is made of ^-inch basswood; 

 the points are exactly the same tin points as 

 are used in putting the glass into honey- 

 boxes. The length of the curved surface is 

 about Si inches, and the points are perhaps 

 half an inch apart. We can furnish the 

 machines for 10 cts. each; sent by mail, 5 

 cts. additional. Now, for fear somebody 

 will think of a wheel in place of this machine, 

 I will say that wheels with points in them 

 were used a long while ago ; but we find 

 this " chopping-li4iife "-looking implement 

 to answer far better than any of the wheels. 

 I think I shall not give friend Easterday 

 more than $1.00 for this invention, because 

 somebody will be sure to have a better thing 

 for the purpose in ten days or less. 



Every girl or boy, under K years of 

 ape, who writes a letter for this depart- 

 ment, CONTAINING SOME VALUABLE FACT, 

 NOT GKNICRALLY KNOWN, ON BEES O OTllEH 

 iMATTEiis, will receive one of David Cook's 

 excellent five cent Sunday-school books. 

 Many of these books contain the same 

 )natter that you find in Sunday-school 

 hooks costing from 81.00 to 31. nO. If you 

 have had one or more books, give us the 

 names that wo may not send the same 

 twice. Wo h.ave ni)vv in stock, si.x different 

 books, as follows: Silver Keys, Sheer Oft, 

 The Giant Killei-, The Holiy 'Family, Res- 

 cued from Kgyjjt, anil Ten Sights in a Bar- 

 Uoom. 



" A chiel's amangye, takin' notes; 

 An' faith, he'll prcntit." 



O^-jIIILDIlEN, just now I have only two 

 ; things in my mind. The first thing is 

 ~ business ; and business, so much of it 

 that it alinost buries me up. The other 

 thing in my mind is that baby I have been 

 telling you about. Now I just Avant to tell 

 you one more funny trick of his, and then I 

 will let you write your letters. Almost eve- 

 rybody, young or old, has some way of ex- 

 pressing his displeasure ; and how do you 

 suppose our baby expresses his displeasure y 

 He does it in a way I can express only by 

 saying that he "grunts" his displeasure. 

 When he wants somebody to take him up, 

 he grunts ; and when he is himgry, he grunts; 

 and when Blue Eyes and Caddy kiss him so 

 many times he gets tired of it," I tell you he 

 makes known his displeasure by a series of 

 grunts that sound almost like "m-m-m-m." 

 Well, now comes the tunny part of it. lie 

 has a pair of chubby little hands that he 

 thrashes around at a great rate sometimes ; 

 and yet he does not seem to know that they 

 belong to him. Sometimes he claws his nose 

 and f;ice with them, so that he makes great 

 scars, and has even made the blood come. 

 \Vell, lie has hurt his face with his hands so 

 many times that he has got to be afraid of 

 them ; and when these mischievous little 

 hands come up before his face, of late he 

 squints and dodges, and then grunts and 

 scolds to have them go away. Don't you 

 think he is a smart baby ? 



A FlVE-YEAR-OLD "TOOT." 



MV NAME IS TOOT GROWN. A BEE STINGED 

 ME. I WAS TOO NEAR THE BEE. THAT BEE 

 WAS MAD. I AM FIVE YEARS OLD. 



Vorkville, Ont., Can. TOOT GROWN. 



GOOD NEWS. 



My papa does not use tobacco. The bees do well; 

 papa and mamma have extracted 300 galls, of honey 

 this year. Papa sent you a sample of palmetto 

 honey. Carrie Bet.l, Froscber. 



La Grange, Fla., June, 1883. 

 Well, Carrie IJell, that is good news in- 

 deed, both on the tobacco matter and the 



