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many accomplishments, she will be longest re¬ 
membered by those who knew her, for her kindness 
of heart and active sympathy with every good cause. 
Paper Oi'iiainentM—Easily Made. 
The engraving shows a very pretty “ Card Re¬ 
ceiver,” which a little German girl brought to our 
CARD RECEIVER. 
office, with many other articles made in the same 
manner. The one above she offered for 25 cents, 
and we learned that she and her sister (one ten and 
Hie other six years old), did a good deal towards 
supporting the family by making and selling the 
things at these prices. The Receiver has several 
colors, tastefully arranged, which can not be shown 
in the black printing, and it is quite firm and 
strong. To make it, paper of different colors is cut 
into strips of uniform width, about three-fourths of 
an inch wide, in this ease, but the width is to be 
varied according to the article to be made. These 
strips are then rolled together, loosely or firmly 
according to the strength and stiffness desired in 
the article. They are then fastened together with 
gum or paste, as shown in the engraving, the differ¬ 
ent colored papers arranged to any one’s own taste. 
The seller of our pattern had a great variety of 
sizes and forms, round, oblong, star-shaped, etc. 
Any of our young readers can readily make up a 
fine assortment of ornamental things, by saving 
the various bits of paper that come in their way, 
and cutting and pasting them as here shown. 
Our Puzzle Box. 
TRANSPOSITIONS. 
Alas ! you’ll often find me 
Where liquors dire are sold 
The evils I’ve created 
Can never half be told. 
Oh ! hasten to transpose me, 
Then listen to the notes 
So musical and happy 
From countless little throats. 
ADDITIONS AND TRANSPOSITIONS. 
( Example: Add a letter to an animal and trans¬ 
pose into a boat. Rear + G — barge. 
1. Add a letter to a vestige and trans¬ 
pose into an article of furniture. 
2. Add a letter to an article of cloth¬ 
ing and transpose into a person who might 
wear it. 
3. Add a letter to something odd and 
turn it into something old. 
4. Add a letter to a fruit and change it 
to a flower bred for pickling. 
5. Add a letter to a couple and trans¬ 
pose it into one of the months. 
CROSS-WORD-SENTENCE. 
My first is in the apricot, but never in the 
plum, 
My next is in the finger seen, but never in 
the thumb, 
My third is found in Jersey, but not in 
New Orleans, 
My fourth is found in curtain, but not in 
veils or screens. 
My fifth is in the purling streams, but 
never in the ocean, 
My sixth is found in chemistry, but not in drug or 
lotion. 
My seventh is found in gingerbread, but not in hot- 
cross buns. 
My eighth is in a hundred weight, but not in forty 
tons. 
My ninth is found in Paradise, tho’ never seen in 
Eden. 
My tenth in Scandinavia,but never found in Sweden. 
My eleventh’s seen in winter,but never in December, 
My whole is excellent advice, ’twere well we should 
remember. 
WORD BUILDING. 
(Add one letter at a time to the original word in 
each of the following puzzles ; sometimes transpos¬ 
ing the order of letters. 
Example .—A month, a body of armed men, to 
wed, one who suffers death for the truth.—May, 
army, marry, martyr.) 
1. Something despicable,— 
a kind of curtain,—foreign 
fruit,—a pretty flower. 
2. An illuminator, — an 
herb,—a vehicle, — adjuncts 
to fires,—odd. 
3. To divide,—concise,—a 
vial,—a clergyman. 
4. A unit,—a stick,—a body 
of water,—boats. 
5. An article of clothing,— 
to melt,—a grain,—anything 
curled or twisted, — to en¬ 
counter and sustain. 
6. An article of clothing,— 
an insect,—to join at an angle 
of 45,—a recluse. 
7. An article of clothing,— 
a boy,—a fruit,—a place of 
worship,—a garland. 
8. A word of blame,—an elf,—a quarrel,—a fay,— 
to fill with air. 
Answers to Puzzles in the January Number. 
Compound Metamorems. 1. Mix. 2. Zone. 8. 
Fortunate. 4. My. 5. Boms. 6. Give. 7. Intend. 
8. Pink. 9. Honey. 
Square Word.— [ Cross-Word;—I mper- 
L am B, tinence. 
A lo E, Biblical Numerical 
M q1 E, Enigmas. —A good name 
B ee T. is rather to be chosen 
than great riches. 
Patchwork. — 1. Yelk. 2. Yoke. 3. Vow. 4. 
Bistre. 5. Dusk. 6. Lasso. 7. Pound. 8. Crate. 
Pi.—Duties fulfilled are always pleasures to the 
memory. Self-reliance is quite distinct from self- 
assertion. 
Foundation Word.— 1. Ale-rice, tract. 2. Clear- 
trace-it. 3. Ire-cattle-car. 4. Trace-article. 
Transitions. —1. Boat, bolt, bold, bond, band, 
land. 2. Dawn, down, sown, soon, noon. 3. Boot, 
blot, slot, shot, shoe. 4. Rain, fain, fail, foil, fool, 
foot, soot, slot, slow, snow. 5. Lawn, laws, lass, 
pass, pats, pate, pale, pall, pill, sill, silk. 6. Pink, 
pine, pile, pill, poll, pool, fool, foot, boot, blot, 
slot, sloe, floe, flue, blue. 
Hand in Glove. —1. Abate. 2. Caper. 3. Shares. 
4. Lowly. 5. Ledger. 6. Crate. 7. Scowl. 
Anagrams.— 
1. Maintenance. 6. Fractured. 
2. Bounteous. 7. Imprisonment. 
3. Sheathe. 8. Distinguished. 
4. Eliminate. 9. Apportionment. 
5. Copartner. 10. Protectionist. 
The Bog' and I lie Crane. 
A dog that was much more filled with greed than 
love, once ate his food so fast that he lodged a 
bone in his throat and was in great suffering. He 
did not know how to remove the bone, and feared 
when such a fine chance was .given. At this the 
bird clapped its wings and was quickly out of 
reach of the enraged dog, which would have quickly 
taken the life of the helpful crane. The dog again 
forced a bone into his throat, and groaned and lay 
in great pain upon the earth. The crane again 
found the dying wretch and came to help him. The 
dog thought the bird had come to taunt him, and 
at first would not let it remove the hone. The 
crane told the dog that it came to help him the 
same as when called the first time, and would 
show that its heart was full of mercy. The clog- 
believing that death was near, thought there 
would be nothing lost by letting the crane come 
to his aid. The dog was much pleased as well 
as astonished to find the bone quickly removed, and 
from that day was a warm friend to the crane. 
There are perhaps some human dogs that treat 
the helpful crane of friendship in much the same 
way. If this story is not true to the letter, the 
fable nevertheless lias its application. 
Mow Jo iniiise Youi- !'Vien«ls. 
“ H. T. W.,” asks for some amusements for a 
gathering of young people, which will need no 
preparation before hand. There are several such ; 
one which all can take part in, and which will cause 
much fun, is : to hand each one present a scrap of 
paper, and ask eacli to draw, with a pencil, from 
memory, the size of a dime, or 10-cent piece. The 
circles that will be drawn, their diflerence among 
themselves, and the manner in which they are un¬ 
like the real coin, is very amusing. Such tricks as 
these have their uses in educating the eye. Another, 
quite as surprising in its results, is to pin a piece of 
paper to the wall,or better to a door, extending from 
the floor upwards for a foot or more. Now ask each 
one to mark on this paper with a pencil the prob¬ 
able bight of an ordinary hat—one of the stiff 
kind, called “plug” hat, usually worn by men. 
The difference between the marks and the real 
bight of a hat, when placed on the floor, will raise 
a hearty laugh. It is well to ask each one, as the 
mark is made, to put his or her initials against it. 
Of course the larger the number who take part in 
amusements of this kind, the greater will be the 
merriment. Avery funny trick is ealied- 
The Lost K.ey Hole. 
An old lady who, on going to market, locked up 
her house, has come home; she tries to find her 
key-hole. She does not see it at the usual place, 
and gradually looks higher and higher, up to the 
top of the door, and then, having stretched up in 
the most astonishing manner, she suddenly short¬ 
ens herself, and drops down and looks for the lost 
key-hole near the bottom of the door, and in vari¬ 
ous places. A bright hoy can make this very 
amusing. He must have a woman’s skirt, which 
reaches from his shoulders to his feet. Then an 
the dog and the crane. 
that it might cause his death. A crane chanced to 
pass near where the distressed dog was lying, and 
being asked in plaintive tones to draw the bone 
from the dog’s neck did so at once, by means of his 
long bill. So soon as the bone was removed and 
the fear of death was gone, the thankless dog 
turned to the crane, and said that the long-necked 
bird might thank him for not biting off its head 
old-fashioned bonnet is required, and this should 
be fastened upon a broom; a large shawl should 
be pinned to the broom, just below the bonnet, so 
that when the boy holds the broom, the shawl will 
drop down over his dress. When the boy holds 
the broom so that the bonnet will be only as high 
as his head, he is like a little old woman. As in 
searching for the key-hole, he becomes taller and 
