StNicholas [serial] . e hand, a turn of the wrist, will throwthem out and they can be lifted to a piquant littlenose in the most approved and fine-lady-likefashion. The lorgnette in use is shown in the photo-graph, Playing Lady. The Little Queen dis-plays the jewelry, and The Queen and her Cap-tive is enmeshed in the long chain. A WORD TO PARENTS The whole idea of these Hints and Helps for Mother or Rainy Day Amusements in theNursery, is to suggest. In the small space devoted to the series it is impossible to give more thana few examples of the amusement for each month. While the main object i


StNicholas [serial] . e hand, a turn of the wrist, will throwthem out and they can be lifted to a piquant littlenose in the most approved and fine-lady-likefashion. The lorgnette in use is shown in the photo-graph, Playing Lady. The Little Queen dis-plays the jewelry, and The Queen and her Cap-tive is enmeshed in the long chain. A WORD TO PARENTS The whole idea of these Hints and Helps for Mother or Rainy Day Amusements in theNursery, is to suggest. In the small space devoted to the series it is impossible to give more thana few examples of the amusement for each month. While the main object is amusement, the playmay be given an instructive turn, if desired, and the childrens inventive faculties encouraged in de-vising variations and improvements. Indeed this may easily be made to constitute the very diver-sion aimed at. The Editor would be glad to hear from St. Nicholas readers, as to how they have succeeded, andto what extent the suggestions have saved the day when out-of-door amusements were OBj; <Seair4iis IB). WoMkxuip. N C E a little cub bear was caught in a big trap, and taken ona train to a Circus. He lived in the Circus a long, longwhile, and every day a great many people came to seethe bear, and the lions, and the tigers, and the leopards,and the elephants, and the camels, and the other animals. Every night the animals would all be put in the wagons made for them, thenthe wagons would be rolled up on the flat cars of a railroad train. The trainwould go all night to another town, where a great many more people would cometo see the animals in the Circus. One night, after the wagons with the animals had all been put on board thecars, the engineer started the train, and away it went. The animals were soused to the train going rattle-te-bang, rattle-te-bang, all night long, that they allwent to sleep, and stayed asleep a long while. But that night, while the animals and every one on the train except the engineerand the fireman were asleep, the e


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