A school without books: . ^ look inthe cabinet and see what you can find. Here is an ugly looking black thing that is almost a ball,said Guy. It looks as though its sides had tried to make diamondsand could not. That is very beautiful, though, said Miss Lovechild, in spiteof your unappreciative description. It looks like ebony, and is won-derfully perfect as crystals go. Wait till you make a dodecahedronas perfect as this yourself, Master Guy, before you criticize MotherNature. And what have you found, Esther ? Some pretty little wine-colored glass balls, she replied. Look at them under the gl
A school without books: . ^ look inthe cabinet and see what you can find. Here is an ugly looking black thing that is almost a ball,said Guy. It looks as though its sides had tried to make diamondsand could not. That is very beautiful, though, said Miss Lovechild, in spiteof your unappreciative description. It looks like ebony, and is won-derfully perfect as crystals go. Wait till you make a dodecahedronas perfect as this yourself, Master Guy, before you criticize MotherNature. And what have you found, Esther ? Some pretty little wine-colored glass balls, she replied. Look at them under the glass and see if they are really quiteballs, Miss Lovechild said. Oh how pretty ! Every side is a cute little diamond. It isjust like that black thing that Guy has. Yes, it is garnet, and has fallen out of this piece of you see are others like them, and that dodecahedron of Guysis another form of iron. We often speak of the yearly cycle, orcircle,— an imaginary division of time. As it takes just twelve [i6i]. IRON AND GARNET, REGULAR SYSTEM. 163 months to make this circle of the year, let us imagine the year asa dodecahedron of time, and use this form as a calendar mount, toillustrate the thought. Each rhombic face represents a month, yousee, and each should be of a different color, with three or four silverand gilt rhombs to give variety. So they will each have to be sepa-rately drawn, and cut with narrow margins for gluing you join them, glue four together so that their acute anglesmeet. Then glue a rhomb in each of the obtuse angles thus made,and unite with another four rhombs, that have been united at theiracute angles. None of their angles are quite acute, I know, but Imean the more acute. The form for the basket is easier made in one piece, arrangingthe rhombic faces as I have in this drawing. The rhombic basket isfor holding a ball of knitting yarn or crocheting cotton, so that itcan roll on the floor, or anywhere, without injuring the yarn. It
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