. Talks to children . ttle, and shet it upin the bureau drawer. Spiffs brow began to pucker, and he looked hard electric light. Is that a hairpin in the bulb and what makes itshine like that and why does it stop shining when I turnit he asked, turning the light off and on as he spoke. Thats a hard question, Little Son, said Mother,and she unscrewed the bulb and let Spiff hold it and lookcarefully for the red-hot hairpin. Mother told him that electric light bulbs were all madeof glass like the one he held, but that they were not allthe same size nor all shaped as this one was, very
. Talks to children . ttle, and shet it upin the bureau drawer. Spiffs brow began to pucker, and he looked hard electric light. Is that a hairpin in the bulb and what makes itshine like that and why does it stop shining when I turnit he asked, turning the light off and on as he spoke. Thats a hard question, Little Son, said Mother,and she unscrewed the bulb and let Spiff hold it and lookcarefully for the red-hot hairpin. Mother told him that electric light bulbs were all madeof glass like the one he held, but that they were not allthe same size nor all shaped as this one was, very hke abottle. He looked through the glass, and, hanging in thebulb so that they did not touch, were wires, fine as hairs^which did look something like hairpins, as the countryfiddler had said. He saw that the ends of these thread-like wires were fastened to wires a little bigger and thesebigger wires were fastened to some a little bigger whichran up through the bulb. He saw that the end of the bulb was covered with262. THE NATIONAL CAPITOL LIGHTED BY ELECTRICITY ELECTRICITY brass and made so that he could screw it into the socketon the wall. Mother said that when the bulb was screwed in tightthat the ends of the wires in the bulb touched the endsof copper wires that run through the wall and out ofdoors to other and much bigger wires that run all theway from there to the electric power station. When we want water we turn a faucet, and the waterruns through the small pipes in the house from thebigger ones in the street. These pipes run back to thewater works or pumping station where the water isforced into them. Some time we will go and see howthis is done. Now there is in the world something called Elec-tricity just as there is something called * Water. Water will flow through pipes, but it will not flowthrough a pail unless there is a hole in it. Water willflow through a glass tube, but it will not flow througha bottle unless there is a hole in the bottle. Water willflow throug
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