FAMILY FUN

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXV, Issue 25, 20 June 1907, Page 38

FAMILY FUN

Why can a clear summer's "night iujrriish you "with =&n excellent weather forecast ? Because it gives yo<u (flew, not ice ('due notice). Why is an umbrella like a hot cross bun ? Bec&use it is never seen after lent. Why is life the greatest xiddle oi all ? Because you must give it up. When does a ma,n> bave to keep iiis wortir? Wh^eiih nio one will take it. — The Silver Egg.— Blacken an egg with lamp smoke, and place it in a basin of water, arid immeidiLately ypur black egg< turns a 'bralli-ant metallic white, like silver, the patch of black 'lctek'feg like a dark yfctlk $n the centre. 'If you now withdraw it 'froln 'the w&ter, the .whole egg takes on «gam the sable blackness. How to Make a Toy Refrigferaitor.— At ifes season of th» year, when snow covers the ground m iriany parts of New Zealand, inotihing is easier than to make a toy refrigerator, which "will yield a temperature of 15 to 20 degrees below zero centigrade. At 4he t*bttom of a tumbler you place a . laye^ o f f show.' ThUs you cover with a sheet of salt, -wftt^h ih tu^h H's covered by another layer of sftow, #hd so 'dh (ihtJi 1 ! %Ie brim of the glass is reached. ft you now push' 'a glass tube filled with water into t<he mixture, in a minute the water will be fcoZefo To obtaifo a still lower degree of cold, apply sulphuric aci'k to We snow instead of salt. This will "force down the teSfttfiSrature tio 40i '6r S()_ < fteg¥e'efc bdWw 'Be*o <88ii!Wpafce.