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'JUNIOR EAGLE SECTION, BROOKLYN-NEW YORK, SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1917. 4 A DIP IN WINTER THE MAN-CARRYING DOVE Junior Eagle Section Exchange Column Open to Everyone SUNDAY, FJ-ICJIUARY 25, 1917. A New Glider Built to Look and Fly Like a Pigeon. Continued From raC 1. me feeling, he rushed forward to be mercilessly frozen.

It was painful, indeed. The writer struck out strongly, but felt so chilled and numbed that he could make but little headway. His breath came in quick puffs, and you would hardly describe him as enjoying himself. The artist had likewise plunged into the water- by this time and was struggling about in somewhat the same manner. The men thought they were in for a long time.

I'rob-ably they forced themselves to swim around for some twenty seconds. But it seemed like twenty years. Tliey finally rushed out a good deal faster than they had The Junior Eagle, the Children Section tf The Brooklyn Dally Eagle. i paper for boy and girls. On Sundays it 11 complete twelve-page little publication week the Junior tJ one-baif ori page in the Picture Supplement.

All boyi and girls are invited to con-tribuie. Original stories, articles, sketches and photographs of interest to young people are acceptable. Write on only one side of the paper and give name, address and age. Send all mail to Aunt Jean, Brooklyn Daily Eagle, Brooklyn. N.

Y. No rejected1 manuscript will be returned or answered. Aunt Jean awards ten credits for original stories and sketches deemed worthy of publication, and more for contributions and ideas of special merit. WANTED wireless receiving fr condition. Including exchange 15 boy's books.

Writ to Booney, 74 Seventh avenue. BELGIAN loldter, Interned "Sr would Ilka to exchange stamps or with Junior Eagle readers. wUI Vrlt to rot any Camp to Tlbaduse Alphonso, Barrac I. Zelat, Holland. TRANSFORMER, brand new: "f'1) to 120 volts, a.

c. Delivers 4, ket volts. Will exchange tor a tenn' of equal value or some other t1j Boy Blumberg, 431 Eastern 1W" FrosBecU WANTED typewriter when new. Valldee, change a moving picture machine, i 8 lilms and seven story booKS. Relchold, 34 Delta street.

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in.tru- nmslcaJlnstr that such a construction offered too much resistance to the air, and that, after all, the bird idea was correct. All the latest machines look very much like birds because they have been provided wlthblrd-liko bodies in which passengers and engines are carried. A New England Inventor, Percival White, has very wisely taken up Lillienthal's line of investigation and has built an exact gigantic copy of a carrier pigeon. His glider is an object lesson. His huge bird shows how sweet are the lines of Nature's flying machines and how well worth copying they arc.

Although he may not have had it In mind, young White has vindicated Lillienthal. Every airplane designer must envy the modeling of White's glider. Lillienthal took great pains to explain that if a bird is merely copied and enlarged, It becomes either too heavy or too weak to fly. This is a matter of structural size and strength. How White has made his artificial dove strong and light enough to serve as a gliding machine without' prominent stay posts and wires remains a question.

But even if While's glider serves no other purpose than that of setting the (lying efficiency of a bird's shape into bold relief it is worthy of all praise. Assuming that the structure is strong enough, the flat gliding angle and the perfect shape of the body would insure efficient flight. Like Lillienthal, White must throw his body from side to side in order to balance himself. books on MOKE than twenty years ago, Otto Lillienthal, a German engineer, became Interested In flying. He was one of the first scientific pioneers of the airplane.

For weeks and 'weeks at a time he would watch storks In motion. To him birds were masters from whom man must learn If he, too, would fly. Lillienthal's first step after long watching was to build a motorlcss machine of a type which has since come to be called a glider, a kind of artificial bird, consisting primarily of a pair of canvas wings stretched on a frame. He would run down a hill with this apparatus. After he had acquired sufficient momentum, he would draw up his legs, elide along freely for perhaps a hundred yards, and come to earth.

This performance was not so easy as It seems. Even on tho calmest days, the wind tended to upset his apparatus, writes Carl Dienslbacbj, in Popular Science Monthly. Lillienthal had to throw himself bodily from side to side to maintain his balance. He had to be very quick just as quick as the wind. He made many hundred Mights and learned a great deal about soaring.

But one day he was not quick enough. The wind upset him. and he was killed ono of the first martyrs of the air. When the motor-driven airplane at last came, Inventors paid less and less attention to birds. The construction cf flying machines was reduced to a problem in engineering.

And so the airplane became less and less birdlike. In the hands of Wright and Curtiss it assumed the form of a box-kite with a man and motor perched on the lower edge. Soon it was found music or aon.o Write or telephone to George Ninth street. Tel. SouU.

menu Knabel, wjinntsu an induction nun. j0h fered la exchange? Write or eU Adams, I2i Knickerbocker avenue. WIRELESS receiving set What Is offered In exchange? ww1' preferred. NED KOSKMAN, ford street. rtJCT.GTAV soldier, interned In.

would liko to exchange stamps v. Eagle readers. Will bo glad I to American stamps. Wriio to B. roiei.

Barrack 28, Ounp I. Zeist. Holland- BELGIAN SOLDIER. land, would ilka to receive stamp 1'ED an Induction noil. (change for war or exenangn ror war tamps.

European Bed Cross stam articles made by Belgian soldiers Internment be lit rnmn All Stamp" camp. All stamps yoi sent to hint by registered parcel 1.. flofUtPfi sent to him bv registered parce confiscated py But balancing in this fashion oughtl 'JUST HAXCIXC; AltUOUND." Don't be a member of the "Hang Around" Club. Whatever you do, don't merely "hang around." whether it is in the classroom, the street, or your homo. Either take put in what is going on, or, if you have nothing more to do, take your leave and attend to something else.

If there is a up in tho street, it is perfectly proper for you to as much lime as you can Fpare watching the events resulting from the accident. Hut don't hang around in an aimless way after the crowd has left and only one or two jieisons, as Irresolute as yourself, still loiter about. You will always know it when you are merely hanging around. One can "feel" it. Don't hang around your home if you can go out and play in the (street.

If you have nothing to do, and don't know what to do with yourself, go out-of-doors, so that you may at least get tho fresh air. Then look for some friend, or take a good, bri.k walk, nesting is not Jianging around. Hosting is necessary; loitering is not. It is better to go to bed and sleep than to hang around in the parlor or diningroom. Your life should be spent doing three things working, being amused, and resting.

Hanging around is not covered by any one cf these three divisions. to bo easy for While. Lillienthal himself pointed out that a bird easily shifts its weight to both wings or fore and aft in order to control itself sidewise and HOW TO ATTRACT THE BIRDS It Is Easy to Teach Most Kinds of Birds to Trust and Like You. rushed in. They feit the way two icebergs must feel after' drifting about the Arctic Ocean for a winter or two.

The cold air seemed to freeze every drop of water on tlieir bodies. Tho wind forced its way down their throats and made them cough. Their wet bathing suits clung uncomfortably to them. Tito cold sand felt colder titan ever. Never were two human beings more miserable.

They made ono more dive into their overcoats. Then they sprinted pretty rapidly from the beach. It may make pretty fair story, but so far as winter bathing is concerned, let us assure you never to prevent slipping, which frightens them. Water should 'never be more than two inches deep, but should always be clean and fresh two or three times a day. In the winter they should have roou regularly.

On the again! or they will bo censor. Write to Victor Uodfrieu, ond Regiment of the Line, rarai" Camp Zeiat, Holland. BELGIAN SOLDIER, Interned land, wa.ls stamps. He otters i sti postcards 'of tho internment c'pl war stamps In exchange. AH r.

must be sent to him by registereu eel post or they may be o'81 ir.ercn, the censor. Write to Jean van iij corporal of Grenadiers, ZelsU Holland. A BELGIAN Interned tn Holland, would like to exchange with Junior Eagle readers. ropeun war stamps, Internment si" arid war postcards to exchange, stamps or postcards must be senv him by registered parcel post, or they will be destroyed by the censor. Gustavo Smots, Second Belgian Infan try.

Interned, Barrack 6. Camp a Holland. A BELGIAN SOLDIER, Interned In Holland, wishes to exchange BtmP; and postcards for other stamps or Posi cards. All stamps or postcards sent to htm by registered or they will bo confiscated oy censor. Write to E.

BlernlJ. Mnth Keglnient of the Line, Barrack is. Zelst, Holland. BELGIAN SOLDIER. Internea Holland, would like to exchange stampj of Euiopean countries, war stamps ana war postcards with Junior bagle reao ers, and wants American or stamps In exchange.

All stamps or postcards must be tent to him by "B's? panel post or they will be by the censor. Write Henri Bauiltt soldat Beige Interne, Barauue 2. Camp 21, Zelst, Holland. SQl'ARB CAMERA, cost SI. of stand-ard make; early model typewriter; bicycle, chime bells and other articles, ail In good shape.

Will exchange for useful articles. KOSSIE FISHER, 60 Deau street. WANTED A set of mechanical tralnj In good condition, with a pair of switches. Will give a self-feeding, self-lnklng, rotary cylinder press wortn. a.

Write or call, J. W. ADAMS. 2 KnlcK. erbocker avenue.

WANTED Typewriter, tn good condition. What la desired In exchanger Call up CLIFFORD CARXER. Telephone Bushwlck uSOS, between 2 and 6 p.m. GUINEA PIO, worth It, and three 25. cent books, In good condition.

Will exchange for album of 600 or more stamps. No duplicates wanted, H. MOFFAT, 954 Grand avenue, BELGIAN SOLDIER, interned In Holland, would like to exchange stamps with Junior Eagle readers. He will send war post cards and post card views of the Dutch internment camp. All stamp must be sent to him by registered parcel post or may be destroyed by tho censor.

Write to N. Van Nieuwenboven, th Division. Amersrouit, Holland, BECAUSE birds are so useful to us, as well as because they are so interesting and so beautiful, it is delightful to have tliem come about our homes. And it is not at all difficult, for they are easily taught to like us. In countries where people are gentle, and try to make birds happy.

they become very tame, WTites Olivo T. Miller, in "The Children's Eook of Birds." Mr. Hearn, who has written about Japan, says that the fearlessness of wild creatures is one of the most charming things about the remote parts of Japan. Travelers who visit Norway tell us that birds are never disturbed there, and they come freely about the houses. When it is very cold, they even come into the houses for food and warmth, and no ono thinks of frightening them or trying to catch them.

Even In our own country, Dr. Ridgway told me of a bird-lover in Florida who would not let birds be annoyed on his place. As a result, he had a great many there, and they became very tame. Cardinal grosbeaks, which are rather shy, were so tame they would take food from his hand. sin or a window is a good place to feed them, or the roof of a piazza, or a little balcony.

Breakfast should be served to thetn at the same hour every day, and they will soon know when to come for it. For food, they will eat any table scraps of meat and vegetables and bread, chopped fine, and most kinds of grain, broken up or crushed for the mailer birds. But the thing that they all like best of everything Is raw suet as it comes from the butcher. A large piece may be wired or nailed in place, so that it may be picked at and not displaced, or it may be chopped fine and scattered on the shelf, like other food. All birds are fond of this.

In winter they need water, and it should then, also, be fresh. A lady living in Southern Ohio, who has for several years given a breakfast to the, birds every day in winter, told me that her dally guests last season were hairy and downy woodpeckers, nuthatches, white and red-breasted, one young kinglet, a pair of chickadees, tufted titmice, blue Jays, juncos, cardinal grosbeaks, Carolina wrens and sparrows. This delightful company came regularly for breakfast, and to pay her sang nearly through the WE DON'T BELIEVE IT. Once a friend warned us wo were working too hard. Now dont laugh.

It wouldn't bo sociable if you did. Ho said a man had only so much work in him, and if he took it out in a hustle he wouldn't have any left It sort of frightened us, so wo tried loafing and taking things easy. It was a flat failure. We found we didn't get fun out of cither loafing or working. We couldn't work worth a cent So we went back to tho old plan.

Our notion is that every man works in his own way, some slowly, somo in a rush. Don't let anybody Interfere with tho way of working that you find suit3 you best and don't bo afraid of running dry. Our notion is that a man who wants to work will always find a supply of it ready no matter how much he has done before. American Eoy. Tin: niLDitr.vs misixm.

How many Junior Kagle readers know about tho lectures at the Children's Museum? There is a lecture every week day which you may attend without paying any fee. You will hear descriptions of things about which you have beer, studying in school, and you will see beautiful lantern elides or interesting electrical experiments. Tho lectures begin at 4 p.m. every school day except Monday. On Saturdays there are two lectures, one at 10:30 a.m.

and the other at 2:30 p.m. Take tho program of the Museum for March. On Tuesdays there will be talks about the sun, the planets and the stars, why the Bun gives out heat, why the planets are called "wanderers," the movements of the earth and moon, what the stare are, and entertaining stories about them. On Wednesdays tho talks and pictures will relate to the Civil War and tho Spanish-American War. Thursdays are "electricity days," and the subjects will be motors and dynamos, electric cars, electric lights, X-rays and wireless telegraphy.

Pictures of life in Japan, China and India will be shown on Fridays, and on Saturdays the subjects will leal with fish life and signs of Jfring. Go to the. Museum and see how you like" these talks. They are especially arranged to-interest j-ou, aw the chances are that you will go fain and again to hear them. considerable portion of the action Is not photographed.

In filming a motion-picture drama this loss means nothing; but in scientific research the films would be worthless. At present the fastest motion-picture camera takes pictures at the rate of 2,000 per second. Naturally this camera misses very little of the action and shows us many wonders of nature which the human eye has never looked upon. A person living in the country, wishing to draw the birds about his place, should begin by protecting it. Next, trees and shrubs that birds like, for nesting and for food, should be set out For nesting, a very attractive place for the smaller species is a thick hedge of bushes, the thicker and closer the better.

Nesting-boxes nailed up in trees please many, and evergreen trees will draw some that would not come otherwise. For food, various berry-bearing shrubs and trees should be provided, such as choke-berry, shadberry, mulberry and others. 1 In a town or city, besides shrubs that birds like, a high fence, with a top that cats cannot walk on, is desirable, and a readiness to go to their assistance Is soon appreciated. The one great necessity in both city and country, is water for drinking and bathing. It should bo in a shallow dish.

The rough raucer of a flower pot is best, because the bird's feet do not slip on it, ar.d the edge is broad and round and easy to perch on. Next best is an earthen dish, with clean pebbles in the bottom, DKIED CODFISH SINK "Codfish Sank Big Schooner" was the title of a news item of recent date, which besides being most unusual, seems to open up a new method of sinking wooden ships of the nations at war at a trifling cost compared with tho present $3,000 to $10,000 torpedoes used by submarines and destroyers. The schooner Ponhook, under a captain and crew of seven men, left St. John, N. for tho Azores with a cargo of dried codfish, explains Popular Science Monthly.

Soon afterward she ran into a heavy sea and shipped considerable water. The dry codfish absorbed this like a sponge, find it was but a couple of days before the expansive pressure of the swelled codfish had forced open the scams of the vessel's planking so that the water began to seep in, little by little, until the ship was beyond iving and had to be abandoned. TAKE 2,000 PHOTOS A SECOND. Some day the scientific camera man is going to photograph for us the thousands of movements in nature which we have never been able to see because of their lightning swiftness. This camera man, predicts tho Topular Science Monthly, will have a camera capable of taking 2,000 pictures per second or possibly a camera which takes a continuous motion picture with no revolving shutter and intermittent film movement He will, in fact, be able to photograph the fastest movements in nature.

In Germany a picture has been taken in one ten-millionth part of a second. The ordinary motion-picture camera takes sixteen pictures a second. This means that a RADIATOR MANIKINS. Tou have seen those strange little folk that decorate automobile radiators. Well, the inventors have added a new member to the family a manikin which throws up its arms to indicate the direction to be taken by the car and then shouta menacingly at you." Popular Science Monthly..