FLY-TRAP.
Take a tumbler, and half fill it with strong soap-suds. Cut a circle of stiff paper which will exactly fit into the top of the glass. In the centre of the paper cut a hole half an inch in diameter; or, better still, a slice of bread may be placed on the glass. Smear one side of the disk with molasses, and insert it in the tumbler with this side downward. Swarms of flies soon surround it, and one by one find their way downward-through the hole. Once below the paper, and their doom is sealed. For a short time the molasses absorbs their attention, and they, in turn, absorb the molasses.
In their efforts to escape they one by one precipitate themselves into the soap-suds below, where they speedily perish. The tumbler is soon half filled with the dead insects; and where a number of the traps are set in a single room, the apartment is soon rid of the pests.
[LAWN TENNIS.]
It affords plenty of exercise.
The men sometimes wear spike-soled shoes; the ladies, however, prefer to be shod with rubber.
"Twist balls" are often deceptive, and you can not always tell where they will strike.
Failure to excel in the game should not lead to sulks—
Nor to undue exhibitions of ill-temper.
So long as the ground is free from snow, some enthusiasts consider it a fine sport for winter as well as summer.