Identifier: stnicholasserial392dodg (find matches)
Title: St. Nicholas (serial)
Year: 1873 (1870s)
Authors: Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905
Subjects: Children's literature
Publisher: (New York : Scribner & Co.)
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ready to be boiled for dinner. After that, until the dinner-bell rang, Alicetook a sound nap in her own little red-and-whitehammock, while Cousin Eleanor and Sophie andElizabeth and Jack had a game of croquet. But as the days and weeks passed on, the dollwas taught many kinds of work. When Babyscradle was made up, she smoothed the pillow andtucked in the down coverlet. When Elizabethtidied the nursery, Alice, too, held a wee duster,and dusted her own little bureau and rocking-chair. When the table was being set, she helpedput around the bibs and napkins. And once — Ithink it made her feel an inch taller—she filledthe salt-cellars! Oh, a doll, if she is obligingand well-bred, can do many useful things. Guess if Mama was pleased when she saw herlittle girl and her little girls doll helping socheerfully, instead of being a care to others, andI will tell you the answer in the next chapter. (To be continued.) NATURE^5CIENCE por young to edited by EDWARD F. BIGELOW ■/^~\ lULlXZ) 1 WJ
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INTERESTING EXPERIMENTS WITHTHE SIPHON Every one knows that water flows downward.This fact is as familiar to even our youngestreader as is the fact that an unsupported pencilwill fall to the ground or to the floor. Thedownward flow of water is due to exactly thesame cause as the fall of the pencil —that is, tothe power that we call the attraction of gravi-tation. If the pencil is attached to a string, andthe string is passed over a pulley, it will balanceat the other end of the string a pencil as heavyas itself, or will lift a pencil lighter than itself.The same principle applies to water in a pipe.When a pipe shaped like the inverted letter U,

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