A STRANGE PROPOSITION Perhaps some of my readers may not know what the contrivance known as a "tic-tac" is like.

Those of you who have made them, of course, do not need to be told.

If you ever put them on any person's window, I hope you selected a house where there were only boys and girls or young people to be startled by the tic-tac.

It is no joke, though at first it may seem like one, to scare an old person with the affair.

So if any boy or girl makes a tic-tac after the description given here, I trust he or she will be careful on whom the prank is played.
To make a tic-tac a long string, a pin and a small nail are all that is required.