Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1888 — Cutting a Five-Pointed Star. [ARTICLE]

Cutting a Five-Pointed Star.

To cut a five-pointed star with a single stright clip of the shears might seem a rather difficult feat to accomplish. Once known, the process is very simple. Take a sheet of paper of any size and fold it once across. Then make a fold at right angles to this, merely for the purpose of determining the center of the. paper. Throw the sheet back upon the single fold and let the center point be the point of a triangle when all the folding is completed. It must be understood that to have a five-pointed star there must be one single and two double folds, the folds being made outward from the center point. This single fold should be made to a point about four-fifths of the distance to the middle line when the center of the pajier was determined. The first double fold is made by folding the further side of the sheet as it is left after the single fold, back upon the outer edge of the latter. The second double fold is then made by folding what is now double upon what is triple. To obtain the star, now make a cut with scissors on a straight line diagonally across from a point some little distance removed from the apex, to the extreme outer lower point of the fold. The cut may be made from either regular side of the triangle. The eye must be guide as to the acuteness or obtuseness of the angles of the star. A very little practice will soon enable one to cut one of these stars with entire accuracy. Comparison of a star so made with a geometric star will show it to be far more symmetrical and graceful than the still mathematical product.— Chicago Herald.