Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1892 — FUN FOR YOUNG FOLKS. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

FUN FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

QUAINT figures made from PASTEBOARD. Bisters of Charity and Small Girls in Snnbonnets— A Pastime That Will Keep Idle Hands Out of Mischief for Hours at a Time—The Necessary Materials. Card Board Curiosities. Not every one is aware that the visiting cards which accumulate in most houses with such perplexing rapidity may be put to strange u,nd pleasing uses, keeping idle hands out of mischief for hours at a time. Out of the stiff and chilly pasteboard cheery clowns and nimble puppets may be fashioned for the amusement of the small folk. Scarcely less entertaining and perhaps easier for young and impatient Angers to construct are Sisters of Charity and their little charges. The necessary materials are within the reach of all—several visiting

cards, some stiff white paper, a black pencil, a pencil with one end red and the other blue, and a pair of scissors. With these, if one is only nimble and exact with her Angers, she can people a little world of her own,

where no bugabooes are admitted, with pretty pasteboard people who will bow and scrape, and, above all things, do nothing that they should not. Bend a visiting card in two, take it lengthwise; trace upon transparent paper half of the model represented in the Arst drawing, then reproduce it on one of the halves of the doubled card. The crease in the card should

then become identical with the dotted line in the middle of the Agure. Once the contour of this half-Agure has been traced, cut the card following this contour out-

line, then unfold the card and you will have a Agure identical with the cut. Very little remains to be done in transforming the card into a Sister of Charity.

Rebend the card once more following the middle or median line. Bring forward the two arms following the

dotted lines of the model, then form the cap by making 'two long oblique folds. Of course you may vary the shape according to your own ideas or according to the .customary hat wear of the Sisters of

Charity you may have in mind, but remember, it must come very far forward tq cover the absence of the face, because it must be confessed right here that you can not make faces out of visiting cards. Color the skirt dark blue with the crayon, and also the Aowing sleeves that the sister wears, leaving the front of the skirt quite white to rep-

iesent the apron. Design the rosary and a hanging! bunch of keys, and if you want to perfect the Agure place in her hand a little wax taper to represent a candle, or a little piece of bended paper to represent a mass book. You may be surprised to; see that the sister’s smallt pupil has four legs in the outline. Do not alarmed. When the card j

upon which the demi-con- complete. tour of the model is traced is bent back two of these superfluous legs will be cut off, leaving just one on either side for her to stand on. If, however, these supports prove insufficient, the little girl’s feet may be inserted in the crack of a split cork. Then she will be able to stand up boldly and face even a high wind. With the colored pencil ter frocks and stockings may be given just that color which is most becoming to her. If a still larger family of cardboard people seems desirable, it is quite possible to manufacture them in whole rings by folding and cutting the paper properly. Take a generous square, fold it in two; by a perpendicular fold bend it into four; then crease it in the middle and you will have the bit of paper folded into eight sections. On one side of the folded paper trace the model of the half sister and half girl, being sure to have their hands clasped one in the other. Cut with one stroke of the scissors the eight thicknesses of paper, following the outline. On unfolding the sheet you will find four sisters and four little girls holding hands in a cozy circle. The figures must be colored with the greatest care, as they are very fragile, especially at the juncture of the hands. The folds in each case should be made as in the single figures, and the superfluous legs must be amputated. When completed the circle may not be able to dance without some assistance, but it will stand splendidly. Place it upon a stiff piece of pasteboard with green paper gummed over it, and if you have any imagination at all you will see merry figures at play upon the green sward of a well-kept lawn. The Uiiruly Man* * A small boy made a big fat woman furiously angry and a car-load of people very merry, says the Kansas City Times. He was sitting down quietly when this portly woman came in. As nobody got up to give her a seat, she stood in the aisle at the rnsrcy of the bumps and twists and turns of the road. The car had gone about two blocks, when the small boy got up, and, in a whisper that could be heard all through the car, said: “I’ll be one of three men to give the lady a seat.”

SISTER OF CHARITY IN OUTLINE.

SISTER OF CHARITY COPMLETE.

LITTLE GIRL IN OUT-' LINE.

LITTLE GIRL