Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1893 — Kiteflying and Kitemaking. [ARTICLE]

Kiteflying and Kitemaking.

There never was a boy or girl who did not like to fly a kite. A little girl will drop her dolls at any time for the honor of running alongside of her brother when he holds the kite strings in his hands, and the boy will forget his marbles and his top if there is a chance for kiteflying. An easy way to make a kite is to take four strips of wood and tie them together so that the ends stick out in every direction. Let one of the sticks be a great deal longer than the others, and this makes the point'd end of the kite, or the tall, to which the colored papers are to be tied to make the kite look gayer. Tie a string around the ends of the sticks so as to make the frame for the kite, and then cover with paper. Newspapers will do, although colored paper is prettier. A large kite takes a great deal of strength to fly it. Once upon a time a man whose dogs were disabled in the arctic regions made a kite strong enough and big enough to draw his sled. And so his kite helped him over a great many miles of ice and snow where he would have had to walk had he not learned to make a kite when a boy.—New York Lodger. •