Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1914 — For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do

(Copyright by A. Nedy Hall)

By A. NEELY HALL.

A HOME MOVING PICTURE SHOW. “The fun of the little moving picture show commences the minute you begin work upon it, and it lasts as long as you want It to because there are always new pictures to plan and make. The very first thing to prepare is the support for the “picture screen," for which you will need a box. Almost any kind of a grocery box will do, approximately 18 inches wide and 2 feet long. Remove the bottom boards of the box (Fig. 1) for a doorway. Then cut a piece of cardboard long enough to reach across, the top of the box from side to side (A, Fig 2). Cut an oblong opening in its center as shown and tack to the box edges in the position shown in Fig. 6. The upper and lower boards B support the picture rollers D. Make them about 12 inches longer than the width of the box, and with a saw cut a 1-lnch square notch in opposite corners, as shown Figs. 3 and 7. These notches form pockets for the picture-roller ends to sei in, and the strips C (Fig. 3), nailed to the edges of boards B

hold the rollers in the notches. Nail boards B to the two ends of the box with the front edges projecting about an inch beyoqdthe front edges of the box, and with the pair of roller pockets in the upper board directly over the pair in the lower board. Broom-handles, curtain-poles, or any other wooden sticks that you can find are needed for the rollers D. Cut them of the right length so their tops will stick several Inches above the top board B when they are placed in their pockets (Fig. 6). A diagram of a roller is shown in Fig. 4, and a detail of the crank for turning ft is shown in Fig. 5. For the crank (Fig. 5) fasten a thread spool (E) to the end of a short stick (F), and then nail the upper end of the roller to the end of the stick. The nails G (Fig 4)

are driven into the roller, after the roller ends have been slipped into their pockets. Their purpose is to keep the rollers from slipping up or down (Fig. 6). The picture strips are made of white cloth and are cut about an inch wider than the oblong opening in the piece of cardboard A. To these strips the pictures are pasted. Enough of the strips should be sewed end to end to make a continuous strip at least 20 feet in length. Select your pictures from newspapers and magazines. Color them with crayons or water-colors, and arrange upon the cloth strip in some interestling order. Fasten them with flour paste. Tack edch end of the picture strip to a picture roller, passing the cloth over the front of the opening in the piece of cardboard A. To complete the work, there remains only the enclosing of the front of the framework so the audience cannot see you operating the roller cranks. Ttis is done with cloth. Get a piece large enough to reach from upper board B to lower board B, and from end to end, and tack it to the two edges of these boards, stretching it tightly Then cut an opening in the center exactly in front of the opening in the piece of cardboad A. A board nailed across the top of the framework will conceal the cranks.

Reel the pictures from one roller on to the other, then back again, by turning first one crank, and then the other. A light placed inside of the box, through the doorway, will illuminate the pictures from the back.

By DOROTHY PERKINS.

AN IMPRESSION SCRAP-BOOK. A pretty and simple way to preserve the memories of summer leaves and flowers is by taking impressions of them on paper, and then pasting the piece? of paper on pages of a - blank book. A book containing such

impressions might appropriately bo called a memory scrap-book. All the materials necessary for mak* Ing leaf impressions are several sheets of white paper—common note paper will do nicely—a . tin or china plate, a piece of cotton rolled up into a ball and covered with a piece of silk or soft cotton cloth, and about half teaspoonful of printer’s ink, or h» teaspoonful of black shoe-pasti ; with a quarter of that quantity; > or shoe-paste mixture upon < > plate or tin plate. Then U’ [ little ball of cotton which | • > covered with silk or cotton c' J the surface of the plate u< > ink or shoe-paste mixture is} ; evenly over the center. AU i ready for making the impressioi Place the lower side of a leai side on which the. veins are m. prominent, upon the inked surface o. the plate. Then lay a blotter, or piece of heavy paper, aver the leaf, and press down upon every part to bring the leaf into perfect contact with the inked plate. If you have a small pho*

tograph mounting roller, yon can get ‘ good results by using that to roll down the leaf. After pressing down or rolling down the leaf, remove ft carefully, and place the blackened surface on a sheet of white paper and press down as before. Then remove the leaf, being careful in doing so to lift it without sliding sideways, in order not to blur the Impression. You will find a very perfect picture of the leaf impressed upon the paper. J Impressions of flowers are more difficult to make than those of leaves, because flowers are more delicate to handle. By using pointer’s ink of different colors, or coloring the shoe-paste mixture with oil colors, very pretty combinations can be obtained. .£ With the hundreds of different forms of leaves and flowers to be found in the garden and in the woods, just think of the possibilities for making a large scrap-book, and what a fine thing it will be to have such a book to refer to. Of course you must find out the names of all the leaves and flowers you make impressions of, and write them below the impressions, so you will feel well enough acquainted

with them next time you see them to call them by name. Besides making a memory scrapbook, another novel idea that you girls can try is fhatpf decorating your letter paper with Impressions of dainty ferns and grasses. This will make your paper different from that of your girl friends. If you want to have your monogram on yoqr paper, in addition to the leaf impression, cut your initials in the leaf with a pen* knife. Then when you make the impression, you will find your initials outlined in white.