Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1914 — For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do

(Copyright by A. Neriy Hall)

A TENT FOR THE BACK YARD. By A. NEELY HALL. It you can find an old blanket, quilt, rug. Piece of carpet, or even a sheet, It will furnish you with just the right kind of material for making a satisfactory tent for camping out in the back yard, or in a nearby vacant IoL Below are shown three simple tents which may be made of such covering material as these, and they can be put up quickly, as there is but little work to making them. The shelter tent shown in Fig 1 requires a ridge-pole fastened across uprights braced as shown in Fig. 2, and this framework can be made out of any sort of sticks that you can find at hand. A clothes-pole, though a trifle long, might be used for the ridge-pole. Drive the bottoms of the uprights into the ground, and, after fastening the Hdge-pole across their

tops, run a rope brace from a nail in each end of the ridge-pole to a stake driven into the ground several feet away from the base of the upright. Drive stakes at the four corners of the tent, and tie the corners of the covering to them. Also drive a stake at the center of each side for additional fastening. With the same kind of framework, you can make the open-front tent shown in Fig. 3. The only way in which its construction differs from that of the shelter tent is that the side of the shelter tent becomes the front of this tent, and is raised and held by stick props, thus forming a canopy over the entrance. And what

are the front and rear ends of the shelter tent become the sides of this tent, and are enclosed halfway with triangular shaped pieces of cloth. As but one edge of the tent covering 'is pegged to the ground, you must tack it along the ridge-pole. By pulling away the stick props, and dropping the canopy, your tent will be enclosed upon all sides. The tent shown in Fig. 4 is triangular in plan, and has triangular sides and a triangular front The ridge of the tent is made of a piece of a clothesline, one end of which is fastened to a clothes-post, and the other end to a stake driven into the ground. The covering material should be square. A seven-foot sheet will do. First tie the lower end of the ridge rope to a stake driven into the ground seven or eight feet away from a clothes-post then fold the covering material-cornerwise, as indicated by the dotted line in Fig. 5, and place it

over the rope with the fold along the rope, and fasten with clothes-pins. Pass the upper end of tfie rope around the clothes-post, and pull until the tent is raised to the .proper height; then tie It Fasten the front corners to stakes driven into the ground. ; . ...Ji r.™-..

AN OUTDOOR DOLL HOUSE.

By DOROTHY PERKINS.

As nice a little doll house as you could wish may be built out of doors. All that is necessary to make it is a few sticks, some cloth, some card-

board, pins and thread, and any girl will find the making easy. This doll house may contain just as many rooms as you wish, though it is best to start by making only two rqoms, as shown in Fig. 1, and then to add others afterward. The sticks are used to support the walls, and are thriven into the ground at the corners. It is not necessary for these to be of equal size, though they should be at least 18 inches long. Sticks longer than this can be broken off, or driven further into the ground. With a pointed stick mark out upon the ground, in a shady spot, the shape of the rooms. Eighteen or 20 Inches square is a good size. Then pound one of the sticks into the ground at each corner, to a depth of 6 inches, using another stick or a hammer to pound with; also drive two sticks into

the ground at each end of the inside wall. (See Fig. 2.) For the walls you will require pieces of cloth 12 or 14 inches wide. White cloth will do, but if you can find colored cloth of some pretty pattern it will give the rooms a much daintier appearance. Different material may be need for each room. Plain colored cloth will give a tinted-calsomine effect, potato sacking will look nearly like burlap, and cretonne will have the appearance of tapestry. Fasten the cloth at one corner, doubling it around the corner stick, and pinning it to Itself in several places as shown in Fig. 3; then pass it around the other corner sticks as far as the center wall, or, if you are going to use

the same cloth for both rooms, run It around the three walls. Fig. 4 shows how the center wall covering is lapped around the center posts and pinned. With all walls pinned In place, the next thing to do is to cut the doorway and windows. With a pair of sharp scissors this is easy to do. Make the doorway about 3 Inches wide and 8 inches high. Leave a narrow strip across the bottom, as shown, to hold the cloth together. Cut the window openings about 4 Inches wide and 5 inches high, with the bottoms about 3 inches above the ground. Oiled paper may be stitched over these openings for “glass," but it will look better to omit it, and instead to represent window-sash with black thread, running the thread across the openings from side to side, and from top to bottom, to represent the wooden bars. The doll house may be entirely furnished with simple furniture mads from berry boxes or cardboard boxes, or with any doll furniture you have.