Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1914 — For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

For Handy Boys and Girls to Make and Do

(Copyright by A. Neely Hall) .

By A. NEELY HALL.

BIRD SHELTERS AND BATHB. Figure 1 shows a practical form of bird shelter that is easily built. It may be constructed upon the top of a clothespost,, or a post may be put up especially for the purpose. A cheese-box cover forms the roof of this shelter, and you can get one

of these for the asking at your grocery. Any thin sticks of a length equal to the diameter of the cheese-box cover will do for the shelter perches. . There are four pairs of these perches, and they should be nailed at their centers to opposite sides of the post support in the manner shown in the illustration. Figure 2 shows a shelter and bath. Any medium-sized grocery-box will do for the shelter, and an old tin pan will answer the purpose of a receptacle for bath water. Four or five cross sticks should be placed within the box for perches, and be fastened by nails

driven through the box sides into their ends. The water pan is supported in a wooden frame (Fig. 3) hung from the bottom of the shelter box by a pair of uprights. The frame should be made of the right size so the pan receptacle will set down between the strips and the rim will rest upon the strips. The frame must be long enough, of course, so the uprights can be fastened to both it and the'box, as shown, and in case the pan to be used does not reach from one end strip to the strip opposite, as it is shown to do in the illustration, it will be necessary to fasten extra cross strips at the right places to support the rim. Screw a pair of screw-eyes into the top of the box as a provision for hanging the shelter on a tree, on a post, or on a wall. Figure 4 shows a simple way in which to fasten a pan bath to a tree trunk. The flower-pot shelters in Fig. 5 present a novel appearance in a yard.

The simplest method of fastening the flower-pots is by using screw-eyes, screwing a screw-eye through the hole tn the bottom of each pot Into the post or other support 1 The screw-eye can be turned by hand, and the eye la large enough to hold the pot In place, which is the advantage of using a ■screw-eye instead of a screw.

By DOROTHY PERKINS. HANGING FLOWER BOXES AND BASKETS. The flower-pot basket in Fig. 1 is supported in a frame like that shown in Fig. 2, made out of lightweight wire. Stovepipe wire is a good kind to use, as it is easily bent and breaks with a few twists at the point desired, making a pair of wire cutters unnecessary.

First form the wire ring of the proper diameter to catch around the underside of the top flange of the flower pot, then attach the three wire hangers to the ring, spacing them equidistantly, and join the upper ends in a hook as shown. The basket shown in Fig. 3 is made from a wire egg basket. If you haven’t an unused basket in the house, you can get a new one for 10 or 12 cents. They come in different shapes and

sizes, but the one here shown is of the best proportions for a flower basket Figure 4 shows how two or more flower-pots may be combined in a wooden frame for a hanging box, and Fig. 5 shews how the frame strips are nailed together. Cross strips B should be of the length of the outside diameter of the flower-pots, measured just

beneath the top flange, and strips A should be of the proper length to connect the cross pieces. After nailing the frame strips together, screw screweyes into the ends of strips A, to which to tie the suspending cords. Tho hanging box shown In Big. « may be made out of any shallow grocery box. All that Is necessary to prepare it for use is to reinforce the milling of the boards where they show signs of loosening, and to provide it with hangers. The best manner of attaching the hangers is as shown In Fig. 7, which is a view of the box bottom. Strips A are several inches longer than the width of ths box, and are nailed on crosswise with tho bottom boards. w