Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1915 — HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS

(Copyright, by A. Neely Halt.)

FOR BACK-YARD CAMPING. We cannot all go camping In the woods, bat there is opportunity for every one of you boys to build a camp In the back yard or a nearby lot. Best of all, the near-to-home camp requires no equipment other than what you can prepare with materials that can be picked up around home. There ia the tepee shown in Fig. 1. for example, made of clothes poles, clothes line and old pieces of cloth. You can likely borrow four clothes poles fbr the purpose, as you will in no way destroy them. Stand these poles on the ground with their lower ends spread five or six feet apart, and their upper ends crossed as shown in Fig. 2. Then, taking pieces of clothee

line, or any other heavy rope, tie them to the upper crossed ends of the poles, and run them down and tie to stakes driven into the ground half-way between the poles, as shown in Fig. 2. Figure 1 shows the framework cov ered with odd-sixed pieces of cloth. The torpedo-shaped shelter tent shown in Fig. 3 is a new form that I have devised for you boys. Four barrel hoops and eight two-foot stakes are needed for its framework, and enough cloth to cover this. Open the barrel hoops where their ends are Joined, and nail each end of each hoop to one of the stakes. Then drive into the ground the other end of each stake of the frames thus

formed, placing the frames in line with one another and about eighteen inches apart. The covering material must be made long enough to extend sufficiently beyond the framework to inclose It in the manner shown in Fig. 3. Drive a stake into the ground about eighteen inches away from each end of the framework, to fasten the covering to. A small campfire can be built with safety in the back yard if you make a fireplace like that shown in Fig. 6, with earth banked up on each eide to keep the fire within a confined area. Bank up the earth in the form of two ridges, with four or five inches between the ridges at one end, and about twelve inches between at the other end. A coffee pot and other

•mall utensils can be stood over the ■lire dt the narrow end, and larger receptacles at the wide end. Pots may he hang over the lire by fastening a wire above it in the manner shown, and bending pothooks similar to that ahown in Pig. 6, out of wire, by which jto suspend the pots.