Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 January 1916 — HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS

(Copyright. by A. Neely Halt)

WINTER WINDOW REFRIGERATORS. A window refrigerator la one of the many conveniences which a boy can make for his mother, it may be a •mall affair like that shown In Fig. 1, to hold milk and cream bottles and a butter jar, or it may be built large like the one in Fig. 2. with shelf-room enough for*meats and other foods. A grocery box will do for the small refrigerator. There is little work to the making of this. Nail a narrow strip across the top near one edge, to hinge the cover to, and fasten together the cover boards with wooden strips screwed across them as 4n the illustration. After hinging the cover in place screw an iron hinge-hasp to

it and an iron staple to the front of the box for it to hook on to: also fasten a piece of chain or heavy cord to nails driven into the box end and into the edge of the cover, to keep the cover from dropping back too far when opened. i Fasten the refrigerator box upon the window sill, close to the window sash. Then, with the cover hasped, the box will be tramp-proof, because while the window is closed there will not be room enough between the box and the glass to raise the iron hasp. For the larger refrigerator shown in Tig. 2. get a grocery boi "ffiSF will

extend across the entire width of the window in which the refrigerator is to be placed, or take a longer box and cut it down to fit. Place this box upon its side (Fig. 3), cut two triangular pieces of equal size, and fasten one st each end of the box, as shown at A (Fig. 4). The front edge of these pieces should be six or eight inches high and the rear edge about two inches high. After nailing the pieces in place fasten a strip B between the rear ends. Cut boards of the right length and width to roof over the top, and nail them to the tops of pieces A and B, then cut two boards C (Fig. 2) to fit the open front of the refrigerator, and after fastening them in the positions shown, cut a strip D to fit between them. By making the pieces C wide enough, you can probably:-* find two

boards of the right width for doors. Hinge them to boards C as shown. The simple lock in the illustration is easily made. Cut bar E as long as the width of one door, and screw it at one end to the center of one door; then screw two screw-hooks into the other door, with the hook ends turned up for the bar to drop onto. Sctew a sereweye or screw-hook Into each end of the refrigerator box, twist a piece of wire ground it, and fasten the other end of the wire to a boon, or eyescrewed into the window frame, a i « Bore a hole through each end of the hoi into for ventiJfttiOD ** •' •

THREE HOMEMADE GAMES. If you have never played the game of fish-pond (Fig. 1) you have missed a great deal of fun. Get a cardboard bpx for the pondand cut down its depth to 1 inch (Fig. 2). Then cut rows of slots through the cover, as shown, for the fish to stick into. Draw the outline of a fish upon a piece of cardboard, as shown in Fig. 3. Make it two inches long. Then cut it out, and use it as a pattern for marking out one fish for every slot in the pond. Punch a small hole through the head of each fish, to provide for hooking it. Number the fish 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25. Each player must have a stick for a fishing pole, with a short piece of

string attached to the end for a line, and a bent pin tied to the end of the line for a hook. In fishing, the line must be lowered and the fish hooked out of the pond without allowing the hook to strike any part of the fish, h the hook strikes, the turn passes to the next—ptayer The—points scored are determined by the numbers upon the fish. The solitaire'board (Fig. 4) should be eight inches square. Divide the edges of this into eight equal parts, and with *uler and pencil draw lines across from *»de to side, connecting

the points of division (Fig. 5). Then with a large nail and a hammer (or, better still, with a gimlet, if there is one in the house), make holes at txe Intersections of the lines indicated in Fig. 5. When thb holes have been made, cut enough wooden pegs to fit all but one. The game is played by one person. The pegs are stuck in all but the center hole, and the game is started with a peg second from the hole, Jumping it over the peg between it arid the hole, into the holo. The peg jumped over is removed. Then, one by one. the pegs are jumped over and removed. The object of the game is to

Jump the pegs in such an order that,; Anally, all but one will have been removed. ■ Fig. 6 shows a quickly made set of - for the bases should alf be of an equal size. Arrange the .ten pins upon the door - in the positions‘shown In Pig. 6,and . use three rubberballs with whicit to. bowl them over. Each player in her turn should roll the three balls Che pins One point 1» scored tor cachpiobowledovar.