Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1916 — HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS

By A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS

(Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)

A HOME-MADE CHEBT-WEIGHT. The objection to the common form of chest-weight exerciser because it cannot be fastened to a wall without marring the plaster, is eliminated iu the set shown below by reason of

its being attached to the edge or a door. -r —The cross board And - which the pulleys are attached (Fig. 1), should be prepared first. Cut this about 5 inches wide and 18 inches long. Get a pair of clothes-line pulleys, not screwpulleys, but the kind with “eyes” that fasten with staples. Attach these pulleys to the cross board one inch from the ends and the same distance down from the top edge. Fasten a pair of strips 8 inches long to the back of board A (B, Fig. 2), placing them in the center of the length of the board, one inch above what will be the lower edge of the board, and spacing them two inches apart, nr just far enough to allow the door to slip .between. Strips B are provided to rest upon the door knobs for support of the cross board. Fasten

them with nails driven through board A into their ends. Drive a nail Into each of the strips near the outer ends (C, Fig. 2), and tie the end of a sixfoot length of clothes line to one of these nails (Fig. 1). To attach the cheat weight to • a door, it is necessary to rest the bottom edge of board A upon the door latch, and strips B upon the door knobs, then run the rope attached to one of the nails C around the face of the door, around the hinged edge, beneath the lower hinge, back to the second nail, and then tie securely to the nail. To prevent board A from scratching the edge of the door, tack a piece of heavy cloth over the back. The weights are made of tin cams filled with sand or earth, preferably

sand. Sirup cans with covers that fit down into the tops are the best kind to use. Pierce two boles through each can. locating them directly opposite one another, and near the top, and run through them a wire long enough to extend up over the top and be bent Into a loop <Fi«*. 8 and 4). The handles (or the chest-weights ere made from a pair of pa:kage-car-rying handles (Fig. S)> with _tbe hooked wires removed, and V-shaped nrtre loops inserted in their stead ,

FOR A SAINT VALENTINE’B DAY PARTY. Ask each one invited to your St. Valentine’s day party to bring a valentine for sending through Cupid’s post office. The names of the boys and girls must be, placed upon the back of their* valentines, and the valentines dropped into Cupid’s mail box immofUnieiy upon—entering your home. Cupid's mail box is easily constructed out' of a cardboard box. Cut a piece from the cover equal to onethird of its length, and with a strip of cloth hinge together the two parts (A and B, Fig. 2), and sew the rim of part B to the sides of the box.

Part A is hinged to provide for the removal of mail. In the end of the Box at C. cut a slot for the letterdrop. The arched top of the box is made by fastening the pieces of cardboard D (Figs. 2 and 3) to each end of the box, and then attaching a bent piece of cardboard to the tops of these. Slash the curved edge of pieces D, and turn them down for flaps to glue the curved piece E to. Have your little brother or some small boy friend play the part of Dan Cupid’s postman (Fig. 6). A schoolbag for a mail sack, a pair of cardboard wings (Fig. 6), a cardboard bow

and arrow (Fig. 7), and a postman’s cap (Fig. 8) are needed. Make the cardboard band A of the cap to fit the boy’s head, and cut tabß on the edge of the top piece B to turn down and glue to the inside of the band. Also cut tabs on the upper edge of vizor C, and glue them to the inside edge of band A. Make the heart D of red paper, letter “Cupid’s Mail” upon it, and glue It to band A. The postman should collect the mail previous to the serving of refreshments, and sort it over, placing in one pile the valentines posted by girls, and in another pile those posted by boys. Then taking the girls’ valentines in his bag, he should distribute them among the boys. Each boy’s supper partner will be the girl whose name is written upon his valen-

tins. When the partners have been selected in this way, the postman should deliver the boys’ valentines to the girl partners of the beys whose names are written upon the backs. , A hearrhunt is a jolly game for beginning the fun,# the valentine party. There should be large hearts, small hearts, half hearts and quarter hearts, and these should be concealed in every accessible biding place, prior to the guests' arrival. Count cne point for each" heart Tecovered. Make heart-shaped candy boxes like that shown in Fig. 9 for each place at the supper table. Cut the top and bottom out of heavy red paper, making them heart shaped by a pattern folded and cut as Indicated in Fig. 10. Cut little tabs upon the edge of the bt‘.tom piece (Fig 11). bend up these tabs, and paste a strip of paper to them to form the sides of the box (Fig. 12).