Show handicraft FOR BOYS AND GIRLS by A NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS copyright by A meely hall A SNOWBALL MORTAR A snowball enow ball mortar Is a novelty that will add a great d deal at at 0 sport port to st a snow battle and the 1 fact t that the ono one shown in rig 1 la a modified form of it t the he ancient wan war agle engine known as an a titillate used it baor before the invention of son gun powder and fl firearms arms for aming heavy sconce makes it all th the more ore interesting to make and ad 1 use I our al modern alder der war a engine or abow W ball mortar a aa we w call it Is mount ed u upon pan a pair of runners runner just ilk like a I 1 sled bled 1 la built BO a it may be drawn over the ground q quickly u bickly one or two mor met tars may be entre entrenched ched in a snow tort fort tor for the use of the defenders and others other may be used by the li attacking tacking party to batter away the walls of the tort fort with practice you can become expert in handling a snowball mortar end and you will declare this met method had of at hu hurling ra in g a snow balls I 1 far more fun a the than that 0 of f t throwing g by hand band the runners ck A fig 2 are am ins made ad of 9 by 4 inch material a about ban t 4 to feet et I 1 in length their bow ends are curved like sled filed runners to make them the run on over liver the tha ground mally easy cut the uprights B fig 2 out of 2 by 4 inch me ma ferial making them about 24 inches I 1 long and nail them to the sides of the rang runners 1 16 binch inches from 11 the bow ends as shown I 1 in fig 2 nall them secure ly because the connet connections ions will be placed under der a considerable strain ag 1 D fj 12 when hwi the mortar art 1 Is fired th the board C fig 2 fastens to the top edges of the runners and holds them at the proper dib distance bance apart it should measure about 12 inches wide and ad should extend from the rear ends of if the runners close up to the upright pieces B the top beam D fim figs 8 and 4 should measure abbat 6 feet long and 4 or 5 inches alue A board I 1 inch thick will be better than a heavier piece because it ft will be springy and sill nill thus increase the throwing power of the mortar pivot top beam D between uprights B at a point about 30 1 inches che from one ildr end F fig 3 to pivot it drive a long 1009 tell nail through each upright B into the edge of the board it is necessary to place the nails all a I 1 exactly fly tho the same lans abik D na 4 1 l height heigh t and to drive them t h a to straight freight in 1 order to have the beam swing living perfect ly IY by careful work you ym all have no difficulty in 1 pivoting pt voil a S the beam b the handle bar F figa fig 3 and 4 2 line hould d be a piece of 2 bya inch me ma tonal tenal about 30 liable inches long the illus him gratum trat tous show be the ends of this shaped round to make them may easy to sleep grasp the pomet pocket tor for snow enow balls to is made out of a tin can a A tomato mata can will do F fasten ats it olica to the long as end ml ol of the top boom beam with several eve cat polls naila driven drive through the aln be bottom t los I 1 figure ore I 1 low t the posit position lan of the tha mortar when ass ready for loading with B iame b 11 and fig 4 shows show how by banging br nging the band handlebar lebar forcibly fast runners A the snow ball to is hurled forth fr from ita it pocket HOW TO COPY PICTURES fly by means mean of the gla glass fleetin tin g fr frame all shown 1 in 1 fig I I 1 it Is possible to make im an exact dr drawing alsing of any picture that you may wish a copy of and this apparatus ay la it y mado ad all that you need tor for the cars construe con I 1 me tion tion are two boards board A and ad B two a saple es C and D and a small frame with the ill glass fast fastened it securely in place CE E figs 2 and ad 3 almost any small email sized picture dictum frame will 11 t do though one that has bag an opening pa about eight inches wide and ten inches long la is of the best beat size it if you can get it the boards A and 13 should be about an one inch bach longer loge the than tho the picture from frame and they should be square or nearly square place the pieces upon the tha pair of cross crosspieces pieces C I 1 and ad D with the edge of the picture frame slipped lipped between them its a shown he and it nail it them to the cross crose P pieces bee T to make a copy of a picture placa pines it upon the left hand band sioe side of if the frame and a plot piece of drawing paper on tile the right band side then am ding so BO that you can look into t the b e left hand C D side bide of the glass of the frame you yen will see the reflection of the picture to be copied wp in the glass glas and the piece pi I 1 on ot it drawing draw mi paper pap r on t the other at her side aide of the frame will be seen as a backer background it to ill the of the picture keeping the same position it will be but a simple matter after to draw out on ill the piece of drawing paper each if line am that you see retorted reflected in the glass A very simple and exact method of making a larger or smaller drawing of a picture 1 la that known knon as colors its ing and reducing by squares W we will suppose that the picture of the rose in fig 4 Is to be ba enlarged twice each way as shown how in fig 9 5 with a ruler later and it pencil measure off ild a series 4 H 2 I 1 3 4 5 I 1 J 7 0 5 of points access the top of the tha pic ture lure and another series along one side aide spacing swe ng them exactly one halt h a it inch apart ihen rule ri if lines I 1 from I 1 the t he top to the bottom be flow of the picture and from side to bluds starting each line from one of the points when the picture has baa been squared off in th this he way say mark off a similar series of at points point along tb top and down don one side of a abe of drawing paper but instead of ore orelia halt lf inch space apace them one me inch abart art fig 6 5 then rule lines line up aid it doe donn and ad from fr in side to hide aide 1 in the earns way thit int you did across I 1 the original drawing utter letter the end ends of I 1 the be up and down lines and number the ends of the cross lines linea so BO it will be easy to locate correspond ing squares on both uie the small and large larf iran ices k |