Show 1 L for 0 o flanda a BOUs and girls to lo bilake and do Copy copyright risU by A niely hall HOMEMADE HOME MADE BIRO BIRD HOUSES by A NEELY HALL A bird house need not be elaborately constructed the cube shaped house in mg fig I 1 may te be hung upon a wall that to la why a pair of screw eyes are screwed into the top see illustration A box measuring eight inches in width depth and length Is plenty large enough cut a hole one inch in diameter in one side of the box near the top for a doorway it you a bit and bitstock with which to bore the hole you can make a small email hole with a nail or screw eye and then enlarge it to the tight right size with a sharp knife or small email compass saw make tho the perch below tho the opening triangular in shape and fasten it to the box with short nails for the root roof cut a piece of board of the tha right measure mants to make a projection of about ata ai inch over the front and sides the two compartment hou house be in a fig 2 Is made of a box about 12 inches long 8 inches wide and 6 inches doe deep P 3 2 the box Is divided in the center of its length by a partition and a doorway la Is cut through one side ot of the box into each of the two compart com parti ments thus formed fig 3 fasten a stick parallel with both long sides eldes of the box tor for perches supporting up porting the ends upon a pair of ticks sticks nailed to the ends of tho the box in tho the manner shown in fig 3 figure 2 shows how bow the box may be fastened to tho the top of a post support nail a pair of cross pieces to the bottom ot of the box at a distance apart equal to the width of the post and drive nalla nails through the sides of the cross croas pieces into the post then as it a braco brace to these cross pieces nail another pair ot of cross crosa pieces to the opposite sides eldea of the post so BO their ends will come directly under the ends of the first pair the bird ark in fig 4 Is made of a box divided through the center in the same way as the house just described was waa divided hut but instead of tatting the doorways through the olde aid make one through each end near the corner fig 6 when the he box Is turned on edge edga in tho the position shown in frs fa 4 the tha openings will come coma directly below the peak ot of he be roof fasten a imort peg into a lole lola below each doorty for perches pere hea THINGS TO MAKE PAPER ROPE by DOROTHY PERKINS there Is ie a brand now new idea tor for malling pretty baskets trays and boxes and I 1 am going to tell you all about it because the work Is very easy to do and you will find it a great deal ot of fun all that you need are some cardboard boxes for the foundations of the kati cles crepe paper out of which to twist rope strands for covering material glue and some light wire tor for handles open the roll of crepe paper and cut tho the ea entaro tire length into eight strips of 0 equal width that will malio make strips about two and a halt half inches wide to jo ll 11 3 prepare tho the ropo rope ot strands rands first take a 4 single strip pinch ono one end in a door jamb and make a loop in the opposite end through which to slip a pencil then twist the pencil from right to left as indicated in fig 1 pulling firmly as you twist to make the twists even and tight when the strip has been tightly twisted from end to end remove it from the tha door and twist a second strip in id a like manner then placing an end of each ot 0 the two twisted strips together pinch them in the door jamb slip a pencil in loops made in the opposite ends and twist ane two strands together twisting 4 from left to right as indicated la in 1192 the cover to a large sized cardboard box one having a narrow rim is needed tor for the serving tray shown in fig 4 it requires a pair ot handles and these are made of pieces ot of light wire bent into loops with the ends pierced through tho the ends ot of the rim of the box cover bent over and twisted as shown in fig 6 with the handles bandies in place wrap them with a piece of crepe paper an and d then with tho the paper rope lap and paste a strip of crepe I 1 paper over the edge of the box to c con on coat acal it then coat tho the outside of the rim with glue and starting at the bottom wrap a strand of the paper rope around and around the box pushing each row of the rope close against them the preceding row fig 3 when the top of the rim has bai been reached coat the inside surface of the rim with glue run the rope over the rim and wind it around the inside then coat the inside of the hot bot torn m with glue and wind the strand of rope around and around working in 7 from the outside rim until the tho center conter as la reached cover the outside ol of tho the bottum bottom in the same way wal and the tray will be select a small square cardboard box tor for die little basket shown in fig 7 then first of all make its long ions handle out of a piece of wire stick the ends of the wiro loop through the bottom of the box in opposite corners bew benl up over the outside of nf the and twist as shown IL li fis L |