Show handicraft A r R FOR R BOYS AND D GIRLS G I 1 13 by S A NEELY NE E LY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS PER KI NS by A neely hall FOR BACKYARD CAMPING wo we cannot all go cant camping lying in the woods but there la opportunity tor for ev cry one of y you pu boys to build a camp in the back yard or a nearby lot best 0 all the near to homo home camp requires reg ulrea no equipment other than bhea hat you can prepare with materials that hat can bo be picked up around home there Is the tepee shown in fig 1 for example made of 0 clothes poles polee clothes line and old pieces of cloth you can likely borrow tour four clothes votes for the purpose as aa you will in no way destroy them stand these poles on the ground with their lower ends spread pread five or six feet apart and ana their upper ends crossed as shown I 1 in pig fa 9 2 then taking pieces of cloth clothed as line ur any other heavy ropo rope tie them to the upper crossed ends of the poles and run them down and tie to staked driven into tile the ground halfway half halt way between the poles as shown in fig 2 figure 1 shows framework cov ered with odd sized pieces ceceil of cloth the torpedo sah shaped ed shelter tent shown in fig 3 Is a now new form that I 1 have devised for you boys four barrel hoops ana eight two foot stakes are needed for its framework and enough cloth to cover this open the barrel hoops where their ends ire are joined and nail each end ot of each hoop to one of the tha stakes then drive into the ground the other end of of f each achia M stake of the frames thus hii its A formed placing the brames frames to in line with one another and about eighteen inches apart the covering material must musi be made long enough to extend beyond the framework to it in the manner shown in fig 3 drive a stake slake 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 it if you make a fireplace like that shown in fig FI g 6 with earth banked up on each side elde to t keep the lire fire within a confined area dank bank up the tha earth in the form of 0 two ridges with four or five inchez between the ridges at one end and about twelve inches between at the ither end A coffee pot and other 0 n 19 small email utensils can be stood over the fire at the narrow end and larger aarif r receptacles at the wide end pots may be hung over the tha fire alic by fastening a wire vve above it in the manner shown and od bending pothooks pot hooks similar to that shown ln in fig C out of 0 wise by which ta aup feud thu the pota A DOLLS TEETER MERRY mehry GO 00 ROUND AND FERRIS WI WHEEL icel the teeter lector fig 1 requires a stick k 21 or 30 inches long and alid two inches wide for the teeter board boa rd A fig 2 two short sticks for supports 13 fig 1 a spool bearing for the top of each upright 0 and a berry box for or each end of the teeter board locate the center of tile the length of stick A upon each edge and the then n drive a nail into both edges at this th 8 point D fig 2 drive uprights D B into the ground three inches apart C A A D C C B then after slipping spools C over nails D bind them to tho the tops topa of uprights D B the form of merry go round shown in fig 6 Is sometimes called tho the flying airships the toy requires tour four sticks about 24 inches long for cross crosa arms arma A fig 6 a spool for a hub D B a stick 24 inches long for a center upright 0 four lerry berry boxes tor to cars and some strings and nails first bind a pair of the cross arm sticks A to the sides of the spool fig 6 placing the spool atthe at the exact center of the length of the sticks and wrapping the string tightly around the sticks so the spool cannot turn then cross these with the other pair and bind this second pair securely to the first as shown in fig 6 drive a nail into tho the end of each cross crosa arm then after driving the js J A 0 A C ill center criter stick 1 0 I several inches into the ground with pivot the t he spool hub bub to its top with a nail for the ferris fearls wheel shown in fig 7 you will need four sticks 30 inches long for cross arroa arms A two sticks slicks 24 inches long for supports 13 a pair of spools for bearings 0 four stick ten inches long for connecting braces brace D and four berry boxes cross the sticks A at their exact centers in pairs and drive a nal through the exact center as ohwn in fig 8 use a long enough nail so BO the point will project about one inch and one half as shown at E to keep tile the sticks at right angles bind their centers centera with string pas passed sed diagonally around them as shown in fig figa at on the face opposite to that on which nail E I 1 projects drive 2 inch nalls nails into the cross arms near their ends as shown in fig 8 on which to hang the cars A C D no law C D M W J then after driving thu the supports tt it into the around about ten inches api apart lirt bind the spool bearings C to their tops slip the nails 10 of tile crosa arms into spools C and brace the framework by binding the strips D to them a shown in fig 7 after tile the braces have been put on all that alna to complete the ferris wheel to la tl cutting of holes bolea though opposite tides eldes of the berry boxes large enough for the nails ithe ada ends of 0 cross croaa arras A to slip clip through |