Show LIKE BETSY ROSS girl of 1919 may easi easily ly construct her own starry flag 0 american flag Is one of tile easiest in the world to make since all of its parts lire 1 re in straight lines any who Is able to sew can snake nake a flag for about one half ot of what it will cost her at a store and still have a stronger and moro more durable one when she hos has it finished there are two principal ways of proceeding lit in the lic making of cf an american flag the one used by most persons persona Is to determine leri nine first the width of the stripes PCs so no that if the flag Is to bo be made of silk ribbon may bo be purchased of a standard width front from tills this the size of the flag may be determined the second method Is to decide either cither the width or the length of the flag and then compute the amount of material from the size decided upon let us its assume that we w wish w wa to make inake a hag flag from two inch silk ribbons since two inch ribbon Is a stand ard size and may be purchased ut at tiny any dry goods store since the stripes will b be two inches wide tho the width of the canton or the blue field will bo be seven even times two inches or 14 inches and its length will bo be the same since the canton of the american flag la Is square the canton Is also ow oie third of the length of the lite flag then afien tile flag will be throe three times 14 inches which equals 42 inches and the width being 13 times two indies inches or 26 inches thus to use two inch ribbon one will have a ling flag three and a halt balf feet long and a little more mora than two fleet feet wide material needed tile the next nest tiling thing Is to determine just how much two inch ribbon must be purchased so that tile stripes may be ninde with little or no waste there are three full white stripes in the com complete length of tit alie flag which equals inches and added to that will he be the three short stripes two thirds the length of the flag or 84 indies inches making a total of inches or about six yards for the I 1 red stripes it Is necessary sary to add on one a extra short red ml folpe of 14 inches which Is about half of a yard thus for a flag made with two inch ribbon it will be necessary for the maker to purchase six yards of white and six and is halt yards of red ribbon the ca canton oton will be seven indies inches square and the stars may he be made from mailer widths of ribbon there must ho be 48 stars arranged in six rows of right fight stars each by using a ruler tie exact position of the stars may tie lie determined and they can be easily cut it if a paper pattern Is made be forehA riLl jy jav the second method oj one determines tile length of flag for example make the flag fing 21 inches long by ap lulng plying the same process of computation backwards the size of the canton will be seven inches square and the hie width of stripes one inch the amount of material may bo be determined ter mined by the same calculations used in the first method the origin of the flug flag with the 13 alternate red and white stripes representing the united colonies in ic a blue canton which was raised on prospect hill cambridge on the first day of january 1770 has haa never beai 1 jeeda satisfactorily determined it Is commonly thought that the continental congress appointed george washington george ross and robert morris a committee authorized to design a suitable Bul table flag for the nation and that they called upon sirs mrs ross who was conducting an upholstery business on arch street in philadelphia the con Hr tir matlon mation of this report Is not to he be found la in the journal of congress there seems to be little doubt that the lie american flog flag Is a growth rather than a creation few of the writers have declared that both the stars and the stripes were derived from the coat of arms of family which contains both devices but beyond that coincident no other evidence has been produced to prove this made official emblem on june 14 1777 the american congress gre ss in session at philadelphia adopted the following resolution resolved that the flag of the 13 united states be 13 stripes alternate alte mate red and white that tile the union be 13 stars white in a blue field representing a now new constellation the credit of making the first flag Is 19 given to betsy ross william J canby a grandson of mrs ross declared c that betsy ross rosa was shown a rough drawing of the flag which was explained by general washington site she objected to the six sir pointed stars and suggested that they be five pointed general washington Is supposed to have redrawn the sketch changing tho the stars to five points at first washington ing ton declared that flye pointed start stan would be hard to make but mrs rost post 11 demonstrated that by one clip of hot her 1114 scissors sors s alio lie was able to make a per feet five point star lit in 1012 the united states congress admitted arizona and new mexico into the union and the stars then numbered 18 48 the law did not provide how the stars were to be arranged and for a long time a considerable diversity dinow existed in this respect however eve r on october 29 of that year I 1 the he proportion prop was definitely fixed fired and the manner in which the stars were to tie ile placed was determined since that mat time the some same rule has hild held good that of six rows of eight stars each |