Show J handicraft FOR BOYS AND GIRLS br S A NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS V A A by A neely FOR BACKYARD CAMPING we cannot all go camping in the woods but there la opportunity for every one of you boys to build a camp in the back yard or a nearby lot best of all the near to home camp requires no equipment other than what you can prepare with materials that can be picked up around home there la the tepee shown in fig 1 for example made of clothes polee clothes line and old pieces of cloth you can likely borrow four clothes poles for the purpose as you will in no way destroy them stand these poles on the ground with their lower ends spread fire or six feet apart and their upper ends crossed as shown in fig 2 then taking pieces of clothes line or any other heavy rope tie them to the upper crossed ends of the poles and run them down and tie to stakes driven into the ground halt way between the poles as shown in fig 2 ligure 1 shows the framework cov ered with odd sized pieces of cloth the torpedo shaped shelter tent shown in fig 3 Is a new form that 1 have devised for you boys four bar rel hoops and eight two foot stakes are needed for its framework and enough cloth to cover ahlo open the barrel hoops where their ends are joined and nail each end of each hoop to one ot the stakes then drive into the ground the other end of each stake of the frames thus formed placing the frames la line with one another and about eighteen inches apart the covering material must be made long enough to extend sufficiently beyond the framework to tt in the manner shown in hg 3 drive a stake into the ground about eighteen inches away from each end of the framework to fasten the covering to A small campfire lre can be built with safety in the back yard it you make a fireplace like that shown in fig 6 uh earth banked up on each eldo to keep the alre within a confined area bank up the earth in the form of two ridges with tour or five inches be tween the ridges at one end and about twelve inches between at the other end A coffee pot and other small utensils can be stood over the fire at the narrow end and larger re cepl acles at the wide end pots may be hung over the alre by fastening a wire above it in the manner shown anil bending pothooks pot hooks similar to that shown in kg 6 out of wire by which to suspend the pota A DOLLS TEETER MERRY AND FERRIS WHEEL the teeter fig 1 requires a stick 24 or 30 inches long and two inches wide for the teeter board A fig 2 two short sticks for supports D fig 1 a spool bearing or the top of each upright C and a berry box for each end of the teeter board locate the center of the length of stick A upon each edge and then drive a nail into both edges at this point D fig 2 drive uprights B into the ground three inches apart then after slipping spools C over nails D bind them to the tops of uprights B the form of merry go round shown in fig 6 Is sometimes called the fly ing airships the toy requires our sticks about 24 inches long or cross arms A fig 6 a spool for a hub B a stick 24 inches long or a cen ter upright C four jerry boxes or cars and some and nails first bind a pair of the cross arm sticks A to the sides of the spool ehg 6 placing the spool at the ex act center of the length of the sticks and wrapping the string tightly around the sticks so the spool cannot turn then cross these sticks with the oth er pair and bind this second pair securely to the first as shown in fig 6 drive a nail into the end of each cross arm then after driving the center stick C several inches into the ground pivot the spool hub to its top with a nail for the fearls wheel shown in fig 7 you will need four sticks 30 inches long for cross arms A two sticks 24 inches long for supports D a pair of spools for bearings C four sticks ten inches long for connecting braces D and tour berry boxes cross the sticks A at their exact centers in pairs and drive a nal through the exact center as chewn in rig 8 use a long enough nail so the point will project about one inch and one half as shown at B to beep the sticks at right angles bind their centers with string passed diagonally around them as shown in fig 7 on the face opposite to that on which nail B projects drive 2 inch nalla into the cross arms near their ends as shown in fig 8 on which to hang the care then after driving abu supports tinto the ground about ten inches apart bind the spool bearings C if their tops slip tho nala B of the cross arms into spools C and brace the framework by binding the strips D to them a shown in fig 7 after the braces have been put on ail that remains to complete the fearls wheel Is tl cutting of holes ti ough appo site sides ot the berr boxes large enough tor the nails the ends ot cross arms A to slip through |