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Show WINDMILL OF STRAWS. This Is a protty though frngllo toy, and tbo making of It will bo both interesting in-teresting nnd easy, unless you havo "clumsy" lingers. If you have, it will bo n good exercise for tho purposo of making them lens clumsy. Tho whole machine Is mado entirely of straw there isn't oven a drop of gluo or wax to hold It together. You must havo good, sound ryo straw, un-throshod, un-throshod, or at least unbroken. Tho whoel Is mado of two three-inch pieces of coarso straw. Slit oach piece for rathor moro than half Its longth Into olthor throo or four strips and bond those strips out until they by two short and smaller straws Inserted In-serted noar tholr ends In the same way. This makes an oblong frame. Or tho frame may be made of a single very long straw bent Into a narrow triangle with tho small end stuck Into a silt near tho big end. In either case another crosspiece must be pul In near the windmill and a long straw passed through silts in tho crosspiece and tho ond ot tho frame. This long straw Is to blow through. It must bo in lino with the windmill and Its top must be bent upward slightly and very carofully. Now, If you bold the Construction and Working of Straw Windmill. nro nearly perpendicular to the rest of tho Btraw, thus making a three or four-spoked whoel attached to n short tube. If theho tubes are thon Bllpped ovor n smaller traw, with tho spokes facing fac-ing oach other nnd interlocking, thoy will hold together well enough to form a windmill with six or eight vanos, turning easily on Its straw nxlo. Tho ends of this axle nro Inserted In-serted Into sltta mado very carefully In tho mlddlo of two long coarse straws, which are fastened togothor apparatus by the blowing tube and tho opposlto end of tho framo, and blow through tho tube, tho windmill will turn merrily, to tbo great delight of tho youngsters nnd to your own ratlsfaction at having been dexterous enough to mnke n real moving nnd fairly strong machine entlroly out of such unlikely material as a fow straws. Of course you may1 fasten the straws together with wax Instead of slitting thom, but Anybody can do that |