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Show S HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS j 5 By ;I 5 A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS WAV.mW.WAV.VAWV.V.W.V.V,W.VMi,.W (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.) FOR BACK-YARD CAMPING. We cannot all go camping in the woods, but there is opportunity for every ev-ery 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 is 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 five or six feet apart, and their upper ends crossed as shown in Fig. 2. Then, taking pieces of clothes & U Li iPaS?T e 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 half-way between the poles, as shown in Fig. 2 Figure 1 shows the framework cov ered with odd-sized pieces of cloth. The torpedo-shaped shelter tent shewn in Fig. 3 is a new form that I have devised for you boys. Four barrel bar-rel hoops and eight two-foot stakes are needed for its framework, and enough cloth to cover this. , Open the barrel hoops where their ends are joined, and nail each end of i each hoop to one of the stakes. Then drive into the ground the other end of each stake of the frames thus i : i jpr'i xxit-"4 1 formed, placing the frames in line " with one another and about eighteen f inches apart. The covering material 1 must be made long enough to extend 5 sufficiently beyond the framework tc inclose it in the manner shown ir i Fig. 3.' Drive a stake into the ground r about eighteen inches away from eact end of the framework, to fasten the 1 covering to. 5 A small campflre can be built wltt 1 safety in the back yard if you make a fireplace like that shown in Fig. 5 !" with earth banked up on each side tc " keep the fire within a confined area B Bank up the earth in the form of twe e ridges, with four or five inches be tween the ridges at one end, anc 3 about twelve inches between at the '" other end. A coffee pot and othei i- ? O ' " ' 5 . L small utensils can be stood over the i fire at the narrow end, and larger re g ceptacles at the wide end Pots ma: t be hung over the fire by fastening i n wire above it in the manner shown X and bending pothooks similar to tha l- shown in Fig 6. out of wire, by whicl to suspend the pots. A DOLL'S TEETER, MERRY-GO-ROUND 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 (B, Fig. 1), a spool bearing for 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 up-rights B. The form of merry-go-round shown in Fig. 5 is sometimes called the "flying "fly-ing airships." The toy requires four sticks about 24 inches long for cross arms (A, Fig. 5), a spool for a hub (B), a stick 24 inches long for a center cen-ter upright (C), four jerry boxes for 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 at the exact 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 stick with the other oth-er pair, and bind this second pair securely se-curely to the first, as shown in Fig. 5. 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 Ferris wheel shown in Fig. 7 you will need four sticks 30 inches long for cross arms (A), two sticks 24 inches long for supports (B), a pair of spools for bearings (C), four sticks ten inches long for connecting braceB (D) and four berry boxes. ! Cross the sticks A at their exact ' centers, in pairs, and drive a na'l through the exact center, as sh-nvn in Fig. 8. Use a long enough nail so ' the pcint will project about one inch ' and one half, as shown at E. To keep ' 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 ' E projects, drive 2-inch nails into the ' cross arms near their ends, as shown ' in Fig. 8, on which to hang the cars ) Then, alter driving tne supports I into the jround about ten Inches apart, bind the spool bearings C te their tops, slip tho na!ls E of the cross arms into spools C, and brace i the framework by binding the strip: D to them a shown In Fig. 7. Aftel 1 the braces have been put on, all thai 1 remains to complete the Ferris whee is t. cutting of holes tVough oppo 1 site sides of the berry boxes, large 1 enough for the nails the ends o cross arms A lo slip thiough. |