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Show S HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS j 5 By 5 5 A. NEELY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall ) TOY WINDMILLS. The simplest windmill to make, and 3ne of the best whirlers ever devised, Is the common paper pinwheel mounted upon a stick (Fig. 1). A piece of paper 8 or 10 Inches square is needed for the pinwheel. Fold this piece of paper diagonally from corner to corner, both ways. Then open the paper, and with a pair of scissors cut along the diagonal creases from the corners to within 1 Inch of the center (Fig. 2). Then one by one fold corners A, B, C and D over to the center, as shown in Fig. 3, and run aspin through the corners and through the center of the sheet. The windmill in Fig. 4 may be made of cardboard or tin. A circular piece 10 or 12 inches in diameter is required. re-quired. After marking out the outer edge with a compass, describe an inner in-ner circle about 1 inch Inside of it; then draw two lines through the center cen-ter at right angles to each other, and another pair at an angle of 45 degrees to these. The four lines are indicated by heavy lines In Fig. 5. One-half inch to one side of these lines draw a parallel line, as Indicated by dotted lines In Fig. 5. The next thing to do : p ; , III . -i j Is to cut out the disk, and cut through on the heavy lines just as far as the lines are shown on the diagram (Fig. 3 5), and then to lold on the other, or r dotted lines. The hub for the windmill shown in Fig. 6 is a block of wood 4 inches in j diameter and one nch thick (Fig. 7). j Draw two lines across one face, a through the center, and at right an-.. an-.. gles to each other. Then carry these a lines across the edge of the block, not a at right angles to the sides, but at an angle of 45 degrees. Saw along s these lines to a depth of 1 Inches. The ends of the windmill blades are to fit in these slots. Cut the blades v of equal size, 9 inches long, 5 inches o 7 g j s e wide on the wide edge, and lMi Inchei wide on the narrow edge, and fastei j them In the slots with nails. The hul j, block, with the blades in position n should next be pivoted to the end o d the windmill shaft, a stick 16 inchei L. long (Fig. 6). The end opposite t( e that to which the hub is pivoted Ii whittled round, and slotted with a sav to raceivs a tail (Fig. 8). HOMEMADE SCRAPBOOKS. The covers of your scrapbook may be of cardboard from drygoods boxes. If you haven't any boxes at home you can get them for the asking at a dry-goods dry-goods store. The scrapbook leaves should be of manilla wrapping paper. Any merchant will sell you what you need at a trifle more than it costs him. The size of your scrapbook pages should be regulated by the size of the sheets of wrapping paper, so the paper may be cut with little or no waste. The way to prepare the front cover of the scrapbook in Fig. 4 is shown in Fig. 2. Cut a strip 1 inch wide from the binding edge of this cover, and then with a piece of drilling about 3 inches wide hinge the strip to the edge you cut it from. Coat the piece of drilling with glue and fold it over the Btrip so its edges will lap over both the upper and lower surfaces of the cover. Punch three holes through the back cover and the hinged strip of the front COVEg-. cover, one near each end and one through the center. If you haven't a punch for punching the leaves of the scrapbook use the point of a nail. Figure 3 shows how to index the pages with tabs lapped and pasted to both sides of the sheet, and Fig. 4 suggests an arrangement of scraps. When an article occupies both sides of a clipping paste it along one margin as shown. Lace together the covers und leaves with a shoelace. Pass the lace down through the center holes, along the outside of the back cover to one end, up through the holes at that end, along the front cover to the holes at the other end, down through these holes, along the back cover t3 the cen ter holes, up through them, and then tie the ends in a bowknot. By covering the front and back cov ers with denim, canvas or cambric lapping and sewing the cloth to botl .sides of the front cover (Fig. 5), anc providing flaps upon the piece fas tened to the back cover (Fig. 6), I more attractive scrapbook will be ob tained. and the leaves will be pro tected by the flaps. Figure 7 shows a scrapbook madi like a letter-file. Get a cardboard bo: about 10 inches wide. 12 inches loni and 3 inches deep, separate one lonj side from the corners, and with i strip ol linen hinge it to open a i shown in Fig. 8. Then cut a stri i about 1 inch wide from one long edg' of the cover, and hinge It back ti , place with a linen strip (Fig. 9). Plan f the cover upon the box and sew th' i turned down side edge and ends o j the hinged strip to the box. The serai i book -will then be ready for its paget i which may be prepared as shown li Fin. 3 and 4. |