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Show ...... ivaVAWAW HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS ANDG jj A. NEELY HALL andDOROTHY PE S (Copyright, by A. Neety Hail.) A HOMEMADE WRITING DESK, j A boy usually has more papers, cata- j logues and other "valuables" to tako care of than correspondence; there- fore, in planning the homemake desk shown in Fig. 1 I have made a special feature of storage space. Two grocery boxes of identical shape and size must be secured for the desk. Your grocer will likely give them to you. One box forms the desk portion, the other the safe. Before fastening the two boxes together it is best to finish them. Make the desk pigeonholes pigeon-holes of thin box boards, cutting them to fit as shown in Fig. 1. The box-cover boards should be battened bat-tened together with cross strips placed near their ends, on the inside face, as shown in Fig. 2; then this battened cover should be hinged to the desk box with a pair of two-lncfe hinges placed as shown In Figs. 1 end 2, to form the drop-leaf of the desk. Screw a screw-eye into the outer end of the battens, and another into the under-Bide under-Bide of the top of the box, In line with each of these, and connect the screw-eyes screw-eyes with brass, chain or heavy cord so the drop-leaf will not drop below the proper level. Figures 1 and 3 show a simple catch for holding the drop-leaf closed. Make a short latch with a notch and bevel cut on one end, and a hole bored through It near the other end, like that shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and pivot this with a screw to a block B. Then nail B to the top of the box in the right position so when the drop-leaf drop-leaf is closed the catch will drop over its top edge as shown in Fig. 3. The dotted lines in Fig. 3 indicate how the drop-leaf will strike and lift the catch in closing. To complete the bottom safe, it Is only necessary to nail a hinge-strip ' across the top along the rear edge (C, Fig 5), and another strip to each end edge (D, Fig. 5). Then batten the cover boards together as you did those of the drop-leaf, but on the under un-der side, and hinge to the hinge-strip with a pair of two-inch binges. Strips D are provided to shorten the cover boards so they will not strike the end uprights of the desk when the cover is opened. Castors are not necessary, but Inasmuch In-asmuch as the desk will be heavy when filled, they will make It easier to move. Two blocks (E, Fig 6) must be nailed across the bottom box to fasten the castors to. Figure 6 shows how the two boxes are connected with four corner uprights. up-rights. Cut these one inch thick, three inches wide and four feet long and nail or screw tl. ?m to the bo. ends. Fasten the lower ends of the Uprights even with the castor blocks E, and the upper ends so they will extend ex-tend six inches above the top. of the desk Two coats of paint will add the finishing touches to the desk. Putty all cracks and nail-holes. A JAPANESE GARDEN. Do you own a Japanese garden? If no you should get one right away because be-cause it is the latest fad to have one. .First of all, you will nee d a shallow b'aking pan in which to P ant tae garden. gar-den. This may be round or w-are. For soil you must have sand and . you must also have some coarse pebbles oj pieces of broken stone. This can had for the asking some place where a building Is in course of construction Half a panful of sand and several handfuls of pebbles will be enough In addition, you must buy some birrj seed or Japanese grass seed to plant in the soil. The rest of the garden material can be picked up at home. There are any number o' arrange-ments arrange-ments for the garden that can be worked out, and you can replant your garden from time to time, to make it different. Fig. 1 shows a good plan to follow for your first one. Pile up the sand around the siles of the pan. forming hills and holiaws, and leave an irregular-shaped space in the cen- ter, and extending over to one side of the pan, for a pond. Make a shore line of pebbles around the pond, and scatter scat-ter other pebbles here and there over the sand. One of the hills must be selected aa a site for a little Japanese house. TbU house may be made of cardboard. Fig. 2 shows patterns for the walls'.' The dotted Jlnes indicate where the pieces are to be folded. The strips outside of the dotted lines are to be turned In and pasted to adjoining surfaces, sur-faces, In fastening the walls, foundation founda-tion and roof together. Fasten the walls upon a cardboard foundation (Fig. 1), and glue another piece to their tops for the roof. A high arched bridge must be built over a narrow portion of the pond, eJt -shqwjijnjrigj Make this, of a piece of a peach-basket handle (Fig. 3), with a cardboard railing (Fig. 4) tacked to each edge. The arch of the j ESQ EjBj&M Ly -a ij y pHni Iiai i I handle will determine the curve of the railings. The pair of lamps et each end of the bridge (Figs. 1 and 5) have four sides and a bottom, cut in one piece like the pattern shown in Fig. 6. Cut an opening open-ing in each side as indicated, and punch a hole through the bottom for the supporting post to fit in. Fold on the dotted lines, and paste the turned-in turned-in edges together. There must be a bird house similar to that shown in Fig. l. Cut and fold the sides in the same manner that you did those of the lamps. Make the roof of a square of paper (Fig. 7), fold from corner to corner as indicated by dotted lines, and pinch up the corners as in Fig. 8. There must be a number of ducks in the pond, and these arrsily made as shown in Fig. 9. Theliodies are halves of corks (Fig. 10l and the necks and heads are made of card- : J j board and fastened in ,, j round side of the halved' la th9 With these suggestion. t ,' how easily a garden is IX use your own ideas for l' ou caa garden accessor. - dtU8l06 r |
