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Show j HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS AND GIRLS A. NESLY HALL and DOROTHY PERKINS (Copyright, by A. Neely HaJL) A GARDEN WHEELBARROW. The home-made wheelbarrow in Fig. 1 is similar to one I have used for aoveral years in my own garden, and Ih bo simple In construction that any Ijoy can make one like it. Fig. 2 shows the complete framework. frame-work. Handle-bars A are pieces of 2x2 4 feet 4 inches long (Fig. 5). Whittle Whit-tle the handle ends round for a distance dis-tance of 10 or 12 Inches. The handlebars handle-bars are connected by the 2x4 cross-pieces cross-pieces I) and C, with Ii placed 10 Inches from the wheel ends, and C ibout 21 Inches from the handle ends. You will see by Fig. 5 that the wheel ih1h of the bars are placed 6 inches apart, and the handle end3 2 feet apart. You will also notice that cross- pieces B and C are placed at right angles an-gles to a center line drawn through points half way between the ends. This Is very Important. Nail the crosspieces in place; then saw off their ends even with the handle-bars. As holes must be bored through the crosspiece C for the wheelbarrow legs (Fig. G), provide pro-vide a space for the holes when nailing nail-ing C to bars A. If you can get a 10 or 11-inch iron sheave, or pulley wheel, at your hardware hard-ware store, It will make a splendid barrow wheel. A 10-inch carriage bolt, five-eighths inch in diameter, and a couple of Iron washers, will be needed for mounting the wheel. Tho space between the wheel ends if the handle-bars is much wider than necessary for the wheel, and must be ;nken care of by spiking a block (F, Figs. 4 and 5) to each bar. This pair of ':locks should be of the proper shape and size so their inside faces will be parallel and about 2 inches apart. Bore a hole through the bars and blocks for the carriage bolt axle, being careful to get the holes exactly opposite so the wheel will run straight and true when mounted. The wheelbarrow legs are pieces of broom handle 12 inches long. Bore an Inch hole through crosspiece C near each end (Fig. 6) for each leg to fit in, and then, to make a deeper socket, cut the pair of blocks D( Fig. 6), bore the same size hole through each, and nail to crosspiece C. Figs. 7 and 8 show how to brace the legs with wire. These wires must be as taut as possible, pos-sible, and the way to make them taut is by doubling the wire, slipping a nail between the strands, and turning tbis nail until the wire is tightly twisted twist-ed from end to end (Fig. 9). A grocery box may be used for the barrow box (Fig. 10). Remove one end. r.nd then to hold the bottorr boards together nail a batten across the under side (H, Fig. 10). Nail an other batten of corresponding thick ness across the bottom at the othei end (I). Fasten together the ends o! the side boards by the two pairs ol strips J. Place them one inch aparl to provide for a removable end (K Fis. 10). Increase the depth of the box at its front by the addition of a bonrd (L Fig. 10). Fasten t'lis in place with : pair of battens O.I). Then cut tin triangular side pieces X of the shap shown, and nail them in place. When lux lias heon eoir.plrted ZMll it to the barrow frame. SPATTERWORK PICTURES. Spatterwork provides a simple means for making outline pictures of leaves and (lowers. Before I tell you how to make the scraphook. let us see how the spatterwork spat-terwork Is done. There la not very much to learn and the work is easy. Besides paper upon which to make the pictures, which may be in sheet form or in the form of a blank note-book, drawing ink, a pen-knife, and an old tooth-brush. Place a leaf of which you wish to make a spatterwork picture flat upon a piece of paper. If its edges curl it must be pressed out by having a weight placed upon it, and It is best of course to do the pressing between sheets of paper other than those on which you are going to make spatterwork spatter-work pictures, as the pressing will " A t x ? M v l.'AVtf 4-V ' -'V Kf- - probably stain the paper. With the leaf in position upon the sheet of paper, pa-per, dip the brush into the ink, and draw the blade of the pen-knife across 'he ends of the bristles, holding hold-ing the brush In such a position that the ink on the bristles will spatter over the edges of the leaf. ' Move the brush so the spattering will be even. When the ink has dried lift the leaf from the paper and you will find a white silhouette of It upon a stippled background. In making up pages for a scrap-book, scrap-book, mark off the margin that you it feM wm4 t ; wish to have around each page. Then i cover these margins with pieces of i paper, lapping the pieces at the cor- - ners and weighting them with coins, - as indicated in Fig. 1, to protect the margins from the spattering. Arrange f the leaves in some such order as that f shown in Figs. 2 and 3, or classify t them according to their species, and . then proceed to spatter them. You will find the loose sheets easier to 3 handle than a bound note-book, and , if you classify the pictures extra i sheets containing new varieties can be i inserted at any time between the loose ? leaves, wherever they belong. Punch the left-band edges of the loose shoots . : in three places, ar.d biid them with j bhoe-lace between cardboard covers |