Show KITES A PENNY APIECE turned out by tho the thousand at A coot coit price of 31 otlis of a cent each Y sun on the roof a five story cast co ataide side nt last nigh was silting sitting astride odthe of the wooden frame to which the clothesline was wits attached on oil a chimney a little way off was another boy on the peak of the little structure structure above alove the scuttle in the roof a third was posed posted A fourth leaned as far out from front the front wall as he lie could without falling to the street below other roots roofs all over that part odthe of alie city had other boys in like positions all of them held strings in their hands bands I 1 and away up aga against the clouds in the east last hundreds d re d of kites were wriggling N in g and darting around like tadpoles where did you yott get that kite was asked of the boj bol on the tile gable above the scuttle boti bought ht it said he lie how much did it cost cent say have got any spare string the tile penny kite said a dealer is s a simple affair but those unfamiliar with the tile bui business bUciu iness esa think it a Il marvel larvel of cheapness they are ure all alike in size and shape but differ in color the kite consists of a piece of paper and three slender slicks sticks the piece of paper is from ono one eighth to one sixth of a full sheet a ream rean of which will weigh forty potin pounds ds the paper coats costs seven cents a pound so the picco piece for a kite costs about one sixteenth ofa of a cent A foot of pine will make sticks for sixty kites at the tile market rate fur lumber they will cost about as much as the paper or a little more the material of the kite thus cost about one eighth of a cent sometimes the paper is printed with a picture oaf a horse borse or a yacht or so some me other fancy cut this adds twenty five centa cents a thousand to tho co cost t bu but t gives a variety for the boys boy to choose from the tile paper cut to the right size is piled ailed on a table on one side of a girl two piles of sticks s arc are at her other liand hand and a pot of pente and a brush before her sho she spreads out ut a piece of the paper and runs tho tile paste brush around the edge then two of the longer sticks are laid on in the form afan of an X across tho tile cross of the X a shorter one is is laid then the pasted edges of the paper are folded over enclosing t the be ends of the sticks the completed kite is laid away to dry cost for labor one sixteenth of a cent cost of the kite three six of a cent some cost as high as three fifths of a cent but they sell robetter than alie others there ia is at fair margin 1411 around |