The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-07-16
How to furnish a Dolls House.

ANY small girl with a little ingenuity,
a piece of stiff paper and a pair of scis-
sors can manufacture a set of dolls
furniture which will give her as much
If not more pleasure than the elegant
and expensive sets that adorn the shop
windows.
A really Handsome set of furniture
may be made if each piece of furniture
Is first carefully drawn on a piece of
paper divided into small a the
outline of the furniture being marked
along these squares and the furniture
afterward cut out, following the mark
ed lines. This pattern should then be
laid on the cardboard and the board
cut out around it. Cover the card
board furniture with a piece of bright,
crepe paper, and with it the furniture
can be beautifully upholstered. or
course the crepe paper can be cut a
little larger than the piece of furniture
it is to cover in order that the edges
of the paper can be turned under the
edges of the cardboard where it is fas-
tened with mudlage. A piece of smooth
brown glazed paper may be used to
cover the table to give it the effect of
wood, although it, too, looks very we'll
covered with t1e crepe paper to match
the rest of the set. The bedstead Is
done in white. By taking a piece of
white wadding or two or three sheets
of pencil paper folding it loosely, then
covering this with the white crepe pa
per, a mattress may be made for the
bed, and the sides edged with lace pa
per, such as comes about the inside of
boxes of candy. Pillows may be made
Of smaller pieces of paper and edged
with a narrow edge of the lace paper.
The stove should be covered with black
glazed paper or with silver paper such
as is got at the grocers' wrapped about
securing soap. Any one with a box of
water color paints might paint to ims-
tate furniture, although the crepe pa
per furniture is pretCier.
The couch should be drawn 5 by 1M
inches. The chair is outlined in a
space 2h by l .nch. The table is III
by 81 inches. The rocking chair is
8 inches across the rockers, and 3A
inches up and down. The bedstead is s
by 2$ inches. The headboard OF the
bed is cut out to represent the bars
of an iron bedstead. Slips of paper
turn up at the sides to hold the mat
tresses in place and are gummed to
the h~eadboard and footboard by the
projections at the head and foot of the
side pieces. A similar side piece,
which. however, turns down, is seen
on the rocking chair, the ends, when
gummed, holding the rockers firmly in
place. The projections at the sides of
the table legs are also to be gummed,
the legs being cut in two parts. Brok-
en- lines show where the furniture Is
to be bent in shaping and black lines
where it is to be cut.
The stove line is the most elaborate.
1t is to represent a round parlor stove,
the small oblong at the side being for
the pipe. 1t has foul feet, a cinder
plate, grating ard doors. For the top
Of the stove draw a circle having a di-
ameter of about / lis of an inch. A
diameter is a straight line passing
through the center and connecting the
circumference or bounding line of a
circle. The tor Of the stove may be
laid on or gummed to projections cut
along the top of the main piece and
'urned Ia.