Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-11-24
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A PAPER DOLLS HOUSE.

Try Making one by Pnst1nB IL In n
Bdg ScrnpbOok.
The incest way to make a house for
paper dolls is to get a big scrapbook
and paste it in. That sounds funny,
doesn't 1t? But 1t really is very SIM
pie.
Just 60 to some of the furniture
shops and ask the salesman to give
you catalogue. They always have
some old ones that are not wanted.
Then buy some pinwheel paper-the
kind that sells for cent a sheet.
Have several sheets, some plain and
some with patterns. Now you are
ready to begin, and it's lots Of fun.
The first two pages, as the book lies
open before you, are to be the hall.
Look in your catalogue and find two
tall backed hall chairs and a hallrack.
Cut them out neatly. Choose the dark
red pinwheel paper for carpet and
paste it across the lower part Of two
pages, In strip five inches wide.
Paste in your chairs, with the hall
rack between them, on the left hand
page. You can cut doors out of the
page on the right hand side that will
lead into a drawing room on the next
two pages. Make portieres of dark red
tissue paper and paste across the door.
You will be able to get all sorts of
things to furnish the house with from
the different catalogues and even orna-
ments like lamps from shops where
they sell them and are likely to have
the catalogues. At plano manufac-
tory you can obtain a catalogue from
which you can cut any style of piano
that you prefer for your parlor.
Choose light colored carpet for your
parlor floor. 1t is better to have odd
pieces of furniture in this room than
the stiff looking parlor suits. Find
pretty divan, several odd chairs and
dainty desk (you will have to get
catalogue of ladies' desks in order to
secure iD. Look in some of the adver-
tisements of the newspapers and cut
out pictures of jardinieres (you might
have several of those in your parlor).
If you like, you can fashion mantel-
piece between the windows. Cut 1t
out of the pinwheel paper, oak or cher
ry color, and make the CRATE of mar
row strips Of black paper, which you
paste at either end leaving room
enough to stick crumpled bits of red
and gilt paper inside of it to look like
fire.
Some catalogues have tall pier mir
rors. if you prefer one of those to fill
the space between the parlor windows.
Windows In the bedrooms may be
cut out and curtains of white tissue
paper pasted over them. These may
be tied back with narrow strips of
blue pinwheel paper Bedsteads may
be cut from catalogues and also lace
spreads and pillowshams. One gets
these catalogues from the linen shops
or any of the wholesale motion" houses
on lower Broadway. If you can't get
the bedspreads. you can make them
out of white tissue. Leave space
underneath them. so that you can slip
the paper dolls under the covers"
when you put them to bed.
Cut the pillows out of white tissue
of which you may place small bit of
cotton batting" if you want to make
them look comfy"
You must have washstand in the
bedroom, although If you want to have
a very up to date apartment you might
cut door out of the page that will
lead into smart bathroom. Get a
catalogue containing bathtubs and all
the pretty fittings that go into the
bathrooms nowadays.
Then go to some wall paper shop
and ask them to give you small piece
of the tiled paper that is used on bath
room walls
1t is a pretty notion to have each
bedroom different color-that is, have
blue room and pink room and a
violet room, or a dainty green room
would be pretty.-New York Herald.