Evening star., 1902-08-23
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Dear Children AS l promised last week.
your letters shall now be taken up in turn
and answered whenever it is possible to do
SO in this letter, with fairness to all. BY
this mean we cannot give up the whole
space to answering one class of letters but
We will try to satisfy all with the replies
We send to some. You will soon see for
yourselves how this can be done and then
We shall find ourselves in the midst of a
great correspondence. perhaps burdening
the printer and the pOstman a bit, but We
shall be enjoying ourselves, at any rate,
and be learning to know each other through
our letter box, which will soon be a steady
feature. hope.
Here is a request for something to do at
home for fun. Try.
YE PIGGE BOOK
Any clever boy or girl can make ''ye pigge
book" of drawing paper or any unwrinkIed
paper about five or six inches in size and
containing about fifty pages. Cover it
neatly with brown linen. on which can be
painted in black or gilt or colors fanciful
designs. together with a picture of a pig
In the lower Ieft-hand corner.
This book can be strapped with a broad
elastic or tied with ribbon. and a pencil
holder of a loop of ribbon can easily be
fastened to one side. On the inside cover
of the book are the directions which must
be followed accurately to see the fun:
You may be clever and you may be wise,
But can you draw a pig with tght-shut eyes?
Now, takr mp your pencil and try your skill,
And after it sign your name with good will.
This can amuse a roomful of people. for
the pig is very hard 10 hitch together and
the eye and the tail seldom secure their
proper places.
The various results are very entertaining
as you will find out when you try it.
Now that l have answered a reqUeH for
an evening amusement let me take up an
other for the boys workshop, and tell boys
how to make a flying machine. This sim
pie toy is very easy 10 make and may af-
ford much amusement for an idle half hour.
Find piece Of soft pine One-quarter inch
thick by five inches long by one inch wide.
Red cedar would be better, but probably
the pine will be more easily procured See
that 1t is straight grained throughout.
Draw one diagonal on each of the reCtan-
gular ends of the piece and see that the
lines are in opposite directions. Now bore
a three-sixteenths-inch hole IN the center
of the broad side. 1t will be One-half inch
from the edges and two and a half inches
from the ends. Now take a sharp jackknifa
and on one side Of the piece whittle from
near the center to the end. making the cut
slant in the same direction the diagonal
line already drawn on the end of the piece
Then hold the piece by the end already
whitfield and slant the other end in the d.
rectiOn of the other diagonal. This will
give two cuts sldnting in opposite direC-
tiOnS from the center and on the same side
of the piece. Turn the piece over and whit
tie the other side. so that the sides are
made thin. Be careful not to get them too
thin. One-sixteenth inch will do, but the
thinner the better
A small round stick six inches long and a
little larger than the hole may now be In
serted in the hole already bored, and the
machine is ready for use
To send II up on its journey, put 1t be-
tween the hands, placed palms together,
with the round stick vertical and Tane on
top.
By pushing one hand forward against the
other a rotary motion is impaired to the
machine, and it rises gracefully in the air.
Should you not be at first successful, try
rotating 1t the other direction. A little ex-
perierce will make one quite expert. and the
toy may be made to sail to the ceiling and
cross the room at the same time.
Now that the boys have had their an
swer let the little ones, too. have their
share of Aunt Dorothy's letter. They want
story-aIl for them-so here Is
TEDDIE'S LESSON.
\ Story for Wee Folks.
Wee Teddie stood on the chair with his
hand on the match box. Those matches
were great temptation, they made such a
funny noise when scratched.
Teddie selected one and rubbed it softly
on the rough paper; tiny smoke went up
but TO flame. Then he scratched it harder
Oh. what beautiful flame 1t made He
almost dropped It, but remembered just In
time. and stood watching It burn down.
when mamma came past the door.
She Was wise mamma. who usually
thought twice before she acted once, even
about fire. after the first start she
waited, and yet when the match burned the
naughty little fingers that held II, l think
Il hurt mamma quite much as Teddie.
When 1t dropped she sprang and put 1t out.
oh mummured Teddie, guiltiy.
You may come with me-" said mamma
quietly, and yet with such reproving eyes
and voice that TeddIe would a little rather
she had just spanked him.
"Oh. my finder aches" cried Teddie, as
mamma sat down in a big arm chair and
drew her little boy up into her arms
isn't PoL2s Esrstracted good for-tor