The Washington times., 1902-09-28
To Make Paper Dolls House

| The incest way to make a house for
Paper dolls is to get big scrapbook
and paste it in. That sounds funny.
doesn't it? But it really is very simple.
Just go 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 Dinwheel paper-the kind that
sells for cent sheet. Have several
sheets, some plain and some with pat
terms. Now you a:e 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 cata
logue and find two tall-backed hall
chairs and hall rack. Cut them out
neatly Choose the dark red pinwheel
paper for carpet and paste 1t across
the lower part of two pages, In a strip
five inches wide. .h1a ioi,i
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-ha side that will
lead into q 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 10 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 piano manufac-
tory you can obtain 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, a
dainty desk (you will have to get a
catalogue OF ladies' desks in order to
secure it,. Look in some of the adyer-
tisements of the Sunday newspapers and
cut out pictures of jardinieres-you
might have several of those in your par
lor. If you like. you can fashion a
mantelpiece between the windows. Cut
it out of the pinwheel paper, oak or
cherry color. and make the crate of
narrow 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 these 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 pin
wheel paper. Bedsteads may be cut
from catalogues and also lace spreads
and pillow shams. One gets these cata-
logues from the linen shops or any of
the wholesale notion houses down
town. If you can't get the bedspreads
you can make them out of white tissue.
Leave a space underneath them, SO tina,
you can slip the dolls under the GOV.
ers" when you put them to bed.
Cut the pillows out of white tissue
paper, tiny squares, underneath each of
which you may place small bit of
cotton batting II you want to make
them look comfy"
You must have a washstand In the
bedroom, although. If you want to have
a very up-to-date apartment, you might
cut a door out of the page that will
lead into a smart bathroom. Get
catalogue containing bathtubs and all
the pretty fittings that go into the bath
rooms nowadays.
Then go to some wallpaper shop and
ask them to give you small piece of
the tiled paper that is used on bathroom
walls
1t is prettier notion to have each |
bedroom a different color; that is. have |
a blue room and pink room and vio-
let room. Or dainty green room would |
be pretty.