The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1903-01-21
THE OUTSIDE OF THE PAPER

HUME OF THE PAPER DCLlAS.
Most children have dolls and all that
pertains to them. especially doll houses.
A good many little girls have houses for
their china dolls, but their poor paper
dol!ies have to go without homes be-
cause their little mammas don't know
how to make them any. Now, that is
too bad, but there Is a remedy for that
trouble as well as for every other one,
if we only know what 1t is.
Get a drawing book, or any book
with thick. white upruled sheets about
eighteen inches long and ten or twelve
inches wide. Open to the second page
opposite the inside cover and paste
there a picture Of some pretty house.
You can find plenty Of pretty houses in
the advertising pages of magazines.
On the next page make the yard Cut
out of advertisements garden benches,
flowers and anything else you can find
that you would like to have in a gar
den.
Make the next sheet the piazza. Here
you can put straight chairs and rocking
chairs, hamocmks, table with some
books and a jarliniere with some flow
ers, If you can find one. A little Japa-
nese stool looks pretty, too. Cut out a
door, paste it down on the paper on only
one side so that you can open 1t and cut
out the book from underneath. Over
the door put a hanging lamp.
The next page is, of course, the hall.
This needs a carpet, so take wall pa
per If you have any; a dark color would
hG or a c}J a
inches wide along the bottom of the
sheet Put some hall chairs here, a
card receiver, hatrack and a fireplace,
an old-fashioned clock. a lamp and, if
you have room enough, you might use
an old-fashioned sofa.
Now comes the parlor. Use some
light wall paper for the carpet, as in the
hall, Cut out pictures for the wall
and long mirror if you can find one.
odd pieces, just as you prefer. The
next room should be the music room
and here every instrument you can find
"A picture Of should be put, from organs
to banios. Don't have any carpet in
the music room, and have any furniture
you use Of wood only; no upholstering.
as 1t deadens the sound of music.
The library can come next-and here
you will want stained wood floor;
paint it a dark brown. with lots of
rugs. Have some comfortable chairs, a
desk, big table, and then fill up the
rest of the room with bookcases and
shelves. In any of the rooms you can
cut out windows If you want to and
drape them with both sash curtains and
long ones. Now comes the den, or
smoking room, where pipes and cigars
and a big open fireplace are the princi-
pal things Of note; the dining room
must have a dining table and chairs, of
course, and sideboard. serving table
and some glass cabinets for china. The
kitchen needs stove, a kitchen table
and some chairs, an ice box, water tubs
and closets for the dishes.
Up stairs have play room for the
children, and in It put all the toys you
can find. Have as many bedrooms as
you have sheets left merely saving out
one for the bathroom. Make some Of
the bedrooms for girls, having pretty
dainty hedsteads and dressing tables,
tea tables, touches, chairs, desks book
cases anu pICluIeSt III Id|ts CNCl tHllieo
girls would like. Then leave some of
the bedrooms for the boys, with plain
bedsteads and bureaus, table and
some chairs and boxing gloves, base
ball bats, tennis rackets, footballs and
all those things.
With the hints we have given you
any little girl should be able to make
one of these doll houses. If you have
enough pages in your book and you
think of any other rooms you would
like to have, why make them. If you
haven't any pieces Of wall paper that
you can use you can paint the floors
with water colors or use tissue paper.
Every single thing mentioned In the
way of furniture or ornaments for the
rooms can be found In advertisements
in the ifferent magazines, 50 that you
don't have to buy a thing but the book
and some glue.-Boston Herald.