Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1907-07-08
A Tree Platform.
Exchange.

A Tree Platform.
A platform built In the branches of
big tree is among the suggestions
by Eunice Farland in the Woman's
Home Companion. 81 remember that
one year my brother and 1 saved all
our Fourth of July money and instead
of firecrackers we bought lumber
enough for platform, and got car
penter to help Us build tree platform.
We had rope ladder knotted out of
clothes line, and to climb up that lad
der to the cool and green and shady
quiet of the tree branches, and then
pull the ladder up after one and settle
down to some favorite occupation
was a joy. Have a locker in your
tree shelter-a stout pine soap or
candle box will do, and any handy
girl can fit hinges to its lid and put on
paddock and hasp. An old kitchen
chair with the legs sawed off and the
seat nailed to the floor of the tree
shelter makes delightful rest. Small
stools can be made out of soap boxes
and little low table nailed onto a
convenient branch will make things
cozy. These are only the merest sug-
gestions and any girl can elaborate on
them and get up something really
very NICE"
To Make Waterproof Shelter Tent.
If you wish to make piece of cot
ton drilling waterproof, writes Dan
Beard in the Woman's Home Com
panion, take some boiled linseed oil,
spread your sheet out on some boards,
then pour the oil on the sheet little
at time and rub it in with the palm
of your hand. Put one hand under
the cloth and the other over that, and
rub the palms together till the cloth
will take no more oil. Stretch your
sheet out smoothly in shady place
where the air will circulate under and
above it. At the end of eight or ten
days take it down from the shady
place and stretch it where the after
noon sun can reach it. After sunset
turn the sheet over, so that the op-
posite side will be exposed in the next
afternoon sun. This will set the oil
and keep it from rubbing off and you
will now have waterproof blanket
in which to carry your camp bedding
or waterproof shelter tent.
Camp Fire.
To make camp fire place two greer
logs side by side, and closer together
) at one end than the other. Between
these build the fire and on the logs
; over the fire rest your frying pan
|, kettles of hot water and coffee pot
The camp fire may be made in va
can't lot or back yard as we'll as in {
y real wilderness. Potatoes may be
. baked, green corn roasted, popcorn
h popped or meat cooked.
5, Good Company.
a Louisa Alcott's books, "Story of
); Short Life" by Mrs. Ewing; Haw
:. thorne's"W Book; "Longfellow'
q Poems; ''Tales from Shakespeare" b,
Lamb; "The Man without Country,
= by Edward Everett Hale; "The AID
d ventures of Ulysses" by Charlie
t; Lamb; Scott's Lady of the Lake
and 1.-THE Lay of the Last Minstrel o
k any OF Scott's works.
A Kodak.
IN Beautiful subjects for kodak pic
If lures are found everywhere, but o
W the green hillsides of Vermont farm
lg especially there is a wealth of then
ra Happy the boy or girl here who ca
c; in this way make a collection of th
Z scenes around their own home.
=. A Collection.
Collect specimens of leaves, flower
Id and ferns to press. See how many {
re these you can name by the aid of or
"a of Mrs. William Starr Dana's book
&C. SHOW to Know the Wild Flowers
and show to Know the Ferns"
ID A Box of Water Colors.
&c; Paint leaves and flowers from a;
co ture. Try sketching and painting
Is familiar scene. Paint the same seer
:. over and over to see the improvemel
is you make.
.at Birds.
No. Be sure you have as your compal
Ss ions on your summer holidays BIZ
book and a field glass and throul
n their help you will discover a ne
II world.
int Raffia Work.
=. III Very charming dolls wicker FUR
ture can be made of close braid
ado raffia, also table mats to place und