The Washington herald., 1912-08-18
a Clever Girl

" GIRL who is fond of using the scroll
~ saw has had great success in max
ing dolls furniture for her little sis
ter's doll house One set of this furniture
which is particularly pretty, is made OF
silver gray wood and has the moon for
the design. The idea is taken from the
poetic line, "Baby's boat is a silver moon. y
There are three pieces in the set, little
bed, chest of drawers and chair. The
head of the bed is in a high rectangular
shape. The lower third OF this rectangle
is solid and the upper two thirds is open.
Across this upper two-thirds the crescent
moon is set at slanting angle and In the
middle of the crescent two pointed sails
are set, making the moon boat.
The little bureau has three drawers.
The back piece is shallow, long rec
tangle of the wood, quite open, in fact
merely a framework. In this rectangle
are set three tiny moons, each with a
little sail in the middle.
The wood for this furniture was taken
from cigar boxes. 1t was painted with
enamel paint in delicate gray color.
Furniture for the living room of the
house included a round table, with four
straight legs, in the mission style of fur
niture, chairs and bookcase. The chairs
were square looking, with straight backs
made of four uprights of the wood and a
bar across the top. The bookcase was
one of the cigar boxes with shelves fitted
in crosSwise The wood was stained
brown for this set. There WAS also
fireplace iu the living room, which was
made of cardboard box from which
square pice was cut away for the place
for the tire. The bottom of the box
faced the room, the open side being
placed next the wall. The box was COW
cred with the red brick paper that may
he bought in the shops.
For the living room, brown paper, such
as packages are wrapped in when sent
from hardware store, was used as wall
paper. The frieze was formed by n strip
of darker paper pasted around the wall.
In the bedroom the wall was papered
with blue.
The drawing room had a pale gray
paper, with 4 flower border which was
painted on with water colors. The fur
niture was made from the cigar boxes
and upholstered with tiowered chintz.
There were a large armchair, sofa and
two straight chairs. Two tables were
stained dark brown, and there were
chintz curtains and a stained floor. A
rug Oh the floor was of rose colored felt,
to match the color of the flowers on the
paper and the chintz. Pictures of flow
Frs, colored, and several oval portraits
were cut from magazines and framed in
gilt paper. A tiny mirror, also framed
n paper, was placed over the mantel-
piece. The fireplace was made of box
placed against the wall, as in the living
,oom, and this was painted ivory white.
The nursery had plain blue wall, with /
lucks, geese and pigs cut from magazines
md colored with water color paints
pasted here and there in amusing groups.
There was Il cigar box crib and a rocking
hair, also set of drawers for the
,aby's clothes and clothes rack. The
'ug on the floor was blue felt, with tiny
Inimals cut from other colored felt and
ewed on, just like a real nursery rug.
There was white washstand which was
made from a thick white cardboard box.
rhe towels for the wnshstand were made
# paper, with narrow lines of blue, such
IS towels have, drawn across the ends. +,
The ends were cut out in frinses. In the
orner of the towels was little blue mon,
gram. II
Very attractive curtains of paper were
made for the house. There were white