Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1917-05-17
Fun From
Old Magazines


ment can be had with the aid OF q
pair Of scissors from the discarded
magazine.
Take the advertising game. Even
the men folk enter with zest into a
game so alive and up-to-date. Cut
from an old magzine various well.
known pictorial advertisements that
bear no tell-tae names directly upon
the pictures. Mount these cut-outs
upon stiff paper or card. Upon the
back of each mark the name of the
firm by which it is issued or the
product which it boosts. The object
then is to see who can guess the
firms and products for which the ad.
vertisements stand. If the game is
played at a party give prize to the
person naming the greatest number
As many advertisements as you wish
to use are permitted in the game, but
to keep it always interesting and
timely add the newest as they come
out and eliminate the back numbers"
from the collection.
"Jig-saw" puzzles Chose in which
irregular pieces are fitted together to
form complete picture) made from
cut-up magazine covers are amusing
10 young and old, especially to con-
valescents who need unexciting occu-
patton during long idle hours. To
make the puzzle sufficiently interest
ing TO adults clip the picture into
smaller pieces TO make the fitting to-
gcther more difficult. The smaller
the child, however. the larger the
puzzle pieces should be.
Bead stringing has for generations
been favoritc pastime for children.
Add to it the art of bead-making and
the play becomes doubly fascinating
Pretty, colorful beads can be made
by cutting brightly colored magazine
covers or illustrations into strips
about five inches long and as wide as
the length that the maker wishes the
beads to be when finished. The bead
is made by rolling the strip very
tightly about a hatpin, beginning at
one end. Fasten the final end with a
bit of paste TO keep the little cylin-
der from unwinding. When the hat
pin is withdrawn there will remain
the threading hole" and the bead is
complete. Slightly point the paper
so that no uneven edges will extend
beyond the ends of the beads.
Any wide-awake little girl can find
between the covers Of the average,
for women entire furnish
ings for a dolls house. Moreover, if
she be not sufficiently fortunate as to
have dolls house, the pages OF tire
torn out and pinned to-
gether will form at least the four
walls and roof; and il the child be in
ventive, the paper-walled house can
even be divided into room and floors
by means of paper partitions.
The floors can be rugged wifi the
costliest of Orientals, clipped from
rug ads, and the walls adorned with
pictures that have been clipped framed
and ready for hanging from art-shop
ads. Even the dollhouse kitchen and
bathroom need suffer no dearth of
the very latest equipment and I'M
provements. for there are many ads
showing kitchen cabinets, 6reless
cookers, patent dishwashers, plumb
crs' supplies, etc.
Similarly, paper furniture from the
most exclusive stores and of the most
exquisite design, pictured in the shops
own ads, can be clipped and will help
to make the little paper rooms real
works of art, which besides delight
ing the child will teach her the first
principles of good taste and inter-
Tor decorating and the distinguishing
characteristics of period furniture.
From the magazines OF outdoor life
boys can clip paper farms. One bright
lad interested in pedigreed stock and
having the clipping habit has made a
stock farm OF thoroughbred cattle-all
from magazine cut-outs. His brother
is interested in thoroughbred dogs,
and he, in his turn, clips every con-
ceivable variety from the kennel ads
and magazine articles pertaining to
CANNES. Every once in while he
holds paper dog show for the chill
dren of the neighborhood. His show
has given himself and his friends an
excellent idea of breeds in general,
information about his and their own
dogs in particular and how to care
for them properly-on all OF which
the young Snowman is well informed
While the price of admission to one
OF his shows is usually fifteen pins,
the admission has been known to soar
to penny when the managers own
flesh and blood canine needed a new
collar, a tonic or some other expen-
sive Observation-Disclosures Ledger.