Handicraft For Boys | by A. Frederick Collins
Did you ever think about what you'd do if you were shipwrecked on a
tropical island like Robinson Crusoe ? Well, if you had a good, strong
pocket-knife with you it wouldn't be so terribly bad and in a few
months' time you'd have fashioned all the things you'd need to furnish
a three-room palmetto bungalow. To be sure your furniture wouldn't be
very highly finished but it would be awfully artistic and while in a
civilized community it might be looked upon as a rare exhibit of
savage workmanship, it would serve you nobly and well in your island
home. But you don't have to be marooned on a lonely isle or limited to
the use of a jack-knife to show your prowess as a worker in wood. All
you need to do is to get some out of the way room where there is
plenty of light for a workshop and buy a few good tools to work with
and you'll take as keen a pleasure in making useful things with your
own hands as Robinson Crusoe did.
Title | Handicraft For Boys |
Author | A. Frederick Collins |
Publisher | Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers |
Year | 1918 |
Copyright | 1918, by Frederick A. Stokes Company |
Amazon | Handicraft for boys |
Handicraft For Boys
By A. Frederick Collins
Inventor Of The Wireless Telephone
Author of "Inventing for Boys" "The
Boys' Book of Submarines," etc.
With 185 Illustrations And Diagrams
New York
Frederick A. Stokes Company Publishers
Copyright, 1918, by Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
To My Nephew And Niece Clarence And May Zeitler
A Model Engine Constructed From Diagrams Shown In This Book.
- A Word To The Boy
- Your life, if you live it like the average boy, is split up into four parts and these are (1) eating, (2) sleeping, (3) working and (4) playing. Now I haven't ...
- Chapter I. Carpentry Work And Cabinet Making
- Did you ever think about what you'd do if you were shipwrecked on a tropical island like Robinson Crusoe ? Well, if you had a good, strong pocket-knife with ...
- The Carpentry Tools You Need
- It is a great mistake to go out and buy a cheap chest of tools of whatever size for while there is always a large number of tools in it they are usually of a ...
- Some Hints on Using Tools
- Since I have used tools ever since I was old enough to hold a hammer I can easily tell you just how you should handle them but to become a skilled workman you ...
- How to Make a Glue-Pot
- In these days of preparedness it is easier to buy ready made glue than it is to make it yourself; moreover it is just about as cheap, nearly as good and ...
- How to Sharpen Your Tools
- You must have sharp tools if you expect to do a job like a carpenter or a cabinet maker. About Sharpening Saws This is done by filing the teeth with a hand saw ...
- How to Take Care of Your Tools
- If your workshop is nice and dry you don't need to put your tools away in a chest or a cabinet after you get through using them each time. But if you use them ...
- Kinds of Wood to Use
- There are many kinds of woods and each one has its special use in the arts and crafts. For carpentry and cabinet making you will probably not use more than ...
- How to Make Joints
- The word joint in woodworking means the place where two or more pieces of wood are fitted together, and hence the words joiner and joinery in woodworking ...
- About Working Drawings
- When most boys -to say nothing of the majority of men - start to make something they simply knit their eyebrows (not highbrows) and think out how it will look ...
- Things for You to Make
- When you have your workshop ready, your tools at hand, the foregoing ideas of woods in your mind and know about simple working drawings you can go ahead and ...
- How to Make a Work Bench
- Go to a lumber yard or a planing mill and get one 2 x 2 scantling 12 feet long for the legs, and two 2 x 2 scantlings for the cross bars and the side bars; the ...
- How to Make a Tool Chest
- Either birch or chestnut are good woods to make your tool chest of. Make the box, that is the lower part of the chest, and the lid for it of 3/4 inch thick ...
- Chapter II. Scroll Sawing, Wood Turning, Wood Carving, Etc.
- As you may have observed, it takes a pretty good sized room for a shop and quite a lot of tools to do carpenter work and cabinet making. Now if you find it ...
- All About Scroll Sawing
- Scroll sawing, fret sawing and jig sawing all mean precisely the same thing and that is sawing interlaced and ornamental designs out of wood, or fretwork as it ...
- A Few Other Helpful Things
- A Hand Saw-Table You can saw out your designs much more easily and neatly if you use a hand saw table as shown in Fig. 10. This is a board about 4 x 6 inches ...
- How to Trace a Design on Wood
- You can draw your own designs or buy them printed ready to use. In either case you must transfer the design to the surface of the wood you are going to saw. To ...
- Scroll Saws
- Foot-Power Scroll Saws There are several makes of foot-power scroll saws on the market and the prices of these range from $4.50 to $25. The Cricket Scroll Saw ...
- The Fleetwood Scroll Saw
- This is the best and consequently the most expensive foot power scroll saw made. It has a swing of nearly 16 inches. It is fitted with a tilting table, a ...
- Fancy Woods for Scroll Saw Work
- Price per foot Name planed to 1/16 to 1/8 in. a thick 3/16 in. less of 1/4 in. Poplar, or White Wood or Bass $0.07 $0.08 $0.09 Spanish Cedar ...................
- Turning in Wood
- And now we come to another and highly fascinating kind of wood-work and this is to spin a stick of wood in a lathe and shape it with a chisel or gouge, or wood ...
- How a Lathe is Made
- A wood turning lathe consists of four principal parts, and these are (1) the headstock; (2) the rest; (3) the tailstock; (4) the bed and (5) the stand, the ...
- Turning Tools for Wood
- The tools used for turning wood 13 are simply chisels and gouges. The chisels are made with four kinds of points, namely, (1) skew point; (2) round point; (3) ...
- How to Turn Wood
- Before you can turn out a really good job on a lathe you must practice awhile. A good thing to try your hand on is to make some tool handles. The size of these ...
- The Art Of Wood Carving
- Carving is by all odds the hardest of all woodworking processes to learn and yet there are some simple forms of it that are at once easy to do and pretty to ...
- The Best Woods for Carving
- A wood that is suitable for carving must be tough, even grained and free from knots. For a beginner, and I guess you are one, yellow pine is a good wood to ...
- Chip Carving
- You will need only three tools for chip carving and these are (1) a 1/4 inch chisel; (2) a parting tool and (3) a veining tool. The first thing is to get the ...
- Panel Carving
- In this kind of carving leaves, berries, scrolls and the like are carved out of the surface of the board and as the ground is sunk these objects stand out in ...
- Carving in Solid Wood
- This ranges all the way from carving simple leaves as shown at D to the human form divine. To carve out leaves on a flat surface draw the design as before and ...
- Pyrography, Or Wood Burning
- This is a simple and pleasing art and one that is easy to practice. It gets its didactic name from the Greek word pyro, which means fire, and graph, to write, ...
- Coloring and Staining Wood
- Stains and dyes of all colors can be bought of the Devoe and Reynolds Company, 101 Fulton Street, New York. Ebony Stain Brush the wood with a saturated ...
- Chapter III. Metals And Metal Working
- There is something about working metals that makes a tremendously strong appeal to a fellow and yet it is just as easy to fashion these elements as it is to ...
- The Various Kinds of Tools
- Metal working tools are tempered harder than wood working tools and are made of what is known as tool-steel. For your kit of machinists' tools get (1) a ball ...
- Some Hints on Using the Tools
- (1) When you want to rivet something use the ball pein end of the hammer to pound down the end of the rivet as this will spread it out in every direction ...
- Metals and their Uses
- Like woods each metal has its especial uses and it will depend largely on what you are going to make as to the kind of metal you should make it of. There are ...
- Copper
- This metal is found in a pure state in large quantities around Lake Superior in the United States and in Chili, South America. It is a fairly hard metal of a ...
- Aluminum
- This metal is found everywhere in nature but as it is never found free it is only in the last few years that it has been extracted in large quantities and ...
- A Few Useful Alloys
- When two or more metals are melted together and mixed they form what is called an alloy. Brass This well known alloy is made by mixing zinc with copper. There ...
- How to Do Metal Work
- Now that you know about tools and the properties of metals there are a few other little things which, if you will bear them in mind, will enable you to make ...
- Sheet Metal Work
- Cutting and Sawing After having traced or otherwise marked out the design or shape you want on the sheet of metal with the sharp point of your center punch or ...
- How to Solder Metals
- The great secret in soldering metals is to have them perfectly clean and then if you use the right kind of flux and the proper solder you will not have any ...
- Bolts and Rivets
- Where two pieces of metal are to be fixed together so that they can be taken apart again, machine screws with nuts on them, or bolts,22 will be found useful. A ...
- Bending Sheet Metal
- To bend a metal sheet put it on a wood or metal form and pound it into shape with a wooden mallet. The edges of a piece of sheet metal can be bent either by ...
- Finishing Up Metals
- Of course all the rough parts must be smoothed up with a file; then use emery paper or emery cloth to rub out the file marks and finally finish off the surface ...
- Lacquering Brass and Copper
- To lacquer a brass or a copper article dip it in a weak solution of sulphuric acid and water and then wash it in clean water. Next put the article on a piece ...
- How to Make the Lacquer
- Put 1 ounce of tumeric powder, 2 drams of annatto and 2 drams of saffron into 1 pint of alcohol. Let it stand for a week or 10 days and shake it often; pour ...
- Chapter IV. Venetian Bent Iron Work
- A very pretty and most useful kind of ornamental iron work came into vogue in Venice, Italy, a long time ago, and as it is easy to do and you need only a few ...
- How to Make a Toaster
- This is a good piece of work to start with because it is formed chiefly of straight lines. Draw a plan of it as shown in Fig. 31, full size and then measure ...
- How to Make an Egg Boiler
- Having made the toaster you are ready to try your hand at something a little harder and a good design for your next piece of work is an egg boiler. The picture ...
- How to Make a Venetian Plate Holder
- To make this plate holder you will have to add a hand drill, a 1/8 inch twist drill, and a center punch -which are described in Chapter III - to your list of ...
- A Dead Black Finish for Iron Work
- Get 25 cents' worth of japan gold size and 10 cents' worth of pure drop black ground in turpentine and mix them together. 27 Mural means anything that is ...
- Tools Needed for Repousse Work
- Very few tools are needed for this kind of work but it is important to use the right kind. The repousse hammer is a jeweler's hammer which has one end, or face ...
- Tracing the Design
- After you have drawn the design on the sheet of metal either with a pencil or by means of transfer paper you can begin to trace the design by punching it with ...
- Bossing the Work
- After you have traced the outline of the design with the chisels hold the plate over an alcohol or a Bunsen flame and when it is hot enough you can take it off ...
- How to Make a Flat Candlestick
- This is a good piece of work for you to start with because it is at once simple, artistic and more or less useful. To make it, cut out a sheet of brass 6 1/2 ...
- How to Make a Photo Frame
- The front of this frame can be made of brass, copper or German silver and the back of it can be made of a sheet of tin or brass. You can make the frame round, ...
- Pierced Metal Work
- This is by all odds the simplest and easiest of all art metal work and you won't need any practice to make a good job; then the tools and materials cost but ...
- Casting And Working Pewter
- Since nearly all metals excepting tin and lead have high melting points, it is hard to melt them unless you have a regular furnace. Something About Pewter But ...
- Making the Mold
- Lay the drag, that is the lower half of the flask, on a board or a table; mix dental plaster of Paris with water until it is about as thick as batter and fill ...
- Engraving On Metal
- Engraving on metal is a beautiful art. The method is simple and the effect is striking but it requires a good deal of patience and long practice to do really ...
- Chapter V. Drawing Simply Explained
- Free-hand Drawing A picture made by the hand and eye and without the aid of a rule and compass is called free-hand drawing. To be able to do free-hand drawing ...
- The Proportions of the Human Figure
- If you will remember when you are drawing a picture of the human form that the whole figure from neck to toe should be 7 times as long as the head; that the ...
- Sketching Still Life Objects
- It is always more or less hard to sketch inanimate objects with anything like a true portrayal of them from memory but it is quite easy to do so if you have ...
- The Vanishing Point
- So when you draw a box or any other object in perspective the lines will meet if you draw them out far enough and then vanish, and hence this is called the ...
- Working Drawings
- And now we come to drawings of another kind and these are not intended to please the eye but to work from, hence they are called working drawings. When most ...
- Drawing Tools You Should Have
- Drawing instruments, or drawing tools as they are commonly called, consist for the most part of (1) one or more pairs of dividers; (2) one or more pairs of ...
- Making Plan Drawings
- Suppose now you want to draw the plans of a box which, let's imagine, is to be 5 inches high, 6 inches wide and 8 inches long. The first thing to do is to draw ...
- Isometric Perspective Drawings
- The kind of perspective drawings I told you how to do under the caption of Drawing in Perspective is true perspective but engineers do drawings which they call ...
- How to Draw a Circle
- Should you ever want to draw a circle and have no compasses at hand or should you want to draw a larger circle than you can with your compasses tie a bit of ...
- How to Draw a Spiral
- Make a loop in one end of a thread as before and tie the other end tightly to a large pin; wind the thread around the pin until all of it is on except the loop; ...
- How to Draw an Ellipse
- An ellipse can be drawn in the same way as a circle, that is, by means of a string; but instead of one pin you will need two and each pin is driven in at the ...
- How to Make and Use a Pantagraph
- A panta-graph is a simple mechanical linkage for enlarging, copying or reducing the size of a picture. It is shown in Fig. 51. To make one of these instruments ...
- How to Make a Reflecting Drawing Board
- This is a very simple and easily made optical apparatus for copying pictures and making drawings of flat objects. Get a smooth board, or your drawing board ...
- How to Make Tracings
- A very easy and effective way to copy any picture already drawn, or even a photograph, in line, is to use tracing paper. This kind of paper, which you can buy ...
- To Make Lasting Impressions
- Here is an easy way to make lasting impressions of your own and your friends' finger prints and hands. Take a sheet of heavy glazed white paper, say 5 x 7 ...
- The Ancient and Honored Art of Cutting Silhouettes
- Since you are of the younger generation let me tell you just what a silhouette is, and why. It is a profile, or side view, of the head of a person cut out of ...
- Transfer Pictures, or Decalcomania
- Of course you know what transfer pictures are. There are very few boys indeed who have not bought and used little 5 cent packages of jim-crow transfer pictures ...
- How to Transfer the Pictures
- The regular pictures can be transferred to wood, metal, painted surfaces, etc., but instead of soaking them in water alone as you used to with the toy pictures ...
- Chapter VI. Some Kinks In Photography
- Since the slogan you press the button and we'll do the rest has come to be so well known everybody makes photographs. But there are a number of kinks in and ...
- How to Make Blue Prints
- This is the very simplest and one of the most useful kinds of photography. You need but very little material to make the pictures with and the little you need ...
- Another Kind of Contact Printing
- If you like nature you can use the above process of contact printing to fine advantage. Instead of blue paper it is better to use what is known as solio ...
- How To Tone and Fix the Picture
- To tone a silver print means to change its color and give it more brilliancy and this is done by putting it in a chemical solution made of chloride of gold, or ...
- The Simplest Kind of a Camera
- When you can buy a real camera for two or three dollars it seems of little use to make one, so just consider the camera I shall describe as a scientific ...
- How to Develop a Dry Plate
- Next take your camera into your dark-room and develop the plate, that is, immerse it in a chemical solution called a developer to bring the picture out on it.
- How to Make the Developer
- You can make a good, tried and true developer in two solutions as follows: Pyro Solution, A Take 1 ounce of pyrogallic acid, called pyro for short, dissolve it ...
- A Good and Cheap Camera
- To take real pictures you want a real camera. Now there are many kinds of hand cameras but there is only one size that I am going to try to interest you in and ...
- How to Make an Enlarging Apparatus
- To make an enlarged picture of a small negative take out the back of your camera and get two perfectly clear sheets of glass to fit the opening. 50 With this ...
- How to Make an Enlargement
- When you have the apparatus ready set the camera and the illuminator, as the box with the light in it is called, on another table. Put the negative between two ...
- A Developer for Bromide Paper
- A good stock solution developer for bromide paper, velox paper, films and dry plates can be made by adding these chemicals to 25 ounces of hot water in the ...
- How to Make a Reflectoscope
- A reflectoscope is a kind of magic lantern but instead of using transparent glass slides you can use any picture or opaque object such as the works of a watch, ...
- How to Make a Magic Lantern
- To make a magic lantern out of a camera is just as easy as it is to make a reflectoscope but you will have to buy a condensing lens58 and this will cost 50 ...
- How to Make Radium Photographs
- You can make radium photographs, or skiagraphs as they are called, with any one of a number of radioactive substances and at a very small outlay. 59 A ...
- Spirit Photographs
- When photography was young Sir John Herschel, the great astronomer, got up what he called magic photographs and these have been worked under the name of spirit ...
- One Way to Catch Big Fish
- Of course you know that when an object very near the camera is photographed it will look proportionately larger than when it is photographed a little way off ...
- Taking Caricature Photographs
- The word caricature (pronounced care'-i-ca-ture) means a portrait in which some part of it is distorted so that it produces a comical effect. Now there are a ...
- Chapter VII. Printing And Its Allied Arts
- If there ever was a boy who did not want a printing press I have yet to meet him. Ever since the day when Gutenburg62 invented movable types, and that was some ...
- The Parts of a Self-Inking Press
- The Excelsior is the name of a small self-inking printing press that has been on the market for 50 years and it is a good one. The description of it which ...
- How the Press Works
- Let's suppose now, that you have the type set in the chase and the chase is fixed in the press; that you have put some ink on the ink-table and a card or a ...
- The Press Outfit You Need
- Your outfit will, of course, depend largely on the size of press you have. Outfit for a 3 x 5 Press A couple of dollars will buy all the fixtures you need and ...
- About Type and Setting Type
- Relative Number of Type Letters In looking over type catalogues you will see that the fonts are listed as 4A, or 8A-10A, etc. Now this means that in the 4A ...
- The Sizes of Type
- Type is made in standard sizes and not so very long ago each size was known by a name. Then a change was made and the point system,63 as it is called, came ...
- Your Type Cases
- There are two kinds of type cases and these are made to hold (1) the capital, or upper case letters, and (2) the small or lower case letters. The reason the ...
- Setting the Type
- Where you have more than one line to set you should by all means use a composing stick and a small one will cost you a dollar. It should be held in the left ...
- How to Clean Type
- As soon as you have printed a job take the chase from the press and before you unlock the form rub the face of the type with a rag dipped in benzine, or ...
- The Ink and Rollers
- The Ink While 01 course you will buy your ink all ready to use you may like to know how it is made. Here's a recipe for a printing ink that is as old as the ...
- Printing in Colors
- Printing in two or more colors, or color printing, is not only interesting work to do, but profitable, since you can easily get orders for it. It is a little ...
- And Finally Your Stock Supply
- You will need a supply of both visiting and business cards; paper for labels, handbills and newspapers - that is, if you intend to print one - and paper for ...
- The Art of Paper Making
- Of course you know what paper looks like and how it feels, but it is not so likely that you know what it is and how it is made; but paper making is an art so ...
- How to Bind Books
- If you will look at this book carefully you will conclude that it would be next to impossible to bind one that would even faintly resemble it. But while I do ...
- Chapter VIII. How to Make Rubber Stamps
- A rubber stamp is type matter molded in rubber which is then mounted on a block with a handle as shown in Fig. 77. When the stamp is inked and then pressed on ...
- To Make an Ink Pad
- Cut out two blocks of pine wood each of which is 1/4 inch thick, 2 inches wide and 3 inches long; cut out four strips of woolen cloth 2 x 3 inches, lay two of ...
- To Make Rubber Stamp Inks
- A Black Ink Mix 3 parts of lampblack with 7 parts of olive oil. A Red Ink Mix 2 parts of vermilion with 3 parts of olive oil. A Blue Ink Mix 3 parts of aniline ...
- How to Make a Copygraph Pad
- A copy graph pad, or hectograph, as it is often called - from the Greek hekaton which means 100, and graph to write, hence to write a hundred - is a gelatine ...
- How to Copy a Letter
- You must write your letter with a special aniline ink, called hectograph ink, and use a new steel pen to do it with. While the writing is getting dry take a ...
- How to Make Hectograph Inks
- Black Ink Mix 10 parts of methyl violet; 20 parts of nigrosene; 30 parts of glycerine; 5 parts of gum arabic and 60 parts of alcohol. Heat it until the ...
- Die Sinking. How to Make Badges, Etc.
- It is fascinating work to sink a name into a piece of sheet metal with steel dies and yet it is very easy if you have the tools and you can make some money out ...
- How to Make a Burning Brand
- A burning brand is useful to mark the handles of tools, boxes or anything made of wood by burning a name or a design into them. To make a burning brand, say ...
- Stencils
- A stencil is a piece of heavy paper or thin sheet of metal in which letters or a design are cut through with broken lines, and it is used for marking the ...
- Chapter IX. The Art Of Working Glass
- One of the most fascinating of the mechanical arts is working in glass. One reason for this is because it is a substance so beautiful, so hard and so fragile ...
- How to Cut Glass
- About the simplest and most useful process for you to know is how to cut glass. To cut window glass you need (1) a glass cutter; (2) a drawing board and (3) a ...
- How to Drill Holes in Glass
- To drill a hole through a sheet of glass make a layer of putty 1/2 an inch thick and as large as the sheet you are going to drill and lay the glass on it. The ...
- How to Cut Glass Tubing
- The First Way A simple way to cut, or rather break off a piece of glass tube evenly is to make a cut all round the tube with a three-cornered file92 and you ...
- How to Cut Glass Disks
- By sawing out a round board, laying it flat on a sheet of glass and running your glass cutter around the edge of the pattern you can cut out an approximately ...
- How to Bend Glass Tubing
- It is useful to know how to bend a piece of glass tubing, especially if you are interested in chemistry and want to set up some apparatus - in fact you should ...
- To Round the Ends of a Tube
- When you cut a tube either with a file or a glass cutter the edge of the end will be sharp but not smooth. All you have to do to round it is to heat it in the ...
- To Make a Glass Nozzle
- In setting up chemical apparatus it very often happens that a glass nozzle is needed. To make a nozzle seal off a piece of glass tube as described above and by ...
- To Make a Hole in a Tube
- To make a hole of any size in a tube, or piercing it, as it is called, you ought to have a sharp pointed flame and a. blow-pipe, which is described farther on.
- To Join Two Tubes of the Same Size
- Put a cork into one end of one of the tubes and hold the other end in the flame as well as one end of the other tube as shown at A in Fig. 91. Let the ends of ...
- How to Make a Blow-Pipe
- To Blow a Bulb on the End of a Tube For blowing bulbs on tubes, for flasks and the like, you need a regular glassblower's blow-pipe in order to get a hotter ...
- How to Blow a Bulb
- Take a good piece of glass tube about 3/4 inch in diameter and 15 inches long; draw one end out long and thin for about 3 inches as shown at A in Fig. 93. Then ...
- How to Etch Glass
- There are two ways to etch glass and these are (i) with a sand blast and (2) with acid. The Sand Blast Process The process which follows is a simplified form ...
- How to Make Ground Glass
- To make ground glass go about it as above described but in this case no stencil is needed. The Acid Process Hydrofluoric acid is made by treating fluor-spar,97 ...
- How to Cement Glass
- To cement glass clean the edges or surfaces to be fixed together with hot water in which you have put a little soda; dry well with a clean cloth and then be ...
- A Simple Way to Frost Glass
- Make a saturated solution of alum, water, which means to dissolve as much alum in hot water as possible. Lay the glass on a perfectly level table and pour on ...
- Substitutes for Glass
- There are a number of substances that can be used instead of glass. In some cases a substitute is better than glass but generally they are used because they ...
- How to Silver a Mirror
- While it is much cheaper to buy a mirror than it is to make one still there are times when it is useful to know how to make one. As you know, a mirror is a ...
- Chapter X. Toys For The Kiddies
- If there is as much pleasure in giving as there is in receiving you can get twice as much pleasure out of making toys with your own hands and giving them to ...
- How to Make a Policeman's Puzzle
- Get two strips of wood 1/4 inch thick, 1/2 an inch wide and II inches long and cut handles on one end of each strip. Saw with your scroll saw out of 1/8 inch ...
- How to Make an Automobile Truck
- This little toy will bring a lot of unalloyed joy to any tiny, weentie fellow and it's easy to make, too. Cut out a board for the bottom 3/4 inch thick, 4 1/2 ...
- How to Make a Swell Coaster
- This is a practical toy that every little tot will like immensely. It is just as simple as the automobile but it must be made very much stronger. Fig. 98.
- How to Make a Nifty Wheelbarrow
- This is a cute wheelbarrow and will tickle any little choptie 'most half to death and you can make it in no time. Get two sticks of wood 3/4 inch square and 24 ...
- How to Make a High-Low Swing
- Here is a peace promoter and a queller of disturbances wherever there are very little kiddies around. It is an indoor swing that can be hung from the top of a ...
- How to Make a Stick Horse
- This is a great improvement over riding a broomstick because it doesn't take so much imagination to change it into a runaway horse. Saw out of a board 5 inches ...
- How to Make a Pony and Cart
- If this little pony and cart are to be played with in the house you can make it the size marked in Fig. 102 but if it is to be used out-of-doors then you ...
- How to Make a Life-like Goose
- Nearly all geese, including goslings, are lifelike unless they are being made ready for the pot but this gray-goose is lifelike in that her head moves out from ...
- How to Make a Wireless Pup
- This is a most remarkable bull-pup for he will jump out of the kennel when you or any one else calls him, when you clap your hands or on any other occasion ...
- Chapter XI Home Made Musical Instruments
- There is music in everything if you only know how to get it out without cracking it. When a small boy beats a pie-pan with a stick, or drums on a wooden fence ...
- The Musical Coins
- How to Make Them A simple and very pleasing way to show that there is music even in cold brass is to take a piece of sheet brass, or, better, sheet steel, ...
- The Musical Tomato Cans
- How to Make Them The musical tomato cans make a bombastic instrument - very bombastic I should say. Be that Fig. 107. THE CHOPIN TOMATO CAN as it may, get ...
- The Musical Glasses
- How to Make Them Different from the tomato cans, the musical glasses make about the sweetest music ever heard. To make a set get eight very thin glass goblets ...
- The Tubular Harp
- How to Make It This easily made instrument gives out tones very much like those of the musical glasses but they are much deeper and louder. Fig. 109 A, B. The ...
- The Musical Push Pipe
- How to Make It This musical instrument is an organ pipe but it is played like a slide trombone, that is by pushing in and pulling out a slide that fits inside ...
- The Curious Xylophone
- How to Make It This instrument, which is pronounced zil-o-fon', is cheap to make or buy 107 and is easy to learn to play. To make one cut off fifteen bars of a ...
- The Peculiar Tubaphone
- How to Make It By using brass tubes, or better, tubes made of bell metal, you can have a xylophone of another order. Use tubing 3/4 inch in diameter and have ...
- The Cathedral Chimes
- How to Make Them This is one of the easiest musical instruments to make and the music produced by it is impressive in its tone and depth. To make it saw off a ...
- The Aeolian Harp
- How to Make It This harp is of very ancient origin and it gets its name from AEolus who, in classic mythology, was the father of the winds, and very ...
- An Egyptian Fiddle
- How to Make It The early Egyptians invented the fiddle, or rebab as they called it, but they did not play it with a bow. Later in medieval times, that is in ...
- Chapter XII. Some Evening Entertainments
- There is a feature of home life that the heads of too many families overlook and that is getting together and having an evening of entertainment which the ...
- Cartoons While You Wait
- This is a good feature to start off your season's divertisements with. Make a substantial easel on which to set a large drawing board as shown in Fig. 116, or ...
- Thirty Minutes of Chemistry
- Here are some very pretty and easily made experiments in chemistry and as you perform them you can give the explanation I have written about each one which ...
- The Magic Fountain
- The Effect You show an empty bottle, or Florence flask, and then push a cork with two holes in it into the mouth of the bottle. Next push a glass tube having a ...
- The Vicious Soap Bubbles
- The Effect Show a dish of soap-suds and then blow bubbles with the apparatus described below. When the bubbles take on a size of about 3 inches in diameter ...
- The Uncanny Wheel
- The Effect A pitcher is shown full of emptiness and then a cardboard wheel, 4 inches in diameter, with buckets, or cones 1 inch high and 3/4 inch across glued ...
- Giving a Travelogue
- A travelogue is simply a talk on travel, or on a country, illustrated with pictures of some kind. To be able to give a travel talk does not mean necessarily ...
- An Electrical Soiree
- Experiments in electricity are always interesting to all however young or old, for of all the powers that have been harnessed by man it is the least tangible ...
- Demonstrating Electricity Without Apparatus
- Did you ever rub a cat in a dark room in the winter and see the sparks fly? Well this is one way to make electricity without apparatus though you need a cat125 ...
- How Like Repels Like
- Electrify two strips of newspaper this time and hold them together by the ends. Instantly the free ends of the papers will fly apart for like signs of ...
- The Induction, or Spark Coil
- An induction coil is an apparatus for changing a direct low pressure, but large quantity current from a battery into an alternating high pressure but small ...
- Demonstrating Wireless Telegraphy
- All you have to do to make your induction coil into a wireless transmitter, that is, the sending apparatus, is to put a couple of brass balls on the points of ...
- Reading Palms for Fun
- Many years ago when P. T. Barnum was exhibiting a sacred white elephant, which was nothing more nor less than a small Indian elephant covered with whitewash, ...
- How to Read Palms
- There are two things which you should learn before you begin to read palms and these are (1) the names of the different parts of the hand, and (2) the lines ...
- A Talk on the Steam Engine
- For your final evening entertainment give a thumb-nail lecture on steam and the steam-engine. You will find every one is interested in steam because it is one ...