When mother lets us make paper box furniture

PARLOR CHAIR.

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Use the kind of box suggested for the arm chair.

1. Make this exactly as you made the arm chair, until you are ready to shape the legs and back.

2. Study the picture and you will see that there are no arms, and no slats between the legs. Notice how the back is cut.

3. Paint mahogany, oak or rosewood like the rest of your parlor furniture. You might paint one with white enamel for your bedroom, or with gold as a fancy parlor chair.

THE LITTLE UPHOLSTERER.

When your parlor chairs are finished, With varnish make them shine; Then on the seats glue velvet, If you wish them ’specially fine.

Illustration from When mother lets us make paper box furniture: A book which shows children just how to make most attractive toy furniture out of materials which cost practically nothing--toys which give as much pleasure as those from expensive toy shops

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