STOVE.
Reading edition
Use two boxes of same size, with covers which overlap only a little, like collar boxes, candy boxes with this kind of cover, baby-shoe boxes or jewelry boxes.
1. Place one box right side up on top of its cover. Place between the two an extra cardboard, large enough to project from one end and side. Fasten through the bottom of box and cardboard, into the cover.
2. Shape the projecting cardboard into front and side hearths. Shape the legs.
3. Cut six holes in the other cover. Use silver half dollar or spool for pattern. Fasten on the top.
4. Fasten on the oven “doors,” etc. Study the picture to see how the fasteners have been made to look like hinges, by cutting two little slits for the prongs, and bending one out flat and then down. The “knobs” are put through one slit as in the dresser.
5. The pipe is made of a roll of stiff paper or a pasteboard mailing tube. Push through one hole; if it fits, it will not need to be fastened.
6. Paint it with black enamel.
Details of Stove.
Two oblong boxes—same size
Extra piece of cardboard for hearth
Candy box, baby shoe box or collar box
One box fastened through its bottom to top of cover—extra cardboard between and projecting for hearth.
Other cover—half dollar used as pattern for holes
Top fastened on and legs cut.
Doors fastened on
Pipe put into hole
FUN ON A RAINY DAY.
When the rain comes down, and the wind does blow, And indoors we must stay, Mother lets us to the nursery go And with our boxes play. Oh, it’s lots of fun when we’re all alone, To make such lovely toys, Especially, when the rain beats hard And keeps in girls and boys.
Fun on a Rainy Day.
BEFORE THE FIRE.
Take some beads of jet and coral, And fuzzy white wool for smoke; Of course ’tis only a make-believe fire, But it’s just as much fun to poke. Pull a cozy chair in front of your “fire,” Where grandmother doll may sit; While all the little dolls ’round her gather, That she may tell stories and knit. Play it’s Christmas and hang up the stockings, If your dolls are fast asleep; Fill them with a few little trinkets, Which out of the tops will peep.
Fireplace