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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL', SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1910.— THE JUNIOR CALL
How to Furnish an Attractive
Apartment for the Fash
ionable Doll
Instead, of doll houses many llttlo
Kirls prefer apartments for their dolls,
because the rooms may be larger than
the ordinary dollhouso' and lit for liv
ing quarters for the real dolls, where
as so often In tho doll's housu there
is not a single room Jargo enough for
one's beat doll to re™ into, much less
to turn around in comfortably. The
doll apartments or flats usually consist
of three rooms only — bedroom, bath
room and drawing room or living room.
There aro also house keeping apart
ments, whicli include bedroom, parlor,
kitchen and dining, room, but these are
apt to be smaller, nnd it is better to
have a two room apartment with large
rooms than a four room apartment
with Smaller ones.
The apartment may very nicoly be
made of boxes, each box serving as a
; room. The bathroom may open out of
the bedroom and may be made simply
by putting up a cardboard partition at
one end of the bedroom. Cut a door
way in the partition and hang up a
portiere. The two. boxes which form
the rooms of the apartment may be
fastened on a single board foundation
or nailed together before the rooms
are papered. •
The walls may be papered or covered
with denim tacked neatly along the
edges. The floors also look well cov
ered with the denim, over which rugs
may be used. For the dressing room
there should be a comfortable chair, a
dressing table, bed, chest of drawers,
possibly a second chair and a trunk if
you happen to have one. The room
and all its furnishings should be large
enough for the doll to use if you want
to have the most fun out of the doll's
apartment. \u25a0\u25a0'\u25a0•>•'' . f .
The dressing table is easily made of
a plain table or even a wooden box,
which is draped with white muslin or
chintz. Over the table a mirror should
be hung, an $. this you may make of, any
small mirror, which you may frame in
white or chintz to match the dressing
table. The bed may also be draped
•.with the white material or the chintz,
and the chair may be covered 'with the,
: latter. It is nfee to make a cover of
the chintz for the trunk also. Small
colored pictures of flowers or birds are
nice for such a room, and it is often
possible to. cut these out' of old cards.
They maybe framed in. gold paper.
The other room may be either a
handsome drawing room or' a cozy, liv
ing , room. If you prefer an elegant
apartment, then everything should be
in accord, and paper, carpet and furnl
• ture should be quite elegant in -appear
.. ance. There are, of course, different
styles of furnishings, and as each girl
will probably have some" pieces, to
start with it is best to choose the other
thlng3 to go with* these "instead of
selecting an entirely new kind of furni
ture. In a. green drawing room the pic
tures should all have frames of gilt
paper and a mirror with a gold* frame
v is also attractive. . A piano Is suit
able for this room and there should 1
be a table with a bowl of flowers. The
curtalns^may be of velvet, silk or lace
, and the furniture covered with satin.
damask, velvet or silk.
: If you prefer a living room, then the
furniture is much more simple, and
there, should be a bookcase aud a writ
ing desk, or a table arranged as a writ
ing desk, and a' center table with a
lamp on it and books. A comfortable
couch is necessary to this room, and a
. rocking chair is considered suitable.
•The pictures may . have frames that
. .look like wood and aro made of brown
paper. Plain cartridge paper is nice
for this room, and it is well to have a
wooden floor, stained, or if the floor
is too rough for that a covering of
brown denim, with rugs over it, will_
look like a stained floor.
Plain wooden furniture without any
upholstery is suitable for . this room,
and plain net curtains or those of
muslin with long curtains over them,
the latter being made of denim or
linen. There should be plenty of
cushions for the couch, whicli may be
covered with denim, and there also
may be cushions for the chairs, espe
cially the rocking chairs.
Much of the furniture for the sitting
room may be made at home without a
great deal of trouble. t The couch may
be.; made of a wooden box or a strong
mattress and then with upholstery ma
terial. You do not have to make a
real mattress. Any pfece of thick ma
terial doubled several times, or a piece
of an old quilt cut to tit the couch will
do for the top of the couch. A ruffle of
the denim or chintz with which the
couch Is to be covered is put around
the sides of the couch and tacked with
very small tacks. The cover for the
top of the couch is brought down over
this at the sides, and a few stitches
hero and there tack it In so that the
top of the ruffle does not show. An
easier way Is to make the ruffle for the
sides of the couch with a heading and
then put the top cover on first, after
which the side ruffle is tacked on all
around.
It Is still. easier to cover the couch
with a regular couch cover, which is
simply thrown over it so that It com
pletely covers the couch on all sides.
Hook shelves aro also easy to make of
n box. The box must be shallow and
narrower than It is tall. With a pen
knife, make little lines where you want
tho shelves to rest against each side of
the box. Cut these deeply enough so
that the shelves will fit into them. Then
make shelves of cardboard and tit them
FIRST STEPS OF THE
BOY- MAGICIAN
rOR the amusement of one's friends *
in the long winter evenings it la
a good plan to learn some simple
tricks and experiments which one can
do readily withouttoo much prepara- .
, tion.and with no paraphernalia except
such as is to be found in the ordinary
household at all times.. Any boy who
takes the . trouble to learn how to do
a number of these tricks or little ex
periments will find that he Is much In
demand for parties among his young
friends and tKat the hostess is always
grateful to him for helping to en
tertain her guests.
One of the most amusing tricks
which one can, do for the entertain
ment of very' little children especially
is making the little men dance, and
nothing is needed- for this 1 trick but a •
piece of glass or a glass dish 'with a
flat base, a couple of books and some,
little paper figures. The figures are
tiny things cut from ordinary white
paper or newspaper and they may be
copied from these in^ the accompany
ing illustration or cut out In any
fashion you desire.
First heat the glass dish or the sheet
of glass, which is better than the plate
"if you can get It. Then place it on
into these grooves. Tho bookcase may
be stained a dark,color or painted green
or brown. You'may hang a curtaln\ln
front of the shelves, because It Is. diffi
cult to get enough tiny books to fit into
a bookcase, and of course one does not
wish to have empty shelves.
If a girl is very, ingenious she will
enjoy making gold furniture for. her
doll's drawing room by using a founda
tion of heavy cardboard and covering it
with gold paper. Cardboard boxes may
be used for sofas, cabinets and chairs,
the wood part being covered with the
gold paper, while the upholstery is
done in satin or some other elegant
fabric. -.'•*."' .
In furnishing the doll's house crepe
paper ana. tissue paper will be found
very useful. For draperies of all sorts
the flowered paper Is very good, al
though not so lasting as chintz. *,
Poor Man Above AH Reward
A poor man who was a porter at a
house In Milan found a purse which
contained 200 crowns. lie Immediately
made the fact known, and was applied
to by a man who gave sufficient proof
that the purse belonged to him and
had it Instantly restored. Full of gra
titude at recovering his purse, the
owner offered his benefactor 20 crowns,
but he positively refused to accept any
reward. The man who had lost the
money, seeing the porter thus positive,
threw his purse on the ground and ex
claimed, "I have lost nothing, nothing
at all, if you thus refuse to accept so
trivial a gratuity." The porter then
consented to receive five crowns, which
he distributed among the poor.
The Dancing Little Men
two books so that they will support it
at both ends, as is shown; in the pic
ture. Place the little men under the
glass and then rub the glass with the
palm of your hand." The little men
will begin to dance and frolic around
in the most amusing fashion. ,
The books on which you have set
The Geography Game
An amusing g;(fc*£ for schoolboys and
schoolgirls to. play is 1 the geography
game, which does not require any cards
or__other equipment. The, players are
asked to choose a leader, who may be
voted upon* and also an umpire, as this
Is considered the best way to avoid ac
cusations of unfairness. After the
leader is. chosen the players are all,
given pencil and paper and the game
begins. Tho idea Is to see who can
think of tho most, geographical names
beginning with a given lettet in a cer
tain time.
In the first place the leader announces
the letter to be used. For instance, ho
says, "A," whereupon all the players
begin to write as fast as possible geo
graphical names beginning with "A."
At the end of two minutes, or whatever
time has been decided upon as the time
limit, tho leader calls "Time!" and the
players must all atop writing and turn
pver their papers by making a fold
which hides the list of names beginning
with "A." Then tho leader passes on to
another Initial, which ho announces In
the same manner, calling the time limit
on this letter as ho did for the first
one. It is not a good plan to choose
the letters In alphabetical order, ua this,
would give the players too much of 'an
advantage. Instead the loader Jumps
from place to place in the alphabet and
thus confuses the players and throws
them off the track. Usually it is enough
to take 10 or 15 letters when one is
playing this game, but if the players
are particularly fond of exercising their
the glass .must be large enough to raise
It high enough so that the little men
will have room to dance nicely. ; The
secret'of their activity is that the.com
bination of warmth (/and; "rubbing: ap
plied to the glass ; generates a\ little
electricity, which attracts the small
figures. • •• " ; " •'\u25a0"
minds, as some boys and girls are,; then
the whole alphabet may be taken; It Is
announced at the beginning, that there
must be no going back on the list, but
that when the paper is once turned on
a letter and time' la called that letter
Is finished with and the player must not;
add any more names to 1 , the list which
he has, written under It. ,At the close of
thlSv-gamo a prize should bo given to
the player who has written the most
names, as this adds tremendously to;
the interest of the game. A booby prize
may also be given to the, one making
the shortest list, but this should not
be announced until tho.'game is over,
as sometimes players who see that they
have no chance to bo the winner of the
first prize deliberately 'lag. behind when
they know there is to be a' consolation
prize. "!' . ' -
There nre any number op games
which may be played in this fashion,
most of whicli aro known to many
boys and girls. If it Is desired, in
stead of taking the geographical names
those of historical personages may be
chosen. It can be murio even more
dllflcult by taking the names of Ameri
can historical personages' only. The
same idea is sometimes carried out
with the names of flowers. ,
John was learning to use the type
writer. Sister was dictating a letter
to him, and he stopped to think how. to
spell the words.
"Why do you stop so often?" she
asked him.
"Your language la so .grand," he
answered her, evasively, "that I fre
quently find rnysrlf spellbound."
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