. Things worth doing and how to do them. Fig. 466.—The boy bather. When all are ready, «* *^SISX£* * Dip Each Doll in Melted Wax One-half a wax-candle will be sufficient for the sure that each doll is completely covered on both sideswith wax, and instead of paper dolls you will have twenty funnylittle wax dolls, the coloring showing distinctly through the a coarse needle and thread make A Toy Life Rope and string on the thread four dolls with arms bent forward—a boy, a girl, a boy and a girl—by piercing the hands of eachwith the needle and drawing the thread through. In this w
. Things worth doing and how to do them. Fig. 466.—The boy bather. When all are ready, «* *^SISX£* * Dip Each Doll in Melted Wax One-half a wax-candle will be sufficient for the sure that each doll is completely covered on both sideswith wax, and instead of paper dolls you will have twenty funnylittle wax dolls, the coloring showing distinctly through the a coarse needle and thread make A Toy Life Rope and string on the thread four dolls with arms bent forward—a boy, a girl, a boy and a girl—by piercing the hands of eachwith the needle and drawing the thread through. In this waythey are made to hold on to the thread rope. Water Toys 341 Choose a clear, shallow pool or the edge of a pond for The Bathing Place Tie the thread to a stick, the lower end of which must be fastenedsecurely in the ground under water while its top end stands outabove the water. Hold the loose end of the thread taut in onehand as you carefully slide the bathers along the life rope until. Fig. 468.—The bathers are having fun. all stand in shallow water. The life rope reaches from the landout into the water. Stir the water and cause the waves to risewhile you keep the thread moving up and down to make thedolls jump and frolic like real bathers (Fig. 468). For the Raft make fifteen paper lighters of strips of writing paper nine incheslong and three-quarters of an inch wide (Fig. 469). Begin at 342 Things for Home, Gift Days and Fairs one corner and roll the paper into a long round stick; fold overthe top to keep the lighter from unrolling (Fig. 470). Dip eachlighter in melted wax until it iscompletely coated all over; thenwax two pieces of common string,each one a generous half yard inlength. Tie or cross the centreof each string on a waxed lighterone inch from each end. Lay thislighter on a table in front of andparallel to you; place anotherlighter up against the ties, allowingone string from each tie to comeover and one under the secondlighter (Fig. 471). Cross the t
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