. St. Nicholas [serial]. ROSETTE TIDY. Sew your six pieces of card-board together withworsted, and you will have a six-sided balloon,eight inches in diameter, and about ten incheshigh. But, before putting the sides together, itwill make your balloon much more handsome ifyou work on them, with variously colored worsteds,some ornamental designs, as suggested in the illus-tration. And now you must have a car for your balloon ;. DIAGRAM FOR TIDY. blank strip that is usually on the side of a sheetof perforated board, and mark off the tens on it;then you can use this marked piece as a scale. and you


. St. Nicholas [serial]. ROSETTE TIDY. Sew your six pieces of card-board together withworsted, and you will have a six-sided balloon,eight inches in diameter, and about ten incheshigh. But, before putting the sides together, itwill make your balloon much more handsome ifyou work on them, with variously colored worsteds,some ornamental designs, as suggested in the illus-tration. And now you must have a car for your balloon ;. DIAGRAM FOR TIDY. blank strip that is usually on the side of a sheetof perforated board, and mark off the tens on it;then you can use this marked piece as a scale. and you will see that the one attached to thisballoon is made like a six-sided card-receiver. Thebottom is three inches wide. Suspend this to theballoon by cords as here shown, and add balls,beads, dr tassels for ornament. A cord on topof the balloon will attach it to the chandelier orto the ceiling. Your grown-up brother, or cousin, or friend canmake for you, or for his own pleasure, A Tissue-Paper Fire-Balloon, by taking the same dimensions, and multiplyingthem any number of times, remembering that hemust allow a quarter of an inch for pasting. Itwould be better for him first to cut a pattern out ofbrown paper. The gores should be larger towardthe bottom, according to the outside dotted linesand figures. The opening will require a circularwire (as light as will keep the snape) with twocross-pieces, at the intersection of


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