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THE YOUNG SCIENTIST. 
As the house now stood, bare and open 
in the front, it did not present a very nice 
appearance, and Jessie seemed somewhat 
disappointed at its loolcs. She soon made 
known her feelings by asl^ing her father 
" if that was all that was going to be done 
to her dolly's house? " 
" Why no, my dear," said Mr. Carpen- 
ter, "we are going to put a front on it| 
with five windows and a hall door, andl 
then we will paint the body olive-green, \ 
and the trimmings of the windows, door, | 
and cornice a deep Indian red. The front 
will be made in two pieces and hinged on 
the sides. It will part on a line with one 
of the partitions. When you wish to see 
the inside or adjust any of the furniture, 
you may open one or both sections of the 
front. Of course, Jessie, you will have to 
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string. All this work was done with the 
new scroll saw ; and the wavy pieces and 
scroll ornament on the gable were cut out 
with the same tool. The windows were 
cut out of the "solid," and strips of tin 
were run across the openings on the 
inside, and nailed with small-headed 
tacks. These strips of tin were about 
three-sixteenths of an inch wide, and 
represented the sash bars ; sheets of glass 
were then placed over the strips, and 
other tin strips were then run over the 
inside of the glass and nailed down to the 
wood close to the edges of the glass. 
These second strips represented the sash 
bars on the inside, and answered the pur- 
pose of holding the glass in its place. 
These strips were painted in appropriate 
colors on both sides of the glass. 
At the entrance a front door was repre- 
sented by painting, but the fanlight over 
the door was cut out of the "solid," like 
the windows, and was treated the same 
way, only that the glass used for the pur- 
pose was colored. 
In cutting the openings for the windows 
and fanlight, it was necessary to first 
mark them out the size required. When 
this was done, a hole was bored in one 
Fig. 27. 
paper all the rooms and ceilings yourself, 
and according to your own. taste." 
Jessie was quite pleased with this ex- 
planation, it was all she required; and 
she began to form plans in her own mind 
for furnishing and decorating her new 
house. 
Several evenings elapsed before the 
house was complete. Two chimneys had 
to be made of thin stuff, and in propor- 
tion to those shown in the cut. Fig. 26 ; 
they were painted red and striped like 
brick work. A flight of stairs was put up 
in the hall, and Fred sawed out an orna- 
mental baluster and rail for the stairs all 
in one piece, with newel post and side 
Fig. 27 shows the front. It is made of stuff half 
an inch thick, and is in two parts, being divided 
at the dotted lines. Each part should be hinged 
to the sides of the house with small hinges, which 
are placed about as shown in the cut. The doors 
may be held closed by a "button," or any otlier 
suitable device. 
Fig. 28. 
corner with the brace and bit (Fig. 28), 
into which the point of the key-hole saw^ 
(Fig. 29) was inserted, and the opening 
Fig. 28 shows an iron brace with bit inserted. 
a a show the jaws, which are opened and closed 
with a sleeve nut, d. The end of the bit presses 
against a movable centre-piece, which has a 
spring behind it. 
