Cardboard Boxes
Cardboard boxes, of a more useful nature than paper boxes, are made on the same principle as the house described on [p. 239], and the furniture to go in it, as described later in the same chapter. The whole box can be cut in the flat, out of one piece of cardboard, and the sides afterward bent up and the lid down. Measurements must of course be exact. The prettiest way to join the sides is to use thin silk instead of paper, and the lid may be made to fasten by a little bow of the same material.