Fig. 424.
Find a tiny doll, dress it like a child and glue it in an upright position on the walk. Have another doll (neither of these should be jointed) dressed in a way to represent the little one’s mother, standing by the well drawing water, and your charming old-fashioned log-cabin home will be finished. See illustration of An “Abe” Lincoln Log-cabin.
You might be drawing the simple designs.
CHAPTER XVIII
QUEER THINGS ON PAPER AND BLACKBOARD
AND HOW TO PUT THEM THERE
Look at a piece of blank paper or, better still, stand before an unmarked blackboard and try to imagine pictured on its surface whatever you would like to see there. It might be a comical little turtle, a rose, or perhaps a graceful swan. If you knew exactly the true shape and proportion of the objects you could draw them, but as soon as you attempt the sketch you realize that you cannot remember just how these creatures are formed, and consequently you are unable to depict them. Do not be discouraged, for there is a way in which you may do the work easily and that is by reducing the realistic drawing to a few leading lines, and the girls who are able to sketch even a small number of simple objects in this way have resources within themselves both for diversion and development, worth much more than they are apt to understand.
If you would like to put on paper or board