Cut two pieces of pasteboard like [Fig. 70], making each six inches wide and almost as high from floor of stage as is the top of the centre of the arch. Paper these also with green, both front and back. Tack one piece of the pasteboard on the front edge of each side wall of the stage, allowing it to extend out from and beyond the side wall ([Fig. 71]). Bore a hole with a gimlet through the centre of the back wall of the stage five inches up from the inside floor, and your stage will be finished.
Fig. 72.—Titania.
Make Titania
([Fig. 72]) of light-weight cardboard. When finished she should be ten inches in height from her toes to the top of her head. [Fig. 73] is the diagram of the body and arms, measuring three and five-eighths inches from top of head to lower edge of body. Cut the two upper portions of the legs (length two and one-half inches, greatest width one inch) from [Fig. 74], and the two lower portions (length three and three-eighths inches) from [Fig. 75]. Join the two parts of each leg together, according to the dots, with a strong thread and needle, and fasten with a knot on front and back, so that the two pieces will be strung upon the same thread and sandwiched between two knots of the thread. Attach the legs to the body in the same manner. The small circles A, A on the doll’s body ([Fig. 73]) give the exact spots where the thread should pass through, and the curved line above each letter shows where the upper edge of the top part of the leg should reach. Dot B marks the point on the upper part of the leg ([Fig. 74]) where the thread goes through, joining the leg to the body. Have all the joints of the doll securely fastened and only loose enough to move easily.
| Fig. 73.—Cut the body and arms of Titania like this. | Fig. 74.—Two upper portions of legs. | Fig. 75.—Lower part of legs. |
Find a pretty head in some old paper or advertisement, cut it out and gum it on the pasteboard head. Remember, though, that the printed head must not be of very heavy paper, as the upper part of the doll should be lighter in weight than the lower, otherwise the figure will not balance. If you cannot find a head in colors, you must paint the printed black-and-white one; give the face, neck and arms a flat wash of light-pink water-color paint; color the lips and cheeks red, the eyes blue and the hair brown. Make the long stockings a darker pink than the light flesh tones, and paste slippers of gilt paper on the feet.
Puncture a hole with a coarse needle through the centre of the belt-line (C, [Fig. 76]). For
Titania’s Costume