I made a lovely theater for little dolls to-day. If you would like, I’ll tell you how. You make it in this way: Right on the bottom of a box—a pasteboard box, you know— You draw a square with space each side; that’s where the stage should go. Now cut the square right at the top, and cut it down each side. Upon the base, you bend it in. It cannot be denied This makes a “really truly” stage! For scenery you use Some pretty colored postal cards of houses, and some views. To put these in, you cut a slit upon the box’s top, And through a wider one, in front, the dolls on threads you drop. [Illustration: The Punch and Judy or Little Dolls’ Theater is made from a deep letter-paper box and its cover. The scenery is a fancy postal card and the actor is a doll.] [Illustration: The Merry-go-Round is made from the covers of two round bandboxes, a cardboard roll and penny cut-outs purchased at the children’s “penny store.”] This must be just above the stage, and wide and long, you see, The actor dolls, held in the wings, can enter easily. You move the thread and walk them round. Mine act all kinds of things: The fairy stories that I know; my sailor doll, here, sings. And you can use the theater for fun in lots of ways: Give lectures on the postal views as well as acting plays. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ HOW TO MAKE A TOY MERRY-GO-ROUND =Material Required to Make a Toy Merry-go-round=: two round bandbox covers, or the two halves of some large round box, a sheet of penny cut-out pictures of horses or animals, and a cardboard mailing-tube or a hoop-stick. Everyone may own a merry-go-round. It is made from two large round bandbox covers and a mailing-tube. You will also need some pictures of animals or horses to use on the merry-go-round. Four or five animals are enough to use. A small box will require less. Cut-out pictures of Indians or cowboys may be used on the merry-go-round. If you cannot have these, horses cut from cardboard will answer. To do this, find a clear outline of a horse in some magazine picture and trace it upon your cardboard. Then, when it is cut out, you will have a pattern to help you make the other horses by drawing around its edge. In the picture, the horses were each a penny cut-out. They came as race-horses. They exactly fitted the bandbox merry-go-round that I made. If your cut-outs are upon thin paper, paste them upon thin cardboard before you start the work of making the toy itself. Let them dry while you are making the merry-go-round. To construct this, first take the cardboard mailing-tube that you have (or the hoop-stick), and run it down through the center of one bandbox cover as the bandbox cover stands on its rims like a platform. Cut a small hole in the center of your other bandbox cover, and press this down over the cardboard mailing-tube, a third of the way down its length, just as you see it in the picture.