New Ideas for American Boys; The Jack of All Trades
CHAPTER XXV.
HOW TO HAVE A PANORAMA SHOW.
After you have had a rollicking-circus in the attic, and a roaring Wild West show in the basement, you can explain to your parents that a panorama is a show of a “highly moral” and most genteel character, and you may persuade them to allow you to have a panorama party in the dining-room.
A Good Panorama
is always a thing worth looking at, yet I promise you that there is more real enjoyment in making a panorama and exhibiting it, than there is in looking at twenty professional exhibitions.
The Subject
of the pictures must be your first thought. In their selection you have the widest possible range of choice, from the “Yankee in King Arthur’s Court” to Roosevelt with the Rough Riders in Cuba, or from “The Pilgrim’s Progress” to “Jack the Giant-killer,” or “Mother Goose.”
To those who have acquired the happy art of expressing their ideas with pencil and brush, the painting of an original panorama need not be explained; but the great majority of boys are unable to make pictures, either with pencil or with brush, and for them there remains still another method, which for beginners is equally, if not more effective.
With Paste-pot and Shears,
any boy, of ordinary ability, may make pictures galore by cutting the figures and even the backgrounds from illustrated papers, grouping and arranging them to suit himself, and pasting them neatly upon a long, strong strip or ribbon of paper, suited to winding and unrolling by means of two cylinders or rollers, as shown in Fig. 296.
Select Your Topic
first, then write out the number of illustrations you wish to make to tell the story; then hunt for a background here, a foreground there, and houses and people wherever they may be found. Paste the background on your strip of paper first, then the foreground, and next add the necessary number of people, vehicles, animals, and other objects.
Colored Figures,
upon a white background, will be found to be most effective. Giants may be made by taking large-sized prints of men, clipping off their heads and replacing the latter with heads of smaller men. Dwarfs may be made by using the small prints of men, and substituting big heads for the ones originally belonging to the figures.
Fig. 296 shows
The Works of the Panorama,
naked and unadorned. But the machinery should be concealed, and for this purpose make a box, similar to the one shown in Fig. 297, which is called the stage. It is simply a narrow box, as shown in Fig. 298, with drapery arranged from the outer edges to a small frame at the rear. Fig. 297 is the front of the finished stage; Fig. 298 is the rear of same, denuded of its drapery.
Hiding in the cellar, basement, attic, or woodshed, of almost every house, are a lot of packing-cases, but if from any cause these boxes should be absent from their accustomed places, you must go to your grocer for the material for your stage.
Build a Narrow Box,
of about the proportions of Fig. 298, and make a frame of four sticks for the back of the box; notch the cross-sticks (Fig. 299) so that they will fit flush, or even, with the inside surface of the two long pieces (Fig. 300).
Cut Some Dark Red Canton Flannel
into four pieces, to fit the four sides of your stage frame; plait the ends, and tack each plait as the drapery is tacked to the frame, as shown in Fig. 300.
After all four pieces of drapery are plaited and tacked fast, nail the frame to the back of the stage, as it is shown in Fig. 298; then, one piece at a time, spread the edges of the cloth over the front edges of the box of the stage and tack them there, as in Fig. 297. This will give you a dark-colored stage frame with a small opening at the back end for the panorama to slide by, as the crank of the roller is turned by the showman behind the curtain.
Curtains must be arranged to hang down on each side of the stage and be pinned together above and below it.
The Stage
should rest upon a table, and be lighted by a row of small Christmas-tree candles, or common candles cut off and made short.
Whatever lights are used, care should be taken to place them so that there will be no danger from fire.
Of course it is not absolutely necessary to use candles for
Footlights.
Any sort of light which will illuminate the panorama without obstructing the view of the audience, will answer the purpose; but it is absolutely necessary to have no other lights burning in the room while the panorama is being exhibited. All the light must be centred upon the pictures.
Fig. 301 shows
How the Panorama Box
is built. There are two holes bored through the top board and through the upper bottom board, but not through the lower bottom board. A glance at the diagram will show you that there are two bottom boards, fitting closely together.
Before putting the panorama box together bore holes in the top board, at equal distances from the ends, and as near the front edge as you can conveniently bore them without danger of splitting the board. These holes are for the rollers, and should be of sufficient size to allow the rollers to revolve with little friction. In case you have no bit or auger which will make large holes, Fig. 302 shows how the difficulty may be overcome with a small bit, gimlet, or red-hot poker, by boring a number of small holes in a circle and then breaking out the centre-piece of wood; smoothing the inside with a sharp knife. In order that the holes in the bottom board shall be directly under those in the top, nail the bottom board to the top board with three wire nails, driving them in only just far enough to hold the boards together while the holes are being bored, as shown in Fig. 303. Since the
Top Board
fits over the side-pieces, and the bottom boards fit between the side-pieces, it is evident that the bottom boards are shorter than the top board by just the width of the two side-pieces. Be careful to allow for this width at the ends, when you nail the boards together, as shown in Fig. 303.
After the holes are bored through the two boards, nail the top board and bottom boards in place, as shown in Fig. 301.
You must, of course, put the bottom board with the holes in it, on top of the bottom board without the holes. This will give two sockets, in which to rest and turn the ends of the rollers.
Make the Rollers of Broomsticks,
if you can secure nothing better, but if you can find some old window-shade rollers they will probably be an improvement on the broomsticks, as they have metal sockets in which they will turn with much less friction than in the wooden ones described above.
The rollers should both be of sufficient length to allow a convenient amount of stick to protrude from the top of the box, as is shown in Fig. 296.
A Crank or Windlass
handle, of some kind, is necessary to turn the rollers, and Figs. 304 to 311 show how such handles may be made.
If you wish a comic panorama you have at your disposal a vast amount of material. The gorgeously-colored comic prints of to-day lend themselves readily to the process of picture-making with paste-pot and shears, and all sorts of funny combinations can be produced, which will delight the audience, and, best of all, furnish indoor amusement and work for the reader when the weather is so boisterous, wet, and sloppy that there is no chance of fun out-of-doors, and there are many such days, between January and May, each year.
When all is done, paint some
Big Show-Bills,
to hang in the hallway, to be read and admired by the guests. Set the frame stage upon a small table, with the panorama box close against it; over the frame a small piece of dark cloth may be thrown, to be removed when the show begins.
The candles may be set upon a narrow strip of board, in front of the stage, and if you drive nails in groups of three, along the board, you will discover that the nails will hold the candles secure, as shown in the arrangement of the footlights in Fig. 312.
In front of each candle set
A Square Piece of Tin
bent to a curve, and with the concave side next to the candle, to act as a reflector, and the convex side next to the audience. The outsides should be painted dark red, to match the frame and conceal the light.
At the appointed time
Turn Out All the Lights
in the room, light the footlights, and remove the cloth from the box, displaying the first scene.
One boy should stand in front, as lecturer, and explain the different pictures, and another boy stand behind the curtain, winding up the paper as directed by the lecturer. The audience will have a good time, in proportion to the fun the lecturer puts in his talk, and all will enjoy the show to
THE END.
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INDEX
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INDEX
A
Ancient mariners, 5
Animals, kindness to, 33, 34
Ape, evolution of, 234
“Arab steed,” how to make an, 254
Army, to make a pasteboard, 217
Artificial water, 206
Aviary, how to make a back-yard, 63
Axe, tree-top club-house built with, 10
Axles, car-wheel, 172
B
Bantam coops, 55
Beard, Frank, 224
Beard, Santa Claus’s, 249
Bed, Daniel Boone cabin, 123; Lincoln, 124
Binders, to make water club-house foundation, 101
Birds, 63
Bonbon box, the cabbage, 265
Buffalo, to make a herd of, 276
Bugles, wooden, 141
Building material, house-boat, 150
Bumpers, house-boat, 155
Bunks, house-boat, 164
Burgoo, Kentucky, 107; ingredients of a, 109; how to cook a, 109
Burgoo master, 108, 109
Bridge of matches, 206
Bridle, to make a, 274
C
Cabin, how to build and furnish a Daniel Boone, 116; lumber for, 118; ground plan of 6 × 10, 119
Cabin, house-boat, 157; street-car used as, 168
Cage, to make a galvanized-wire netting, 39; receiving, 46
Cake, the “Fake,” 266, 268
Camera, hunting with the, 20
Camp dress, women’s, 133
Camping out. See Daniel Boone cabin, 116
Carp, 52
Carpet tacks as blow-gun darts, 264
Cars, back-yard switchback, 170
Catfish, 52
Centre-piece, house-boat, 151
Chalk talk, how to give a, 222
Chestnut wood for foundation posts, 75
Chickens, coops for, 54; need of shelter for, 54; material for coop, 56
Chimney, Daniel Boone cabin, 130; stick, 131; Santa Claus’s, 238
Chipmonks, 19; how to trap, 26; food for, 26; wire cage for, 37
Circus, a home-made, 191; in the attic, 253
Clam-bake, the Rhode Island, 107
Clams, fresh-water, in confinement, 53
Club-house, water, 97
Club-house, underground, 89
Club-house, a tree-top, 3; underground, 4; grape-vine approach to, 7; a two-tree, 9; selection of trees for, 10; how to build, 10; foundation of, 14; the vine-tree, 16; three- and four-tree foundation, 18
Coat, Santa Claus, 245
Cobblestones for bracing water club-house cribs, 102
“Collar,” back-yard workshop, 80
Collins, Captain Bob, 141, 142
Cowboy, to make a, 273
Crank, panorama, 284
Crawfish, 52
Creepers, nests for, 65
Cribs, water club-house foundation, 100, 102
Crusoe clubs, 97
Crusoe raft, 150
D
Dace, 52
Daniel Boone cabin, how to build and furnish a, 116; lumber for, 118
Darts, carpet-tacks as blow-gun, 264
Deck, house-boat, 160
Door, back-yard workshop, 82; underground club-house, 89, 95; back-yard zoo, 4; pigeon and bantam coop, 58; Daniel Boone cabin, 121, 125, 129
Drawing-board, chalk-talk, 225
Drinking-troughs for pigeons and bantams, 61
E
Enihan. See Lawn hab-enihan, 114
F
Feather-duster as a tail, 254
Fireplace, Daniel Boone cabin, 122, 128, 130; Santa Claus, 237, 243
First Gentleman. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
First Lady. See Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
Fish, food for, 53
Fish-pond, a back-yard, 48; how to stock, 52
Flat-boatman’s horn, 139
Flooring, house-boat, 160
Floor-joists, Daniel Boone cabin, 120
Floor-supports, Daniel Boone cabin, 120
Flower-pots, bird-nests in, 68
Flying-cage for pigeons, 62
Flying-squirrel, trapping, 21, 23
Footlights, panorama stage, 282
Foundation, tree-top club-house, 9, 14, 18; back-yard workshop, 76; water club-house, 97, 99, 101; Daniel Boone cabin, 120
Foxes, wire cage for, 37; anecdote of, 38
Frame, tree-top club-house, 14; underground club-house, 92
Frogs, house for, 41; varieties of, 42; market for, 44; the Anderson, 45
G
Games with toothpicks and matches, 201
Gnawers, 21; cages for, 37
Goldfish, 52
Gourds, martin nests in, 66
Grape basket, wren nests in, 66
Grandmother’s reticule, 218
H
Hab. See Lawn hab-enihan, 114
Hanging-bars, 194
Hatch, house-boat, 160
Horn, flat-boatman’s, 139; Captain Bob Collins’s, 142; Wabash, 143; how to make a Wabash, 143; to make a Captain Bob Collins’s, 142
House, how to make a pasteboard, 212
House-boat, canvas-cabined, 166
House-boat, how to build the American boy’s, 146; cost of, 167 168
I
Indian, to make an, 273
Island, artificial, 104
J
Jack-fagots, 110
“Joggling board,” 105
Johnson, Colonel Richard, 141
K
Kentucky burgoo, 107
L
Lamps for Daniel Boone cabin, 127
Lawn hab-enihan, 114
Lean-to, how to make a, 136
Level, a home-made, 74
Lizards, house for, 41, 46
Lockers, house-boat, 158, 164
Log house, how to build a, 116
Log-rolling, 121
Lumber for underground club-house, 92; for Daniel Boone cabin, 118
M
Machine shop, 83, 85
Making up, 262
Manicora, how to make the, 257
Matches, good games with, 201; a bridge of, 206
Mice, learning, 25; habits of, 27; white-footed, 24; as pets, 25; food for, 26
Mink, habits of, 31; how to trap, 31; author’s anecdote of, 32
Moa, how to make the, 257
Motion, how to suggest, 230
Musk-rats, Captain John Smith’s description of, 30; how to trap, 31; in captivity, 31; cage for, 37
Mussels, 53
N
Nails, frame of tree-top club-house fastened with, 12
Nests, pigeon and bantam, 60; birds’-nests in Washington’s coat, 63; the speaking-horn, 63; woodpecker, 64; martin, 66; wren, 66; tin-can, 68
O
Oilcloth for underground club-house roof, 94
Oiled paper for glass, Daniel Boone cabin windows, 127
Oil-stove, 73
Old Dan Tucker, 110, 111, 112
P
Paddles, how to make, 193
Panorama box, how to make, 283
Panorama show, a, 218
Passageway, underground club-house, 93
Pattern, how to reproduce, for Wild West show, 270
Peepers, how to capture, 45
Pennsylvania pond stew, 107
Pheasants, cage for, 37
Picnic, how to have fun at a, 105
Picnic box, 106
Pigeons, lofts for, 54; material needed in making, 56; nests for, 60; drinking-troughs for, 61
Pitch-peg-pin pitching, 112
Plumb, a home-made, 75
Prairie chickens, cage for, 37
Purlins, back-yard workshop, 80
Q
Quail, wire cage for, 37
R
Rabbits, cage for, 37
Rafters of tree-top club-house, 14; back-yard workshop, 79; underground club-house, 94; house-boat, 160
Rat, 21; short-tailed meadow, 23, 26; wire cage for, 37
Receiving-cage, 21
Receiving-tank, bath-tub as, 191
Reins, Arab steed, 256
Reptiles, house for, 41
Ribs, house-boat, 156, 157; Arab steed, 255
Ridge-plank, how to make a, 79
Ring-master, dress of, 259
River people, 147
River-rats, 5
Robinson Crusoe, 4
Rock bass, 52
Rodents, 21; cages for, 37
Rollers, panorama, 284
Roof, tree-top club-house, 14; underground club-house, 92, 94; Daniel Boone cabin, 123; house-boat, 162
Roost, pigeon and bantam, 60
Rowlocks, house-boat, 163
Rudder, house-boat, 162
Ruffed grouse, cage for, 37
Runway, doors for, 41
S
Santa Claus, costume for, 245; how to make two boys into one, 248
Santa Claus fireplace, how to make a, 237
Sap-suckers, nests for, 65
Settlement, a pioneer, 208
Shack, how to make a, 135
Shanty, cost of a, 136
Show, a Wild West, 270; a panorama, 278
Show-bills, panorama, 286
Shutters for pigeon and bantam coops, 59
Sleigh, how to make a pasteboard, 211
Sleigh, Santa Claus’s, 250
Slipperies, 182; war-time, 182
Smudge, capturing flying-squirrels with a, 22
Snakes, house for, 41; poisonous, 42; varieties of, 42; superstitions about, 43
Soldiers, to make pasteboard, 215
Speaking-horn, birds’-nests in, 63
Squirrel, cage for, 37
Stairs, water club-house, 103
Stability, emblem of, 229
Stage, panorama, 282
Stag-party, a boys’, 263
Stars, to cut five- and six-pointed stars with one clip, 220
Starting platform, switchback railway, 173
Stool, cabin, 131
Street-car cabin, house-boat with, 168
Struts in tree-top club-house, 18
Sunfish, 52
Supplies, camp, 133
St. Nicholas, our American, 243
Swallows, 70, 71
Swiss Family Robinson, 4
Switchback, a back-yard, 170
T
Table, log cabin, 131; supplies for, 137
Tank, back-yard fish-pond, 48, 49
Tar used on underground club-house roof, 94
Tents, cost of, 136
Ticket-chopper’s box, 180
Toads, house for, 41; superstitions about, 43, 44
Toboggan room, 186
Toboggan slide, how to build a, 182; tropical, 184
Tools for building tree-top club house, 10; for making back-yard zoo, 35; for making back-yard fish-pond, 49; for back-yard workshop, 73; for making water club-house, 98; care of, 86
Tool-rack, 86, 88
Toothpicks, good games with, 201
Track, switchback railway, 178
Trap, mouse, 24, 25; the wooden box, 28; the tin-can, 29; a figure-4, 30
Trapping, 19
Tree-top club-house, 3
Turnpike zoo, 106
Turtles, house for, 41
U
Underground club-house, 89
V
Ventilation, underground club-house, 95, 96
Virginia soup, 107
W
Wabash horn, 143
Walls, tree-top club-house, 14
Washington, birds’-nests in coat of, 63
Water-wheel, how to make a, 192
Wheels, switchback car, 170
Whittling, prevalence of, 139
Wig, Santa Claus’s, 249
Wild West show, 270
Windlass, panorama, 284
Window, back-yard workshop, 82; Daniel Boone cabin, 121
Wire cloth, 36
Wire, galvanized iron, for back-yard zoo, 36; for pigeon loft and bantam coop, 58
Wire netting, 36
Woodchucks, 19; as pets, 27; how to trap, 27; habits of, 30; cage for, 37
Woodpeckers, nests for, 65
Workshop, a boy’s back-yard, 72; how to build, 77
Wren, nest for, 66
Z
Zoo, a back-yard, 33
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_A NEW BOOK FOR INVENTIVE BOYS_
=By DANIEL C. BEARD=
=The Jack of All Trades=
=OR, NEW IDEAS FOR AMERICAN BOYS=
=Profusely Illustrated. Square 8vo, $2.00=
No writer for boys has a larger or more enthusiastic following than Mr. Dan. Beard, and the announcement of a new book by him should be welcome news to his many young friends. “The Jack of All Trades” has been written in response to a direct demand from boys from all over the United States and many parts of the British Provinces. From their letters the author discovered that there was a great demand for more material along the lines of the “American Boy’s Handy Book” and “The Outdoor Handy Book.” “The Jack of All Trades” presents a vast number of new ideas which any boy can put into execution, and which will be a source of endless delight.
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=Part I. Fair Weather Ideas=
Tree-Top Club-Houses--How to Capture and Trap Small Live Animals--The Back-Yard Zoo--A Back-Yard Fish-Pond--Pigeon and Bantam Coops--How to Make a Back-Yard Aviary--A Boy’s Back-Yard Workshop--How to Build an Underground Club-House--A Boys’ Club-House on the Water--How to Have Fun on a Picnic--How to Build and How to Furnish a Daniel Boone Cabin--Flat Boatman’s House--The American Boy’s House Boat--Back-Yard Switchback--How to Build a Toboggan Slide in the Back-Yard.
=Part II. Rainy Weather Ideas=
A Home-Made Circus--Good Games with Toothpicks and Matches--Fun with Scissors and Pasteboard and Paper--How to Prepare and Give a Boys’ Chalk Talk--A Christmas Novelty for Boys--How to Make Two Boys into One Santa Claus--A Circus in the Attic--A Boys’ Stag Party--A Wild West Show in the House--How to Have a Panorama Show.
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=SUMMARY OF CONTENTS=
Kite Time--War Kites--Novel Modes of Fishing--Home-made Fishing Tackle--How to Stock, Make, and Keep a Fresh-water Aquarium--How to Stock and Keep a Marine Aquarium--Knots, Bends, and Hitches--Dredge, Tangle, and Trawl Fishing--Home-made Boats--How to Rig and Sail Small Boats--How to Camp Out Without a Tent--How to Rear Wild Birds--Home-made Hunting Apparatus--Traps and Trapping--Dogs--Practical Taxidermy for Boys--Snow Houses and Statuary--Winged Skaters--Winter Fishing--Indoor Amusements--How to Make a Magic Lantern--Puppet Shows--Home-made Masquerade and Theatrical Costumes--With many other subjects of a kindred nature.
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=SUMMARY OF CONTENTS=
First of April--Wild Flowers and Their Preservation--The Walking Club--Easter-Egg Games--How to Make a Lawn Tennis Net--May-Day Sports--Midsummer-Eve Games and Sports--Sea-side Cottage Decoration--A Girl’s Fourth of July--An Impression Album--Picnics, Burgoos, and Corn-Roasts--Botany as Applied to Art--Quiet Games for Hot Weather--How to Make a Hammock--Corn-Husk and Flower Dolls--How to Make Fans--All Hallow Eve--Nature’s Fall Decorations and How to Use Them--Nutting Parties--How to Draw, Paint in Oil-colors, and Model in Clay and Wax--China Painting--Christmas Festivities, and Home-made Christmas Gifts--Amusements and Games for the Holidays--Golf--Bicycling--Swimming--Physical Culture--Girls’ Clubs--A New Seashore Game--Apple Target Shooting--Water Fairies.
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Transcriber’s Notes:
The author, Daniel Carter Beard, founded the Sons of Daniel Boone in 1905 (later renamed the Boy Pioneers of America), which was merged into the Boy Scouts of America when that organization was founded in 1910.
Another similarly title book by the same author contains a subset of the material in this book: D. C. Beard, _The Jack of All Trades: Fair Weather Ideas_, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1904.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of each chapter and relabeled consecutively through the document.
Illustrations have been moved to paragraph breaks near where they are mentioned.
Punctuation and figure captions have been made consistent.
Variations in spelling and hyphenation were retained as they appear in the original publication, except that obvious typos have been corrected.