A GAY GIFT.
The soldier is contrived from a clothes peg, which provides head, body and legs. Paint him with water-colours—hair and features and collar in black, short red coat with black buttons, white trousers. Paint black also a medicine bottle cork, and an old orange-stick. When seccotincd respectively to his head and his side, they become his busby and rifle. Now paint a piece of thin wood, about
four inches square, a vivid orange or green and glue a strip of striking paper from the sido of a matchbox along one edge. A cylindrical cardboard foundation from .1 ball of mercerised cotton will hold matches, when painted and glued to the mount behind the striking paper. Behind that again glue the bottom edges of a penny candle-holder( shown on loft in photograph)., His legs will ram homo into this, enabling him to stand to attention.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NZH19291130.2.191.44.23
Bibliographic details
New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
Word Count
146A GAY GIFT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20426, 30 November 1929, Page 6 (Supplement)
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the New Zealand Herald. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence . This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Auckland Libraries and NZME.