How to Make a Kite.

Fair Play, Volume I, Issue 16, 17 February 1894, Page 11

How to Make a Kite.

Take two sticks of equal length and! cross them so that thoy will ho like tho] letter X, but with this exception: Have 1 the V at the top smaller than tho \ at the bottom, so that tho sticks will bo crossed above tho central line. Then take another stick, just two-thmhj tho' length of either of tho first sticks.; Place this stick horizontally across the other sticks at tho point whore thoy cross each other. Bind tho four sticks

together at this point. Cut notches in all the ends, draw a string around and tie it tightly. Hero you havo your framework. Then covor this with paper, pasting the fold around tho string. Tie strips of equal length from the top of one of tho X sticks to tho bottom, but not crossing. Then tio your kite string to tlieso in tho middle just above tho central point, so tho kito will have u tendency to go up. A good kite tail is made of pieces of newspaper tied together by a string.