The Windmill.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXI, Issue III, 18 July 1903, Page 148

The Windmill.

Do you want to build a windmill without expense, or the ‘help off water and steam power? The illustration shows plain y that we mean only a pretty plaything-, set in motion by the power off our lungs. Wei need several pieces off straw such as are used in summer to suck cooling drinks from a glass. We cut a piece of straw seven inches long. This is going to be the tube by which we set the mill in motion. Then we cut off two pieces of straw of equal length (three inches). We s-plit these two pi ces carefully' with a penknifein four parts (each two inches-long), and bend the spi t parts back in such a way that they stand perpendicularly like spokes of a wheel. We stick

them, as the wheel of the windmill, on a thinner piece of straw (four inches long) in such a way that the split and bent two parts form a wheel with eight spokes. After this we build a framework of straw-, as shown in our illustration. Tn the middle of this framework we insert the wheel, after piercing the sides of the frame with a penknife. Behind the wheel we insert a bar of straw, to strengthen the frame, and stick the b owing tub? through it and the base of the frame. The illustration show's how to hold the windmill and how it is set in motion.