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HANDICRAFT FOR BOYS
A MODEL ENGINE CONSTRUCTED FROM DIAGRAMS SHOWN IN THIS BOOK
HANDICRAFT
FOR BOYS
BY
A. FREDERICK COLLINS
INVENTOR OF THE WIRELESS TELEPHONE
Author of “Inventing for Boys,” “The
Boys’ Book of Submarines,” etc.
WITH 185 ILLUSTRATIONS AND DIAGRAMS
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
TO
MY NEPHEW AND NIECE
CLARENCE AND MAY ZEITLER
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A WORD TO THE BOY
Your life, if you live it like the average boy, issplit up into four parts and these are (1) eating, (2)sleeping, (3) working and (4) playing.
Now I haven’t a word to say about the first threephases of your existence for you will attend prettywell to the eating and sleeping ends, and your elderswill quite likely see to it that you get enough work todo in and out of school.
But when it comes to playing I want to edge in, forthis is a very important and often a sadly neglectedpart of your daily routine. There are three kinds ofplaying, namely (a) where your mind only is engagedas for instance at dominoes, checkers or chess, (b)where your body is chiefly in action as in gymnasticsand outdoor games, and (c) where your mind andbody are doing something more or less constructive.
This book which I have written for you dealswith playing of the latter kind and while I don’t wantyou to get so interested in any of the various arts andcrafts described to the extent of using all your sparehours doing it, still it is a great mistake not to havea hobby such as jig-sawing, printing, die-sinking orthe like. There is something tremendously fascinatingabout visualizing things in your brain and then[viii]fashioning them with your hands and you ought todo it.
Different from other kinds of playing the by-productsof these arts and crafts last a long time afteryour efforts have been spent u