THE PAPER TREE

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 563, 16 January 1929, Page 13

THE PAPER TREE

A wonderful fir tree can be made in a few minutes out of an old newspaper. We take two double sheets of the newspaper, and cut these across the middle to make four very wide strips, as shown in the first picture. Then, taking one strip, we roll it up, and just before it is quite rolled insert the beginning of the next strip, and continue rolling. Then, when that is nearly rolled, we insert the third strip, and so on till all four have been rolled up. Next we press the roll flat, and. inserting a sharp knife, slit down the tube for half its length on each side. We now press it flat along the other axis, and again slit on each side for half the length. One end of the tube is thus cut into four sections, which we fold back along the length of the tube. All w r e now have to do is to insert a finger in the tube at the cut end. and draw' out for more than three times the length of the tube, when we have a tall fir tree, with its many branches all round, as shown in the last picture. At Muskat, on the Gulf of Oman (the body of water linking the Persian Gulf and the Arabian Sea), the temperature has been known to mount to 135 in the shade.