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=Doors and Windows.= The size and arrangement of doors and windows should be freely discussed. Various possible arrangements may be sketched upon the blackboard by the children. When a plan is adopted, the doors and windows should be carefully drawn on the outside of each box, using the try-square to get right angles.
The miter box should be fastened firmly to a low table or box. House arranged on a table. Back view. Built by second grade. Hammers, several of medium size. Try-square, a very valuable tool for setting right angles, provided the teacher and pupils know how to use it. =Arrangement of Rooms.= The sort of house a man can build is governed by his resources and his site.
Each pupil is provided with the following tools: One coach-maker's vise, one 26-inch No. 6 cross-cut saw, one 12-inch back saw, one set of planes, one set of chisels, one set of auger-bits, one set of gimlet-bits, one ratchet-brace, one coach-maker's drawing-knife, one spoke-shave, one thumb-gauge, one try-square, one bevel, one hammer, and one mallet.
With that he picked up a try-square and pencil and began laying out some work for Paul to cut on the circular saw, while John busied himself at the boring-machine in putting a hole through the center of the big twelve-foot balsa-wood propeller which a little later would be reinforced with a thin jacket of a new metal called "salinamum," which was made chiefly from salt but whose fused components made it as light as aluminum and stronger than tool steel.
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