Harper's Young People, October 26, 1880 Part 11

Take a sheet of white or yellow tissue-paper of the exact size of your window-pane, and with some very fine boiled paste paste it thereon. When this is dry, take two sheets of another color, and fold them; then cut from these folded sheets a form like Fig. 1. You will now, on opening them, have two shields, as in Fig. 2. Now paste one of these shields in the centre of your yellow window-pane. When this is perfectly dry, paste the second shield over the first, only a little to one side and lower down, as represented in Fig. 3, and you will have an effect much resembling stained gla.s.s. If you choose you can cut out some design from a fourth sheet to resemble a crest--say, the head of a lion--and paste that in the centre of the shield; this should be of some other colored paper. Or, to produce another effect, you may, after first neatly outlining the design with a pencil, cut and sc.r.a.pe away all the paper within the limits of the design with a sharp-pointed knife, so as to leave the plain gla.s.s, which will have a very pretty effect, particularly if you shade the design on the edges with Indian ink. Or, again, you may fill in this s.p.a.ce with some bright contrasting color; say, red on blue, or blue on red.

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 4.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: Fig. 5.]

Of course, in decorating your window, it will be desirable to have a different design on every pane, or at least a great variety. To obtain another and more elaborate form it is only necessary to fold your two sheets of tissue-paper twice, and then cut out, say, a figure like Fig.

4, when, on unfolding it, you will have two patterns like Fig. 5, which will, when pasted over each other, produce a rich effect.

=Bravery is of no Nation.=--It is admitted on all hands that the Afghans, of whom we are hearing so much just now, fought bravely, and the same as to the Zulus. In Sir Charles James Napier's _History of the Administration in Scinde_ there is a story relating to the brave hills-men of Trukkee, which is well worth repeating. It was their custom, when their friends fell fighting bravely, face to the foe, to strip them and leave them unburied, but to tie round the right wrist a thread either of green or red. The red thread was the very highest honor that a brave man slain could receive. In the course of one of Sir Charles James Napier's campaigns eleven out of an army of English soldiers lost their way in the mountain gorges, and came "full b.u.t.t"

upon a fort guarded by forty of these formidable mountaineers. The little band of eleven English soldiers at once attacked the fort, and reduced the number of the mountaineers to sixteen. They themselves were all slain, as might be expected. When the English came for the dead bodies of their comrades they found them naked, under the open sky, with a red thread tied round the wrist of every man. The savage hills-men had bestowed upon the corpses of their enemies the highest honor in their code of homage to the brave.

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 1.--FALL SPORTS.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 2.--THE SPORT.]

[Ill.u.s.tration: No. 3.--THE FALL.]