Carpentry and Woodwork (Illustrated)

There is a period in a boy's life, roughly speaking between the ages of ten and sixteen, when his interests and energy turn in the direction of making things. It may be called the creative period, and with many of us it ends nearer sixty than sixteen. At one time it will take the form of a mania for building boats; again it may be automobiles or aeroplanes.
The boy is very susceptible to suggestion. A great automobile race occurs, and for weeks the building and racing of toy automobiles goes...