1. Cut two pieces of cardboard the size of the pamphlet pages, plus
an eighth inch at top, bottom and one side--A-B-C-D and E-F-G-H,
Plate XIX, Fig. 1. Place these side by side, as far apart (B-E and
C-H) as the thickness of the pamphlet. Cut a sheet of cover paper
three-quarters inch larger all around, as indicated by the dotted
line, A-F-G-D. Clip off the corners as shown in the diagram. Remove
the cardboards and paste the covering sheet all over. Replace the
cardboards, rub them down hard, fold over the edges, top and bottom
first, then the sides, and rub these down hard. The pamphlet may now
be fastened into the covers by sewing through the back and by pasting
down the end papers, C and D, Fig. 3, to the inside of the covers
front and back. In a small pamphlet the pasting of the end papers may
be sufficient to hold the book together.
2. To bind in cloth or leather and boards, having gotten out the two
pieces of cardboard as before, cut a strip of cloth or leather of the
desired width, A-B-C-D, Fig. 2 (it should lap on three-quarters inch
at least), and secure the boards to it by means of paste, folding
over the ends as indicated by the full and dotted lines at I and J.
Get out the cover papers. These are like the cover paper in 1, with a
strip cut out of the middle, as indicated in diagram 2 by the letters
E-F and G-H. The edges E-H and F-G should lap over the back strip an
eighth inch or more. Paste the cover papers and rub down the laps.
Insert the pamphlet and fasten it in as before.
3. The blind sewing-in of the pamphlet is effected by adding to its
back outside the end papers C and D, Fig. 3, a strip of stout linen
or other tough material, A-B. This should not be longer than the
distance from the lap I to the lap J, in Fig. 2, and should be added,
of course, when the body of the book is sewed. Secure the body of the
book within the covers by pasting this back strip A-B to the front
and back covers. When this is done, paste down the end papers.
=Tenth, Give It Away=
From the first the children should be taught that service is the end
of life. They should serve each other, help the teacher, coöperate in
school tasks, and actively participate in developing a fine school
spirit. The booklet should be made for somebody at home, some friend,
or for exchange with some pupil in a distant part of the country.
It should never be retained by the pupil who made it (there may be
exceptions to this), because as soon as it is done its value to the
maker ceases. He ought for his own good to forget the things that are
behind, and press forward to better things. He should not be allowed
to hoard and gloat over his small triumphs.
When the booklets are completed hold a “private exhibition” of them,
discuss them freely, note the defects, the chances for improvement
next time, and also the successes, and then, having squeezed out
of them all the educative value, all the delight of doing, all the
pleasure of seeing one’s own good work, send them, with a gracious
little note, to those for whom they were made, and thus extort from
them their last and best gift, the blessedness of giving.