THE JAPANESE BIRD
In the days before the cabaret New York boasted a considerable number of popular dining clubs which brought together a host of people who could "do entertaining things." At one of these dinners I observed an Amer- icanized Japanese folding a leaf of the menu card in a peculiar manner. Gradually all those within "seeing distance" became interested, and before he finished he was quite surrounded by spectators who applauded him roundly when, from that scrap of pasteboard, he at last produced a little paper bird that flapped its wings quite naturally.
Since then the clever Jap has taught me how to make the bird. Here is the trick : Take a square piece of letter paper six inches or more in size and fold from corner to corner in each direction and then across the centre both ways, making all the folds sharp in order that they may serve as guides in the further folding. The sheet will then appear as in Fig.