The morning star and Catholic messenger., 1878-06-23
ASs-ns $+.r and Catholic Messenger.
Us~ JpLEANB SUNDAY. JUNE q. iSIs.
home CONTRIVANCES FOB SLENDER
PURSES.
THE RESOURCES OF INGENUITY AND IN
s.DUsTRY.

THE RESOURCES OF INGENUIrI AMI IN
..DUsTRY.
Much may be added to the comforts and
conyeniences of household by little in
Eenuity and industry on the. part OF iti
members. There are many people who
have o supreme contempt for all home
made bouse .furnishings 20, and who can only
endure them when the materials are costly
and the finishing off has been done by q
iashion able upholsterer. With many others.
however, time is more plentiful than money
and to such 1t 10, or ought to be, matter
Of rejoicing that chintz covered sofa may
30 q comfortable resting place, and home.
made wall-pocket, costing few cents, at
most, holds newspapers etc, as we'll as one
An unsightiy packing box may be con-
verted into q comfortable ottoman by
meaps Of few yards of wadding or some
eottop batting and . cover OF chtntz or Gre
tonn. The cover should be carefully made
and ct well--this 10 Of the frst Importance.
evenly, and the fallness be equally distri-
bnted all round. Such an ottoman makes
. convenient window seat, or fills up o bare
corner, and IL made 90 that the cushioned
lid mey be lifted, eerves also as recepta-
ele TO relieve over-crowded drawers and
Rardrobes. We were once shown home
made beycedu, which was at once pretty
comparatively trifiDg. The stand was
ease Of two drawers for holding baby
clothes, made of pine by q country csrpen-
ter and stained . pretty dark color. On
this was set an ordinary wicker clotbes-
basket, covered and lined with bright pink
eambric, the inside being softly wadded as
we'll as lined. The basket was also draped
with dotted white muslin and large pill
low placed within formed the bed on which
She baby slept.
It is hardly necessary to tell what pretty
toilet tables may be made of common deal,
or even of large packing boxes placed on
end and draped with colored cambria and
white muslin, or, cheaper still, with coiored
eretonne. All covers should be made to
come off, that they may be washed, and
should be furnished with tapes to tie them
IN place when on. Very creditable cur
tAins for bed rooms are made of thin domes
tc muslin, either bleached or unbleached,
aach as may be bought for from Ave to
eight cents yard, bordered with Turkey
red calico at sixteen cents. These are
headed by friii of the same and trimmed
in like manner, plated to form o standing
iSih three inches wide, and o hanging one
twice 30 deep an inch wide band Of red
sslico forming the dividing line.
wARDRoBEs AND BOOK SHELVES.
Frames of pine, twelve inches deep, top,
hoAtom and sides, with Q strip at the back
Tor clothes hooks, set firmly against the
wall and curtained in front, answer in
place Of wardrobe or closets where these
arc impracticable, and are surely prefer
able to hooks on o door-not only for the
sake of "hoOks," but for the added proteo-
zion to the garments hung therein.
Out in the back woods where furniture
was scarce and high, lady contrived . set
Of hook shelves In this wise: Five boards
Shrse feet long, ten inches wide and an
nah shiek formed the shelves. In these,
as each corner, an inch or two from both
edges, were bored large anger holes. Stout
saplings with the smooth bark left on were
passed through these holes and the seeives
were kept in place by email screws. Pine
ccnes split in half were glued in q cluster
- the centre Of each shelf, the cluster
Earning down, of course. Only the lower
ahslf was used for heavy books but when
he completed bookcase was stained dark
egown and vanished 1t was q servioeable
F3see of furniture and looked well-at
lsast in the back woods.
nging shelves for bed-rooms can be
SOntrjved from the old boards which often
accumulate about houses. Take three
Sbelves of graduated size,, paper them and
1D inch from the edge. Take green or red
window cord, psss it through the holes in
the largest shelf aud tie firm knot in the
IbOr ends ct equal distances, then draw the
Onds through the second shelf and tie the
Knots again, and go with the third, the
h0Oss coming below the holes, and thus
Rgsventing the boards from slipping, a. the
ae9ews did in the book shelves just de-
AOTibed. Then tie the four ends together,
having the front ones little longer than
those which are to 60 next the wall. When
sbe shelves are hung tack ornamental
1oather on the edges Of the shelves to serve
sAe double purpose ofofnament and keep
1Bg dust from the books.
Foot. stools are easily extemporised by
soyering small wooden boxes or large
A.ocks with pieces of carpet, of cloth, Gre
sO1ne--with almost anything, in fact.
Wall pockets may be made Of paste eboard
or Of the backs of old ledgers or aliases.
One aide hangs against the wall, the other
alOpes outward, and lsttice-work of col
Sgea skirt. braid, in v shape, is seWed in
sash end. Bright cOlOred paper with q
picsRre in the centre ornaments the front.
Day paper covered cornucopias are useful
kQ holding lamp-lighters aud in bed-cham-
sOIs as receptscles for odds and ends.
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