The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-05-17
NYE's IcE-cHEsT.
Bill Nre. ID penser Opinion

In my opinion every professional man should keep a chest of carpenters iools n his barn or shop, and busy himself a, odd hours with them in corstrucfin. the vaned articles tha: are alwAvs neeaed aoout the house. There ls great teal ot pleasure in .-eling your own iade- pendence Of oihe; traces, and Tnor- especially ot the Carpenter Every now dad then >our wife wia ~ant a bracket put uD n some corner or other, and .sith your re orlg6i sa@ and glitteri.g nam Eler you can put up one on which she can hang u ca>F-iron horse b.anke, h. efeqnia, .'l.n intieA bic water -ii.ies sewed T. II.
 \ m.n will, fl he tries. readily learn 10 do great many su h lIt.ie thinss ard H.s wi'r val b!ag on ltrl 10 other ladies. and they will make iavicious coinpari- sons belSeen their husbands. &ho can; G any'hisg ot that kIad whatever, and you who are so hanoy.'
 Firstly, you buy set of amateur car penter tools. lou dc not neeo 10 say that you are an amateur The dealer siil md that ou; when you ask him Tor An cay running bfoSd-ax of green gage piumo-i!ne. He vii sell you set ot amateurs tools that wiil he made Q. old saeet-ison with eass-ssosd handles ard the saws will double up ike A pete Of s;oye-p,pe.
 Alter You have naiisd board on the fence succes.fI ly. YOU viii yer, naturally desire to do something much b,fe,. more difficult luu will probably try lo ere | a plrlor ,aoic ar ,. rustic set,ee.
 ma1e ., very handsome brackc; ias; week, and WAS naturally proud of Il. h fastening It together. II hadn't iaad- ver'cu.iy nailed II 10 the barn f#GI. Surss could have used if very s4eil. bi.t IT ir ,iIng Il loose itom ;he barn. .a ihat |. z 'so could oe use.. sep Tat-iy, -uined | D. tckei that ~s.s inienaea .o serve zas Iae base. as lt serr, If a lam are4alr wh'0h cps, nine duttars. aside from tAs tune eX9ehded On It.
 Ddrng the month of March hul, ice-chest for ihis summer. It was not handsome, but II ~as roomy, and would be very nice tor the season ot fSS.. thought. l. worked pretty well through March and AprIl, but ..s the veather De gins to warm ID that ice-ehes; IS about the wtrmest place around the house. There Is actually glow oi heat around that ice echesi that don't notice else where. I've shown Ii to several personal friends. They seem 10 think II IS not built tightly enough for an ice-chest My brother looked al il yesterday, and slid tha. his ldea of an ice-chest was !ha, l; ought to be tight enough at leas, 10 hold .he larger chunks of Ice so that they would not escape through the pores i of the ice-ooX. He says he never built I one. but that It stood to reason that d E rlgera'or like that ought 10 be con , s;rglted so that il would keep the COWS t out of II. You dolt want to have re tngerator that the Cattle can gel through the csacks of and eat up your straw berries on ice, he says.
 A neighbor of mine who once built hen resort of laihs, and now wears a thick thumb-nail that looks like Brazil nut, as memento of that bullet corral. says ny ice-ches, IS all right enough. only that 1t IS not suited to this climate He thinks that along Behring's strait. during the holidays, my iee-ches, would work like charm. And even here, he thought. if l could keep the fever out of my chest, there wou be less pain.
 have made several 0 her little articles of vertu this spring, to the construction of which l have contributed good deal of time and two finger nails. have also sawed into ,uy leg two or three times. The leg of course, will get we'll, put the panta 'oons will not, Parties wishing to meet me in my studio during he morning hour will turn into the alley Eighth and Ninth streets. enter he third stable door or the left pass around behind my Gothic horse. and give the countersign and three kicks on he dosr in an ordinary tone of voice.