The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1884-05-31
EYE'S lCE-CHEST.

In my opinion every professional man
should keep chest Of carpenters tools
in his barn or shop, and busy himself at
odd hours with them in constructing the
varied articles that are always needed
about the house. There is IA great deal
of pleasure in feeling your own indepen-
dence OF other trades, and more esI e.
cially of the carpenter. Every now and
then your wife will want bracket put
up in some corner Or other and with
your new bright saw and .litte:ing ham,
mer you can put one on which she can
hang Il GASTRIC horse blanket lambre-
quin, with intlexible water-lillies sewed
in it.
y man will, if he tries, readily learn
to do a great many such little things and
his wife will brag on him to other ladies,
and they will make invidious compari-
sons between their husbands, who can
do anything of that kind whatever, and
you who are $50 handy
After You have nailed a board on the
fence successfully, you will very natur-
ally desire to do something much better
and more difficult. You will probably
try to erect parlor table or rustic
settee.
made a very handsome bracket last
week, and was naturally proud of it.
In fastening it together, if | hadn't in
advertently nailed it to the barn floor.
guess | could have used it very well, but
in tearing it loose from the barn so that
the two could be used separately,
ruined bracket that was intended to
serve as the base, as it were, of lam
brequin which cost nine dollars. aside
from the time expended on it,
During the month of March | built
an ice chest for this summer. 1t was not
handsome, but ioomy, and would be
very nice for the season of 1894 Thought
1t worked pretty we'll through March
and April, but as the weather begins to
warm up, that ice-chest is about the
warmest place around the house. There
is actually a glow of heat around that
ice-chest that | dont't notice elsewhere.
I've shown it to several personal friends
They seem to think it is not built tightly
enough for an ice chest. My brotht L
looked at it one day, and said that his
idea of an ice-chest was that it ought to
be tight enough at least to hold the
larger chunks of ice SO that they would
not escape through the pores of the ice
box. He says he never built one, but
that it stood to reason that a refrigerator
like that ought to be constr ucted so that
it would keep the cows out OF it. You
don't want to have refrigerator that
the cattle eau get through the cracks of
and eat up your strawberries ON ice, he
says.
\ neighbor of mine who once built a
hen resort of laths, and now wears a
thick thumb-nail that looks like a Brazil
nut, as momento of that pullet corral.
says my ice chest is all right enough,
only that it is not suited to this climate
He thinks that along Behring's strait
during the holidays. my ice chest would
work like charm. And even here, he
thought, if could keep the fever out Of
my chest, there would be less pain.
have made several other little arti-
Giles of vertu this spring, to the construc-
ton of which | have contributed Il good
deal Of time and two finger nails. have
also sawed into my leg two or three
times. The leg, of course, will get well,
but the pantaloons will not. Parties
wishing to meet me in my studio during
the morning hour will turn into the alley
between Eighth and Ninth streets, enter
the third stable door on the left, pass
around behind my Gothic horse, and
give the countersign and three kicks on
the door in an ordinary tone of voice.