The Baltimore County union., 1884-07-12
Established 1880.
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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 great deal
ofpleasure in feeling your own independ-
ence of other trades, and more especial
ly 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 glittering ham,
mer, you can put up one upon which
she can hang cast-iron horse blanket
lambrequin, with infexible water lilies
sewed in it.
A man will, if he tries, readily learn
to do great many such things, and his
wife will brag about him to other ladies,
and they will make invidious compari-
sons between their husbands, who can't
do anything of that kind whatever, and
you who are $50 handy"
Firstly, you buy set of amateur
carpenter tools. You need not say that
find that out when you ask him for an
easy running broad axe, or a green
gauge plumb line. He will sell you a
set of amateurs tools that will be
maze out of old sheet-iron, with bass
wood handles, and the saws will double
up like a piece of stove pipe.
After you have nailed board to the
fence successfully, you will very natur-
ally desire to do something better, more
difficult. You will probably try to
erect a parlor table or a rustic settee.
made very handsome bracket last
week and was very naturally proud oft.
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 seperate-
ly, l ruined bracket that was intended
to serve at the base, as it were, of a
lambrequin which cost SO, aside from
the time expended on it.
During the month of March built an
ice chest for this summer. 1t was not
handsome, but it was roomy and would
be very nice for the season of 1884, l
thought. Itworked pretty well through
March and April: but, as the weather
begins to warm up, the ice chest is about
the warmest place around the house.
There is actuallya glow of heat around
that ice chest that don't notice else
where. I've shown it to several person.
al friends. They seem to think that it
is not built tight enough for an ice
chest. My brother looked at it yester-
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 refrigerator like that
ought to be constructed so that it would
keep the COWS out of it. You don't
want refrigerator that the cattllss cap
your strawberries on ice, he says.
A neighbor of mine once built hen
resort of laths, and now wears a thick
thumb nail that looks like Brazil nut as
memento of the pullet corral, says my
ice chest is all right enough, only that
it is not suited to this climate. He
thinks that along Behring' Strait, during
the holidays, my ice chest would work
like charm. And even here, he
thought, if l could keep the fever out
of my chest, there would be less pain.
have made several other little arti-
cleS ofvertu this Spring, to the construc-
tion of which have contributed a good
deal of time and two finger nails. l
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 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 my Gothic house,
and give the countersign and three kicks
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