Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-19
AN AMATEUR CARPENTER.

AN AMATEUR CARPENTER.
In nay opinion every professional man
should keep a 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 q great deal
of pleasure in feeling your own indie
pendence of other trades, and most es-
pecially of the carpenter. Every now
and then your wife will want bracket
put mp in some corner or other, and
with your new, bright saw and glitter
ing hammer you can put up one upon
which she can hang a cast-iron horse
blanket lambrequin, with inAexible
water lilies sewed in it.
A man will, if he tries, readily learn
to do do a great many such little things
and his wife will brag on him to other
ladies, and they will make invidious
comparisons between their husbands,
who can't do anything Of that kind
whatever, and you are $50 handy"
Firstly, you buy set Of amateur car
penter'tOols. You do not need to say
that you are an amateur. The dealer
will find that out when you ask him for
an easy running broad-ax or a green
gage plumb line. He will sell you a set
of amateurs tools that will be made If
old sheet-iron with Eastwood handles,
and the saw will double up like piece
of stove pipe.
After you have nailed 4 board on the
fence successfully. you will very natur-
ally desire to do something much better
more difficult. You will probably try
to erect parlo- table or rustic settee.
made very handsome bracket last
week, and was naturally proud Of it.
In fastening it together, If hahn't in
advertently nailed it to the barn floor,
I guess could have used it very we'll,
but ia tearing it loose from the barn,
so that the two could be used separate
ly, ruined bracket that was intended
to serve as the base, az it were of
lambrequin which cost SO, aside from
the time expended on it.
During the month of March built al
ice-chest for this summer. It was not
handsome, but it was rOomy, and would
be very nice for the season of 1884,
thought. It worked pretty well
through March and April, but as the
weather begins to warm up that lee
0baef "a obO,1f +ho vuyS~v,oasE S,laoo o,.~,,,ra
the house. There is actually glow OF
heat around that ice-chest that don't
notice elsewhere. I've shown it TO sew
eral personal friends. They seem to
think it is not built tightly enough for
an ee-chest. My brother looked at it
yesterday, and said thai his idea Of an
ice-chest was that it ought to be tight
enough a. least to hold the larger
chunks Of ice so they would not escape
through the pores of the ice box. He
said he never built one. but that it
stood to reason that refrigerator like
that ought to be constructed 30 that It
would keep the COWS out. You d"n't
want a refrigerator that the cattle can
get through the cracks of and eat up
your strawberries on ice, he says.
A neighbOr of mine who once built
hen resort of laths, and now wears 3
thick thumb nail that looks like a Bra
I'll nut, as 8 momentO Of that pullet
corral. says my ice-chest is al right
enough only that it is not suited TO this
climate. He thinks that along Behr-
ing's strait, during the holidays. my
ice-chest would work like 8 charm.
And even here, he thought, il could
keep the fever out of my chest there
would be less pain.
have made several other little arti-
cles of vertu this spring, to the con-
structiOn of which / have contributed .
good deal of time and two finger malta.
/ have also sawed into my Leg several
times. The leg, of course, viii get we'll,
but the pantaloons viii not. Parties
wishing to meet me in my studio dur-
ing 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 horse and give
the cOuntersign and three kicks on the
door IN m ordinary tone Of Eoies -