The Osceola times., 1884-06-28
KEEP A CHEST OF TOOLS.
Mn Nys's Account Of the Many Uses You
csn.Put them To.
Denver Opinion

Denver Opinion.
Inmy 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 needed about the
house. There is great deal Of pleasure
in feeling your own independence of
other trades, and more especially of the
carpenter. Every now ard then your
wife will want q bracket put up in some
corner or other, and with your new bright
saw and glittering hammer you can put
up one upon which she can hang cast
iron horse-blanket lambrequin, with in
flexible water lilies sewed in it.
A man will, If he tries, readily learn
to do 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't
do anything of that kind whatever, and
you who are 80 handy"
Firstly, you buy set Of amateur car
penter tools. You do not need TO say
that ye1 arc ar amateur. The dealer will
find that out when you ask him for an
easy-running broad-ax or greengage
plumb line. He will sell you a set of
amateurs tools that will be made of old
sheet-iron with bass-wood handles and
the saw win double up like piece of
stove-pipe.
Aher you have nailed board on the
fence successfully, you will very natural
ly desire to do something much better,
more difficult. You will probably try to
erect . parlor table or rustic settee.
made very handsome bracket last
week, and ] was actually proud of it. In
fastening it together, if hadn't inadver-
tently nailed 1t 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
servs as the base, as it were, of lambp.
quin which cost nine dollars, aside from
the time expended on 1t.
During the month of March, built an
ice-chest for this summer. 1t was not
handsome, but it was roomy, and would
be very &C for the season of 1884,
thought. 1t worked pretty well through
March and April, but as the weather be-
gins TO warm up, the lce-chest is about
thA xvar v,Iono opov,nd thu hA,rua
There Is actually q glow of heat around
the chest that don't notice elsewhere.
I've shown 1t to several personal friends.
They seem to think it is not built tight
ly enough for an ice-chest. My brother
looked at it yesterday. and said that his
idea OF an ice-chest was that IL ought to
be tight enough at least to mold the
larger chunks of ice, so that they would
not escape through the pores of the ice
box. He says that he never built one,
but that it stood to reason that a refriger.
ator like that ought to be constructed so |
that 1t would keep the COWS out of it. |
You don't want refrigerator that the |
cattle can get through the cracks of and |
eat up your straw berries on ice, he said. |
A neighbor of mine who built hen
resort of laths, and now wears thick |
thunAU-natA tAot iOOo5 iihC ~ Ilut
AZ memento of that pullet corral, says
my ice-chest is all right enough, only
that 1t is not suited to the 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 ont of my chest
there would be less pain.
have made several other little ar
ticles of vertu this spring, to the COLI
struction Of which have contributed
good deal Of time and two finger nails
/ have also sawed into my leg two or
three times. The leg, ofcourse, Will get |
well, but the pantaloons will not. Parties
wishing to meet me in my studio during
the morning hours will turn into the al |
ey between Eighth and Ninth streets,
enter the third stable on the left, pass
around my Gothic horse, and give the |
countersign and three kicks on the door |
in an ordinary tone of voice.