The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1884-06-06
Not Calculated to Be . Carpenter.

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 need.
ed about the house. There is q great
deal of pleasure in feeling your own in
dependence of other trades. and moro
especially 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 gilt
tering hammer you can put up one upon
which she can hang q 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 little things,
and his wife will brag on him to other
ladies, and they will make invid Gus
comparisons between their husbands,
who can't do anything Of that kind what
ever. and you who are 80 handy"
Firstly, you buy . set Of amateur
carpenter tools. You do not need to
say that you are an amateur. The
dealer will lind that out when You ask
him for an essy-runniDg broad-ax or 8
green-gage plumb-line. He will sell
you . set of amateur tools that will be
made of old sheet-iron with bass-wood
handles, and the saws will double up
like . piece of stove-pipe.
After you have nailed a board on the
fence successfully you VII very natu-
rally desire to do something much bet.
ter, more difficult. You will probably
try to erect . parlor table or rustic
settee.
I 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 l could have used 1t very well.
but in tearing it loose from the barn, so
that the two could be used separately.
I ruined bracket that was intended to
,erve as the base, as 1t were, of LAM
brequin which cost nine dollars, aside
from the time expended on it.
During the month of March I 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, thought. 1t worked pretty well
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 glow OF
heat around that ice chest that I dvn't
notice elsewhere. I've shown it to sew
eral personal friends. They seem to
think it is not built tightly enough for
an ice-chest. NV brother looked at il
Yesterday, and said thai his idea of an
ice-chest was that it ought to be tight
enough, at least. to hold the large chunks
of ice so that they would not escape
through the pores OF the ice-box. He
saws he never built one, but that il
stood to reason that refrigera tor like
that ought to be constructed so that II
would Keep the cows out of it. You
don't want to have refrigerator thar
the cattle can get through the cracks
of and eat your Strawberries on ice, he
says.
A neighbor OF mine who once built
hen resort of laths. and now wears a
thick thumb nail that looks like Bra
zil nut, as a memento 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 a charm. And
even here, he thought, if 1 could KEEP
the fever out of my chest, there would
be less pain.
have made several other little arti-
cles of vertu this spring, 10 the con.
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, of course.
will get well, but the pantaloons viii
not. Parties wishing to meet me in my
studio during the morning hour will
turn into the alley between Eighth anS
door on the left, pass around my Goth
horse, and give the countersign anc
three kicks on the door in an ordinary
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