The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1884-06-15
AMATEURS TOOLS.
And What a NOn.Professienal Can
Do With Them.

Do With Them.
In my opinion every professional
man should keep chest of carpen-
ter's tools in his barn or shop, and
busy himself at odd hours with
them in constructing the varied ar
ticles that are always needed about
the house. There is a great deal Of
pleasure in feeling your own inde-
pendence of other trades, and espe>
cIally of the carpenter. Every now
and then your wife will want a
bracket put up in some corner or
other, and with your new bright
saw and gllttering hammer you can
put up one upon which she can
hang q cast-iron horse. blanket LAM
brequin, with indexible water-iilies
sewed in it.
A man will, II he tries, ready
learn to 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 any
thing of that kind whatever, and
you who are $50 handy"
Firstly, you buy set Of amateur
carpenter 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
ak or q green.gage plumb-line. He
will sell you set of amateurs tools
that will be made of old sheetsiron
with bass-wood handles, and the
saws, and will double up like piece
Of stove-pipe.
After you have nailed a board on
the fence successfully, you will very
naturally desire to do something
much better, more difficult. You
will probably try to erect a parlvr
table or q rustic settee.
made very handsome bracket
last week, and I was naturally proud
Of 1t. In fastening it together, if
hadn't inadvertently nailed it to the
barn floor, guess l could have used
it very. well, but. in tearing 1t loose
from the barn floor, so that the two
could be used separately, ruined 6
bracket that was intended to serve
as the base, as it were, of a lanbre
Quin which cost SO, aside from thu
time expended on it.
/ During the month of March
built an ice chest for this summer
It was not handsome, but 1t was
roomy, and would be very nice for
the season of 1884, 1 thought. II
worked pretty well through March
and April, but as the weather be
gins 10 warm up that Ice chest il
, about the warmest place around the
house. There is actually glow OF
heat ground that ice chest that
don'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 brother
looked at it yesterday, and said that
his idea Of an ice chest was that II
ought to be tight enough at leas
to hold the large chunks Of ice 81
that they would not ecspe through
the pores of the ice box. He says h'
never built one, but that it stood Il
reason that a refrigerator like tina
ought to be constructed SO that
would keep the COWS out Of it. Yo,
don't want to have a refrigerato
that the cattle can get through tn,
cracks of and eat your strawberrie
on ice, he says.
A neighbor of mine who one
: built hen resort of laths, and nov
wears thick thumb nail that look
!, like a Brazil nut, &c mementO o
that pullet corral, says my ice ches
3 is all right enough, only that it i
3 not suited to this climate. H
r thinks that along Behring Strait
7 during the holidays, my Ice che s
7 would work like charm. and ever
> here, he thought, if could keep tn
l fever out OF my chest, there woult
!, be less pain.
[ have made several other littl
J, articles of vertu this 81 ring, to tn
e construction of which l have con
!, tribHted good deal of time an,
9 two fnger-nails. l have also save,
t into my leg two or three times. Tn
: leg, of course, will get well. but tn
!. psntaloOus will not. Parties wish
! ing to meet me in my studio durip
| the morning hour will turn into tn
{ alley between Eighth and Nintl
g streets, enter the third stable doc
Q on the left, pass around behind M
Gothic horse, and give the counter
q sign and three kicks on the door II
: an ordinary tone of voice. Bill Ny
D in Denoer Opinion.
There is no talent SO useful to
g wards rising in the world, or whic