Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1884-07-04
Hill Nyc ns n Carpenter.


In my opinion every professional man
shculd keep chest OF carpenters tools III
his barn or shop, and busy himself at odi
hours with them in constructing the varied
articles that are always needed about tho
| house. There is a great deal Of pleasure in
| feeling your own independence of other
trades, aud more especially of the carpenter.
Every now and then your wife will want
| bracket put up in some corner or other, AMI
with your new bright saw and glittering ham,
mer, you can put up one upon which she
can hang castiron horse blanket lambre-
| quin, with iuneXiblo water lilies sewed in it.
man will, if he tries, readily learn 10 do
a great many such things, and his wife will
brag about him to other ladies, and they
will make Inyidious comparisons between
| their husbands, who can't do anything
Of that kind whatever and you are so "hau.
| dy.'
| Firstly, you buy set Of amateur carpenter
tools. You do not need to say that you are
an amateur. The dealer will ind that out
when you ask him for an easy running broad
axe, or greengage plumD line. He will sell
you set of anat ur's tools that will be made
| OF old sheet iron, with Eastwood handles,
and the saws 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 bettter-more difficult. You
will propably try to erect pBrlor table or @
| rustic Scttee
| l made very handsome bracket last week
and was naturally proud fit. In fastening
it together, if hadn't inadvertently hailed il
to the barn ll)or ! guess | could have used
it very well, but in tearing it loose. from the
barn, so that the two could be used separat 3-
| ly / ruined bracket that was intended to
| serve as the base, as it werr, of u lamlrequin
which cost 50, aside from the time expended
on it,
| During the month oil March built an ice
chest for this summer. 1t W.. not handsome,
but it was rDomy and would to- very ri 'e for
the season of 1854, l though 1t worked
pretty well through March an April bu.,
as the weather begins to warm up that ice
chest is about the warmest place around the
house. There is actually a glow OF heat
around that ice chest that | don't notice
elsewhere I've shown it to several personal
friends. They seem to think that it is not
built tight enough for al ice chest. My
brother looked at it yesterday, and said that
| his idea ofan ice chest was that it ought to
be tight enough at least to hold the larger
| chunks Oi ice, so that they woutl not escape
| through the pores of the lee box He says
he never buit one, but that stood to reason
| that refrigerator like that ought t. be con-
structed so that it wouil keep the COWS out
of it. You dOu't N,l... . !riger.tor that the
cattle can get through the cracks OF aud eat
up your strawberries on ice, he says.
| A neighbor OF mine who once built ~ hen
resort Of atAs and now wears q thick thumb
nail that looks like Brazil nut as a memen-
| to OF the pullet corIal, says my ice chest is
all right enough, only tha' it is Mt suited to
this climate. He thinks that along Behring'S
trait, during the holidays, my ice chest
would work like a charm. And even here,
| he thought, if could keep the fever out of
my chest, there would he les pniu.
| | have made -evar.l 9th it'Ia articles of
virtu this spriny, 10 i"e construction Of
which have con,rhI'' i good deal of time
and two finger unil- hNe DISC sawed into
my leg two or thrr, timcs. Tho leg of
course, will get well, but the pauta!oons will
not. Parties wishing to meet me in my
studio Turing the morning hour will turn
into the alley between Eighth aud Ninth
streets, enter the third stable door on the
left, pass around my Gothic house, and give
the countersign ana three kicks on the door
in the ordinary voice.