The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1886-03-20
VOL. XXI.
Bill Nye as q 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
needed about the house. There is a
great deal Of pleasure III feeling your
own independence of other trades, and
more especially of the carpenter Every
now and then your wife will want O
bracket put up in some corner or other,
and with your new bright saw and
glittering hammer you can put llp one
upon which she can hang a cast-iron
horse-banket lambreguin. with inhex-
ibe water lilies sewed in it.
A man will, if he tries, readily learn
to do a great many such things and his
wife Will brag about him to other ladies',
and they will make invidious compare
sons between Their husbands, who can't
do anything of that kind whatever, and
you are SO 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 easyrunning broadax or a
you q set of amateur tools that will be
made of old sheet-iron, with Eastwood
handles, and tine saws will double up
like piece of old iron.
After you have nailed board on the
fence successfully, YOU Will do some
thing letter-more difficult. You will
probably try to erect a parlor table or
rustic settee.
made 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,
I guess | could have used it very we'll ;
but in tearing it loose from the barn.
go that the two could be used separate
ly, | ruined II bracket that was intended
to serve as the base, as it were, of
lambrequin which cost 50, aside from
the time expended on it.
During the month of March 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, l thought. It 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 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 an ice chest. My brother
looked ut it yesterday, and said that
his idea of an ice chest was that it
ought to be tight enough at least to
hold the larger chunks of ice. so that
they would not escape through the
pores of the ice box. He saws he never
built one, but that it stood to reason
that refrigerator like that ought to
be constructed so that it would keep
the cows out of it. You don't want a
through the cracks of and eat up your
Strawberries on ice, he says.
A neighLor of mine who once built a
hen resort of laths, and now wears a
thick thumb nail that looks like a
Brazil nu. as namento OF the pullet
corral, saws my ice chest is all right
enough, only that it is not suited to
this climate lie 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 out Of my chest, there
would be less pam.
| have made several other little
articles of vertu this spring, to the con-
structon of which | have contributed
a 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 will
not. Parties wishing to meet me IN
my studio during 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
house, and give the countersign and
three kicks on the door in the ordinary
Soice.-DeNuer Opinion.