The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-08-16
4 STANDING LAMP.
A Pretty and Useful Piece of Home
H1ndiwork.


TIE Illustration shows an attractive
design for a Standing table lamp that
can be particularly adapted to summer
use.
For any woman who is handy with
light tools this lamp box WIFI be an
easy one TO make as it is very simple
affair ehaugh seemingly elaborate,
This box for the lamp, strange as it
may seem, is made OF thin pieces of
board, a yard of bagging, some sltrirs
of sio5ve-pipe iron and a few large
headed nai4s; also a. small quanLIJy VI
paint.
First secure a box such as canned
goods are packed n and break it apart,
taking care not to split any Of the thin
board. Then purchase q. lamp fount
having a good central draught burner,
AID CT the BOARDS nlGke a box, the
square of which VIII be about an inch
larger than the diameter of the lamp
fount
This box should be about twelve
inches high and eight inches square; in
the top cut a round hole sufficiently
large to admit the fount, butt not so
large that lit would fall through.
There will be a metal rim or dange
rest on the edge of the hole. In the
bottom of the box have a few large
holes to allow the necessary draugnt
to paes UP to the burner.
Cover the entire outside of the box
with baggtng stretched tight and tack
ed securely at the. corners; or, if pre-
ferable. 1T may be held in place with
Lepa ge's or other good liquid glue
painted on each side Of the box, and
firmly pressed. When the glue is dry
give the bagging several successive
coats of paint of some desirable color,
such as sage green, old iron, or light
salmon pink, and when it is thorough
ly dry bind the edges and corners of
the box With thin strips of metal
AT a tinsmiths purchase a few sheets
of thin Stove-pipe iron and cut it in
strips an inch and half in widua. Lap
them on the corners of the box so
quarters OF an inch of metal will
appear on a side. With an awl and a
small hammer make holes in the metal
strips an inch apart, and with oval
headed brass uphOlSteTers lacks fasten
the strips to the box.
The torch and leaves forming the
wreaths can be cut from the thin
sheet iron with a stout pair of shears
and applied TO the box with iron car
pet tacks. The stems to the wreaths
are pieces if iron caught down with
small staples.
At a hardware store purchase four
claw feet and fasten one under each
corner of the box. These will elevate it
from the table and allow a draugflt to
pass under me box and up through
the holes in the bottom; otherwise the
lamp would not burn in a satisfactory
manner.
All the metal work should be given
coat or two of black paint thinned
with turpentine and Japan dryer to
finish them nicely, and if a more glossy
black is desired they may be painted
with asphaltum varntsh. A very good
black paint for metal cam be made by
adding lamp black to brass lacquer
and if too thick it may be Trimmed with
alcohol to the consistency Of rich milk
and applied to tine metal with a soft
brsfle brush.
a balloon shade made of silk, paper
or silkoline will add the finishing
touch to the lamp, and one of this
shape will be found desirable as it
completely shades the eyes from any
direct RAYS from the bright light