The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1897-09-30
HOUSEHOLD KIT OF TOOLS.
Mrs. WinGleby's WOmanly Way O.
Keeping IL Tool Chest.


Keeping u Tool Chest.
"Having occasion recently to use a
pair of plyers,' said Mr.. Wingleby, u
called upon Mrs. Winglebey for pair,
with the confident expectation that she
would have them, and sure enough, she
did; and she didn't have to hunt them
up, either. She knew right>where they
were and she went and got them with
out the slightest trouble. They were in
Mrs. Wingleby brought out from a
closet and laid on the table before mel
they were pretty slick little plyers, the
tip Of one of the points broken off, but
only the tip, and they did very nicely.
II took the opportunity to look this
household kit of tools over. The tool
chest was piece of brown cotton cloth
about TX feet square. The tools were
punched together and laid upon this
cloth crosswise between the center of
the cloth and one of the corners. To
close the chest, the point of the cloth
nearest the tools was doubled forward
over the tools, and the bunch rolled over
once. Then the side points were folded
up over the ends of the tools to keep
them from sliding out endwise; the
bundle thus formed was rolled up in the
rest of the cloth. A very convenient
form of tool chest, and one that takes
up the least possible room.
''Besides the plyers found here two
tack claws, three screwdrivers, one
brad awl, one three-cornered file, two
monkey wrenches and one cold chisel;
kit lacking only hammer and saw to
make it tolerably complete, and Mrs.
Wingleby has these I know, for I have
borrowed them all: two hammers, a
tack hammer and abig hammer to drive
nails with and good, big saw. They
are, not kept in the: tool chest because
they wouldn't wrap mp well with the
smaller and nearly equal-sized tools
there kept.
''The only thing I don't understand
about this kit is the cold chisel. What
use there can be for a cold chisel in
house don't exactly see. tits possible
that Mrs. Wingleby has picked it. up
somewhere and hates to throw it away,
but don't think so; have never known
her to pick up useless things merely for
the sake of possession, as some folks
do. Probably il should ask I should
find that there was some perfectly SIM
pie use in house for a cold chisel; but
however that may be, there can be no
doubt that Mrs. Wingleby is provided
with every tool that is necessary for
performing with neatness and dispatch
every sort of household work from pull
ing nails out of the chi1dren's shoes to
putting up a window shade; and, as
might be expected of her, she has these
things always at hand."- Philadelphia
Press.
But Little Danger from Lightning.
1t will doubtless surprise the timid
to know that only 200 deaths year &C.
cur on an average throughout this entire
country from lightning, or one person
in every 100000 people. Now, in COM
parison, IS times as many people are
killed each year by falling out of win
dows; over twice as many from being
bitten by rattlesnakes, while IS per
cent. more are killed with ''unloaded''
pistols. More people are drowned
around New York city alone every year
than there are deaths from lightning
all over the country. In fact, more peo-
pie, by: so per cent, are killed by being
kicked by horses in New York city than
die from lightning throughout the
whole of the United States. The casu-
alties of the south show that the dan
gers of being lynched and of being
killed by lightning are about the same.
The trolley-cars of our cities kill far
greater number of people than do the
lightning storms. Now, these are facts
they are strictly accurate and care
fully computed.-Edward w. Box, in
Ladies' Home Journal.
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