New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-15
This Woman H)ield>c q Hammer
In Her Hands Old Grocery Boxes Assume
Shapes of Use and Beauty.

named 1t "the American woman's trunk"
| In the by IL bedroom are the miniature
| feur-poster bed-a wire cot, with hollow
posts. made from leftover pieces of a
| packing case; the dressing table. with triple
mirrors and drawers, made from the trays
| OF q trunk, which at need can be un-
screwed and replaced In the trunk; the
dressing table chair, with a compartment,
| under the seat for handkerchiefs, gloves
and so on; and an invalid's table, with a
| revolving shelf, the component parts of
which are a shoe box and barrel top
The washstand has its places for shoes.
towels and various other matters, and
clothes pockets, also made out of boxes,
are lined up against the wall
The basin and pitcher, showing the ducks
of the River Ammer on a background of
blue, We're designed and moulded for Miss
Brigham by, Anton Lang, who plays
Christus in the Passion Play at Ober-
ammergau. The color scheme of this room
is blue.
The dining room contains the most Ella b.
crate piece of furniture Miss Brigham has
made-a Greek cross table with post candle
sticks. Rather elaborate. too, are the two
sideboards, the high backed chairs, with
their compartments underneath for table
linen. and the rolling table, which is used for
a buffers tray. Wonderful old copper and
pewter pieces are on the sideboards given
her by immigrant friends who brought
them from their peasant homes in the
Old World. And all the furniture in this
room was made out of two dynamite, one
carborite, three picture. four canned fruit
and two breakfast food boxes, six egg
crates and one large packing case!
The kitchen is finished in soft clean gray
and is filled with countless conveniences-a
homemade fireless cooker, handy house
wife rack evolved from two condensed milk
boxes, shelves and a box cupboard And
as the stationary refrigerator had TO be re-
moved to make place for new door TO the
back room, Miss Brigham installed a
nursery ice chest and built a box cupboard
around it. introducing various preventative
devices, SO that delicate foodstuns can be
kept from spelling.
varied life has been the lot of this
clever woman. who can WELD a hammer
without pounding her fingers. She was
born in Boston, and for years her work was
aiding in the development OF the home IL
trary movement there. Then she came
10 New York and did social work here and
later went to Cleveland and opened Sun
shine Cottage, where she taught. among a
not OF other things, wood carving 10 the
ocss ana girls with such success that when
she ieit 10 go abroad the citizens gave her
WONDERFUL tool chest of 100 pieces. That
tooi chest has accompanied Miss Brigham
everywhere 1t went with her when she
visited No Mans Land" that Far North
era place. and glad enough were the friends
whose guest she was that she had IL, for
mere MISS Brigham made her. first box
furniture. There was little furniture in
'i'a' distant Place there were many boxes
~ "hich supplies had been brought So
MISS Brigham, with the midnight sun shin
ing uown upon her. iabored with the saw,
.ne hammer and the file, and 10! her
TRENDS house blossomed as the rose.