Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — A Desirable Convenience. [ARTICLE]

A Desirable Convenience.

A convenient arrangement of shelves in one corner of your room is easily made. Have a carpenter or some other competent person nail or screw cleats to the wall, on which the three-cornered shelves may rest; have them fastened securely to it, and see that they are level. These shelves may be three in number, and it is a good plan to have the lowest one at about the height of an ordinary table—a trifle lower, perhaps; the reason for this is that it is more easily taken card of and kept free from dust than if it is so low as to oblige one to stoop or kneel down. These shelves may be made of common pine (well seasoned, of course), or of black walnut. They may be finished with narrow lambrequins, scolloped at the bottom; fringe is not desirable in a common room, as it catches dust. A shelf aim, ilar to one of these is especially convenient in the dining-room. I saw one placed about as high as the top of a side-table, it held a pretty tete-a-tete set, and was an ornament to the room. This was covered with cretonne, and had a band of the same for a lambrequin.