Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 March 1891 — Convenient for the Toilet. [ARTICLE]

Convenient for the Toilet.

There is a simply made appliance for the toilet table that finds great favor with the few who know of it. It consists merely of a couple of boards, carefully lined, with a heavy weight to set upon them. Neckties, laces and gloves are smoothed out after use and placed between the boards so that, kept flat by the gentle pressure, they come out looking like new and last much longer than if just thrown aside in a drawer or box. To make this appliance you take an ordinary brick, and, having dried it thoroughly, you paste brown paper right over it, packing it, as it were, neatly in a piece of paper well satnrated with paste. Over this you stick neatly a piece of bright colored cretonne or Indian si.k, or, if preferred, a piece of white leather or satin, to be afteward hand-painted, and then handles of strong ribbon are affixed. Two pieces of board of a suitable size are covered with the same material as the brick,.and lined with white silk or white muslin. — Philadelphia Record. The old Christ Church (Episcopal) of Philadelphia has a remarkable history. All through its history of 195 years it has had but eleven officiating rectors, with terms running from fiftyseven years down to four days. It was in 1695 that the first church building was erected, a goodly structure for those days, of brick, with galleries large enough to accommodate more than 500 persons. Bishop White was one of: ts rectors, and during hi 3 rectorship the Continental Congress repeatedly worshiped there in a body, And Washington often occupied a pew in the church.