Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1892 — HOMEMADE COMFORT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HOMEMADE COMFORT.

Serviceable Awnings Made at an Expense of a Few Cents. Spending the summer recently in a farm-house in the country, we found

the absence of wooden blinds or shutters a very serious inconvenience when the sun reached Its highest point in the heavens, writes a correspondent. It was decided to seek a way out of the

difficulty by constructing homemade awnings. A frame was made of laths and short screws, on the plan shown in the illustration, and covered with striped awning cloth. This cloth happened to be of just the right width to cover the top and front of the frame. The triangular side pieces were cut from one length of cloth, thus economizing material. The coverings were tacked on with tinned tacks, as these are less likely to rust than others; and the awning, completed, was fastened with small wire nails to the inside of the win-dow-casings, in the manner shown in the cut. It took about two yards of cloth for each window, and the entire cost, Including the frame and screws, was about 28 cents for each window. The results were so satisfactory that we should have preferred awnings in hot weather, even though the house had been provided with blinds, since thebllnds, when closed, shut out the

light and make the interior gloomy, while awnings admit an abundance of cheerful light and yet deflect the heat very satisfactorily.

THE AWNING COMPLETE.