Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1898 — Fitting Up a-Boy’s Room. [ARTICLE]

Fitting Up a-Boy’s Room.

The following description gives an idea, says Harper’s Round Table, for a combined window-seat, shoe-box and bookcase that can be made in any size to fit the space It Is required to fill: At a grocery store purchase a good clean box such as canned goods are packed In, and another one about the same width and height, but twice as long. Remove the cover of the smaller box and turn It on end; then arrange a shelf In it at the left side. To the top of the long box nail a strip two inches wide, and to it fasten a cover with hinges. These two boxes are to be attached by means of screws. A bookcase is to be made sixteen or eighteen Inches wide, four feet high, and an inch deeper than the width of the seat-box. Four shelves can be arranged and screwed fast through the sides to accommodate books, and around the top a strip of cornice molding can be mitered and nailed fast.