Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1911 — PRETTY LITTLE FERN STAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PRETTY LITTLE FERN STAND

Novelty Suited for Placing on the Table or Hanging Up In the Window. Here is a charming little fern stand lor placing upon a table or hanging up in a window. It is made of six slen4er sticks of wood, three about a foot in length, and three half that size. Diagram “A" illustrates the shape fin which the woodwork should be >made. The three long sticks are arranged in tripod fashion and tied (together at the top with fine twine. The

smaller pieces of wood are fastened across the upright sticks, about three Inches from the base, with small, thin, sharp nails. After the woodwork has been completed, it is bound round and round with narrow ribbon until it is entirely covered, and a loop is arranged at the top by which the stand may be lifted when necessary or hung' up in the window. Smart little bows- of ribbon should be tied on where Indicated In the sketch. We next come to that part in which the fern pot is fitted, and this is made «f a piece of stout cardboard, cut out ‘fa the shape shown by the diagram "B,” and then covered on both aides with silk of a color to match the-rlb-bon. Care , must be taken to m»im this portion exactly the correct else, and when completed it can be laid In position between the sticks and a few stitches through the edge of the silk and tbe ribbon ooverlng the wood will secure it in Its place. These little stands are very inexpensive end eesy to make, and filled with pretty ferns, should form attraotire little articles for sals la a bazaar.