Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1911 — WATCH-STAND AND PEN-RACK [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WATCH-STAND AND PEN-RACK

Very Simple Little Article That Makes Convenient Adjunct to the Writing Table. An extremely useful and simple little article is shown In our sketch In the shape of a combined watch-stand and pen-rack for placing on the writ-ing-table. When engaged at a writ-ing-table it Is often a great convenience to be able to hang up a watch In such a position that it may .easily, be seen without disturbing oneself, and on the upper hook of this little rack a watch may be safely suspended and the stand can be placed at some convenient spot where the watch will be visible. The rack from which our sketch was made was cut out with a fretsaw, in thin wood, about a quarter of an Inch in thickness, and has a sup-

port at the back, also of thin wood, fastened on at the top tHth a tiny brass hinge. Seven little brass hooks are screwed into the face of the horseshoe in the positions Indicated in the illustration, and little hooks suitable for this purpose can be bought at any ironmonger’s at a trifling coat The wood is stained a nice dark oak and “picked out” with a,fine gold line running all round the shoe about an eighth of an inch fjrom the edge. The rack, when complete, should measure about 6 Inches in height, and with a small brass ring screwed into the upper edge at the top it might bo suspended from a nail in the wall by the side of the writing-table if desired, and In that case it would not be necessary to make the support for the back.