Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 245, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1911 — TO SHARPEN THE PENCILS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO SHARPEN THE PENCILS

Capital Little Contrivance That Will at All Times Save Much Time and Worry. Anyone who Is In the habit of using pencils frequently, knows bow difficult it is to obtain a nice, fine point to the lead with a pen knife, to say nothing of the dirty gtate It generally leaves one’s fingers in. The lead also often

breaks in the process, considerably shortening the length of the life of the We give, therefore, a sketch of a capital little contrivance on which the lead of a pencil may be sharpened to the finest possible point with the least possible risk of breaking it and without soOimt oners hands. It can

bo made in a few moments, with very little trouble, and will be found especially useful to art students and others. It consists of a thin piece of wood throe or four inches tn length, cut square at one end and the other end is shaped to form a kind of handle. In this handle a circular hole Is cut by which the sharpener may be hung up on a nail If desired. On the square part a piece of fine sand paper is glued, and by rubbing the' lead of the pencil on this paper, the most perfect point may be obtained. The sharpener from which our sketch was made was of bass,wood of a quarter of an inch In thickness and four or five Inches In length and two Inches In width. The sand paper will last a very long time, and when It has become a little worn. It win serve its purpose even better than when quite new, and it can, of course, bo easily replaced when it becomes too worn.