Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1912 — NEAT PAPER WEIGHT [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEAT PAPER WEIGHT

There are only two features that it is necessary that a paper weight should contain. The one is that it should be heavy, and the other is that it should be as ornamental as possible. A very capital paper weight can be made with the aid of any ordinary empty wooden match box, filled with shot or small stones, or anything of weight, and then entirely covered with some dainty remnant of silk or satin on which some pretty floral design has been either embroidered or painted. When this has been done, to complete the weight, it shpuld be edged with a fine silk cord, chosen in some contrasting shade of color. In. our sketch may be seen an ornamental little article of tide kind, made in the manner directed. A badly torn nail is kept Safe from further injury by a strip of sticking plaster reaching well down -m the nail and over the fleshy part or the finger.