Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 165, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1912 — MADE FROM AN OLD MIRROR [ARTICLE]

MADE FROM AN OLD MIRROR

Artistic and Useful Tray for the Dining Room With Handsome Mahogany Frame. A tray that is a marvel for artistic beauty and usefulness In the dining room consists of a mahogany frame 19 x 25 inches. The tray was once the frame of an old-fashioned mirror. The frame and glass were bought at a household sale for the nominal sum of fifteen cents. Both were apparently marred beyond remedy. It was taken apart and the frame sent to a professional furniture finisher to be dpne over. When it was returned it never could have been recognized as the cast-off frame. It# finish was the beautiful, satiny one of mahogany. The man who bought t|ie mirror removed the mercury from the glass by first covering it with turpentine and then rubbing over It with a circular movement, using a silver dollar laid flat. - The tray was then ready to be put together. Under the glass was put a piece of poinsettia-flowered material which was left from ah upholstered chair. The wooden back was then put on, and over this was glued a piece of dark red outing flannel, so that the tray would not scratch a table upon which it was placed. A pair of handles were then put on, at the price of ten cents each, and the tray was finished. The entire cost was a tittle more than one dollar. Such j a tray—remember the frame is of real mahogany-—would cost about ten dollars in a furniture store. The tray is placed upon a small stand, and used when tea is served by the fireside in winter or upon the cool Veranda in