Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1913 — MADE MOST PRETTY TEA TRAY [ARTICLE]

MADE MOST PRETTY TEA TRAY

Economical Way by Which Needed Utensil Was Made to Do Duty for the Household. A novel and most economical way to make a pretty tea tray was discovered by a girl who Is very clever with her wits and her fingers. She first purchased for 40 cents a large oval picture frame from a second-hand store, securing a very good bit of natural old woodwork. Then with a bottle of stain, some sandpaper and a little varnish she polished up the wood to look like new, then screwed on two brass handles, one at each end, afterwards cutting a piece of pretty cretonne the same size as the glass, and pasting it smoothly where the picture would ordinarily go. Covering it with the boards that belong to the frame, tacked securely into place, the entire back was then covered with a piece of felt, and she found herself possessed of a most fetching tea tray, which in the shops would cost from $5 to SB.