Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1913 — Pretty Fireplace Screens. [ARTICLE]

Pretty Fireplace Screens.

A most attractive screen can be made at small cost of labor and money. Two laths from an old Venetian blind provide the sides of the framework, and two more are fixed on the back to strengthen it, whilst yet another is fixed as a hinged support All these are secured firmly by means of screws, and then are stained and varnished in brown or dark green. Small slabs of beaten copper are placed on the comers as ornaments, and at the bottom of these a painted brass hook is screwed. Ojj to these hooks is suspended a screen of thick canvas cm• brotoered in silk, or, failing this, a piece of fancy printed linen or India silk would do. j