Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1915 — Christmas Presents Any Boy Can Make [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Christmas Presents Any Boy Can Make

By A. NEELY HALL

(Coerrtet* by iMr Hall)

HERB are a few contrivance* for the kitchen and pantry which will be appreciated by mother If made by her handy boy. Nothing better could be selected for her Christmas gift. The tool rack ahown In Pig. 1 Is most convenient when bung directly over the kitchen worktable. The length of the book strip will be determined by the space In which it Is to hang, and by the number of forks.

spoons and other tools which it will be required to bold. The appearance of the rack will be improved by planing a bevel on the face edges of the hook Btrip and the end blocks, as in the Illustration. Use brass screws or galvanized hails for hooks, and screw a screweye into the top edge of each end block to hang the rack by. The bottle rack in Fig. 2 will hold your mother’s bottles of extract, catchup, sauces and dressings, and eliminate the possibility of upsetting bottles when reaching for the one wanted. Narrow strips should be used for the division strips of the rack, to save space and make the rack light in weight. Laths planed smooth on all sides will do for the side and center

strips, also for the cross strips. The ends must be about three Inches wide. The swinging shelf shown in Fig. 4 is an excellent provision for the sugar and salt crocks, as it makes it possible to swing these out from between the pantry shelves, then back into place after using, without lifting them. Fig. 6 shows how the swinging bracket is made of a strip two inches wide and ten inches long (A), with a block two inches wide and six inches long nailed to each side of it at one end (B), and how to the top of this bracket a cake tin is screwed or nailed

on which to set the crock. Hinge the end of the bracket strip A to one end of the shelf supports, or else set in an upright piece between two shelves to screw the hinge to. Use a me-dium-sized T hinge for this bracket. In the same way that the swinging shelf eliminates the lifting of* the sugar crock, the platform shown in Fig. 6 saves the lifting of thb 'scrub pail from place to place white Scrubbing. as it is provided with castors so it may be pushed about. •-x - Fig. 7 allows how the castors are. screwed to the platform, and hew i strips are nailed to the edges, forming a rim that prevents the pail from sliding off. Either, paint or shellac each article after assembling it, and if you have done your work carefui|y; mother will have something to be proud of. (Copyright, ter A. Neely Halt)

rls high time to be making Ohristnas gifts, end the little articles illustrated below are so simple that they can be completed in almost no time at all. They art. inexpensive io make, too, requiring only bits of cardboard, and some pieces of silk and ribbon from mother's scrap-bag. The pretty heart-shaped needle-book shown in Pig. I has a pair of covers made of two pieces of cardboard measuring three and one-half Inches each way, and four leaves of the same shape and size cut out of white or pretty colored flannel. Place the flannel hearts between the covers, and pierce two holes through both covers and leaves each side of the center of the top. Then pull a piece of narrow ribbon through the holes and tie a small bow. Fasten pieces of ribbon to the lower points of the heart, both front and back, by which to tie the little case shut when not in use. Mark

“Needles” upon the front cover with ink or water colors. Fig. 2 shows a book-markea made of one and one-fourth yards of No. 7 white satin or grosgrain ribbon. Cut the ribbon into two pieces, one piece measuring 12 Inches and the other 24 inches, and pull them half way through a little brass Ting such as is used in crochet work, fastening them in place with ,a few stitches. To ccmplete the marker, letter the following upon the ribbons with black ink or water colors, placing one line of the stanza on each ribbon end: “Not mine to tell If the book is good; But 1 keep my place As a marker should.” The triangular-shaped book-marker shown in Fig. 3 is cut from a piece

of white writing paper seven inches square. Fold the square in half, diagonally, an.* cut along the folded line. Then take one-half and fold it in half again. The dotted line in Fig. 4 indicates where to fold. Punch holes through the folded piece near one open end (these holes are indicated on the unfolded piece), and with narrow ribbon lace the edges together, and tie the ribbon ends in a bow. Cut a picture from a magazine and paste it upon the front. This little marker clips over'the corner of the page you want to mark. Tne pin case shown in Fig. 6 requires two pieces of cardboard each

. ■*) ‘ sit ur, >es iong Ji4 one and one-half inches wide. Cover each piece with pretty silk, turning over the edges of the silk sod basting on the wrong side as shown in Fig 6. Then lay the pieces together, and sew the edges over and over as indicated in Fig. 7. Fasten a ribbon to the ends of one long side by which to hang up the case (Fig. 5). (Copyright, by A. Neely Hall.)