Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1915 — Christmas Presents Any Boy Can Make [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Christmas Presents Any Boy Can Make

By A. NOLLY HALL

(Copyright by A. Neely HaU)

HERE are a few contrivances for the kitchen and pantry which will be appreciated by mother if made by her bandy boy. Nothing better could be selected for her Christmas gift. The tool rack shown tn Fig. 1 la most convenient when hung directly over the kitchen worktable. The length of the hook 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 hold. The appearance of the rack will be improved by planing a bevel on the face edges of the hook strip and the end blocks, as in the illustration. Use brass screws or galvanized nails 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 apace 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. S shows how the swinging bracket is made of a strip two inches wide and ten inches long (A), with a block two ipches 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 that the swinging shelf eliminates the lifting of the sugar crock, the platform shown in -Fig. 6 saves the lifting of the scrub pall from place to place while scrubbing, as it is provided with castors so it may be pushed about Fig. 7 allows how the castors are screwed to the platform, and how strips are nailed to forming a rim that' prevents the pay frpm sliding off. A ' Blither paint or shellac each article after assembling it, and if you have done your work carefully, mother will have something to be proud of. (Copyright. by A. Neely Halt)

IT is high time to be making Christ mas gifts. end the little articles 11lustratec* below are so simple that they can be completed in almost no time at all. They are inexpensive to 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 Fig. 1 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 aenter of the top. Then pull a piece bf 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-marker 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 ring such as Is used in crochet work, fastening them in place with a few stitches. To complete 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. 4 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. 5 requires two pieces of cardboard each

six jn-nes long uid one and one-half inches wide. Cover each piece with pretty silk, turning over the edges of the silk and 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 np the case (Fig. 5). » (Copyright, by A. Feely Hall.)