Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1919 — Door Should Fit in Frame Like Stopper in a Bottle [ARTICLE]

Door Should Fit in Frame Like Stopper in a Bottle

It ruffled the tidy nature of the handy man to have to pull and jerk at his door to open It, and then to have to coax and push to shut It. A door should fit in its frame like a stopper In a bottle, he thought A cursory examination disclosed that it stuck at the bottom. Of course, if the swelling had been at the top it would have been so easy to plane off the surplus. But at the bottom! He tried tightening the screws In the upper hinge, which were quite loose, but found the wood so soft that even longer screws would not hold. . There seemed to be nothing to do but remoye the upper binge, dig out the . soft wood and Insert in Its place a piece of new wood, which held the hinge firmly and prevented the door from sagging.