Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — SERVES AS AID TO MEMORY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SERVES AS AID TO MEMORY

Engagement Board That May Be Made an Ornament at Well as Highly Useful Article. No difficulty will be found in successfully carrying out the useful engagement board shown in the accompanying sketch. In the first place, a piece of wood a quarter of an inch in thickness and n’jput 15 inches in length and 6 inches in width will be required. At the top of the back of this board a piece of silk is securely fastened with small tacks. The material is drawn over the front of the board, and folded in plaits so that it forms a series of pockets, and the edges are then bent round the sides and fastened on at the back with tacks. When tkis has been completed, a silk cord of a fancy pattern is sewn to the material all round the edge, and

two small brass are attached on either side at the top by which this article may be suspended from nails in the wall. On the left hand side of the pockets the names of the days of the week are worked, and this should be done prior to covering the wood, but great care must be taken to embroider the tetters in exactly the right places on the. material, and it is a good plan to fold the silk over the wood and mark the places for the words before it is tacked in its place. An excellent letter rack for the hall can be made in precisely the same way, but in shape it should be much broader and not nearly so long and, as a rule, two or three pockets are quite sufficient for ordinary purposes.