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off with dry cloth or waste. Let stand 

 twenty-four hours. 



3rd. One coat shellac. Let stand about 

 three hours and rub down with fine 

 sandpaper. 



4th. Repeat 3rd step. 



5th. One coat best spar varnish, ap- 

 plied all over the swing. After thirty- 

 six hours rub down with No. oo steel 

 wool. 



6th. Second coat of varnish, rubbed 

 down after forty-eight hours with pumice 

 stone and water. 



This finish will undoubtedly be satis- 

 factory, but if a great gloss is desired, 

 apply another coat of varnish and rub it 

 down in two or three days with pumice 

 stone and oil. 



If a waxed finish is desired, after the 

 4th step, apply a thick coat of prepared 

 wax. Allow it to stand over night, and 

 rub it to a good polish in the morning 

 with a dry cloth. 



COTTAGE CHAIRS. 



The arm chair and the rocker illus- 

 trated are so very simple that one draw- 

 ing will suffice for both. For the arm 

 chair purchase the following stock, fin- 

 ished sizes: 



2 pcs. iH" x i^" x 43", back legs. 



2 pcs. I3/&" x ij/ s " x 29", front legs. 



3 pcs. W x 4" x 22", front and back rails. 



1 pc. 7/ 8 " x 3" x 22", back rail. 



2 pcs. y%" x 4" x 21 ", side rails. 

 2 pcs. y%" x 5" x 24", arms. 



2 pcs. ?/&" x 2.y-z" x 19", seat supports. 



3 pcs. y 2 " x 4" x 16", back slats. 



4 pcs. l / 2 " x 4" x 12", end slats. 



9 pcs. y 2 " x \y 2 " x 21", seat slats, 

 i pc. 7/ & " x 2y 2 " x 21", brackets. 



For the rocker the only changes will 

 be to make the back legs 38" long and the 

 front 24". The rockers will be made 

 from two pieces ij^" thick, 5" wide and 

 30" long. 



The chair construction is identical 

 with that of the porch swing in its main 

 details. The brackets will be made of 

 wood and screwed into place. 



The legs for the rocker, as suggested 

 above, will be five inches shorter than 

 the arm chair legs. The rockers will be 

 screwed onto the legs with long flat head 

 screws. 



If possible, it would be a very good 

 idea to have the rockers sawed on a band 

 saw at the mill, as it is a very long and 

 tedious job to do it by hand. 



The same finish is suggested for the 

 chairs as was detailed for the swing. 



A WINTER PORT FOR RUSSIA 



Without question an important part of 

 Russia's interest in the war is due to her 

 ambition for a year-round outlet to the 

 ocean. She has fought to win Constan- 

 tinople years ago and been balked and 

 even now it does not seem at all certain 

 that she will be rewarded with entire 

 control of the Dardanelles. Of course, 

 Archangel is her port on the Arctic but 

 it is ice-bound half the year with the 

 drifting ice blown down from Nova 

 Zembla by northeast winds. 



Russia is now assured that she has the 

 key to the situation in the development 

 of a great harbor at Kola near the Nor- 

 wegian boundary. Here is a bay run- 

 ning about twenty-seven miles inland 



from the Arctic Ocean and about three 

 miles in width with a depth of two hun- 

 dred and forty feet. Although much 

 farther north than the port of Archangel 

 on the White Sea (and west) this bay 

 is open all year. The Gulf Stream sweeps 

 around the end of Norway and keeps 

 this section of the coast free from ice. 

 In fact, the temperature is 30 degrees 

 Fahrenheit warmer than the forests of 

 Lapland to the south. A branch of the 

 Petrograd- Archangel railway could reach 

 this bay without any insurmountable en- 

 gineering difficulties for the tundra 

 swamps are underlaid with granite. Had 

 this port been developed years ago the 

 history of the world might have been 

 changed. 



