Popular Science Monthly 



667 



a six-inch shelf which serves as 

 an umbrella rest. Holes are bored 

 in the outside corners, through 

 which holes the rope supports are 

 passed to the two deep wooden pegs 

 projecting out far enough to receive 

 the umbrellas, and thence to the pair 

 of brackets above the center cleat. 



A Nautical Porch Seat 



NEARLY every attic has a 

 rickety chair the seat of 

 which might be rescued and con- 

 verted into a comfortable porch 

 chair such as the one pictured. 

 Attached to a substantial cross- 

 section in front, the back se- 

 cured to two wooden cleats on the 

 wall, the seat is complete. Two 

 heaw ropes are fringed and knotted 



An attractive hall-rack that was made 

 of miscellaneous boards and rope 



hats on the pegs below. These "arms" 

 are fitted on wooden pegs that extend 

 through the cleat in such a manner 

 as to permit them to be moveable. 

 Heavy wire is bent by pliers to form 

 hooks for the coat-hangers. The hat- 

 pegs are really a pair of wood-handled awls. 

 The lower cleat affords support fof 



A porch seat with a nautical air — 

 made from an old chair-seat 



through the wooden brackets, then 

 thrust through the holes in the cross- 

 section of the seat. 



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Bad table manners gain a hen nothing 

 with this home-made feeding trough 



Teaching Hens Good Manners 

 l-^RE is a contrixance for cor- 

 recting the hen's bad table 

 manners. ()bser\e how over-crowd- 

 ing is rendered impossible. The 

 narrow strips of standing-room, and 

 the lack of head-room explain the 

 good behavior. A few packing-boxes 

 and some nails are all that is needed 

 to build this feeding-trough. 



