1877.] 
AMERICAN" AGRICULTUmST. 
65 
ing " from a strip of white paper, the most grace- 
ful flower and leaf forms. The lady presented us 
with a specimen of her work, mounted upon a 
square of black paper, upon the back of which was 
her card, "Harriet F. Bailey, of Walworth, Wis., 
3601 Ludlow St., W. PhUa. Pa." lliss Bailey's 
work shows an evident desire to follow nature, and 
being made from memory only, without drawing or 
any pattern to copy, it is placed far above anything 
like paper flowers, and similar productions. There 
is great ease of outline, and a grace in grouping 
and execution, that makes them very pleasing. To 
show what her cuttings are like, we give an en- 
graving of a email cluster of the actual size. It 
wai be seen that it is quite unlike those paper cut- 
tings made by doubling the paper, once or several 
times ; in those there is a reproduction of forms, 
and one side is the counterpart of the other. As 
the sculptor, who said that the statue was already 
in the block, and his business was merely to chisel 
away the superfluous marble, so Miss B. sees flower 
and leaf forms on the blank sheet, and she, only 
with fine scissors, liberates them from their im- 
prisonment in the paper. We inquired of the Lidy 
how she came to take up this art, and learned that 
when a chUd, she and her sister occupied them- 
selves in cutting, without any teaching; if they 
wished to describe anything to one another, or to 
their mother, they would take paper and scissors, 
and cut out the form of fruit, flower, or whatever 
object they wished to indicate, the scissors serving 
in their hands the place of pen or pencil. We 
found the artist with more orders on hand than she 
could fill, from those who wished to take away 
some graceful little remembrancer of the Women's 
Department of the Exhibition. We learn that Miss 
Bailey will have a desk at the permanent exhibition, 
which is soon to open in the Main Building. Chil- 
dren are very fond of cutting paper, and Froebel 
knowing this introduced paper-cutting among his 
Kindergarten occupations ; though his is a mechan- 
ical kind of cutting, with folded paper. If chil- 
dren wish to eut paper, they should be encouraged 
to copy forms, and with an object in view, thus 
educating the hand and the eye, bat it is only where 
there is a strong love for the objects represented, 
and an unusual natural talent to reproduce with 
the hand what is seen by the eye, that any can hope 
to attain to the skill shown in the work here noticed. 
Plant-shelves in "Windows. 
BT L. D. SSOOB:, TATES CO., K. T. 
Those who keep window-plants, will find that the 
following plan for attaching shelves to the win- 
dows will be useful in many cases, though of 
course its applicability will depend much upon the 
manner in which the house is built. The movable 
strip, or " stop," wliich holds the sash in place, is 
taken out, and in its place is put one an inch thick, 
and four or five inches wide, or as wide as the win- 
dow wUl allow, as shown in fig. 1 by B, B. There 
are of course two of these, and in each is a series 
of grooves or "gains," as the carpenters say, in- 
tended to admit the ends of the shelves. To make 
this plain, an enlarged portion is shown in figure 2. 
By rounding the comers of the shelves, those for 
the larger pots may be six or seven inches wide, 
while the side strip which supports them is only 
Fig. 3. — SHELF. 
Fig. S. — BKACKET. 
four inches wide. Figure 1 shows a window thus 
furnished. When the shelves are no longer re- 
quired, the side-pieces may bo taken out and the 
"stops" returned, and no part of the window- 
frame will have been marred or injured in any way. 
Where it is not practicable to remove the " stops " 
and substitute side-pieces, then the shelves may be 
supported on brackets, of 
the form shown in figure 3. 
Any blacksmith can make 
these of a piece of nail-rod ; 
they should be furnished 
with holes for screws, by 
which they can be attached 
to the window-frames, and 
there should also be a hole 
at P, through which to pass 
a screw from below into the 
bottom of the shelf, to hold 
it firm. — [We may add that 
Mr. S.'s suggestion of brack- 
ets will answer to support 
a wiudow-box, which is by 
many window gardeners pre- 
ferred to pots. Any rough 
box, of a length to suit the 
window, and about six inches 
high and wide, wUl answer. 
Have the tinman make a 
zinc lining to fit, and high 
enough to turn over the edge of the box, s'o that no 
earth may get between the box and the lining. The 
outside of the box may be covered to suit the fan- 
cy ; strips of bark, or split t^vigs, will give a pleas- 
ing rustic effect, or it may be covered with a bit of 
floor oil-cloth with a molding on the edges. We 
once covered a box with oil-cloth of a mechanical 
pattern, and it had every appearance of an expen- 
sive tile-covered box. Kecolleet that a bos of this 
kind is very heavy when filled, and the brackets and 
their fastenings must be correspondingly strong.] 
IBOYS 4 (^ICIEJLS' ©©ILITMHS. 
CO^'ER CLOSEP. 
CovEB TO A PoKK Earebl. — ^lu families where 
'pork is largely used, to 
cook or in cooking, the 
barrel, usually kept in 
the cellar, is frequently 
visited, the required 
slices of pork cut off, 
and the piece returned 
to the brine. It is a 
vei7 simple matter, but 
very often there is no 
place at hand, clean enough, or suitable, whereon 
to place the piece of pork, while cutting. To 
supply this, our correspondent, Mr. L. D. Snook, 
a cover to the barrel which will mate 
the work cleanly and 
easy. Figure 1 shows 
the ban-el when clos- 
ed by its cover. The 
board. A, covers a 
part of the top of the 
barrel, being fastened 
by screws, and ex- 
tends over to form a 
shelf, supported by 
the brace E. The re- 
mainder of the cover, 
B, is liinged to this 
stationary part. When 
the cover is opened, as in fig. 3, it rests upon the 
shelf, and affords a firm, clean, and convenicut sur- 
face on which to do the cutting, and there is no 
trouble in looking about for a suitable place. Those 
small things cost only a little time, and not much 
of that, but help make liouse work go on smoothly. 
No. 458.— Pnzzle Picture.— The arh'st calls this picture a view of the 
"Enchanted Bluff.' Tbere mu?t be some cliarm to attract the animal* there. It 
may be that they only got up there by " enchantment." It may be tliat he calls it 
enchanted for some other reason, and it may be that yon can find out what it ie. 
A Bra^ving- ]VIa.c1iine. 
Master A. J. n., ivrites to The Doctor that he paw af 
the Centennial Exhibition a machine used to copy draw- 
ings, called a " Sraithograph," he sends a circular de- 
scribinir it, and wishes to know if he has a right to make 
one. The circular speaks of the " great, new, and hcaa- 
tifnl avt.of Smitlio2:raphy."and much besides. Now I do 
not know anything about this " Sraithograph," but I can 
tell my young friend something 
ABOUT THE PANTOGRAPH, 
which, whatever else it may be, is not "new." I saw it 
when I was a youngster, and of conrse it can not be so 
very recent. In fact, it is nearly .300 years since the tiling 
w.is invented, and the novelty has woi-n off I>y this time. 
T find an engraving of it in that new and excellent book, - 
Knight's *' Mechanical Dictionary," which I give here. 
Fig. 3. — COVER OPEN. 
Painting Floors.— "R. S. M.," Dodge Co., 
Nev., writes : "There is but one pau't suitable for 
the purpose — French Ochre. First, if the boards 
have shrunk, clean out the joints well, and with a 
small brush give them n heavy coat of boiled linseed 
oil, then putty up solid. Now paint the whole 
floor with a inixturc of much oil and little ochre, 
for the first co.at, then, after it is well dried, give 
two more coats of much ochre and little oil, finally 
finish with a coat of first rate copal varnish. This 
is an extremely durable paint for floors, in-doors or 
out, such as vci-andas, porticoes, and the like. .\ floor 
Btaln is best mixed with oU, aud finally varnished. 
PANTOGRAPH OK DRAWINO MACHINB. 
It is made of four rules, which my be of brass or of some 
hard wood. Two of tlicse. a and b, ai-o jointed at c ; tho 
otlier two, d and e, are jointed togetlier over h. At i is a 
fixed point, screwed to tlie tal>le, to which the rule. a. is 
so fastene<l Hiat it can nn)ve easily. At g is a point for a 
tracer; at/iis a poneil. Wlicn the point, i7. is moved, 
the point or jieiicil at h follows its movements exiictly. 
Tlie Joints, c and A, sliould work freely, hut be true; 
tliesc are not to be altered. Tlie upper pair of rules, <f. e, 
arc fastened to the other pair, a, b, at any deslretl point ; 
according to their p»)sition, tlie drawing traced by tho 
point 7. will be repeated by A. eitlier larger or smaller. 
The drawing to be copied, is fastened by pins at g, and a 
piece of paper placed under the pencil at h : by carefully 
following the lines of tho drawing with ^. it will be re- 
jieated at ^, the same size, or smaller, acconling to the 
point wlioro the upper pair of rnlos arc attached to tlio 
lon'or. To havo the Pantograph work nicely, it must bo 
well made, all the joints move easily, yet closely ; it re- 
quires a little care to got tho "hang" of ft. At c there 
should bo a leg or pmp. to hold up the comer, and this 
fliionid he smooth on tho end to move on t ho hoard easily. 
Tho Paiitograph— the name from the Greek for all and tt 
writa—vfWX allow one to copy maps, plans, and such 
things very orrnratoly. and to rednco thom. I am 
afraid that, not many hoys are siifllciently skilled in tho 
use of tools to make one themselves— but they can try. 
